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06:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

punk this week: invertebrates, billiam, public acid + 14 more

see-saw.fun/punk-this-week-invertebrates-billiam-public-acid-14-more/

MR. [REDACTED], Paper Jam, Kohti Tuhoa, SIKM, Acid Test, Nisemono, and so many more heaters landed this week.

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06:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

In U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project Emerges - The New York Times

nytimes.com/2026/10/23/us/politics/in-us-gas-talks-with-kremlin-hidden-financing-for-alaska-project-emerges.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LFE.h7UO.RMnv_rSNxDFr&smid=url-share

Interviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.

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24 Oct 05:42 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Ken and Angela Paxton invested $600,000 in a convicted fraudster’s business

texastribune.org/2026/10/23/ken-paxton-angela-blind-trust-investment/

The blind trust’s investment in Wildcatter offers a new, unreported look at the attorney general’s financial ties with the very type of business executives whose prosecutions he typically celebrates.

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24 Oct 05:42 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

It's time to make your own RSS reader

tailscale.com/blog/self-hosted-rss-reader-freshrss

A beginner's guide to self-hosting an RSS reader with FreshRSS, Docker, and Tailscale

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24 Oct 05:42 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Review: The creaky basket boner of ‘Wicker’ delivers far more than laughs

soraya.press/review-the-creaky-basket-boner-of-wicker-delivers-far-more-than-laughs/

My friend, the late Ann Hornaday, would have loved this film

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24 Oct 05:42 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Bird Flu Is Raging on a Mink Farm. It Could Spark a Human Pandemic, Experts Say, but Officials Won’t Act.

propublica.org/article/bird-flu-mink-farm-utah-human-risk

Federal officials brushed off the issue as Utah prioritized the fur industry’s interests. Little has been done to stop the spread of the virus and ensure it can’t spread to humans, a failure that experts called “irresponsible’’ and “astounding.”

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24 Oct 05:42 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Heat killed ‘staggering’ 50,000 people in Europe’s cities this summer, scientists warn

theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/23/heat-killed-staggering-50000-people-european-cities-this-summer-experts

People succumbed to heat at highest rates in Malta, Italy and Hungary, with health issues, loneliness and poverty exacerbating toll

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24 Oct 05:42 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The New Nanny State

chronicle.com/article/the-new-nanny-state

In their fight against AI, professors are monitoring their students in ways previously unimaginable.

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24 Oct 05:42 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California

verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-is-mostly-a-sex-cult-in-berkeley-california

These people shouldn’t make policy.

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24 Oct 05:42 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Introspection, supervenience, consciousness, and the gut

buttondown.com/apperceptive/archive/introspection-supervenience-consciousness-and-the/

"My personal Turing test is that I will accept machine consciousness when I can internalize that consciousness to the same degree that I can internalize...

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24 Oct 05:42 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

“So Much Worse Than People Realize”: Never-Before-Seen Images Reveal Damage at U.S. Bases as Troops Describe Being Abandoned - MeidasTouch

meidasnews.com/news/so-much-worse-than-people-realize-never-before-seen-images-reveal-damage-at-u-s-bases-as-troops-describe-being-abandoned

When the United States went to war with Iran in late February, the American public was told little about what was happening to the troops stationed across the Middle East.

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24 Oct 05:42 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Trump says ‘only a Hispanic could survive’ fall from White House ballroom

thehill.com/homenews/administration/6121943-trump-white-house-ballroom-hispanic-heritage-month/

President Trump said during a Hispanic Heritage Month event Wednesday that only Hispanics could survive a fall from the site of the White House ballroom. The president made the remark in the East …

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24 Oct 05:42 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear

techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/ben-lamm-raises-200m-for-warhound-to-engineer-war-dogs-and-arm-them-with-anduril-gear/

Warhound, the brain child of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement.

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24 Oct 05:42 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

When a Candidate Is Wealthy, and Many of the Voters Are Not

nytimes.com/2026/10/22/us/politics/pete-ricketts-billionaire-nebraska-senate-race.html?unlocked_article_code=1.K1E.cJ6G.gncVazn_wlp4&smid=nytcore-android-share

With a fortune estimated at more than $200 million, Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska is among the richest members of Congress.

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The billionaire tax isn’t breaking through - POLITICO

politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2026/10/19/the-billionaire-tax-isnt-breaking-through-01125880

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

‘If Anything Happens to This Guy … Everyone Is Screwed’

theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/man-who-saved-internet-php-vulnerability/689123/?gift=nwn-guseqS6cY1kVeEKZAV4eM30ZQanhnWOnf22yy-c&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

A major cybersecurity flaw imperiled 70 percent of the internet, Charlie Warzel reports. He spoke with the volunteer who helped fix it:

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Mission accomplished: We’re retiring News Innovation Camp

technical.ly/civics/why-klein-camp-is-ending-the-storytelling-unconference-in-philadelphia/

After 17 years of co-hosting with Temple University’s Klein College, we’re sunsetting the national “unconference” on the future of news.

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

A Longitudinal Study of Extended User IDs in the Online Advertising Ecosystem

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3777912.3839792?trk=public_post_comment-text

As third-party cookies fade because of browser restrictions, the online advertising ecosystem is turning to extended identifiers (EIDs) as an alternative.

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

What Would Happen If You Had Sex With a Wicker Dick?

vulture.com/article/what-would-happen-if-you-had-sex-with-a-wicker-dick.html

We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of Alexander Skarsgård’s Wicker appendage with a gynecologist.

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Publishers pressure Meta to nix new terms that would let the company scrape their websites

niemanlab.org/2026/10/publishers-pressure-meta-to-nix-new-terms-that-would-let-it-scrape-their-websites/

The largest news publishing trade association in the United States is calling on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to suspend the implementation of the company's new commercial terms of service, set to go into effect on October 30.

In an open letter to Zuckerberg published Thursday, News/Media Alliance's…

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Why is The Ringer giving up on its own website?

niemanlab.org/2026/10/the-ringer-bets-on-substacks-network-over-its-own-website/

Once synonymous with independent writers, Substack is increasingly home to established publishers.

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

All My Hobbies Are Getting Slopped Up, And It’s Exhausting

aftermath.site/ai-slop-hobbies-in-software-emulation/

The explosion in vibe coding has created an endless sea of drive-by, unserious, and unmaintained software that is attacking the communities around them.

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23 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million in Transfers

vanityfair.com/story/jared-kushner-hacked-phone-secret-negotiations

An exclusive excerpt from ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’ examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law—and former senior adviser—to Israel, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia.