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• Post #4262287

  Is there a name for the paradox where a space is _more welcoming_ by having and enforcing _stricter policies_ for specific problematic behavior? For example, if a user group or makerspace has rules on surveillance glasses (must be put away in an opaque container if brought on the premises) and enforces them, then the space is safer and feels more available to the majority of visitors? Sort of like paradox of tolerance but not quite

• Post #3743215

  Now Meta is being sued for somewhere near the company's market cap, which along with other consequences of other actions means that the company is going to have to get shut down at some point. The window has shifted. So how to do that with minimum pain to the people who are in touch with each other on Meta's sites and apps? IMHO it's possible by borrowing some ideas from airline overbooking https://blog.zgp.org/how-to-shut-down-meta/ #MetaPlatforms

• Post #3362463

  Linus Torvalds came up with two big inventions—Linux and Git—and of course a variety of smaller but still very useful stuff. But an underrated decision he made was to treat kernel developers working as part of "kernel teams" at random companies as first-class contributors, and not to allow the old OSDL (remember that) to become some kind of gatekeeper organization. So we ended up with the much smaller and more responsive Linux Foundation. Too bad that didn't happen with open-sourc...

• Post #3356670

  Does anyone believe that the "Ocean Observatories Initiative" had _no_ role in tracking foreign submarines for the US Navy? (The science stuff is always the cover story—they need temperature, current, salinity data to process sonar data, any technothriller reader would have picked up on this) At some point it will turn out that some USN expert managed to get the right people's attention https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/18/ocean-monitoring-system-reversal-trump-administ...

• Post #3326836

  If some service requires "age verification" you probably have another choice other than (1) compliance or (2) refusal. If you don't want to get into an argument about values or politics with someone who wants to connect on an age-verified service, you can usually make up an error message or security alert. And people expect big companies to arbitrarily deny service or introduce bugs, so they'll try you again using a different communications medium #ageVerification 1/2

• Post #2244475

  Friday, July 24 is DROP Day at the Alameda Free Library. Data brokers registered in the state of California will have to delete your info—if you're signed up. We'll help with the Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP) and answer any other privacy questions. If you're already signed up, please come by and help others. https://blog.zgp.org/save-the-date-july-24-alameda-drop-day/ (please share the link) #alameda #california #privacy #local #event #ccpa #cpra #cppa #deleteAct #Cal...

• Post #1811406

  Wow, I got a paradox named after me and all I had to do was go on the Monopoly Report podcast. "the most engaged, most valuable customers are often the same people who’ve taken the most deliberate steps to make themselves less measurable by conventional ad tech, which means that if you’re an advertiser that is optimizing purely for trackability, you may be underweighting your best customers" https://blog.zgp.org/there-are-many-paradoxes-but-this-one-is-mine/

• Post #1263822

  this Strait of Hormuz story makes IT decision-makers who get locked in to one SaaS vendor look remarkably responsible and forward-thinking

• Post #998050

  ToS of the future: "The content and metadata on this site is not licensed for use in resolving any prediction market contract. To license our prediction market oracle feed, contact licensing@example.com."

• Post #998049

  Happy emoji proposal re-opening day to all who celebrate. Emoji season runs from today through Jul. 31. (There are still no capybara, guinea pig, or squirrel emoji as far as I know.) https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html #emoji #unicode

• Post #998048

  It's like a restaurant that starts putting a turd on the combo platter without telling anybody, and now they want five stars for letting people say "hold the turd" when they order https://www.fastcompany.com/91490055/mozillas-new-ai-strategy-marks-a-return-to-its-rebel-alliance-roots

• Post #931858

  put up the notes and links from my #scale20x talk on #privacy (includes link to my GitHub repo of #CCPA letters if you need a starting point) https://blog.zgp.org/scale-20/

• Post #777170

  Just read "Fascintern Media" by @robin ( https://berjon.com/fascintern-media/ ) and it reminds me of a line in a recent YouTube video about how moderation policies work there "But the thing I believe, one of the reasons such leaders get support in modern world because we are not allowed to speak about the atrocities and devastation such politics will lead the world into." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzH4GXkQ5uE&t=1494s

• Post #3951

  Really interesting teen subculture: straightedge #noAI art kids. (They're developing IT skills just to turn off or avoid "AI" slop—this gives me hope for the future) For a lot of these kids (I've also heard them called the "AI vegans") a big college decision is coming up. And colleges, unfortunately, have middle managers who mandate fad-chasing just as much as other organizations do. How to make a college short list that will be compatible with not being required to...