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Jonathan Zittrain
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A small creature who likes to run around in universities. Prof. @Harvard_Law, @HSEAS, + @Kennedy_School; @EFF board mbr; director of @BKCHarvard and @HLSLib.
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From 2018!:
Academia as we know it will be dead soon.View quoted post on X
Almost every researcher in our department is basically just managing Codex and Claude:
“Here’s the problem. Fix it. Run the simulations. Get the results. Now write the paper.”
The irony? 👇
Terrific forensics here around how consumer devices collect astounding amounts of data in ways completely different from what a bland privacy policy suggests.
The before and after clips also worth a look.
The before and after clips also worth a look.
I absolutely love this. Back in 2008 @zittrain wrote about the future of the internet and how to stop it, arguing that the appliancification of hardware fundamentally limited individual freedom and exposed us to all kinds of extractive corporate practices. This was enshittification before enshittification, completely antithetical to the liberating hacker spirit that birthed personal computing. Seeing people take back control over their hardware makes me very happy. There should be a millennium prize for the first person who does this to a printer.View quoted post on X
Substitute Czechia for Nebraska and @xkcd called it years ago. Amazing how this kind of generative system (usually!) works.
Thanks, Ondřej!
Thanks, Ondřej!
70% of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up. He rules. theatlantic.com/technology/202…View quoted post on X
Good ideas.
PSA: in light of recent cyberattacks and vulnerabilities, I recommend everyone:View quoted post on X
* use a good password manager (1Password) and do not duplicate passwords
* use two factor auth for everything important (not via sms!! Google Authenticator or better yet YubiKey)
* Auto-updates on, and restart weekly so they actually install
* Freeze your credit
* Get an IRS Identity Protection PIN
* Get your cell carrier to give you a port-out PIN or number lock that makes the carrier refuse to move your number without the PIN
You can ask your claude code to audit what on your laptop is out of date and needs updating.
