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Weekly output: American Airlines WiFi, Archer Aviation eVTOL air taxis, Google display-ads antitrust violations

During one of the busier travel weeks of the year (happy Easter, everyone), it only seems right for two of my posts for clients to involve commercial aviation. Airlines also figure in my own schedule over the coming week, because Saturday night I depart for Brazil to moderate three panels at Web Summit Rio.

In addition to the posts below, I wrote one Thursday for Patreon readers about how my attitude about taking press trips–meaning, trips subsidized by the company or organization behind the event in question–has changed over the past 10 years.

4/15/2025: Free Inflight Wi-Fi (Finally) Coming to American Airlines, PCMag

AA started this week with the least-competitive WiFi pricing of any U.S. carrier, and now it has one of the most-asterisked announcements of free WiFi among its competitors.

4/17/2025: Archer Aviation, United Airlines Tease Electric Air Taxi Hops to NYC Airports, PCMag

Spending half an hour on a Teams call with Archer’s chief commercial officer Nikhil Goel yielded details left out of the the company’s press release–as well as a questionable assurance that the Trump administration’s devotion to innovation would speed the Federal Aviation Administration’s certification of its Midnight electric vertical-take-off-and-landing aircraft.

4/17/2025: Google Guilty of ‘Willfully Anticompetitive Acts’ in Display-Ads Business, Court Finds, PCMag

A little over two years after I filed a post from a deli in Wallops Island, Va., about the Justice Department’s lawsuit alleging multiple antitrust violations by Google in its display-ads business, I covered Judge Leonie Brinkema holding for the plaintiffs on three of their five claims in a ruling that could lead to the forced divestiture of major parts of Google’s display-ads business. Since that business has done my own industry few favors in recent years, I don’t feel too sorry for Google about that possibility.

 

Web Summit RioWeb Summit Rio | April 27-30, 2025In 2024, Web Summit Rio brought together 34,000-plus people and the companies redefining the tech industry. Next April, we’ll return to Rio de Janeiro for another incredible event. Meet you there?

An acquaintance who is a “friend of Bill W” recently sent me this:

ST. EPHREM
O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust of power, and idle talk.

AA STEP 7 PRAYER
I pray that You now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to You and my fellows.

APPEL À TÉMOIGNAGES AA & #RSA

Comment s'applique réellement la réforme du RSA pour les artistes-auteur·ices ?
La réforme du RSA a été généralisée depuis le 1er janvier 2025 (inscription à France travail, 15h d'activité hebdomadaire, etc.). Comme nous le craignions, divers cas de non prise en compte des spécificités des professions des #AA ont déjà été recensés, concernant les demandes et le maintien du RSA.

⚠️ KONTUZ ⚠️

@BigBrotherWatch​ek salatu du Galeseko poliziak Cardiff hiriburuan hainbat kamera instalatu dituela aurpegi ezagutza masiboa probatzeko:
yewtu.be/watch?v=nLrXYI0c_e4

Hau ohitura bihurtzeko arriskua dago!

EU AI Act-ek dio denbora errealean aurpegi ezagutza masiboa egitea jendea identifikatzeko #AdimenArtifiziala​ren erabilera onartezina dela. Baina, sorpresa, poliziak egitea ahalbidetzen du:
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Informazio gehiago:
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/