Object permanence
2005, 2010, 2020, 2024.
I’m on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel Picks and Shovels. Catch me in TORONTO on SUNDAY (Feb 23) at Another Story, and in NYC on Wednesday (Feb 26) with JOHN HODGMAN. More tour dates here.
#20yrsago Woz speaks out against Apple’s lawsuit https://web.archive.org/web/20050223132909/http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000473.html
#20yrsago HP BIOS locks out all cards save those on a whitelist https://web.archive.org/web/20050223051147/https://hogbender.blogspot.com/2005/02/welcome-to-trusted-computing.html
#15yrsago Video: English cops terrorism-harassing photographer for taking photos of town Christmas decorations https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/feb/21/photographer-films-anti-terror-arrest
#15yrsago Objective reporting and American politics https://web.archive.org/web/20100224234003/https://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/02/21/innocence.html
#15yrsago London councils issue themselves parking tickets, fight them in court https://www.thetimes.com/article/london-councils-sue-themselves-for-parking-offences-x2sgdhtkwgx
#15yrsago ACTA leak shows US Trade Rep lied about “3-strikes” https://web.archive.org/web/20100223183426/http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4808/125/
#15yrsago ACTA “internet enforcement” chapter leaks https://memex.craphound.com/2010/02/21/acta-internet-enforcement-chapter-leaks/
#5yrsago Gopher shows us how adversarial interoperability was there from the start https://pluralistic.net/2020/02/21/pluralist-a-daily-link-adose-21-feb-2020/#gopherspace
#5yrsago Private Equity has sabotaged every attempt to end emergency room “surprise billing” https://pluralistic.net/2020/02/21/pluralist-a-daily-link-adose-21-feb-2020/#sickening
#5yrsago Tumblr’s ad policy https://pluralistic.net/2020/02/21/pluralist-a-daily-link-adose-21-feb-2020/#hardtruth
#5yrsago Bloomberg’s campaign NDA is a gag order that covers sexual abuse and other crimes https://pluralistic.net/2020/02/21/pluralist-a-daily-link-adose-21-feb-2020/#more-31
#1yrago Google reneged on the monopolistic bargain https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/#not-up-to-the-task
