Every morning, I revisit my blog headlines from this date, going back 25 years, 20 years, 15 years, 10 years, 5 years, and one year. I publish the most interesting ones in a section of my newsletter that I call "object permanence," and I think it's the most useful part of my day.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/13/petards-r-us/#nobus
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I’ll freely admit that “object permanence” from @pluralistic was on my mind when I created https://ThisWas.News last year. Project background: https://dltj.org/article/this-was-news/
This Was News: a time capsule of yesterday's headlines | Disruptive Library Technology Jester
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