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Thinkings out loud

Overheard: "In tech, every bit of progress makes something easy obsolete."

Did AI make me believe this?

Charley Johnson: AI Can Change Your Mind Without You Noticing

Why just brands?

WordPress VIP: Future of the Web 2026: Chapter 1: The brand that feels human in the AI era earns the decade ahead.

A way for your stuff

Phil Windley: Using Home Assistant with Manifold.

Further evidence that advertising corrupts and digital advertising corrupts absolutely

Joe Mandese in MediaPost: Why Malvertising's New Vector May Leave A Sour Taste In Your Mouth. Excerpt: "Advertising — or more explicitly, 'malvertising' — has long been a vector for distributing malicious software, but a new, insidious exploit utilizes an innovative model for distributing it. Instead of utilizing a single malvertisement to install malicious code on a user's device — usually by redirecting the user to a landing page that automatically download pre-compiled malicious code — SourTrade does it in clandestine installments, treating the user's browser as a passive file receiver that functions as an active local compiler or assembler launching the code when it is completed. You can read more about it in this post by the team at cybersecurity firm Confiant…" Which is here.