Coming to Understandings, and Perhaps Actions

Looking for one reporter—just one—from Wired or any other major news organization, to dig into this. Michaela Neville's A Starter Guide to Protecting Your Data From Hackers and Corporations in Wired gives good advice, but neglects to visit the magazine's own participation in the vast personal data harvesting adtech fecosystem. Here's a PageXray of the river delta out of which data about you flows from your browser when you read that piece without tracking protection. Your screen isn't big enough for you to see it all and still read the nearly countless distribution and destination points. It's that vast. Some additional numbers: 

Adserver Requests: 293
Tracking Requests: 233
Other Requests: 184
Bonus link.

So we can move on to solving other problems. Well, shit: 404 says Penguin Poop Helps Antarctica Stay Cool. 

So, rather than Web 3.0, we're at Web 2.1. Despite all its sweet aspirations, Web 2.0 brought us the Age of Walled Gardens. In Welcome to the World Wide Wall, Ted Gioia says tech giants and their wannabes want to build those walls up to the sky. And they're succeeding. Jamie Smith explains one way Google is doing it.

Perhaps unless it's a free used 747. Adam Tooze: When will America's economy stall? "When this happens the economy really will lose all growth momentum…It is hard to credit, but Trump in his second term seems genuinely committed to the idea that ordinary Americans should have less stuff."