Object permanence

2005, 2010, 2015.

I’m about to leave for a 20+ city book tour for my new novel Picks and Shovels. Catch me on Feb 14 for free at Boskone in Boston, and on Feb 15 for a virtual event with Yanis Varoufakis. More tour dates here.

#20yrsago MUNI cops and SFPD enforce non-existent, unconstitutional photography ban https://web.archive.org/web/20050215010617/http://www.shooter.net/index.php/weblog/Item/attack-of-the-sf-muni-fare-inspectors/

#15yrsago Poverty in Mississippi Delta worsened by poor broadband https://web.archive.org/web/20110131050913/http://www.centerforsocialinclusion.org/publications/?url=broadband-in-the-mississippi-delta-a-21st-century-racial-justice-issue&ch_url=executive-summary-4

#15yrsago Canadian politician gives rival the finger, offers to “go outside” with the entire legislature if they don’t like it https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/n-b-mla-expelled-for-rude-gesture-1.925628

#10yrsago EMI claims it owns copyright to videos of cats purring https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-flags-cat-purring-as-copyright-infringing-music-150211/

#10yrsago Nuanced view of corruption: money doesn’t buy elections, it buys influence https://web.archive.org/web/20150210152118/http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/02/09/soros-there-is-no-idyllic-pre-citizens-united-era-to-return-to/