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• https://pro.stateaffairs.com/us/disruption/model-bill-to-protect-kids-online-aims-to-withstand-big-tech-challenges
• You *Can* Do Something To Hurt the Oligarchs
• Let's Keep Our Chomebooks
• Vitalik Buterin warns prediction markets risk sliding into ‘corposlop’
• We've lost the Google antitrust enforcer - now it's with these guys
• I Sold Out for $20 a Month and All I Got Was This Perfectly Generated Terraform
• Linux CVE assignment process
• Benjamin Mako Hill: Why do people participate in similar online communities?
• The Measurement Caddies
• https://www.templetons.com/brad/robocars/future-transit.html
• https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/02/californias-consumer-privacy-act-ccpa-assists-a-private-right-of-action-shah-v-myfitnesspal.htm
• https://ooh.directory/blog/feeds/posts.xml
• https://trstringer.com/feed.xml
• Big Business Has Pam Bondi Fire Trump's Antitrust Chief
• The Cookie Mullet
• How tech giants track you across the web, even if you don't use their apps
• Ring cancels Flock deal after dystopian Super Bowl ad prompts mass outrage
• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crrnl94lq5vo
• MAGIC MEETS COMPLIANCE: California AG Drops The Hammer On Disney, Securing The Largest CCPA Settlement Yet At $2.75 Million.
• Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
• The Anthropic test refusal string: kill a Claude session dead
• https://oodaloop.com/analysis/decision-intelligence/democratization-of-danger-preserving-liberty-and-human-agency-in-the-age-of-super-empowered-individuals/
• How The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to track the “manosphere”
• Communities are not fungible
• Is NearlyFreeSpeech.NET anti-AI?
• The Software Sovereignty Scale
• Social media has stopped churning out megastars, and it's remaking the creator economy
• ICE activity is pushing readers to nonprofit news sites that cover immigrant communities
• https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/youtube-relaxes-monetization-guidelines-for-some-controversial-topics/
• The pitch deck is dead. Write a pitch.md instead.
• https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/13/1/250377/479652/Using-prediction-markets-and-forecasting-surveys
• Have I hardened against LLMs?
• Speaking Out
• https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/super-bowl-breaks-advertising-rules/
• https://socialmedialab.ca/2025/04/21/the-hidden-game-how-scammers-use-chameleon-ads-to-bypass-metas-moderation/
• Article: The Fallen Apple
• Zombie Pipeline: Why Sable is Still a Pipe Dream
• Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
• We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world
• Crypto Bros Nauseated After Realizing Bitcoin Itself Was Funded by Jeffrey Epstein
• The hottest job in tech: Writing words
• https://darekkay.com/atom.xml
• major feed services will tell you about the readership of your feed in the header of their requests apparently, this is visible in server logs as Darek Kay discovered in 2021
• The Tech Elites in the Epstein Files
• The radical confidence of Generative AI and MAGA (Spilling Ink #14)
• A letter to the 300 axed Washington Post staffers from Carole Cadwalladr
• Adblocking ≠ Piracy
• Inside the Minneapolis restaurant that has stopped charging for food until ICE leaves the city
• Ditching bike helmets laws better for health
• Stealing cable has evolved: the new face of TV piracy
• As the nation’s eyes turn to Minneapolis, they’re also turning to Minnesota Public Radio
• Claude Says Non to Ads
• Ad Blockers didn’t help kill the open web
• Jeff Bezos Is Destroying What’s Left Of The Washington Post To Please Our Dim, Unpopular Autocrats
• Gambling advertising spend continues to fall in the UK led by £30M drop in TV ads
• Topics API Review
• A Taxonomy of the Broligarchs
• Here's how I know more people read my personal blog via RSS then any other platform
• Firefox 148 Will Let You Block All Built-In AI Features
• https://www.gendigital.com/blog/insights/research/scam-ad-machine-meta
• https://antimonopoly.ca/report-world-of-scams-the-fraud-problem-at-the-heart-of-online-advertising/
• CROSS SITE TRACKING SURVIVES: Data Broker Pixel Case Heads To Discovery Under CIPA And ECPA
• Sports betting reshaped newsrooms, and it’s “a little gross.” Now, here come the prediction markets
• AI controls are coming to Firefox
• The Dumbest Thing I’ve Seen This Week
• The Big Tech Walkout 2025
• Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025
• https://danluu.com/codenames/
• The ICE Resistance That You’re Not Seeing
• Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
• The job losses are real — but the AI excuse is fake
• Microsoft’s Quiet Exodus: Why Enterprise Developers Are Abandoning Windows for Linux Workstations
• Please Don’t Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In
• The Hidden Threat in Your Search Results: How Mac Malware Infiltrates Google’s Advertising Ecosystem
• Pluralistic: Disenshittification Nation (29 Jan 2026)
• The World Files for Economic Divorce from America
• Google ‘exploring updates’ to let publishers opt out of AI Overviews
• Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,069
• The digital noose and what you can do about it.
• Court Filing Claims Zuckerberg Blocked Curbs at Meta on Sex-Talking Chatbots for Minors
• Google Exploring Ways To Allow Sites To Opt Out Of AI Overviews & AI Mode
• Books as signifiers, the paradox of tolerance, and Nazi bars
• "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again
• The Dependency Layer in Digital Sovereignty
• How the new era of CEO supervillains are trapped in their own ideology
• Ubiquiti: The U.S. Tech Enabling Russia’s Drone War
• Meta Is Blocking Links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
• Nudify app proliferation shows naked ambition of Apple and Google
• Supreme Court to decide how 1988 videotape privacy law applies to online video
• https://werd.io/always-punch-up/
• “IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial
• Indonesia to Buy KAAN Fighter Jet Only If Free of U.S. Components
• France to replace US videoconferencing wares with unfortunately named sovereign alternative
• Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
• https://www.fantasticanachronism.com/p/how-i-made-10k-predicting-which-papers-will-replicate
• The missing 66% of your skillset
• A Man Bought Meta’s AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert in Search of Aliens
• When AdTech Misrepresent Their Own A/B Tests
• https://ai-delete.org/
• With ‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ Korean women hold the sword, the microphone — and possibly an Oscar
• Congress Wants To Hand Your Parenting To Big Tech
• Grains of sand prove people – not glaciers – transported Stonehenge rocks
• I research the harm that can come to teenagers on social media. I don’t support a ban
• ICE Releases RFI for User Tracking Tools
• Sony hands TV business to TCL. What it means for you.
• How the ‘confident authority’ of Google AI Overviews is putting public health at risk
• NCAA has its prop bet ban request sunk by Missouri watchdog
• Against Markdown
• Meet the Minneapolis Neighbors Standing Up to ICE by the Thousands
• Backseat Software
• Into the abyss
• How much can a city take?
• ‘NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books’
• Your Search Button Powers my Smart Home
• Meta's Legal Team Abandoned Its Ethical Duties
• Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI
• Yann LeCun’s new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models
• Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W
• It's Time to Count the Cost of Freedom
• https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/01/23/clean-steel-in-the-making-inside-europes-future-green-metallurgical-plants
• Canada Prepares for the What-if Moment
• 'AI' is a dick move, redux
• Meta wants to block data about social media use, mental health in child safety trial
• The Weighted Highland Cow Scam: How it Works and Where to Buy a Real Highland Cow
• People who use chatbots for news consider them unbiased and “good enough,” new study finds
• It's Not Just a Prisoner's Dilemma
• Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS
• Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback
• https://berjon.com/chimeralogist/
• What Satya Nadella actually said at Davos about the AI bubble
• Pluralistic: Google's AI pricing plan (21 Jan 2026)
• Majority of CEOs Alarmed as AI Delivers No Financial Returns
• https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/cricutstickers.html
• https://www.theverge.com/tech/864601/zipline-drone-delivery-food-takeout-texas
• Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots
• A Website To End All Websites
• https://sfdps.org/
• https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/05/1020376/resist-big-tech-surveillance-data/
• Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IVb: Training Hoplites?
• https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/tran.70048
• Slop is Everywhere For Those With Eyes to See
• Russian Propaganda Infects AI Chatbots
• [$] A free and open-source rootkit for Linux
• California’s Opt Me Out Act: Your Privacy Just Got Easier
• Just the Browser: scripts to remove all the crap from your browser
• Dingbat Imperialism, the Lowest Stage of Capitalism
• https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/research/HaidtRausch_WHR_2026_Jan14.pdf
• Meta's Internal Research
• https://stubgroup.com/blog/google-ads-new-trademark-policy/
• ‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk
• I used AI chatbots as a source of news for a month, and they were unreliable and erroneous
• Breaking: ‘Tommy Robinson’ appears to admit to searching for gay underage sex
• Why Every Country Should Set 16 (or Higher) as the Minimum Age for Social Media Accounts
• The Megawatt Mirage: NVIDIA's $4.5 Trillion Valuation Depends on a Grid That Cannot Deliver
• Personal Details of Thousands of Border Patrol and ICE Goons Allegedly Leaked in Huge Data Breach
• If AI coding is so good … where are the performance numbers?
• Newsrooms are taking comments seriously again
• https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/kaiser-members-get-cash-46-million-privacy-21295417.php
• US tech giants allying with European far-right to strip back EU rules
• https://www.afr.com/world/asia/advertising-group-dentsu-s-push-to-sell-global-unit-close-to-collapse-20260114-p5nu2a
• Just the Browser helps you remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers
• what’s permuting itself around in my head, part one:
• Linux in the Air
• ‘More focused on advertising than ever before’: Nearly all of X’s top 100 advertisers returned, ads boss claims
• Battle Lines Are Drawn (Predictions 2026, #2)
• Its Your Job To Keep Your Secrets
• AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them
• EXCLUSIVE: Mike Pence's Group Hires Former Heritage Legal Scholar Amid Exodus From Think Tank
• Google removes some AI health summaries after investigation finds “dangerous” flaws
• Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized
• https://insideunmannedsystems.com/in-first-attack-by-uuv-ukraines-sub-sea-baby-drone-blasted-russian-black-sea-kilo-submarine/
• Google pushing Gemini into Gmail, but you can turn it off
• Big Oil Knows That Trump’s Venezuela Plans Are Delusional
• 💬🗞️ Why newsrooms are taking comments seriously again
• When Google Locked the Door, Three MIT Students Picked the Lock
• Resistance honeypots
• https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/ruling-on-another-website-wiretapping-8653616/
• Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow
• Toward a Proof of Concept for MyTerms
• This Free Script Disables Every AI Feature in Windows 11
• How Did TVs Get So Cheap?
• X accuses music publishers of ‘weaponizing’ DMCA takedowns
• I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great
• AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse
• Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
• https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/09/boffins_probe_commercial_ai_models/
• Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life
• Grok generates bikini pics of children — UK, US oddly powerless
• How Markdown took over the world
• Google is taking over your Gmail inbox with AI
• Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them
• Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
• How to disable Gemini on Android, Gmail, Chrome, Photos, & Google apps. Opt out of AI tracking now!
• https://torontolife.com/city/a-mississauga-grass-by-law-has-been-struck-down-over-freedom-of-expression/?%E2%80%A6
• https://eurovoix.com/2025/12/17/moldova-selectia-nationala-2026-finalists-revealed/
• https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/hacktivist-deletes-white-supremacist-websites-live-on-stage-during-hacker-conference/
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says it will cease operations in May
• https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/09/court-fetishizes-facebooks-tos-statement-that-it-takes-appropriate-content-moderation-actions-calise-v-meta.htm
• Gamified War in Ukraine: Points, Drones, and the New Moral Economy of Killing
• A New Maritime Policy Agenda
• Can Mamdani and Khan Prove the Public Still Has Power?
• Trump’s ‘American Dominance’ May Leave Us With Nothing
• Markdown Fixup: An Opinionated Markdown Linter
• The year of technoligarchy
• Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit
• January 7, 2026 at 6:50 PM UTC.
• Architecting Consent for AI: Deceptive Patterns in Firefox Link Previews
• Media In 2026: From Managed Decline To Ruthless Independence
• Don’t Let These Privacy Shifts Blindside You In 2026
• https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/01/01/frontline-report-2026-01-01/
• How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem
• Mamdani Announces Full McGuinness Road Diet, Finishing a Job Halted by Adams
• Someone made a ton of money betting on Maduro’s capture
• Children Falling Apart as They Become Addicted to AI
• Why Developers Are Ditching Frameworks for Vanilla JavaScript
• The US Is Attempting Regime Change In Venezuela
• The Threat from America
• Apple Vision Pro is failing. Heres why that matters.
• Drake accused of using an online gambling platform to inflate play counts of his music
• How Grok's sexual abuse hit a tipping point
• Again: EuroStack is an Industrial Project
• ACME, a brief history of one of the protocols which has changed the Internet Security
• Why Secondhand Is Now Better Than New
• 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
• How about a Markdown Web?
• https://jnack.com/blog/2010/01/26/sympathy_for_the_devil/
• Why Mechanized Warfare Will Still Be Decisive in the Next Land War
• Glyph Lefkowitz: The Next Thing Will Not Be Big
• https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/csrf-protection-without-tokens-or-hidden-form-fields
• https://www.amazingcto.com/postgres-for-everything/
• The Year Canada Grew Up
• Meta created ‘playbook’ to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, documents show
• Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026)
• The Enshittifinancial Crisis
• https://www.independent.ie/business/digital-euro-what-it-is-and-how-we-will-use-the-new-form-of-cash/a165973061.html
• https://www.calishat.com/2025/01/01/five-ways-google-could-improve-search-in-2025-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-ai/
• Biophobia: why some people hate nature – and what you can do about it
• Why Canada Has a Stake in Hegseth’s War Crimes
• Sabotaging Bitcoin
• loss32: let’s build a Win32/Linux
• Honey’s Dieselgate: Detecting and Tricking Testers
• Inside Denmark's strategy to front run Europe on Big Tech deals
• China drafts world’s strictest rules to end AI-encouraged suicide, violence
• https://store.boingboing.net/sales/microsoft-windows-11-pro-7
• https://store.boingboing.net/sales/microsoft-office-professional-2021-for-windows-lifetime-license-8
• Musician Cancelled as AI Falsely Accuses Him of Horrific Crimes
• The Year of the 3D Printed Miniature (And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves)
• broke a man’s AI-powered smart glasses
• The America We Still Carry in Our Hearts
• After Outcry, Firefox Promises “Kill Switch” That Turns Off All AI Features
• Stop the slop by disabling AI features in Chrome
• Make your aging computer feel brand new with Windows 11 Pro, now just $10
• Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical chord with Uncle Sam's big tech
• Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI
• Unix V4 Update
• The ANA’s “Words of the Year”: A Decade-Long Record of Saying Things No One Can Say With a Straight Face
• Architecting Consent for AI: How Mozilla Uses Deceptive Patterns in Firefox
• Critics rush to torrent “60 Minutes” episode CBS is accused of censoring
• https://thenewstack.io/open-source-inside-2025s-4-biggest-trends/
• Google Built Its Empire Scraping The Web. Now It’s Suing To Stop Others From Scraping Google
• Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed
• https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/03/in-2025-venture-capital-cant-pretend-everything-is-fine-any-more/
• Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?
• ‘Bari Weiss Steps Onto the CBS News Glass Cliff of Doom’
• https://www.afterbabel.com/p/australia-social-meda-minimum-age-misunderstood
• https://www.thedrum.com/news/watch-mark-ritson-share-his-10-global-marketing-moments-of-2025
• NO THRILL RIDE FOR SIX FLAGS: California Court Lets All Seven CIPA, Privacy and Federal Wiretap Claims Proceed Over Alleged Cookie Tracking on Ticketing Website
• https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/how-the-mad-men-lost-the-plot-again?triedRedirect=true
• rereading: because books are art, and art is labor
• How to Find the Innovation ‘Off’ Switch (In One Easy Step)
• https://www.relyance.ai/consumer-ai-trust-survey-2025
• Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
• Is Firefox Firefucked?
• Revisiting The Ivy League “Super Conformer” Thesis
• Journalists finally break Big Tech’s free-speech spell
• We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars...
• https://publichealthpolicyjournal.com/snapchat-is-addictive-and-bad-for-kids-mental-health-company-officials-know-it-emails-show/
• https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16227249
• https://www.heise.de/en/news/Austria-s-highest-court-prohibits-Meta-Platforms-business-model-11120493.html
• https://www.androidpolice.com/gemini-remove-your-recent-activity-tutorial/
• The Open Internet Can Still Win If Buyers and Sellers Unite Around Radical Transparency
• Boost for artists in AI copyright battle as only 3% back UK active opt-out plan
• Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?
• Computers should not act like human beings
• Are Apple Gift Cards Safe to Redeem?
• Mozilla’s new CEO: Firefox will become an “AI browser”
• Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices Across the Economy
• https://medium.com/%40GeometricNecessity/the-unofficial-official-destroyer-of-google-when-an-algorithm-authenticates-its-own-threat-c684c2ec02fa
• https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ai-is-about-to-empty-madison-avenue-58ab2ea2
• Meta tolerates rampant ad fraud from China to safeguard billions in revenue | Reuters
• FIT FOR A LAWSUIT?: VPPA Claims Against Zumba Survive Motion to Dismiss
• The year journalism goes underground in America
• 2025 Word of the Year: Slop
• https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-glue-pizza-i-tried-it-2024-5
• https://www.thedrum.com/opinion/mark-ritson-martin-lewis-shouldn-t-be-alone-in-calling-out-metas-lucrative-scam-ads
• Ukrainians sue US chip firms for powering Russian drones, missiles
• Take-Down of the Take-Down: The Bankers are Wrong About Interest Rate Caps
• A Take-Down of the Take-Down
• Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union, with 165 workers at Doom studio the latest to vote in favour
• Trump’s CFPB Waves the White Flag on the Military Lending Act to Give MoneyLion a Sweetheart Deal. Why?
• https://www.makeuseof.com/oo-shutup10-the-free-tool-to-stop-hidden-windows-tracking/
• How CA Tried to Address Algorithmic and Surveillance Pricing (Part 2)
• Introducing the Forklift Certified License
• Let’s power AI with supersonic jet engine turbines!
• https://www.platformocracy.com/p/rant-meta-is-earning-billions-from-scams-and-fraud-their-lack-of-transparency-is-an-insult
• https://www.platformocracy.com/p/inside-my-battles-with-google-trust-safety
• WINE Cooler
• WINE Cooler
• MILLION DOLLAR PIXEL: Court Approves $900k Class Settlement in VPPA Case, Awarding Over $200k in Attorneys Fees
• Please make THIS AI crash NOW
• Department of Defense goes to war by AI chatbot
• Stiff-Necked.
• On Brainrot
• 2025 was the year tech embraced fakeness • Indicator
• Microsoft cuts AI sales quotas, stock drops 3%
• Revenue diversity is the path forward
• The media will become terminally addicted to gambling
• Australia’s New Social Media Regulations Put Childhood First
• EU-US Data Transfers: Time to prepare for more trouble to come
• Same Cart, Different Price: Instacart's Price Experiments Cost Families
• Boiling Frogs.
• Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla
• Why RSS matters
• Fascintern Media
• https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/firefox-scrollbars.html
• That huge fake NFL ticket scam? It fueled an online sports betting addiciton
• Europe to investigate Google over use of publisher content for AI
• The newsroom’s AI has an agenda
• Song Sung Blue.
• Tell the City What You Think About the Neighborhood Greenway Pilot Project
• https://www.consumerreports.org/media-room/press-releases/2025/12/new-report-exposes-instacarts-hidden-price-games/
• https://european-security.com/cesspool-and-chaos-the-russian-connection-in-the-epstein-affair/
• How to quit Spotify - by Brian Merchant
• https://thecritic.co.uk/bust-the-big-tech-cartel/
• Edge Shopping Stand-Down Violations
• That huge fake NFL ticket scam? It fueled an online sports betting addiciton. And it’s going to get worse
• Google AI mangles news headlines in ‘Discover’ feed
• Quant who said passive era is ‘worse than Marxism’ doubles down
• Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal
• https://marlinsem.com/google-ads-for-locksmiths/
• Drones to Diplomas: How Russia’s Largest Private University is Linked to a $25M Essay Mill
• Nearly 15 Years Later, the Detroit RoboCop Statue Has Finally Found a Home
• Journalism’s songwriter era
• Meta’s Child Sex-Trafficking Problem
• Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas
• AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
• ★ Alan Dye Was in Tim Cook’s Blind Spot
• Mark Dufour: Shed Skin restricted-Python-to-C++ compiler v0.9.11
• ★ Bad Dye Job
• New Report Finds That Quality Pays Off In Programmatic – And It’s Not More Expensive
• We see something that works, and then we understand it
• Good Riddance
• https://www.techpolicy.press/how-to-test-new-yorks-algorithmic-pricing-law/
• Killing Shipwrecked Survivors is Not Just Illegal—It Endangers U.S. Servicemembers
• Inside the Regency ballroom: what you’d experience on a night out with Jane Austen
• 👋 Introducing Roundabout: built for neighbors, with neighbors
• The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
• The Soldier in the Illiberal State is a Professional Dead End
• Prices in the Machine
• Meet the journalist tracking 'tech fascism' and the implications for democracy
• I looked into CoreWeave and the abyss gazed back
• Selling the Poor on Spending Like They’re Rich
• https://www.inc.com/marty-swant/if-google-referral-traffic-goes-to-zero-will-your-business-go-to-zero-too/91266971
• 'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting
• Sources of America’s Hidden Inflation
• Why banana bread is the solution to the world’s fraud problem
• Even by a Strict Definition, Elon Musk Is a Fascist
• Swiss government says give M365, and all SaaS, a miss as it lacks E2EE
• https://www.404media.co/unauthorized-edit-to-ukraines-frontline-maps-point-to-polymarkets-war-betting/~
• https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/california-solving-solar-power-problems-21207873.php
• Shadow Fleet Crisis Deepens: Third Tanker Incident off Senegal Follows Black Sea Drone Strikes
• November 28, 2025Five ways to keep Ukraine in your news feed
• American Customers Are Madder Than Ever...
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• Journalist.net: The platform enabling any publisher to draw on global newsroom
• Deloitte just got caught again citing fabricated and AI-generated research—this time in a million-dollar report for the Canadian government
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• The Rent Is Too Damn High: Did Trump Just 'Bless' Using AI to Jack Up Rents?
• Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots)
• On contrarian history
• Facts and Fiction on the California Invasion of Privacy Act and the problematic SB 690
• When “Pixel Cases” Meet Reality: A New CIPA Order Everyone Should Pay Attention To
• Consumer Reports revives a 1940s-era newsletter for cash-strapped Americans on Substack
• Rust Belt cities may have shrinking populations, but their newspapers have a big traffic edge over Sun Belt peers
• https://www.thedrum.com/opinion/mark-ritson-black-friday-was-born-in-misery-and-still-screws-brands-today
• You probably shouldn't block AI bots from your website
• Please, please do our reader survey
• Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worse
• Court Filings Allege Meta Downplayed Risks to Children and Misled the Public
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• Why We’re Not Using AI in This Course, Despite Its Obvious Benefits
• https://www.zdnet.com/article/only-8-of-americans-would-pay-extra-for-ai-according-to-zdnet-aberdeen-research/
• Publishers will lack the courage to cut ties with Google without a full break-up
• On the Internet No One Knows You’re a “MAGA patriot” in Lagos
• How good are Chinese CPUs? Benchmarking the Loongson 3A6000
• Pakistan says rooftop solar output to exceed grid demand in some hubs next year
• https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/25/the-fediverse-is-getting-its-own-tiktok-competitor-called-loops/
• Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege
• Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
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