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• What Was Matt Thinking?
• Don Marti
• PACT: Anonymous Credentials for the Web
• Keeping the Web Open and Private in the Bot Era
• In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
• Mozilla Privacy Blog: Building Competitive Digital Markets: From Rules to Results
• https://business.adobe.com/blog/perspectives/event-forwarding-the-easy-way-getting-started-with-adobe-real-time-cdp-and-meta-conversions-api
• EU Member States (and Google) suddenly want to keep cookie banners!
• There is minimal downside to switching to open models
• Traditional advertising is dead, says the marketer who cut Mastercard's ad budget by 70%
• https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/platform-learn/implement-in-websites/configure-tags/add-embed-code
• https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-madrid-built-its-metro-cheaply/
• https://captaincompliance.com/education/allison-v-phh-mortgage-the-ruling-that-just-made-tracking-pixels-a-ccpa-problem/
• Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel–backed verification software after its code was found tied to U.S. surveillance efforts
• How Wrong We Were
• Don Marti
• Don Marti
• #MetaPlatforms
• #WhatsApp
• What AI is about to expose about programmatic advertising
• Sixty percent of US consumers say ‘AI’ in brand messaging is a turnoff, survey finds
• Montana’s SB535 and a Potential Biotech Renaissance in America
• Reddit ads pose as news stories to promote AI investment scams
• Big Tech Is a Thief and a Liar, Says New York Times Publisher
• Don Marti
• Don Marti
• Trump administration reverses decision to scrap ocean monitoring system
• Meta's CTO says morale is almost 'the worst it's ever been'
• Digital Omnibus Article 88b needs to be about contract, not just consent
• You Should Make Cross Views
• Privacy as Property?
• Privacy as Property?
• https://web.archive.org/web/20260602202659/https%3A//www.centralcontrol.com/news-posts/2026/5/9/qampa-marti-amp-bruner-discuss-the-problematic-w3c-proposed-measurement-standard-attribution-level-1
• Quartz countertops are driving a public health crisis in the US – 2 occupational health experts explain the surge of lung transplants and lawsuits
• ‘It’s literally the gulag’: inside the revolt at Meta’s AI unit, where elite engineers were drafted to label data
• Quote Origin: Punks Are Basically Nice People Pretending To Be Mean, Whereas Hippies Are Mean People Pretending To Be Nice
• Ads Evading Pi-hole with iOS 27
• Fox to Broadcast Networks: I Dare You to Leave!
• Personal AI Trust Agent (PAITA): The User-Side Counterweight to Surveillance Infrastructure
• The Retweeting Class
• Open Source vs the Invisible Hand
• THE GREAT RENEWABLES SWINDLE?
• ‘Agrivoltaics’ can both power AI data centres and increase food production — new study
• Hugh Jackman plays Robin Hood as wicked – it’s a badly timed take on the hero of the poor
• Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges
• PyTheory Playground
• Don Marti
• #books
• #linux
• #library
• “Are prediction markets causing more harm than good?”
• Has AI Already Killed How-To Nonfiction? Sales Trends, My Personal Data, and What It Might Mean for the Future
• AI and Killing People's Pets
• Your candy ads are about to get a lot more personalized, Mars says
• Jingles Jangled.
• Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
• The Paradox Of Personalization: Billions Of AI-Tailored Ads Creates A Measurement Mess
• Leaving Mozilla
• Don Marti
• a new investigation
• Don Marti
• Improvements to Web for AI Should Benefit All Users
• It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests
• Don Marti
• Don Marti
• #ageVerification
• Don Marti
• #w3c
• #firefox
• #mozilla
• https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1408
• KPMG fabricated AI case studies in a report designed to sell clients on AI adoption
• An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt
• Don Marti
• #RSS
• The Cases That Don’t Exist
• https://www.svggenie.com/blog/svg-not-showing-in-browser
• https://alexplescan.com/posts/2023/07/08/easy-svg-sparklines/
• Don Marti
• Andor and Authoritarianism
• News deserts aren’t just a journalism problem. They’re costing taxpayers $1.1 billion a year.
• A Handful of Companies Control the Web. AICOA Can Change That.
• Pluralistic: The world has moved on (11 Jun 2026)
• Please I Beg of You Do Not Use “AI” In Your Business Communications
• New Scientist
• Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google
• Digital Sovereignty Becomes An Imparative As the US Reads Dutch Emails
• Don Marti
• #Sacramento
• #SanFrancisco
• #it
• https://calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/Jobs/JobPosting.aspx?JobControlId=519949
• Valve kills its retail gift card program due to scammers
• Valve is phasing out physical Steam gift cards due to scammers
• How Wise is the Crowd in Prediction Markets
• Dancing on the Sand – California Grunion in San Francisco Bay
• https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/nobody-needs-ai-to-search-the-internet-court-says-in-ruling-against-google/?utm_brand=arstechnica
• The rise of prediction markets is creating new ethical headaches for journalists
• https://bind.media/insights/comparing-sgtm-and-the-meta-capi-gateway-the-infrastructure-behind-your-marketing-signals
• Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
• How States Can Use Consumer Protection Laws to Fight AI Fraud and Fakery
• Meta will use your activity on other websites to personalize your feeds
• Don Marti
• Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.
• The hilarious, extremely convincing proposal to make a beaver emoji.
• VICTORY: Meta Strips Facial Recognition Code From Smart Glasses App After Public Outcry
• Google’s AI opt-out leaves publishers with a choice they can’t safely use
• https://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/04/mika_model_a_new_short_story_from_paolo_bacigalupi.html
• http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
• Ukraine Is Not Losing. Russia Is Not Winning.
• https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/story/opinion/columns/2026/04/25/consumer-data-privacy-act-helps-ma-small-business-consumers-opinion/89719432007/
• https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/publishers-ditch-google-search-addiction-or-die/
• The circus freaks of open source
• Distributed terrorism as ARG
• ChatGPT Needs to Launch Its Own Version of Google Analytics
• Europe's New Tech Strategy Puts Open Source Front and Centre
• Exclusive: Americans Now Overwhelmingly Oppose New Data Centers Near Them
• Advertising's 'most hated man' is back with a new warning for CMOs
• https://www.fastcompany.com/3047828/who-needs-gps-the-forgotten-story-of-etaks-amazing-1985-car-navigation-system
• https://experimental.beehiiv.com/p/uber-saved-35m-ads
• https://thewalrus.ca/the-internet-has-become-too-american-to-trust/
• https://veronicaexplains.net/my-first-writerdeck/
• systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success
• This Blog Post is Your Sign to Start Self-Hosting
• You Don't Love systemd Timers Enough
• Don Marti
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07912
• Enshittification, Despotification, and the Open Internet
• Don Marti
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.161
• The W3C Is Making A Critical Mistake About Measuring Advertising Effectiveness
• Don Marti
• #advertising
• #oligopoly
• #enshittification
• #BoingBoing
• Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor
• My Students Can't Read
• The UK CMA says publishers in the country will be allowed to opt out of Google AI search results, giving the company nine months to implement the changes
• State Consumer Privacy Laws Are Being Corrupted by Lobbying
• European Parliament ditches Google for French search firm over privacy concerns
• 4,000-year-old Mohenjo-daro study finds ancient city grew more equal over time
• Beyond the Banner: Universal Opt‑Outs, Consent Fatigue, and the End of the Cookie Pop‑Up Era
• Don Marti
• Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
• #surprisedPikachu
• Google Encloses The Web
• State Consumer Privacy Laws Are Being Corrupted by Lobbying
• Politico
• Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts
• The Lying Machine
• https://medium.com/%40sylwestermielniczuk/the-casino-of-attention-adtech-did-not-improve-the-internet-06d95f7d1105
• https://postie.com/blog/browser-native-attribution-will-kill-your-brand-budget-unless-you-measure-what-it-cant-see/
• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/fake-restaurant-tips-on-reddit-a-reminder-of-google-ai-overviews-inherent-flaws/
• Meta-Institutions Matter Most
• ★ What Is a Dickover?
• Slate’s new privacy policy is a dumpster fire
• Apple added a second ad to App Store search results. My downloads stayed flat, my costs doubled
• The Effects of Another Ad in iOS App Store Search
• Alameda Naval Air Museum’s Future Up in the Air
• Test software tells code bots ‘delete me’ — AI bros outraged
• The SpaceX IPO works like a crypto fraud, but with AI
• Micropayments for news have failed everywhere. Can they succeed in Kenya?
• Revenge of The Business Idiot
• Disarm AI, yes, but Pope Leo XIV was just getting started – a tech journalist reads Magnifica Humanitas
• Wrench Attacks
• Disarm AI, yes, but Pope Leo XIV was just getting started
• The Invisible Cost of “Dirty Data
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mozilla-corporation_standing-up-for-fair-competition-and-real-activity-7465819187370692608-H-jv
• The Costco theory of the internet
• Have a Seat.
• Just Fucking Use Go
• Pope Leo to AI bros: Just stop it
• The Balloon Bubble: Miltech Sheep Are Late to the Parade (Again)
• https://www.socure.com/blog/world-war-fraud-ai-identity-crime
• Pirated Sports Streams Are Warping TV’s Most Important Ratings
• Don Marti
• ‘Be very pessimistic of advertising studies’
• When “make it visible” is the wrong approach
• “Morally repugnant shortsightedness”: Why open source security leaders say companies must stop freeloading on maintainers
• From Open Source Software to Open Source Strategy
• https://www.nzscapital.com/sitalweek/open-source-semiconductors
• ACM Queue
• https://maniksurtani.substack.com/p/yes-china-is-subsidising-the-worlds?r=k2817
• Before You Invest in Crypto, Watch This Film
• Q&A: Marti & Bruner discuss the problematic W3C proposed measurement standard ‘Attribution Level 1’
• article on Medium by Adrian Găitan
• The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech
• Texas Attorney General Sues Meta, Claiming It Is Lying About WhatsApp’s End-to-End Encryption
• Can we start measuring the conversion-rate from paid contributor to unpaid?
• no slop grenade
• Don Marti
• Don Marti
• On Google declaring war on the Web
• How America Turned Against AI According to the Poll Data: A (Very Big) Compilation
• There's an insider group betting 'almost exclusively' on imminent U.S. military actions
• I Feel For Those Laid Off by Meta, and Why More Must Go
• Ad Infinitum
• Texas AG sues Meta over claims that WhatsApp doesn't provide end-to-end encryption
• Don Marti
• #retrocomputing
• #disenshittification
• https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/116619130935119413
• Don Marti
• Don Marti
• Don Marti
• AT&T sues California in attempt to shut off old phone network
• ‘How Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart’
• Google is replacing search results with only the AI
• Don Marti
• The ‘warrior ethos’ promises victory — history says it leads to defeat
• Don Marti
• Google is going to ruin the internet
• https://ctmirror.org/2026/05/04/consumer-data-privacy-regulation-ct-house/
• Why micropayments can't save news
• What does the LiveRamp deal mean for brands?
• https://www.cjchilvers.com/blog/why-i-went-back-to-buying-cds-and-you-should-too/
• https://www.bbh-labs.com/puncturing-the-paradox-group-cohesion-and-the-generational-myth/
• The Bookstore is Reading You
• Don Marti
• Massive Crypto ATM Company Bitcoin Depot Is Shutting Down as the Whole Industry Collapses
• Don Marti
• ‘Identity is the qualifier for AI’: Publicis’ $2.2 billion LiveRamp deal is a bet that whoever controls the data owns the AI era
• Who’s behind the Facebook page posting hateful AI slop about the UK? The answer might lie in south Asia | Niamh McIntyre
• ‘Moved that drop dead date’: Omnicom accelerates LiveRamp exit after Publicis deal
• https://www.marketingweek.com/adidas-marketing-effectiveness/
• https://medium.com/%40adelborky/the-greatest-trick-big-tech-ever-pulled-on-marketers-9ef83ca71dc5
• https://www.euractiv.com/news/european-social-media-newbies-step-forward-as-users-drift-from-x/
• https://www.thestateofbrand.com/news/ai-subscription-price-subsidiation-ending
• NHPR’s report
• https://www.networklawreview.org/acemoglu-johnson/
• https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/disable-google-gemini/
• Don Marti
• #adBlocking
• https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1tc45us/adshield_issue_with_a_local_website/
• Don Marti
• What the OSS Summit Says About OSS in 2026
• What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: What Are 'Grabavoi Numbers'?
• You Can Have Any Color You Want — As Long As It’s Black
• https://ftw.fund/
• The Enshittification of History
• Don Marti
• Don Marti
• https://www.inp.net.pk/news-detail/pak-china/gwadar-witnesses-soaring-sale-of-chinese-solar-systems
• Publicis Acquires LiveRamp For $2.2B
• ‘I Don’t Think I’m A Data Broker’ Is Not A Defense
• The (Uncertain) Future of Media
• Let’s Re-Do the Math on Ukraine
• Stop Chrome Browser From Downloading a Hidden 4GB AI File
• Don Marti
• #winning
• #dataDrivenMarketing
• https://limestonepost.org/today-in-bloomington-not-local-newsletter/
• In Defense of Operation Market Garden
• https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/09/google-lobbying/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20180801095059/https%3A//www.marketingweek.com/2018/06/13/john-hegarty-great-advertising/
• an entirely new form of warfare
• Open and Closed: The Pursuit of Frontier Models
• https://www.makeuseof.com/replaced-chrome-arc-opera-and-firefox-with-one-free-open-source-browser/
• https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/amazon-accused-of-selling-fake-copies-of-nyt-bestselling-book
• https://davetrott.co.uk/2024/03/greedflation/
• Square Peg in a Round Hole: AirPower against Mobile Targets and Missiles
• What, actually, is European Civilization?
• Don Marti
• https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc419
• Browsers Treat Big Sites Differently
• Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds
• https://rdi.berkeley.edu/blog/trustworthy-benchmarks-cont/
• The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
• https://proton.me/blog/what-is-your-data-worth-to-google
• Don Marti
• #California
• #GovernmentJob
• #job
• https://calcareers.ca.gov/CalHRPublic/Search/JobSearchResults.aspx#kw=CalPrivacy
• How Dangerous Is Anthropic’s Mythos AI?
• Pulitzer-winning newsrooms are quietly publishing mountains of gambling slop
• https://www.mi-3.com.au/09-05-2026/when-marketers-chase-cheap-reach-consumers-noticed-ttd-study-says-ad-clutter-repetition
• Finding Studs Used to be Torture Until I Spent $12 on a StudPop
• https://www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/nasa-releases-powerful-lava-software-to-us-aerospace-industry/
• Santa Clara County sues Meta, alleging tech giant profited from scam ads
• Search Ads as a Vector for Travel Scams
• Leftunders
• Don Marti
• OpenAI Sued Over ChatGPT Medical Advice That Allegedly Killed College Student
• Large Study Finds That Replacing Workers With AI Is Backfiring Badly
• https://courtneyradsch.substack.com/p/meta-must-negotiate-with-publishers?r=2nzssq
• Graduation Speaker Shocked When She’s Loudly Booed by Students for Saying AI Is the Future
• Position or Perish: The Narrative Blueprint
• Don Marti
• #dataBrokers
• #DROP
• #calPrivacy
• https://alamedafree.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=351893
• Putin’s War Comes Home to Moscow
• To maintain their independence, publishers are fleeing Substack
• WordPress powers 47% of the web. Now it's more social, too
• Divergent Thinkers Are the Real Heros
• The Price of Free: What Big Tech Really Thinks You’re Worth
• https://overturned.substack.com/p/senators-to-zuckerberg-answer-for
• https://support.google.com/marketingplatform/answer/15732590?hl=en
• Santa Clara County sues Meta over scam ads on Facebook and Instagram
• Oracle Forced to Cancel Incredibly Polluting Natural Gas Plant to Power AI Data Center
• Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax
• Sony's failed war against Internet piracy may doom other copyright lawsuits
• Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags
• An Approaching Crisis
• https://thenextweb.com/news/imagine-a-world-where-news-sites-drop-display-ads-it-might-not-be-that-far-away
• https://www.adexchanger.com/data-driven-thinking/apples-upcoming-safari-changes-will-shake-ad-tech/
• Mythos finds a curl vulnerability
• https://onezero.medium.com/revenge-of-the-chickenized-reverse-centaurs-b2e8d5cda826
• Don Marti
• #privacyLabor
• #MyTerms
• Checkmate in Iran
• https://webwideopen.com/interview-with-rory-sutherland-part-2/
• https://webwideopen.com/the-future-of-advertising-a-conversation-with-rory-sutherland/
• https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2026-03-24-a-week-in-gas-town/
• Advertising's new 'safety' fight
• How dangerous is Anthropic’s Mythos AI? | Bruce Schneier
• Google Softens Chrome’s On-Device AI Pledge as 4GB Model Downloads Quietly
• Meat Industry Price Fixer Sentenced to Make Money
• Pluralistic: Trump's fruitless search for a goreable ox (09 May 2026)
• Russia doesn’t have much to celebrate on Victory Day, as Ukraine brings the war home to Putin
• https://gamma.app/docs/The-Shift-Redefining-Value-in-the-AI-Era-60hr4sq7w7lpbyb?mode=doc
• https://zgp.org/
• Chrome's 4GB AI model isn't new, but you're not wrong for being confused
• Spending Just 10 Minutes With AI Can Fry Your Brain, Researchers Find
• https://home.cern/computer-security-block-ads-stay-clean/
• The agent principal-agent problem
• https://ferd.ca/my-blog-engine-is-the-erlang-build-tool.html
• The Real WPP Story Is in the Margin, Not the Revenue
• One Difference Makes All the Difference
• GitHub is sinking
• Don Marti
• The 81st Birthday Gift
• Section 230 Wasn’t Written for This
• Court rules Trump's 10% tariff is just as illegal as the tariff it replaced
• California Just Sent a $12.75 Million Message About Your Car’s Data
• Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview
• GM fined under CCPA for selling CA driver data without consent
• Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos have "almost no false positives"
• Don Marti
• Don Marti
• #CalPrivacy
• #deleteAct
• #cppa
• #cpra
• #ccpa
• #event
• #local
• #california
• #alameda
• https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/07/chrome-silently-installs-a-4-gb-local-llm-on-your-computer/5230893
• https://marketingaccountability.substack.com/p/digital-advertising-is-a-casino-pretending
• A Publisher Didn’t Get Its UID2 Setup Right. The Trade Desk Didn’t Notice. What Went Wrong?
• article
• https://gmk.center/en/posts/chinas-path-to-carbon-free-steel/
• Turn Off ChatGPT’s New Ad Tracking
• Richard Dawkin’s Claude Delusion
• https://onlinesafety.substack.com/p/turn-off-chatgpts-new-ad-tracking?r=233e75
• https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprecation-policy-is-killing-you-ee7525dc05dc
• https://gizmodo.com/stop-letting-google-get-away-with-it-1846414787
• App Store Search Ads and the Slippery Slope
• Solex Energy plans 5 GW solar cell factory in India
• https://font.subf.dev/en/
• https://www.404media.co/unauthorized-edit-to-ukraines-frontline-maps-point-to-polymarkets-war-betting/
• Stories That Matter: Advertising has reached peak self-delusion
• https://www.techpolicy.press/tech-policy-is-on-the-front-line-of-fascism-vs-democracy-pick-a-side/
• https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1
• https://www.adweek.com/social-marketing/meta-has-made-child-exploitation-a-cost-of-doing-business/
• https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/magazine/placebo-effect-medicine.html
• https://bobsullivan.net/cybercrime/criminals-impersonate-doctor-with-deepfake-ads-sell-supplements-could-you-tell/
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-24/the-overparked-states-of-america
• https://digiday.com/marketing/ad-retargeters-trying-work-around-gdpr-apple/
• https://www.adexchanger.com/data-driven-thinking/privacy-enforcement-crossed-a-line-in-2025-and-theres-no-going-back/
• https://www.adexchanger.com/the-sell-sider/a-subprime-content-crisis/
• https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2023/08/28/court-backs-data-protection-commission-over-google-inquiry/
• https://digiday.com/media/a-running-list-of-publisher-lawsuits-targeting-googles-ad-tech-practices/
• https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-zelenskyy-visits-saudi-arabia-putin-weighs-g20-attendance/a-76928614
• https://themarkup.org/privacy/2026/04/21/websites-break-california-privacy-law-at-industrial-scale-survey-finds
• https://theconversation.com/why-meta-is-in-trouble-in-nigeria-and-what-this-means-for-facebook-instagram-and-whatsapp-users-257048
• https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/media-mix-digital-saturation-longterm-growth-evidence-fou-pluve/
• https://www.warc.com/en/article/broad-reach-awareness-not-hyper-targeted-digital-is-what-drove-consistent-revenue-growth-over-the-last-15-years-2c600936054044f895051b8956bea69e
• https://www.fortressofdoors.com/ad-blockers-and-the-four-currencies/
• https://www.kyivpost.com/post/73593
• https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2194256/ukraine-nasa-martian-killer-drones-laws-physics
• https://www.backstoryandstrategy.com/p/pittsburgh-post-gazette-saved-from-what
• https://skepchick.org/2025/08/did-this-kid-use-ai-to-fake-research-about-how-great-ai-is/
• https://lastweekilearned.com/2025/04/01/week-4-of-march-2025-big-tech-gets-a-check-up/
• https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-companies-ruining-apps-websites-internet-worse-google-facebook-amazon-2023-3
• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/e89454f2330bb964
• https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/Online-Exclusive/2025-OLE/The-Coming-Blitzkrieg/
• https://monopoly-report.com/p/are-gpc-signals-anti-competitive
• https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/04/17/app-store-scams-are-getting-worse-and-apple-isnt-doing-enough
• https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee3932
• https://lifehacker.com/tech/this-android-malware-is-attacking-smart-home-devices
• https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/09/court-fetishizes-facebooks-tos-statement-that-it-takes-appropriate-content-moderation-actions-calise-v-meta.htm
• https://home.web.cern.ch/news/news/computing/computer-security-block-ads-stay-clean
• “Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone else”
• https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/two-americans-sentenced-for-helping-north-korea-steal-5-million-in-fake-it-worker-scheme/
• https://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-wont-let-big-tech-hide-behind-first-amendment-anymore-opinion-2091253
• https://www.w3.org/policies/antitrust-2024/
• https://www.adweek.com/agencies/ftc-cracks-down-on-ad-giants-over-alleged-brand-safety-collusion/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20180215164857/https%3A//www.spectator.co.uk/2018/02/reducing-activities-to-their-core-misses-the-point/
• https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/03/those-meddling-kids-the-reverse-scooby-doo-theory-of-tech-innovation-comes-with-the-excuses-baked-in/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20131031020612/http%3A//www.marketingmag.com.au/blogs/surveillance-marketing-isnt-right-for-brand-or-audience-43190/
• https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/g-s1-27676/tiktok-redacted-documents-in-teen-safety-lawsuit-revealed
• https://sourcegraph.com/blog/cheating-is-all-you-need
• https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-created-playbook-fend-off-pressure-crack-down-scammers-documents-show-2025-12-31/
• https://www.vox.com/2021/11/18/22783108/federalist-society-capitalism-woke-corporations-milton-friedman-supreme-court-judiciary-judges
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/09/the-eu-has-a-secret-weapon-to-counter-trumps-economic-bullying-its-time-to-use-it
• https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-tells-strangers-it-owns-my-phone-number-whatsapp-2024-8
• https://maarthandam.com/2025/12/25/salesforce-regrets-firing-4000-staff-ai/
• https://www.honest-broker.com/p/5-ways-to-stop-ai-cheating
• https://www.afterbabel.com/p/how-metas-lawyers-perfected-the-playbook
• Apple is getting serious about ads
• https://www.inma.org/blogs/ideas/post.cfm/3-swedish-publishers-support-decision-to-expel-meta-from-iab-sweden-membership
• https://web.archive.org/web/20250918005720/https%3A//www.agencyhackers.com/dont-be-evil/
• Five major publishers are suing Meta over Llama. They have evidence that the previous plaintiffs did not.
• Largest Russian Oil Refinery Catches Fire After Drone Strike in Leningrad Region
• Don Marti
• https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-05-05/a-devout-muslim-in-pakistan-is-making-a-living-from-islamophobic-ai-slop
• #Mozilla
• Don Marti
• Five Publishers and Scott Turow Sue Meta and Mark Zuckerberg
• Heat pump sales rise 17% across Europe in Q1 as energy prices surge
• ‘Noir, Japan’s Hard-Boiled Bittersweet Answer to Oreos’
• Nearly 20 US state-run health insurance exchanges include ad trackers that send user data like race and citizenship info to companies like Meta, TikTok, Google
• AMD is adding HDMI 2.1 support for Linux. That's good news for the Steam Machine.
• 'Nature' Retracts Paper on the Benefits of ChatGPT in Education
• New Components and Foreign Parts Manufactured in 2025 Discovered in Shahed Drones
• Usage-based pricing killing your vibe, here's how to roll your own local AI
• Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
• How To Follow Jesus—Without the Church
• Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion
• Curing U.S. Health Care, Part II
• The question nobody asked Zuckerberg
• Meet all 37 White House ballroom donors funding the $400 million build, including Silicon Valley tech giants, crypto bros and the Lutnicks
• Criminals impersonate doctor with deepfake ads, sell supplements
• https://www.techpolicy.press/congresss-new-privacy-bill-is-built-on-empty-promises/
• AlamedaPost.com and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
• Local Small Language Models in the Browser: A First Glance at Chrome’s Built-in AI and Prompt API with Gemini Nano
• https://navigator.indicator.media/
• The more young people use AI, the more they hate it
• Adobe’s ‘Modern’ User Interface Is Just Webpages
• A Disastrous Federal Privacy Bill
• On Prediction Market Regulation
• Don Marti
• Advertiser-Agency Relationships Have Become Too Combative, and No One Benefits
• The Attribution Cartel
• California Privacy Protection Agency Releases Letter Opposing the SECURE Data Act
• GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown
• Consumers lost $2.1B to social media scams in 2025, FTC reports
• Aftermath: California Gas Prices Are Up, and It’s Not Just the War
• Half of AI health answers are wrong even though they sound convincing – new study
• Even PayPal Ads Has Its Own ID Now
• Ghost In The Machine has launched!
• ADOPTING THE ST. PAUL PRINCIPLES
• Update on CC Signals: What Changed and Why
• AI as a Fascist Artifact
• My Best Idea: Decision Markets
• China Builds 80% of the World’s Audio Gear Including Heritage Brands You’d Never Suspect, Says Top Hi-Fi Insider
• How Digital Marketing Technology Broke Democracy:
• Copyright and DMCA Best Practices for Fediverse Operators
• Why I Hate Paul (And The Religion He Made Up)
• Does The New Federal Data Privacy Bill Have A Snowball’s Chance Of Passing?
• Don Marti
• Don Marti
• ‘The damage is done’: global oil crisis has changed fossil fuel industry for ever, IEA chief says | Oil | The Guardian
• Don Marti
• Don Marti
• An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
• AI traders are already testing prediction markets—and losing money
• Firefox browser has started shipping Brave's adblock-rust engine
• Don Marti
• https://ember-energy.org/latest-updates/chinese-solar-exports-double-in-a-month-to-hit-record-high-amid-energy-crisis/
• Don Marti
• Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want
• https://www.semafor.com/article/04/23/2026/chinese-solar-exports-hit-record-high-in-march
• https://www.propublica.org/article/walmart-financial-services-became-fraud-magnet-gift-cards-money-laundering
• Don Marti
• https://flipboard.com/@axiosnews/politics-o9rs3homz/-/a-FZ-2UUjcS7KEu3-VV2ebaw%3Aa%3A2150299410-%2F0
• Crypto scam lures ships into Strait of Hormuz, falsely promising safe passage
• This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men
• Don Marti
• #attributionCartel
• Don Marti
• In Interesting Times, Who Cares Wins
• https://techjusticelaw.org/press-releases/meta_scam_ads_lawsuit/
• Grievance Poisoning in the First Degree
• What Happens When The Attribution Cartel Meets Advertising’s Halo Effect?
• https://www.westwoodone.com/blog/2026/04/13/marketers-vastly-understate-the-sales-effect-of-creative-and-significantly-overestimate-the-impact-of-targeting-3/
• Why A 1967 Privacy Law Is Powering A New Wave Of Ad Tech Lawsuits
• Adobe Has Rid Itself of Its Allies
• Quiet Mode
• Jaron Schneider
• https://suewallst.com/lawsuits/oddity-tech-ltd-class-action-lawsuit-odd
• A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale
• The Internet Archive is not "in peril". Stop doing its PR, and start doing some journalism
• Don Marti
• #security
• #privacy
• #adblocking
• Don Marti
• Objection AI: venture capital tries to block bad press
• Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies
• https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2019/12/18/how-to-give-a-good-apology-part-1-the-four-parts-of-accountability/
• https://organizingmythoughts.org/rss/
• How Silicon Valley Humiliated the Democrats
• Journalists champion Wayback Machine after news publishers limit article archiving
• The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Psychological Hazards
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jennifer-l-vercellone-esq-12a75b26_privacy-consentmode-googleanalytics-share-7450683193483075584-G2j5
• Fraudulent Cryptocurrency App in Mac App Store Stole $9.5 Million From 50-Some Users
• Freecash Was More Like Scamcash
• Thomson Reuters Fired Worker For Speaking Out About ICE, Former Employee Says
• The Wall Street Journal Wonders Why There Are Suddenly So Many Sleazy Fees
• Peak absurdity, Part II
• What Australia must learn from Ukraine about drone technology and the future of warfare
• Meta Is Launching An Easy Button For CAPI
• Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat
• Ad Tech’s Bielefeld Problem: What If None of It Is Real?
• Someone Filed a Bogus DMCA Notice to Kill a Story About A Sketchy SEO Firm. It Worked — Briefly.
• https://www.kqed.org/news/12079887/what-is-the-point-of-californias-privacy-laws-if-big-tech-ignores-them
• In the face of rampant AI, is ‘data poisoning’ a new form of civil disobedience?
• WebXRay Audit Finds Opt-Out Tracking Requests Are Not Honoured
• Cookies, Whether You Want Them Or Not; Feeding The ‘Industry Plants’
• For Google Advertisers Who Overpaid The Monopoly – Don’t Hate, Arbitrate
• The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Work
• Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit
• https://united24media.com/latest-news/for-the-first-time-ukrainian-unmanned-systems-capture-russian-position-without-infantry-or-losses-17874
• The new rules for AI-assisted code in the Linux kernel: What every dev needs to know
• Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable
• https://www.airandspaceforces.com/drone-incursions-b-52-base-strategic-installations/
• How Austin’s stunning drop in rents explains housing in America
• Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found
• https://www.seismic.org/blog/we-ve-seen-this-movie-before-what-history-tells-us-about-ai-s-%E2%80%98inevitability%E2%80%99-argument
• Let’s talk about LLMs
• You can absolutely have an RSS dependent website in 2026
• Nowhere Is Safe
• The Evolution of Deception: When Scams Stop Looking Like Scams
• Why Privacy Compliance Won't Save Us
• Three reasons to think that the Claude Mythos announcement from Anthropic was overblown
• EFF is Leaving X
• The Case Against Social Media: Seven Lines of Evidence
• https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FTC-2023-0047-0066
• France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
• Vulnerability research is cooked
• Here’s my favorite story so far this week
• [$] A flood of useful security reports
• https://bexelbie.com/2026/04/01/whats-in-a-sashiko-review
• ProPublica journalists walk off the job in first U.S. newsroom strike over AI
• April 8, 2026
• Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years
• https://vsquare.org/orban-spying-toolkit-cobwebs-webloc-hungary-spyware-citizen-lab/
• What should we take from Anthropic’s (possibly) terrifying new report on Mythos?
• Consumer electronics are innovative but lack imagination
• Analysis Finds That Google’s AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
• https://reversemediaschedules.com/
• College Students Losing Ability to Participate in Class Discussions Because Due to Offloading Their Thinking to AI
• What’s Actually in a Sashiko Review?
• Anthropic's Restraint Is a Terrifying Warning Sign
• https://www.zdnet.com/article/maybe-open-source-needs-ai/
• AMD AI director says Claude Code is becoming dumber and lazier since update
• https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/server-side-tracking-to-shape-future-of-pixel-privacy-litigation
• Why Geo RCTs Beat User-Level Tests for Ad Sales Measurement
• Fox is the latest to add prediction markets as a new ‘data layer’ for news coverage
• Introducing headers.dev
• Why Is the New York Times Laundering the Reputation of a Sleazy AI Startup That’s Selling GLP-1s via a Dishonest Dumpster Fire of Fake Doctors, Phony Before-and-After Pictures, a Warning From the FDA, and Other Glaring Red Flags?
• Trump Is Putting America’s Weaknesses on Display
• Hackers breached the European Commission by poisoning the security tool it used to protect itself
• [$] Sharing stories on Scuttlebutt
• Dawn’s refill jug got an ergonomic makeover
• It's open season for refusing AI
• What Regulators Talk About When They Talk About Ad Tech
• Why We’re Removing Our Programmatic Ads
• https://www.zdnet.com/article/investment-scam-paid-social-media-ads/
• The invisible problem
• Introduction - What is BrowserGate?
• Alameda’s ICE Response
• Philippines accelerates grid entry for 1.28 GW of solar
• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/06/opus-dei-gareth-gore-pope-leo
• The back story behind the first “$1.8 Billion” dollar “AI Company”
• The Nail Test: Why this $54 billion innovation is terrifying Western auto executives
• Meta freezes AI data work after breach puts training secrets at risk
• Embattled startup Delve has ‘parted ways’ with Y Combinator
• https://createsend.com/t/d-E2683A4BF592FC2F2540EF23F30FEDED
• Go Ahead and Use AI. It Will Only Help Me Dominate You.
• What does Open Source mean?
• NOISE COMPLAINT: How Data Tracking Technology Must Be Shown
• Newsmedia is the original everything app
• Trump ignores biggest reasons his AI data center buildout is failing
• https://www.webpronews.com/polymarkets-social-feed-experiment-is-turning-a-prediction-market-into-a-misinformation-machine/
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140673626004642
• The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs
• Microsoft-Owned LinkedIn Allegedly Fingerprints Visitors and Scans Installed Chrome Extensions
• https://decoded.legal/blog/2026/03/what-number-of-uk-users-constitutes-a-significant-number-for-the-purposes-of-the-online-safety-act-2023/
• https://bobsullivan.net/cybercrime/gas-station-hero-stops-crypto-kiosk-scams-again-and-again/
• WHERE DID IT ALL GO WRONG? (IT NEVER STOPS)
• Cooking Barbacoa... and the Dog in the Ad
• Life Altering Postgresql Patterns
• Australia says Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube are not complying with its child social media ban. Court action may follow.
• https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading
• Iran’s Revolutionary Guards just named 18 US tech firms as military targets. The age of the civilian data centre is over.
• How the Silicon Valley sneaker that was once worth $4 billion ended up selling for $39M
• Publish And Be Damned
• https://houseofsaud.com/iran-war-ai-psychosis-sycophancy-rlhf/
• https://taikundigital.com/blog/google-is-robbing-you/
• How Thomson Reuters Powers ICE and Palantir
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cost-testing-vs-being-wrong-rick-bruner-gewce/
• The Myth of the Unwanted Internet
• Why Have Most Advertisers Suffered From Slow Brand Growth Rates Since 2009? Ten Major Reasons
• Zuck Says AI Will Make Advertising So Good Its Share of GDP Will Grow. Is That Really Possible?
• Judge throws out Musk’s advertising boycott lawsuit against X’s former sponsors
• Nonprofit news outlets had a strong traffic month in January
• 'Opening up air defense market' — Defense Minister Fedorov reports 1st drone shootdown by 'private sector' air defense units
• https://theonion.com/fbi-uncovers-al-qaeda-plot-to-just-sit-back-and-enjoy-c-1819576375/
• Shopper AIs are here. Who do you advertise to when humans don't shop any more?
• https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/03/new-ftc-data-show-big-jump-reported-losses-fraud-125-billion-2024
• Solar is winning the energy race
• Russia was expecting a windfall from soaring oil prices, but relentless Ukrainian drone attacks are devastating nearly half its export capacity
• Ukraine Seals Billion-Dollar Defense Partnerships with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE
• Third Drone Attack in a Week Hits Ust-Luga Oil Terminal
• Pussy Riot Activists Occupy Ubiquiti Headquarters, Which Supplies 80% of Radio Links for Russian Army
• [$] The many failures leading to the LiteLLM compromise
• AV1’s open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec
• A Different Perspective on the ‘Design Choices’ Social Media Company Verdicts
• No § 230 Immunity for Meta's AI-Generated Ads
• https://uk.themedialeader.com/are-we-monetising-addiction-ad-industry-faces-reckoning-following-social-media-addiction-lawsuit-verdict/
• Elon Musk loses big in court; X boycott perfectly legal
• The coming compute war in Ukraine
• Judge Tosses Musk's WFA Ad Boycott Suit