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teams enterprise customer here, we got knocked out too. the most irritating thing here? OpenCode is necessary given how incredibly buggy Claude Code is. I know Boris is a "hot shot…

this builds on earlier research, previously released (with reproducibility steps) available here: https://blog.karljtaylor.com/blog/2026-02-28-xai-search-api-...

continues research I began here: https://blog.karljtaylor.com/blog/2026-02-28-xai-search-api-...

this was a weird take then, and it's still a weird take now. I'll admit, I'm glad we've moved past the open letter era, but as somebody that got hired to write a lot of them, I thi…

they're going be spending significantly more than 200mn with the new revenue share program...

they do, it just usually gets re-written to hell in about 30 very anxious email rounds

For example, one of the things we covered in my ethics class was Kant's categorical imperative. The categorical imperative falls over instantly if you apply even the most basic log…

yes, yes it is.

Vice has one of the worst privacy policies in the entirety of media, so it's kind of a curious thing to see them complaining about. They don't mention they phone Criteo and AdNexus…

when companies decided it was too hard to run data driven marketing programs?

agreed, it goes a lot further back than ww2 https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114045...

Can't quite tell where you're planning on running this, but it sounds like you're letting someone else manage the media buy for you, and you should for sure be running it yourself …

yup! happy to.

I could be wrong, but I've always suspected the only impact of ads like http://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/anti-smoking-tv-ads-bi... are the padding they provide to the bottom l…

Facebook and Google (and nearly every other social ads platform that evolved along the same playbook) avoid the 'personal'by aggregating users above certain thresholds. It's fairly…

I'm not going to argue with you, just go check Cartoon Network's media kit.

targeting based on current page creates a marketplace where only those who are capable of paying an absurd CPC show up, if your stated goal is as above, it really isn't what you wa…

features are candidates, policies are selling points.

it's against the rules in the US, and TV is a particularly big offender here, it's very rarely enforced.

There's a handful of reasons that happens, but one of the biggest is that those ads are placed by a variety of different providers. More often than not when a large buyer goes to p…

except the digital, you're complaining about is also non-individual, and it's anonymized at a much higher threshold. radio points are demographics based buys, TV is demographics ba…