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• 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
• 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
• ★
• 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
• As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions
• AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
• 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
• ★ The Ads on Apple News Continue to Suck, but at Least There Are a Lot of Them
• Who Owns Search Results?
• How Prediction Markets Are Shaping Real-World Events and Eroding Public Trust
• 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
• Why Would Meta Download So Much Porn?
• No state privacy law? No rights for you.
• Unranked, systemd, crawls
• I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated.
• https://lerner.co.il/2023/10/19/im-banned-for-life-from-advertising-on-meta-because-i-teach-python/
• Don Marti
• #Alameda
• #privacy
• #libraryEvent
• AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot
• An emerging Iran-Pakistan ‘Axis of Sympathy’ is reshaping southwest Asia’s power structures
• Eleven Saves, No Trophy
• Owned.
• Programmatic Platforms Champion Transparency, But Not If It Means Giving Activists Access
• Regular expression speed and error rates
• New Monkey! New Monkey! There’s A New Monkey!
• https://マリウス.com/the-rise-of-the-bullshittery/
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02474-9
• Fears of Big Tech bias underpin debates around W3C’s Attribution API
• An emerging Iran-Pakistan allegiance is reshaping southwest Asia’s power structures
• LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps
• Apps targeted at US troops contain Chinese and Russian code
• Experience Better Browsing: Introducing Native Containers in Firefox 153
• The ‘Hair-Dryer Incident’ Is Just the Start
• W3C Attribution API prompts debate over the future of web measurement
• https://time.com/article/2026/07/18/the-world-should-learn-from-australia-s-social-media-law/
• Don Marti
• WTF: W3C’s Attribution API?
• People are making wildfire bets on prediction markets. Experts say it could lead to disaster
• Jason Torchinsky
• US Companies Are Realizing That Chinese AI Models Are Way Cheaper, Ditch American Ones
• China Is Cracking Down on AI Companions Because Not Enough Babies Are Being Born
• A decade after the ‘Godfather of AI’ said radiologists were obsolete, their salaries are up to $571K and demand is growing fast
• Don Marti
• #YouTube
• https://lernerpython.com/python-update/
• Lina Khan on AI and More
• Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training
• Gen Z is pushing back against AI – a reminder to all of us that the future isn’t written
• The Slop Doctrine
• Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI
• Google’s AI Search is failing kids—and parents can’t turn it off
• Don Marti
• https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/116936568647528745
• ON UNI-CONTEXT
• Opinion: Eliminating Auditor and Treasurer Positions Would Eliminate City Oversight
• Meta glasses celebrity backlash: the fans hate them
• Please, I Beg You, Do Not Fill My TV With Pregnancy Ads
• (Re)enter Sandbox
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/timeless-truths-advertising-part-iii-rick-bruner-zoboc/
• HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs
• https://algorithmichiring.github.io/
• https://monopoly-report.com/p/google-s-new-use-of-ips-in-europe
• The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public
• Armin Ronacher: The Tower Keeps Rising
• Apple Updates Its Advertising Policies
• Business Insider’s big bet against aggregation
• Figs.
• The Lies They're Telling Towns And Tribes About The Benefits Of AI Data Centers
• A forgotten young poet gives us a rare glimpse below stairs at the 1995 Pride and Prejudice’s Netherfield Hall
• Don Marti
• The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It’s Almost Incomprehensible
• Don Marti
• https://hachyderm.io/@astronomerritt/116923482380679113
• Don Marti
• https://livelaugh.blog/posts/non-ai-images-for-blogs-websites/
• Meta's AI advertising dreams have become a nightmare for brands
• Don Marti
• Strategic Bombing and the Pop History Problem
• We need a PIT Crew for news
• Where Did It All Go Wrong For Agencies?
• Don Marti
• #privateRightOfAction
• #FTC
• #trumpvSlaughter
• Don Marti
• The Reverse Information Paradox
• Don Marti
• John Gruber
• https://fortune.com/article/peter-thiel-tech-billionaires-limit-kids-screen-time-social-media-smartphones-short-form-video-risks/
• https://www.engadget.com/2192635/apple-watch-alternatives-7-day-battery/
• https://www.vogue.com/article/in-the-social-ban-era-where-will-gen-alpha-spend-time-online
• https://www.vogue.com/article/do-smart-glasses-have-a-surveillance-problem
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/betting-democracy-notes-from-fight-article-88b-6ddbc/
• You'll Own Nothing and Be Happy: Why It's So Hard to Break John Deere's Control Over Farming
• ★ John Ternus Should Reverse Apple’s Slide Down the Advertising Slippery Slope
• https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
• Don Marti
• Farmers Finally Get a John Deere Right to Repair Agreement That Doesn’t Screw Them Over
• Don Marti
• #union
• #labor
• #Eurostack
• Congresswoman Simon Secures $250K of Federal Funding for College of Alameda, Laney College FabLabs
• https://checkmyads.org/report/advertiser-verification-report/
• Mastodon, The Only Good Choice
• Don Marti
• #PR
• #AI
• #AIappreciationDay
• https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-appreciation-day-chatgpt-snark-2025-7
• Don Marti
• OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs
• There are millions of undiscovered species on Earth. Vox is trying to find one.
• Ways to think about token pricing
• Don Marti
• #youreNotGettingMeInOneOfThoseDamnThings
• https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/116885555925822677
• Meta’s Teen Safety Case Just Became a $1.4 Trillion Existential Threat
• https://www.fisherphillips.com/en/insights/insights/could-new-privacy-law-coalition-help-curb-california-wiretapping-litigation
• What Does a 13-Year-Old See on Snapchat in a Normal Week?
• https://hftuniversity.com/post/the-c-standard-library-has-been-walking-itself-back-for-fifteen-years-and-the-receipts-are-public
• Court filing: Meta says four US states seek $1.4T over claims it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict youth and misled the public; its market cap is ~$1.5T
• How Kalshi infects the news
• CNN and CNBC promote gambling to make a cheap buck
• THE YOUNG MODS' FORGOTTEN STORY
• experience shortness of breath
• Alameda Free Library Launches First-Ever Book Con
• Dentsu strikes Meta deal to build plumbing for mass influencer activation
• Polymarket lawsuit alleges Bitcoin market rules changed after outcome occurred
• https://www.publicnotice.co/p/kalshi-cnn-cnbc
• Meta’s AI ‘Perv Glasses’ Now Come With Stupid Comcast-esque Usage Restrictions
• Now, More than Ever, Madison Avenue Needs Unified C-Suite Leadership for Strategic (not Tactical) Transformations
• Google, AI, Oligarchy and the End of the ‘Open Web’
• Spoofed email from LWN
• Valve Explains Why It Doesn’t Subsidize Its Hardware Platforms
• https://londoninsider.co.uk/california-senate-bill-690-loses-key-business-exemption-in-latest-cipa-amendment/
• https://timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2026/06/30/senate-bill-690-digital-exploitation-immigrant-communities/
• https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/analytics/implementation/validate/query-parameters
• https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/military-and-republic-charles-q-brown
• Ars Technica
• Instagram has been running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, with terms like “rape video” and “child video” and linking to Telegram channels
• https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/new-jersey-reins-in-data-brokers-advances-other-privacy-bills
• https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/the-mechanisms-of-enshittification
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/timeless-truths-advertising-rick-bruner-0nzxc/
• Don Marti
• Don Marti
• Don Marti
• https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20415
• India orders Meta to remove Instagram ads promoting child abuse material
• Celebrate this Fourth (or Fifth) of July by Putting Frederick Douglass in Your Syllabus
• Apple Dropping AirPort Utility From the App Store With iOS 27
• Meta's Inevitable Cloud
• Futura
• Ecosia’s odious greenwashing — now with AI
• Matthew Garrett: Securing agentic identity
• FP-5 Flamingo with ArduPilot: How the Ukrainian Missile Bypasses Suppression
• Those bots sending discounts to your email is dynamic pricing in action. Get revenge on those bots by abandoning your cart
• [Eugene Volokh] Mike Huckabee's False-Advertising-Related Case Against Meta Can Go Forward
• The bottleneck might be the air in the room
• Digital elbows up
• SENATE BILL 690 AMENDED: California Scales Back Its Proposed CIPA Overhaul by Eliminating the “Commercial Business Purpose” Exemption—Here’s What the Latest Means for CIPA Litigation
• The Human Story of the Open Web
• PRESS RELEASE: EPIC Applauds Passage of the New Jersey Kids Code Act
• Crime Pays: The Egg Bandits Made A Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing
• Inside the $9 billion Texas startup building a drone armada for the U.S. Navy
• AI leaks your company’s code secrets faster than ever
• Bring Back Crappy Forums
• Timeless Truths About Advertising
• Pluralistic: Technocarcinization (01 Jul 2026)
• Papa Johns Surveillance-Based Advertising
• Ireland is big tech’s lapdog – and that compromises its EU presidency | Johnny Ryan
• Frequent AI chatbot users more likely to believe anti-vaccine myths, poll finds
• to New Scientist
• Priests.
• Why the Metaverse Failed
• US Supreme Court just blew up EU-US Data Transfers
• https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/johnny-ryan-speech-at-republica-2026-berlin/
• extraordinary speech
• Force-Feeding.
• Do excellent vulnerability reports
• The Internet needs more You
• Diagnosing the Core Problems Plaguing Polymarket
• https://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/privacy/
• https://digiday.com/sponsored/the-most-complete-signal-in-advertising-is-hiding-in-plain-sight/
• FTC’s 2025 social media scam data
• https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-general-theory-of-enshittification
• Pluralistic: Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers (27 Jun 2026)
• Gas station owners have found a use case for AI, lawsuit says: colluding to fix prices
• The Steam Machine Is An Iconoclastic Computer Born In Unforgiving Times
• SoftBank’s untitled AI goose game — eggs do not lay eggs
• Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams sues Meta over attempts to ‘silence’ her
• https://www.thecurrent.com/marketing/cindy-rose-says-wpp-agencies-stopped-using-liveramp-to-retain-total-independence-cannes-lions
• https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/browser-opt-out-tool-shoots-for-simplicity-brings-uncertainty
• US Anthropic ban is best advert for Chinese AI
• How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization • Buttondown
• https://www.privado.ai/post/almost-half-of-top-websites-now-misconfigure-google-consent-mode
• How about Free? Is that affordable enough for you?
• https://digiday.com/media/ad-techs-reality-check-in-a-privacy-first-world/
• How we’ll fight the platform war against Big AI
• AI and Liability
• The hunt for a post-LiveRamp successor is already underway
• Why Does Everyone Hate AI?
• With AI ad tools expanding, Meta courts agencies while reshaping their role
• https://www.axios.com/2019/09/17/washington-post-zeus-prime-advertising
• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2022/01/21/celebrating-20-years-of-trustworthy-computing/
• https://thenewstack.io/a-developers-guide-to-activitypub-and-the-fediverse/
• https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ruthless-management-style-reckoning-2026-6
• I drove the Slate Truck — there’s more to it than EV minimalism
• ‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess
• The Washington Post Loves Data Centers a Lot More Than Disclosing Jeff Bezos’s Financial Interest in Promoting Them
• Meta’s ‘prediction market plans’ draw attention as shares slip
• War by Other Means
• Meta’s new prediction market app Arena could bring betting to 3 billion users
• What Was Matt Thinking?
• Don Marti
• PACT: Anonymous Credentials for the Web
• Keeping the Web Open and Private in the Bot Era
• In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
• Mozilla Privacy Blog: Building Competitive Digital Markets: From Rules to Results
• https://business.adobe.com/blog/perspectives/event-forwarding-the-easy-way-getting-started-with-adobe-real-time-cdp-and-meta-conversions-api
• EU Member States (and Google) suddenly want to keep cookie banners!
• There is minimal downside to switching to open models
• Traditional advertising is dead, says the marketer who cut Mastercard's ad budget by 70%
• https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/platform-learn/implement-in-websites/configure-tags/add-embed-code
• https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-madrid-built-its-metro-cheaply/
• https://captaincompliance.com/education/allison-v-phh-mortgage-the-ruling-that-just-made-tracking-pixels-a-ccpa-problem/
• Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel–backed verification software after its code was found tied to U.S. surveillance efforts
• How Wrong We Were
• Don Marti
• Don Marti
• #MetaPlatforms
• #WhatsApp
• What AI is about to expose about programmatic advertising
• Sixty percent of US consumers say ‘AI’ in brand messaging is a turnoff, survey finds
• Montana’s SB535 and a Potential Biotech Renaissance in America
• Reddit ads pose as news stories to promote AI investment scams
• Big Tech Is a Thief and a Liar, Says New York Times Publisher
• Don Marti
• Don Marti
• Trump administration reverses decision to scrap ocean monitoring system
• Meta's CTO says morale is almost 'the worst it's ever been'
• Digital Omnibus Article 88b needs to be about contract, not just consent
• You Should Make Cross Views
• Privacy as Property?
• Privacy as Property?
• 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
• Quartz countertops are driving a public health crisis in the US – 2 occupational health experts explain the surge of lung transplants and lawsuits
• ‘It’s literally the gulag’: inside the revolt at Meta’s AI unit, where elite engineers were drafted to label data
• Quote Origin: Punks Are Basically Nice People Pretending To Be Mean, Whereas Hippies Are Mean People Pretending To Be Nice
• Ads Evading Pi-hole with iOS 27
• Fox to Broadcast Networks: I Dare You to Leave!
• Personal AI Trust Agent (PAITA): The User-Side Counterweight to Surveillance Infrastructure
• The Retweeting Class
• Open Source vs the Invisible Hand
• THE GREAT RENEWABLES SWINDLE?
• ‘Agrivoltaics’ can both power AI data centres and increase food production — new study
• Hugh Jackman plays Robin Hood as wicked – it’s a badly timed take on the hero of the poor
• Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges
• PyTheory Playground
• Don Marti
• #books
• #linux
• #library
• “Are prediction markets causing more harm than good?”
• Has AI Already Killed How-To Nonfiction? Sales Trends, My Personal Data, and What It Might Mean for the Future
• AI and Killing People's Pets
• Your candy ads are about to get a lot more personalized, Mars says
• Jingles Jangled.
• Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
• The Paradox Of Personalization: Billions Of AI-Tailored Ads Creates A Measurement Mess
• Leaving Mozilla
• Don Marti
• a new investigation
• Don Marti
• Improvements to Web for AI Should Benefit All Users
• It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests
• Don Marti
• Don Marti
• #ageVerification
• Don Marti
• #w3c
• #firefox
• #mozilla
• https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1408
• KPMG fabricated AI case studies in a report designed to sell clients on AI adoption
• An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt
• Don Marti
• #RSS
• The Cases That Don’t Exist
• https://www.svggenie.com/blog/svg-not-showing-in-browser
• https://alexplescan.com/posts/2023/07/08/easy-svg-sparklines/
• Don Marti
• Andor and Authoritarianism
• News deserts aren’t just a journalism problem. They’re costing taxpayers $1.1 billion a year.
• A Handful of Companies Control the Web. AICOA Can Change That.
• Pluralistic: The world has moved on (11 Jun 2026)
• Please I Beg of You Do Not Use “AI” In Your Business Communications
• Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time
• Google is responsible for false statements in AI Overviews, German court rules
• Digital Sovereignty Becomes An Imparative As the US Reads Dutch Emails
• Don Marti
• #Sacramento
• #SanFrancisco
• #it
• https://calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/Jobs/JobPosting.aspx?JobControlId=519949
• Valve kills its retail gift card program due to scammers
• Valve is phasing out physical Steam gift cards due to scammers
• How Wise is the Crowd in Prediction Markets
• Dancing on the Sand – California Grunion in San Francisco Bay
• https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/nobody-needs-ai-to-search-the-internet-court-says-in-ruling-against-google/?utm_brand=arstechnica
• The rise of prediction markets is creating new ethical headaches for journalists
• https://bind.media/insights/comparing-sgtm-and-the-meta-capi-gateway-the-infrastructure-behind-your-marketing-signals
• Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
• How States Can Use Consumer Protection Laws to Fight AI Fraud and Fakery
• Meta will use your activity on other websites to personalize your feeds
• Don Marti
• Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.
• The hilarious, extremely convincing proposal to make a beaver emoji.
• VICTORY: Meta Strips Facial Recognition Code From Smart Glasses App After Public Outcry
• Google’s AI opt-out leaves publishers with a choice they can’t safely use
• https://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/04/mika_model_a_new_short_story_from_paolo_bacigalupi.html
• http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
• Ukraine Is Not Losing. Russia Is Not Winning.
• https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/story/opinion/columns/2026/04/25/consumer-data-privacy-act-helps-ma-small-business-consumers-opinion/89719432007/
• https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/publishers-ditch-google-search-addiction-or-die/
• The circus freaks of open source
• Distributed terrorism as ARG
• ChatGPT Needs to Launch Its Own Version of Google Analytics
• Europe's New Tech Strategy Puts Open Source Front and Centre
• Exclusive: Americans Now Overwhelmingly Oppose New Data Centers Near Them
• Advertising's 'most hated man' is back with a new warning for CMOs
• https://www.fastcompany.com/3047828/who-needs-gps-the-forgotten-story-of-etaks-amazing-1985-car-navigation-system
• https://experimental.beehiiv.com/p/uber-saved-35m-ads
• https://thewalrus.ca/the-internet-has-become-too-american-to-trust/
• https://veronicaexplains.net/my-first-writerdeck/
• systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success
• This Blog Post is Your Sign to Start Self-Hosting
• You Don't Love systemd Timers Enough
• Don Marti
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07912
• Enshittification, Despotification, and the Open Internet
• Don Marti
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.161
• The W3C Is Making A Critical Mistake About Measuring Advertising Effectiveness
• Don Marti
• #advertising
• #oligopoly
• #enshittification
• #BoingBoing
• Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor
• My Students Can't Read
• The UK CMA says publishers in the country will be allowed to opt out of Google AI search results, giving the company nine months to implement the changes
• State Consumer Privacy Laws Are Being Corrupted by Lobbying
• European Parliament ditches Google for French search firm over privacy concerns
• 4,000-year-old Mohenjo-daro study finds ancient city grew more equal over time
• Beyond the Banner: Universal Opt‑Outs, Consent Fatigue, and the End of the Cookie Pop‑Up Era
• Don Marti
• Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
• #surprisedPikachu
• Google Encloses The Web
• State Consumer Privacy Laws Are Being Corrupted by Lobbying
• Politico
• Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts
• The Lying Machine
• https://medium.com/%40sylwestermielniczuk/the-casino-of-attention-adtech-did-not-improve-the-internet-06d95f7d1105
• https://postie.com/blog/browser-native-attribution-will-kill-your-brand-budget-unless-you-measure-what-it-cant-see/
• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/fake-restaurant-tips-on-reddit-a-reminder-of-google-ai-overviews-inherent-flaws/
• Meta-Institutions Matter Most
• Dickover of the Week: Tomtoc
• Slate’s new privacy policy is a dumpster fire
• Apple added a second ad to App Store search results. My downloads stayed flat, my costs doubled
• The Effects of Another Ad in iOS App Store Search
• Alameda Naval Air Museum’s Future Up in the Air
• Test software tells code bots ‘delete me’ — AI bros outraged
• The SpaceX IPO works like a crypto fraud, but with AI
• Micropayments for news have failed everywhere. Can they succeed in Kenya?
• Revenge of The Business Idiot
• Disarm AI, yes, but Pope Leo XIV was just getting started – a tech journalist reads Magnifica Humanitas
• Wrench Attacks
• Disarm AI, yes, but Pope Leo XIV was just getting started
• The Invisible Cost of “Dirty Data
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mozilla-corporation_standing-up-for-fair-competition-and-real-activity-7465819187370692608-H-jv
• The Costco theory of the internet
• Have a Seat.
• Just Fucking Use Go
• Pope Leo to AI bros: Just stop it
• The Balloon Bubble: Miltech Sheep Are Late to the Parade (Again)
• https://www.socure.com/blog/world-war-fraud-ai-identity-crime
• Pirated Sports Streams Are Warping TV’s Most Important Ratings
• Don Marti