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By Katherine Druckman and Doc SearlsTechnology
Reality 2.0 episodes
- Episode 109: From Twitter to the Fediverse with Mastodon
Katherine Druckman talks to Shawn Powers and Kyle Rankin about moving from Twitter to the Fediverse using Mastodon, including how to choose a server and find your niche.
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- Giving social networking back to you - Mastodon
— Follow friends and discover new ones among more than 4.4M people. Publish anything you want: links, pictures, text, video. All on a platform that is community-owned and ad-free.- Running your own server - Mastodon documentation
— Why would you want to run your own Mastodon server?Absolute control over your own voice on the web, not subject to anyone else's rules or whims. Your server is your property, with your rules. It will exist as long as you want it to exist.You are not isolated on your own server. You can follow anyone on any other server, and they can follow you and you can exchange messages just like if you were on the same server.You can either limit sign-ups to be the only one on the server and run it like personal (micro)blog, maintain an invite-only community for family or friends or run a server anyone can sign up on, it's up to you!- Kyle Rankin (@[email protected]) - Librem Social
- Katherine Druckman (@[email protected]) - Librem Social
- Why does Elon Musk want to take Twitter private, and what does it mean for shareholders?
— Billionaire Elon Musk plans to make Twitter a private company following his $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform.- Elon Musk wants to 'authenticate all real humans' on Twitter. Here's what that could mean
— As the public combs through Elon Musk's Twitter feed for clues on how the billionaire entrepreneur intends to run the social media platform he's buying for $44 billion, one mysterious line stands out: "authenticate all real humans."- The Other Reason It's a Perfect Time to Join Mastodon, the Open-Source Twitter Alternative
— Last week, Mastodon finally launched its free, official Android app, making it easier than ever to use the open-source Twitter alternative on Android devices. Mastodon’s timing couldn’t be better, as Twitter’s board just approved Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid to buy Twitter.- After Musk Acquires Twitter, Mastodon Sees Flood of Traffic, Server Slowdown | PCMag
— If you joined social-networking provider Mastodon today because of the Elon Musk-Twitter news, you're not alone.1 hr 6 min - Episode 108: Microtargeting Warfare and Other Ad Tech Nightmares
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Don Marti about ad tech and its many consequences, as well as recent efforts to reform it.
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- IAB Tech Lab
— Today, IAB Tech Lab, the digital advertising technical standards-setting body, announced an update to the widely adopted ads.txt specification which they have opened for public comment for 60 days.The update includes two new values for publishers to declare within their ads.txt files, “ownerdomain” and “managerdomain” which helps increase the transparency into seller relationships via sellers.json and further strengthens ads.txt as a tool to reduce fraud in buying and selling of advertisements on websites, mobile apps and connected TV.- IAB Tech Lab
— Real-time Bidding (RTB) is a way of selling media that enables an individual advertising opportunity (ad impression) to be put up for bidding in real-time. OpenRTB is the communication protocol that enables real-time bidding. It was designed to spur growth in RTB marketplaces by providing an open industry standard for communication and interoperability between buyers and sellers in the digital advertising industry.- banning surveillance advertising
— New bill in Congress: the Banning Surveillance Advertising Act of 2022. Ambitious goal. May not get far this Congress, but it’s good to have a destination in mind. As Allison Schiff wrote on AdExchanger, Even If Targeted Online Advertising Isn’t Banned – Take Note Of Which Way The Wind Is Blowing. Remember, it took the EPA 23 years to get to the (almost) Final Step in Phaseout of Leaded Gasoline.- taxing surveillance marketing
— Putting a tax on surveillance marketing is sometimes suggested as a solution to a classic externalities problem—firms benefit from surveillance marketing, but the costs and risks are paid for by the people surveilled. A Pigovian tax is the go-to fix for this situation.- Europe Is Building a Huge International Facial Recognition System | WIRED UK
— Lawmakers advance proposals to let police forces across the EU link their photo databases—which include millions of pictures of people’s faces.- Microtargeting as Information Warfare
— Foreign influence operations are an acknowledged threat to national security. Lessunderstood is the data that enables that influence. This article argues that governments must recognize microtargeting—data informed individualized targetedadvertising—and the current advertising economy as enabling and profiting fromforeign and domestic information warfare being waged on its citizens. The Department ofDefense must place greater emphasis on defending servicemembers’ digital privacy as anational security risk. Without the ability to defend this vulnerable attack space, our adversaries will continue to target it for exploitation.1 hr 3 min - Episode 107: Building the Decentralized Web
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to James Walker of Fission about building the decentralized web, decentralized identity, IPFS, and empowering users.
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- Build the future of web apps at the edge – Fission
— Cloud native stacks won't deliver the futureWe're building the data, auth & compute primitives that enable true local-first edge applications. But we don’t get to the future alone. Our edge computing stack is already embedded into leading protocols, platforms and products.- Beyond the Web. Answer these questions: | by Doc Searls | Mar, 2022 | Medium
— Why are the choices presented to you by websites called your choices, when all those choices are provided by them? And why don’t you give them choices?- Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter. Here's what we know | AP News
— In 10 days, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has gone from popular Twitter contributor and critic to the company’s largest individual shareholder to a would-be owner of the social platform — a whirlwind of activity that could change the service dramatically given the sometimes whimsical billionaire’s self-identification as a free-speech absolutist.1 hr 14 min - Episode 106: Revisiting Privacy
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls revisit the topic of data privacy.
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- Views on Current Laws and Practices to Protect Personal Data According to US Likely Voters, July 2021 (% of respondents) | Insider Intelligence
- ProjectVRM – Developing tools for customer independence and engagement with vendors
- Ostrom Workshop Calendar
— The main business model of the Web goes by a label we all now know from the title of Shoshana Zuboff’s landmark book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. How do we fight surveillance capitalism? And how do we work around it? How, especially, can we keep our new Byway from becoming infested with it—or with the mendacities behind it?Nobody better to help us toward answers than Shoshana herself, who leads this finale to our salon series.Scholar, writer, and activist Shoshana Zuboff is the author of three major books, each of which signaled the start of a new epoch in technological society. Her recent masterwork, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, an international bestseller translated into twenty-six languages, has been hailed as the tech industry’s Silent Spring and the Das Kapital of the 21st Century. Professor Zuboff is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor Emeritus at Harvard Business School and a faculty associate at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights. Her work has received the Axel Springer Award (2019), the EPIC Lifetime Achievement Award (2021), and is the first recipient of the Global Privacy Assembly Giovanni Buttarelli Award (2021).- Opinion | Facebook and the Surveillance Society: The Other Coup - The New York Times
— We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both.- Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America: Wylie, Christopher: 9781984854636: Amazon.com: Books
- Slaughterbots - Wikipedia
— Slaughterbots is a 2017 arms-control advocacy video presenting a dramatized near-future scenario where swarms of inexpensive microdrones use artificial intelligence and facial recognition to assassinate political opponents based on preprogrammed criteria.- Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data: Veliz, Carissa: 9781612199672: Amazon.com: Books
- The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto: Getting from Policy to Code to QA to Value: Dennedy, Michelle, Fox, Jonathan, Finneran, Tom: 9781430263555: Amazon.com: Books
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: Zuboff, Shoshana: 9781610395694: Amazon.com: Books
43 min - Episode 105: What is the Digital Markets Act?
Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk about the Digital Markets Act and Apple's personal finance plans.
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- The Digital Markets Act: ensuring fair and open digital markets | European Commission
— The Digital Markets Act (DMA) establishes a set of narrowly defined objective criteria for qualifying a large online platform as a so-called “gatekeeper”. This allows the DMA to remain well targeted to the problem that it aims to tackle as regards large, systemic online platforms.- Why Alphabet Will Benefit From New European Privacy Rules
— European regulators are once again coming after big American technology companies. Some say it is the beginning of the end for them. Not so fast.- New EU law could spark gold rush of iMessage alternatives
— At the moment, getting access to iMessage’s features on non-Apple devices is a complete pain. In fact, getting access to any messaging platform’s features outside of its native apps can range from difficult to almost impossible. Whether it’s Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or Signal, in every case, the services’ developers want you to stick to their own software to message on their platforms.- Europe agrees on big new package of tech rules
— European regulators have come to an agreement on major competition rules that could force the world's biggest tech platforms, including Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft, to reshape big chunks of their business.- US consumer views on privacy laws
— A July 2021 survey from Data for Progress found that nearly three-quarters (72%) of likely US voters felt that existing privacy laws are insufficient.- Computer Crime Hype - Schneier on Security
— Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.- Apple (AAPL) Working to Bring Financial Services Tasks In-House - Bloomberg
— The effort, dubbed ‘Breakout,’ would replace fintech partners- Wordle Hacking—Suddenly Wordle Is Tracking You, Here’s How To Stop It
— Perhaps what will come as some surprise to many players of the game is that it now comes complete with ad-trackers. But don't sweat it, you can stop it with a little Wordle hacking.36 min - Episode 104: Digital Archives and Nomads
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Steven Roberts about digitizing media, photography, and retro computing.
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1 hr 8 min - Episode 103: Supply Chain Security and Disaster
Katherine Druckman talks to Kyle Rankin about global supply chain security, disaster and security preparedness, and the Librem 5.
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- ‘Not the time to go poking around’: How former U.S. hackers view dealing with Russia - POLITICO
— People with experience in U.S. hacking operations say they expect both Washington and Moscow to show caution in how they wield their digital weapons.- BIG sabotage: Famous npm package deletes files to protest Ukraine war
— This month, the developer behind the popular npm package 'node-ipc' released sabotaged versions of the library in protest of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War.- Librem 5 USA – Purism
— Librem 5 USA, a premium version of the Librem 5 phone that focuses on security by design and privacy protection by default with a secure supply chain and electronics Made in USA. Outfitted with hardware kill switches and specially designed hardware, you are in control of the flow of information.1 hr 3 min - Episode 102: The Unforgettable Episode
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman go a bit off-topic and talk to Shawn Powers about his memory loss.
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- My Car Accident | The Brain of Shawn
— On March 2, 1999, I was on my way to work. Apparently I had a cellphone in one hand, a cup of pumpkin spice cappuccino in the other hand, and an open briefcase next to me on the seat. The problem is that I was driving a car at the time, and apparently I didn’t enough hands for such multitasking. My car went off the road and into a group of trees, missing each one. That part was amazing.55 min - Episode 101: The Elephant in the Room, Journalism, and Disinformation
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Shawn Powers discuss wartime journalism and misinformation, and Shawn's brain.
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- Doc Searls Weblog · Where Journalism Fails
— “What’s the story?”No question is asked more often by editors in newsrooms than that one. And for good reason: that’s what news is about: The Story.- My Car Accident | The Brain of Shawn
— On March 2, 1999, I was on my way to work. Apparently I had a cellphone in one hand, a cup of pumpkin spice cappuccino in the other hand, and an open briefcase next to me on the seat. The problem is that I was driving a car at the time, and apparently I didn’t enough hands for such multitasking. My car went off the road and into a group of trees, missing each one. That part was amazing.- Volodymyr Zelensky Is Not a Meme | WIRED
— The Ukrainian president's actions in the face of the Russian invasion turned him into a hero online. But the Marvelization of political figures is dangerous.45 min - Episode 100: A Celebration with IPFS, Web3, and Home Automation
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Shawn Powers, and Petros Koutoupis celebrate our 100th episode and talk Web3, IPFS, and home automation.
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- My first web3 webpage | Dries Buytaert
— How I built my first web3 webpage, and what I think about web3's potential.- Apple’s Siri will finally work without an internet connection thanks to on-device processing - The Verge
— Apple’s digital assistant Siri will process audio on-device by default in iOS 15, meaning you will be able to use the feature without an active internet connection. Apple says the upgrade will also make Siri faster.- Our most popular episode! - Reality 2.0 Episode 28: Destroy This Podcast
— Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Petros Koutoupis talk about ownership, freedom, and convenience in the digital world.44 min
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