Daniel Andrlik

A busy week full of work, development, podcasting, and touching grass.

A twofer for you on the modern internet. The first paints a grim picture of what the internet has become, and the second gives us a hopeful manifesto for the future.

A truly alarming tale where bad luck in choosing a bucket name resulted in a usage bill of over $1,300. All of it coming from unauthorized requests! So, if I were to open my terminal now and type:

Great piece from Manvir Singh in the New Yorker on how the causes and mechanics of misinformation are often misunderstood. In particular, it covers how the shared belief system that misinformation depends upon requires explicit participation by those that adopt it.

Daniel Solove has published a fascinating paper in the Boston University Law Review examining the current approaches in privacy laws in the U.S. and E.U. and makes a good case for the notion of “consent” being a key flaw in both frameworks.