Object permanence
Toothpick sculptures; McRib as a commodities volatility hedge; Hitler’s British passport; Why we get tech wrong; France jails spying EDF execs; SF v Trump; Clinton’s data-driven ground game sucked; Risk compensation sucks; “Flexible labor” is risk compensation.
#20yrsago Toothpick sculptures https://web.archive.org/web/20061107232205/https://landmarksofsf.com/photoindex.html
#20yrsago Computer-human interaction that gives hands their due respect https://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/
#15yrsago Warner Bros admits it sends takedown notices for files it hasn’t seen and doesn’t own https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/11/warner-admits-it-issues-takedowns-for-files-it-hasnt-looked-at/
#15yrsago Understanding McDonald’s as a commodities broker with a restaurant sideline: the McRib https://www.theawl.com/2011/11/a-conspiracy-of-hogs-the-mcrib-as-arbitrage/
#15yrsago Why we get the future of tech wrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUXh-GPa5dI
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#15yrsago Fake British WWII passport for Hitler https://web.archive.org/web/20120608185357/https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/museum/item.asp?item_id=46
#15yrsago French court sends EDF execs to jail for hacking, spying on Greenpeace https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-15683090
#10yrsago Trump Administration: a climate denier for the EPA, a Goldman-Sachs banker for Treasury https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/who-is-in-president-trump-cabinet-231071
#10yrsago How science fiction can help us survive Trump’s America https://www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/the_prospect_be/
#10yrsago Clinton’s data-driven “ground game” sucked in exactly the same way “targeted ads” suck, for the same reason https://web.archive.org/web/20161111084125/http://tomewing.tumblr.com/post/152963356681/polls-etc
#10yrsago The first transgender suicide hotline: 877–565–8860 https://translifeline.org/
#5yrsago Risk compensation considered harmful https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/10/elfin-safety/#mene-mene-tekel
#1yrago “Flexible labor” is a euphemism for “derisking capital” https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/10/zero-sum-zero-hours/#that-sounds-like-a-you-problem
