AP: A trip through New York City’s crowded subway system usually offers a pungent mix of industrial and bodily aromas. […]
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Some temporary TV Tropes trouble
I have a bit of a TV Tropes habit. So I was a bit disconcerted to see this: I have […]
Facebook AI’s upcoming “Maestro” of push ads
My only personal experience with Facebook came from a public wifi spot I used to use years ago that required […]
Dystopia watch: subliminal ads in Bangor
No, that isn’t hyperbole, it’s how PETA describes its own billboard trucks: “Hell on Wheels”—PETA’s hyper-realistic pig transport truck that […]
Dystopia watch: a megacorp’s stealth ads infesting the short-film industry
Google really wants to go all-in on AI and have us accept the resulting river of slop as the new […]
OK, shill: a clothing ad’s obnoxious voterism
A video ad for Levi’s jeans cropped up in my Tiwtter timeline yesterday. Its virality was due to the first […]
About that last featured image
The featured image for my recent post griping about overly marked $20 bills used this image, which I found on […]
On marking bills
Speaking of using cash as an advertisement, I took in a $20 bill the other day that had Harriet Tubman’s […]
There’s a strip club in town that gives $2 bills to its customers. The strippers then spend them, and the […]
Dear Malawi24 and BlockAdblock: just no
I was whittling down my backlog of Twitter likes the other day, and I clicked a link to Malawi24. Most […]
Ray of Infamy 