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War prep redux

Given the size of my corpus here, most visiting to it, on most days, is to old stuff. One currently getting some action is Desert warfare training in live ghost towns, seen from the sky, which I posted ten years ago. I've shot its scenes (five of them) often since then, while flying overhead, usually en route from Los Angeles or Santa Barbara to Denver or other places on the far side of the desert southwest. I'll look for some and see what changes have developed.

As you've noticed

Business Insider: The streamers that make you watch the most ads — and the ones with the fewest. Excerpt:

Ad minutes per hour rose 18% on top streamers in the US from January to August, according to data from entertainment research firm Ampere Analysis shared exclusively with Business Insider.

Move along. Nothing to see here.

Steven Vaughan-Nichols in ComputerworldJudge spares Google’s ad-tech business from a breakup. Excerpt:

To quote Laurel Kilgour, research manager at the American Economic Liberties Project, an anti-monopoly, nonprofit group: “Judges keep finding Google guilty, but Google keeps walking away with both its ill-gotten gains and its empire intact. Without actual structural remedies, antitrust rulings are just inconvenient speed bumps that allow Google to lock down search and ad tech markets today while using that same unchecked power to monopolize tomorrow’s AI frontier.



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