with all the shock about the social media addiction cases, it's like folks never read Marshall McLuhan

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Guerrilla art is flourishing in Trump’s Washington

Street artists and anonymous collectives use an old protest technique: Sending messages into the void.

www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/...

Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Profiting From Widespread Fraud On Its Platforms Ben Lennett summarizes lawsuit from CFA that alleges Meta enabled scam ads and profited as consumers lost billions to fraud.

my oh my! I can hear the plaintiff's bar tee'ing up similar cases against all large platforms with ad-rev models

Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Profiting From Widespread Fraud On Its Platforms

www.techpolicy.press/lawsuit-acc...

The American Museum of Tort Law The first museum dedicated to law

can't believe I'm just now learning that there is an American Museum of Tort Law

www.tortmuseum.org/

Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data. In 2025, Google gave Amandla Thomas-Johnson's data to ICE without giving him the chance to challenge the subpoena, breaking a nearly decade-long promise to notify users before handing their data to

Google produces your ID to ICE even when not required by law to do so, and without telling you in advance so you can protect your anonymity.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I sued Yahoo for similar action years ago.

Hmmmm 😃

as expected, Judge Donato has some questions about the newly proposed Epic Google app store settlement

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.u...

Julia Tarver Wood —DOJ’s lead litigator in the Google Adtech case — has joined Wilson Sonsini’s antitrust and competition practice. Which represents Google. She will be siloed from that work - for a while.

Reddit v SerpAPI — Oral Argument set for 6/30/2026 at 10:00 AM in NYC (Judge Engelmay)

jeez anyone else listening to this YGR oral arg on the state AG social media addiction case? I'm having a hard time decoding the judge, other than she seems pissed at everyone

Prelim injunction hearing in Google v SerpAPI set for April 28 now cancelled due to judge schedule. No new date set yet.

Kevin Trudeau - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_...

Surprised I haven’t heard anyone talking about Kevin Trudeau in context of all these MediaMatters-type FTC CIDs.

This is exactly what lights a fire in my belly. How in gods name did we get to this point when SO MUCH court docs are secretly filed? I see this everywhere, all over the country.

Just out of oral arg in MediaMatters v FTC, which MM will win handily. Maybe even 3-0 vote!

oral arg in DC Circ in Media Matters v. FTC is scheduled for only 30 minutes (15 min each side) -- is that unusually abbreviated? (hearing is tomorrow/Monday)

EFF is Leaving X After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

big Inflection point

EFF leaving X cuz crap platform for comms, separate and apart from whatever morality stance

www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The Google Search Technical Committee should consider bringing on Jay Hines.

He did gov oversight/monitoring in the old Microsoft case, so has alot of operational insight.

And lord knows the FTC ALJs have alot less to do these days than when Jay signed on in 2024.

Judge Donato ordered an evidentiary hearing on Epic and Google's latest proposal to revise a court injunction following Epic's win in an antitrust trial over Google’s App Store. Judge warned the companies that "we're not going to keep" batting proposals back and forth. (Law360)

Winners of the 2026 World Press Photo Contest The winning entries of this year’s World Press Photo Contest were just announced. This year, according to organizers, 57,376 images were submitted for judging, made by 3,747 photographers from 141 countries.

See to believe
Winners of the 2026 World Press Photo Contest
www.theatlantic.com/photography...

Google News Now Prominently Featuring Polymarket Bets Google News has started showing Polymarket bets alongside actual news articles, as controversy over prediction markets gains steam.

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Google News Now Prominently Featuring Polymarket Bets
futurism.com/future-soci...

well turns out Knight Center and ACLU did in fact file amicus brief in Amazon v. Perplexity, in support of Perplexity
(some sort of ECF hiccup delayed posting)

EFF and Mozilla file an amicus in support of Perplexity and against Amazon. The inclusion of the ACLU and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University as joining this amicus seems to be an error -- listed on ECF but not in the brief.

BREAKING: DOJ investigating Iran for Mortgage Fraud.

BOOM, DOJ Dahlquist announces in Google court hearing just now that he has RESIGNED from government service.

kudos to Apple in the US antitrust case, identifying the Numero Uno way to slow down a case -- Letters Rogatory (to Samsung in South Korea)

It's from a year ago, but I just discovered this one recently. "51% of all AI answers to questions about the news were judged to have significant issues of some form." www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...

I’ve long been obsessed w consumer-facing internet biz. So this news re the accuracy of AI Overviews caught my eye. More of this please. Any pointers on where to get more info like this, especially on the free AI models that are popular w consumers.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/...

Donate — Free State Roller Derby

www.freestaterollerderby.com/schedule/20...

I'm playing the second game, for Team Mayhem.

If you can't attend but want to say HELL YEAH to folks with high spirits, and a chick who clearly doesn't know how to act her age -- donate at www.freestaterollerderby.com/donate

have you ever wanted me to STFU? wished bodily harm upon me? maybe enjoyed my utter disregard for embarrassing myself? perhaps fancied seeing me in fishnet? well, your opportunity of a lifetime will be April 18, when I'll be playing roller derby for the Free State league.

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