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From Losing the Web to Saving Us All
Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy—Thesis #7, The Cluetrain Manifesto Big AI subverts everything, including hyperlinks, which are what make the Web a web. With Big AI, you no longer surf from searches to sources across an ocean of links. You ask questions and get answers from the world’s largest Magic 8-Balls. They top the new hierarchy, which… Continue reading
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#MyTerms at #CPDP2026
CPDP stands for Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection. The theme of this year’s CPDP is “Competing Visions Shared Futures.” The MyTerms future is replacing consent with contract in our online dealings with websites and digital services. Consent is what cookie notices speciously obtain from your clicks on the forced choices that interrupt your first experience… Continue reading
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Thirstday
The inhuman touch For the first time ever, a call to AppleCare got me an AI agent rather than a human being. The agent solved my problem, but made me feel sad, because AppleCare’s people provided a human connection, just we get from the people behind the Apple Stores’ Genius Bars. Are they the next… Continue reading
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Status Go vs. Status Quo
MyTerms is Status Go toward markets based on full personal agency. Adtech is a $trillion Status Quo based on full agency for corporate entities alone and full subordination of the persons who depend on them: a one-sided power asymmetry manifest in every cookie notice. But, while it is easy to characterize MyTerms as a way… Continue reading
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How the Past Models the Future
This is a PageXray of Wired.com: Well, not really. I just want to give you a good idea of what PageXray does, which is far more than show you that a typical website stuffs your browser with cookies. For example, a PageXray shows all the unseen places to which information about you flows, thanks to… Continue reading