Wendy M. Grossman @wendyg@mastodon.xyz

This week's net.wars (988), "The Amazing", remembers James Randi: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/10/the_amazing.html

This week's net.wars (986), "Incoming", mulls the report of the House antitrust investigation into GAFA: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/10/incoming.html

This week's net.wars (985), "Searching for context", reviews The Social Dilemma: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/10/searching_for_context.html

This week's net.wars (984), "The zero on the phone", goes virtually to #werobot2020 and finds the robots have dematerialized into AI systems: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/09/the_zero_on_the_phone_1.html

This week's net.wars (983), "Systems thinking", visited this week's @ukigf while still under the influence of @cybsights Cybernetics Conference: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/09/systems_thinking.html

@ColinTheMathmo Lord, that's an old one. What do you get when you drop a piano on an Army officer?

This week's net.wars, "Autofail", catches up with attempts to reform S230, the fallout from Schrems 2, GPT-3, and abnormal-resistant camera phones: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/09/autofail.html

This week's net.wars, "The Internet as we know it", finds the Internet - yet again - under threat of fundamental change (with nitpick for @jamesrbuk): https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/09/the_internet_as_we_know_it.html

This week's net.wars, "Through the mousehole", finds that two new books, The Rodchenkov (Grigory Rodchenkov) Affair and The Russian Affair (David Walsh, @davidwalshst) , offers lessons in security design from Russia's thoroughly dysfunctional anti-doping system: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/08/through_the_mousehole.html

This week's net.wars, "The end of choice", argues that controlling GAFA's platform power isn't enough if it remains impossible to opt out of their world: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/08/the_end_of_choice.html

This week's net.wars, "Revenge of the browser wars", mulls the importance of Mozilla and Firefox in the web's ecosystem in the light of this week's restructuring announcement: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/08/revenge_of_the_browser_wars.html

This week's net.wars, "The big four", reviews last week's Big Tech Congressional hearings, and finds two different hearings for the price of one: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/08/the_big_four.html

This week's net.wars, "Driving while invisible", goes to #gikii and tries to connect some very strange dots from @mikarv, @hahhahsmeth, and @rdbinns: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/07/driving_while_invisible.html

This week's net.wars, "The invisible Internet", visits the US_IGF and finds...well, the same old topics, but tries to answer the question asked: what will Internet governance look like 25 years hence? https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/07/the_invisible_internet.html

This week's net.wars, "Flying blind", wonders why the hackers wanted so little from the high-profile accounts they captured: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/07/flying_blind.html

This week's net.wars, "Trading digital rights", is warned that upcoming free trade agreements see Britain potentially squashed between much larger powers, with digital rights a hidden casualty: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/07/trading_digital_rights.html

This week's net.wars, "The transparent society", goes to a fictional focus group organized by @furtherfield to explore radical transparency and the blockchain: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/07/the_transparent_society.html

This week's net.wars, "Mysticism: curmudgeon", follows @openrightsgroup's new report on political parties and data profiling. In case you weren't creeped out enough: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/06/mysticism_curmudgeon.html

This week's net.wars, "The science", lives in uncertainty as masks are vindicated, apps may be more effective than we thought, and distancing may be rethought: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/06/the_science.html