The Legibility of Live Rewind
As I'm sure most people with even a passing interest will have heard by now, the new Apple Watch has a feature called "Live Rewind". Before we get into this properly, let's just see how Apple describes the feature:
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Another tentative title and focus for my next zine
I met up with Tom this morning and he asked me if I was planning another zine. I told him about the idea behind Interfaces of Refusal, but actually I've got another idea. This one would be called something like Field Notes on Ambient Surveillance and cover the way in which, over the last couple of decades, surveillance has become normalised.
…Discode Inferno
I came across discode.ai this morning, which describes itself like this:
You choose the rhythm, not the algorithm. Ecological, private, true and smart AI — built in Austria.
While I initially thought that it was a bit odd that a EU-based startup positioning themselves like this only allowed you to sign in via Google, thankfully you can provide a user name and password and just use that.
…Securing Verifiable Credentials for a world of agentic AI
Since hitting publish on Anonymous credentials for the web (no, not those kind) I've been doing some work for Kerri Lemoie at the Digital Credentials Consortium and it's made me think that PACT (Private Access Control Tokens) might actually be useful for Verifiable Credentials (VCs), too.
…Anonymous credentials for the web (no, not those kind)
This is a long post from Mozilla that probably won't get the attention it deserves outside of a niche, geeky audience. I'm very pleased that people are figuring out answers to these issues.
Let's start with the problem:
…What you gonna do, Luke Skywalker?
A follow-up to [this note] given Anthropic's recent announcement that they're going to require government-issued ID to use "certain features" of their models. They're using none other than Peter Thiel-backed Persona for this. Ugh.
…It turns out that things change, and not always for the better
I received an email from Flickr this morning notifying me that someone had favourites one of my images. It was a photo of an adult member of my family, but I was still a bit shocked.
Which is weird, because had that happened 10, 15, or 20 years ago I wouldn't have batted an eyelid. It's been quite a while since I marked all of the photos of my kids as private on Flickr, but I spent time this morning ensuring that photos including other family members are now private.
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