A thing you should know is that you get put on a lot of lists.| ericwbailey.website
Whether it’s “bringing the world closer together” (Facebook), “organizing the world’s information” (Google), to be a market “where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online” (Amazon) or “to make personal computing accessible to each and every individual” (Apple), the founding missions of tech giants reveal a desire to become indispensable to our digital lives.| Electronic Frontier Foundation
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Interoperability — it’s a gruesome little chunk of jargon that refers to a fairly fundamental tenet of the Internet. Simply, it means that different applications and devices can share the same data with one another. As users, we enjoy interoperability daily.| Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst