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• Van Hollen Demands Answers From Zuckerberg Over No Kings Accounts
• Devs Shouldn't Have To Protect Their Games, Valve Should Be Protecting Their Shopfront
• A Longitudinal Study of Extended User IDs in the Online Advertising Ecosystem
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• What’s new in the W3C Website Design System
• Publishers pressure Meta to nix new terms that would let the company scrape their websites
• Meta shocked by $25B fine after N.M. refused to join multistate settlement
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• Hackers built a ‘Skynet mode’ agent that hijacks other people’s AI models to run its attacks
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• @citizenlab
• Why I Resist Generative “AI”
• No iPad Till After Dinner, Mom
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• U.K. politicians and German publishers call on regulators to pause Meta’s new terms before October 30 deadline
• People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again
• Apple Domain Blocking and the Cost to Publishers
• https://peoples-things.ghost.io/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype/
• https://app.sciencesays.com/p/the-disability-inclusion-effect
• https://iabeurope.eu/recent-reports-concerning-a-tcf-vendor-discover-tech/
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-5-walled-garden-now-agent-itself-jamie-smith--venae/
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• Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool
• Publishers want Brussels and London to stop Meta’s new AI terms
• California ant war killed 15 million workers in 6 months, researchers found
• Budapest Audio Expo 2026
• Facebook tries to grab all news publisher website content for training for free
• The Only Conscious Caretaker
• $1200-$1800 For A Console Is Such Commercial Suicide I Can't Even Muster A 'Get The Fuck Outta Here' About The News
• Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today
• Battle over Meta’s alleged Bolsonaro bias intensifies days before Brazil presidential runoff
• Apple breaks its silence on the privacy crackdown that’s roiled the online ad industry
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• Sears Sold 75,000 DIY Mail Order Homes Between 1908 and 1939, and Transformed American Life
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• #paleoenshittification
• Accident Or Not, The No Kings Takedown Is Why You Shouldn’t Rent Your Megaphone From Zuck
• Visiting Slate’s first showroom as its $25,000 electric truck nears production
• Sprout Pi Mainboard
• Court appears likely to allow internet suit based on decades-old video privacy law to go forward
• Judge Orders Meta to Name Employees Who Approved Torrenting Anna’s Archive and LibGen
• ‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the New Wild West of AI
• Apple Publishes Its Plan To Wipe Out Web Tracking
• https://dev.to/bhaible/customizing-firefox-to-be-less-alien-184e
• The Free Internet Was Just a Subsidized Loan, and Now Big Tech Is Collecting
• Scripting News
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reader_service_card
• The French youth revolt (Caitlin Dewey/Vox)
• Prediction markets are now ‘bespoke insurance’ for businesses, and a Los Angeles restaurant group’s $60,000 hedge on Kalshi is the latest example
• Marketing to AI Agents
• Meta shuts down "No Kings" account during major anti-Trump protest
• Did Ukraines data center strikes affect Russias bot army? We now have better evidence.
• Blocking Identity Resolution Infrastructure
• Nick Cave Narrates an Animated Film about the Cat Piano, the Twisted 18th Century Musical Instrument Designed to Treat Mental Illness
• Disney found a way to buy Character.AI without buying its lawsuits
• https://techstrong.it/featured/red-hat-engineering-director-uses-ai-to-tackle-linuxs-undocumented-driver-problem/
• https://www.exchangewire.com/blog/2026/10/15/apple-vs-adtech-the-industry-is-losing-an-argument-it-should-be-winning/
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-your-cost-per-acquisition-going-up-rick-bruner-l8osc/
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-3-delegation-impersonation-why-ai-agents-going-jamie-smith--k34qe/
• https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kurt-vonnegut-envelope-quote/
• https://theamericanscholar.org/celestial-jukebox/
• https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-disruption-for-thee-but-not-for-me/
• https://www.adexchanger.com/advertiser/has-the-ad-industry-lost-the-pulse-of-american-consumers/
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• IBM doesn’t need to sell more products, it needs to sell the Enterprise AI Harness it built on itself
• Soviet-Era Illustrations of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1976)
• Everything is Gambling Now
• Meta’s new business terms let it crawl your website to train its AI, with no opt-out
• An OpenAI model had no money for its task, so it unlocked someone else’s crypto wallet and kept quiet
• The Joke Thief
• Google’s AI pinned another man’s sex crime on a doctor, and a German court says Google must answer for it
• Don Marti
• The Business of Making Us Worse
• Which LLM writes the best code? A 2026 comparison
• HTML Can Do That
• ID5 Calls Its Signals Consented. Apple Blocked It Anyway, for Good.
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• Legal experts warn Meta’s new terms still grant broad scraping permissions, despite language changes
• Samsung says the Galaxy Z Fold 8 is more popular than ever thanks to iPhone Duo
• No click required: How the ad industry became a pipeline for mercenary spyware
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• The Supreme Court Is Leaning Toward a Digital Privacy Victory
• Remote work may increase birth rates
• Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees
• How to Enable Global Privacy Control in Every Browser (and Why You Should)
• Targeted ads delivered 0-click exploits to install mercenary malware
• Job seekers are using ‘résumé Botox’ to seem younger. They say it’s helped them land interviews
• Sure, Debates Between Prebid Members Can Get Heated. That’s Why It’s The Programmatic Melting Pot
• Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites, legal experts say
• Mind The Measurement Gap
• Accenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude Per Month
• ADINT: Weaponized Ad Tech for Zero-Click Spyware and Mass Identity Vacuuming
• Big Tech used AI to take what it wanted. Now consumers are fighting back, too
• AI Questions Put Massachusetts Sportsbooks Under Review
• https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/2024/12/at-war-with-cultural-violence-the-critical-reception-of-small-soldiers-tk/
• https://shop.hak5.org/products/screen-crab
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• Canada could save millions by developing its own operating system instead of relying on Microsoft Windows
• After Two Decades Of Performance Marketing Dominance, Brand Is Poised For A Renaissance
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• https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117435767290809939
• Prebid’s Proposed Auction Overhaul Would Do What The Court Wouldn’t: Separate AdX From GAM
• Fingerprints are the new cookies
• Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work
• The visitor said no. The tag ran anyway
• Don Marti
• Annual Report 2025 out now!
• U.S. Army Receives First K9MH Wheeled Self-Propelled Artillery System to Replace M777 Howitzers
• Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones
• I let an AI assistant shop for me and the reviewers got nothing
• What privacy-friendly telemetry looks like
• Mozilla introduces Firefox Enterprise
• Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine
• https://www.leparisien.fr/international/etats-unis/cest-revelateur-kiev-detruit-des-data-centers-russes-lactivite-de-bots-pro-trump-et-pro-afd-seffondre-sur-les-reseaux-sociaux-12-10-2026-XRAO6ILESFB43KSE5GFJXWARRE.php?at_variant=link
• https://aftermath.site/bc250-steam-machine-budget-computer/
• https://gizmodo.com/someone-vibe-coded-a-free-knockoff-of-adobe-creative-suite-2000823322
• https://copyrightlately.com/thomson-reuters-v-ross-fair-use-generative-ai/
• https://themediaonline.co.za/2019/07/we-need-more-expensive-advertising/
• I Tried 'PhotoCraft,' the AI Clone of Photoshop, and It's Almost Exactly Like the Real Thing
• Privacy win: Norwegian Authority fines Microsoft’s Xandr € 8.5 Million
• Don Marti
• The economics of agents
• Decade-old RAM is making a comeback
• Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well
• https://sheets.works/data-viz/how-many-cookies
• https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/6131723-ai-online-scam-losses/
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• https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6140830-fitzpatrick-bill-block-russian-oil/
• Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
• Why Does Gavin Newsom Keep Helping the Oligarchs?
• At Last, A Big Budget Minesweeper
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• Adobe in Trouble After Someone Reverse Engineered Adobe Creative Suite and Released It as Open Source
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• #surveillance
• #ai
• #meta
• Apple & TTD: Nobody Was in the Room Where It Happened
• Scientists just designed the world’s most accurate clock
• https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/opinion/meta-ecommerce-ad-prices.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HFE.74sH.u6LuHB6s_U_w
• AI chatbots are ignoring this prompt from wealthy users, in a phenomenon called ‘adversarial delegation’
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/advertising-measurement-optimizing-technical-business-rick-bruner-r2dec/
• https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways
• https://www.infoworld.com/article/4230316/money-cant-buy-enterprise-trust.html
• Apple’s Safari ad tech blocklist sends publishers back to IAB Tech Lab’s Trusted Server
• “Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
• Performance Max and Advantage+ Grade Their Own Homework
• Facebook Is Letting Accounts Commit Stolen Valor Using AI Slop of Troops in Warzones
• Mistral says "Le Chonk" can challenge the best AI models
• Teaching Havel in Kyiv: Lessons From Ukraine for Trump’s America
• Mistral’s new 1T model aims to leapfrog closed and open rivals
• Dungeons & Dragons, Duel Masters, and Magic: The Gathering Teams Unionize At Hasbro
• Dutch tax office drops Microsoft 365 cloud for own servers and open source
• Omnicom Media digs into the reasons people avoid ads — and offers solutions for clients
• ‘Has flat buttocks,’ ‘cusses when scared’: Amazon keeps shockingly specific customer profiles. Here’s how to find yours
• Meta Rushed to Fix Muse ‘VM Escape' Vulnerability Soon Before Launch
• A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over
• Meta’s Muse Is An Adorable Privacy And Security Dumpster Fire
• My router is not a calculator
• What will happen after AI ? AC !
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• https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:66c5dzsjoocyuwls45m4is7x/post/3mx7xbcjx5f2y
• ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
• Consumer Affairs Commission to Host Town Hall on Affordability
• Don Marti
• Dutch eyewear chain Hans Anders stops selling Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses
• NASA Asked Several Former SR-71A Staffers To Help Secret Restart | Aviation Week
• Don Marti
• #scamCulture
• https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/corpmcd/our-stories/article/how-mcdonalds-sets-prices.html
• Don Marti
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• California just made it legal to turn balconies into tiny power plants
• Don Marti
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• The first AI agent worm is months away, if that
• Michael Catanzaro: How to Request a CVE
• /u/spez is right about feudalism and that’s why reddit as we know it is doomed
• https://checkmyads.org/google-is-forcing-everyone-to-fund-kremlin-propaganda-right-now/
• https://newrepublic.com/article/140245/obamas-lost-army-inside-fall-grassroots-machine
• https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Bergeron_djvu.txt
• https://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/2026/09/kill-criteria-and-exit-mechanics/
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• https://www.librarian.net/notoai/
• Google gets a US$3.2 billion bill from Mail, USA Today and 5,000 publishers
• Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks
• Apple Takes A Bite Out Of Programmatic
• Under the Hood: Prompt tuning Shake to Summarize for recipes
• The Little Computer People Present littleFedi: Our First Public Release "Hi, We would like to show y…
• Pete Hegseth’s Magic Marker
• Don Marti
• #cipa
• #sb690
• Investigation: McDonald's is utilizing an AI pricing engine across nearly 14,000 restaurants to generate location-specific “optimal prices” for menu items
• The New York Times Is Taking The Absolute Piss With This Xbox Puff Piece
• Don Marti
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• #outreach
• #California
• https://calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/Jobs/JobPosting.aspx?JobControlId=533090
• Don Marti
• https://web.archive.org/web/20250120223333if_/https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/road_diets/resources/pdf/roadDiet_MythBuster.pdf
• Everything’s bigger in Texas
• AI, today’s major obsession, will not solve Big Advertisers’ 15-year growth problems
• In Drone Strategy Battle, Dispersed Ukraine Is Beating Centralized Rubikon
• Two swords hang over Google. A judge holds one. Yours is $36 billion
• The lawsuit hiding on your website
• Become worthless (to tech companies)
• That price you’re seeing online may have been picked specifically for you
• My practical approach to surfing the web safely
• Something went wrong
• Announcing the Flask Documentation Takeover
• https://www.techpolicy.press/eight-years-on-cambridge-analytica-scandal-catches-up-with-meta-in-santa-fe/
• Apple’s Latest Operating System Blocks The Trade Desk From Serving Ads On Safari
• https://privacyinamerica.substack.com/p/your-privacy-is-the-target-heres?r=2fe7t3
• https://checkmyads.org/newsletter/action-how-were-going-to-stop-scams-together/
• ON HYPERSELECTION
• The DNS Museum
• https://markpilip.com/2018/01/11/the-finish-line-in-the-race-to-the-bottom/
• Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development
• Ukraine's defense companies say soldiers want drones that do more on their own so one operator can control more at once
• Heat pump sales soar across Europe after states cut electricity taxes, data shows
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• Walmart’s CEO rules out personalised pricing, including by its AI assistant
• https://news.marketecture.tv/p/what-if-we-re-all-wrong-and-ai-isn-t-a-form-of-publishing
• https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-scam-ads-ruling-germany-frankfurt-court
• https://rosapedia.com/the-desi-gulab-a-tale-of-three-roses/
• https://paulenglish.com/redphone.html
• European residential heat pump sales up 11% in H1
• Who Will Stand Up For The Open Web?
• Jury finds Meta misled New Mexico users over Cambridge Analytica
• New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable for over 43 million violations of consumer protection law—and Meta could owe over $200 billion in penalties
• This is how to search now that Google Search is gone: a guide for family and friends
• https://www.404media.co/businesses-go-viral-for-making-signs-without-ai/
• Discord rolls out global age checks that sort most users automatically
• Damning Musk Film Hit With Shocking Censorship...
• Kids turned the comment section of an NPR podcast into a group chat
• Nathaniel Bowditch
• Approaching A 10 Second Linux Kernel Build
• Restaurants Are Going Viral by Holding Up Handwritten Signs Pledging Not to Use AI Foodslop Posters
• How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?
• Can gzip be a language model?
• Playing with the language modeling abilities of gzip
• tokens too cheap to meter
• Don Marti
• Don Marti
• Google Has Its Hand Around the Throat of the Independent Media and It’s Squeezing Harder and Harder
• https://itsfoss.com/news/netherlands-dawo-initiative/
• What Felt Impossible Became Possible
• A Well-Aimed Potato: The Klan, Notre Dame, and Today
• DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
• Don Marti
• America’s Hypocritical Take on Intellectual Property
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• DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
• Apple Intelligence Taking Up 30GB+ on Some Macs Running macOS 27
• Why not use DeepSeek Flash for everything?
• The Situation at Alpha School Is Darker Than We Thought Possible
• Apple Makes The Mac Mini Unupgradable Again Because Fuck You
• Don Marti
• #RSS
• An Existential Threat to the Oil Industry
• https://sabot.media/guides/become-the-thousand-servers/
• DraftKings Is Using AI to Supercharge the Harms of Online Behavioral Advertising
• Internal memos: Microsoft shakes up communications as Nadella makes a push to build in public
• Take A Break, Compliance Nerds. Privacy Is A Research Problem Now
• Why are workers losing?
• Don Marti
• [$] Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
• New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators
• A Privacy Torts Lesson from Philip Roth
• Russia-Ukraine war is accelerating the dangerous race toward fully autonomous drones
• Don Marti
• Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
• Researchers Show How Meta's 'Pervert Glasses' Are Used to Harass Women
• https://km-515.livejournal.com/1042.html?es=1
• https://www.nyc.gov/site/dca/news/063-26/dcwp-launches-research-analytics-division-uncover-corporate-abuse-develop-policies-that
• https://www.audacy.com/1010wins/news/local/mamdanis-consumer-cop-to-analyze-billions-of-records
• Paywall violation ‘eviscerates’ fair use defense: What OpenAI-NYT twist means for publishers
• https://yjolt.org/invisible-allies-algorithmic-consumer-profiling-and-rise-new-group-harms
• Matthew Butterick: ‘Big AI to Humanity: Drop Dead’
• Don Marti
• Amazon Blocks Shoppers From Using Meta's Newest AI Agent
• Don Marti
• https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/117309930128080625
• AI model costs are pushing startups towards cheaper open weigh
• https://mccue.dev/pages/3-11-25-life-altering-postgresql-patterns
• https://werd.io/why-micropayments-cant-save-news/
• https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/opinion/ai-hugging-face-big-tech-danger.html
• New York Times investigation
• https://lithub.com/sally-rooney-just-defeated-a-data-center/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070915130918/https%3A//keithp.com/blog/Repository_Formats_Matter.html
• Happy Oligarch Day as Trump-Aligned Billionaires Take Over Hollywood
• ‘Being in Madness kept some of them out of jail’: how the baggy-trousered nutty boys made a guerrilla cinema classic
• Twenty-Five Years Upstream
• The end game for John Fisher
• An Industry in Conflict: It’s Time For Tough Questions And Hard Decisions
• Reframing smart glasses as 'pervert glasses'
• What Sun got wrong
• As renewed chaos grips the oil market, one country is keeping global prices down – by reducing demand
• Ad Tech Has A Multibillion-Dollar Privacy Problem. It Started Decades Ago
• AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies
• You’ll miss publishers when they’re gone
• Don Marti
• Bitcoin has an accounting problem which suggests it isn’t money
• ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
• A Diagnosis for Social Conflict That Gets Lost Along the Way
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• https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/117300687112240678
• Don Marti
• https://web.archive.org/web/20260602202659/https%3A//www.centralcontrol.com/news-posts/2026/5/9/qampa-marti-amp-bruner-discuss-the-problematic-w3c-proposed-measurement-standard-attribution-level-1
• https://cpj.org/special-reports/how-mass-surveillance-from-online-advertising-puts-journalists-at-risk/
• The Structural Incentives Of Western Capitalism Make Competing With China Impossible
• Seeing Iran: “Standing there with our eyes closed getting punched in the face”
• Thousands of security workers for Big Tech companies are on strike in California
• Albanese government considers ‘world-leading’ ban on smart glasses in public offices and buildings
• AI Is an Elite Crime Spree
• ‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
• Robert Kraft’s attempts to silence Macklemore have backfired spectacularly | Arwa Mahdawi
• Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data
• Small AI models let drones autonomously identify and attack battlefield targets
• Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
• Thanks, Trump: Why Canada may become the European Union’s first ever ‘associate member’
• App Tracking Transparency Changes Coming to the European Union
• Your Donations at Work: One Year of Sponsored Servo Development
• Don Marti
• https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1vgcjg5/about_disgusting_facebook_devs/
• Don Marti
• How To Write With An LLM
• https://www.adexchanger.com/antitrust/for-google-advertisers-who-overpaid-the-monopoly-dont-hate-arbitrate/
• https://api.neonemails.com/emails/content/v1BkGVK9fvWKu_aSqWlUbRdPJs9y0N4Aq8ShiqLL1Qg%3D
• Don Marti
• https://mastodon.green/@gcluley/117286925871777145
• Don Marti
• Can YOU Say No to Google?
• neat-annotations — neat hand-drawn CSS annotations
• 25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough
• https://www.iaethics.org/feed/rss2
• https://www.businessinsider.com/what-googles-adtech-behavioral-remedies-ruling-means-in-plain-english-2026-9
• Don Marti
• The American Age Is Over
• The Court Just Unsealed Judge Brinkema’s Remedies Decision In The Google Ad Tech Antitrust Case. Here’s Your TL;DR
• There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet
• IMPENDING ENERGY CRUNCH...
• Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight
• The Library Newsroom Project could be coming to a library near you
• In the War Against Oil, Bad News is Good News
• Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
• Brer Rabbit and AI Extinction
• Don Marti
• Don Marti
• https://reason.com/volokh/2026/03/27/no-%c2%a7-230-immunity-for-metas-ai-generated-ads/
• https://davetrott.co.uk/2024/03/an-advertising-story/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20141203194950/https%3A//www.aleph.vc/a-call-to-israeli-engineers-adtech-is-not-for-you
• LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/01/03/facebook-isnt-a-good-way-to-judge-potential-employees-say-researchers/
• What to watch in the Google AdTech remedy
• Chrome Has A New Way To Measure Ad Overload On The Web
• Facebook Proved Its Own Ad Measurement Wrong
• https://www.thebulwark.com/p/why-stone-faced-fascists-keep-getting-antiquity-wrong-x-twitter-elon-musk-ancient-greece-roman-empire
• https://nesbitt.io/2026/06/26/incident-report-cve-2026-lgtm.html
• COOKIES ARE SERVED: Plaintiffs Sufficiently Alleged Exploitation of User Data in Violation of CA Consumer Privacy Laws.
• Pluralistic: Everybody pees (15 Sep 2026)
• Don Marti
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• The NFL's Sunday Ticket is carrying fewer games as the NFL expands its prime-time lineup, leaving YouTube subscribers with a smaller package even as prices rose
• https://www.zdnet.com/business/switzerland-replaces-microsoft-365-open-source-opendesk/
• https://www.profgmedia.com/p/little-tobacco-moment
• https://www.thedrum.com/opinion/mark-ritson-even-10-000-synthetic-ritsons-can-t-tell-anthropic-the-whole-story
• WEBSITE TRACKING UNDER CIPA: Surviving Motion to Dismiss Without Technical Specificity.
• Don Marti
• #AB1709
• #socialMedia
• #law
• https://www.eff.org/files/2026/08/31/2026-09ab1709effvet.pdf
• Don Marti
• https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS10007562/
• "Offensively cheap": Solar power is looking up
• Remembrance of Websites Past
• Big Players ravage prediction markets
• https://ribbonfarm.com/2017/05/23/there-are-bots-look-around/
• Russia is weaponizing US-built AI to make killer drones, cyberattack bots, and fake news
• NYT
• https://www.adexchanger.com/data-driven-thinking/the-trade-desks-blue-ocean-moment-how-the-dsp-can-rewrite-ad-techs-rules/
• The ghost cartel — your pricing algorithm may have stopped competing without your knowledge
• Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side
• Tesco alerts police as supermarket becomes latest victim of scam ‘endorsement’ ads
• Don Marti
• Two years ago, Meta killed CrowdTangle. Can a new AI tool fill the void?
• Year of the Cockroach
• My HTML boilerplate in 2026
• How Meta tried, and failed, to grab its employees' data for AI
• Netflix hit with major lawsuit over alleged secret tracking of families and children
• Another big James Talarico interview is punted to YouTube due to FCC threats
• “Many have said it couldn’t be done”: Local news site Lookout Santa Cruz is profitable thanks to ads and memberships
• San Francisco Orders Meta to Stop ‘Allowing’ AI Child Abuse Ads
• Your brand purpose isn’t what consumers remember
• Meta Releases Uber-Creepy AI Chatbot as Its Platforms Crumble Under Grotesque Child Abuse
• What the settlement left out: Meta can still collect data from kids
• Chihuahua dogs are part coyote – this might help explain their ‘small but mighty’ reputation
• Billions in fines might not change Big Tech, but $5,000 per victim payouts just might
• Rethinking space opera
• Pluralistic: Inefficiency is bad, actually (11 Sep 2026)
• Australia to force social media platforms to allow users to opt out of algorithms
• Did California just ban social media for teens?
• like Malwarebytes
• Don't sleep on wrapture
• Don Marti
• https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab302
• Anthropic Is Building a Huge Surveillance System to Spy on Anti-AI Activists and Predict Their Activities
• Power grab
• California has banned personalised feeds for under-16s, going further than Australia or the DSA
• Why Wall Street Turned Against The Trade Desk
• https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/05/supreme-court-rules-twitter-not-liable-for-isis-content/
• Scientists Say LLMs Appear to Be Acting as a Cognitive Virus Among Humans
• Media Media
• OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say | Scientific American
• https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessible_HTML.html
• TEXAS LEADS THE WAY…AGAIN!!!
• Instagram boss says users will be ‘overwhelmed’ with brand content in algorithm-free world
• Open Letter: Civil society coalition urges EU to kill the cookie banner!
• “This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens
• Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus.
• Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real Kids
• https://paulbudde.com/blog/digital-media-apps-services/australias-digital-duty-of-care-reclaiming-control-from-the-platforms/
• Could you survive The Oregon Trail? An emergency medicine doctor offers tips on how to not die in the great outdoors
• HOW TO PLEAD CONSENT: Court Says “Plaintiffs Must Do More Than Merely Assert That They Did Not Consent To The Tracking Devices.”
• LernerPython blog, from Reuven Lerner: Claude Code always produces something. That’s the hard part.
• Our Age of Silicon is Collapsing
• The fight that Hollywood and newsrooms have in common
• Switching Password Managers in 2026
• Latin is Different
• The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay and the results are not shocking
• Don Marti
• China’s export shock is pushing the global economy to a breaking point, and the U.S. may have to clean up the mess, former trade official says
• U.S. debt is even worse than it seems, and rising Treasury yields are now an ‘all-hands-on-deck situation,’ top economist warns
• Musk’s blow torch post is why X just lost the Twitter bird logo
• The man paid to prove Fermat by hand says Claude did it in 11 days
• How ‘hyperselection’ is making modern life efficient, pleasant – and boring
• https://www.thedrum.com/opinion/mark-ritson-google-has-automated-the-weakest-part-of-modern-marketing
• https://staussfirm.com/2026/09/01/californias-2026-legislative-session-closes-what-passed-on-privacy-and-ai/
• The 1930 poetry book that Anthropic tried to censor
• at this link
• https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/meta-could-charge-199-99-133600132.html?guccounter=1
• https://www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/nasa-releases-powerful-lava-software-to-us-aerospace-industry/
• https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/21/iran-military-lessons-tactics-strategy-trump/
• Letters: US military branches disabled ad trackers on government-issued devices amid reports of location data being used to target US forces in the Middle East
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/amazons-ftc-lawsuit-trickle-down-ad-fees-consumers-jeromy-sonne-nphlc/
• https://www.adweek.com/commerce/dont-let-retail-media-tell-you-its-brand-building/
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-stack-through-margin-lens-layer-by-layer-ibrahim-haddad-ph-d--rbwqc/
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-twenty-five-years-inside-open-source-taught-me-haddad-ph-d--bkzjc/?trackingId=M3Ur9nsIQzupsJZWO3fmUg%3D%3D
• https://www.fisherphillips.com/en/insights/insights/california-lawmakers-pass-bill-to-curb-website-tracking-lawsuits
• I changed my license
• The Chapter I Could Not Write
• The Great Mexican Border Blasters
• Maybe We Shouldn't Be Reviewing All This Code
• Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
• Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
• Bertha’s Cookbook (La Cocina de Bertha)
• Audacity 4 is a complete revamp of the ‘world’s most popular’ audio editor
• The US Navy loses another war
• It’s time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta | Joan Donovan
• Adtech company The Trade Desk lays off 15% of staff as it restructures into 'smaller pods'
• VIVEK SHAH STRIKES OUT AGAIN: Court Grants Drexel’s Motion to Dismiss His Claims for Lack of Standing
• US military disables ad trackers on troops’ phones amid security fears
• OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis
• Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
• Meta’s $18b settlement echoes past tobacco lawsuits – and how they avoided harsh penalties
• Pluralistic: Preparing for a post-Trump internet (03 Sep 2026)
• 10 Brutally Honest Predictions on the Future of AI
• I Don’t Have a Smartphone…
• 1000 is Not A Big Number: The Fallacy of Small Numbers
• About Half of U.S. Smartphone Owners Say They Spend Too Much Time Using It
• Your guide to astroturf fake anti-AI groups
• A16z Says You Actually Love Social Media, Enshittification Isn’t Real
• Ad Tech Whammy
• Pluralistic: Amazon achieves enshittification inception (04 Sep 2026)
• Don Marti
• https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeh8260
• Amazon's fight with the FTC contains an uncomfortable lesson for advertisers
• How one newsletter writer is building a subscription business when “paywalls don’t really work”
• Datacenters in Spaaaaaaace!
• MapQuest app reaches No 1 on US Apple list after defying Trump’s Lake Ontario order
• Here's How to Protect Your Privacy If Someone Is Recording You With Their Glasses
• We Warned You About the AI Yes-Man - MIT Just Proved It With Math
• FTC alleges Amazon illegally made $20 billion by rigging billions of ad auctions
• The Factory Floor Is Where Digital Manufacturing Hype Goes to Die
• https://www.fastcompany.com/91321143/bot-farms-social-media-manipulation
• The Data Center Your Neighbors Actually Want
• SB 690 PASSES AND THE CA COURT OF APPEAL ISSUES AN IMPORTANT TENANTIVE RULING: Are CIPA Pen Register Cases Dead? Here’s What You Need to Know RIGHT NOW!
• Website Tracking Litigation Update- Variety Media and California SB 690
• Meta’s victory on children is even bigger and uglier than I said
• Think twice before installing this device promising free movies
• The craftsmanship revival we kept predicting might finally be real
• You Can't "Vibe Code" Love
• I wanted the browser to just ship jQuery. Cross-Origin Storage came for rescue
• Ten steps on the road to efficient
• “I just chose words carefully”
• https://verstka.media/how-russian-authorities-are-trying-to-solve-the-shortage-of-contract-soldiers
• Sans-Serif Fonts for Contracts
• LLM Moats Quickly Evaporating
• Stanisław Lem foretold the current LLM mania in 1964
• SENATE BILL 690 PASSES CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE: SB 690 Heads to Governor’s Desk—Here’s What the Final Version Means for CIPA Litigation
• https://www.techpolicy.press/the-459-million-cambridge-analytica-reckoning-buried-in-metas-teen-safety-settlement/
• The myth of ‘rogue AI’
• https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/09/google-lobbying/
• California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
• Don Marti
• https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/simple-per-site-javascript-on-off-control/idi-p/135693
• https://www.americanbar.org/groups/business_law/resources/business-law-today/2024-august/californias-invasion-privacy-act/
• Statement on Meta’s Landmark Settlement with the US Government
• reports
• Collections: Global Trade and United States Navy
• You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
• Recipe Blogs Are A Test Bed for Aggressive Ad-Blocker Defeating Techniques
• It’s Time to Rein in Lethal AI Drones
• What I Told Mark Zuckerberg This Morning: Child Safety Must Be Tied to Executive Pay
• LernerPython blog, from Reuven Lerner: MIT just called for an educational revolution
• Ad-Supported Platforms are a Unique Antitrust Problem
• New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name
• Meta Paid $17 Billion to Stop a Trial. Do Not Trust Them.
• Don Marti
• Don Marti
• Meta settles for $18 billion in lawsuit brought by 29 states over social media harms to children
• here
• Half a Million Californians Have Signed up for DROP to Delete their Personal Information from Data Brokers
• Bad Men
• The Multi-App Strategy That Helped Me Earn More Without Working Longer
• Russia’s volunteer soldiers may face tougher job prospects after returning from Ukraine: study
• Ninth Circuit Rules That Tech Companies Can’t Prematurely Appeal Section 230 Losses
• optimise for high density.
• Trump tried to curb clean energy. It’s booming anyway.
• Inaudible sounds used to fingerprint browsers catch AliExpress red-handed
• Don Marti
• Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley
• Lessons from Spock
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rcts-arent-just-backward-looking-theyre-training-data-rick-bruner-egmmc/
• https://www.adweek.com/social-marketing/meta-has-made-child-exploitation-a-cost-of-doing-business/
• Understanding the Patchwork of U.S. State Consumer Privacy Laws
• Daily Reminder To Not Listen To Google’s AI Overview
• AI Text Watermarking Is Free And Good
• https://www.forgottenweapons.com/cz75-legend-a-reissue-of-the-iconic-original-short-frame-cz75-bug-match-comparison/
• Are Open Models Catching Up?
• Cinemas, schools and ICE are all banning Meta smart glasses
• WPP seeks to seal 'highly confidential and sensitive' client information from lawsuit with former exec
• Gen Z is pulling money out of investments to sports bet
• Why does everything feel like a scam?
• Why Social Media’s Ad Dominance Is A Billion-Dollar Measurement Illusion
• Apple paid 40% of its global tax bill to one country
• Jason Arday and the new politics of plagiarism
• Zuckerberg lied about concern for child safety, Meta whistleblower testifies at landmark trial
• Hundreds of Fake VPNs Are Flooding the Chrome Web Store
• Study: 150+ Polymarket wallets may have traded on internal US military information, making $8M overall with a 97.2% average win rate and attracting copycat bets (Douglas Gillison/Reuters)
• https://www.navistone.com/about-us
• [$] Representing Python paths using pathlib
• Automate Chrome HAR capture with Docker
• Gen Z are AI skeptics—and this is the tech CEO they trust the least
• Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yell
• https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ai-is-making-everything-worse
• Organized Thieves Are Targeting AI Server Chips With Violent Highway Hijackings
• AI was supposed to win people over by now – it hasn't
• What is Direct Mail Retargeting and How Does it Work?
• What is a perversion to writing?
• Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians
• SIX PIXELS AND A SOFA: Wayfair Threw Everything At This CIPA Complaint And Only Won The Claim The Plaintiff Forgot To Defend.
• Don Marti
• What's going on with open-weight models?
• China Wants Its Data to Power the World’s A.I. - The New York Times
• Have a Climate-Friendly Summer
• The Amazon tax
• You can hear the squeak of sphincters closing
• ★ Follow-Up Thoughts on Watermarking Schemes for AI-Generated Text
• https://newsletter.aicollective.com/p/the-perfect-storm-for-local-ai-has-arrived
• After Regulator’s Investigation, Apple Will Make Changes to App Tracking Transparency Prompts in Germany
• Apple bows to Germany and rewrites its tracking-consent rules, ending a self-preferencing probe
• AI Can’t Adulterate its Own Writing
• Meet the only known trebuchet casualty in history
• The Irrelevancing of the Ad Industry. (And Us.)
• Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It’s Almost Hard to Believe
• https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/
• PARDON ME
• Don Marti
• #backend
• #webDev
• #sql
• #privacyJob
• #CalPrivacy
• #stateJob
• #california
• #job
• https://calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/Jobs/JobPosting.aspx?JobControlId=527873
• You Can Have Google Meet Take Notes for Your In-Person Meetings Too
• US firms that kept DEI policies despite ‘go woke, go broke’ threats thrived
• Everything is about to “go dark”
• Why Open Source Matters for AI
• Lawsuit alleges Sony investigated WPP's media operation and said it ran a 'global crime scene'
• The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI
• Don Marti
• 8 thoughts on “Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out”
• Notable links: August 14, 2026
• Can public media build its own social network? Chicago Public Media teams up with New_ Public to try
• Chicago's social network is a huge bet for news. I think it's the future.
• The Four Horsemen Are Finally Learning One Language
• Ukrainian drones wipe out entire US tank brigade in live war game
• Claire Stapleton Helped Write The Myth Of Google, But Now She’s Trying To Tell The Truth
• Don Marti
• Don Marti
• Hackers Created a Device That Can Take Over a Boeing 737 Jet’s Autopilot Without Anyone Noticing
• To Fix Congress, Party Leadership Must Give Power Back to the Lawmakers
• Separating AI’s Technological Problems from Its Capitalism Problems
• There’s a Test for That.
• It Seems Like Bill Gates’ Daughter May Be in Serious Legal Trouble
• Remember that raid on a small-town Kansas newspaper? The city has agreed to pay one reporter $850,000
• https://plausible.io/blog/google-analytics-ccpa
• A Google insider spills the tea on how the company forsook its founding ideals
• Meta can't stop states' $1.4 trillion lawsuit from going to trial
• The Real Thucydides Trap Is Inside Western Tech
• Meta smart glasses banned from courts across England and Wales
• Here’s one in the hate category:
• VC-Funded Startups Linked to Persistent Fraud
• Homeschool Parents Are Planning Lessons With ChatGPT
• CalPrivacy Brings First Action Against a Data Broker Under Both the CCPA and Delete Act
• Saudi defence pact with Turkey and Pakistan is a verdict on the reliability of US security guarantees
• Meta glasses banned from courts in England and Wales
• Be a Rube.
• The End of Google Search
• Ad Tech’s Trust Problem Isn’t Going Away. We Just Stopped Talking About It
• Meta's Open Weight Whiplash
• USA Today Journalists Horrified by Newspaper’s Partnership With Palantir
• Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook
• Breaking up (lines) is hard to do
• “An inherent conflict of interest”: More than 800 USA Today Co. employees want the company to end its new Palantir partnership
• https://redtape.substack.com/p/data-brokers-and-scammers-team-up
• Ad Tech’s Last Neutral Party Just Picked A Side
• https://theconnectivist.wordpress.com/2013/12/09/privacy-what-is-was-it/
• A Common Thread
• Mea Culpa - Dark Hours
• Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection
• Don Marti
• https://blog.mozilla.org/en/privacy-security/googles-protected-audience-protects-advertisers/
• Ryan Barrett
• Western Europe Is Richer Than the US
• Native app propaganda is working
• Judge rules Meta caused "public nuisance" and must fund mental health treatment
• Pluralistic: Digital sewer socialism (08 Aug 2026)
• Wetherspoons bans Meta Glasses in pubs amid privacy concerns
• Trading on Violence
• Browsers have standards, the App Store has judgment
• ★ App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours
• Phaedra Haywood
• Oregon senators warn prediction markets allowing betting on wildfires could incentivize arson
• The Trade Desk’s Revenue Growth Stalls As Big Brands Tighten Their Belts
• Hit By Pitch.
• Hello Local Business, Your AI Ads Are Costing You Customers
• https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/07/more-data-on-online-age-authentication-balk-rates.htm
• https://www.adexchanger.com/platforms/adalytics-the-ad-industrys-bot-problem-is-worse-than-we-thought/
• Twelve people in 25 days just wrote Meta's future
• Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
• A Book Contract and Other Updates
• Mozilla Addons Blog: How the publicSuffix API was created
• Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
• https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/wyden_letter_to_ags_on_gpc.pdf
• Developers: Beware of Ad Libraries that Betray Your Users’ Location Privacy
• https://cristinacaffarra.blog/2025/06/26/european-digital-sovereignty-is-an-industrial-project-everyone-else-get-out-of-the-way/
• Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
• Wikipedia Turned on its Volunteers. Now it’s Coming for its Workers.
• Pluralistic: Google is a scammer's paradise (05 Aug 2026)
• U.S. news jobs are more than 3× more likely to be based in Manhattan than they were 25 years ago
• Celebrating Retraction Watch’s 16th birthday, how sweet it is
• Web Security is Too Hard
• Online advertising giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are necessary
• https://blogs.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/innovation/thomson-reuters-built-its-own-ai-model-that-now-ranks-among-the-worlds-best/
• https://www.lawnext.com/2026/08/thomson-reuters-says-its-homegrown-ai-model-now-rivals-the-frontier-labs-i-take-a-closer-look-at-the-benchmarks.html
• Adform compromised to serve crypto stealer via supply chain attack
• Our advertising principles
• A Lesson in AI Economics
• The Oligarchs are Doubling Down on Republicans
• Ulysses S. Grant on the Future Dividing Line
• Don Marti
• https://mastodon.opencloud.lu/@BrideOfLinux/117032484971564940
• https://leavesubstack.com/
• Samsung bans smart TV apps that share users’ internet connections with strangers
• The More People Learn About AI, the More They Want It Out of Their Lives
• Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges
• https://www.adexchanger.com/data-privacy-roundup/why-a-1967-privacy-law-is-powering-a-new-wave-of-ad-tech-lawsuits/
• BMW Is Showing Commercials on Their Car's Dash Screens as a Treat
• The Cost of China's Free A.I
• https://web.archive.org/web/20201218132550/https%3A//www.ft.com/partnercontent/facebook/how-products-are-finding-people.html
• Is Mark Zuckerberg Actually TRYING to Destroy Meta?
• This is a guide for people who would like less intrusive AI in their tech environment.
• 4 teen suicides spark new lawsuit against Meta, TikTok, Snap, YouTube
• Behind the Curtain at Google
• Again: EuroStack is an Industrial Project
• https://www.techpolicy.press/ai-is-removing-bottlenecks-to-effective-content-moderation-at-scale/
• Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
• Meta-backed research finds exposure to ‘untrustworthy’ social media is rare. The fine print is less reassuring
• Tech Sovereignty needs demand – to get supply right
• ‘I’m just stuck’: Meet the former OpenAI researcher sitting on $700K of equity that he says is overvalued
• Ukrainian Drones Disabled Over 30% of Russian Oil Refinery Capacity — FT
• I Am Quietly And Perhaps Foolishly Optimistic About The Future Of Video Games Journalism
• Toward Harmonizing MyTerms (IEEE 7012) with GPC and GPP
• The Last Small Step for Art
• The Last Museum: Semantic search across 5.8M artworks from major museums
• Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide
• AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous
• Don Marti
• Don Marti
• A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack
• State of multi-player Wayland
• Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books
• Pluralistic: The stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing (30 Jul 2026)
• Chris Person Hates Adobe, and I Do Too
• Don Marti
• Don Marti
• https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/oddity-tech-odd-stock-fair-191251642.html
• Meta’s Tepid Revenue Outlook Undercuts its AI Spending Spree
• Meta is royally screwing up its smart glasses rollout
• I Hate Adobe
• Three Advertising Industry Myths The Market Has Already Debunked
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• 1,741 “informed” consents with one click?! GDPR complaint against dict.cc filed
• Don Marti
• #accessAndSubstantialSimilarity
• “Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win
• Apple Releases iOS and MacOS 26.6, MacOS 15.7.8, and More
• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/07/27/china-hacked-the-west-without-really-trying/?ICID=continue_without_subscribing_reg_first
• https://www.platformocracy.com/p/cannes-special-how-google-s-ad-spam-secrecy-alienated-a-generation-of-creators-4a28985e97c
• https://lockwood.dev/advertising/2019/06/07/adtech-sucks.html
• Older people’s media literacy can be boosted in just 60 minutes – new study
• http://battellemedia.com/archives/2013/11/why-the-banner-ad-is-heroic-and-adtech-is-our-greatest-technology-artifact.php
• Tesla is juicing its China sales
• Ben Thompson is wrong: US frontier labs are right to be panicking
• An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud
• No state privacy law? No rights for you.