Aram Zucker-Scharff
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AramZS. he/him. Privacy Engineer. Tech for journalism. Ad Tech. Prev: Fullstack, strategy, econ/game journo, storytelling, altac. Views are only my own. NYCer. https://aramzs.nexus/
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In the first two paragraphs Perera already demonstrates he has no idea what he’s talking about. The first paragraph is factual. But in the second paragraph he claims “algorithmic trading systems detected account irregularities”. And that’s “unprecedented”. Lol nonsense.
November 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
In the first two paragraphs Perera already demonstrates he has no idea what he’s talking about. The first paragraph is factual. But in the second paragraph he claims “algorithmic trading systems detected account irregularities”. And that’s “unprecedented”. Lol nonsense.
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And all of those App Stores could be using an app Lexicon, and get curated for unique needs, with social signals and ownership details.
Creating a universal app store for PWAs seems like an obvious win here vs. heuristics triggered installs. But think about smaller, more bespoke app stores! An app store for your intranet apps. An app store for your webring of online mutuals. An app store for kid-friendly apps. That's fun territory.
On the Edge team, we think web apps should be easier to install.
The default browser install button is great, but we'd like something which you can use on your own site, how and when you want it.
That's why we're proposing the Web Install API, which you can now test!
The default browser install button is great, but we'd like something which you can use on your own site, how and when you want it.
That's why we're proposing the Web Install API, which you can now test!
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
And all of those App Stores could be using an app Lexicon, and get curated for unique needs, with social signals and ownership details.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Black Friday at Bad Hand Books starts today. Head to the Bad Hand Books website and use this code at checkout to save 30% on your order. Pre-orders. eBooks. Merch. Buy more, save more. One use per customer. Expires December 1.
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In America they arrest you if you tell someone else not to commit a crime
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
In America they arrest you if you tell someone else not to commit a crime
Steam being ok on sex/porn games but not ok on critical-of-sociaty games with nudity and weirdness seems to me to be pretty telling about how the world and Steam in particular works.
Santa Ragione, a venerable, innovative and award-winning studio, may close due to @valvesoftware.com's unaccountable, counter-factual ban. From an early build of HORSES I can easily say it's another award-contender.
Valve can still rectify this poor judgement.
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-it...
Valve can still rectify this poor judgement.
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-it...
November 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Steam being ok on sex/porn games but not ok on critical-of-sociaty games with nudity and weirdness seems to me to be pretty telling about how the world and Steam in particular works.
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Santa Ragione, a venerable, innovative and award-winning studio, may close due to @valvesoftware.com's unaccountable, counter-factual ban. From an early build of HORSES I can easily say it's another award-contender.
Valve can still rectify this poor judgement.
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-it...
Valve can still rectify this poor judgement.
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-it...
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Santa Ragione, a venerable, innovative and award-winning studio, may close due to @valvesoftware.com's unaccountable, counter-factual ban. From an early build of HORSES I can easily say it's another award-contender.
Valve can still rectify this poor judgement.
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-it...
Valve can still rectify this poor judgement.
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-it...
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The threats to digital civil liberties aren’t secret rooms in AT&T buildings anymore. They’re AI systems, data brokers, and privatized surveillance sold as products.
The EFF has spent 35 years fighting for rights and freedoms. Here’s my take on how it should evolve to fight back.
The EFF has spent 35 years fighting for rights and freedoms. Here’s my take on how it should evolve to fight back.
The EFF we need now
Why the next era of digital civil liberties requires a tighter mission, a bolder strategy, and a clearer view of how power works.
werd.io
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The threats to digital civil liberties aren’t secret rooms in AT&T buildings anymore. They’re AI systems, data brokers, and privatized surveillance sold as products.
The EFF has spent 35 years fighting for rights and freedoms. Here’s my take on how it should evolve to fight back.
The EFF has spent 35 years fighting for rights and freedoms. Here’s my take on how it should evolve to fight back.
I think it's worthwhile to ask what is Bari Weiss's overall plan? What is she thinking here? Is her goal to continue to promote all the worse voices associated with Jewish people until it makes America so angry at us that we're forced to move to Israel? Is that the actual goal?
Charisma
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I think it's worthwhile to ask what is Bari Weiss's overall plan? What is she thinking here? Is her goal to continue to promote all the worse voices associated with Jewish people until it makes America so angry at us that we're forced to move to Israel? Is that the actual goal?
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NEW: In 2025, tech startups have leaned completely into rage-baiting the public to market their products and services. The latest example involves one IVF company dabbling in what many NYC residents describe as eugenics. www.inc.com/sam-blum/the...
The Era of Startup Outrage-Bait Marketing Is Upon Us
Nucleus Genomics is the latest startup to compete for attention with a controversial ad campaign—and it might just be working.
www.inc.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
NEW: In 2025, tech startups have leaned completely into rage-baiting the public to market their products and services. The latest example involves one IVF company dabbling in what many NYC residents describe as eugenics. www.inc.com/sam-blum/the...
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Really proud of my colleagues for launching this new series at @coyotemedia.org -- First Aid Kit, a set of pieces that help you be safer, healthier, and more helpful in your community.
How to respond to an overdose by @nuala.bsky.social
How to respond to an overdose by @nuala.bsky.social
COYOTE First Aid Kit: How to Compassionately Respond to an Overdose
Naloxone, rescue breathing, and 911: Learn the do's, don'ts, and best practices for reversing an overdose.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Really proud of my colleagues for launching this new series at @coyotemedia.org -- First Aid Kit, a set of pieces that help you be safer, healthier, and more helpful in your community.
How to respond to an overdose by @nuala.bsky.social
How to respond to an overdose by @nuala.bsky.social
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This is what I spent most of last week working on with other people who cannot leave this stuff alone. Gotta put the facts in order in a stable place and then see what meaning emerges.
The fight against authoritarianism has many fronts. At Unbreaking, we choose to work against information overload and for collective understanding. On our Immigration timeline, we track major and representative events from across the US—now filterable by legal case:
unbreaking.org/issues/immig...
unbreaking.org/issues/immig...
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This is what I spent most of last week working on with other people who cannot leave this stuff alone. Gotta put the facts in order in a stable place and then see what meaning emerges.
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Court Watch is a totally indispensable source of important, interesting, bizarre court cases every week. I definitely feel as a paid subscriber I am supporting something that serves the public good. They're trying to turn 4; subscribe if you can www.courtwatch.news/p/help-us-tu...
Help Us Turn Four
Our scrappy punch above-its-weight news site only survives with support from folks like you.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Court Watch is a totally indispensable source of important, interesting, bizarre court cases every week. I definitely feel as a paid subscriber I am supporting something that serves the public good. They're trying to turn 4; subscribe if you can www.courtwatch.news/p/help-us-tu...
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Starting the weekend Dec 6-7, my newsletter will feature a read-along of William Gibson's Neuromancer. We read it together, starting easy – just 30 pages “Chiba City Blues,” chapters 1-4. I'll review it as we go. Sign up here: hackerfiction.net/subscribe/
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Starting the weekend Dec 6-7, my newsletter will feature a read-along of William Gibson's Neuromancer. We read it together, starting easy – just 30 pages “Chiba City Blues,” chapters 1-4. I'll review it as we go. Sign up here: hackerfiction.net/subscribe/
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Aside from the high seas murder spree, an order to court martial a sitting senator for 100% legal political speech, and to do so under blatant unlawful command influence, would probably be the clearest case yet of an order so manifestly unlawful there is a duty for anybody in uniform to refuse it.
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Aside from the high seas murder spree, an order to court martial a sitting senator for 100% legal political speech, and to do so under blatant unlawful command influence, would probably be the clearest case yet of an order so manifestly unlawful there is a duty for anybody in uniform to refuse it.
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
So Owens has just straight up cracked huh?
sacre bleu 😱
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
So Owens has just straight up cracked huh?
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This is the way.
We @uam-umd.bsky.social won. Faculty packed town halls, talked to their colleagues and collected hundreds of petition signatures. Now UMD is coughing up $8.75m, during a deficit, to fund faculty whose research is under attack. Not enough, but a helluva thing for a union the state calls illegal.
$8.75M Investment Supports ‘Research Resilience’… | Maryland Today
UMD, MPower Funds Combine to Help Preserve Institutional Capabilities, Lab Operations and More
today.umd.edu
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This is the way.
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Larry Ellison Met With Trump To Discuss Which CNN Reporters They Plan To Fire
Trump’s right wing billionaire friend Larry Ellison (and his nepobaby son, David) recently acquired CBS and likely co-ownership of TikTok. Like Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, the goal isn’t really subtle: rich,…
Trump’s right wing billionaire friend Larry Ellison (and his nepobaby son, David) recently acquired CBS and likely co-ownership of TikTok. Like Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, the goal isn’t really subtle: rich,…
Larry Ellison Met With Trump To Discuss Which CNN Reporters They Plan To Fire
Trump’s right wing billionaire friend Larry Ellison (and his nepobaby son, David) recently acquired CBS and likely co-ownership of TikTok. Like Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, the goal isn’t really subtle: rich, thin-skinned right wingers want to own the entirety of U.S. new and old media, then convert it into a giant propaganda and lazy infotainment bullhorn that blows smoke up their asses…
www.techdirt.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Larry Ellison Met With Trump To Discuss Which CNN Reporters They Plan To Fire
Trump’s right wing billionaire friend Larry Ellison (and his nepobaby son, David) recently acquired CBS and likely co-ownership of TikTok. Like Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, the goal isn’t really subtle: rich,…
Trump’s right wing billionaire friend Larry Ellison (and his nepobaby son, David) recently acquired CBS and likely co-ownership of TikTok. Like Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, the goal isn’t really subtle: rich,…
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support for striking @sbworkersunited.org spotted at richmond’s independent riverbend roastery
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
support for striking @sbworkersunited.org spotted at richmond’s independent riverbend roastery
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The psychological distress experienced by people encouraged to form an attachment to OpenAI's product when that product is changed or taken away is real, no doubt. But the journalist is absolutely callous with regards to those who have died and their loved ones.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The psychological distress experienced by people encouraged to form an attachment to OpenAI's product when that product is changed or taken away is real, no doubt. But the journalist is absolutely callous with regards to those who have died and their loved ones.
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I shared this yesterday. But I want to repost @chrisbratt.bsky.social's investigation into the Rockstar union-busting allegations.
What people in the business call "proper reporting" and the kind of stuff a healthy media ecosystem must support.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
What people in the business call "proper reporting" and the kind of stuff a healthy media ecosystem must support.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
The Messages Rockstar Saw Before Firing 34 Union Members
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I shared this yesterday. But I want to repost @chrisbratt.bsky.social's investigation into the Rockstar union-busting allegations.
What people in the business call "proper reporting" and the kind of stuff a healthy media ecosystem must support.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
What people in the business call "proper reporting" and the kind of stuff a healthy media ecosystem must support.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
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alan dershowitz, who cried when he couldn't get pierogies
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
alan dershowitz, who cried when he couldn't get pierogies