@TeamMidwest my mom lives near the hill if you need a bathroom or a cool drink (I am serious she loves this sort of thing)
Episode 13 of Question Mark, Ohio: a fire, an ally, a crystal cave. Get caught up today. https://questionmarkohio.com/episodes/thirteen/
This has slid under the radar of mainstream news sites but Google Chrome now has a proposal for DRM for the web. It’s basically a way for a website to ask a browser it’s running on a trusted browser or device.
It will help detect & prevent bot traffic or scrapers. But will also enable sites to detect & block ad blockers as well. A final nail in the coffin of the Open Web that made Google a trillion dollar company.
"Britt Russert reformulates this as “fugitive science,” forms of apprehension that operate on lines of flight carried out by black and native practitioners to understand their place and future in the world outside the distorted view of empiricism."
https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ii-web.pdf
via @ingrid
reading reviews of Oppenheimer has encouraged me to return to Lou Cornum's barnstormer essay The Irradiated International from 2018 https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ii-web.pdf
@jonoabroad AI can feel it coming in the AIr tonight
#Google is trying to #kill the #OpenWeb.
Using the proposed "Web Environment Integrity" means websites can select on which devices (browsers) they wish to be displayed, and can refuse service to other devices. It binds client side software to a website, creating a silo'd app.
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md
This penalizes platforms on which the preferred client side software is not available.
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