This may be excessively Icelandic* of me, but I strongly prefer the term “platform decay” over “enshittification” because it’s much more descriptive.

* Our words for “breakfast”, “lunch”, and “dinner” are “morning meal”, “noon meal”, and “evening meal” respectively.

While I was happy for the Figma team to get a payout, it's great news to hear that Adobe's acquisition of Figma has been called off. It would not have served our Design community well.

It'll be interesting to see how the #design community reacts today.
https://www.figma.com/blog/figma-adobe-abandon-proposed-merger/

Bruce Schneier shares the depressing conclusion that while the internet enabled mass surveillance, AI enables mass spying.

Surveillance is the collection of data. Our phones track our location. Our credit cards track our purchases. Etc.

Spying is understanding what you are doing and saying. This used to be expensive and now is cheap.

Yesterday I shared that Mountain Dew watches every Twitch stream and will message every streamer who drinks their soda on stream.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/ai-and-mass-spying.html

The Beeck Center's Digital Service Network just published a collection of 134 US state executive orders relating to digital transformation, and a high-level synthesis of trends and themes:

https://www.digitalservicenetwork.org/policyscan

(Next up: legislation and administrative rules, and guidance to understand how these policy tools, along with EOs, contribute to state and territorial-level government digital transformation.)

"So, I'm going to do something which may not be well-recieved: I'm going to push-back (slightly) on the Linked Data movement, because, frankly, I think it is a bit draconian with respect to the way it oversells the HTTP URI scheme"

https://archive.is/gtBty#selection-181.0-185.106