Today's linksThe stupidest imaginable excuses for surveillance pricing (permalink)With "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, way better than people: price gouging. With surveillance pricing, politicians face a familiar conundrum: if they do the thing that's popular with voters, they'll enrage donors. That's the approach they took in Maryland:https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/30/something-must-be-done/#there-ive-done-somethingBut in California, they're actually doing something about surveillance pricing. AB-2564 is a smart, well-written bill that bans surveillance pricing. Surveillance pricing is grossly offensive.