Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

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.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36778999

#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.

While we are all talking about #union activity in the entertainment industry, #IATSE has an open public petition to #Disney to pressure them to voluntarily recognize membership in IATSE local 839, The Animators Guild, for its animation studios Production Coordinators, Production Managers, and Production Supervisors. https://iatse.net/online-action/disney-production/

As many if not most of you know, I have been writing about the ethical, epistemological, and social implications of of GPT-type tools since shortly after they hit the scene, and I've been writing about those same implications in "A.I." for a lot longer than that.

Now I am proud to present my article "Bias Optimizers," wherein American Scientist Magazine gave me the space and time to talk about those all of those things, to a very wide audience. I hope you enjoy it:
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/bias-optimizers