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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threw together a lil web component to add this to any input. super easy progressive UX enhancement for your atproto app!
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November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
threw together a lil web component to add this to any input. super easy progressive UX enhancement for your atproto app!
tangled.org/@jakelazarof...
tangled.org/@jakelazarof...
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I've got three Party of One episodes I think really showcase what makes the mystery resolution mechanics in Carved From Brindlewood games work:
1, our Apocalypse Keys game with @kierongillen.bsky.social
www.partyofonepodcast.com/2025/09/14/4...
1, our Apocalypse Keys game with @kierongillen.bsky.social
www.partyofonepodcast.com/2025/09/14/4...
467 - Apocalypse Keys with Kieron Gillen - Party Of One
Kieron is the writer behind some of my favorite comics, including Young Avengers, Journey Into Mystery, and The Wicked + The Divine. His latest works include The Power Fantasy, about the six superpowe...
www.partyofonepodcast.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I've got three Party of One episodes I think really showcase what makes the mystery resolution mechanics in Carved From Brindlewood games work:
1, our Apocalypse Keys game with @kierongillen.bsky.social
www.partyofonepodcast.com/2025/09/14/4...
1, our Apocalypse Keys game with @kierongillen.bsky.social
www.partyofonepodcast.com/2025/09/14/4...
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Senators look at Trump's shameless corruption and say "give us some of that"
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
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Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Senators look at Trump's shameless corruption and say "give us some of that"
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US consumer watchdog says it is legally blocked from accessing funds reut.rs/4p5bX6x
US consumer watchdog says it is legally blocked from accessing funds
The top U.S. consumer watchdog said on Monday it was legally prohibited from drawing cash from the Federal Reserve to support continuing operations, but that its current funding should last through the end of this year "at least."
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November 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
US consumer watchdog says it is legally blocked from accessing funds reut.rs/4p5bX6x
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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NEW: Supreme Court rejects long-shot effort to overturn ruling that legalized gay marriage:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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Supreme Court rejects long-shot effort to overturn same-sex marriage ruling
The court turned away an appeal filed by Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky who was sued after refusing to issue a marriage license to a gay couple.
www.nbcnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
NEW: Supreme Court rejects long-shot effort to overturn ruling that legalized gay marriage:
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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NEW: Buried in 141-page text of the latest draft text of the Senate's ag appropriations bill is a restriction on hemp-derived THC products w/ >0.4mg per container—an effective ban on the existing market. Would go into effect 1yr from passage: www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
NEW: Buried in 141-page text of the latest draft text of the Senate's ag appropriations bill is a restriction on hemp-derived THC products w/ >0.4mg per container—an effective ban on the existing market. Would go into effect 1yr from passage: www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
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Eight Senate Dems Caved, and Caved Too Early.
Eight Senate Dems Caved, and Caved Too Early - emptywheel
With one more week, Trump would have owned far more of the responsibility for SNAP and flight cutbacks.
www.emptywheel.net
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Eight Senate Dems Caved, and Caved Too Early.
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"...but draft documents obtained by POLITICO show that officials are planning far-reaching changes to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to the benefit of artificial intelligence developers."
Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom
Draft proposals obtained by POLITICO show EU is breaking sacred privacy regime to placate industry.
www.politico.eu
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
"...but draft documents obtained by POLITICO show that officials are planning far-reaching changes to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to the benefit of artificial intelligence developers."
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More privacy for tech users is good! But creating a new privilege for a robot that routinely says inaccurate and dangerous things does seem like a weird way to enhance user privacy, if that is ultimately what this is about.
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
More privacy for tech users is good! But creating a new privilege for a robot that routinely says inaccurate and dangerous things does seem like a weird way to enhance user privacy, if that is ultimately what this is about.
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Cursed timeline
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Cursed timeline
the agentic web is just apis
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November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
the agentic web is just apis
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GDPR has its problems but privacy is good actually for business that aren't cancerous middleman operations that sticks like a tic to the bidstream and executes data enrichment of unproven providence, usefulness, or accuracy.
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
GDPR has its problems but privacy is good actually for business that aren't cancerous middleman operations that sticks like a tic to the bidstream and executes data enrichment of unproven providence, usefulness, or accuracy.
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Dick Durbin suffers from a terminal case of Senate Brain, in which the big prize is a handshake deal with your distinguished colleagues where they'll allow you to hold a meaningless vote that you can then point to with pride to your constituents as they go broke from crushing medical bills.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Dick Durbin suffers from a terminal case of Senate Brain, in which the big prize is a handshake deal with your distinguished colleagues where they'll allow you to hold a meaningless vote that you can then point to with pride to your constituents as they go broke from crushing medical bills.
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“.. As the raids have continued, consumers have started to question whether the company’s silence makes it an accomplice to the sweeps rather than merely the backdrop. .. A backlash is coming for the company.”
@bloomberg.com $HD
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@bloomberg.com $HD
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November 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
“.. As the raids have continued, consumers have started to question whether the company’s silence makes it an accomplice to the sweeps rather than merely the backdrop. .. A backlash is coming for the company.”
@bloomberg.com $HD
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"I write to call for help.
"I want you to understand, regardless of your politics, the historical danger of a secret police. What happens when a militia is deployed in our neighborhoods and against our own people. Left unchecked their mandate will grow.... "
"I want you to understand, regardless of your politics, the historical danger of a secret police. What happens when a militia is deployed in our neighborhoods and against our own people. Left unchecked their mandate will grow.... "
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
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He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"I write to call for help.
"I want you to understand, regardless of your politics, the historical danger of a secret police. What happens when a militia is deployed in our neighborhoods and against our own people. Left unchecked their mandate will grow.... "
"I want you to understand, regardless of your politics, the historical danger of a secret police. What happens when a militia is deployed in our neighborhoods and against our own people. Left unchecked their mandate will grow.... "
Here's what I'm going to blame Dems for: if their cowering incompetence causes a huge swath of Americans to lose health care. Because if they give in here, that'll be their fault.
MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Here's what I'm going to blame Dems for: if their cowering incompetence causes a huge swath of Americans to lose health care. Because if they give in here, that'll be their fault.
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Also, being blamed is temporary if they can deliver something they will be loved for. These fucking cowards apparently have no stomach for uncertainty or their own capacity to get anything done.
Loser behavior through and through.
Loser behavior through and through.
MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Also, being blamed is temporary if they can deliver something they will be loved for. These fucking cowards apparently have no stomach for uncertainty or their own capacity to get anything done.
Loser behavior through and through.
Loser behavior through and through.
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"Other voices point at recent reporting by Politico, that Virkkunen's message to US businesses in direct meetings was that the EU will review its rules and become more business-friendly."
Left-leaning EP groups should call for resignation and ask her why she's prioritizing
noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
Left-leaning EP groups should call for resignation and ask her why she's prioritizing
noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
EU Commission about to wreck core principles of the GDPR
The EU Commission has secretly set in motion a potentially massive reform of the GDPR. noybs first overview of the proposed changes.
noyb.eu
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"Other voices point at recent reporting by Politico, that Virkkunen's message to US businesses in direct meetings was that the EU will review its rules and become more business-friendly."
Left-leaning EP groups should call for resignation and ask her why she's prioritizing
noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
Left-leaning EP groups should call for resignation and ask her why she's prioritizing
noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
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I beg you, do not use any AI system as a therapist, as a financial advisor or as a legal advisor.
November 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I beg you, do not use any AI system as a therapist, as a financial advisor or as a legal advisor.
Bad news. AI isn't useful for any of those things.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Bad news. AI isn't useful for any of those things.
Having now heard him talk multiple times I really want to emphasize that--at best--Scott Galloway is good at explaining how marketing works. I'm honestly not sure even that is true. He's not qualified to write this and I've no interest in listening to anything he has to say about culture.
From the New Yorker, in case the NYT hadn't done enough 🙃
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Having now heard him talk multiple times I really want to emphasize that--at best--Scott Galloway is good at explaining how marketing works. I'm honestly not sure even that is true. He's not qualified to write this and I've no interest in listening to anything he has to say about culture.
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
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This is absolutely right.
The eight who signed off on this disaster of a deal were acting as a shield for colleagues who are up this cycle. Don't let any of them off the hook just yet.
The eight who signed off on this disaster of a deal were acting as a shield for colleagues who are up this cycle. Don't let any of them off the hook just yet.
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This is absolutely right.
The eight who signed off on this disaster of a deal were acting as a shield for colleagues who are up this cycle. Don't let any of them off the hook just yet.
The eight who signed off on this disaster of a deal were acting as a shield for colleagues who are up this cycle. Don't let any of them off the hook just yet.