Don Marti

Anybody looking for a cartoon to draw?

previously: How the California legislature is saving us from surveillance dystopia (twice, in 1967 and 2026) Notice how many “this site uses cookies” dialogs, asking you to consent to web tracking, are showing up in California now?

In the news: Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder.

previously: The CAC crunch goes mainstream In The economics of agents, Tyler Cowen quotes Patrick Collison: In corporate strategy, people have long debated the relative importance of distribution and product quality.

Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well by Lewis Parker.

I know, I know, this blog was largely about the attribution cartel for a while, and it seems like my numbers started to go up while I was doing semi-regular updates on that—so shouldn’t I be writing about the attribution cartel more?

I don’t usually link to the New York Times from here, but make a note: Oct. 7, 2026, Section A, Page 20.

(I don’t know if this site is still on the blocklists of “inappropriate” content or whatever.

The Little Computer People Present littleFedi: Our First Public Release (Lightweight ActivityPub server.

Has everyone read the short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.?

previously: fix liability and ad libraries: anti-fraud policy ideas from Canada Check My Ads has a model bill called the SAFE Platforms Act, intended to address the Big Tech scam ads problem.

previously: paleoenshittification and a path to adoption for MyTerms One of the big questions about MyTerms is, well, why should sites support it when they can already get “consent” to process people’s personal info using the existing industry standard—Gl…

previously: News from Sacramento AdExchanger just ran this, by me: Take A Break, Compliance Nerds.

How mass surveillance from online advertising puts journalists at risk - Committee to Protect Journalists (And it’s not just journalists, either.

Previously: corporate crimeblogging in the training set Andrew Kraft, in Can YOU Say No to Google?

Ever have to write something for the company blog?

In the news: San Francisco Orders Meta to Stop ‘Allowing’ AI Child Abuse Ads.

Sometimes you just get the urge to start up a desktop Linux project and challenge Microsoft (and lately, Apple) for market share.

The Bakery Desk, this is Jeff, may I help you?

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.