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- 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
- A conservative crackdown on advertisers has forced a 'brand safety' reset
- 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
- context
- 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
- Gilead
- 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
- Mustri et al.
- open-source marketing mix modeling software
- ByteDance makes it a big three
- WPP's dire profit warning is the last thing the ad business needs as it grapples with the impact of AI
- 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
- Taylor Owen: Canadians now see the US as the most serious disinfo threat
- What Happened When Hitler Took On Germany’s Central Banker
- 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
- We Need To Talk About Sloppers
- *The Price of Victory*
- Eyeo Names New CEO, Cuts 40% Of Staff And Refocuses The Business On Privacy
- Crib Sheet: A Conventional Boy
- Money by Vile Means
- Why We Need to Stop Subsidizing Venture Capitalists
- There’s enough natural hydrogen in the Earth’s crust to help power the green energy transition
- Regulators Want Privacy In Practice – Not Just On Paper
- Official Trailer for ‘Spinal Tap II’ Film Unveiled
- 2025-07-27 a technical history of alcatraz
- successfully raided Pearl Harbor twice
- like the man said…
- Russian networks flood Internet with propaganda, aiming to corrupt AI chatbots
- CA insurance premiums likely to rise
- Shorting Your Rivals: A Radical Antitrust Remedy
- America’s AI Action Plan: Strength Through FAFO
- Cyber Security: A Pre-War Reality Check
- noyb's Pay or Okay report: how companies make you pay for privacy
- Is SoftBank Still Backing OpenAI?
- How did newspapers in places like Harrisburg, Birmingham, and Syracuse become some of America’s most-read online?
- new study
- reduced
- But how to get to that European cloud?
- They worked with the U.S. in Afghanistan. Now Trump could return them to the Taliban
- Europe's Self Inflicted Cloud Crisis
- What is Total Cookie Protection?
- 4.1 Extensions · arkenfox/user.js Wiki
- Facebook ranks worst for online harassment, according to a global activist survey
- Texas Is Getting Tough On Data Protection
- Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now
- Getting off US tech: a guide
- Smartphone Gambling is a Disaster
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1979093
- Is anyone left to defend trust and safety?
- The Washington Post is dying. I can tell you “how.” But not “why.”
- Digital sovereignty - a trend in Europe, sparked by Microsoft.
- The Art of the Really Stupid Deal
- Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
- Bad Actors are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods
- Alameda Linux Installfest
- https://endof10.org/
- https://privacybadger.org/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/
- Unpaywall
- Snooze Tabs
- SingleFile
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rsspreview/
- CourtListener’s RECAP Archive
- PACER
- RECAP
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/personal-blocklist/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/njs/
- LeechBlock
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/udm14/
- Copy Selection as Markdown
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/
- uBO works best on Firefox
- Trump's AI Action Plan is a blueprint for dystopia
- Nobody clicks past Google’s AI Overviews
- Jeff Bezos Reportedly Eyes Purchase of CNBC as Tech Billionaires Gobble Up Media
- Enshittification and the Bitterness of Billionaire Bros
- Personal aviation is about to get interesting
- After $380M hack, Clorox sues its “service desk” vendor for simply giving out passwords
- Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
- The General Theory of Enshittification
- crib
- LiveRamp
- Some authorized agent providers are selling privacy snake oil and why it needs to stop
- Has Brazil Invented the Future of Money?
- Cheap.
- How big tech is force-feeding us AI
- Steel in the Storm: Recent Wars as Guides for Armor Transformation
- The Mistake Parents Make With Chores
- Pluralistic: Conservatism considered as a movement of bitter rubes (22 Jul 2025)
- Nazario v. Bytedance Ltd.
- Tieman Tire
- King Arthur Baking
- got switched over
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2n4w5r7
- Off Kilter 205: Personal Insanity.
- AI generates bullshit jobs
- Michael Catanzaro: Fedora Must (Carefully) Embrace Flathub
- The accelerating enshittification of search
- 🦊 How to Firefox
- Off Kilter 203: Plumbing Not Prophets.
- Microsoft can't protect French data from US government access
- Microsoft can't protect French data from US government access
- https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-mom-whose-teen-son-died-subway-surfing-can-sue-tiktok-instagram-judge-says
- The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
- 3 shell scripts: Kill weasel words, avoid the passive, eliminate duplicates
- Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point
- Local LLMs versus offline Wikipedia
- first published
- Let’s all try to help Substack live up to its new valuation
- Ten Steps to Linux Survival by Jim Lehmer
- Automate the Boring Stuff with Python
- Your Linux Toolbox | No Starch Press
- Wizard Zines Collection by Julia Evans
- Linux: The Comprehensive Guide by Michael Kofler
- Why I Wrote the Linux Cookbook, Second Edition
- Linux Cookbook, 2nd Edition by Carla Schroder
- Linux Installfest - Alameda | Alameda Free Library
- 'Thrown to the wolves!' Texan who fled LGBTQ 'indoctrination' sent to Russia's front line
- this should not be possible
- The Number Go Up Rule: Why America Refuses to Fix Anything
- One reason I love Indiana
- Could AI slow science?
- William F. Buckley’s Bill Never Came Due
- Conservatives Shouldn't Oppose California's Potential Zoning Reforms
- Fascism For First Time Founders
- How Blender won over the design world
- EXCLUSIVE: HP Is Launching an Ad Business With Laptop-Targeted Ads and a Streaming Service
- sometimes, I think of ponies
- Platitude Attitude.
- WeTransfer says user content will not be used to train AI after backlash
- Scripting News
- Gaslight-driven development
- Three Ways to Remove AI From Google
- China’s ‘nightmare’ youth revolution was lit by its neurotic authoritarian leader, Mao Zedong. What can we learn from it?
- The Mobile Report
- Suspected AI Content Halves Reader Trust and Hurts Ad Performance
- Marketing Mag
- Surveillance Marketing
- Surveillance Advertising
- Surveillance Capitalism
- The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
- https://www.trustmeimascientist.com/2013/08/05/modern-hi-fi-what-really-happened-to-the-high-end-stereo-market/
- What’s the right way to talk about AI?
- Why I’m getting off US tech
- A senior Apple exec could be jailed in Epic case; it’s time to end this disaster
- The hammer falls on Apple’s malicious-compliance scheme
- the Microsoft Windows game Minesweeper caused a moral panic
- Fiduciary Duties
- Third-Party Cookies
- https://funcheaporfree.com/what-to-buy-from-costco/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/
- (delayed) Cutting Edge
- Disable These Two Settings to Stop T-Mobile From Harvesting Even More of Your Data
- How Eurostack could offer Canada a route to digital independence from the United States
- ‘Johnny Mnemonic’ predicted our addictive digital future
- Death by a thousand slops
- Attention is All You Need
- What to Do When You See ICE in Your Neighborhood
- https://thatshubham.com/blog/ai
- Cultural theory was right about the death of the author. It was just a few decades early
- Not So Fast: AI Coding Tools Can Actually Reduce Productivity
- AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower
- US Citizen Naturalization Ceremony on USS Hornet
- systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success
- OpenAI May Be in Major Trouble Financially
- Cursor tries setting less money on fire — AI vibe coders outraged
- Prime Day is a scam
- YouTube Pirates Are Cashing In on Hollywood’s Summer Blockbusters
- Beware of the Google AI salesman and its cronies
- Careless People
- The Future of Forums is Lies, I Guess
- https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5318708
- War has changed: Ukraine’s tech pioneers are leading the fight West can’t afford to ignore
- Inside Wikipedia’s AI revolt—and what it means for the media
- French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft
- https://www.techpolicy.press/republican-budget-bill-signals-new-era-in-federal-surveillance/
- https://thedefender.media/en/2025/07/syndicated-deals-in-defense-startups/
- This is the gentle singularity?
- The budget bill opens the floodgates for state surveillance tech and bad AI
- Costco’s Kirkland brand is bigger than Nike—and it’s about to get even bigger
- Rage of the Oligarchs Naomi Klein: ’What They Want Is Absolutely Everything
- https://mediacat.uk/the-anatomy-of-anatomy-of-humbug-ten-years-on/
- What Do We Do With All This Consumer Rage?
- RSS feed
- Time To Get Serious
- build reputation
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Conservation_and_Recovery_Act
- Honda case
- lifted its 2019 ban on fingerprinting
- an IAB Tech Lab report
- https://georgetownlawtechreview.org/no-cookies-for-you-evaluating-the-promises-of-big-techs-privacy-enhancing-techniques/GLTR-01-2025/
- at FTC PrivacyCon (PDF)
- Jereth et al.
- catching the same kinds of complaints over lack of consent as any other adtech
- Buried in a clickwrap agreement
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6631088cd0030b10e56a5084/CMA_Q4_2023.pdf
- old ad stack
- fingerprinting
- wrapping up
- stupid shit
- The Mozilla Firefox New Terms of Use Disaster: What Actually Happened?
- Industry groups are not happy about the imminent demise of Energy Star
- Monopoly Round-Up: China Is Not Why America Is Sputtering
- AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
- The AI Slop Presidency
- Crypto Is Still for Criming
- Even a Broken Clock Can Lower Drug Prices
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn
- Antitrust Policy for the Conservative
- https://futurism.com/slop-farmer-ai-social-media
- nightmare
- AI-driven social media
- advertisers are starting to walk away from platforms’ AI solutions that once promised them everything
- Report: Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosplan
- Zuckerberg’s Dystopian AI Vision
- Zuck Says AI Will Make Advertising So Good Its Share of GDP Will Grow
- Mark Zuckerberg just declared war on the entire advertising industry
- Pluralistic: Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again)
- When Your Webcam Doesn’t Work: Solving Firefox and PipeWire Issues
- Data and Firefox Suggest
- Enterprise Policies for Firefox Customization: A Beginner’s Guide
- Trump’s trade war risks splintering the Internet, experts warn
- https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/the-networker-microsoft-shutting-down-email-accounts-of-trumps-foes-should-be-worrying-to-us-all
- http://blog.fnaard.com/2025/05/just-qr-code.html
- How to Improve Your Site’s Typography
- What makes a tech gadget calm? This certification firm has an 81-point checklist
- https://john.onolan.org/12/
- authors
- LibreOffice
- toot from Hugo-award-winning author Charles Stross
- Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI
- https://randsinrepose.com/archives/minimum-viable-curiousity/
- The Weakest Link in AI
- IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice
- AI Cleanup/AI catchphrases, Wikipedia
- Mark Ritson
- uBlock Origin
- unintended identification techniques
- Researchers recently spotted Meta doing a horribly complex surveillance trick called “Localhost tracking”
- The Force-Feeding of AI on an Unwilling Public
- Meta Wins Partial Summary Judgment in AI Infringement Claim
- Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship
- I’m Getting Real Tired Of Not Being Able To Trust That A Video Game Doesn’t Have AI Crap In It
- A People’s History Of Climbing On Cars
- Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it
- Indepth Look at How Madami Beat the Corporate Media
- Meta, TikTok can’t toss wrongful death suit from mom of “subway surfing” teen
- The first American ‘scientific refugees’ arrive in France
- What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like
- How we turned public transit into a multiplayer game
- Saving LEGO® MINDSTORMS® …
- Zelle needs to fix ‘significant scams and fraud,’ lawmakers say
- Nearly 30 % of All Bullsh*t Online Is Health Related
- Google will stop summarizing recipes in search results
- https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2024/05/31/the-moral-economy-of-the-shire/
- https://cipaworld.com/2025/03/27/the-white-coat-didnt-betray-you-the-pixel-did-judge-keeps-florida-wiretap-case-against-hospital-alive/
- RFK Jr.’s health department calls Nature “junk science,” cancels subscriptions
- Podcast: Minnesota assassin used data brokers as a deadly weapon
- https://www.politico.eu/article/digital-sovereignty-us-brussels-belgium-trade-talks-tech/
- Understanding Website Tracking and How to Limit It
- CALIFORNIA RAISES THE STAKES: AG Bonta Announces – Largest Ever – $1.55 Million Settlement With Healthline For Using Website Tracking AdTech In Violation Of The CCPA
- One of the Biggest Obstacles to Building New CA Housing Has Now Vanished
- https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/burner-phone-101-central-library-info-20250816-0100pm
- ‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work
- CIPA LITIGATION RISK CONTINUES!: Senate Bill 690 – Exempting Website Tracking Technologies From California’s Wiretap Law – Moves Forward As A Two-Year Bill, Potentially Carrying Over Into The 2026 Legislative Session
- Vulgar, horny and threatening
- Law360 mandates reporters use AI “bias” detection on all stories
- The New Troll Diet
- Alameda Electric Rates to Increase by 4% Starting July 1
- and even classrooms
- https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/04/duolingo-replaces-its-contractors-with-ai-courses-with-slop/
- auto-generated accessibility problems
- legal briefs
- bogus articles
- https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/17/how-to-make-a-splash-in-ai-economics-fake-your-data/
- Meta Battles an ‘Epidemic of Scams’ as Criminals Flood Instagram and Facebook
- https://fortune.com/2025/05/09/klarna-ai-humans-return-on-investment/
- https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/03/in-2025-venture-capital-cant-pretend-everything-is-fine-any-more/
- Brave1
- https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-ai-powered-mother-drone-sees-first-combat-use-minister-says/
- https://behavioralscientist.org/it-isnt-a-replication-crisis-its-a-replication-opportunity/
- Why Meta is in trouble in Nigeria and what this means for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users
- Google is using AI to censor independent websites like mine
- Kohler Doing Damage Control After CEO Admits He Never Uses Toilets
- other problems
- DesertIslandTest
- internally generated “inferences”
- actual malware
- real privacy
- European Defense Tech brought engineers together for the first time for a hackathon for the front lines in Ukraine
- Trying to avoid a heart attack, Instagram attacked me with ads
- Priced Out: How Surveillance Pricing Leaves People with Disabilities At Risk
- Vermont state legislators: Big Tech doesn’t want you to know what’s happening to your kids online. We do.
- German court rules cookie banners must offer “reject all” button
- largely crap
- California Privacy Protection Agency decision in a recent online retailer case
- https://aphyr.com/posts/387-the-future-of-customer-support-is-lies-i-guess
- according to Teaganne Finn and Amanda Downie at IBM
- Taylor Swift now owns all the music she has ever made: a copyright expert breaks it down
- https://adage.com/agencies/aa-wpp-publicis-epsilon-ssp-spat/
- Why Denmark Is Dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux
- https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-urges-immediate-action-meta-prevent-investment-scam
- The Guardian’s new whistleblower tool buries leaks to journalists within its own readers’ everyday traffic
- https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/04/Web-is-Broken-Botnet-Part-2/
- A Letter to Europe
- Children need the freedom to play on driveways and streets again – here’s how to make it happen
- Texas Right to Repair bill passes, heads to the governor’s desk
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Pakistan
- Texas Legislature Beats Back Assault on Clean Energy
- https://bowshock.nl/irc/
- Musk’s threat to sue firms that don’t buy ads on X seems to have paid off
- Utah Study on Trans Youth Care Extremely Inconvenient for Politicians Who Ordered It
- Please tell us Reg: Why are AI PC sales slower than expected?
- A plausible, scalable and slightly wrong black box: why large language models are a fascist technology that cannot be redeemed
- https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/toolmen
- Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
- Hurricanes are getting so bad, we need a new category, expert warns
- Kurt Vonnegut
- America’s Newest Gamblers Are Playing a Dangerous Game
- Rosemary has been linked to better memory, lower anxiety and even protection from Alzheimer’s
- Trump’s FTC may impose merger condition that forbids advertising boycotts
- https://aiforensics.org/work/meta-health-ads
- Meta Busted Spying on Android Users In Extremely Creepy New Way, Then Lies About It
- https://heather-buchel.com/blog/2025/05/broken-promises/
- The Promise That Wasn’t Kept
- solving CAPTCHAs
- doubtful
- Verizon
- https://gizmodo.com/twitter-bot-problem-metamask-support-crypto-elon-musk-1850808172
- X’s Sales Pitch: Give Us Your Ad Business or We’ll Sue - WSJ
- Manus
- How to Actually Start Using AI Agents Today
- Microsoft surprises MS-DOS fans with remake of ancient text editor that works on Linux
- early-2000s peak
- Getting off US tech is no easy task
- Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds
- Trump’s FTC announces merger condition that prohibits advertising boycotts
- https://aramzs.github.io/open-source/2025/06/25/rss-is-the-way-most-people-read-my-blog.html
- https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/06/24/new-zine--the-secret-rules-of-the-terminal/
- Wall Street Tells Google to Break Itself Up
- Check My Ads Institute Policy Platform
- North Korean drone strikes as a service
- databases of assassination targets
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obligate_anaerobe
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andon_%28manufacturing%29
- Don’t Be Evil - Agency Hackers
- you did it all wrong and they need to turn on some feature Google happens to want to push
- CMA reports
- Link-Busters
- monetized by Google
- An individual who owns a site and wants to keep their legal name confidential
- content category
- Ads Transparency Center
- wants this
- new board-level committee on how to be less evil
- https://aeon.co/essays/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-is-a-false-and-dangerous-myth
- generous cafeteria visitor policy and all
- Old Google
- Ukraine’s Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software
- I Fought in Ukraine and Here’s Why FPV Drones Kind of Suck
- https://cristinacaffarra.blog/2025/06/26/european-digital-sovereignty-is-an-industrial-project-everyone-else-get-out-of-the-way/
- China breaks more records with surge in solar and wind power
- Make Fun Of Them
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/here-s-a-tip-to-companies-beware-of-promoting-ai-in-products/ar-AA1HDkwE
- Why Big Tech Turned Against Democrats — and Democracy
- Audiences Prove that the Experts Are Dead Wrong
- https://polinazabrodskaya.substack.com/p/i-fact-checked-this-cannes-winning
- Ars reflects on Apollo 13 turning 30
- Generative AI’s crippling and widespread failure to induce robust models of the world
- ★ More on Apple’s Trust-Eroding ‘F1 The Movie’ Wallet Ad
- Yes, establishment Democrats of New York, “vote blue no matter who” still applies
- Consent or pay: judicial review threat forces ICO into action, top website pays compensation
- ‘Consent or pay’ is likely unlawful and must not be entertained by regulators
- California’s Corporate Cover-Up Act Is a Privacy Nightmare
- https://newsletter.counteroffensive.pro/p/amazon-for-drones-and-ew-how-the-brave1-market-works-b4c2
- Open Source, AI, and the Global War on Fascism
- Building on ATProto
- Scoop: WhatsApp banned on House staffers' devices
- Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book