Today’s links Dinkscrump Linkdump: A bushel of links before I leap into the void. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I’ve been. Latest books: You keep readin’ em, I’ll keep writin’ ’em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I’ll keep writin’ ’em. Colophon: All the rest. Dinkscrump Linkdump (permalink) Well, Saturday’s come around and I have a gigantic list of links that didn’t fit into this week’s newsletter, so it’s time for another linkdump, 26th in the series: https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/ My posting is about to get a lot more erratic, as I’m days away from leaving on a 20+ city book-tour, which starts in Boston on Feb 14, with a sold-out event at the Brookline Booksmith: https://brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-02-14/sold-out-cory-doctorow-ken-liu-picks-and-shovels But Bostonians get another bite at the apple: I’m appearing at Boskone, the city’s venerable sf convention, a few hours before my Brookline gig, and admission is free: https://schedule.boskone.org/62/ The rest of the tour (including a virtual event with Yanis Varoufakis on the 15th) is here, and more dates (New Zealand, possibly Pittsburgh and Atlanta) are being added all the time: https://craphound.com/novels/redteamblues/2025/02/06/announcing-the-picks-and-shovels-book-tour/ Of course, even as I scramble to get ready to hit the road for months, I’m regrettably forced to give some rent-free space in my head to Elon Fucking Musk. This week, I wrote about DOGE as a government-scale private-equity style plundering of the nation: https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/07/broccoli-hair-brownshirts/#shameless But that was before I read Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman’s Lawfare article about how Musk’s seizure of…Pluralistic: Dinkscrump Linkdump (08 Feb 2025)