Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/google_chrome_browser_ad_content_block_change/
Enlightenment can be yours for just $10 | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/6889/school-of-practical-philosophy-philosophy-works-new-york-subway-ad
Hacker Banner Ads Are Totally Wild - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa5vwb/hacker-banner-ads-are-totally-wild
Protip: leave recordings of old public access TV in languages you don’t speak on youtube on in the background, in order to encourage incorrect inferences & poorly targeted ads
No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » The Adorable Optimism of the IPCC. https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=8433
Love it we have a “contract” developer but he is not in the right group to push commits to the code repo. When I suggested that he be added to the right group one of the other developers was like that will give him access to everything. I’m sorry but what is everything? It’s not like he can pull from any of the repos as it is. Right now he just can’t commit.
It really pisses me off when people use ‘infinite’ to mean ‘really big’. If something’s actually infinite, adding more to it produces the same number (like in Hilbert’s hotel)
No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » The Split-brain Universe https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=8255
No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » A/Political (and a deferral on Doomsday) https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=8415
If we added up all the time spent in airport security in the past seven years, how many average human lifespans would it be?
Why targeted Facebook ads are so weirdly personal - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/9/25/17887796/facebook-ad-targeted-algorithm
The global economy: gamblers betting on the effectiveness of bad assumptions made based on wide but shallow surveillance in influencing the distribution of ads that don’t work for products that nobody wants and nobody can afford to people who are using adblock.
@sdk@codevoid.de Well I’ve added the special datetime to my kitbashed client. I store the URL it gets but I’m not doing anything with it right now.
The End of Internet History and the Last Ad - Rambling Space https://ramblingspace.com/posts/end-internet-history-last-ad/
Digital ads are starting to feel psychic | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5380/targeted-ad-creepy-surveillance-facebook-instagram-google-listening-not-alone
Hot take: almost all ACTUAL statements encountered in daily life are untestable except in an ad-hoc & ambiguous way, because their referents don’t map well to physical reality.
Attention knitters: (n) the ad-tech people who make sure your recommended youtube videos smoothly transition from lets-plays to people who are very angry that the lizard people refuse to inflate the flat earth with ghosts
Bad idea of the day: creating ads that target asemic combinations of dictionary words order to identify people who use dictionary-based chaffing techniques
Bad idea of the day: creating ads that target things that are in dictionaries but could never be sold in order to identify people who use dictionary-based chaffing techniques
Bad idea of the day: running a script that speaks random words aloud all day while you leave your phone at home, in order to chaff your audio-surveillance-based ad targeting
Is This Creepy Sculpture An Ad For Soylent? https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/soylent-sculpture-girlfriend
Ad-tech and fatigue â Rococo Modem Basilisk â Medium https://medium.com/@/ad-tech-and-fatigue-b918bee5ee75
Ad Scammers Need Suckers, and Facebook Helps Find Them - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-27/ad-scammers-need-suckers-and-facebook-helps-find-them
Hot take: the lack of targetting effectiveness in Cambridge Analytica & Google Ads doesn’t excuse it. There are 4 sins here: taking the data, trying to target with it, targetting poorly, and overselling targetting accuracy. They compound.
Band name of the day: added smashing power
Bad idea of the day: Instead of ads mining bitcoins in your browser, they run IPFS nodes and pin arbitrary hashes in browser persistent storage then store them.
This Is How Visiting A Porn Site Can Make You A Pawn In An Ad Fraud Scheme https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/porn-runs-the-internet
GANZEER - 1,000,000 A.D. PART III[[MORE]] By Ganzeer Adapted… http://www.ganzeer.com/post/167538424069/1000000-ad-part-iiimore-by-ganzeer-adapted
GANZEER - 1,000,000 A.D. PART II[[MORE]] By Ganzeer Adapted… http://www.ganzeer.com/post/167295499974/1000000-ad-part-iimore-by-ganzeer-adapted
GANZEER - 1,000,000 A.D. A story by Tawfik al-Hakim (1953)… http://www.ganzeer.com/post/167078472779/1000000-ad-a-story-by-tawfik-al-hakim-1953
Social Media Experts Say the Russian Trolls Suck at Facebook - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43n4pn/were-the-facebook-russian-ads-effective-good
No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » The Return of the Slow-Wave Trader http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=7625
No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » My Dinner with Ramez: or, The Identity Landscape. http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=7737
No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » My Dinner with Ramez: or, The Identity Landscape. http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=7737
Ads don’t work so websites are using your electricity to pay the bills | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/27/pirate-bay-showtime-ads-websites-electricity-pay-bills-cryptocurrency-bitcoin
Ads Don’t Work That Way | Melting Asphalt http://www.meltingasphalt.com/ads-dont-work-that-way/
The Creator of JavaScript Just Launched a Cryptocurrency to Improve Online Ads - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-creator-of-javascript-just-launched-a-cryptocurrency-for-online-ads
No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » Lizards in the Sink with David. http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=7117
No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » Cambridge Analytica and the Other Turing Test. http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=7193
added these aliases to my .profile to make sending/receiving a bit easier
@edsu I added: git push -q origin gh-pages; – so I didn’t get the warning from git about push.default since I’ve never set that.