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• Why We Support the California Opt Me Out Act
• Toolmen
• Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions
• Teachers Are Not OK
• an agentic AI benchmark, already built
• personal AI in the rugpull economy
• largely crap
• a big hassle from the human user point of view
• California Privacy Protection Agency decision in a recent online retailer case
• according to Teaganne Finn and Amanda Downie at IBM
• https://www.techspot.com/news/108043-german-court-takes-stand-against-manipulative-cookie-banners.html
• Long-range drone strikes weakening Russia’s combat ability, senior Ukrainian commander says
• https://vtdigger.org/2025/06/01/vermont-state-legislators-big-tech-doesnt-want-you-to-know-whats-happening-to-your-kids-online-we-do/
• Read the full text of the op-ed on Tech Policy Press.
• The Supreme Court wants to make it easier to build
• PETs and public policy
• Brave1
• other problems
• DesertIslandTest
• internally generated “inferences”
• Privacy Principles
• Google Chrome ad features checklist
• AI look
• https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/2025/05/29/lessons-apology-from-sun-times-ceo-ai-generated-book-list
• Trapping AI
• the #Eurostack, so hot right now
• HELLPIERCERS
• Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI to Predict Where Users Live
• Re: broken promises
• https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-ai-powered-mother-drone-sees-first-combat-use-minister-says/
• https://www.anildash.com/2025/05/27/internet-of-consent/
• Trying to avoid a heart attack, Instagram attacked me with ads
• The Belgian Court of Appeal Rules on the IAB EU TCF
• Make Them Fight! If You Want a More Lethal Military, Have Generals Compete in Wargames
• Caught with Their Hand in the Cookie Jar: CNN’s Privacy Lawsuit is Served Fresh and the Court is Taking a Bite
• 5 Ways to Stop AI Cheating
• Relocating to the Netherlands with DAFT
• Historic Kaisei Ship Sinks at Dock by Nob Hill Foods, Motor Oil Found in Water
• Endless growth, endless harm: Facebook is a symptom, not an outlier
• America Turns Its Back on the World
• Empire of office workers strikes back against RTO mandates
• https://aiforensics.org/work/meta-health-ads
• Don't click on that Facebook ad for a text-to-AI-video tool
• A Letter to Europe
• Kohler Doing Damage Control After CEO Admits He Never Uses Toilets
• European Defense Tech brought engineers together for the first time for a hackathon for the front lines in Ukraine
• Kirk Carapezza:
• A Top Antitrust Enforcer Is Open To Prosecuting People Who Disagree With Him
• personalization risks
• previous announcement has been removed
• Google is using AI to censor independent websites like mine
• The Future of Customer Support is Lies, I Guess
• Why Meta is in trouble in Nigeria and what this means for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users
• The Conversation Game
• An Award: Worst State Anti-Privacy Bill of the Year – Senate Bill 690
• The key to a successful egg drop experiment? Drop it on its side
• Google’s AI Mode is ‘the definition of theft,’ publishers say, opt-out was considered
• Utah Study on Trans Youth Care Extremely Inconvenient for Politicians Who Ordered It
• GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slop
• the coming de-enshittification boom
• LibreOffice
• toot from Hugo-award-winning author Charles Stross
• Minimum Viable Curiousity
• legal briefs
• Just a QR Code
• “AI Is Like a Crappy Consultant”
• Reinvent the Wheel
• https://switching.software/
• https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/the-networker-microsoft-shutting-down-email-accounts-of-trumps-foes-should-be-worrying-to-us-all
• How to Disappear
• HaveIBeenPwned
• Nearly a Year Later, Mozilla is Still Promoting OneRep
• Making any integer with four 2s
• DEEP DIVE: Taiwan miltech aims to undermine Chinese components
• Ukraine Drives Next Gen Robotic Warfare
• genocide
• What to Buy from Costco & What to Avoid
• catching the same kinds of complaints over lack of consent as any other adtech
• reinventing Gosplan
• adfraud in the browser thing
• stupid shit
• Antitrust Policy for the Conservative
• been done
• Mark Zuckerberg just declared war on the entire advertising industry
• https://crookedtimber.org/2017/07/21/why-coases-penguin-didnt-fly/
• In 2025, venture capital can’t pretend everything is fine any more
• https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-fraud-facebook-instagram-813363c8
• Authors Are Accidentally Leaving AI Prompts In their Novels
• What makes a tech gadget calm? This certification firm has an 81-point checklist.
• https://scottk.mba/how-to-improve-your-sites-typography/
• June 2025 Best Sellers
• A season on Iocaine
• Apple F$@ks Around with Court Order, Finds Out
• Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
• autoconf makes me think we stopped evolving too soon
• Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist
• Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO
• Democrats still fail to understand what a media that opposes Trump would actually look like
• Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds
• Enterprise Policies for Firefox Customization: A Beginner’s Guide
• Another feed reader score roundup
• I've had a change of heart regarding employee metrics
• Trump’s trade war risks splintering the Internet, experts warn
• KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS
• Remarks on AI from NZ
• https://simplycharlottemason.com/feed/
• https://inkican.com/stl-be-rich-live-poor/
• Chasing the Electric Pangolin Open Thread
• Revisiting The Yes Men
• Assuring an accurate research record | MIT Economics
• The Everything App is a symptom of Nothing Management (part 1)
• Technology is not an end in itself
• why privacy-enhancing advertising technologies failed
• RSS feed
• PET projects or real privacy?
• build reputation
• low-trust economy
• How to make a splash in AI economics: fake your data
• algorithmic discrimination
• RCRA
• Honda case
• lifted its 2019 ban on fingerprinting
• unintended identification techniques
• an IAB Tech Lab report
• Ad Blockers and the Four Currencies
• at FTC PrivacyCon (PDF)
• Jereth et al.
• wrote
• old ad stack
• fingerprinting
• wrapping up
• Lords examine new amendment to data bill to require AI firms declare use of copyrighted content
• How Village Media builds local villages with AI
• Time To Get Serious
• What Do We Do With All This Consumer Rage?
• Meta's still violating GDPR rules with latest plan to train AI on EU user data, says noyb
• The Classroom AI Doom Loop
• The Forced Firefox Terms of Use (ToS) Clickwrap Agreement is Here
• An ex-Google AI ethicist and a UW professor want you to know AI isn't what you think it is
• How Google forced publishers to accept AI scraping as price of appearing in search
• https://behavioralscientist.org/it-isnt-a-replication-crisis-its-a-replication-opportunity/
• Even a Broken Clock Can Lower Drug Prices
• Crypto Is Still for Criming
• Why DO large language models hallucinate?
• The AI Slop Presidency
• Our Slack is dead. Long live Zulip!
• Trump sacked Copyright Office director a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Musk AI plan...
• This Soviet-inspired drone could be Greenland’s greatest defense against Russia—and JD Vance
• Monopoly Round-Up: China Is Not Why America Is Sputtering
• https://mediacat.uk/the-anatomy-of-anatomy-of-humbug-ten-years-on/
• 12 years of Ghost
• Five Takeaways from the Copyright Office’s Controversial New AI Report
• As Klarna flips from AI-first to hiring people again, a new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliver
• Industry groups are not happy about the imminent demise of Energy Star
• https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/from-the-front-line-to-the-freezer-aisle/
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440320301394
• Rage of the Oligarchs Naomi Klein: 'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything
• https://blog.zgp.org/feed.xml
• Pakistani Govt shares game footage as real military action
• https://www.microsoftrecall.com/
• AI Is Not Your Friend
• Do Not Publish Your Designs on the Web with Figma Sites…
• Trump’s Sacking of PCLOB Members Threatens Data Privacy
• ‘We have to get to work and put Europe first. But we are late. Terribly late’
• Innovation is a distraction
• Framework Laptop’s RISC-V board for open source diehards is available for $199
• Examples of Group Madness in Technology
• LibreOffice at the Univention Summit 2025
• Arun Raghavan: PipeWire ♥ Sovereign Tech Agency
• Todo notes as a storm approaches
• Fedora Chooses Forgejo!
• https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/05/power-of-positive-thinking/#the-socialism-of-fools
• Cities Can Cost Effectively Start Their Own Utilities Now
• Why you need a radio (yes, you!)
• It’s Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto
• Mozilla’s New Terms of Use are out of step with Firefox’s Direct Competition
• The Mozilla Firefox New Terms of Use Disaster: What Actually Happened?
• Minimum Viable Curiosity
• Figma Dreamweaver
• Firefox Forever
• Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US
• The Creep (and Creeps) of Fascism.
• Wall Street Tells Google to Break Itself Up
• An improved open source ultrastable precision voltage reference
• Zuckerberg’s Dystopian AI Vision
• Zuck Says AI Will Make Advertising So Good Its Share of GDP Will Grow. Is That Really Possible?
• Data and Firefox Suggest
• Pluralistic: Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again) (07 May 2025)
• Mark Zuckerberg’s AI ad tool sounds like a social media nightmare
• Slop Farmer Boasts About How He Uses AI to Flood Social Media With Garbage to Trick Older Women
• An Interview with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg About AI and the Evolution of Social Media
• When Your Webcam Doesn’t Work: Solving Firefox and PipeWire Issues
• The Weakest Link in AI
• Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI
• Duolingo replaces its contractors with AI, courses with slop
• mlp 4 May 2025
• Report: Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech
• Apple Has To Pull Its “AI” News Synopses Because They Were Routinely Full Of Shit
• European Alternatives
• https://rachbelaid.com/postgres-full-text-search-is-good-enough/
• Pirate Libraries Are Forbidden Fruit for AI Companies. But at What Cost?
• They Said It Couldn’t Be Done
• Ukrainian Drones Flew 500 Miles And, In A Single Strike, Damaged 5% Of Russia’s Oil Refining Capacity
• A bear case for Nvidia: competition from hardware startups, inference-heavy “reasoning” models, DeepSeek’s training and inference efficiency breakthroughs, more
• more
• PETs obfuscate real-world privacy problems such as fraud and algorithmic discrimination
• fine the surveillance business about $50/month
• Internet optimist
• The case against self-closing tags in HTML
• US Blocks Open Source ‘Help’ From These Countries
• Advertisers Aren’t Thrilled With Zuckerberg’s Embrace Of Hate Speech
• Don Marti: remove AI from Google Search on Safari
• remove AI from Google Search on Firefox
• Customize Search Engine
• helpful post on the Apple Community board
• Taleb: IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (Argument Closed)
• Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell ‘hyper personalized’ ads
• upsell
• surveil
• Winners Don’t Use Drugs
• links for 30 April 2025
• new browser buying rules for states?
• time to sharpen your pencils, people
• the Microsoft Windows game Minesweeper caused a moral panic
• turning off browser ad features from the command line
• Fiduciary Duties
• Winners don’t click search ads
• Return of the power user
• Third party cookies must be removed
• The AI jobs crisis is here, now
• Costco’s Kirkland brand is bigger than Nike—and it’s about to get even bigger
• The cost of poison
• The hammer falls on Apple’s malicious-compliance scheme
• Blowing up Bridges in Vilnius: The Tactical Lit Review
• Why I’m getting off US tech
• Polishing your typography with line height units
• A senior Apple exec could be jailed in Epic case; it’s time to end this disaster
• Show HN: Beatsync – perfect audio sync across multiple devices
• A guide to potential liability pitfalls for people running a Mastodon instance
• The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers
• Mozilla Localization (L10N): Lost (and Found) in Translation: My Internship Story
• Europe Has Failed, But Ukraine Might Still Save It
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.09869
• Two Peoples
• https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/biggest-privacy-erosion-in-10-years-on-googles-policy-change-towards-fingerprinting/
• Cyber Criminals Impersonating Employee Self-Service Websites to Steal Victim Information and Funds
• Gamers Nexus out there casually providing the best coverage of tariffs
• https://www.fastcompany.com/91321143/bot-farms-social-media-manipulation
• https://natlawreview.com/article/hashing-it-out-jornayas-data-tech-victory-over-cipa-claims
• https://russ.garrett.co.uk/2024/12/17/online-safety-act-guide/
• Why Individual Rights Can’t Protect Privacy
• My PhD advisor rewrote himself in bash (2010)
• More Than Half of All Google Search Takedowns Now Come from Link-Busters
• Chromium - Policy List
• See What WebAssembly Can Do in 2025
• Congestion Tolls versus Congestion Pricing
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2025/01/13/online-shopping-product-roundups/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzM2NzQ0NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzM4MTI2Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MzY3NDQ0MDAsImp0aSI6IjA0M2ZlMjY0LTBjYzItNDgyMC04MTlmLTY1Njc5YjNkNTY2YiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9ob21lLzIwMjUvMDEvMTMvb25saW5lLXNob3BwaW5nLXByb2R1Y3Qtcm91bmR1cHMvIn0.vR-rq38Ql_H984trq0Ja79Ft4CqcqERIqCw7IzoN9E4
• Hotel chain ditches Google search for DuckDuckGo — ‘subjected to fraud attempts daily’
• Interim note 5: web media and web dev employment
• https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/virtual-power-plants/sonnen-solrite-to-offer-free-batteries-and-solar-to-texas-homeowners
• https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/01/08/apple-new-artificial-intelligence-rewords-scam-messages-look-legitimate/
• Apple’s AI helpfully rewords scam messages to make them look legitimate
• Bot-ily Harm.
• Malicious extensions circumvent Google’s remote code ban
• Whoops! Facebook trained Llama AI model on pirate site LibGen, with Zuckerberg’s OK
• Profiting from addiction
• Supreme Court upholds the TikTok ban.
• How the United States Learned to Love Internet Censorship
• https://www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/2020/11/9/the-short-sad-strange-life-of-mr-delicious
• Authors Seek Meta’s Torrent Client Logs and Seeding Data in AI Piracy Probe
• “I prefer to meet people where they are” says reasonable-sounding white dude holding court at a table in the back of a Nazi Bar, redux.
• https://therecord.media/texas-probes-four-more-car-companies-data-collection-sharing
• bargaining
• How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions
• notoriously vague term
• A magical land where rounding equals truncation
• surveillance licensing for the largest, riskiest platforms
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/%40andrewtaylor/util-ai
• OpenAI offers to buy the Chrome web browser from Google. Uh huh.
• How to Prepare (Not Prep) for Uncertain Times… and Build a Better World in the Process
• Google Isn’t Launching A User Choice Prompt For Third-Party Cookies In Chrome
• ChatGPT is bullshit
• Chrome on the chopping block as Google’s search antitrust trial moves forward
• Bringing Pollinators Back to Bay Farm Island: A Community Effort
• We Are Getting Closer To The Great Crisis
• Normal.
• Resistance from the tech sector
• Regrets: Actors who sold AI avatars stuck in Black Mirror-esque dystopia
• Women rely partly on smell when choosing friends
• Google is WRONG: structured data does impact your site’s ranking.
• https://lifehacker.com/tech/pros-and-cons-of-using-an-ad-blocker
• Google Ads Shitshow Report 2024
• Google breakup
• Judge rules Google illegally monopolized adtech, opening door to potential breakup
• keep threatening workers with more layoffs
• union situation
• repeat offenders drive the bulk of tech support scams via Google Ads
• Google Ads is understaffed and the remaining employees are in the weeds
• 2023 report
• people who would have made them go up aren’t there any more
• lines of code
• Currency units
• love to count
• Check My Ads Institute Applauds Landmark Ruling Declaring Google an Illegal Monopolist in Ad Tech
• 2024 Ads Safety Report
• Malwarebytes
• Glyph Lefkowitz: Stop Writing `__init__` Methods
• You're Probably Breaking the Llama Community License
• Trump’s newest grift: Building a cryptocurrency empire while destroying its regulators
• Mad at Meta? Don’t Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
• The FTC was investigating
• How this site uses AI
• use a Large Language Model, or eat Tide Pods?
• LLMs and the web advertising business
• Lawsuit: Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to quietly track driving behavior
• Total information collapse
• TikTok, AliExpress, SHEIN & Co surrender Europeans’ data to authoritarian China
• writes that the ban is taking advantage of a privacy pretext for censorship
• Supreme Court opinion
• Facebook acknowledges it’s in a global fight to stop scams, and might not be winning
• China tech shrugged off Trump’s ‘trade war’ − there’s no reason it won’t do the same with new tariffs
• After Big Social
• picking up cheap shoes in front of a steamroller
• SaaS application
• online elder fraud scheme
• Baltimore sues 2 sportsbooks over alleged exploitative practices
• winning side
• Picking Up Nickels In Front Of A Steam Roller
• https://searchengineland.com/google-ads-2024-suspensions-removals-454338
• https://www.cnet.com/home/electric-vehicles/battery-dead-heres-how-to-get-out-of-a-locked-tesla/
• Flaming Fame.
• These are not the same
• Trump tariffs reignite Europe’s push for cloud sovereignty
• Are Instagram Teen Accounts really protected - even from Meta?
• LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions
• Don’t Forget The Forgotten Tech User
• How to Make Seed Bombs
• The New Adaptation War
• Bluesky is Different (for now)
• https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/i-hate-wasting-time-on-identifying-ai-slop/
• How the U.S. Became A Science Superpower
• https://www.weedingwildsuburbia.com/cutting-back-poppies-and-harvesting-seed/
• Note published on April 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM UTC
• Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs
• I Tested The AI That Calls Your Elderly Parents If You Can't Be Bothered
• It's Safer in the Front : Taking the Offensive against Tyranny
• Is creativity killing us?
• The Rise of Slopsquatting
• To Put It Plainly, Don’t Become A Target For Plaintiffs’ Attorneys
• $119 Springer cancer treatments book: ‘As an AI language model …’
• https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69814128/hernandez-mendoza-v-the-trade-desk-inc/
• https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69856125/turner-v-the-trade-desk-inc/
• Why price cuts and agency pressure haven’t changed calculus for brands on X
• Jon McGoran: Five Things I Learned Writing The Price Of Everything
• BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of
• How Record Store Day Became The Stupidest Day In Music
• https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/09/14/software-is-a-long-con/
• Week 4 of March 2025: Big Tech Gets a Check Up
• https://www.luminategroup.com/posts/opinion/a-trillion-dollar-problem-how-a-broken-digital-ad-industry-is-fracturing-society-and-how-we-can-fix-it
• GNOME STF 2024 Project Report
• Former Substack creators say they’re earning more on new platforms that offer larger shares of subscription revenue
• turn off advertising measurement in Apple Safari
• TVs at CES 2025
• The bounty hunter tendency, the future of privacy, and ad tech’s new profit frontier.
• Battlefield Drones and the Accelerating Autonomous Arms Race in Ukraine
• MimiOnuoha/missing-datasets: An overview and exploration of the concept of missing datasets.
• Balancing User Privacy and Personalization by Malika Korganbekova and Cole Zuber
• turn off tracking
• advice from Internet Thought Leaders
• documents from one of Google’s Federal cases
• 52% paper
• Jessica Fierro and Corrine Reichert bought a selection of products from those Temu ads that seem to be everywhere
• fake ads targeted to users of a software product
• My Ad Center
• https://www.techpolicy.press/baltic-leadership-in-brussels-what-the-new-high-representative-kaja-kallas-means-for-tech-policy/
• #2: Five things you need if you run a small, low-risk user-to-user service
• there ought to be a law
• Click this to buy better stuff and be happier
• reduced reported fraud losses by 4.7%
• Gaurav Ujjwal
• OCRmyPDF
• Law professors side with authors battling Meta in AI copyright case
• HIPAA://google.com
• a16z raising fresh $20b to keep the AI bubble pumping
• Git turns 20: A Q&A with Linus Torvalds
• https://dicellolevitt.com/city-of-baltimore-sues-draftkings-fanduel-over-predatory-practices-in-online-sports-betting/
• How a $2,000 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured
• Bobby Miller: Five Things I Learned Writing Situation Nowhere
• Meta secretly helped China advance AI, ex-Facebooker will tell Congress
• The Ministry of Empowerment
• No Cookies For You!: Evaluating The Promises Of Big Tech’s ‘Privacy-Enhancing’ Techniques
• Not this time
• turn off advertising features in Firefox
• malware
• How extensions trick CWS search
• The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI
• Major publishers call on the US government to ‘Stop AI Theft’
• California Rallies Against Trump Administration with Dozens of ‘Hands Off’ Rallies
• How Waltz added Goldberg to the Signal breach: "he number was erroneously saved during a “contact suggestion update” by Waltz’s iPhone, which one person described as the function where an iPhone algorithm adds a previously unknown number to an exist
• Better typography with text-wrap pretty
• Rust, Linux and Cloud Native Computing
• ‘If you want dystopia, look out your window!’ Black Mirror is back – and going beyond tech hell
• What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get
• Framework “temporarily pausing” some laptop sales because of new tariffs
• DIRNSA Fired
• Deep Learning, Deep Scandal
• Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit — LessWrong
• Is the Conservative Crackup Finally Here?
• Scaling is over, the bubble may be deflating, LLMs still can’t reason, and you can’t trust Sam
• Why Are All the Smart People So Bad at History?
• Writing C for curl
• Trust Is Dead. Trump Keeps Selling the Corpse.
• “ABA Contrarian”: the Antitrust Bubble That Just Won’t Read the Room
• What If We Made Advertising Illegal?
• How to leak to a journalist
• converting PDFs for Tesseract
• RSSPreview
• Natasha Lomas
• Sarah Perez
• according to traders on Manifold Markets
• the Linux device driver hacker’s guide to giant Internet monopoly dominance
• US Cloud soon illegal?
• Meta (Facebook) made some of their info easy to parse
• Improving the quality of the output | tessdoc
• Improving Image Quality - Tesseract OCR Software Tutorial - Research Guides at New York University
• pdf2image
• Tesseract OCR
• ‘I didn’t start out wanting to see kids’: are porn algorithms feeding a generation of paedophiles – or creating one?
• Consumers are boycotting US goods around the world. Should Trump be worried?
• https://grist.org/energy/heat-pumps-outsold-gas-furnaces-again-last-year-and-the-gap-is-growing/
• list of known good companies
• Never Forgive Them
• ads.txt for a site with no ads
• A Conventional Boy
• Texas Plows Ahead
• In re: Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation (MDL No. 3047) | United States District Court, Northern District of California
• granted in part and denied in part
• Social Media Addiction Multidistrict Litigation–the return of Joe Camel in the sleeper case that could break Silicon Valley
• saga with the Chaos Monkeys guy
• The long goodbye for Tim Cook
• Slash Pages
• Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you here
• Justice Department Issues Final Rule Addressing Threat Posed by Foreign Adversaries’ Access to Americans’ Sensitive Personal Data
• selling info on US citizens to North Korean murder robots is illegal now
• a specification from the IAB Tech Lab
• ads.txt
• The $16 hack to blocking ads on your devices for life
• slash pages
• infringing content
• EU may “make an example of X” by issuing $1 billion fine to Musk’s social network
• Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead
• A Conversation With Elizabeth Warren
• US authors’ copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft combined in New York with newspaper actions
• Newsquest now employing 36 ‘AI-assisted reporters’
• Alternative to Starlink: Eutelsat Provides Ukraine With Access to Satellite Internet
• Copyright-Aware AI: Let’s Make It So
• YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy
• Steinar H. Gunderson: git.sesse.net goes IPv6-only
• This Year in Worker Conquests
• The Cows in the Coal Mine
• Self-Own
• Judge blocks parts of California bid to protect kids from social media
• Opinion: We Need More Consequences for Reckless Driving. But That Doesn’t Mean More Punishment — Streetsblog USA
• I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone
• Search engines think I plagiarized my own content! My Hacker News Case Study
• The Welfare Effects of Ad Blocking
• How we get to the end of prediction market winter
• boring bots ftw
• Money bots talk and bullshit bots walk?
• LLMs and reputation management
• predictions for 2025
• slop capitalism and dead internet theory
• The coming pro-smoking discourse
• The Average College Student Is Illiterate
• The Mismeasure of Man
• Can RICO Be Far Behind? President Trump and Kid Rock Announce Whole of Government Enforcement of the BOTS Act
• https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-bots-fake-traffic
• Gemini is an increasingly good chatbot, but it’s still a bad assistant
• a promise, a threat, and a proportional response
• Endor: WebAssembly-Based Server in the Browser
• https://innovation.consumerreports.org/new-report-many-companies-may-be-ignoring-opt-out-requests-under-state-privacy-laws/
• New Windows 11 trick lets you bypass Microsoft Account requirement
• Signal sees its downloads double after scandal
• How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack
• How to Distribute Radical Shit: Don't Trust Your Printer
• FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
• WHEN GOOGLE FOLLOWS YOU TO THE DMV: Where Consent Gets Lost in the Traffic
• Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?
• Google Cuts Thousands of Workers Improving Search After Search Results Scientifically Shown to Suck
• Firefox-maker Mozilla’s boosted revenue significantly in 2023, but the financial report may also raise concern
• Ad Aged: Leave Me Alone.
• How to block Chrome from signing you into a Google account automatically
• Namma Yatri
• OpenAI’s Board, Paraphrased: ‘To Succeed, All We Need Is Unimaginable Sums of Money’
• mice would like the VR goggles thing better
• Securing your static website with HTTP response headers
• Search Engines as Leeches on the Web
• No More “Made in China”: Ukraine Inches Closer to Self-Sufficient FPV Drone Manufacturing
• Russia ‘Infected’ Chatbots with Propaganda – AI Repeats Russian Fake Narratives in 33% of Cases
• https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/
• How Invasive Ad Targeting is Bad for Journalism and Other High-Quality Publishers
• Terms & Conditions Update: Forced Assistance For Obstinance
• The Mediocrity of Modern Google
• Ian Jackson: Rust is indeed woke
• The U.S. Has Changed Its Mind About Europe
• With Support of Check My Ads Institute’s Advocacy, Senator Warner Urges FTC and DOJ to Investigate Ad Fraud Affecting U.S. Government Agencies
• More money and better stuff for people in the UK
• Day-to-day experiences with bug futures
• onion
• Meta opt-out
• Advertisers are starting to walk away from platforms’ AI solutions that once promised them everything
• California lawmakers take on ‘surveillance pricing’ as FTC retreats
• Adalytics: The Ad Industry’s Bot Problem Is Worse Than We Thought
• Manuel Hoffmann, Frank Nagle, Yanuo Zhou
• What Is It, Exactly, That Being An American Means to You?
• A Clarifying Moment
• So You Want to Flee to Canada: Revisiting a Classic Guide to Leaving America
• Fighting for our Future: How—and Why—We Brought Wargames to an ROTC Program
• https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/
• How is Meta Getting Its Hands on Advance Digital Galleys to Train Its AI?
• an ad campaign that delivers malware targeting a specific company
• other ways
• More about me, with disclaimers
• Open source LLMs hit Europe’s digital sovereignty roadmap
• Ukraine prepares to showcase game-changing defense tech innovations at February forum in Kyiv
• In defense tech, Lithuania’s sovereign VC fund is one step ahead
• Instead of F-35, Portugal turns to Europe in search of new fighter
• Protecting Privacy, Empowering Small Business: A Path Forward with S.71
• a bad idea
• the 30-40-30 rule
• Links for 14 March 2025: autonomous drones in the news
• Building Drones for Developers
• privacy laws for slacker states
• Testimony Reveals Doors Would Not Open on Cybertruck That Caught Fire in Piedmont, Killing Three
• Tesla Cybertruck vs Ford Pinto: Which is the Bigger Fire-Trap?
• Big Tech’s support department
• old PDF
• some obvious differences between GDPR compliance and CCPA compliance that I pointed out back in 2020
• Honda just got around to dealing with
• stuff to deal with
• 15 or so states in the USA without privacy laws
• power moves, signaling, and a helpful book for understanding Big Tech
• (discuss)
• trying to think about European tech policy in context
• The Godfather Part II
• partnership with a friendly government
• still legit
• create more value than you capture
• weekly book recommendation
• https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691152479/codes-of-the-underworld
• placing ads on Child Sexual Abuse Material
• delivering ads for obvious malware, with a landing page featuring an unauthorized copy of one of Google’s own logos
• doesn’t apply to the publisher
• Streisand Effect
• Careless People
• THE WHITE COAT DIDN’T BETRAY YOU—THE PIXEL DID: Judge Keeps Florida Wiretap Case Against Hospital Alive
• The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
• Don’t Get Scammed! Tips For Spotting AI-Generated Fake Products Online
• Applying the Fundamental Axioms to Reduce Uncertainty
• Building and deploying a custom site using GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages
• https://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/guest-commentaries/why-we-need-shortwave-2-0
• Careless people
• Opinion: To close Europe’s defence tech gap, governments must support startups
• Tow Center Study Again Shows “AI” Sucks At Conveying Accurate News
• It's a Fine Line Between Stupid and Uh...
• Antoine Beaupré: Losing the war for the free internet
• https://www.reuters.com/technology/ukraine-collects-vast-war-data-trove-train-ai-models-2024-12-20/
• Meta settles UK ‘right to object to ad-tracking’ lawsuit by agreeing not to track plaintiff
• https://labusinessjournal.com/featured/silvus-grows-its-revenue-physical-footprint/
• Google and Its Confederate AI Platforms Want Retroactive Absolution For AI Training Wrapped in the American Flag
• Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids
• There Are Two Kinds of Credit Cards
• Privacy-Respecting European Tech Alternatives
• Is constantly insulting your core customer base a good marketing strategy?
• EU Big Tech crackdown: Commission calls out Google and Apple for antitrust violations
• Substack rival Ghost is now connected to the fediverse
• ChatGPT hit with privacy complaint over defamatory hallucinations
• Trump tariffs spark "Boycott USA" backlash against U.S. goods
• Why Red Hat Thinks AI’s Future Is Small Language Models
• Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face
• EV maker BYD launches new, ultrafast charging system
• Refresh.
• But how to get to that European cloud?
• This startup just hit a big milestone for green steel production
• Could &udm=14 Break?
• Frontline Innovation and Domestic Production: The Keys to Ukraine’s Journey Toward Defense Self-Reliance
• Don’t Be Evil: A Campaign to Stop Google’s Interference with Agencies
• European tech industry coalition calls for ‘radical action’ on digital sovereignty — starting with buying local
• Culture Got Us Into This Mess
• https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/
• https://lobste.rs/s/ukosa1/uk_users_lobsters_needs_your_help_with
• Meta, Apparently, Really Wants Everyone To Read This Book (By Trying To Ban It)
• Meta mocked for raising “Bob Dylan defense” of torrenting in AI copyright fight
• http://blog.ssokolow.com/archives/2014/04/04/the-most-eye-opening-things-ive-ever-read/
• https://micahflee.com/not-only-is-substack-right-wing-broligarchy-garbage-its-way-more-expensive-than-ghost/
• script for rebuilding when a file changes
• enabling the existing problems of adtech, just in a harder-to-observe way
• B L O C K in the U S A
• https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/why-america-fell-behind-in-drones
• Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe’s Digital Markets Act
• Apple Intelligence: Fud, Dud or Both
• https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/11/meta_dmca_copyright_removal_case/
• ★ Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
• Instead of F-35, Portugal turns to Europe in search of new fighter
• Meta faces publisher copyright AI lawsuit in France
• Columbia Journalism Review
• https://pluribusnews.com/news-and-events/californias-delete-act-gains-steam-in-more-states/
• https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/8/2/18
• https://www.politico.eu/article/push-for-eurostack-as-eu-us-tech-tensions-grow/
• https://newsletter.counteroffensive.pro/p/how-ukraine-integrates-machine-vision-in-battlefield-drones
• Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software
• https://goblin.band/notes/a55nxem9jukg6cw8
• “A Post Mortem on the Gino Case”: “Committing fraud is, right now, a viable career strategy that can propel you at the top of the academic world.”
• Kagi is Bringing the Orion Web Browser to Linux
• Ad-Funded Piracy’s ‘Biggest Open Secret’ Revealed By Researcher
• Pro tips: links for 9 March 2025
• awesöme™
• Does YouTube have a future if its creators have to make money elsewhere?
• Australia fires publisher damages claim at Google
• Disabling Firefox’s “privacy-preserving ad measurement” by default or before upgrading to Firefox 128
• Block AI training on a web site
• AI legal links
• As Australia bans social media for kids under 16, age-assurance tech is in the spotlight
• Preparing for the next European war
• advertising personalization: good for you?
• bet
• less personalized ads
• difficult to spot on large platforms
• The antitrust orthodoxy is blind to real data harms
• most people in the USA got smartphones
• Kerrigan and Keating paper
• Senators Decry Adtech Failures as Ads Appear On CSAM Site
• Hiding in Plain Sight: The Ad-Supported Piracy Ring Driving Over a Billion Monthly Visits - deepsee.io
• The surveillance economy is more like the commodification economy
• about double
• Targeted advertising, platform competition and privacy
• Sturgeon’s Law
• The Kircher and Foerderer paper
• if choosing the privacy option made you buy worse stuff, the surveillance companies would have said so by now.
• Who’s In the Know: The Privacy Pulse Report
• Americans Reject Tailored Advertising and Three Activities That Enable It
• Behavioral Advertising and Consumer Welfare
• Tailored Cheap Talk: The Effects of Privacy Policy On Ad Content and Market Outcomes
• some ways that Facebook ads are optimized for deceptive advertising
• gives a bunch of hard-to-overcome advantages to deceptive sellers
• The high-profile national security threats
• The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Privacy Regulation for Consumer Marketing by Jean-Pierre Dubé, John G. Lynch, Dirk Bergemann, Mert Demirer, Avi Goldfarb, Garrett Johnson, Anja Lambrecht, Tesary Lin, Anna Tuchman, Catherine E. Tucker
• In defense tech, Lithuania’s sovereign VC fund is one step ahead
• https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2015/03/make-typing-special-characters-drop-dead-easy-with-the-compose-key/
• Mistral adds a new API that turns any PDF document into an AI-ready Markdown file
• U.S. Officials Urge Americans to Use Encrypted Apps, for Texting and Calls, in Wake of Chinese Infiltration of Our Unencryped Telecom Network
• Defining AI
• Deepfake YouTube Ads of Celebrities Promise to Get You ‘Rock Hard’
• Consumer Solar Surge: Pakistan Shows you Don’t Need Government Programs to Green the Grid
• “Modern Work Fucking Sucks.”
• One Tiny Mod Makes A Cheap Mic Sound A Lot Like A Neumann - Aftermath
• Developing a public-interest training commons of books
• https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1853219790350950852.html
• #92: I Wrote A Song Called ‘Take the Skinheads Bowling’
• It is time to make the Online Safety Act 2023 fit for purpose