"From ADS to SciX: What I wish I knew about ADS/SciX during my Ph.D."
Great blog post about some very useful features of the ADS/SciX search engine such as non-traditional resource discovery.
https://scixplorer.org/scixblog/what-i-wish-i-knew-about-ads-scix-during-my-phd
Aka, paying the Danegeld.
The ad broker industry has a vested interest to promote this thinking.
It is better to move than pay.
after reading my emails for over 20 years, the ad bots still try to push things like "car finance refunds" on me. I've never owned a car in my life, but that's probably too hard to understand for an #AI #algorithm. #ads #banCars
https://www.usluck.com/482803/frigidaire-range-pull-n-clean-oven-march-1962/ Frigidaire Range Pull ‘n Clean Oven – March 1962 #Ads #Advertisements #OldSchool #Vintage #VintageAds #VintageAdvertisements
Discord wprowadzi wideo--reklamy. Takie, których nie można przerwać, i trzeba oglądać do końca.
To zawsze wygląda tak samo: oni oferują zamkniętą usługę za free, ludzie dla "wygody" zaczynają używać, a jak serwis urośnie wystarczająco (wy pobudujecie społeczności, ciężko odejść) to zmienia zasady gry.
Zawsze tak jest z bigtechami finansowanymi przez venture capital.
Uprzedzałem
No ale matrix jest zbyt trudny
I love that my Debian desktop and laptop doesn't bombard me with constant ads and tracking like Windows 10/11 does.
Sure, tools like Chris Titus's winutil can help debloat Windows, but for me, switching to Linux Mint is the way to go.
Musk tries to buy a Supreme Court
https://charliesykes.substack.com/p/elon-comes-for-wisconsin
"Musk... so far spent more than $11 million...
One Musk-backed group... is running deceptive #ads that claim to support candidate #SusanCrawford but are actually designed to alienate moderate #voters by claiming that she supports a radical #progressive agenda. And now, #Musk is offering #Wisconsin voters $100 to sign a petition against “activist judges”"
Get away from her shoes, you bitch!
Late-1985 or 1986 magazine ad for Reebok Aliens Fighter Shoe and 20th Century Fox’s Aliens (or “Alien 2” if you worked in a video rental place back then like I did).
Would you like to know more?
http://www.adtothebone.com/
Veterans Group Wants to Make Elon the Supervillain of the Midterms
A new ad campaign from VoteVets goes after vulnerable House Republicans by turning the spotlight on DOGE.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/veterans-group-wants-to-make-elon-the-supervillain-of-midterms
"The #ads all feature the same roundtable of #veterans sharing their struggles after losing #employment because of #DOGE cuts...
it features #Musk throughout, incl the now infamous scene of him wielding a chainsaw on stage at #CPAC."
“Awful”: #Roku tests autoplaying #ads loading before the Home Screen
#advertising
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/roku-says-unpopular-autoplay-ads-are-just-a-test/