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Worth reading

  1. 2020 readings! This year in going to try to remember to 1) put most of my reading in this permathread, and 2) give a bit more detail about… · 98 tweets · ♥ 325
  2. Here goes my 2021 reading log! I anticipate fewer books this year as I have started switching to taking more in-depth notes. But we'll see! · 84 tweets · ♥ 517
  3. It's time to start a thread for my 2022 reading log. I hope you enjoy it and find some books to your liking! · 72 tweets · ♥ 382
  4. It's time to start this year's book thread - welcome to 2023! ♥️ · 32 tweets · ♥ 112

2024

  1. Right, it might be worth listing the differences so people can know if they want to move. The healthcare costs alone make a huge… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  2. If you're just tuning in to ideas around #DigitalIndependence, DPI, and generally governing our digital sphere in the interest of people,… · 7 tweets · ♥ 9
  3. With others who value privacy and a free and independent media, I have signed a letter to Gov. @GavinNewsom in support of AB 3048.… · 2 tweets · ♥ 10
  4. I have co-signed an open letter supporting Brazil and democracies worldwide against the ceaseless encroachments of Big Tech moguls pushing… · 5 tweets · ♥ 21
  5. Wow, this isn't even political disagreement, @Google is just straight up lying. AB3048 would force Chrome to protect its users better,… · 2 tweets · ♥ 38
  6. Everywhere the world around, united in our common interest, democracy is pushing back against the autocratic management of our lives, of… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  7. Transnational tech standards are tremendously useful but they also undermine peoples' right to self-determination. Can we make the… · 2 tweets · ♥ 11
  8. Completely agree with your dad 😁 Haeckel coined ecology as "the whole science of the relations of the organism to the environment… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  9. Learning. It's in settings. Not listing something that you're consenting to isn't great. The deceptive patterns are more about an… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  10. Thanks for writing the book! For the internet, I'm less interested in the grand vision things and more in properties like the ability to… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  11. "Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises" by @JonathanSBlake & @nils_gilman Reading isn't to gain knowledge but… · 2 tweets · ♥ 12
  12. Five years ago when the Chrome team announced the Privacy Sandbox, I called a "delaying tactic." Not getting rid of cookies as the first… · 3 tweets · ♥ 121
  13. You know who has written about how our concentrated tech monocultures create fragile systems that predictably collapse at large scales?… · 4 tweets · ♥ 136
  14. Has anyone written a unified view of the major fees & rents that tech platforms impose on other businesses (eg. from app stores, ad cuts,… · 2 tweets · ♥ 23
  15. Most European companies have GDPR compliance costs but those headquartered in Ireland operate in a de facto deregulated environment.… · 3 tweets · ♥ 22
  16. Does it make sense to govern all of AI in a unified manner? It would seem better to have all kinds of domain-specific bodies plus… · 2 tweets
  17. Ah, I was never very good at polite society to begin with :) · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  18. As closing arguments of the Google Search trial proceed, there are two things I would like to flag. First, the way in which search works… · 2 tweets · ♥ 14
  19. If you're still using Chrome in 2024, the only question is why? nytimes.com/2024/04/01/tec… · 3 tweets · ♥ 12
  20. Thanks! I'm glad you liked that. I think that @joe_zappa has a point about a business case for social change, but sometimes that can be… · 4 tweets · ♥ 8
  21. I don't have *everything* sorted just yet Rick ;) For social, we have to see how things shake out exactly but assuming we have a defined… · 5 tweets · ♥ 6
  22. Ah, sorry, I didn't catch the context change! The commons bit of the thread was about devs not participating being a tragedy of the… · 16 tweets · ♥ 11
  23. It's more complicated/subtle than that. If you're talking about irrigation in a village then yeah, you need to exclude or punish… · 4 tweets · ♥ 3
  24. Unrelated, but folks were *just* talking about the Borg Complex over on Bluesky. Any chance I could entice you over there with an invite?… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  25. Apathy is certainly a problem but I don't think it's because people aren't getting paid (even though paying people is of course good). In… · 5 tweets · ♥ 17

2023

  1. Yes, that's why I mention rewilding. Folks there are thinking in terms of big functional contributions to ecosystems such that the rest of… · 4 tweets · ♥ 4
  2. That's a fair point. I don't think that they're necessarily bad for users (though in some cases context and the right authority matter and… · 2 tweets · ♥ 11
  3. If you're looking to flea this place and we're mutuals on here (or we otherwise know each other), I have a couple of Bluesky invites I can… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  4. I know, they're stupidly expensive — I asked because sometimes there are generous benefactors… · 2 tweets
  5. You could expose the retrieval of git commits over IPFS if you serve a git bare repo behind a simple mapping, yes. It's mentioned in… · 3 tweets · ♥ 6
  6. This place has been dead for a while for me, from the Space Karen shadowban. You can find me at: * Bluesky: @robin.berjon.com * AP:… · 2 tweets · ♥ 28
  7. It's hard to capture just how much of a catastrophically broken crock of shit @MicrosoftTeams is. If your organisation depends on… · 7 tweets · ♥ 7
  8. Ads for some regulated areas often have to self-declare on the buy platform, and publishers can filter on that. I have no idea how… · 2 tweets · ♥ 9
  9. Jeni is very very correct, please take the time to read her. · 2 tweets · ♥ 25
  10. LOL, we're already there — this is just the next step in a well-established trend. Remember those "Optimized for Internet Explorer"… · 9 tweets · ♥ 35
  11. It's not 100% of the solution, but I believe that if we create a few fundamental infrastructure public goods, they can generate a light… · 2 tweets · ♥ 11
  12. Yes, and yes :) This is at the "I think this is philosophically correct/interesting" one-page of MD with links stage. Those are some of… · 4 tweets
  13. IPFS is a public good. It's important that it stays that way, that it resists capture, and that it have great governance by and for its… · 11 tweets · ♥ 14
  14. The #IPFSThing videos are here! I'm going to be posting a selection. There's just so much good stuff (and so much I haven't seen yet) that… · 6 tweets · ♥ 17
  15. Even ads can be fixed! But if we want a healthy web the fix has to be structured so that 1) it doesn't encourage MFA sites and 2) only a… · 2 tweets
  16. I don't know if we're saying the same thing? I'm saying that we got massive investment to make the web compete with apps on apps' terms.… · 2 tweets
  17. I don't think you need intent to get that result. The people who have the most power over the web are obsessed with apps. They think the… · 2 tweets
  18. This. I don't think it's intended, though. The first effect of an imbalance of power is to decrease the feedback you get from reality,… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  19. And now for @blaine with the Name Name System! #IPFSThing · 5 tweets · ♥ 10
  20. Really lit stuff from @fabricedesre about Capyloon and Web Tiles! · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  21. Indeed! Social structures are technology, and the naive way in which we do technology devalues them. Some notes: 1) this matches a broader… · 11 tweets · ♥ 15
  22. That's an interesting point but I'm not as confident as you are that transaction costs will keep dropping. They will only drop if the… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  23. I don't think that wide-scale voting is necessarily bad, it's just that it's limiting. You lose *a lot* of information compared to higher… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  24. Thank you! If you found something meaningful in it that's a good measure of success. Re federated: I think they can be part of the… · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  25. First iteration of my first IPFS spec today! 🪩🕺🏻 It's "IPFS Principles" and covers some architectural characteristics that are… · 2 tweets · ♥ 9
  26. I have a question but I'm unsure what to search for: is there a model that links the degree of species monoculture/diversity in an area to… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  27. We have a growing blocklist system which we're kicking off governance for in github.com/DDC-WG so that it's publicly accountable. We're… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  28. Right, the fact that brand safety has become the tool to demonetise disinfo is wild. So far it has only succeeded in demonetising coverage… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  29. I know they do good work, I've been around a long time. That's why I'm taking the liberty to point out that this is a bad move with zero… · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  30. Note that my original point wasn't that we should get rid of notices. It was that, given widespread knowledge not only that they don't… · 2 tweets · ♥ 9
  31. I'm very excited to see @ICOnews publishing a guide about Privacy in the product design lifecycle, it's a step forward to pull privacy… · 2 tweets · ♥ 19
  32. For the people who watched my @ICOnews #PrivacySeriously keynote, a few links about things that I mentioned. First, the initial article… · 9 tweets · ♥ 34
  33. The switch from Twitter to Mastodon is an amazing illustration of how algorithmic curation is a highly impactful editorial process. (I had… · 2 tweets · ♥ 20
  34. It's also unclear which version or variant this is running. They seem to be seeing this as an existential battle and appearing more… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  35. Two weeks from now, I will be presenting "Privacy is a product issue" at the "Privacy, Seriously" ICO event which @cennydd is organising. · 4 tweets · ♥ 33
  36. There isn't a "user journey", that's not something that people have a mental representation of. Most users don't understand that the… · 3 tweets
  37. That's why I mention Mastodon, at this point it's the only alternative where I'm seeing to sort of "weird overlap" that made Twitter tick.… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  38. Once again, the problem isn't the technology, it's how it is used to create yet more exploitation. · 2 tweets · ♥ 16
  39. That's absolutely a real thing and I've certainly seen my share. The problem I have in mind in this case is different though. There are… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  40. A few words about "The Internet Transition": berjon.com/internet-trans…. I thought I'd never manage to finish writing it because it… · 2 tweets · ♥ 17
  41. Yes, ePD is stupidly strict and the exemptions don't have any logic to them apart from "someone at a DPA thought it was OK at some point."… · 3 tweets · ♥ 6
  42. So load-balancing counts; DDoS prevention is more complicated as you point out, however if I were someone's privacy person I'd point out… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  43. That's nothing, you should have seen the Karl Dubost lightning talk in which he cut off the legs of his pants live to make a laptop bag… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  44. Hey, I know a lot of you tried Mastodon with the early fits of the petulant moron and were put off by that experience. But as this site… · 4 tweets · ♥ 24
  45. That's a very important question. I think that the distinction is that we should use GPC (or equivalent) for everything that has to do… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  46. At the risk of looking like a shameless plug, I happen to have published berjon.com/internet-trans… on this topic just last Friday. That… · 4 tweets · ♥ 3
  47. There is no other opener. Also, I love subtle differences in quality. The screw can vary greatly in how smoothly it enters cork, and the… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  48. Quoting @LAM_Barrett, "notice and choice, a method of privacy regulation which promises transparency and agency but delivers neither." If… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  49. I have tweets I wrote in the past couple of weeks that I can find because they have notifications attached to them, but they don't show up… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  50. The whole point of having a standards community and process in order to make decisions by consensus is precisely to avoid having one guy… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  51. I didn't say it was conspiracy, I'm just pointing out that Google makes brisk business funding disinformation and it is predicated on… · 4 tweets · ♥ 8
  52. I beg to differ. To begin with, they're designed as one sided: they don't (and can't) measure the loss that the system creates. Then they… · 4 tweets · ♥ 12
  53. I know, but as much as I love CSS, it matters a bit less than structuring the economics of the Internet, including bits that are vital for… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  54. Chrome 2020: Unlike other browsers we could talk about, we're going to do our privacy work through a standards process. Chrome 2023: Well,… · 2 tweets · ♥ 66
  55. The Internet is allowing us to build a richer, more complex society but the way in which we Internet today is failing to support the… · 2 tweets · ♥ 110
  56. “We believe that improved privacy should ultimately lead to better performance,” McLaughlin said, “whether that’s brand lift or more… · 3 tweets · ♥ 6
  57. Thanks! I have a few things I'm looking into, it's been 20 years since I read Aristotle so I'll see about that too. My concern is that he… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  58. Ah, that's not how I read that formulation, to me it's "drafted by X but with the authority of Y." But I see your point, and I certainly… · 2 tweets · ♥ 8
  59. I don't think it's user agent principles that keep anyone from participating. I think that the case that this has actual value that would… · 2 tweets · ♥ 7
  60. Absolutely, but what would normally fall under "third-party" threats is the ability to identify (probabilistically enough) the person who… · 3 tweets · ♥ 3
  61. I think we need to be a bit more specific, unfortunately! If you're looking only at eg. script@src=ipfs:cid then yes. But if you consider… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  62. Just to make sure we're on the same page: you're considering eg. the <script src="ipfs://deadbeef/jquery.js"> case, right? That wouldn't… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  63. I think that the policy we come up with has to depend on which promises we make in the ipfs: scheme. The SOP is needed because the HTTP… · 3 tweets · ♥ 5
  64. It's time to start this year's book thread - welcome to 2023! ♥️ · 32 tweets · ♥ 112
  65. "The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI" in which @Mappletons makes a compelling case that LLMs et al. will strengthen the dark… · 2 tweets · ♥ 9
  66. It's still not high enough. Those companies are operating with supracompetitive margins that are easily within or above that range — and… · 3 tweets · ♥ 8
  67. I asked Dan because he is the Guardian of Web History, and because he's both a good friend and a curious historian, he went to ask you :)… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4

2022

  1. 2022 was a long and demanding year, but one which leaves me hopeful and ready. · 10 tweets · ♥ 68
  2. Are there articles or books you'd recommend on #biodiversity? I'm mostly looking at foundational/conceptual, the basics I'd need to ask… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  3. Thanks a lot for the offer, much appreciated. Right now the issue is financial and timing. I hope that we can resolve it without corporate… · 2 tweets · ♥ 25
  4. As you may recall: • MIT partly hosts W3C, but withdraws Dec 31 • A W3C nonprofit needs to take over on Jan 1 • MIT has assets (dues,… · 11 tweets · ♥ 1,170
  5. I spent five years in media arguing that the privatisation of digital infrastructure was a freedom of the press issue, to be tackled… · 3 tweets · ♥ 73
  6. Most of the issues listed by @Chronotope aren't technical, and many are specifically about the business model of journalism. Post seems… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  7. That's a fair point but I disagree on two points. I think that we *could* build a tech system with the rich opacity and complexity of an… · 3 tweets · ♥ 3
  8. The fedi is promising and has been promising for a few years now, but we still have our work cut out to make it capture-resistant.… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  9. I wish I could count the number of times people have told me "you can publish anything you want on the web, that shows it isn't captured!"… · 5 tweets · ♥ 59
  10. Ah, great idea reaching for affordances here! Maybe a slight modification: rather than situating affordances in media and mind, maybe they… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  11. I think that @VitalikButerin's question is actually valid, and I'm not sure that it implies the equivalence of all media, perhaps the… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  12. Isn't the problem here the underlying assumption that there is a one-size-fits-all way to learn? It takes me tremendous feats of focus… · 3 tweets · ♥ 2
  13. Being cut. · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  14. No, why? · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  15. Yup, I have the arbitrary 90% for engines, 10% for browsers pencilled in. It might be wrong but it's a detail we can look at later. I… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  16. Good questions, thanks. There is indeed a gradation of risks, but I think that it has threshold effects beyond which gradation doesn't… · 5 tweets · ♥ 1
  17. Sure — I'm not interested in the moral high ground, I'm working on a very practical problem, namely (cf. upthread): mitigating the… · 10 tweets · ♥ 1
  18. I'm here to look for common ground too and I don't believe that that requires "aligning on strategy" (ew) but that's hard to do when we… · 3 tweets
  19. I disagree. I think that browsers are dying in part because they're stuck in the tabs+windows metaphor. Who wants to write advanced… · 2 tweets
  20. I absolutely encourage you to spend your weekend elsewhere and I hope it's a good one! I'm entirely sincere when I say I don't intend to… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  21. It's of course a prediction but we can ask about current trends. If that's not the end state, what is that app for? Why does it have an… · 3 tweets
  22. I'm not characterising it that way to be antagonistic. The effect of defaults is well documented and the biggest player can pay more: this… · 3 tweets
  23. It does, but I'm not sure that it's the people you are thinking of who need to be educated about the power dynamics they encourage. For… · 3 tweets
  24. I'm with you, but look at it this way: rate limiting is trivial, yet none of the big ones who do this (LinkedIn, Reddit, NYT...) do it.… · 3 tweets
  25. I take issue with it too and work to change it, but it's not a framing, it's reality. Any product manager who needs to get things done on… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  26. That's a very good point and one with a simple explanation: I don't think that most people in digital businesses see the web as less… · 4 tweets
  27. This is beautiful. · 2 tweets · ♥ 18
  28. If you're running a news site and you embed tweets, I hope you realise that Elon Musk, a famously petulant man-child who openly hates… · 3 tweets · ♥ 55
  29. It's hard to even begin listing how much of this is evidently wrong. There is no global privacy law nor any regional one that would be… · 4 tweets
  30. So it looks like @Google is still advertising on Twitter. Everyone in advertising knows they're bad at brand safety, but you'd think… · 2 tweets · ♥ 14
  31. That is indeed a good question 😁 A key concern I have is that you can harden a protocol against all kinds of problems but it is… · 3 tweets
  32. You're not wrong, there are plenty of ways in which blending technosocial powers like this can go really wrong 😂 But, to speculate, what… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  33. Lawyer friends: is it possible (in some meaningful global jurisdictions at least) to attach terms of use to a standardised protocol? Say I… · 2 tweets · ♥ 18
  34. Warren Weaver distinguished three problem classes: 1. of simplicity, like relating two variables 2. of disorganised complexity, that can… · 2 tweets · ♥ 7
  35. If you're good at tech and not in love with the Linux-on-the-desktop vibe you're getting from Mastodon (some of which comes from protocol… · 3 tweets · ♥ 11
  36. Twitter has been the only Big(ish) Tech company that has felt like it was sincerely trying to make things better in a way that connects… · 2 tweets · ♥ 139
  37. You should go grab your copy of "The Happy Valley." Why? Because you want to read it. Why? Because it's good! And full of different stuff… · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  38. Ceci est une "Francesinha", ainsi nommée parce que c'est l'interprétation portugaise du croque-monsieur. J'attends la mienne... · 2 tweets · ♥ 12
  39. Exciting times: @arcalinea gives a (very) quick overview of @bluesky. IPLD and DIDs inside! App coming soon. #IPFS · 2 tweets · ♥ 12
  40. Sure, but things you won't have include 1) contracts stating that a given third party is a processor rather than a controller when some… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  41. The difference matters to people doing compliance work, the implementation is different. Notably, if you do GDPR you probably don't have a… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  42. This is a good intro, but this bit could mislead: "Publishers may see a decrease in revenue from the inability to sell data (…) sites can… · 3 tweets · ♥ 14
  43. I would take the statements made in this thread that the meaning of GPC doesn't matter with a pinch of salt... The detailed lawyer-level… · 3 tweets · ♥ 5
  44. Nice try, Thomas, no one's laundry room is that tidy and well lit. You won't fool us! · 2 tweets
  45. I'm delighted and extremely excited to share that I am joining @protocollabs to work on governance and standards! "We build protocols,… · 3 tweets · ♥ 180
  46. This atjson thing looks lit! I think that a key issue with legibility in SLAS is the loss of local knowledge (mētis). It doesn't feel like… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  47. So, I've had Cambria open in a tab for quite a while on the assumption that there's thinking to be thought there. I haven't done that yet,… · 5 tweets · ♥ 6
  48. This is a good point, and it's why you keep hearing me talk about governance (and that's only about to get worse). AMP & CWV may well have… · 7 tweets · ♥ 50
  49. I think that characterising this as "for a time" is a bit off? IIRC that was the case from 2016 to 2021, or about 80% of AMP's existence.… · 3 tweets · ♥ 7
  50. (Sorry, not on the Internet much this weekend.) I'm not implying that this is necessarily intentional, but open governance takes more than… · 6 tweets · ♥ 1
  51. Please Aron, this is detached from the facts. I've actually contributed to the AMP open source project and attended the AMP AC where… · 2 tweets · ♥ 12
  52. I understand where you're coming from with this, but you're having "knowingly" do a *lot* of work there! Acceptance of ToS and PP are… · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  53. Right, I'm not thinking about it in terms of internalisation (though you would have to do that to make propertatian approaches work, which… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  54. Except that people don't barter PD. That would require a modicum of choice and some degree of pricing, even accounting for barter… · 3 tweets · ♥ 9
  55. This is probably not the answer you're looking for, but in the case of Meta… I'm not sure anyone knows. Including Meta. I'm not being… · 4 tweets · ♥ 22
  56. I wouldn't bet that premium pubs will never offer UID. I think that people underestimate the market pressure and the limits to… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  57. I'm always surprised at how few people know that "W3C" stands for "web3 Consortium". · 2 tweets · ♥ 46
  58. Sorry I took a while to respond, I was at a TGIF - hour Thank God I'm French - event last night, which is a highlight of the Princeton… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  59. To add a bit to what Aram's saying, I don't think that you need to "change your mind" with respect to the Sandbox, but distinguishing… · 3 tweets · ♥ 9
  60. That's exactly why monopolies are illegal and should be prosecuted as such, Jeffrey 💕 · 2 tweets · ♥ 9
  61. Do you have good articles on political/militant/activist objects? My wife is starting to poke at the subject in curation grad school and… · 4 tweets · ♥ 35
  62. If you've ever felt like privacy law rarely seems very effective or that much of what privacy compliance people do seems to be useless,… · 2 tweets · ♥ 8
  63. I'm likely being thick but I'm not sure that I understand your disagreement well. This isn't so much about other sectoral reforms that… · 4 tweets · ♥ 4
  64. I don't think that your system works: you can only get full bad or a blocked site (which could be detectable and leak age), but no way to… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  65. So, you might well want journalists to handle audience concerns like SEO, meaning that people who optimise to feed the beast count in (2).… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  66. Right — I'm less worried about stripping down journalists than stripping down journalism by increasing incentives to write for SEO… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  67. As I said in the other thread, the concern isn't over providing funds over the next few years, the concern is setting ourselves up so that… · 2 tweets
  68. To perhaps clarify my thoughts a little bit (and they're not necessarily fully clear, like you I'm still thinking my way through this):… · 5 tweets · ♥ 3
  69. I suspect that's more common than we know. Most lawyers just crib from others' notes and never read the original. I haven't had time to… · 2 tweets
  70. This is brilliant and prescient. However, I've been wondering if the "code is law" framing isn't too restrictive. First, code isn't just… · 9 tweets · ♥ 35
  71. We have to distinguish technical measures from legal measures. Withholding the IDFA is good, but if they did only that then people could… · 2 tweets · ♥ 7
  72. That's awfully kind. I have to point out that many of my insights are stolen straight from @EvanSelinger, @hartzog, or their… · 7 tweets · ♥ 57
  73. No, mine just popped up 😉 · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  74. I don't think that I ever got any of my feelings neatly detangled, sorted, and labelled, but even by my chaotic standards it is very much… · 7 tweets · ♥ 410
  75. I am delighted, honoured, and humbled to announce that I have been elected to the @w3c's first Board of Directors. Many thanks to those… · 5 tweets · ♥ 232
  76. Different team 😁 · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  77. Reminder that, yes indeed the #JCPA might have flaws, but whenever you say "link tax" all you're doing is telling the world that you don't… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  78. This is starting right now, I'm very curious. · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  79. This has just started (Zoom details in thread), with @C4COMPUTATION kicking off into a description of the goals of @Collective_CI. · 4 tweets · ♥ 13
  80. To go a bit deeper into @natashanyt's suggestion: • What risks did you identify during the data protection impact assessment and how are… · 5 tweets · ♥ 23
  81. Ah, so John, not Hesiod :) · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  82. You make good points, but isn't working on a ban a great way to map that out? • Announce a ban on the high-level services (G Search, FB,… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  83. I know that this is an issue that warrants deeper and more nuanced treatment than just "muahaha, let's watch the fuckers writhe!" But it's… · 3 tweets · ♥ 3
  84. I know nothing of healthcare standards, but "some developers (...) didn’t adhere to critical security specifications that are clearly… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  85. If you are considering the world inside, you are perceiving yourself from the outside looking, in a sense investigating your structure… · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  86. The part that worries me is that it seems unlikely that an interop mandate on its own will create competition on aspects that can be hard… · 3 tweets · ♥ 2
  87. Adtech companies from Google and Facebook to smaller ones you haven't heard of get rich funding hate and disinfo but the system is so… · 2 tweets · ♥ 152
  88. I have disagreements with Zuboff, but on this I think she isn't entirely wrong. There's a sense in which more of the same really is… · 3 tweets · ♥ 10
  89. Hey — I'm only seeing this now (somehow people don't invite me to the fun parties) but I think that answering this requires some nuance… · 7 tweets · ♥ 27
  90. Not just for whom, but studies that look at cookies vs no-cookies don't actually support profile-based targeting. The loss from the lack… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  91. Newspapers are insanely valuable, and so is their independence. Entrenching (and making it in the media's interest to entrench) a system… · 2 tweets
  92. The problem is how that intersects with SEO incentives. Basically, the platforms are expert at creating prisoner dilemmas such that… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  93. A quick note on the "link tax" bit in case it helps. There is a nice mutualistic model in which publishers make content, search engines… · 3 tweets · ♥ 6
  94. I think that I largely agree with you, I'd like to think that I'm not yada-yadaing it away so much as limiting myself to 280 chars :) I'm… · 2 tweets
  95. If you're looking for a coherent, integrated write-up of these ideas, I'm afraid I have nothing to point you to. A book may be in the… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  96. There is a trend in regulation to try to fix the excess value that tech captures by organising collective bargaining and compensatory… · 9 tweets · ♥ 77
  97. Neither of you asked me, but hey it's Friday night! It would be good to find a shared best practice here, but so far the alternatives I've… · 3 tweets · ♥ 7
  98. Infrastructure-wise. Make it cheap and easy to start and run a journal, then start a migration of editorial boards, reviewers, etc. It… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  99. Season 3 was really strong, really looking forward to this. · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  100. This is a classic platforms move. If you want better privacy/governance they will now begrudgingly give it to you but they'll also remove… · 2 tweets · ♥ 14
  101. It depends on reuse rights. If I hand you something that you need in order to provide me with a service but after the service you give it… · 2 tweets · ♥ 20
  102. Sephora reached a $1.2m settlement with the CA AG for among other things failing to abide by GPC signals. Active GPC enforcement is good… · 6 tweets · ♥ 47
  103. Yes, and I agree, but what I was trying to say was that I think the empathy can be taken further :) I think that trying to build… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  104. Oh man, if they really dig into ad verification there just isn't going to be enough popcorn for all of adtech twitter.… · 3 tweets · ♥ 22
  105. In-app browsers are highly deceptive to people and steal revenue from publishers. In a just world they would simply die in a ditch, but as… · 2 tweets · ♥ 70
  106. What we have in mind when we talk of "democracy" tends to be bland, abstract, and simplistic. It's a rich and potent space, we've just… · 17 tweets · ♥ 40
  107. Right, so different people will do better with different degrees of classification. I prefer fewer categories because I tend to shift my… · 4 tweets · ♥ 15
  108. I'm very interested in the compositionality of agency, I read both Apolito and Shin et al., I'll look at the others so thanks for the… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  109. So, the way I look at that system is more as an inspiration than anything prescriptive. I took the advice but then turned it into… · 3 tweets · ♥ 16
  110. Because it's just not part of our imaginaries? I see the same problem in advertising, media sustainability, search quality, etc. People… · 2 tweets
  111. I don't actually think that it's a boil the ocean approach. Je makes a good case that we need to be ambitious, and that it's possible.… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  112. "Hostage" sounds like it's necessarily bad or at least does more harm than good. That's quite a bias to start from! Yes, it probably means… · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  113. I generally agree, but a few things to note: * From an incrementalist view, it's better than what we have today. * Not all token voting… · 2 tweets
  114. She's looking for "a form of “collectivity” that everywhere locally max imizes individual agency, while making collective emergent… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  115. I have the persistent impression that what you are looking for is essentially "governance done right" but I might just be ideologically… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  116. I wonder if the differences you point at with Plural Democracy are really ideological or have more to do with implementation strategies,… · 4 tweets · ♥ 7
  117. I'm a French guy who set up GDPR at NYT - I know 😉 But most companies still approach privacy as a compliance rather than a product… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  118. Maybe, but those laws are hardly being enforced so they don't matter much here. Also, consent only improves privacy under specific… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  119. One interesting aspect of @netflix's foray into advertising is that it's bringing battles over privacy to TV. Right now, TV systems are… · 3 tweets · ♥ 65
  120. In this era of democratic backsliding, there is little that's more worrying than Google's irresponsible data handling practices. · 2 tweets · ♥ 60
  121. I'm no expert either, I've just used perceptual hashing to find existing files in non-adversarial situations. I share your intuition that… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  122. I've just been looking at amplification as the flip side of gatekeeping: it's deciding that a given audience gets to see given… · 5 tweets · ♥ 6
  123. The Chilean constitutional process is fascinating and the proposed Constitution seems amazing. I hope it gets translated into English… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  124. I put a quick and dirty thing together in there: github.com/patcg-individu… · 7 tweets · ♥ 30
  125. The little-known Spiderman Corollary is that you can't have a lot of responsibility if you don't have much power. Once someone else's… · 2 tweets · ♥ 12
  126. Hard to sketch in a tweet, but at a very abstract level we can look at "taxing" search such that a small fraction goes to browser and… · 3 tweets
  127. Indeed, but tricky doesn't mean unsolvable :) 450m is a lot of money, but at the scale of the Web it's not *that* much, and we only need… · 3 tweets · ♥ 5
  128. *And* it opens on Princess Bride. · 2 tweets · ♥ 8
  129. The biggest issue in marketing remains measuring only short term impact. The total ROI on this kind of practice is negative, but all you… · 2 tweets · ♥ 11
  130. In fairness, #ADPPA has warts that need fixing but in terms of its general approach it's excellent. It supports ad-based revenue in a way… · 3 tweets · ♥ 8
  131. I'm sorry to have to share that Mochi, one of our beloved cats, passed away last night. He was the sweetest of cats and barely over one… · 8 tweets · ♥ 150
  132. Thanks! I think domestication can bring together notions of nudging, deskilling, and convenience on one side, and the issues from the loss… · 2 tweets
  133. A few more... · 3 tweets · ♥ 8
  134. LOL, can my utter lack of education be properly respected with a lack of title? Thank you, sir. · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  135. Lawyers have parties to a contract, and anyone else is a third party. The normal tech understanding is similar, not a contract but the… · 3 tweets · ♥ 9
  136. I mean everything is an algorithm, possibly. There's a reason why people usually focus on automated decision-making, it's easier to… · 2 tweets · ♥ 16
  137. Totally agreed, I think the fact that there isn't a market for privacy is established (and there shouldn't be). Most of the VC-supported… · 3 tweets
  138. “Interestingly, it turns out that some of the ad experiences that consumers find the most annoying are also bad for the environment.” And… · 4 tweets · ♥ 19
  139. I don't know about better articulated, it's hard to beat Saturn! But overall I see the theses as related and in a few cases I could have… · 3 tweets · ♥ 4
  140. I'm not an expert on this: what is the logic in the Star Wars universe that requires bad writing and poorly-filmed chase scenes with… · 2 tweets · ♥ 7
  141. I highly recommend this piece on "Revitalising Global Internet Governance" from @kierenmccarthy. His diagnosis is highly accurate and… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  142. Yes! But I don't think that we can develop a good privacy discussion before the security issue is addressed. There's a host of decisions… · 3 tweets · ♥ 8
  143. I'm not too worried about "feeling creepy." I think it's @EvanSelinger who made the point that people riding the first trains reported… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  144. I'd like to return to this thing that @Log3overLog2 said. Is there any reason why we (collectively, I get that it could be hard for G on… · 3 tweets · ♥ 9
  145. I figured out how to bring it back! 💕 • Keyword "b", URL bookshop.org/books?keywords…: did nothing • Made it @b, loaded but not… · 2 tweets
  146. I hadn't even realised that there were browsers that don't have a minimal tab width! I always thought people with those weird seesaw… · 3 tweets · ♥ 4
  147. I agree, that's my assumption for most niche pubs. But I'm thinking of niche services like something that gives you meeting times in… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  148. Gee, you people, now a guy can't have a Twitter take without also fixing the whole Internet? I can't wait for a billionaire to come clean… · 9 tweets · ♥ 20
  149. You only need surveillance if: • Quality publishers (big or small) should be subsidising disinformation clickbait farms, or • You have no… · 3 tweets · ♥ 10
  150. Un excellent dossier qui explore en profondeur les sources de la misère haïtienne, notamment via le rôle central de la France. L'article… · 2 tweets · ♥ 10
  151. The feedback on my sketch for reformed W3C governance has been very encouraging so far. In response to some of it, I have made a few… · 6 tweets · ♥ 11
  152. There are many reasons. The initial standard may have been poorly specified, or didn't exist. Or a major implementation had bugs. Or… · 3 tweets
  153. That's fair. My (very compatible) rant is that we need privacy laws to think more adversarially about bad actors. I recently heard someone… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  154. That is true, but enforcement strategy is part of regulatory design. You can't build law as a Platonic ideal and hope that when it comes… · 3 tweets · ♥ 7
  155. I only hear you as constructive, and I'm sorry if my attempt to engage constructively didn't work or worse backfired. I would prefer a… · 2 tweets
  156. You're all making jokes, but how are we going to replace every single statistician on Twitter who just died of facepalm-induced trauma? · 2 tweets · ♥ 31
  157. It's not what caused the business need, but it's what was offered to solve its problems - and it doesn't. Institutions design markets. The… · 2 tweets · ♥ 11
  158. I'm aware, and it sucks big time. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there are two problems. One is to make privacy work, the other is… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  159. I don't think that that's the dichotomy. A problem can be entirely real and yet the solution bad. We could fight climate change by… · 2 tweets
  160. With respect, this is a bad take. If you make a law that requires businesses to annoy users in order to access their primary source of… · 3 tweets · ♥ 47
  161. I you were interested in my thread mentioning concerns (and promise) with DAO-style tech and @robleathern's discussion, I highly recommend… · 3 tweets · ♥ 14
  162. If you want to build up your ability to understand and think about DAOs intelligently (not just 😘 or 🤮), I highly recommend this thread… · 9 tweets · ♥ 24
  163. C'est @criteo qui vient sur ton site — et PAF la vie privée! · 7 tweets · ♥ 22
  164. And there's no question that the money exists, and I think that it's not that hard to get to in the grand scheme of things. Indie Chrome… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  165. I'm not sure how Chrome Sync isn't a problem? Forget the fact that it's a privacy nightmare and that it pioneered the use of dark patterns… · 2 tweets
  166. You're absolutely right that we have to transition — but we have to transition to something that works and has a sustainable future. That… · 5 tweets · ♥ 1
  167. Take a break so you recover from the burn out, I'll cover the stewardship issue in the meantime, and we can join forces when you come back… · 2 tweets · ♥ 7
  168. Yeah, it hasn't changed yet, but it's in the process of changing. I've been looking at DAOs too for this, and there's a lot of interesting… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  169. Yeah, I'll admit I ran out of steam around 5k words… I have another post on commons teed up, I think it might help explain domains and… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  170. I thought this was good: aeon.co/essays/the-tra… · 5 tweets · ♥ 10
  171. It's an early draft (not officially announced yet) and a bit all over the place in quality but I'd love this group's feedback on… · 2 tweets · ♥ 11
  172. is great! I also recommend ruinedby.design. · 2 tweets · ♥ 10
  173. The CPPA stakeholder session on opt out has an interesting dynamic: publishers aligned with consumer orgs to support privacy — better for… · 2 tweets · ♥ 37
  174. CPPA stakeholder session on the CPRA right to opt out. · 2 tweets · ♥ 10
  175. It's important to read Aram's thread about the very real threat that adtech poses to uterus-havers post-Roe, and consider it in the… · 9 tweets · ♥ 81
  176. Yes exactly! Some fascist millionaire could easily bankroll this, and there are plenty of people with the marketing skills. Then just give… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  177. I think you want to think like a marketer. What's your illegal abortion funnel? (Threw up in my mouth a bit there.) Keywords will be noisy… · 2 tweets · ♥ 8
  178. I saw that when it came out but unfortunately I am unable to listen to podcasts so I'll have to discover @big_data_kane's views through… · 3 tweets · ♥ 3
  179. Haha 🤗♥️ · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  180. Clearly, my ancestors knew how to have a good time. · 2 tweets · ♥ 25
  181. Is that a sequel to the celebrated Guts? · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  182. I think that hardly qualified as an argument anywhere, let alone on her :-D · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  183. I'm not saying that there aren't marketers who want to keep their campaign tactics secret from that kind of review, but if they exist I've… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  184. Interesting point here: DPA requirements to have the Reject and Accept buttons look the same is almost certainly an own-goal as then the… · 3 tweets · ♥ 30
  185. Teaser preview from my keynote at next week's COnSeNT 2022 Workshop. consentworkshop.com · 3 tweets · ♥ 28
  186. Si tu en as marre de choisir entre la droite et le fascisme, si tu n'as pas envie d'aller voter pour 5 ans d'inégalités et de… · 2 tweets · ♥ 22
  187. Four years into the GDPR you would think that EU legislators would have a more enforceable understanding of how consent creates loopholes… · 3 tweets · ♥ 77
  188. That's all true, but also a newspaper might produce a few hundred articles a day. You simply can't apply the same fine-grained… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  189. "Technocracy Inc. promoted a philosophy that required treating the public as passive users rather than active citizens, and so far, the… · 5 tweets · ♥ 16
  190. It's the name some employees described it with, I don't know if it's labelled as such. I think it's in TB? The level that's neither… · 2 tweets
  191. If social media makes you worry about excessive and opaque control over the information space, wait till you find out about search. · 2 tweets · ♥ 36
  192. I'd like to propose merging The Times’s own "Privacy Sandbag" project into this, so that we can better splinter the Web and be… · 2 tweets · ♥ 11
  193. @joshgans explains that the proven decentralisation properties of the blockchain were wiped out by the layering of centralised interfaces.… · 2 tweets · ♥ 11
  194. @MarietjeSchaake notes that almost everyone at a full-day conference of the world's best antitrust experts has talked about protecting… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  195. Get this: the "laptop" part of your home office actually disconnects and then it keeps working, you can use it like a smaller home office… · 2 tweets · ♥ 34
  196. "The Uncanny Gaze of the Machine," wonderful @LMSacasas as always. This triggered two related thoughts I'm still noodling over: fatalism,… · 6 tweets · ♥ 19
  197. I know you disagree, Alexander. I just figured that if you decided to pick this up again months later you might have a new view. The… · 3 tweets
  198. Yes, but it's also related to computational properties in the sense that it may not be obvious what relations exist. · 2 tweets
  199. I don't know, that would not be foolproof enough. Like, your name would be caught up with news content if you're signed in. · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  200. I've been thinking about that a lot and I reckon we can fix it. Building a good index and building a good search UI are two very different… · 3 tweets · ♥ 45
  201. One advantage of corrupt states is that you know who the corrupt leaders are and they share a geography with the people. It's dangerous… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  202. Currency is infrastructure. In order to operate properly, infrastructure needs an institutional arrangement attached to it in order to… · 5 tweets · ♥ 5
  203. When entering a topic I go for breadth: follow all the interesting links or references, find all the people tweeting, etc. but stick… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  204. That's very hard, it's a bit like favourite books or music, it changes every day! I will almost certainly disagree with myself quite… · 6 tweets · ♥ 5
  205. We're pushed to spend more time, but are we pushed into more complex? I don't see it. If anything we're dealing with excessive… · 4 tweets · ♥ 8
  206. I hear you, but I think you're making your life hard by thinking about data. It's a weird commodity and it's hard to cast everything as… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  207. This needs to be repeated until we are rid of the delusion that search results could be neutral even if they tried to be. Every search… · 7 tweets · ♥ 57
  208. Yeah, I'd expect random and you choose filters and sort (eg. price, reviews as @mmitchell_ai says, or even weight, how many other people… · 3 tweets
  209. Regulators are good for requirements that are nation-state aligned one way or another, but I don't think that that's the best idea here.… · 4 tweets · ♥ 1
  210. No reason that it should be lawmakers in the national sense (so regulators would likely be a poor choice), there are plenty of other… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  211. I'm well aware of the limitations of the tech (and I don't think that this is Ben's fault!) but all the same: what we're talking about… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  212. But that's exactly the problem, Ben :) As someone who's been in small businesses most of my adult life, the very last thing you need there… · 3 tweets · ♥ 9
  213. It's a pattern: in order to be good and stay good, you need market feedback. But you don't get that when your products don't win on merit.… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  214. The @nytimes's data governance engineering team is hiring a senior engineer! I work with those folks a lot and they're amazing.… · 2 tweets · ♥ 8
  215. I repeat myself but: decentralised technology does not eliminate the power asymmetries. You will get far more robust freedom under… · 4 tweets · ♥ 45
  216. @mikarv is correct that replicating unjust asymmetries of information with or without seeing personal data is the same problem, and that… · 9 tweets · ♥ 97
  217. I don't disagree that it's easier to travel the woods with magic! And it's water under the bridge anyway. My point is just that there's no… · 2 tweets · ♥ 8
  218. Yes, I did consider the fact that Prio is like three years old and that's not enough. But we could have deployed intermediate options much… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  219. Is anyone else seeing Android Twitter using Chrome webviews instead of the default browser's? · 2 tweets · ♥ 9
  220. One key problem is that people in these spaces don't really realise that options other than "corporations acting nice" or government… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  221. That's a great question and it's key to the solution. Indeed, I don't think it matters if Apple loses $15bn a year, but it sucks a whole… · 4 tweets · ♥ 5
  222. "History shows that inequality is essentially ideological and political, not economic or technological." Somehow I'd missed this… · 7 tweets · ♥ 71
  223. As someone who has to rely on the work of privacy lawyers A LOT, please know that the work of privacy lawyers who actually care about… · 2 tweets · ♥ 10
  224. Well, the only answer to that that fits in a tweet is "whoa, Tony, that's a really fucking hard problem!" :) Perhaps more helpfully: I… · 3 tweets · ♥ 15
  225. Hmmm, no. 1) I can think of a bunch of things that Google could easily do if they cared about SMBs — but don't. Trying to mobilise SMBs to… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  226. This seems funny - sites that use adtech don't understand it! - but it's a big part of why the system is so hard to change: people are… · 4 tweets · ♥ 84
  227. I'm neither a philosopher nor a computer scientist, just a random guy on Twitter. I'm just looking at belief as an internal state that… · 2 tweets
  228. Tricking is the inducement of false beliefs. You don't need agency, the most rudimentary information processing suffices. (To be clear:… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  229. That's an interesting line of reasoning — but I don't think you need agency to be tricked! The mechanism is being tricked, even if of… · 2 tweets
  230. In both cases you are designing a token to be miscategorised by an automated system. With the penny, the mechanism has properties… · 3 tweets
  231. Oh, to be clear: I do think that there are useful distinctions to make between the various ways in which data is shared. 2PD is often just… · 3 tweets · ♥ 2
  232. What people are missing in the debate about "Zero-Party Data" is that "Second-Party Data" is already nonsense. The "third" in third-party… · 2 tweets · ♥ 48
  233. I think the problem is that for that to happen, you have to trust that others will play by similar rules. The US's total lack of antitrust… · 3 tweets · ♥ 3
  234. C'est un peu facile de blâmer la presse. Google utilise tous ses atouts pour pousser son système identitaire: OS, navigateur, AMP, mail...… · 2 tweets · ♥ 8
  235. Important piece of history: we didn't end up with today's broken digital landscape because we didn't know or didn't understand. We knew —… · 3 tweets · ♥ 27
  236. There are plenty of content farms out there that steal money from legit publishers by plagiarising content with automated tricks. Here, a… · 3 tweets · ♥ 20
  237. Thanks — but I'm really sorry but I don't understand the "challenge of bias towards the most popular topics that will significantly reduce… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  238. Thanks! Creating sensitive info topics would only become a problem if we allow leagues to create their own taxonomies (not just models). I… · 3 tweets · ♥ 3
  239. @taubeneck · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  240. That's why I think that we need a document capturing the endgame here. If the endgame is basically "like today with no 3P cookies" then we… · 2 tweets
  241. That's one of the reasons I am wondering if we can't figure out a way to have topics managed by federations of first parties. Groups of… · 4 tweets · ♥ 3
  242. I think you're tripping yourself over with "public." The implication (at least that many hear) behind "public" is "state-managed." For the… · 3 tweets
  243. I'm sympathetic with where @seanmcarroll is coming from with this, but I think it's the wrong framing. We have a way to coordinate and… · 4 tweets · ♥ 6
  244. Sadly, I think it's more complicated than that, Roger! Sharing data broadly (as done now) does seem to harm competition (see… · 3 tweets · ♥ 6
  245. Earlier today, Google announced "Topics" as their next iteration on FLoC to provide cookieless interests-based targeting on the Web. This… · 19 tweets · ♥ 252
  246. This is the best description of why the general effort to get rid of third-party cookies must be supported, no matter how many other… · 2 tweets · ♥ 34
  247. You're preaching to the choir. As I've said over and over in this thread, I never said "Apple=good", only that Chrome folks acting like… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  248. The backing down from AMP has been overplayed a lot. Chrome Sync is driven to by a series of dark patterns, it's not statistically… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  249. Oh, I'm not saying that Apple is better. I'm just saying that it takes a rather depressing level of self-deception to work for Google and… · 4 tweets · ♥ 12
  250. Google is defunding the entire ad-based ecosystem and forcing people to develop their sites twice, just to be in search results. The web… · 2 tweets · ♥ 11
  251. I know. And we can't count on them making the mistake Microsoft did. We can't count on Chrome people having an ethics epiphany and we… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  252. I'd like to see Apple invest more in the Web just as much as the next Web nerd, but it sincerely saddens and worries me to see so many… · 2 tweets · ♥ 63
  253. Maybe, we'll see! But I'm not expecting this route to change anything. The playbook predates Google by decades: just delay legal action as… · 3 tweets · ♥ 8
  254. A lot of effort has gone into explaining to the world how tech works. That's nice, but what we *really* need is to explain to tech people… · 6 tweets · ♥ 61
  255. I'm sorry Rigo but I have literally no idea what you're talking about. You can't "change the defaults" (whatever that means) on a million… · 2 tweets
  256. There are literally hundreds of things in my house that are the way they are because someone else decided what's safe and what isn't —… · 2 tweets
  257. I also disagree that we can't be in the space of completely remaking the system. In fact, in the specific area of online data and… · 4 tweets · ♥ 8
  258. I'm aware of your good work, and we've filed very similar comments on the review of the Australian privacy law. My point is that it still… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  259. Excellent news! "Digisprudence", from @laurencediver, is available open access! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-digisprud… · 2 tweets · ♥ 17
  260. I wish TV sci-fi were in a place where smarter, grittier shows like The Expanse or Altered Carbon kept going the way endlessly reheated… · 2 tweets · ♥ 16
  261. As always, there's a lot of agitation around this case. The allegations certainly ring true, but at the end of the day the problem we (as… · 9 tweets · ♥ 33
  262. I would definitely include this: pnas.org/content/118/27… · 2 tweets
  263. I am *definitely* not claiming innocence, but there is a huge difference between the scripts that a publisher puts on a page and a script… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  264. I don't know that it's about high-profile so much as high-power. The threat from one company with pervasive monitoring is much, much worse… · 4 tweets · ♥ 22
  265. I totally don't have a list of memos that I want to get to *just* for Q1 and then a rest-of-year list, I have no idea what you're talking… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  266. Yahoo Pipes is exactly why this went wrong. We had an ecosystem of open, interoperable services that were supposed to be brought together… · 4 tweets · ♥ 25
  267. Interoperable Private Attribution (IPA), a proposal for privacy-preserving attribution from @taubeneck, @btsavage (Facebook), Martin… · 2 tweets · ♥ 32
  268. The term of art is "ducking" or "ducking up." We resolved this at a meeting that involved smart people and beer a few months ago, so I… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  269. This is a great book, but I wouldn't necessarily begin there for mechanisms, institutions, incentives, agency. It assumes background… · 5 tweets · ♥ 1
  270. I *almost* went with this one but I don't like the typography work. · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  271. It's time to start a thread for my 2022 reading log. I hope you enjoy it and find some books to your liking! · 72 tweets · ♥ 382

2021

  1. I think this is both true and slightly unfair. Participation in governance needs some form of stake. It's often based on things like… · 4 tweets · ♥ 9
  2. It's altogether too often understood to mean the strict minimum necessary from the view of just one participant. That's not the best… · 2 tweets · ♥ 9
  3. To complement what Max said, browsers can't tell which cookies are essential and which are not. (Or more precisely, where it's possible to… · 2 tweets · ♥ 12
  4. Christmas loot! · 2 tweets · ♥ 32
  5. The entirety of UID2 is predicated on having a governance structure that could prevent participants from mapping the hashes back to emails… · 2 tweets · ♥ 10
  6. As you so eloquently put it, publishers are not compensated for AMP. As Hal can explain, Showcase pricing is at the kind of level you can… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  7. Actually, Google's behaviour is key in preventing publishers from monetising. Their approach to ranking (and search monopoly) means that… · 3 tweets · ♥ 14
  8. I would suggest framing the first one differently. We still don't know what the scope of the Web is, so it seems weird to expect that to… · 3 tweets · ♥ 3
  9. For all the tut-tutting, web3 is mostly an overcorrection (plus the usual grifters). We have a web fully controlled by a few… · 3 tweets · ♥ 40
  10. "If there’s ever a future where we can begin to reimagine the internet as a commons, rather than a shopping mall with a handful of big-box… · 2 tweets · ♥ 20
  11. For attribution, there's a new proposal coming. I think it might hold promise. For Trust Tokens, I definitely see both issues and value. I… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  12. Right, I think I agree with the broad strokes of your position, but I'm interested in carving out what works. I also think that the… · 3 tweets · ♥ 3
  13. It's really not clear to me that this is user-centric; in fact, the way in which the integration works on Chromebook is extremely… · 2 tweets
  14. That entirely depends on how the stack is built and on what we consider the scope of web standards to be. There was this "Extensible Web"… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  15. I'm not sure that this is required for consistency with the GDPR, though? Like, you wouldn't make insider trading or economic espionage… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  16. Web people! I have a question for you. The WICG has existed for a little over 6 years now. How do you think it is doing as an institution… · 4 tweets · ♥ 24
  17. Le CA des GAFAM est de l'ordre de 1000 milliards d'euros par an. 1 milliard d'amende étalés sur 3.5 années de RGPD, ça équivaut à deux… · 2 tweets · ♥ 66
  18. This came up at the Social Media as Crisis Discipline workshop. On first principles, you'd think that splitting the big social mosh pit… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  19. I've been trying @DuckDuckGo new Android tracking protection system that keeps apps from broadcasting data around, and so far I really… · 2 tweets · ♥ 26
  20. I think you touch on the right point but indirectly. You can generate more value with more data, so sharing more creates greater value.… · 2 tweets
  21. Question: is there any evidence, empirical or at least from principled arguments, that sharing data broadly across contexts would ever… · 16 tweets · ♥ 84
  22. Ah! Thanks, that makes sense, the docs made it sound really weird. The problem with trust is that, in this case, it's circular. For sites… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  23. It's about time this entered broader consciousness. And it's particularly true of infrastructure. · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  24. In a Caturday state of mind. · 2 tweets · ♥ 16
  25. Isn't that flat out unhealthy? I mean, it's basically fat and sugar, its purpose is to make calves grow. · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  26. In the talk (and I presume in the book too) Ari made the case that we can't rely on people beating the system at every turn, even if… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  27. So much hard-hitting truth in this brilliant talk from @ariezrawaldman about how companies define privacy in ways that lead… · 3 tweets · ♥ 47
  28. Good thread here. I'm exicted about the PATCG too. Adding a few thing to what Ben has said. 🧵 · 4 tweets · ♥ 43
  29. A cool concept to make sense of the metaverse is that of a "total institution": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_ins… · 3 tweets · ♥ 12
  30. Because the value of data is superadditive, notably when exploited across contexts. With no cap on data, things revert to anticompetitive… · 3 tweets
  31. Small eco-friendly house somewhere green and majestic, can walk to the village for coffee. Writing books. · 2 tweets · ♥ 8
  32. There might be too much to unpack in this for Twitter, but a few notes. First, antitrust doesn't mean splitting at the FB/IG/WA boundary —… · 4 tweets
  33. The Global Privacy Control is coming to Firefox! Getting rid of third-party cookies is only part of the story: sites can still track you… · 3 tweets · ♥ 32
  34. I was thinking the same thing! From what I put together, there's no gain in being someone who brings "stop energy" but you can always very… · 2 tweets
  35. Sure, I support them too. But I don't think that changes anything much to the fact that most of big tech, primarily amongst which Google,… · 3 tweets · ♥ 2
  36. You should read the whole thread, but a few highlights. Google and Facebook force publishers into terms under which they have to hand over… · 7 tweets · ♥ 38
  37. "I don’t know why trans sisters have been moved to risk and sacrifice so much, in different fields. I do know that the changes their… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  38. Season 6! · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  39. Beautiful new mural on Chestnut St. in Princeton. · 2 tweets · ♥ 40
  40. Looking at DAOs and thinking only of those folks is IMHO like looking at the earlier Internet and only seeing JP Barlow, Andreessen, or… · 3 tweets · ♥ 5
  41. I don't think we have the one place (it kind of goes with the philosophy that we wouldn't!), but thereboot.com/beyond-cryptoe… gives some… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  42. I hear you, but I don't think it's true. We don't have a word for "society excluding Philip Morris and Dupont." These companies that… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  43. You make a compelling argument, Honorary Boardmember! · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  44. It's still just a toy theory, and I might not bother digging more. And there are plenty of good values in there! But values are one thing,… · 3 tweets
  45. I've been pondering this theory that Star Trek's depiction of high modernism as somehow practical and utopian is, given its importance in… · 2 tweets · ♥ 9
  46. Very interesting thread from @RepCasten on the danger of persuasive technology applied to finance, here with tragic consequences. We're… · 7 tweets · ♥ 22
  47. I agree with Charlie that we can think about more than one problem at once, but on this specific topic I would go one step further:… · 5 tweets · ♥ 30
  48. If you're thinking about the fully general case then yes! I think it's untractable. At the very least, a wysiwyg view of a proper document… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  49. I wouldn't begrudge someone wanting to make a difference and I do wish that they would succeed. However, hubris might be the wrong word… · 3 tweets · ♥ 6
  50. I mean, if you stop using a password manager, you are already committed to manually resetting your password on dozens or hundreds of… · 2 tweets
  51. That part is a problem, as it is with all the other relay offers. But I don't think that anyone has figured a way around that so long as… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  52. NYT top company for women technologists for third year in a row. Plenty of cool jobs if you're looking: nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/NYT · 2 tweets · ♥ 28
  53. The question I really need answered is: how did the koalas get rid of it? What arsenal are they hiding under that fluffy demeanour? 🐨 · 2 tweets · ♥ 12
  54. C'est un problème de résilience des systèmes complexes (dont l'écosystème est un exemple). Ces systèmes sont très résistants aux… · 6 tweets · ♥ 13
  55. You're reading this as "information should be disorganised" which would be a pretty dumb take. The difference is in the "for you." It's… · 7 tweets · ♥ 4
  56. The idea that tech should organise information for you instead of empowering you to organise your own information - as if a… · 4 tweets · ♥ 81
  57. "It's okay because it's on-device" is one of the coming biggest issues in tech. Sometimes it's true, often it's a lie. (Arguably… · 6 tweets · ♥ 117
  58. That's very weird. I assume that it doesn't do that if you reload? · 2 tweets
  59. Thanks — that's a very good table indeed. I'm not saying that helping with enforcement isn't valuable! It certainly is. I just tend to… · 2 tweets
  60. Gut feeling. I thought it was weird that it was "refused" online but that I hadn't received a matching refusal "come pick your passport… · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  61. I beg to differ. I initially didn't want to switch to duck because I thought it'd be a Linux experience. I stayed there because it's the… · 3 tweets · ♥ 2
  62. It's more of a daydreaming hobby than anything else but I've long (as in since Microsoft's darkest days) had this occasional fun imagining… · 4 tweets · ♥ 1
  63. I'm excited to say that I wrote a piece for @smashingmag! It's about about what we can do when we build web things to improve privacy for… · 2 tweets · ♥ 54
  64. This is pure, unadulterated genius. A great present for all your lawyer friends! (via @finnmyrstad) · 2 tweets · ♥ 9
  65. Yeah, you're right about the resource issues, though in fairness I don't know how much users will notice given what browsers already use… · 3 tweets · ♥ 2
  66. I agree with Alex, I think people feel powerless and disenfranchised more than they feel unsafe here. I reckon the unsafe part can be… · 2 tweets · ♥ 7
  67. I can't speak for Alex but the folks I'm hearing that from aren't on the technical side and are often unfamiliar with standards. Many have… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  68. I understand how we landed there, there are logical steps along the way. What I'm saying is that we should pause and take stock. Is this… · 3 tweets · ♥ 9
  69. The more I think about a reformed architecture for ads on the Web, the less it makes sense for the browser to be running any kind of… · 4 tweets · ♥ 90
  70. Totally — and others are doing similar things. But one interesting thing is that the system has nothing that really needs to happen in… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  71. The more I think about it, the more I reckon putting together something new is worth a shot. For everything that's more or less… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  72. A young deer has been trying to intimidate Mochi, my 6 months old kitten. Who would you put your money on? 🦌 vs 🐈 · 3 tweets · ♥ 24
  73. Yes, he always has this earnest, questioning look. Except when he just woke up. · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  74. The only use case I've found convincing is for sites that may host arbitrary user content and need to create a boundary yet maintain ACL.… · 2 tweets · ♥ 7
  75. I get the sentiment. I think the case of companies blogging that FB ads are bad and then using them is clearly hypocritical. But even for… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  76. I get your point too :) The issue is that it's a collective action problem: if I don't feed the monster gods, the other villages will and… · 2 tweets
  77. Thanks Julia, I agree (and said) that there's nuance in the article. My unease is that the threat disparity feels hard to bridge, even… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  78. How and who matters, a *separate* article on the multifaceted woes of marketing would be great. That said, for the "who," the worst… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  79. This is very rare, but I feel quite ambivalent about this VPN article from @themarkup. Tracking in-VPN behaviour and using marketing… · 4 tweets · ♥ 30
  80. For an ad, it would be OK 😁 · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  81. It's a decent way to write some docs, it's a pretty terrible format to process, though. This means that a lot of useful information is… · 2 tweets
  82. I've been wondering along similar lines. We need a way to tie content publishing like on the Web to distributed computing and some form of… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  83. Thank you! Some quick background: I work here on an E3, wife & daughters had to visit family in France. I can extend locally but they… · 3 tweets
  84. From what I've seen, most software folks work implementing unethical business models which they justify finding cool because you can scale… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  85. @BrettFrischmann has a lot of good things to say about how we should be running the web, the Internets, as infrastructure. Here's a short… · 3 tweets · ♥ 7
  86. It could happen, sometimes legitimate nudes are stolen and used in CSAM contexts. If that happens, the hashes could match. But I suspect… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  87. Wow, that's very on point Maria. · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  88. Hmmm, sorry but no. By your rule, no data collection can ever be good. Just because adtech has tried every bullshit way doesn't mean it… · 3 tweets · ♥ 6
  89. "And as the pioneering political economist Elinor Ostrom showed over a lifetime of research, there are countless examples of people coming… · 3 tweets · ♥ 68
  90. From a publisher's perspective, the advantage of the Web should be that we can have control and independence, whereas on native we have to… · 2 tweets
  91. There's a lot that's fair in the criticism here, but let's be blunt: can anyone honestly point to a single major browser vendor that's not… · 9 tweets · ♥ 160
  92. WHO DOES THAT. · 2 tweets · ♥ 16
  93. Oh there's more! I love how when some part of the UI is conditional, it does a slow server roundtrip for it and will wipe out anything you… · 4 tweets · ♥ 6
  94. So much of the narrative is that it's great tech that just happens to have harmful side effects, as if that position made sense. "It's a… · 2 tweets · ♥ 25
  95. The problem is how fast that happens. It's probably good that there's only one design for a hammer. It probably took a while to get there.… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  96. "The commitment to the better at any cost makes the good impossible at any cost." A/B testing has been more harmful to product development… · 4 tweets · ♥ 33
  97. Can you be a bit more specific about what you mean by "building" it? Do you mean, like, implementing, writing the spec, coordinating? · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  98. OK ♥ Here's a copy of an email I sent on the same topic, it has a bunch of links many of which are directly about this. I edited the… · 2 tweets · ♥ 8
  99. Yeah, no, you have the informed take, that's the take. People care a lot about privacy. They care when you ask, they care when you give… · 2 tweets · ♥ 17
  100. For the folks looking for a solution to the FB/YT/etc. problem: there's a platform out there that has 4.1 billion MAU, everyone can write… · 7 tweets · ♥ 80
  101. I would say there are several levels: some things should not be consentable (organ sale), some things should be consentable but hard to… · 3 tweets · ♥ 2
  102. Actually, my point is that that's why we *should* regulate. What we have right now is not regulation, it's offloading the work of defining… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  103. I used to think that a relatively piecemeal approach might work, but I'm a lot less sure now, so I'm back at the drawing board. I wrote a… · 3 tweets · ♥ 4
  104. Thanks! WRT direct marketing under LI, I think I'm the one who's unclear because I am taking shortcuts through assumptions. Let me try to… · 5 tweets
  105. Thanks! I'm not sure I fully get your question? Under the GDPR, there is an explicit allowance for direct marketing under legitimate… · 2 tweets
  106. That's the part I don't understand: separating the interpretation of the signal from enforcement. Are you saying that we should basically… · 2 tweets
  107. I am not a lawyer, etc. but the law/regs indicate that if users pick a tool that's privacy-supportive, then it can be on by default. For… · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  108. Sadly, there seems to be no illustrator credit, but I would like to thank whoever decided to illustrate California enforcing GPC — a… · 2 tweets · ♥ 11
  109. I got the impression that he was talking about inexpressible rather than inexpressed? There's a huge amount of tacit, implicit, craft… · 3 tweets · ♥ 3
  110. It's interesting, I suspect that these principles could be adapted to the stewardship of any complex. · 2 tweets
  111. BUT WHAT HAPPENS TO SYLVIE I HAVE TO KNOW · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  112. The beauty of the market, as clearly described by Hayek, is how the price mechanism can encode local information that can never be… · 3 tweets · ♥ 9
  113. But that's the thing: this isn't how Web standards work. As per Process §6.2.2 you cannot advance without implementation experience, which… · 2 tweets · ♥ 9
  114. I'm thinking of this bit: you're in scope if you provide the data for any kind of consideration. (Can't seem to link to sections.)… · 3 tweets · ♥ 4
  115. I look at it even outside anticompetitive concerns, real as they are. The amount of sludge choice architecture in the Chrome Sync consent… · 2 tweets
  116. I'm not sure I fully get your vision here but it sounds tantalising! · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  117. As you hint at, I think that the path forward is semantics. It would be great to have a way to mark that something is an ad, and something… · 3 tweets · ♥ 5
  118. It is. I think the difficulties will be 1) making sure they apply the right values, and 2) holding them to not prefer big companies. For… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  119. To be clear, my thinking isn't that democracy will save us, only that it's credibly the highest collective cognition we can achieve, and… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  120. @celiabelin covers the continued absurdity of the American travel ban and non-immigrant visas. It is causing needless anguish; it is also… · 2 tweets · ♥ 37
  121. Ha! Promising approach 😁 · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  122. If you have "extremely limited" influence, then your free riding isn't going to cause problems. If free riding can become a problem at… · 3 tweets
  123. Thanks — these are interesting reasons. Regarding free riders, my expectation from a free rider situation is that it mostly concerns a… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  124. You seem to be rat-holing into a very specific tree in response to a blog post that's specifically about the forest. But yes, and this… · 4 tweets · ♥ 16
  125. I'm not talking specifically about "is NYT reader" there? The signals we're seeing are more specific than that. Without getting into… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  126. Is it time for a "crisis discipline" to understand how technology is impacting our social dynamics at scale, and to guide our action? Yes.… · 3 tweets · ♥ 84
  127. "Everyone" being everyone who has to use the technology system in question? Consensus by exhaustion might factor in — that's a good… · 4 tweets · ♥ 1
  128. Thank you! This sounds exactly like what I have in mind — DMing you right away. · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  129. Good Sir — have you heard about Google AMP? 😂 In a broader sense, I'm thinking about this from first principles.… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  130. The part they don't tell you about cicadas is that in which one of your kittens gorges on what looks like a dozen, and then vomits… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  131. Details still being hashed out, I wasn't meaning to announce, just to share the acronym. How these usually work is: anyone with a position… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  132. Yup! · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  133. I don't see why you wouldn't be cool enough to hang! Thanks for the details and transparency. They largely match my expectations from what… · 4 tweets · ♥ 2
  134. No, I'm 100% thinking about users and publishers. For users: if they load content from NYT then no party other than NYT or trusted by NYT… · 3 tweets · ♥ 2
  135. I think there are two (complementary) questions here. One is basically "what's the smallest reasonable change that could make this… · 4 tweets
  136. AMP has that weird fake URL bar that sort of is the ancestor of that issue, but the URL bar is the cache URL. So it's sort of like… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  137. I'm aware of SXG, but there are several issues. If it's the only real option, then it's leveraging Search to make us optimise content for… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  138. Sorry, but I'm the optimist kind and I always hope that people can reach agreement. You have made two statements which I don't understand… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  139. "That line of thinking also glosses over an uncomfortable truth: To achieve cheap or even free services requires justifying a range of… · 2 tweets · ♥ 24
  140. Whenever I point out that Google just straight up helps itself to other people's work and property, people think I exaggerate. Surely, if… · 5 tweets · ♥ 104
  141. I'd like to challenge the adtech bit :) I hypothesise that putting ads next to trash content isn't inherently profitable — even if you can… · 4 tweets · ♥ 7
  142. They are representing users who don't think that others are entitled to exploiting their data. Last I checked numbers, this was an… · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  143. I've long stuck to Android because I like the UI better — but that's not tenable. On the one side you have Google giving users a big… · 5 tweets · ♥ 50
  144. Google: hey, if we make the "Update" button turn orange then red when people fall behind Chrome versions, maybe they'll upgrade more!… · 2 tweets · ♥ 44
  145. I'm very sympathetic to what it's reputed to say. I was disappointed with the essay because it didn't feel like it was addressing the… · 2 tweets
  146. Not at all — I'm trying to save ads so that there's a sustainable future for ad-supported content. It puts me at odds with industry… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  147. The problem with using email for login is that it breaks the promise that you can trust the Web because you don't need to trust websites.… · 2 tweets
  148. Governance in digital advertising? I can hear you mock me from where I sit. Yet I think it's a worth a shot to solve a relatively… · 12 tweets · ♥ 92
  149. Are you a great engineer and into issues of data governance? Come work on the Data Governance Engineering team at @nytimes!… · 2 tweets · ♥ 25
  150. Location data is some of the most dangerous and sensitive data to have. If you're not sure whether Google can be trusted with data or not,… · 2 tweets · ♥ 73
  151. I think that voice assistants are being approached with the wrong assumptions, deliberate from their makers but too-often unchallenged by… · 2 tweets · ♥ 7
  152. Using the vanilla GDPR, no, but I wonder if this couldn't be an area for Art40 to help with. If businesses came together to establish… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  153. I can't read the details in Italian, but this seems like an excellent and logical decision: you cannot consent to what you can't… · 2 tweets · ♥ 46
  154. 1. That's not discrimination, you're using a strawman. 2. A wealthy area not fixing 50yo problems isn't a counterexample. 3. At no point… · 3 tweets
  155. Well, it works for FB 😁 This happens every few years. Some industry segment doesn't like the evolution of the web, and after years of not… · 3 tweets · ♥ 7
  156. Oh it doesn't stop there. It has a whole section on Ostrom common-pool resources that doesn't seem to understand that data doesn't fit… · 2 tweets · ♥ 7
  157. I mean, can you find a single adtech vendor that's not talking about how wonderful its privacy is? The whole pitch for UID2 is that is… · 2 tweets · ♥ 18
  158. Question for EU privacy friends: in reading the following from the @CMAgovUK & @ICOnews report, they seem to hint at the idea that… · 3 tweets · ♥ 12
  159. A relatively small number of first-party, single-controller purposes, with limited retention, no sensitive processing, controls, etc. A… · 3 tweets · ♥ 3
  160. What you describe is *exactly* why it's gamed by design. Imagine going to a bookshop and you need to sign a waiver so the owner can… · 3 tweets · ♥ 8
  161. I completely understand that that was how it was designed to work. But a system that's easy to game by bad actors because they cannot be… · 4 tweets · ♥ 7
  162. That's exactly the angle that PUP is taking. I believe that as a framework it is compatible with the GDPR, but it assumes different… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  163. 100% agree that this has a long history — but in a different context. Informed consent works great when you're participating in one… · 4 tweets · ♥ 7
  164. I think that duties and principles can work together — other parts of the draft are more like principles, I would say. Do you think that… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  165. It's not about *me* asking over and over again — it's about the fact that, in the course of a day, users interact with dozens of services.… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  166. Discussions of privacy, particularly in technical contexts, are often fraught with misunderstandings and poor terminology. With PUP, I… · 2 tweets · ♥ 98
  167. There are 100% ways of doing this right. They require that all stakeholders take part in decision-making around the collection and use of… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  168. Sure — but what the final customer (advertisers here) pays for and how the value gets distributed upstream are two different things. Maybe… · 5 tweets · ♥ 1
  169. But that's not the heart of the issue. The problem isn't ML, the problem is how it's used. The assumption is that it should replace user… · 4 tweets
  170. One way to answer that is to ground the question in comparable physical situations. The owner of a bookshop you frequent often would not… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  171. Kierrätämme! · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  172. This is a very important point: free speech isn't something that you decree a right and then you're done. You need to dedicate significant… · 4 tweets · ♥ 6
  173. After the Privacy Sandbox, Google is working on Privacy Balloons. Our reporters caught the chilling moment as it readies to pounce on an… · 2 tweets · ♥ 44
  174. Many thanks to the team behind the @ObfuscationWS, it was an amazing event and one of the best I've seen under Covid constraints. So many… · 2 tweets · ♥ 10
  175. I think it's more complicated than that. The FIPS, that ground procedural opt in regimes like the GDPR, were heavily developed in the US.… · 2 tweets
  176. You can only have an exchange if both parties understand the terms and implications of the trade. I don't think that that's even… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  177. Programmatic ads are usually pretty crap anyway, so I'm not convinced that we'll see that big a switch. Studies of the impact of removing… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  178. "Just 4% of ‌iPhone‌ users in the U.S. have actively chosen to opt into app tracking (…) based on a sampling of 2.5 million daily mobile… · 2 tweets · ♥ 144
  179. I really couldn't commit to anything specific since I haven't thought about the Facebook case enough to make a very specific proposal… · 5 tweets · ♥ 3
  180. I'm not claiming that I have an answer right now for this specific case, but the idea that the only sources of governance here would be… · 2 tweets
  181. In his @ObfuscationWS video, @mikarv makes a great case about the risk of on-device ad targeting using the excuse of confidentiality to… · 2 tweets · ♥ 27
  182. "Automating the audience commodity: The unacknowledged ancestry of programmatic advertising", by @LJamesMcGuigan This draws the ancestry… · 4 tweets · ♥ 20
  183. "Admins, Mods, and Benevolent Dictators for Life: The Implicit Feudalism of Online Communities", by @ntnsndr. mediarxiv.org/sf432/ A… · 5 tweets · ♥ 26
  184. If you work in technology you work in politics — it's as simple as that. If what you actually wanted was to solve harmless little made-up… · 2 tweets · ♥ 115
  185. If your argument is that 1P/3P isn't the best implementation of privacy, then that's IMHO pretty clear. The problem is: what can be… · 4 tweets · ♥ 5
  186. I qualify this as outrageous, and yet it is *still* a tiny fraction. Google does the same through AMP with almost all news content, and… · 3 tweets · ♥ 4
  187. Lack of choice in doing what? Google and Facebook will take data directly from publishers and there is essentially nothing we can do about… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  188. Oh, now I see what you mean. I don't actually see it as related to those legal concerns. Or, rather, those legal concerns probably played… · 5 tweets · ♥ 9
  189. Not so much planning as thinking. I've been thinking about how to make good principles for the Web Vision thing, and it's hard. I want to… · 7 tweets · ♥ 21
  190. No, the fact that it maps to a group doesn't change its personal data nature. To say that I have property "sexy" or that I'm a member in… · 6 tweets · ♥ 2
  191. Making a thread of @transcend_io's live notes on this talk about how the NYT built a privacy rules engine to have consistent… · 4 tweets · ♥ 5
  192. I would say: start by looking at what the AB have in their repo (it's relatively short) and about what issues you think the Web has that… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  193. Are you ready for some internet governance? "Of course we're ready," I hear you say. "We thought you'd never get to it!" This thread… · 12 tweets · ♥ 60
  194. That's already the case! It looks uniform because it's never going to tell you that it's not, but most digital actors will target calls to… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  195. The broader context is that I'm trying to picture what a principled project to make privacy work on the web would look like. One aspect is… · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  196. My preference is actually for avoiding consent as much as possible (in matters of data), I want it rare, slow, difficult, fricative, and… · 2 tweets · ♥ 8
  197. "If the Times workers are successful in their union bid, it will become the largest of any contemporary white collar tech worker… · 2 tweets · ♥ 16
  198. I wish Google stopped talking about the "Privacy Sandbox". It's not a coherent idea, just stuff thrown together. It sits weirdly with the… · 2 tweets · ♥ 17
  199. That's my concern as well. Are we illegible enough for an adversary that has millions of data points about billions of us? What happens to… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  200. I don't know yet, but the first step is to think it's an option. There's some very good background thinking in… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  201. No dataification without representation. Data is collected - and meaningful - because it is about a population as much as about a person.… · 2 tweets · ♥ 29
  202. So this is happening. · 2 tweets · ♥ 45
  203. So... "This would only be possible if the people converting are signed into their browser across their devices." They're basically using… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  204. I can't seem to track it down now, but I remember reading about the cases curve by age in Israel. They vaccinated more or less from oldest… · 2 tweets
  205. I think that can be mitigated, but it requires (re)building trust. I'll be the first to admit: when I hear "new thing from Google" my mind… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  206. The whole point of issuing requirements (nytimes.github.io/std-cat/) was to open a channel and try to make it clear that we see a path… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  207. OK, hey, I'm not rabidly anti-Google, I've worked on Google's dime and still have friends there. I just have problems to solve that happen… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  208. Happy to, as always, but... that wasn't an ad hominem! I'll laugh at many things, but this I feel is too serious in its consequences.… · 2 tweets
  209. It's one of the things I like about your writing: even if I disagree with something I still feel it was good to read. Towards the end of… · 4 tweets · ♥ 4
  210. Yes — the way they approach Chrome is much more as the in-app browser of the Google universe than as a browser. It's a data capture race… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  211. There's an interesting dynamic in Core Web Vitals that I haven't seen anyone comment on yet: if I understand it right, it incentivises… · 4 tweets · ♥ 33
  212. I'm at the "so, it looks like the problem with the Web is modernity itself" stage of that specific rabbit cave network. · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  213. Sure, I get the background and you make very good points. Where I'm coming from is sort of "implied transparency" (guessability?) by the… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  214. The distinction feels artificial, what counts as complex varies a lot. I think it would be better to distinguish between "data inferred… · 2 tweets · ♥ 12
  215. I don't have a problem with the AMP format, I even have someone on my team working with the AMP AC to try to fix it. The problem is the… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  216. Solid research piece on using programmatic to deliver malicious payloads to national security targets. Homing in on specific targets whose… · 2 tweets · ♥ 20
  217. "Three futures: Exploring the future of web monetization", by @stephanierieger — yiibu.github.io/web-monetizati…. If you wonder what… · 9 tweets · ♥ 17
  218. I'd be happy to link it, but I don't understand how twitter builds threads, I can't get a link that has it all. Here is the starting… · 4 tweets · ♥ 4
  219. Sure, I mean, the nutshell version is that it is a core (I believe unspoken, but necessary) assumption of the Sandbox work that obtaining… · 6 tweets · ♥ 8
  220. I really hate to be the cynic but I don't think that's stopped anyone before... I would actually flip it around: policy proposals are all… · 2 tweets
  221. Yes! I like the idea of having a SO for politics, my worry is that the feedback loops are too long. SO works because you can test the… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  222. Sure, hey, I can list authoritative things I've done too. But let's just look at a simple, technical part of your very confident… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  223. Targeting is an efficiency outcome. There are many ways to achieve it. I may know that a given page is read overwhelmingly by women 35-50.… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  224. I'm not covering this topic, I work on fixing it precisely so that the media may have a future. · 4 tweets · ♥ 8
  225. It's not immediately obvious to me why these two things are presented as mutually exclusive. · 2 tweets · ♥ 16
  226. So @kevinroose just put a New York Times column he wrote up for bidding as an #NFT, and it's currently going for 250ETH — and rising fast!… · 3 tweets · ♥ 6
  227. These decisions have often been made outside of courts — but they have been made. There is precedent in SDO discussions, it would be… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  228. I agree (which is why I find a lot to like in your model law), but if you approach this from the technical architecture point of view, UAs… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  229. I'm aware of the critiques (notably from Lina Khan) and in many cases I agree that they point to issues that need to be addressed. My… · 6 tweets · ♥ 11
  230. This slide from @hartzog captures well why I would like to see browsers (and other user agents) held to fiduciary duties. Browsers are not… · 2 tweets · ♥ 34
  231. "Google’s planned changes address (…) the Peeping Tom theory of privacy, (…) the right to not have random strangers snooping on you. This… · 7 tweets · ♥ 30
  232. From a market perspective the difficulty is that cheating pays. Google can use the Chrome data for instance to enhance Search. That alone… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  233. On the policy front, I do believe that a fiduciary framework (very much of the kind @hartzog has outlined) specific to user agents would… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  234. Much agreed! Even beyond terminology, we need to be clearer on expectations. The framework Google is using there is that Chrome is… · 3 tweets · ♥ 7
  235. I think that's an important facet, but it's in fact even more complicated :) It turns out that people trust small websites that don't look… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  236. Well, Justin, I guess we'll be left feeling for each other. I approached this discussion with an open mind and you saw it as nothing but a… · 4 tweets · ♥ 6
  237. And you know just as well as I do that this step will get skipped through. That's exactly why it's a dark pattern: get the user to press… · 2 tweets · ♥ 7
  238. Thank you for having the patience to make sure we're on the same page. Now, does a dialog like the one below make it clear to users that… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  239. I'm happy to answer any questions you have about the NYT, but it reads a lot like whataboutism. I'm asking a very simple and specific… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  240. I'm sorry but that's a strawman. I never said that collection regardless of method is tracking, in fact I'm saying the opposite: the… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  241. I'm sorry but I backpedal nothing. As I've said above, if you feel that this is not the best illustration of the problem, then I welcome… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  242. Justin, here's the exchange from my pov: R: Chrome tracks more than any site. J: Back that with fact. R: Sync of history is one such fact.… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  243. No, it isn't "obviously" about volume of permissions (these aren't permissions?), it's about pointing out that Chrome is a privacy problem… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  244. That's fine. There's no question Google is far worse at privacy. Chrome alone is much more privacy invasive than much of The Times’s… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  245. I think the labels are a decent first stab at giving a high level view for a lay audience, but they fall short of a privacy threat model… · 2 tweets
  246. Chrome: the only browser that tracks you more than any site you might visit. · 4 tweets · ♥ 1,647
  247. Yes and no. They're become better at policing what others do, but they're not changing their own practices. The degree to which even the… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  248. Not just the lawyers but the strategists too! These complaints are so predictable they can be gamed out ten moves ahead. I spoke with… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  249. The French competition authority, @Adlc_, rejected the request for interim measures against Apple's IDFA changes, arguing notably that it… · 4 tweets · ♥ 16
  250. Right, I'm aware of that, but the issue for many publishers isn't preparing for CWV, it's figuring out what to do about AMP. AMP breaks a… · 3 tweets · ♥ 3
  251. Might I suggest communicating on that? A lot of us have roadmaps that depend *a lot* on whether we invest in working around AMP problems… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  252. Sure, we're not asking for anything ahead of anyone else (and I think everything they do in the AMP AC is public?). It's just we were told… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  253. It was provided directly in a meeting I think about a year ago? We don't have (or can't find) the answers we need to make an informed… · 3 tweets · ♥ 6
  254. The CNIL has a good chat about the applicability of GPC under the GDPR. linc.cnil.fr/ashkan-soltani… · 2 tweets · ♥ 17
  255. What are the odds that that would have any impact? Several of us flagged significant concerns of the value of cookies "study" and it's… · 3 tweets · ♥ 5
  256. I am empathetic, but within limits. 25 years ago I catered to small businesses and a key problem was that they couldn't tell the… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  257. Oh, I hadn't realised that your son was a philosopher too! · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  258. Absolutely. I think we can all see a future in which the platforms keep destroying ad revenue and we have no option left but to license… · 4 tweets · ♥ 12
  259. Yeah, we've been looking at cool things to do for instance with Prio, but that's not what I'm trying to solve here. It's proving hard to… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  260. Right, I get how it works, my concern is rather that this is something that has to be continuously monitored. At the same time, everyone I… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  261. This is probably futile, but I'd like to ask: Can we stop talking about the "Privacy Sandbox"? I know Google used (uses?) the term but…… · 6 tweets · ♥ 58
  262. Rapport Joinet, 1975. Il serait temps de traiter le problème. · 2 tweets · ♥ 7
  263. It's not that simple. What @ssnstudy et al. found was that it doesn't increase *publisher* value by that much, but that doesn't mean that… · 3 tweets · ♥ 13
  264. Several of the "bird proposals" (eg. SPARROW, PARAKEET) rely on a trusted gatekeeper server but tend to relegate figuring out how that… · 2 tweets · ♥ 22
  265. Hey, it's Friday and clearly everyone is still very confused about anonymous, pseudonymous, pseudo-anonymous, and more. So here's a thread… · 8 tweets · ♥ 146
  266. Many good points from @doctorow about why paying people for their data is a dumb idea that can't die fast enough. I'd like to add two more… · 6 tweets · ♥ 23
  267. I'm not sure what you mean "all that in one team" or "a lot of work". Are you thinking that that team would be doing the implementation… · 4 tweets
  268. I love the idea of embedding ethics, but I'm not sure that it should be C-level nor that it should be "just" ethics. In my experience, you… · 3 tweets · ♥ 4
  269. Self-governance as a group is kind of what anarchism is after, though 😉 · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  270. Perhaps the most amazing part of @themarkup's annual report is that it's only been one year. They've published more high-impact… · 2 tweets · ♥ 77
  271. Oh putain! Il doit pas avoir loin de 20 ans ce code! · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  272. We've made several attempts at constructive proposals and been building consensus with publishers to make this easier on everyone. So far… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  273. If it's that, I'm not sure what other way to look at it I could have? We have an existing system that already created excessive… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  274. Very cool "Resource Bundles" spec from @littledan: github.com/littledan/reso…. It's a useful approach to address the bundling mess we see… · 4 tweets · ♥ 27
  275. I think @KateKayeReports points at an important issue in adtech today (and that can't be addressed for instance at the GPC level): if… · 5 tweets · ♥ 18
  276. I came to it from a different angle, but similar overall story. I grew up very much on the far left, moving around Trotskyism and… · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  277. You can trust Facebook to pair a bad idea with careless implementation. This is clearly their internal classification of what counts as… · 3 tweets · ♥ 26
  278. I agree with this take but I also see a deeper connection between surveillance and AI (as practiced today): both are rooted in the idea… · 4 tweets · ♥ 12
  279. It's hard to tell who of Google or regulators is most to blame for this profoundly asinine implementation. It's like some auction design… · 2 tweets · ♥ 33
  280. People keep saying that better privacy only helps the big platforms. Facebook’s SEC filing tells a different story (as does their battling… · 5 tweets · ♥ 69
  281. That's a very valid concern, but the way I see it things have to be phased. In the beginning, it's new and experimental, and yes pulling… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  282. I think a lot of that depends on what you describe as "working for The Times". If you're thinking "direct-sold to global luxury brand"… · 4 tweets · ♥ 7
  283. What is being proposed here is that dark pattern consent obtained by the site would prevail over the browser's blocking, withdrawal of… · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  284. The GPC could be used for that. Technically, nothing prevents browsers from sending it differently to different parties. Its scope is… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  285. This whole thread is wonderful. · 2 tweets · ♥ 11
  286. I think the part of this critique I disagree with the most is "the Times keeps playing with M-80 fireworks while telling us all how bad… · 3 tweets · ♥ 23
  287. Now & then I find myself thinking that maybe the ad industry will consider finding lobbyists whose strategy is a bit smarter than fighting… · 2 tweets · ♥ 13
  288. Privacy matters, because legibility is oppression. It's long, but if you read nothing else this month, read @shoshanazuboff's latest… · 5 tweets · ♥ 41
  289. I'm no lawyer but clearly a core tenet of American law is that if you disclose a practice in a notice somewhere then pretty much anything… · 2 tweets · ♥ 13
  290. The spec is deliberately staying a step back from legal prescription because that's something to be done in partnership with regulators.… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  291. I don't see how that would be impossible, it could be happening right now! Chrome has way too strong ties to Google identity. Just looking… · 4 tweets · ♥ 5
  292. Ha, "adtech expert" — what can I have done to justify such ire, @swodinsky? Jokes aside, this is… complicated. I'm still mulling over what… · 6 tweets · ♥ 63
  293. On this, I am not certain that I fully agree. I think it depends on product philosophies. Products that are tools, that enable people to… · 2 tweets
  294. Ah, I see what you meant by laser focus. I don't read the post as stating that you need hard metrics from top to bottom and across the… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  295. "You know who manages by metrics? Big companies like Google, Amazon and LinkedIn. And what do they have in common? Their core product got… · 6 tweets · ♥ 90
  296. More generally, it's not as if we're short on cowpaths to pave. Just cracking open web dev projects provides plenty. Like, how many… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  297. Absolument. J'ai fini un peu sur une sale blague, mais ce à quoi je songeais ai départ est l'effet sociétal prévisible. Si tu pars… · 2 tweets
  298. It's easy to read this as just some technical cheating over ads from Google and Facebook in collusion. But this deal alone made sure… · 5 tweets · ♥ 99
  299. Yeah I have thoughts: burn it with fucking fire then salt the earth with plutonium waste 😘 A core tenet of the Web is trust, and the… · 4 tweets · ♥ 30
  300. I would say that "the ship has sailed on it being anything other than a quarreling cartel" is a pretty strong statement to be making from… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  301. You're not thick at all — you're working against a malicious party that's using one of the most opaque and complex ecosystems ever created… · 3 tweets · ♥ 4
  302. Not so much the ad server as the ad itself. Basically, code in the ad can go "if (thingsLookSafe) then doBadThing()". That means that when… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  303. That's not Verizon, it's a scam. My money's on a bad ad taking over. · 2 tweets · ♥ 10
  304. Here goes my 2021 reading log! I anticipate fewer books this year as I have started switching to taking more in-depth notes. But we'll see! · 84 tweets · ♥ 517
  305. The UK’s competition authority, @CMAgovUK, has opened an investigation into Google’s “Privacy Sandbox”. This is a fascinating topic at the… · 15 tweets · ♥ 158

2020

  1. Part of the problem is that the defaults on these tools are terrible, and even if you configure them right, which can require some… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  2. I like that but I worry about enforcement strategies. Do you just grant a PRA and pray for the best? One approach I think could be… · 3 tweets · ♥ 7
  3. I think the GDPR gave consent its chance to shine. The result is complete failure. Instead of toxic data processing we have toxic data… · 4 tweets · ♥ 9
  4. You might read @swodinsky's excellent foray into some lesser-known practices of the adtech ecosystem and think things are fine because… · 4 tweets · ♥ 107
  5. I completely agree, there are just way too many hurdles to participate in standards today. To be clear: I don't think that the WICG is a… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  6. The kind of issue that @oluoluoxenfree describes is what I was hoping (no doubt way too naively) to help fix when I started out building… · 2 tweets · ♥ 7
  7. I agree it's scary, but this could very easily come from the @Decathlon app. They likely have retargeting tracking using Facebook.… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  8. One problem there is "intentionally". If Google forces publishers to use it in the same way they force AMP there's nothing intentional… · 2 tweets
  9. My theory is that at some point you reach critical mass in the number of people you've fucked over. It's hard to predict when but there's… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  10. Seeing the @TXAG present evidence that AMP was intended to harm publishers shouldn't make us forget that Core Web Vitals is more of the… · 3 tweets · ♥ 32
  11. I mean, yes, we’re all in awe of how Facebook and Google colluded through a direct agreement to own advertising together on top of their… · 2 tweets · ♥ 710
  12. Tech futures of autonomy and self-sovereignty that could simultaneously be subversive and put into production. Enough of a common… · 2 tweets
  13. No, I don't mean underground hacking culture, on the contrary I mean people who consider themselves hackers existing in sufficient numbers… · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  14. Has anyone written on why hackers went, for all intents and purposes, extinct? It's easy to blame various evil empires, but the… · 2 tweets · ♥ 13
  15. Billie also had a great sense of humour. One of her favourite jokes she pulled off for years on end. She was a tiny black cat, so she… · 3 tweets · ♥ 12
  16. Billie Berthezène Berjon (05 April 2007—14 December 2020) passed away purring quietly earlier today. · 7 tweets · ♥ 69
  17. “Less elegant AMP” is a hell of a burn ;) On mobile, native apps often grab links to their site, and I think they are going to be pushing… · 2 tweets
  18. I think people overestimate how much you can disable in terms of tracking on Android? As far as I know Android always gets to track your… · 2 tweets
  19. I started out just wanting to make tech do good things for people; it looked like it could. Entering my 25th year on the job it feels like… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  20. I mean — what have publishers done for this to turn out differently? It’s essentially an axiom that advertising has to be intermediated;… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  21. Ooooooh 🔥 🔥 🔥 · 2 tweets · ♥ 18
  22. I am often told that digital advertising that’s respectful of users’ privacy is something “only The Times” could pull off. This thread… · 2 tweets · ♥ 10
  23. I’m suggesting that the GDPR should be enforced! Specifically, on two points. 1: a strong standard of consent for controller to controller… · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  24. One more example of the marketing industry shooting itself in the foot (or, given that this comes from the cringeworthy “Marketers for an… · 4 tweets · ♥ 34
  25. I have not but I think I really should, I've been trying to get a bit into mechanism design that aims for social good and that would fit… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  26. I don’t think that "setting another group of actors against” would be the goal; I would be more interested in accountability (as I think… · 2 tweets
  27. Yes and no. Pre-internet, the cost of print was very heavily subsidised by advertising. Yes, people had to pay for a copy or sub, but at… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  28. If it were only the ads, but the energy they sink into useless problems... Products that do things for you badly instead of help you do… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  29. Like @swodinsky I worry about this. Like it or not, the great equaliser of access is advertising. Adblocking is a privilege, subscribing… · 9 tweets · ♥ 39
  30. This is an excellent @doctorow thread summarising @DinaSrinivasan's already classic paper on how Google cheats in the ad market (with all… · 4 tweets · ♥ 54
  31. I know, I know... · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  32. Evidently, we should do both, and indeed advertising would have a greater impact. The advantage of looking at email is that, even if the i… · 2 tweets
  33. You know what would make email substantially more energy efficient without cutting back on the number we send? Default to plain text and -… · 2 tweets · ♥ 22
  34. Sure, I meant this purely from the marketer pov. I know not everyone can kick programmatic like we do, but as marketers we're in the same… · 2 tweets
  35. I increasingly doubt if that's so clear cut, though. You do need to measure if your channel works, but I am less and less convinced that… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  36. I know, which is why the market won't self-correct. It's also why agencies don't care too much about fraud so long as it doesn't tank the… · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  37. Watched a bit of The Pack and I don't quite get it. Why do all the stuff with the competition and the humans instead of just spending the… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  38. What saddens me most about the adtech world is that what passes as innovation there is basically just monkeying Google — already not an… · 6 tweets · ♥ 25
  39. If more people read it & link to it, it must be more relevant, right? Wrong. Algorithmic curation should enhance autonomy — but the norm… · 9 tweets · ♥ 76
  40. At this pace the entire US is positive in, what, two weeks? The pace probably can't hold, but it would be good not to find out. · 2 tweets · ♥ 7
  41. I don't know for sure, just some ideas! And I'd love to hear other ideas too. There's the usual bunch. One is more funding so that local… · 5 tweets · ♥ 4
  42. I’m not sure what’s sensationalised here? There’s a huge difference between collecting local log data and transmitting it remotely: the… · 3 tweets · ♥ 10
  43. Except LaTeX isn’t universal, it’s about 15% of papers — most of the rest is Word. Both Word and LaTeX suffer from being rendering formats… · 4 tweets · ♥ 4
  44. By conversion I mean to subscriptions. We don't do push grabbing at all. We only show a paywall when someone has seen enough content that… · 3 tweets
  45. Google announced that they will be changing Search (in May) such that AMP will no longer be a requirement for results to appear in Top… · 6 tweets · ♥ 31
  46. This is just a gut feeling but the rapid alliances feel more like desperation than strategy? The SSO leg of the endeavour also feels very… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  47. Breeeeeeeeathe. · 4 tweets · ♥ 14
  48. It will be interesting to see if the courts can stop regulatory capture. Those who work their best to abide by privacy legislation are… · 5 tweets · ♥ 18
  49. While the intent is no doubt laudable here, this is mostly an example of how not to talk about privacy. A quick smell test is that it… · 5 tweets · ♥ 30
  50. Wouldn't some states still have a disproportionate share of the outcome, probably the same that already have a disproportionate share of… · 2 tweets
  51. Au parc de Fort Greene 😁 · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  52. In a striking example of how we operate as independent entities, @nytopinion claims that #Prop24 doesn’t support a global opt-out even as… · 3 tweets · ♥ 18
  53. La logique orientée consommateur et concurrence serait d'interpeller la CNIL sur la légalité de ce traitement s'il devait être soumis à… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  54. C’est vraiment désolant de voir cette décision. Partager des identifiants *encourage* les monopoles. Apple — pour une fois — prend une… · 2 tweets · ♥ 11
  55. You’d have been welcome, both sessions were open! See if there are other ones you’d be up for here: w3.org/2020/10/TPAC/b…. I thought my… · 3 tweets · ♥ 2
  56. Right. I’m trying to think of a demo cluster that would get detected with some stability across models (like @coolharsh55 was pointing at)… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  57. Ah, but I don't think it's historic oppression that makes those stats morally problematic, no? Imagine racism didn't exist and we went… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  58. I presume that by "new" you are thinking of groups that would have been discriminated against but we didn't have the technical means to… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  59. I don't think that we have a model figured out quite yet. Or if we do someone should really put it in a book because it would make my job… · 2 tweets
  60. Sorry, I'm thinking out loud on Twitter, that's not a recipe for clarity 😄 My focus is making the Internet a trustworthy environment for… · 2 tweets
  61. That's fair, I don't know equivalent numbers here either, was just curious. Because if you log in without meaning to, then get nudged to… · 2 tweets
  62. Oh, I know — I review vendors for a publisher. The number of times an adtech vendor gave me basically a no-mean-yes answer about user… · 3 tweets · ♥ 4
  63. I’m no expert but I think it’s probably decently secure, at least by the applicable standards at the time of development. It’s meant to be… · 2 tweets
  64. Honoured to be on this list! I completely agree with this thread. I used to care about digital privacy. Now, I have to figure out how to… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  65. 🚨🚨🚨😺 The Belgian data authority finds that the IAB TCF infringes the GDPR. This isn’t surprising: the @IABEurope CEO had said the same… · 9 tweets · ♥ 120
  66. Completely agreed. One reason I'm curious is because I've been wondering how to drive that kind of discussion at that sort of scale, for… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  67. Weaponising the user is key to legitimacy indeed! And legibility is needed for power at scale... It's a cluster of views that feels just… · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  68. It's very interesting to read Dave's analysis here. What he's seen Amazon do to books, Google has done to news (and the web at large). In… · 2 tweets · ♥ 43
  69. The Web has become dominated by proprietary aggregation technologies: AMP, Apple News Format, Facebook Instant Articles, MIP, and now Web… · 6 tweets · ♥ 499
  70. "Revisited" really brings the title together. · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  71. I mean, the “gatekeeper” framing is definitely the wrong one. The only people I know with that framing are in adtech, where they see it as… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  72. Or, put differently, automation doesn't mean that the human is out of the loop. The UA is supposed to work *for* the user, it would be a… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  73. I understand the withdraw/object distinction and it makes sense since they work in different ways (notably in how absolute they are). But… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  74. I mean, giving consent in the first place, no objection there! The degree to which adtech people are smoking consent, even the nice ones… · 3 tweets
  75. As a rule, one thing that worries me with that type of “give the user power” proposal is that it ends up being “make the user do the… · 3 tweets
  76. I know, but this isn’t unique to TPE or GPC. Standards always have a complicated initial adoption dance. Support from large implementers… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  77. So (trying to understand how this works, sorry if slow): when a site obtains consent, it would do so in its own (possibly bad) UI, but it… · 2 tweets
  78. The problem is whose: legal terms? This is Draft Zero, so it will be iterated upon. I think it should have general terminology binding to… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  79. Sorry, let me rephrase that because I’m contradicting myself & unclear — I don’t think it hinges on a definition of “third party” that… · 2 tweets
  80. With my European hat on , I certainly don’t think that CI is USA-centric. More generally, I don’t find the nationalistic lens to ever be… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  81. CMPs gather consent for multiple things. One of those things is ePD cookie consent; a lot of it is sharing data to other controllers. It… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  82. As per GPC, “This request is expressed with every interaction that the user agent has with the server.” Whatever consent you get from an… · 2 tweets
  83. People the world around increasingly have privacy rights. But these rights are often made to be hard work: you have to exercise them on… · 7 tweets · ♥ 232
  84. But, much more importantly, it shouldn't be the government doing the work for companies to figure out how not to break the law. The… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  85. I've been wondering if those threats to Australia aren't going to go down as the moment the platforms overplayed their hands. Not just… · 6 tweets · ♥ 8
  86. 20% margin is pretty sweet. I wonder if, with these numbers, you could estimate how many publishers went bankrupt from Google's help. · 3 tweets · ♥ 60
  87. The trick might be not to sync. Or rarely, only as import. But instead have the hub enable linkability for all these sources, to make it… · 3 tweets
  88. What we're most missing is a way to get all these tools talking to each other. I've been thinking about building some kind of hub tool… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  89. I agree there are no great answers yet. I've been playing with Roam Research recently and it may be on to something. Slow, ugly, and a few… · 2 tweets · ♥ 9
  90. It appears that they used one column per case rather than rows. This matches my experience with Excel in the wild: you *can* use it as a… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  91. Is that human nature or is it locally cultural? If you don’t feel qualified in aesthetic matters because you’ve always been told that was… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  92. Interesting! I’d love to hear more. I agree that ethical certification wouldn’t mean much. The reason I’m thinking about pen-testing is… · 3 tweets
  93. Je ne suis pas d’accord. Je pense que nous avons la capacité de rendre le monde meilleur, mais que c’est devenu difficile parce que la… · 4 tweets · ♥ 1
  94. So basically you want to have the refs at the end but none of all that unsightly [ALL-CAPS-CRAP]? Perhaps the simplest option is to write… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  95. “Story ate the world. I’m biting back.” An excellent and excellently-written piece from @mariafarrell. I’m quoting just one paragraph that… · 2 tweets · ♥ 15
  96. Yes! Well, he was in exile as an opponent to Napoléon III who had overthrown democracy, so you could say he was up against some pretty… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  97. No, I think it's an older spelling of Scylla en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla · 2 tweets
  98. That’s the use case, yes. I can’t tell what TikTok specifically is using it for. It could be both! What I’m saying is that it’s a common… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  99. My 13yo cat, who's always lived in an apartment, saw me through the window of the new house this morning and she totally freaked out. · 2 tweets · ♥ 23
  100. There's a lot I like in there. (I am less sure of the "do no harm" bit because I think ethics is more complex, but that feels like a… · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  101. "Why are so many brilliant well-meaning people working together to destroy democracy?" is a question that has been on my mind a lot this… · 5 tweets · ♥ 2
  102. I see no value in them using the TCF there. They would have to present exactly the same dialog *plus* all the other vendors, defaulting to… · 2 tweets
  103. Agreed, but I believe that user agents warrant special care. There are cases in which they act as controllers, but no one is looking at… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  104. I'm seeing a few people saying that Apple's IDFA change is somehow a problem under the GDPR. Often the argument is that it conflicts with… · 7 tweets · ♥ 47
  105. I certainly agree that it’s helpful, but I worry about considering it even a central requirement. Don’t get me wrong, I love OS & have… · 3 tweets
  106. Au Times on a un peu mieux: on a un modèle qui nous donne des motivations ou des sentiments probables générés par un article (mais pas… · 3 tweets
  107. There is no problem, except that only a small percentage of users will consent if it's done according to guidelines. I think the highest I… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  108. I'm not sure how to explain it more times. Johnny gave a lot of detail already. The GDPR bar for consent is high and I've never seen a… · 2 tweets · ♥ 11
  109. That's not enough information to make an informed decision about the usage of my data. By using privacy preserving conversion measurement… · 2 tweets · ♥ 8
  110. Of course the party is key. Talking to someone directly and talking to someone while another person hides outside the room listening… · 3 tweets · ♥ 6
  111. I think that a good question to ask of new web technologies is whether they help or halt the continued centralisation of the web. As… · 2 tweets · ♥ 12
  112. One thing worth noticing in this "chickenisation" thread from @doctorow is that it's not just how the gig economy operates: it's also the… · 9 tweets · ♥ 44
  113. Of course. This is essentially a comment on observed outcomes more than on mental states. I think it might also trace back to company… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  114. I don't think that the idea is that no one inside Google looks at Google as a potential problem, we know you do. But there are plenty of… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  115. OK, but the expectation is that of an improvement over AMP. Otherwise you've just invented more complicated AMP. And baked it into a… · 2 tweets · ♥ 14
  116. I read it exactly that way 😁 I remember the same. If Buffy taught us anything, it's that there's a plural to "apocalypse". · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  117. Just my theories and probably not exhaustive, but: • Googlers don't include Google in the threat model. That's understandable, but given… · 5 tweets · ♥ 88
  118. What's frustrating is pretending these are separate problems. The web only has a future if we can build it in a way that is… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  119. I've actually been thinking about similar things! I've been wondering about telemetry standards. My goal is to render UAs auditable so we… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  120. As I've said plenty of times in this thread (which technically I said I left to return to my vacation 😛) I'm happy with any solution that… · 2 tweets
  121. And I would love to live in that world. But there's plenty of evidence, which alas you can't discuss, that you are abusing the power… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  122. OK, I get that you can't talk about some things. But there's a problem there: whether the web has a future depends more than anything else… · 3 tweets · ♥ 2
  123. If by ill intentions you mean that publishers are forced into it, that's just a fact. I don't know what the intentions were. Have you… · 2 tweets
  124. How is "strip mall web" snark? You're literally turning the web into a list of businesses that have to follow your rules. Kenji literally… · 3 tweets · ♥ 2
  125. The Internet was disruptive! That's a good point on gating access. You know who used that to unfairly dominate markets? Newspapers! Damn… · 6 tweets
  126. What snark? I've taken time out of my vacation for nothing other than to show with argument and fact that you are working against the web,… · 2 tweets
  127. Absolutely, even though that might involve some uncomfortable cuts because it's all a bit tangled up in a way that makes keeping just the… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  128. Yeah, I'm not giving up, not just yet. I've lived through those too. But the previous assaults were frontal, this one feels different.… · 2 tweets · ♥ 7
  129. I haven't said anything bad about web vitals? The whole time that AMP has existed we've all asked for web vitals and the shut down of AMP.… · 2 tweets · ♥ 8
  130. The number of deeply experienced Web people reaching out after the threads on Google's WebBundle saying they think the Web is dead, just… · 4 tweets · ♥ 104
  131. You're 100% right. There are many hypothetical ways in which this could be good. The problem is that based on empirical reality, it won't… · 14 tweets · ♥ 109
  132. I've been working on a requirements document. It should ship when I'm back from vacation. · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  133. There are several problems. One is that this is just AMP v2, if you think it's unAMPing then you missed the problem with AMP. I don't… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  134. Please pay attention to bundles. They could be used for good (packaging ads) but they are a massive architectural change that has the… · 4 tweets · ♥ 127
  135. "I'm going to talk about governance" is how every discussion of Big Tech should kick off. Scaling up tech is a set of mostly boring… · 2 tweets · ♥ 25
  136. Is this in the app or on the web? · 2 tweets
  137. It’s actually much more wasteful than you think. For instance, there’s a DNT header attached to every single static file that’s requested,… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  138. I don’t know, in general the way in which the DNT requirement is expressed in the regs doesn’t work very well. DNT is attached to every… · 3 tweets · ♥ 4
  139. I've lived here twice, once two years in the late 90s, and since five years ago. From memory I lost at least three pieces last year, and… · 2 tweets
  140. Here's how I honestly read your point and you can tell me where I misunderstood. You think that Mozilla's situation is due more to… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  141. Mozilla is laying off 250 people and is basically on life support. Their primary competitors: * Bundle their browser in a leading… · 3 tweets · ♥ 3,460
  142. Absolutely. I'm not saying that the tools don't overlap. You certainly want those teams talking. But Google's privacy message is often… · 2 tweets
  143. Apple do too, they have malware removal silent updates. It's an interesting question whether they'll cooperate. · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  144. Anyone else getting voicemail from lawyers "specialised in W3C and also JavaScript engines"? I wonder if it's the same kind of people who… · 2 tweets · ♥ 14
  145. One other thing this made me think of is this idea from Sewell that historical events are those that transform the structures of daily… · 2 tweets
  146. Hmmm, that's a very interesting angle, I like that! Also fragments are easier for recommendation systems (because they can iterate at a… · 3 tweets · ♥ 4
  147. I think there is definitely something there, but I wonder if there isn't another parameter in the structure of the discussions. Democratic… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  148. Not at all! I don't care who uses it, and it wouldn't matter if YouTube were operated by a humanitarian commune in the Amazon. What… · 3 tweets · ♥ 2
  149. Thanks a lot Luis! I don't disagree that control is valuable, but I think it is being overemphasised (or from the wrong angle) in most of… · 5 tweets · ♥ 29
  150. An investigation that ties together dark adtech and alt-right financing. It's worth your time. The tech standards community has largely… · 10 tweets · ♥ 209
  151. Thanks for the details. I am curious about a few things. * Isn't any content a tiny % of what most people see? * Is reach the number of… · 2 tweets · ♥ 11
  152. You'd think writing code to fight a pandemic would be a moment to exercise ethics. For Google, it's just a chance to grab more of your… · 2 tweets · ♥ 47
  153. Do you have a specific example? Having rules is kind of a hallmark of governance, refusing to learn them doesn't mean the others are doing… · 4 tweets · ♥ 3
  154. I think there’s a third way that is more promising and has a future: improving the Web. It’s a bit of a painful slog, but those ducks are… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  155. DSRs are hard, but they must not be diluted. They are key to being a good custodian of other people’s data. We need to break new ground in… · 3 tweets · ♥ 6
  156. The #EthicalExplorer website went live this morning: ethicalexplorer.org. Check out their "Ethical Explorer Pack"! · 2 tweets · ♥ 10
  157. I think that single ID are exactly the wrong solution to this problem. Assuming the privacy issues were solved (which seems impossible on… · 5 tweets · ♥ 1
  158. Just received my "Ethical Explorer Pack"! First reaction before even reading any of it: ethics has never looked this good. Thanks… · 2 tweets · ♥ 14
  159. Il y a twitter.com/nicoleperlroth… et puis un paquet d'autres conneries du genre ces derniers jours. · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  160. I'm with you on the initial distinction, but I'm unconvinced about your targeting argument. If you run a sub business, you're… · 4 tweets
  161. I am engaging in a virtual walk out from @nytimes today with 300+ other non-editorial coworkers in solidarity with our Black colleagues.✊… · 2 tweets · ♥ 336
  162. I don’t need psychological safety. I need to work for an organisation with the wherewithal to tell the difference between publishing a… · 2 tweets · ♥ 45
  163. Just found out that you could now set up monthly donations to @themarkup, and so I subscribed (of sorts)! I have to say I’m loving the… · 2 tweets · ♥ 11
  164. Yes, I understand the intent and I like the simplicity compared to other notice regimes, but I think that few enough people actually see… · 2 tweets
  165. Is anyone keeping track of how many journalists have been harmed covering these protests? Trump has been calling them enemies of the… · 2 tweets · ♥ 13
  166. For-profit corporations have been going after people who deliberately spread lies for a while, unless we're dealing with things like libel… · 2 tweets
  167. Packaging would be great! I'd like to see (unsigned) support for bundles in browsers to see what people build with them. Maybe this… · 3 tweets
  168. Healthy markets have balances that put costs on scaling up, without that you just get runaway winner-takes-all. Distributing content… · 2 tweets
  169. Google announces they're removing the AMP requirement to become part of the carousel, without even a mention of Web Packages. Is this the… · 2 tweets · ♥ 31
  170. CDA230 reform through executive order entirely out of trumpian spite isn't something I had on my list of upcoming tech policy topics but… · 3 tweets · ♥ 4
  171. Reading about the semantics of first-order logic and just went through several pages of how it's a problem that your signature might not… · 2 tweets
  172. I think that this is exactly right. · 3 tweets · ♥ 20
  173. Do you mind sharing which site(s) you used? Because if you visited brand A and Facebook used that data to target you in favour of brand B,… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  174. Yeah, I agree with @swodinsky, this looks like vanilla IP householding. You're using Safari which means you're protected from cookie… · 2 tweets · ♥ 11
  175. What did you look it up on? · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  176. The whole point is to not use 3P data, so that's definitely not involved. I'm not sure which details are public at this point, but this is… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  177. Very much agreed. I think that part of the problem is that there has been little marketer interest for it, it's not necessarily that… · 2 tweets · ♥ 8
  178. The context here is ads that Prime shows for for-pay channels & VOD (top slot in the EPG) so this is more like Facebook, they know… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  179. I’m not sure that “what about other industries?” is the right question, and even less “what about corporations?” (cf Coase) or “what about… · 5 tweets · ♥ 8
  180. I don't have a fully-baked solution there either, but I've been thinking that part of the solution might be to make this behavioural data… · 4 tweets · ♥ 4
  181. Any mask recommendations for the more nasally developed amongst us? Every reusable mask I've tried so far you could fly a smallish… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  182. I know, but nothing keeps them from updating it to match ITP restrictions, and yet they choose not to. The end result is highly invasive… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  183. Apple and Google have been avidly misusing people's data, and enabling the misuse of data on unprecedented scale, for a long time. And now… · 3 tweets · ♥ 56
  184. My 6yo invented a cunning cat trap: a highly realistic depiction of a mouse with rolled lightly sticky tape on it ("so you can get the cat… · 2 tweets · ♥ 10
  185. There is a proposal on the table for "First-Party Sets", or the ability to treat disparate domain properties as a single first-party, but… · 5 tweets · ♥ 10
  186. This looks really cool. mitpress.mit.edu/books/research… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  187. I wouldn't rule out underground, the way sound travels can be weird. I once lost my cat and the stupid little cow had climbed inside a car… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  188. C’est un système qui met les données à jour aussi régulièrement que possible, sachant que c’est un bordel sans nom parce que personne ne… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  189. I have a good book the title of which will surely come back to me any time now... (It's at home.) Generally, the idea is to only lock… · 2 tweets
  190. I have been thinking along similar lines as this thread (h/t @djleufer & @mariafarrell) but with somewhat different views. I think that ML… · 6 tweets · ♥ 30
  191. Happy to help, always. twitter.com/kottke/status/… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  192. How tech organises work is also relevant here. People look (rightly) at gig worker but the intent is to get developers to be… · 4 tweets · ♥ 13
  193. We have decided that our entire cultural production should be controlled exclusively by what engineers know how to measure. As an… · 5 tweets · ♥ 136
  194. Bring your kids. Bring your pets. Bring your partner(s). Bring your friends. Bring your plush toys. Bring your whole self. There’s no… · 2 tweets · ♥ 15
  195. My god. Moodle. So that thing still exists. That said, try this mix: * special managed Gsuite account (gov provided), can't log into a… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  196. No, I did not ask for a policy that prevents data brokerage — I asked for a threat model that does. The risk of direct data harm to users… · 6 tweets
  197. Well, it's the Google Account, there is no purpose limitation, so a pronoun is probably used somewhere. · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  198. I think the halving of millions is where we can point at actual policy failures. The whole reason organisations do tabletops is to have… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  199. 📚 I'm definitely not an epidemiologist, in fact I'm not trained in anything whatsoever, but here are a few books I've read that are… · 3 tweets · ♥ 2
  200. I would like to personally extend my warmest thanks to the office of @XavierBecerra for making sure us privacy nerds remain busy under… · 2 tweets · ♥ 8
  201. This book I'm reading has as regular example a squirrel that intercepts a travelling golf ball and kicks it hard enough for it to hit a… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  202. Not quite! My intuition is that big meetings bring together smaller but more stably/regularly connected groups. So the driver of… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  203. This thread is giving me bad epidemiology ideas. For instance, could we not #SlowTheSpread by quarantining all the people whose Facebook… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  204. So basically you're proposing clique distancing, on the assumption that clique mixing happens faster in large meetings (probably right). I… · 2 tweets
  205. The impact of ads on agency & autonomy is a highly important and understudied topic, but I think that's a simpler characterisation than… · 2 tweets · ♥ 13
  206. "Allowing people who share responsibility for our tech dystopia to keep control of the narrative means we never get to the bottom of how… · 4 tweets · ♥ 7
  207. I have backups! And a good thing is that I found out they weren’t working as well as I thought they were. But that’s how I figured the… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  208. Data property rights: the bad idea that just won't die. · 2 tweets · ♥ 21
  209. Hey privacy friends! Would you mind sharing your favourite sources showing that the news/media sucks at privacy? I'd like to put together… · 3 tweets · ♥ 52
  210. Agreed, but even without looking at the ethical side, I think it's fair to question whether we're seeing much innovation at all. A lot of… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  211. Publishers need to exist on AMP, it's a huge chunk of our search referrals so for many it's life-or-death. AMP is, shall we say,… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  212. Is Mozilla the only one to have published an assessment of developer needs? It would be instructive to see others'. In terms of governance… · 4 tweets · ♥ 3
  213. Le discours qu'@Ovidieofficiel écrit pour Griveaux est parfait. · 2 tweets · ♥ 13
  214. I'm just going to stop bothering because you don't seem to u understand that I am not being sarcastic or intentionally insulting. But...… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  215. Oh yeah, the web is totally in a fucked up place right now. One of the problems is that the structure of personal data markets is… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  216. I am not saying any of this to hurt. But: * Kids in cages: see recent WSJ reporting on use of adtech datasets to hunt down immigrants. *… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  217. It's definitely been an insular org and has developed a strong groupthink in which people say "anonymous identifier without noticing the… · 4 tweets · ♥ 2
  218. I haven't read it yet! I will, soon, but was reacting to the description in Anti-Social. That said my sense is that we are in a more… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  219. I don't think that the "it's free, therefore it has to be this way" is an argument that is as strong as it's made to be. Free and unsafe,… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  220. And I need to figure out if it's worth dedicating resources to such discussions. The IAB has a track record of: * hostility to users and… · 2 tweets · ♥ 23
  221. If you're sincere about this I'd be happy to engage, but the track record from your coalition is essentially promising self-regulation and… · 2 tweets
  222. I really don't want to be mean, but... what is a "consumer-provided identifier" that isn't an email, phone number, or something of the… · 2 tweets · ♥ 16
  223. There are things to salvage in the Sandbox, but given the risk profile it doesn't seem like a short term thing to me. Hashed emails are… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  224. That is to some extent a fair point, but conversely the simple suggestion that people must not be trackable (short of non-dark-pattern opt… · 4 tweets · ♥ 14
  225. It's Google's right not to release data, but you can't then expect people to be convinced by a study that is missing too much to be useful… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  226. Michael, I understand what you're trying to do and if there is a way to make it safe and respectful of users in certainly open to it,… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  227. That's a big, unproven "if". If walled behavioural performs that well, why do the ad companies with the largest gardens spend so much… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  228. I'm familiar with the @EFF's position on 230, I read the amicus they filed in the Herrick v Grindr case in which they defended Grindr's… · 3 tweets · ♥ 3
  229. I'm not sure why people are going crazy over this identifier. That's not the most interesting GDPR issue with Chrome, IMHO. 👇 · 3 tweets · ♥ 13
  230. Indeed, the current interpretation of 230 by courts is insanely broad. See Herrick v Grindr as a classic example. · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  231. ‘A Systemwide Disaster’: How the Iowa Caucuses Melted Down nyti.ms/39cvACR · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  232. Not only is paper great, but you know what else works a lot better than apps? Websites. · 2 tweets · ♥ 49
  233. It's concerning to see this analysis from @FTCPhillips that misses the structural interplay between privacy and monopoly, in this case… · 7 tweets · ♥ 13
  234. The ad fraud world is full of wonders: “Ad Fraudsters Exploited Grindr In A Scheme Targeting Roku Apps“ It's good to see more mainstream… · 4 tweets · ♥ 14
  235. What people want and what drives adoption are overlapping but different things. People want things but might not immediately react to them… · 2 tweets
  236. We both know that these companies rarely have Chromium as their only touchpoint with Google. You can have a flag, if it means losing… · 2 tweets
  237. Chrome is engineered for tracking, and tracking sustains an economic model with inherent scaling effects that fosters concentration and… · 3 tweets
  238. Precisely. While it was a free for all it seemed unlikely, but the moment you are writing code to deliberately circumvent a user's… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  239. Haha! "Ms. Denham did not weaken the rules in response to the industry pressure, but she did clarify and amend (...). For instance, the… · 3 tweets · ♥ 9
  240. Not reading this as snark at all, I really want this to be a solid discussion (which is why I was looking for a plan!). Google’s proposal… · 2 tweets
  241. I don't think it's not being smart, I think it's hard! Privacy is a right to appropriate flows of information. You can: 1) Deny the right.… · 2 tweets · ♥ 7
  242. I would be curious to hear, dear friends, if you have good ideas or know good work on defining the opposite of privacy. The best I have is… · 2 tweets · ♥ 19
  243. If you want to read about the outstanding work done to understand how dating apps share intimate details with third parties, I highly… · 5 tweets · ♥ 81
  244. Indeed! We’re still far from where we’d love to be, but we’ve shut down programmatic in Europe and are doing the same in apps, removed a… · 4 tweets · ♥ 39
  245. “In this new world, it feels like an obligation to make sure we’re not aiding and abetting those who seek to exploit our data.” Great… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  246. 2020. Totalitarianism replacing democracy, pervasive surveillance from the technocrat overclass of corporate behemoths, incipient endless… · 5 tweets · ♥ 4
  247. 2020 readings! This year in going to try to remember to 1) put most of my reading in this permathread, and 2) give a bit more detail about… · 98 tweets · ♥ 325
  248. That's an interesting chart, thanks. One thing that seems strange (but maybe I'm reading it wrong) is that a lot of spend that I believe… · 2 tweets

2019

  1. I disagree with Kenneth but it's a good topic! To get it out of the way: search engines have incentives only partially aligned with an… · 12 tweets · ♥ 20
  2. In Europe we have this crazy thing: on trains each seat will have a little number. And then, when you buy a ticket, your ticket has a… · 2 tweets · ♥ 12
  3. "It is a federal crime to open a piece of junk mail that’s addressed to someone else." That's one thing I like about The Times's Editorial… · 5 tweets · ♥ 46
  4. There is a middle ground, and it's actually not that hard to find it starting from nothing other than an understanding of privacy and a… · 2 tweets · ♥ 7
  5. "In one case, someone who spent their weekdays at the Pentagon visited a mental health and substance abuse facility multiple times."… · 7 tweets · ♥ 56
  6. "The companies that collect all this information on your movements justify their business on the basis of three claims: People consent to… · 5 tweets · ♥ 72
  7. They seem to have a technical solution but I'm not seeing a user view beyond "pay a little for one piece". How many times per day do you… · 2 tweets
  8. Search, back from when it helped you find stuff outside the Googleverse. · 2 tweets · ♥ 25
  9. 1. The best you can do (that I know of) with them is a variant of DNT. At that point, it's better to do DNT minus the risk. 2. If adtech… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  10. The Internet is a force for good, and increasing awareness of suffering is not why it is in a bad place. The Internet is in a bad place… · 2 tweets · ♥ 23
  11. Everything? Just the most basic stuff is broken or doesn't exist. For instance, the only way I can ever stay on top of email is 1)… · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  12. I am not saying that control is useless, and in fact both transparency and choice also have their place. But it's just a possible means… · 3 tweets · ♥ 3
  13. I generally enjoyed this column from @fmanjoo as I believe he draws stark and clear attention to a real issue, but like much that is… · 9 tweets · ♥ 115
  14. The money people are clearly trying to get away with as much capitalism as they will be allowed to, but I don't know if I blame them for… · 3 tweets · ♥ 3
  15. I think Nietzsche is a complicated and variable case (which Nietzsche?). I don't know Yudkowski. But that's where I think I trip up on the… · 2 tweets
  16. I'm assuming, perhaps wrongly, that the explanation being sought here would be of a similar tenor as one used to render an account of your… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  17. Interesting question from the #AllTechIsHuman audience about how designers can help not bring consent as understood in privacy law into… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  18. I like @Cennydd's idea of building "temporal literacy" to help us make decisions that are more democratic and less technocratic.… · 3 tweets · ♥ 3
  19. Je n'ai certainement pas dit ça. Mais il y a beaucoup de variables sur lesquelles on peut intervenir pour améliorer les traitements. Tout… · 2 tweets
  20. Je ne suis pas ton avocat hein. J'ai juste lu GDPR, la plupart de WP29, et les guidances de plusieurs data authorities, et ça me… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  21. If the SameSite change matches what's in Canary it's pretty underwhelming. The cookies aren't all that dead yet. What is however maddening… · 2 tweets · ♥ 7
  22. Si tu insistes 😁 oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa En juillet CCPA va être complétée d'une série de réglementations précisant la loi (des décrets… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  23. I don't think that what we do is particularly advanced or special, we basically parse down situations into actors/attributes/tx… · 2 tweets
  24. This is true, though one advantage here is that it's persistent essentially forever because people keep the same profile across devices.… · 2 tweets
  25. I am well aware of the issue with iOS, anyone who wants to be there is forced to be in the App Store because the browser is missing a few… · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  26. I'm all for @nytopinion encouraging healthy debate, including of ideas I disagree with, but it's very unclear to me what this… · 2 tweets · ♥ 9
  27. Of course, but I would think that for fraud prevention à fingerprint on a seven day retention plus local IP from WebRTC will get you a… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  28. I very much support Twitter trying to address this problem head on (and who wouldn’t like the shade @jack throws sideways in there) but… · 5 tweets · ♥ 6
  29. In fairness, DoH is the right thing to do here. DNS tracking is particularly vile and users are very much defenceless. Also the data goes… · 4 tweets · ♥ 12
  30. I don't think that lying online is a problem, I would say the problem is having a platform so large, incentivised to spread what is viral,… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  31. "Goliath: The 100-year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy", by @matthewstoller. A struggle for power of epic proportion with a big… · 2 tweets · ♥ 39
  32. This points to a broader problem we have in making good privacy regulation. It’s very easy to define behaviour at the extremes: only a… · 3 tweets · ♥ 10
  33. Mes très chers, savez-vous auprès de qui il faut porter plainte quand on a affaire à @la_cipav et qu'il devient péniblement évident qu'ils… · 2 tweets
  34. I return to this every time someone tells me that "the GDPR is a European thing, it wouldn't work with Americans" as if Americans were… · 3 tweets · ♥ 23
  35. Hey Twitter fam, quick question: is it just me or is this a convoluted way to spell DNT? · 2 tweets · ♥ 14
  36. Most publishers are ad-supported, but that doesn’t mean that ad revenue is distributed fairly, let alone transparently. If you want to dig… · 2 tweets · ♥ 11
  37. So, this is a neat and well thought out little improvement and the security plus is real, but I'm still not seeing how it helps privacy?… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  38. The list of disclosures on this @LawEconCenter post attacking @ewarren and the notion we may have an antitrust issue is a true dream team:… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  39. This is an issue I struggle with repeatedly as well. I've been in tech almost 25 years, I know a lot of outstanding people — people with… · 8 tweets · ♥ 6
  40. I could live in a Pierre Cardin future. · 8 tweets · ♥ 15
  41. And I'm not surprised they published it, it's a good and well-balanced piece, and when they say they're independent they really mean it! · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  42. This @tim_libert article is my favourite from the @PrivacyProject so far! 🔥 nytimes.com/2019/09/18/opi… · 3 tweets · ♥ 24
  43. Happy to agree to disagree! Your description leads me to a question though (if you don't mind). You seem to describe a system of strong… · 3 tweets
  44. There's some signal, well more than anecdotal, that Facebook is having trouble recruiting, at least out of college. Yes, it might be… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  45. This is an amazing piece by @mariafarrell. The parallel between emotional labour and attentional labour struck me as particularly but the… · 6 tweets · ♥ 10
  46. Of course. But my broader concern here is that opaque segments are likely to grow in popularity as tracking unravels, yet the first party… · 2 tweets
  47. Yeah, that's definitely part of the plan. The point here is that privacy is about appropriate flow of information. We will only have a… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  48. "Nobody's Victim", by @cagoldberglaw. If you're in any kind of doubt that we've seriously fucked up building the Internet and its… · 2 tweets · ♥ 9
  49. A browser works first and foremost for its users, that's documented as the Priority of Constituencies. If Microsoft had reason to believe… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  50. I think this right here is core to the difference in approach. There is no point at which anyone gets to pick which businesses win or… · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  51. I agree that there very much is value in taking the use cases into account, but you are starting from assumptions that this is overall… · 2 tweets
  52. I would *very* sincerely like to figure out collaboration here but - and I mean this as a friendly opening and not a jab - you have to… · 3 tweets
  53. Of course, but that's not at all what I mean. It feels like the document is taking benefits to attackers into account, as benefits. It's a… · 3 tweets · ♥ 2
  54. You are running an A/B test of tracking vs no tracking in a world in which 1) buyers can choose what to bid on and 2) the bidding… · 3 tweets · ♥ 13
  55. I've made a first pass through Chrome's "Privacy Sandbox" proposals. Unless I missed a thing it does not address the actual threat model… · 2 tweets · ♥ 39
  56. It's good to see the Chrome team finally start down the path to catching up on privacy, but this announcement would be a lot more credible… · 6 tweets · ♥ 51
  57. "Black Dogs", by Ian McEwan. A subtle short novel, craftily woven. · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  58. On this we disagree. Collective entities do exist and their behaviour can be readily described. I don't think everyone is fine. I think… · 4 tweets · ♥ 1
  59. I think it may come across as inconsistent because there are really two levels of engagement here. As I said upthread, this is a papercut.… · 5 tweets · ♥ 8
  60. I understand that this isn't SafeBrowsing and that's fine, if it were I assume that it would be on for everyone. I essentially have one… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  61. That's what I would think, but so why? Not only as @jyasskin says, is Google part of the threat model but Chrome knowing your identity… · 2 tweets
  62. I'll start harsh because Chrome's track record on privacy is terrible and the history of trying to corral people into logging into it is… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  63. If you’re looking for a great work of fiction to read on the beach this summer, this @ITIFdc report on the cost of privacy regulation is a… · 8 tweets · ♥ 13
  64. There is no reason we can't have programmatic, it just needs to operate on signals other than Web-wide BT. SPO will beat a path to small… · 3 tweets · ♥ 5
  65. Wow, that's a lot of icons! The number is bigger in uppercase, too. I'm sincerely curious: is that an actual KPI? What was your governance… · 2 tweets · ♥ 8
  66. One of the primary reasons we need the #GDPR and #CCPA (and more) today is because the @iab, under @r2rothenberg's leadership, has been… · 5 tweets · ♥ 85
  67. I agree with @baekdal that publishers shouldn't worry about Incognito. People who use it to circumvent paywalls weren't going to subscribe… · 6 tweets · ♥ 32
  68. If you're a privacy nerd looking for @JustinBrannan's NYC bill to ban the sale of mobile location data, you can find the details here:… · 2 tweets · ♥ 24
  69. I love the intent of this bill (thanks!), but I have questions (some of which may be for rulemaking): • What is the status of IP addresses… · 3 tweets · ♥ 5
  70. Good thread with truth in every tweet. · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  71. Following the reference shows just how unfounded it is: "Another potential mechanism increasing bargaining power for women is the increase… · 2 tweets
  72. I think it can shift back, but we don't seem to be at that point yet. Privacy, not as tools for secrecy but as socially-shared norms on… · 2 tweets
  73. Many thanks to @KenjiBaheux for finding this paper. It doesn't specifically break out the impact of RTB but it has lots of other… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  74. Une partie du problème est que les médias (en ligne) ne contrôlent plus seuls l’accès à leurs audiences puisque les plateformes et tout… · 2 tweets
  75. Oh, yeah, I think it is obvious that this is not something that Google would do of its own free will. But Chrome is the most… · 2 tweets
  76. I don't think that what Brave is doing is what Tobie suggested though. He talked of taking Chromium to an open governance model, evidently… · 4 tweets · ♥ 13
  77. So, a clear political bias would be different pricing in advertising for different constituencies. This could be in CPM of course, but… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  78. There are two primary methods in which this is implemented: browsers and mobile OSs. I’m not being a pain in the arse of Chrome folks… · 2 tweets
  79. On its own, yes, but my idea is that we make it backed by policy. The whole TCF stuff is going to come crumbling down and there's a window… · 4 tweets · ♥ 5
  80. It's hard to convey how disappointing it is to see @TheAtlantic publishing this piece. Its relationship to facts is so disingenuous it… · 8 tweets · ♥ 5
  81. This is a good article but the problem isn't the apps, it's the conflict of interest. Operating systems and browsers are "user agents",… · 3 tweets · ♥ 25
  82. If you have consumer-friendly initiatives to share I'd love to see. Trying to keep an ad business long-term viable when the ad industry is… · 2 tweets
  83. I read a lot of you criticising the @PrivacyProject for publishing this piece by @heidimesser. I disagree (and not because they work on… · 7 tweets · ♥ 4
  84. Only the first party should be a controller (with perhaps very rare and purpose-limited exemptions), joint controllership should die a… · 3 tweets · ♥ 3
  85. It's more complicated than that. At some point it was described as an SGML schema which does generate a deterministic parser. But it… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  86. I wonder if @CageJulia’s scheme could use a preference list for overallocation; pick the overallocating at random and move down their… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  87. Chris Hughes: "I believe Mark is actually a good guy, he wants power and a great company, he does have too much power, but he's trying to… · 2 tweets · ♥ 11
  88. If they had less market power in advertising newspapers could operate without them. Today that is close to impossible. For a consumer to… · 2 tweets
  89. I agree on search, new channels do split the pie, I just don't think that stopping at that is a sufficient characterisation. Limits to the… · 3 tweets
  90. When a news outlet runs ads, not only will the platforms take a cut directly (which isn't so much competing as gatekeeping) but the data… · 2 tweets
  91. A cookie ID isn't more anonymous than a phone number, in fact in advertising it's used specifically to reach you. Yes, we should call it… · 2 tweets · ♥ 79
  92. Parents complain about diorama projects too complex for kindergarteners to really contribute to. But think of the educational value from… · 3 tweets · ♥ 9
  93. Yes, I've long suspected that the reason we know so much about Facebook misdeeds and not those of Google or Apple is employee satisfaction… · 2 tweets · ♥ 18
  94. "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism", by @shoshanazuboff. There are several reasons to read this book. It is very well documented and can… · 3 tweets · ♥ 11
  95. Agreed, this can't be done briefly, there's just so much! I don't believe this is agency-related, it's when a brand (directly or not)… · 2 tweets
  96. Unless I'm missing something, the page that @katienotopoulos talks about here has nowhere near all the data targeting you on Facebook. It… · 4 tweets · ♥ 2
  97. I won't comment for The Times, but you seem to be operating from a bunch of assumptions I'm not sure hold. Is local that much better than… · 3 tweets
  98. I'm a fan of @superwuster's work, I've read two of his books with a third teed up, and I don't dislike the sentiment in this piece, but… · 15 tweets · ♥ 7
  99. "As with a politician railing against high drug prices while accepting campaign donations from big pharma, a news organization cannot talk… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  100. "The Privacy Paradox" — Seriously @axios, are you writing to us from the Nineties? axios.com/consumer-data-… · 3 tweets · ♥ 27
  101. I completely agree with @cwarzel: privacy isn’t about secrets, it’s about self-determination and the preservation of democratic… · 5 tweets · ♥ 39
  102. I'm also curious to hear your thoughts about how to expose to users what targeting was used. Last I looked, Facebook users could see who… · 2 tweets
  103. This is such a simple and such a good idea for so many reasons that I'm going to need several tweets to tell you how good it is and why we… · 11 tweets · ♥ 35
  104. “Beware the DAG!”, by A. Philip Dawid. A critical look at assumed relationships between conditional independence and causal models, and a… · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  105. I'm sorry but this is bad reporting. These platforms have tools to remove content at scale: it's what they do for copyright infringement.… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  106. Sure, but reverse search also means that advertisers who have your number (maybe because you had to provide it for a delivery) can now use… · 2 tweets
  107. I just don't put the French system which is about preventing fraud, checking that banks don't carry out unethical lending, and getting… · 2 tweets
  108. This is not an unfungible natural resource. It's not a dividend. @GavinNewsom just invented taxation. · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  109. Someone at @googlemaps thought it was a good idea to enable random strangers to request your location. By default. How is it even… · 2 tweets · ♥ 44
  110. This thread is entirely correct. It is not systematic but not rare either for entire features in MPEG standards to exist simply to bring… · 3 tweets · ♥ 25
  111. According to @IABEurope, "Guns don't kill people." · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  112. Worse than that, it's hard to disentangle from context. We've been evaluating an algorithm to assess comment toxicity because at first… · 3 tweets · ♥ 2
  113. Solon is right. People rarely realise this but a publisher's most valuable asset is its audience and the core business model of Facebook… · 4 tweets · ♥ 4
  114. Issues include: - Seller rights in a monopsony (or oligopsony but that's hardly a real difference) are a joke. - It means that lying about… · 3 tweets · ♥ 5
  115. That's a very good question, and as you know I'm not a lawyer! However, I would say this: - I haven't read the full decision but it's… · 2 tweets
  116. The @CNIL drops a 50M fine on Google. It does not seem like much but they can keep doing it if Google doesn't change, as can other… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  117. Yes! I think it's actually been studied, it used to happen to people writing emails back when that involved care. · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  118. Very interesting challenge to Section 230 (against Grindr) using product liability to make tech companies responsible for the harassment… · 6 tweets · ♥ 28
  119. Attentional harvesting is a pyramid scheme and populist leaders sit at the top. Fix that and the populist wave is done for. · 2 tweets · ♥ 16

2018

  1. They do, something else is amiss on your device. · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  2. I think that depends on what you see a tradeoff; we haven't seen that many but you could construe some choices as tradeoffs. The exemplar… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  3. "Coin Locker Babies", by Ryu Murakami. I usually find growing-up/coming-of-age stories boring, but this one is very enjoyably fucked up… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  4. The what and how matter. To take a basic example, until a few months ago when you logged in to a site using your Facebook account that… · 4 tweets · ♥ 2
  5. I somehow saw it in a bookshop and read it as my first "serious" computer book after having taught myself barely enough to be dangerous.… · 2 tweets
  6. Ah, but it does not cost 4%. That is what it would cost if it applied to one publisher and not others (actually much more due to bundle… · 2 tweets
  7. The @PrivacyPros have published a rather surprising take on the Vectaury decision: "The Vectaury decision is not an obituary for digital… · 7 tweets · ♥ 4
  8. I highly recommend taking a few minutes to read @julien51's excellent "The End of the Ad-Supported Web — What if we got the business model… · 9 tweets · ♥ 24
  9. People often think that "surveillance capitalism" is some sort of militant exaggeration from rabid privacy activists. If you're of that… · 6 tweets · ♥ 102
  10. What’s particularly beautiful about this specific part of the never-ending Facebook shit show is that it was delivered on a silver platter… · 3 tweets · ♥ 45
  11. But it's consent really the best tool to reduce dataflows? To take a concrete example, as you know the dominant browsers are actively… · 2 tweets
  12. "Perhaps as a result of this misguided impression, public debates continue today about what value, if any, the social sciences could bring… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  13. Yes, I was thinking along those lines. Some companies set themselves up so that if they betrayed their values they would (in some credible… · 3 tweets
  14. "Dysphoria feels like being unable to get warm, no matter how many layers you put on. It feels like hunger without appetite...… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  15. The @IABEurope has written up an article to try to distance their consent framework from the recent @CNIL decision finding issues with… · 12 tweets · ♥ 96
  16. I don't think I have any magic bullet to convince them to actually do the self-reg they've been promising for the past twenty years...… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  17. I disagree with @BretStephensNYT (he must get that a lot) but it's a good idea to start from "Phaedrus" to discuss technology. It is… · 2 tweets · ♥ 19
  18. ¨((ˆ‰2ªª$44T|̀ьûï_øÀ€ÐÇûï_000ø00 00`3`0 0@0@ `#¬ ø!t[r?¸p7P; P? P0 Ø8 :ŠU8T@øþ@`40fED‰Q!(yôx · 2 tweets
  19. Can you clarify? · 2 tweets
  20. Recently, the @CNIL issued a decision regarding the GDPR compliance of an unknown French adtech company named "Vectaury". It may seem like… · 19 tweets · ♥ 885
  21. It is incredibly disingenuous for Sundar to be equating Europe’s “right to be forgotten” and Chinese censorship. One (in Google’s case) is… · 3 tweets · ♥ 15
  22. More progressive employees and a more progressive sector are two very different things. You can hire legions of nice, fluffy, and smart… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  23. If you like data, visualisation, and building rocking cool tools and want to join a badass team (and work with me!) check these out:… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  24. It would likely justify a longer treatment, but here are some notes. If I might say: you're not being mediocre enough! Mediocrity requires… · 14 tweets · ♥ 12
  25. I saw that same paragraph and it seems at best specious to me. Keeping two weeks' worth of logs for access to personal data by third… · 2 tweets
  26. There is ample evidence that you can significantly block tracking without breaking the Web. It's been established beyond excuses. The fact… · 2 tweets
  27. Yeah, there are problems in there. · 2 tweets
  28. “The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies” bloomberg.com/news/features/… · 2 tweets · ♥ 11
  29. I wonder if usage of the sentence "You could just do X" correlates strongly with elevated Dunning–Kruger effects. Has anyone looked at this? · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  30. This is a good question: what is the root cause of the lack of privacy online today? Why does media track so much? My personal take is… · 20 tweets · ♥ 106
  31. "Asking companies whose business models revolve around exploiting data-based consumer-influence techniques to explain their privacy… · 2 tweets · ♥ 11
  32. "How To Exercise The Power You Didn't Ask For", by @zittrain. A very good description of the fiduciary approach to privacy. It is worth… · 5 tweets · ♥ 10
  33. Analytics demographics are notoriously crap. They tend to infer based on online behaviour and there is little actual incentive to really… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  34. First, I would refrain from considering social media as the Internet's final form. Social media is heavily rooted in an economic model… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  35. But that's the thing: I don't think that current Gaia is self-aware, some various bits are. I'm also not sure that consciousness is… · 4 tweets · ♥ 1
  36. I don't think that looking at it in too black & white terms helps. If your access logs are only processed as logs, accessible to a limited… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  37. Part of the problem is that package deals help to block new entrants (who can't make attractive packages), leading to monopolistic issues… · 3 tweets · ♥ 3
  38. The GDPR places strong data protection requirements upon personal data controllers. Granting an access request with insufficient… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  39. This plays well with research showing that politically polarised Wikipedia pages produce high quality output. It doesn't work on social… · 2 tweets · ♥ 7
  40. The #OpEd is just a senior Republican patting themselves on the back for doing barely one tenth of what should be expected from a… · 2 tweets · ♥ 12
  41. I am glad to see @DCNorg's “Google Data Collection” report. It provides a nice overview of Google's data collection practices which are… · 6 tweets · ♥ 27
  42. @zeynep's recent article for MIT Tech Review is (characteristically) cogent and full of gems. You've likely seen it shared already, read… · 6 tweets · ♥ 9
  43. An excellent read from @nickconfessore for @NYTmag. If you wish to peek at the intense politics behind privacy issues, it's a great place… · 4 tweets · ♥ 12
  44. That's a good question and it depends notably on whether DNT is legally binding and on whether there is a clear path to exceptions.… · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  45. Ah, I was just wondering when the "but the market should solve this" argument was going to show up! Financial services are heavily… · 3 tweets · ♥ 3
  46. My experience with smaller publishers is that they care about their readers just as much. They have options for scale (eg. co-op variants). · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  47. If you’d paid the enslaved for their work but they’d remained owned and branded, you wouldn’t have ended slavery. In the same manner,… · 5 tweets · ♥ 6
  48. At the end of "The Erstwhile" (part II of The Vohrr), B. Catling drops this terrifying observation, an ominous hint of what is to come if… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  49. One thing that surprises me: it would seem that (at least in the US) teens not only still use SMS but apparently sometimes in preference… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  50. I remember visiting Huawei’s public surveillance showroom in Shenzhen a few years ago. It was exactly like any high-tech snazzy, shiny,… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  51. Hahaha, oh dead, you’re giving me so many bad ideas :) · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  52. Any experience building a search engine (mostly for HTML and JSON, in the million-docs range) in Node? I’ve tried a bunch of stuff but not… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  53. That's why there's an option in DFP (and others) to disable personalised advertising. But you can't guess that from a cursory glance at… · 2 tweets
  54. As @WilliamsJames_ said, "the freedoms of the future are the freedoms of the mind." We gladly welcome California to the future with its… · 3 tweets · ♥ 3
  55. "Developers I speak with would rather dance naked in public than admit to posting a site built with hand-coded, progressively enhanced… · 2 tweets · ♥ 10
  56. I don't think they own it, they certainly didn't originate it, but I think they ⚙ feel the winds turning against Big Tech and it works… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  57. The @YouTube radicalisation machine is seriously out of control. I practically never use it, yet they just sent me a push recommendation… · 3 tweets · ♥ 5
  58. I like the article but you state: "The nonprofit has no direct relationship with advertisers; it gets a small sum from search providers… · 2 tweets
  59. I'm completely with @random_walker on this one. I have tremendous love and respect for many friends on the Chrome team, but Chrome is… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  60. I really hate having to be the old guy reminding you two to know your history, but intertwingularity is a foundational concept of… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  61. An excellent @EFF article on browser fingerprinting under the #GDPR. I disagree on only two points: eff.org/deeplinks/2018… · 5 tweets · ♥ 6
  62. I think the core issue is that the difficulty in producing good UI grows faster than linearly compared to the underlying complexity of… · 4 tweets · ♥ 2
  63. Every time I research a question related to data governance, data management, etc. I come away with my eyes bleeding. Why? It's a space… · 6 tweets
  64. Binary XML FOREVER!!! ❤️😽 · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  65. It is a powerful tool, use it wisely. This one time, as a young fool, I distractedly opened mine while it was still spinning full speed. I… · 2 tweets · ♥ 13
  66. This is a rare occurence but I think @mnot has it backwards. We have more APIs and formats for a decentralised self-hosted whatever than… · 3 tweets
  67. It would be better than nothing, for sure. But a remaining concern is openness: if the team isn't coding to the open Web from the get go… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  68. I like @superwuster’s idea in “An American Alternative to Europe’s Privacy Law” that data regulation should revolve around fiduciaries,… · 4 tweets · ♥ 3
  69. Great @nytopinion from @SenBlumenthal and @superwuster: “What the Microsoft Antitrust Case Taught Us”. We need much more serious antitrust… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  70. Having fun with the #GDPR already? Here’s what the proposal to bring similar regulation to California this November looks like. (I’d vote… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  71. I don't think that not wanting to be next is the primary driver for this happening behind closed doors, most companies I've spoken to… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  72. I did not say "usually". My strictly personal appraisal is that it is possible to carry out advertising that does not threaten personality… · 4 tweets · ♥ 3
  73. This is not an aspect that I have looked at much because it's not a problem we have, but my reading is that this has no effect on EEA… · 2 tweets
  74. You know what would be a very smart move right now? Buying an aging service with millions of users and turning it into a privacy-friendly… · 2 tweets · ♥ 51
  75. I don't believe that informed consent is possible at anywhere near the current scale of information collection and processing. I also… · 2 tweets
  76. Taxation would be difficult and I’m not convinced it would not have adverse effects. Right off the bat, what degree of pseudonymisation… · 2 tweets
  77. Not that I'm defending Facebook in the least here, but it's more complicated than "just use contextual". Advertisers want dossiers because… · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  78. Measuring performance through engagement means you design for addiction. Designing for addiction requires increasingly strong material as… · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  79. This email notification from @facebook is a perfect example of what happens when you fail to understand engagement and focus on measurable… · 3 tweets · ♥ 17
  80. Yes! My daily experience is that the GDPR really helps non-malicious data people think about privacy and data protection. That is having a… · 2 tweets
  81. "Power to the Imagination: Tackling Democratic Entropy", by @CynthiaFleury. Huge crowd! Democracy is grounded in inventing new rights, to… · 6 tweets · ♥ 28
  82. Geneviève Fraisse on "Consent and the Refusal of Consent". Apologises for her English before launching into a perfectly fluid lecture.… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  83. "Saving the media", from @CageJulia at #NightofPhilosophy. Apparently there is no way to be profitable making quality news. I may have… · 5 tweets · ♥ 1
  84. Any good experiences or recommendations for exporting a long batch of JIRA issues to @GitHub? I only seem to find pretty half-baked, ad… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  85. Introduction intéressante au problème du ciblage publicitaire en ligne avec @ElliotLepers et @SeverinNaudet, sur #SoftPower de @martelf.… · 5 tweets · ♥ 11
  86. Did you know the first ad-blocker was invented in the 50s and shaped like a revolver? 🔫 "The Attention Merchants", by @superwuster. Lots… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2

2017

  1. Part if not all of the issue definitely stems from changes that occur at scale, with some aspects increasing out of sync with others. I'm… · 2 tweets
  2. Many excellent points in this essay, but I feel an important question is missing: if Twitter genuinely becomes a media platform, where… · 3 tweets · ♥ 3
  3. Do you reckon we could get to a point at which any loading of script from a third-party domain would flag the page as insecure (unless… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  4. A bunch of you are serious readers. Do you have any tricks to keep RSI from holding heavy books at bay? · 2 tweets
  5. Le niveau de stupidité de cet article de @zdnetfr est tel qu’il est impossible d’y séparer l’incompétence profonde du mensonge éhonté.… · 3 tweets · ♥ 2
  6. «Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race» propublica.org/article/facebo… (thanks @histoftech, @IEthics) · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  7. I like @nattyover's description of how @QuantaMagazine caters to curious readers by addressing scientists and laypeople with the same… · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  8. "Thinking Machines": another uninspired thematic exhibit at @MuseumModernArt. Great idea, tiny room, a few wonderful pieces surrounded by… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  9. Both @fantasai and @Lady_Ada_King make great points, but the trend towards frameworks over technology is part of broader shift in Web… · 4 tweets · ♥ 15
  10. Dear @Google, is it possible to get a global “get the fuck out of my face” setting for your ceaseless Chrome nagging? Thanks! · 2 tweets · ♥ 43
  11. Il y a de graves problèmes sur les données privées; penser que c'est une question de "géants américains" c'est rater le problème @lauredlr. · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  12. What I need to look up is how much radiation we're talking about. The use case isn't so much knowing the waste repository is bad when in... · 3 tweets · ♥ 2
  13. Biohacker friends: if I wanted to build a cat that went bioluminescent in response to radiation, where would I start? Cc @Tholand_ · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  14. No offence, but only the people who've been announcing the year of Linux on the desktop think that UI is "polish". I already have a... · 2 tweets
  15. More seriously, it takes billions in public investment and decades of continuous dedication. France started thinking about its high speed... · 3 tweets · ♥ 2
  16. Oui mais à 30min. Apparemment le soutien français était sur place à temps mais pas autorisé à agir. Pourquoi? · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  17. It's not absolutely being a jerk. Some hero programmers aren't jerks. It's the problem with someone who does reams of code. · 3 tweets
  18. Les mauvaises embauches, oui, en partie, mais les grosses fluctuations de commandes c'est plus chaud. · 2 tweets
  19. Sur les cotisations et le fiscal je suis d'accord, par contre je pense que la flexibilité pourrait être progressive. Si tu es expert tech... · 2 tweets
  20. I second that. Universal Pre-K is ridiculously late compared to maternelle and public crèches, but it's still good. · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  21. I think this "French Kids Fart Rainbows" fashion will never stop cracking me up. · 2 tweets · ♥ 8
  22. I heard from credible sources that when Condé Nast bought the NewYorker they discovered a guy who'd been working on a piece for 20 years. · 2 tweets · ♥ 14
  23. It doesn't need to be applied perfectly to work, I've seen changes in baseline expectations of a community (Web standards) have real effects · 2 tweets
  24. Hacker friends of old, any thoughts on this thread and what went wrong? · 3 tweets
  25. I would expect many companies to object to a legally binding document they don't perceive as vital to them. It's asking for exposure... · 2 tweets
  26. I cannot speak from fact in 2016-17, but before they essentially did not show up. A few messages, maybe. However, as I someone who gets... · 3 tweets · ♥ 3
  27. If W3C didn't care this would have been ratified over two years ago. A good question is why, despite caring, the covenant didn't work. · 2 tweets
  28. The question I would ask is if it's a no-brainer why does it need the W3C to make it happen? · 2 tweets
  29. I can't dig it up right now, but I read recently that one factor in male vs female suicide is not attempts but that former use more... · 2 tweets
  30. The Web is proof that robustness can emerge at scale and the closer you look, the less obvious it is why. · 4 tweets · ♥ 13
  31. Now I remember why I have so often wanted to roll my own presentation framework (to the point of doing it a few times)… 😭😵💀 · 2 tweets · ♥ 6
  32. But if it's the smartest thing around, wouldn't it do more good by staying alive? · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  33. Simon: Ah, but are those not meatspace assumptions? Does further alterity not increase the risk for conflict? · 5 tweets
  34. Pas bientôt: l'éthique des systèmes automatisés est un domaine trendy depuis quelques années, et ça grossi encore. · 3 tweets
  35. Right, I was wondering if there was an inflection at which a language is so commonly known that questions about its libraries dominate. · 2 tweets
  36. L'autre jour j'ai rêvé que ça devenait intenable et qu'on n'arrivait que à élever des batteries de moustiques pour compenser. · 2 tweets
  37. Ah, mon ami, tu mets le pied dans un débat bordélique (auquel j'avoue ne pas tout comprendre). Mais je crois que le consensus est que non. · 3 tweets
  38. Apple's defining trait has long been sturdy quality, but lately they seem to have drunk their own "courageous boutique design" koolaid. · 3 tweets · ♥ 5
  39. I think there may be an interesting distinction to explore between "sins of intent" and "sins of ignorance" (so to speak). · 5 tweets
  40. I never really bought that story of children being more curious than adults, is it there any evidence supporting it? · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  41. That matches my understanding of Japanese (admittedly based on Murakami characters explaining how to pronounce their names). However... · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  42. Is there a name for the phenomenon where a site has enough inherent value that UX can drop w/o *immediate* punishment? Eg @Medium @facebook · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  43. Amadou & Mariam set Prospect Park, Brooklyn, on fire. · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  44. Derrière chez moi j'ai vu un groupe de corbeaux gérer un faucon, c'était effrayant. Ils plongeaient dessus pour l'empêcher de partir. · 3 tweets · ♥ 2
  45. Not pg-specific but if it has logical subtrees I've done similar using clarinet to break into pieces before loading.… · 3 tweets
  46. Continuing on my #WebScience spree. "A Framework for Web Science". In many ways very 2006, but plenty hasn't been resolved since. · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  47. I’ve been looking at «Web Science», because it should match a lot of my interests. It’s proving hard to find a usable entry point. · 11 tweets · ♥ 9
  48. Yes. Not just for beginners, too. I've advocated for it a few times, but it's extra work and not normative so it rarely happens. · 3 tweets
  49. Haven't looked at the code in a long time, but how can the base runner take up half a sec but inlines only 16ms? · 2 tweets
  50. Mouaif, le manque de contraste entre blocs et fond (et le fait qu’ils varient) fait qu’on ne voit pas toujours bien ce qui va ensemble. · 2 tweets
  51. Chouette mini-historique des pupitres (si si). · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  52. With some pixie dust we could use links that reference to a specific statement instead of the whole paper. It would make what's cited clear. · 3 tweets · ♥ 3
  53. US plugs indeed are massive safety hazards, but most of the advantages listed are found in EU plugs. · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  54. In + to Simon's excellent points, I would contend that the universal assumption (at least cislunar) was in physics long before testability. · 3 tweets
  55. Fight the policies folks, but forget the tweets. · 5 tweets · ♥ 10
  56. "Cosmopolitism - Ethics in a World of Strangers", @KAnthonyAppiah. Excellent read on a topic of pressing importance. · 2 tweets
  57. My 4yo thinks my books look "too boring". Thankfully, she has improvements to offer. · 2 tweets · ♥ 7
  58. Well, haven’t worked on intent stuff a fair bit, I’m pretty sure it’s needed enough that it’s worth making sure the design doesn’t impede it · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  59. The whole thread. · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  60. Great article from @backlon. The problem, though, is with what that «any client» actually is. theverge.com/2017/5/24/1568… · 6 tweets · ♥ 19
  61. Say what you will about Perl, they test. A lib I last released 15 years ago in a lang I haven’t used in 10 started failing today. I got mail · 2 tweets · ♥ 12
  62. And I was talking about manuscript review formats too. After the manuscript has been ingested, there's no reason not to prove a whole... · 2 tweets
  63. I've thought quite a few times about some sort of XForms-the-good-parts-webified. @WHATWG did some good work on that back in the day. · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  64. I'm really glad she was elected, but I don't know that she's ever done anything 😈 enough that it's "well-earned". · 3 tweets · ♥ 5
  65. Oui, c’est déjà mieux. Perso je suis passé en QWERTY, et une fois les raccourcis appris je n’ai aucun problème à écrire en français. · 2 tweets
  66. Progress in philosophy: the experience of being a bat is, it turns out, indistinguishable from the experience of being on Twitter. · 2 tweets
  67. What's fun is that now, if Russia really wants to screw with 🇺🇸 it can drive oil prices down long enough to crash the pricier US… · 2 tweets
  68. I don't disagree. I've long thought of XSD as the PHP of XML. If you're reasonable and know what you're doing, you can do fine things. · 2 tweets
  69. You complain about CSS. You have *no idea* just how good you have it. · 2 tweets · ♥ 20
  70. I'm sorry if you felt that way but I think you're attaching this to a history I don't in the least see it belonging to. · 2 tweets
  71. You saw that in the context of feeds, I saw that in the context of not having to handle two formats for the same thing, as a developer. · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  72. Sure, but that's not the case here. It's like someone wants to put paragraphs of text on the the web and uses <para>. 1/n · 3 tweets
  73. Big turnout for @erikphoel's "Emergence, Free Will, and Causal Responsibility" at the Consciousness Club! · 7 tweets · ♥ 4
  74. I'm not saying it isn't hard, I understand what's involved. Just that I expect infrastructure providers to be able to manage change. · 2 tweets
  75. Quelqu’un sait pourquoi il manque encore ~150 #investitures alors qu’il y a eu des milliers de candidatures? · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  76. La nouvelle dichotomie ouverts/enfermés se superpose pour l'instant à la vieille gauche/droite. · 3 tweets
  77. Le premier problème du quinquennat: il faut trouver quelqu'un pour écrire les discours d'@EmmanuelMacron. · 3 tweets · ♥ 9
  78. This is more or less what I’ve been waiting for mobiles to do for the past ten years or so. medium.com/samsung-intern… · 2 tweets · ♥ 12
  79. Also worth reading: • «Democratizing Education?» dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/23928… • «No Rich Child Left Behind»… · 5 tweets · ♥ 2
  80. Non, pas troller! Mes amis mélenchonistes revendiquent, je pense doublement à raison, sa capacité à ramener à gauche un électorat parti... · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  81. Fillon+Dupont-Aignan font pas loin du score normal de la droite. L'essentiel du vote Macron est donc socialiste plus centre. · 2 tweets
  82. Interminable discours de @dupontaignan avec un cadrage superbe. · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  83. Macron en tête à Brooklyn, si jamais vous en auriez douté. · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  84. Sure, but descriptivism without usage numbers is speculative. Failing that, the understanding of practitioners is likely the best proxy. · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  85. Je ne parle pas de personnes, et ce n'est pas une question "d'aimer": je réfléchis notamment à des choix difficiles au second tour. · 2 tweets
  86. I completely agree that's the best, but if we can't get that? Shouldn't we try to get voluntary commitments to sanity from as many... · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  87. Time is a problem though. Consensus can take years, decades. Also, it's hard to assess trailblazers. · 2 tweets
  88. @recifs Je n’ai pas eu le temps de prendre la photo, mais ce matin à NYC j’ai vu un bus avec cette pub: pbs.twimg.com/media/C8RNK4KV… · 2 tweets
  89. From the app: 296. From vendor libs: 2535. In workers: 59. · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  90. youtube.com/watch?list=PLL… · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  91. A beautiful short movie, well worth watching if visual poetry works for you: Simon vimeo.com/207857592 · 2 tweets
  92. In a few hours, I turn 40. Of the four absolutely best songs of the past four decades, which applies best: · 2 tweets
  93. Je te taquine. N'empêche: relancer l'investissement autrement ça pousse la BCE à arrêter le quantitative easing. @rubin · 2 tweets
  94. I see a different story. The product grew to be this way because they wanted to get notifications right. (And they did.) · 2 tweets
  95. For those of you who haven't been following this season of France. The pace has... picked up a bit. · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  96. Important: if you get a new Touch Bar MBP, do NOT restore from Time Machine. You are likely to semi-brick it, as I just did. · 3 tweets
  97. Come on UK friends, you can get this over a million! · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  98. The world just keeps getting weirder. · 2 tweets · ♥ 3
  99. Les électeurs de Montebourg n'iront jamais vers Valls, c'est donc plié. Vous voyez Hamon président? Voilà. Donc c'est plié pour le PS. · 2 tweets · ♥ 3

2016

  1. It's not something I've really needed thankfully but it's important to know that exhaustion can drive nice people to violence. · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  2. On mobile, browsers do not keep loaded tabs available. I would like to just click on links and read them while travelling. · 12 tweets
  3. At the end of the day, the thing that most makes native more usable than web is that browser UIs are insultingly bad. · 6 tweets · ♥ 9
  4. Anyone here seen a Chrome bug where a <linearGradient> and an element url()-referencing it produced by DOM _sometimes_ don’t render? · 3 tweets
  5. One idea I had had but didn't have time for was a pen ➡ test automatic import. Developers are happy to show issues in pens. · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  6. Dude, that's another country altogether :-) Sadly, we have yet to reclaim Australia from the dementors. · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  7. Yes fucking yeah!!! · 2 tweets · ♥ 9
  8. One big difference between @theresa_may & Big Brother is the latter lacked a rule as to how many fingers up an orifice count as conventional · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  9. @dginev Actually, I think many were already aware of this. I would suggest a better question: given that businesses will continue to run… · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  10. Il est impératif de lire cette interview de Marine Le Pen. foreignaffairs.com/interviews/201… · 6 tweets · ♥ 2
  11. So… Replacing a vanilla browserify one-liner with webpack (out of the box) made my bundle 230% of the size (both unminified). Okay. · 3 tweets · ♥ 7
  12. Can someone explain why with low participation, early voting, and mailed ballots one ends up with lines like this? · 3 tweets · ♥ 4
  13. I have a bunch of poorly produced PDFs (academic papers) I’d like to print bound, as a book of sorts. Lulu makes this hard. Any thoughts? · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  14. Is there some Web or Mac software that would make it easy for a 7yo to put together her own illustrated books? · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  15. "Information, a Very Short Introduction", by @Floridi. A solid introduction to a broad domain still being defined. · 2 tweets · ♥ 57
  16. Kaine is trying to win this with facts. Facts have never, ever changed anyone’s politics. This is a total waste of airtime. #VPDebate · 2 tweets
  17. Layers. · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  18. You know, I really don’t like DRM. But when its opponents reach this degree of bullshit and bad faith, it’s hard to align with them. · 3 tweets · ♥ 18
  19. I just now figured it out \o/ I had screwed up my browserify config. 160K shaved off — very sweet. Thanks :) · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  20. Is there factual support for the notion that we've entered a "post-factual" world? I don't recall politics ever being about the facts. · 2 tweets
  21. "The Moral Arc", Michael Shermer. Good even if you already agree with the premise that morality is rational. · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  22. "The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time", Unger/Smolin. Loved this. A great defence of natural philosophy. · 3 tweets
  23. I have no idea, maybe @amyvdh knows? · 2 tweets
  24. @WonderWorkshop Hey, your signup details form is completely unusable (under Firefox). Drop-down doesn't work, address always invalid. · 2 tweets
  25. If you generate JSON-LD islands in client-side scripts do you know if they’re taken into account by crawlers? · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  26. Mais la liberté de culte étant nul sans moyen d'exercice, un maire courageux aurait pu aller contre. · 2 tweets
  27. English French AppleBasic HTML Perl CSS JavaScript #FirstSevenLanguages · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  28. I got a computer to type my philosophy stuff on. It had Web! I never got anywhere with philosophy. · 2 tweets · ♥ 17
  29. Je n’étais peut-être pas clair! Je suis pour appliquer la même déontologie qu’en prévention du suicide: éviter les copies. · 2 tweets
  30. I’m curious to hear if @F1000 uses this filter to avoid excess load on reviewers, or because ingesting manuscripts has a cost. · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  31. Just when you thought things couldn't get more "interesting" for Boris Johnson... · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  32. Yes, there was a pretty good (IIRC) Perl6 proposal for that. Not sure where it went. · 2 tweets
  33. Just in case you were harbouring any hopes that the EU might react softly and gently to #Brexit: contexte.com/documents/7988… (via… · 3 tweets · ♥ 5
  34. That trend isn't reliable, no one has called it "Web development" since 1998 :-) · 2 tweets
  35. A great use case for the @internetarchive! It would indeed be great if @CrossrefOrg made data dumps available. · 2 tweets
  36. How to do data citations on the Web: «Web-First Data Citations» research.science.ai/article/web-fi… · 2 tweets · ♥ 13
  37. Sure :) If it helps I can show you a demo. @anssik · 2 tweets
  38. «Manueeeeeel, nous voilàààààààà!» · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  39. DOI — because URLs are meant to be opaque, right? doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)…<42::AID-HBM5>3.0.CO;2-6 · 2 tweets

2015

  1. Well, it's in response to @SimonSapin essentially arguing against doing anything, ever. Light mockery may be called for @LeaVerou · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  2. «Ecological Orbits: How Planets Move and Populations Grow», L Ginzburg & M Colyvan. Interesting epistemological take on «ecological forces». · 2 tweets
  3. Is there a documented reason why MathJax produces two <svg> elements, one for the defs and one for the content? cc @pkrautz · 2 tweets
  4. Are those numbers simultaneous? · 2 tweets
  5. OH «By ‘underrepresented group’, do you mean pretty much anyone that's not an asshole or is this a more traditional definition of the term?» · 2 tweets
  6. I’m surprised no one has created a semi-standard class or data-* attribute so browsers could have an extension to dismiss them. · 2 tweets
  7. My Internet works two minutes now and then. @sideshowbarker has the keys to that server. · 2 tweets
  8. @recifs J’ai de nouveau le bug de login SeenThis. À ce stade le bouton «login» ne fait même plus rien. · 3 tweets
  9. That last quote was from "Quantum Computing Since Democritus". Some chunks are (still) beyond me but lots of great ideas, food for thought. · 2 tweets
  10. Je suis tenté de vous faire un LT #FêteDeLÉcole. Là, les moyens 4 et du rock. Mais peut-être que ça vous saoulerait? · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  11. "The Calculi of Emergence", James Crutchfield. Basically establishes a computational epistemology. santafe.edu/~cmg/compmech/… · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  12. Je n'ai pas vraiment compris la position #PJLRenseignement de @axellelemaire telle qu'exprimée à #w3c20... · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  13. Hmmm, no content. · 2 tweets
  14. "Le révolutionnaire, l'expert et le geek", de @Gaspard2012. Juste et lucide, très fortement recommandé. · 2 tweets · ♥ 5
  15. Et si on instaurait la saisine du Conseil Constitutionnel par initiative citoyenne? · 2 tweets
  16. "Representative democracy is hard because we have lives and can't easily be informed about all that we need to know as citizens." @lessig · 3 tweets · ♥ 1
  17. Tout le monde se félicite du score du FN. Ce n'est pas une vague, certes. Mais en taille c'est le seul parti alternatif. · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  18. I can’t seem to get Travis to work with github.com/w3c/manifest. It’s seeing the requests, the hook works, just no build. Ideas? · 2 tweets
  19. @iandevlin Looking at github.com/iandevlin/aria… it really hurts me to think I need to duplicate so much information for ARIA to work. · 2 tweets
  20. Operating as a large community requires built-in filters to maintain a workable signal-to-noise ratio. Does any standards org do it well? · 2 tweets

2014

  1. Is it just me or are US ISPs badly in need of some antitrust class action? Is that possible? #PreviousTweet · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  2. Just sayin’: the Awesome SVG curated list of awesome SVG stuff (github.com/willianjusten/…) is trending #3 on GitHub: github.com/trending · 2 tweets · ♥ 7
  3. It can also be good for people regularly at the wrong end of jerking that we've got their backs. · 2 tweets · ♥ 1
  4. J'imagine qu'on va bcp parler de dissolution pour faire passer cette loi d’habilitation à procéder par ordonnances...… · 2 tweets
  5. Bon, je crois que personne ne vend de sandales qui ne donnent pas envie de se pendre… · 2 tweets
  6. Si les comptes de campagne de Sarkozy 2012 sont faux, on ne peut plus invalider son élection — mais peut-on au moins invalider sa retraite? · 2 tweets
  7. Struggling to compare the complexity of a completely random string of n bits, and of a space of n-dimensions each one bit in size, random. · 2 tweets
  8. Régime de Vichy. · 2 tweets · ♥ 2
  9. The @web25 is coming up soon at #xmlprague. What do you want for the next 25 years? What annoys you? What puzzles you? Anything goes — ask! · 2 tweets · ♥ 2

2013

  1. . But, '/nothingnessnothingness . ... M · 2 tweets

2011

  1. 2% of TAG issues get 92% of the attention #occupyHTTPRange-14 #tpac · 2 tweets · ♥ 4
  2. Intro - The purpose of this blog is to store whatever comes across my mind that I don’t have time to polish... http://tumblr.com/xrg3mgxcdj · 2 tweets

2010

  1. Allons allons, quelques semaines de cours du soir et il n'y paraîtra plus rien. C'est quand même pratique :) · 2 tweets