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• The good advice
• The Next Great Distribution Shift
• DeepSeek outperforms AI rivals in ‘real money, real market’ crypto showdown
• I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate it
• Why startup brands are increasingly flocking to this Midwestern department store
• Google really doesn't want you to think the open web is in decline
• EU accuses Meta of violating content rules in move that could anger Trump
• Disable AI In Firefox
• EU accuses Meta, TikTok of breaching digital rules
• A US judge says Meta lawyers told staff to block or remove parts of internal teen mental health research to limit liability; Meta says no findings were removed
• MMM Isn’t As Scary As Marketers Think – But You’ve Got To Do It Right
• The hot new trend in marketing: hating on AI
• Meta tells some employees their jobs are being replaced by tech — read the memo
• Welcome to Alameda Unplugged
• https://www.techpolicy.press/why-europes-resistance-to-big-tech-matters-for-the-future-of-democracy/
• Opinion: Let Kids Run Around Unsupervised
• Elon Musk Discovers What Hierarchy Actually Means
• Everyone’s An Expert
• The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices
• A Word on Omarchy
• A good lambasting of Omarchy
• “CIPA IS UNTENABLE”: Federal Judge Calls Upon California Legislature to Scrap CIPA While Granting Summary Judgment in Website Operator’s Favor
• IS EUROPE TOO LATE TO COMPETE IN THE CHIPS WAR?
• Today is when the Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout
• The Gradual Death of Coal
• Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS • The Register
• Agentic AI’s OODA Loop Problem
• Tech Workers Versus Enshittification
• https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2024/go-ahead-and-block-ai-web-crawlers
• Publishers, chasing revenue at all costs is costing you
• AI is using your data to set personalised prices online. It could seriously backfire
• The Majority AI View
• What Made Blogging Different?
• https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2025-10-15/feds-reject-massive-coal-lease-bid-of-less-than-a-penny-per-ton
• http://bbh-labs.com/puncturing-the-paradox-group-cohesion-and-the-generational-myth/
• https://filmstories.co.uk/news/okay-then-google-tell-us-what-to-do-the-future-of-entertainment-websites/
• Surveillance pricing could make markets more equitable. Here’s how
• Europe Can’t Defend Democracy on US Servers
• I helped build the internet’s ad economy. Now I want to save it
• Reducing risk of malicious ads
• The best VPNs (and how affiliate links broke the web)
• https://alfy.blog/2024/10/19/linking-directly-to-web-page-content.html
• It's 2025 and we've yet to see...
• Teen haunted by fake nudes sues to kill nudify app, block Telegram bots
• How I Became a Populist
• https://pluribusnews.com/news-and-events/omidyar-network-funding-pro-regulation-groups-to-counter-big-tech-lobbying/
• The pivot
• AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats
• Inside the web infrastructure revolt over Google’s AI Overviews
• AI-generated news sites spout viral slop from forgotten URLs
• The AI-collapse pre-mortem
• The great software quality collapse or, how we normalized catastrophe
• Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin
• Hey Zuck, Remember When You Said You’d Never Again Cave To Government Pressure? About That…
• In defense of ‘surveillance pricing’: Why personalized prices could be an unexpected force for equity
• Microsoft tracks your Copilot AI usage in its workplace spyware
• Don’t let speed kill the neighborhood
• Three apps that will not change your life
• Django forever
• https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2023/05/some-practical-postulates-about-platform-data/
• Personality Tests and the Downfall of Democracy
• AI toys are all the rage in China—and now they’re appearing on shelves in the US too
• A Prescription for Laughter
• Quick and dirty bar-charts using HTML's meter element
• Beyond the AI Hype: Guido van Rossum on Python’s Philosophy, Simplicity, and the Future of Programming.
• A new breed of analyzers
• Gavin Newsom Signs Law Overhauling Local Zoning to Build More Housing
• NCAA Committee proposes new rule to allow student bets on pro sports
• How to Overturn an Oligarchy
• Deloitte Australia retracts ChatGPT report, refunds government
• Former OpenAI Employee Horrified by How ChatGPT Is Driving Users Into Psychosis
• ‘Ice batteries’ offer more sustainable air-conditioning amid growing energy demand
• After 987 days and $823 billion, Google’s fate rests with one judge
• Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security
• AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds
• Building a fairer future for digital advertising: Mozilla partners with Index Exchange
• Social Media Provenance Challenge
• https://www.techspot.com/news/109274-gen-z-pushes-back-against-smart-glasses-over.html
• https://www.audubon.org/news/how-build-bluebird-nest-box
• Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers' – Lina Khan
• A MacBook pro for $280 is unheard of — so grab one before this deal disappears
• New California law restricts HOA fines to $100 per violation, giving homeowners a break
• Americans are awash in bad deals
• It’s the bad deals, stupid
• The finance press finally starts talking about the ‘AI bubble’
• The Importance of the Battle of Kasserine Pass
• Pluralistic: Decarbonization at a distance (02 Oct 2025)
• Fight Hell Like Hell.
• Get to Know the Dirt in Your Yard Before You Start Gardening
• Authors, Time to Get That (Anthropic) Bag
• https://berjon.com/google-cma/
• LLMs are a failure. A new AI winter is coming.
• The Law of the Server is the Law of the Site: a Trans-Atlantic Free Speech Defense Doctrine
• https://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2025/09/30/we-ve-never-spent-more-advertising-it-s-never-done-less-us
• confederates never learn a goddamn thing
• 7 brutal truths about CAC
• Meta’s Teen Accounts are Sugar Pills for Parents, not Safety for Kids
• “The AI-ification of email” keeps 404 Media’s Jason Koebler up at night
• VTDigger, Chicago Reader, and Honolulu Civil Beat see big traffic gains
• Friend AI fails to make friends
• How to stop Google from invading your privacy and others’ when you share links
• We're about to find out if Silicon Valley owns Gavin Newsom
• Nexstar and Sinclair Lost Their Game of Chicken
• https://cipaworld.com/2025/03/27/the-white-coat-didnt-betray-you-the-pixel-did-judge-keeps-florida-wiretap-case-against-hospital-alive/
• Ukraine’s Plan to Starve the Russian War Machine
• Update on ongoing Microsoft review
• South Park hones in on prediction markets in new episode
• Rodents prevail in rat race: New York City’s rat czar resigns from post
• AI investors are in for a rude awakening | Roger McNamee
• Pissed-off Fans Flooded the Twin Peaks Reddit With AI Slop To Protest Its AI Policies
• Fireside Friday, September 19, 2025 (On the Use and Abuse of Malthus)
• A Point of View on AI
• Is the Jimmy Kimmel Saga a Sign that the Tide is Turning?
• Ads Don’t Work That Way
• Companies are loudly calling themselves ‘AI-first.’ Are they helping or hurting their own brands?
• WASH POST columnist fired over 'unacceptable' posts...
• ‘Stop Worrying About AI’s Return on Investment’ said the wallet inspector
• https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/17/privacy-is-not-dead/
• China tells its tech companies to stop buying all of Nvidia's AI chips
• Wired’s Backbone Stiffens
• The best YouTube downloaders (and how Google silenced the press)
• We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract
• A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is
• Scientists Printed Viruses Designed by AI and They’re Successfully Reproducing
• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/09/22/trumps-tiktok-deal-sets-a-very-dangerous-precedent/
• Joey Hess: cheap DIY solar fence design
• Slack is extorting us with a $195k/yr bill increase
• Drone Swarms Are Here
• Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
• I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot
• Policy address 2025: Hong Kong adds wartime escape routes to tourism offerings
• https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/24/microsoftowned_github_says_open_source/
• Software update shoves ads onto Samsung’s pricey fridges
• Ghost Fleet, Ten Years Later: An Interview with P.W. Singer and August Cole
• DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
• Philippines Senate warns Meta after gambling inquiry no-show
• Gain Market Share by Disrupting Bad Ad Measurement
• The Hierarchy of Advertising Evidence
• Opting out of AI in popular software and services
• https://stefanbohacek.com/project/detect-missing-adblocker-wordpress-plugin/
• Independent Gift Stores Struggle to Stay Open in Alameda
• PETs and AI: Privacy Washing and the Need for a PETs Evaluation Framework
• Google kept its lobbying on California privacy bill super, super quiet
• https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/12/russian-oil-revenues-hit-record-lows-as-war-meets-market-reality/
• Google says ‘the open web is in rapid decline’ weeks after arguing in favor of AI
• Four Theories of Meta
• Firefox for iOS will summarize web pages when you shake your iPhone
• https://firesphere.dev/articles/removing-aimachine-learningllm-integrations-from-ff
• https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/oil-giant-saudi-arabia-is-emerging-as-a-solar-power-e0652a56
• https://indicator.media/p/meta-ran-4-000-more-ads-for-ai-nudifiers-that-may-not-be-the-worst-part
• Peak bubble
• https://www.inc.com/sam-blum/crypto-atm-fraud-gas-station-workers-idaho/91236489
• Qualifying Conditions
• How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein - The New York Times
• On Firefox for iOS, summarize a page with a shake or a tap
• We all dodged a bullet
• On the Reverse Flynn Effect
• The Silicon Valley Consensus & the "AI Economy"
• Introducing Signal Secure Backups
• Meta Suppressed Research on Kids in VR
• The New York Times launches a family subscription (with separate Wordles for everyone)
• Researchers Discover 18 Popular VPNs Are Connected: Why This Matters
• https://www.hereisoregon.com/people/2025/08/knife-town-usa-how-portland-became-a-hub-for-designing-and-manufacturing-blad
• https://www.hereisoregon.com/people/2025/08/knife-town-usa-how-portland-became-a-hub-for-designing-and-manufacturing-blades-of-all-kinds.html?e=1d9af7b683c3024e49415a3063b01597
• https://www.exchangewire.com/blog/2025/07/23/the-end-of-everything-except-the-actual-ad-tech-problems/
• https://www.theverge.com/electric-cars/655527/slate-electric-truck-price-paint-radio-bezos
• https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-long-american-counter-revolution/
• A Cynical Read on Anthropic’s Book Settlement
• Even the birthplace of the world wide web wants you to use adblockers
• Why This Economy Feels Weird and Scary
• This App Can Actually Keep You From Using Your iPhone
• GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work
• How Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks
• https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/cost-of-living/uk-households-warned-over-closing-32348315.amp
• Cloudflare’s CEO wants to save the web from AI’s oligarchs. Here’s why his plan isn’t crazy.
• Yes, there is a 9-1-1 for scam victims.
• Yes, there is a 9-1-1 for scam victims. Get to know the guardian angels of the Internet — AARP’s Fraud Watch Network
• This Android Malware Is Spreading Through Facebook Ads
• From Libraries to Schools: Why Organizations Should Install Privacy Badger
• “Build”: Is Europe Finally Getting that Regulation Could Never Get Us a Digital Industry?
• a previous article
• No credit history? No problem − new research suggests shopping data works as a proxy for creditworthiness
• "War from home" is the new "work from home"
• DragonCon ejects AI ‘artist’, to approval of all
• AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History
• Senators to Zuckerberg: Answer for the Kids
• https://www.lineofdeparture.army.mil/Journals/Infantry/Infantry-Archive/Infantry-Fall-2025/Shifting-the-Paradigm/
• Saildrone Surveyor: Unmanned Water Vehicle Gains Full American Bureau of Shipping Classification
• Alameda Is Cheering for the Oakland Ballers
• Belief.
• Welcome to Metaphor-Land.
• The EU surrendered to Trump over trade tariffs – now it’s in danger of capitulating again | Thierry Breton
• https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-03/energy-power-solar-leave-nuclear-in-the-shade/104049276
• LegalPwn: Tricking LLMs by burying badness in lawyerly fine print
• The crash of 2026: a fiction
• Five Attitudes Towards Climate Change (and the impact on our society)
• https://marketingaccountability.substack.com/p/how-fraud-became-the-foundation-of
• It’s time to unmask the Trump tariffs for what they really are: A giant national sales tax that will hobble U.S. economic growth
• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0yzxx3x08o
• A Student’s Right to Refuse Generative AI
• Heavy Ad Interventions
• documented health condition
• gambling disorder
• 31% of employees are sabotaging your gen AI strategy
• lawyers for big evil companies clutching their pearls about AGPL
• More talks section of the ydotool README
• Alameda Free Library events calendar
• Linux Installfest at the main library, August 30 : r/alameda
• [conspire] Linux Installfest in Alameda, Saturday Aug. 30
• Developer Unlocks Newly Enshittified Echelon Exercise Bikes But Can't Legally Release His Software
• Open Source is one person
• "For All Issues So Triable"
• The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through The Years
• ‘We need to look after our grand-friends’: how childcare in aged care can help young and old
• On Being Agentic
• AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial
• Tax the Rich. They’ll Stay
• Tesla said it didn’t have critical data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it. - The Washington Post
• I Am An AI Hater
• The Banal Evil of AI Safety
• North Carolina man sues gaming operators for predatory gambling practices
• Rupert’s Property
• Show HN: A private, flat monthly subscription for open-source LLMs
• Here We Go Again: German Courts Reopen The “Is Ad Blocking Copyright Infringement?” Nonsense We Thought We’d Put To Bed
• The Quiet Riot
• You’re probably using uv wrong
• Writing Mac and iOS Apps Shouldn’t Be So Difficult
• Affiliates Flock to ‘Soulless’ Scam Gambling Machine
• running BitTorrent
• getting to sites that require age registration in some places
• These Materials Could Cripple America’s Defense Industrial Base
• Talking With Phillips O'Brien
• What Cyberpunk 2077 Can Teach Real-World Cities
• Did Anthropic AI steal your book? You can sign up for updates on the class action suit.
• Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
• My Case Against Meta Moves Forward
• After teen suicide, OpenAI claims it is “helping people when they need it most”
• https://videoweek.com/2025/08/18/more-us-ad-spend-comes-direct-from-brands-than-through-holdcos-as-ai-reshapes-media-planning-and-buying/
• We Are Still Unable to Secure LLMs from Malicious Inputs
• “ChatGPT killed my son”: Parents’ lawsuit describes suicide notes in chat logs
• How To Argue With An AI Booster
• Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end
• DSLRoot, Proxies, and the Threat of ‘Legal Botnets’
• The "impossibly small" Microdot web framework [LWN.net]
• A Skeptic’s View of the Hype Machine and Business Model of Neo-Defense Tech
• With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people
• Apple vs. Facebook is Kayfabe
• Rigetti Quantum Computing: Unlocking the Future of Fast and Practical Tech Solutions
• The Cracker Barrel Hype(rreality)
• Did this Kid Use AI to Fake Research About How Great AI Is?
• We've Reached the Sad Cracker Barrel Stage of Cultural Evolution
• AI winter is in the air! But we think the AI bubble keeps going until 2027
• Sub-Audible Signal Standard for Audio Capture and Transcription Opt-Out
• My Journey from macOS to Arch Linux with Omarchy
• search antitrust thing
• going through the motions at W3C
• turn off local machine learning
• how to remove AI from my Firefox?
• Remove chatbots
• an old Reddit post
• https://www.europesays.com/2353064/
• When Trump's Brain Broke
• How college towns are grappling with a new gambling boom
• https://www.orrick.com/en/Insights/Groundbreaking-Jury-Research-Reveals-US-Jury-Attitudes-in-a-Polarized-Society
• Inside Russia’s Shadow Military Sustaining the War
• Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
• deceptive offers that older and/or poorer people get
• 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
• Daily Hacker News for 2025-08-21
• Will Giant Companies Always Have a Monopoly on Top AI Models?
• It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes
• Ukraine Embarrases US Defense Contractors
• what is the point of libraries now that you can just generate them?
• Finish This Quickly.
• Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels
• what is the point of libraries now that you can just generate them?
• From Slop to Sabotage
• Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service
• Strowger switch
• Minnesota Attorney General sues TikTok for 'preying on Minnesota young people'
• TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers
• https://wklondon.com/2009/09/an-oldie-but-goodie-9-ways-to-improve-an-ad/
• https://www.wweek.com/news/2025/08/15/coworking-office-kilns-southeast-madison-avenue-building-and-parking-lot-vandalized/
• https://www.janosgyerik.com/disabling-access-to-facebook/
• https://thenai.org/about-online-advertising/benefits-of-tailored-advertising/
• US (finally) issues warning about crypto ATMs
• ForgeFed
• Let's properly analyze an AI article for once
• Novig closes $18 million Series A funding round
• LLMs + Coding Agents = Security Nightmare
• https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
• SHOCK POLL: 23% of CONSERVATIVE voters back socialist...
• OpenAI’s Waterloo? [with corrections]
• The Rise of ‘Cute Debt’
• Facebook is Dead; Long Live Meta
• Research group expects to see online poker industry hit $37.19 billion by 2030
• https://lifehacker.com/money/freeze-your-work-number
• The American Car Industry Can’t Go On Like This
• Illegal gambling takes up nearly a third of US wagering
• How Do Committees Fail To Invent?
• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/11/big-spending-ai-projects-like-chatgpt-are-bound-to-flop/
• Meta receives 48 hour warning over illicit gambling ads in Brazil
• MGCB orders 15 illegal gambling sites to halt Michigan operations immediately
• Glyph Lefkowitz: The Futzing Fraction
• US (finally) issues warning about crypto ATMs
• https://www.404media.co/goldman-sachs-ai-is-overhyped-wildly-expensive-and-unreliable/
• Meta's Rules for How Its AI Talks to Kids Are Appalling
• Investing in Ukraine’s Defense Edge: A Conversation with Perry Boyle
• Meta backtracks on rules letting chatbots be creepy to kids
• It just got easier to make an archival copy of that website you’re digging into
• Glyph Lefkowitz: R0ML’s Ratio
• https://sherwood.news/markets/if-you-gamble-on-phone-do-you-need-las-vegas-sports-betting-event-contracts/
• Ghost 6.0
• Ride-sharing apps are bad, actually
• Is the AI bubble about to burst?
• you do not have to use generative ai "art" in your blogs because there are websites where you can get real, nice images for free
• LLMs are not like you and me—and never will be.
• How to not build the Torment Nexus
• GPT-5 is a joke. Will it matter?
• Politico’s recent AI experiments shouldn’t be subject to newsroom editorial standards, its editors testify
• The Political Economy of Incompetence
• Trump’s Power Move Exposes Europe’s Decades of Policy Vacuum Across Trade, Industrial Strategy, Tech and Competition Too
• $30k Ford EV truck due in 2027 with much-simpler production process
• Sorry, LLMs – Congress Might Make It A Whole Lot Harder To Train On Copyrighted Content
• They’re golden: Fictional band from K-Pop Demon Hunters tops the charts
• Scientists hid secret codes in light to combat video fakes
• Mozilla Slammed Over Battery-Draining “Garbage” AI in Firefox
• LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find
• That viral video of a ‘deactivated’ Tesla Cybertruck is a fake
• GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation | The Verge
• Japan’s largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues AI startup Perplexity for copyright violations
• Improving Geographical Resilience For Distributed Open Source Teams with FREON
• I do mean mandated
• GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it.
• Veo 3 Fast and new image-to-video capabilities
• ChatGPT users hate GPT-5’s “overworked secretary” energy, miss their GPT-4o buddy
• eliminated science advisory committees
• Three authors sued Anthropic over AI training. Now 7 million can join.
• All-in on Omarchy at 37signals
• Honey, AI Capex Keeps Eating ... Everything
• The value of institutional memory
• Lena
• https://www.govtech.com/education/k-12/harford-county-schools-headed-to-trial-with-social-media-companies
• consent
• https://hypatia.ca/2017/07/18/the-al-capone-theory-of-sexual-harassment/
• dark patterns
• full-stack crime fighters
• https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa
• a 2022 Opinion of the Attorney General
• difficult
• Hydra
• ended by a motion to dismiss
• https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/trade-desk-tanks-cfo-departure-q2-results-amazon-competition.html
• https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/06/ai-teacher-assistants-promote-racial-bias-study-finds/
• https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/milberg-announces-class-action-lawsuit-filed-against-meta-alleging-its-products-harm-children-302215789.html
• https://www.fisherphillips.com/en/news-insights/california-businesses-score-another-key-privacy-win.html
• This tech CEO wants to save local news from the AI onslaught
• https://www.howtogeek.com/more-countries-forcing-apple-to-allow-third-party-browsers/
• Is It True Nobody Reads the T&Cs?
• https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/google-search-clicks-traffic-2025-ai-overviews/
• https://www.businessinsider.com/att-ceo-memo-workplace-loyalty-dead-employees-job-security-2025-8
• https://www.amyharder.com/feed
• There is no EU cookie banner law
• We will survive Google Zero
• Meta used Flo menstruation app data to sell ads, jury finds
• https://www.zdnet.com/article/think-linux-desktop-market-share-isnt-over-6-this-15-million-system-scan-says-otherwise/
• New York Times article
• Why Do Children Hate Music Lessons?
• Is Warfare Becoming More Performative?
• Substack’s Algorithm Accidentally Reveals What We Already Knew: It’s The Nazi Bar Now
• ★ Substack Raised Another $100 Million, Which, I Bet, Is Already Being Flushed Down the Same Toilet as Their First $100 Million
• Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles
• Cloudflare vs. Perplexity: a web scraping war with big implications for AI
• Google's dishonest and insulting AI Mode justification - a teardown
• Perplexity AI Backlash: Bypassing Robots.txt for Web Scraping Sparks Ethics Debate
• Ghost makes it easier to publish to the social web
• This is what resistance to the digital coup looks like
• Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too
• The AI economy is full of financial gimmicks.
• Spanish welcome offers return resulting in 20% betting increase
• Ghost 6.0
• https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/citizen-lab-director-warns-cyber-industry-about-us-authoritarian-descent/
• Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
• Titan sub implosion caused by absolutely bonkers “toxic workplace environment”
• Russia's sinking fake ships with exploding naval drones. The training likely isn't for war with Ukraine.
• In this age of technofeudalism every writer who covers technology - especially resistance to Big Tech - should disclose their tech stack. Here's mine
• California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA)
• Mozilla
• law
• LOCKED Series: Right to Limit & Opt-Out
• https://knowtechie.com/meta-guilty-flo-health-data/
• https://dataconomy.com/2025/08/06/meta-loses-privacy-case-over-flo-period-tracking-app/
• Meta Violated California Wiretap Law, Jury Finds
• Meta eavesdropped on period-tracker app's users, SF jury rules
• https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/jury-holds-meta-accountable-in-landmark-privacy-decision-a-29115
• Jury finds Meta broke wiretap law by collecting data from period-tracker app
• 1550 Oak Street, Alameda California USA
• told Catherine Perloff of The Information
• https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/07/31/online-scams-and-attacks-in-america-today/
• OpenX Sues Google Over Anticompetitive Digital Ad Practices
• Scientists Shine a Laser Through a Human Head
• AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says
• https://www.webpronews.com/meta-violates-privacy-laws-with-flo-app-menstrual-data-jury-rules/
• good example of why we need better RtKs in state laws
• The New York State Department of Financial Services did a Report on Investigation of Facebook Inc. Data Privacy Concerns
• story for The Record
• You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook
• public files from the case
• Flo app
• Washington’s Quiet Work
• https://wedontagree.net/technically-radical-on-the-unrecognized-potential-of-tech-workers-and-hackers
• oil
• Explosion Hits Central Asia–Center Gas Pipeline in Southern Russia
• give writers as good a deal as other platforms can
• needs to come up with enough money to pay the NIMBY King of Atherton
• Smaller, Cheaper, Faster
• bullshit fees on sellers
• Rory Sutherland
• Amazon.com stopped paying for Google Shopping ads
• Juicero
• Secrets of the Wholly Grill
• lock-in
• open-source marketing mix modeling software
• ByteDance makes it a big three
• about a trillion-dollar business
• Meta's AI moonshot just crushed its first real Wall Street test. The stock pops 10%
• Alphabet’s most recent earnings
• The Mystery of the Strong Economy Has Finally Been Solved
• Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine calls for action to be taken on prop bets
• How to outsmart AI-driven pricing
• This company figured out how to reuse glass wine bottles, and it’s reshaping the Oregon wine industry
• What is personalized pricing, and how do I avoid it?
• https://blog.codinghorror.com/youll-never-have-enough-cheese/
• The machinery of modern propaganda: Renée DiResta on invisible rulers and bespoke realities
• ★ The Substack Branding and Faux Prestige Trap
• Meta violated privacy law, jury says in menstrual data fight
• Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIa: Family Formation
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting to close after Congress pulls funding
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14959371/father-scam-warning-Google-search-costs-30k.html
• The sound of inevitability
• The UK's censorship catastrophe is just the beginning
• The Meaning of a Weak Jobs Report
• LinkedIn Joins The Parade Of Cowards: Quietly Strips Anti-Trans Protections To Appease MAGA Mob
• Caracas on the Potomac
• Vast majority of new US power plants generate solar or wind power
• Alden Global Capital is miffed that The Dallas Morning News won’t offer itself up for disembowelment
• Did Craigslist decimate newspapers? Legend meets reality.
• Everyone Hates Trust & Safety. Everyone Needs Trust & Safety. This Is A Problem.
• You Should Probably Leave Substack
• The Washington Effect: will the Brussels bureaucracy bend?
• Substack’s apology for pushing Nazi blog is not enough, researcher says
• Where's a 'Red Scare' when you need one?
• Substack promotes a Nazi
• https://tinker.sh/
• Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to more users worldwide
• How to get another free year of updates for your Windows 10 PC
• Pluralistic: You can't fight enshittification (31 Jul 2025)
• The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
• Curate your own newspaper with RSS
• no new permits for coal-based steelmaking
• China’s greening steel industry signals an economic reality check for Australia
• Epic just won its Google lawsuit again, and Android may never be the same
• Substack Did Not See That Coming
• Substack apologizes after sending a push alert encouraging some users to subscribe to NatSocToday, a Nazi newsletter advocating for a "White homeland" (Taylor Lorenz/User Mag)
• The Kyiv Independent crosses 20,000 paying members, up from 17,500 in May, with ~70% of its revenue coming from readers, and has no plans to add a paywall (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
• Straight edge
• come out in favor of limiting underage sales of cigarettes without admitting that smoking is harmful in general
• Extending Protections to More US-Based Teens
• ‘AI veganism’: Some people’s issues with AI parallel vegans’ concerns about diet
• That Pew Report Is Sure Looking Like a Foundational Text, Unfortunately
• SCOOP: Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog
• My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now, using GLM-4.5 Air and MLX
• Meta To Suspend All Political Ads In EU
• https://teasmith.au/feed
• Alden Global Capital fails in its attempt to get its tentacles on The Dallas Morning News
• Lester Bangs on Black Sabbath - stick your wrong foot out, then your right foot out
• How the Kyiv Independent reached 20,000 paying members — with no paywall
• Money by Vile Means