Scripting News: Wednesday, November 1, 2023
A plot for a science fiction horror movie.#
Takes place in the near future.#
A young Zuck-like hacker not only understands how to write scalable server apps, and has no principles about people's privacy (or really anything, for that matter), he's also a lawyer. #
He starts a Facebook-like service, but it's better in some way (still need to come up with this element), but there's a twist. The end user agreement is customized for each user. Not for everyone, just a few. They know where you live, and whether you own the house or not. #
Here's the nasty thing they do. #
They plant seemingly innocuous language in the agreement (that no one reads anyway) that says you sign over all your property to them. #
Not sure where it goes from there exactly. #
Probably not all that great an idea.#
Visualized...#
I fed this story to ChatGPT and asked it to ask DALL-E to visualize it. Had to change Zuck to Buck to get past its filters. And here's what it came back with.#
Linkblog items for the day.
Doc Searls tells his story of Medium. searls.com
Killington Resort's 2023/2024 Season Launches This Week. thisisvermonting.com
Toyota has built an EV with a fake transmission, and we've driven it. arstechnica.com
Intro to Cooperation Studies. rheingold.com
The awfulness of Billy Joel, explained. slate.com
Jay Rosen on the value of lists. (A hidden benefit of a switch to a new platform, intelligent users can tell you which features are missed most and why.) threads.net
评论
发表评论