Today on the newsletter: a look at the Amazon v. Perplexity case educatedguesswork.org/posts/notes-...
Notes on Amazon v. Perplexity
Agentic browsing and the Open Web
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Now up on the newsletter: Why your asthma inhaler is so expensive (in the US). Hint: it starts with the ozone hole... educatedguesswork.org/posts/asthma...
Why your asthma inhaler is so expensive (in the US)
It starts with the ozone hole...
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Now up on the newsletter: Understanding Age Assurance Accuracy educatedguesswork.org/posts/age-as...
Understanding age assurance accuracy
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PSA. One benefit of having an electric car is it can make parking easier. It's not uncommon to come across a parking lot which is entirely full but has open EV charging spots. More expensive than charging at home but pretty cheap on the "cost of parking" scale.
This week on the newsletter: "How not to mandate device-based age assurance" educatedguesswork.org/posts/device... In this post, we examine a number of enacted or proposed requirements for device-based age assurance and some of the ways they can go wrong.
How not to mandate device-based age assurance
Software design by legal mandate
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Some real map/territory confusion in this report by the LA Marathon to give people medals if they drop out after 18 miles (because it's hot). The finisher's medal commemorates that you finished, but it doesn't make you a finisher. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/u...
Now up on the newsletter: Let's build a tool-using agent In this post, I walk through in some detail how AI agent tool calling works, including digging into the inputs and outputs of the LLM before they get translated into a coherent-looking JS API. educatedguesswork.org/posts/tool-c...
📣 New from KGI: Age Assurance Online explores how age assurance systems work and their tradeoffs in accuracy, circumvention, availability, and privacy. A must-read for policymakers, service providers + users to understand the consequences of these systems: kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and...
Age Assurance Online: A Technical Assessment of Current Systems and their Limitations – Knight-Georgetown Institute
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Now up, part II in my series about transparency systems: Certificate Transparency in Reality educatedguesswork.org/posts/transp...
Welcome to Bluesky @rtfm.com ! Folks might recognize EKR from such hits as TLS 1.3, Let's Encrypt, and being Firefox CTO. He also writes a really good blog. Y'all should all follow him.
Eric Rescorla@rtfm.com · 3y agoHello Blue Sky! Check out first post in my series on transparency systems. educatedguesswork.org/posts/transp...
Hello Blue Sky! Check out first post in my series on transparency systems. educatedguesswork.org/posts/transp...