Object permanence

2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024.

I’m on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel Picks and Shovels. Catch me in PDX at Barnes and Noble with BUNNIE HUANG on June 20. The last two stops are in London (Jul 1) and Manchester (Jul 2).

#20yrsago Russian villagers scavenge fallen Soyuz junk to survive https://www.spacedaily.com/news/debris-05d.html

#15yrsago New York Times headline writer allergic to the word “liar” https://memex.naughtons.org/euphemism-nyt-style/11033/

#15yrsago Blowgun woman: “I like to hear people say ‘ouch’” https://web.archive.org/web/20100429014025/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36725246/ns/us_news/

#15yrsago Financial Times chickens out, refuses to run Amnesty’s anti-Shell Oil ad https://web.archive.org/web/20100520180957/http://amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=18768

#10yrsago Atlanta pays $20,000 to critic forced to post pro-cop message to Facebook https://web.archive.org/web/20150514160324/http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2015/05/12/baton-bob-to-receive-20000-settlement-for-2013-arrest-in-midtown

#10yrsago Blizzard bans 100,000 Warcraft players https://hothardware.com/news/blizzard-puts-over-100000-cheaters-on-ice-in-epic-world-of-warcraft-banning-spree

#5yrsago Deliveroo, without Deliveroo https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/code-is-speech/#platform-cooperatvism

#5yrsago Airgap-busting malware https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/code-is-speech/#ramsay

#5yrsago Universal broadband now https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/code-is-speech/#digital-divide

#5yrsago See through walls with free software https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/code-is-speech/#vaneck

#5yrsago England’s storks are back https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/code-is-speech/#estorchestone

#5yrsago Restaurateur wreaks algorithmic vengeance upon Doordash https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/code-is-speech/#schadenpizza

#5yrsago Ada Palmer, being brilliant for 2.5h https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/18/code-is-speech/#terra-ignota

#1yrago Monopoly is capitalism’s gerrymander https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/18/market-discipline/#too-big-to-care