Object permanence
Asimov inspired Al Qaeda; PATRIOT Act scares Canadian customers off US servers; EFF v Trump; Internet infrastructure is unsupported and failing; Nominative determinism debunked; How to fight Trump; Burglars v burglary; NYT said Hitler was only kidding.
#25yrsago ObL got the name “Al Qaeda” from Asimov’s Foundation;
#20yrsago PATRIOT scares Canadian unis off US servers https://web.archive.org/web/20080204033238/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Page/document/v5/content/subscribe?user_URL=http://www.theglobeandmail.com%2Fservlet%2Fstory%2FRTGAM.20061111.wxuniversities11
#15yrsago Minimum wage hike coming to Guangdong, the world’s factory https://web.archive.org/web/20111110113740/http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/china/111109/china-economy-manufacturing-guangdong
#10yrsago EFF in Trump’s America: Protecting Tomorrow https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/11/protecting-tomorrow
#10yrsago America’s actually had worse presidential races than this one https://www.loweringthebar.net/2016/11/worst-presidential-race.html
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#10yrsago The internet’s core infrastructure is dangerously unsupported and could crumble (but we can save it!) https://web.archive.org/web/20170222232454/https://fordfoundcontent.blob.core.windows.net/media/2976/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure.pdf
#10yrsago Fact-checking Trump’s plan for the first 100 days https://www.npr.org/2016/11/10/501597652/fact-check-donald-trumps-first-100-days-action-plan
#10yrsago Dennis the Dentist: on the unkillable wrongness of nominative determinism https://timharford.com/2016/11/rich-the-banker-whats-not-in-a-name/
#10yrsago How to fight Trump, starting right now https://medium.com/@anildash/forget-why-its-time-to-get-to-work-c49ac5f0da20#.l0xpc3pps
#10yrsago Anti-burglary advice, from burglars https://web.archive.org/web/20161118141701/https://www.kgw.com/news/investigations/we-asked-86-burglars-how-they-broke-into-homes/344213396
#10yrsago Serbian ultra-nationalists celebrate Trump’s victory https://globalvoices.org/2016/11/10/nationalists-and-populists-in-serbia-and-macedonia-celebrate-trumps-victory/
#10yrsago Leonard Cohen wrote the perfect anthem for our times https://memex.craphound.com/2016/11/11/leonard-cohen-wrote-the-perfect-anthem-for-our-times/
#10yrsago “Hitler’s only kidding about the antisemitism” New York Times, 1922 https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2015/02/10/1922-hitler-in-bavaria/?_r=0&smid=tw-share
#1yrago A tale of three customer service chatbots https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/11/sorry-to-bother-you/#we-dont-care-we-dont-have-to
