Don Marti

Cross-context behavioral advertising (CCBA) is one of those inventions that people back in the 1990s hypothesized was going to be a good thing about the Internet.

Doc Searls covers The Great Mexican Border Blasters, which were enormous—up to half a million watts—radio stations licensed in Mexico, targeting the US market.

Understanding the Patchwork of U.S.

Previously: how Google can go legit Somehow, the Old Google, which was respectable, has turned into New Google, which, well, not so much.

Another example of what must be a bug in the RSS reader, causing blog content to leak across the multitudinous timelines of the multiverse.

In the news: Meta settles for $18 billion in lawsuit brought by 29 states over social media harms to children.

previously: Prediction from the AI-max timeline: Vibeshop Online advertising is still stuck in its own version of the productivity paradox faced by pre-Internet IT.

Previously: Scam culture is everywhere Lawsuit alleges Sony investigated WPP’s media operation and said it ran a ‘global crime scene’, WPP seeks to seal ‘highly confidential and sensitive’ client information from lawsuit with former exec by Lara O’Reilly

On the Forgoten Weapons site, Ian McCollum reviews the CZ75 Legend: A Reissue of the Iconic Original Short-Frame CZ75.

Previously: Arguments for the attribution cartel One more point being made in favor of standardizing on Big Tech’s built-in ad tracking for web browsers: in the EU, the fix is already in.

David Gerard covers the new text watermarking in Anthropic’s LLM output: Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yell.

The Carlson Lab at the Yale School of Public Health has done some research and held some discussions, and posted The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI.

Meta still doesn’t control a customer-facing platform, and the prospects for pervert glasses don’t look especially good right now, either.

Previously: Arguments for the attribution cartel One of the arguments for the attribution cartel is that in-browser attribution tracking will somehow displace other forms of ad measurement.

previously: paleoenshittification and a path to adoption for MyTerms The European privacy organization noyb has filed a complaint over a common web annoyances.