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11 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting

wired.com/story/book-publishers-are-quietly-using-more-ai-staff-are-revolting/

Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.

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11 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

How a Defunct White Supremacist State Became a Cult Favorite on the Right

motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/how-rhodesia-became-a-cult-favorite-on-the-right-again-bo-french-mike-collins-donald-trump-jr/

From battleground candidates to Elon Musk, Republicans can't stop posting wistfully about Rhodesia.

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11 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Signal Flow

pages.laporte.cloud/my-setup/

Five machines in the house, frontier labs in the cloud, six agents, one voice loop. An interactive tour, October 2026.

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11 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things

news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/using-ai-for-just-10-minutes-erodes-your-ability-to-persist-at-hard-things/

A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.

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11 Oct 04:54 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life - The EP Album Review | Pitchfork

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Read Stephen Thomas Erlewine’s review of the EP.

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10 Oct 04:48 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Inside Ken Paxton’s Private Testimony About His Money

nytimes.com/2026/10/09/us/ken-paxton-deposition-investments.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

At the time, in December 2014, Mr. Paxton was a fast-rising Republican star.

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10 Oct 04:48 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

AI agents are churning out code faster than humans can review it

arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/ai-coding-agents-generate-more-code-but-not-more-software/

Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."

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10 Oct 04:48 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

When the future of rock and roll was in Windsor Terrace, by Raanan Geberer, photos by J.R. Rost

star-revue.com/back-when-music-was-mostly-in-by-raanan-geberer/

If you Google “rock clubs, Brooklyn,” you’ll see more than a dozen, most of them in Williamsburg, Bushwick, Gowanus or nearby. But before any of them were there, Lauterbach’s, at 335 Prospect Ave. in the South Slope, had a thriving scene featuring original rock bands. None of the Lauterbach’s bands – Frank’s Museum, Chemical Wedding, Cryptic Soup, Formaldehyde Blues Train, […]

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10 Oct 04:48 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

DND 5th Edition

dnd5e.wikidot.com/lineage:plasmoid

Plasmoids are amorphous beings with no typical shape. In the presence of other folk, they often adopt a similar shape, but there’s little chance of mistaking a plasmoid for anything else.

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10 Oct 04:48 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Can the News Exist Without Big Tech? The Atlas Says Yes

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-the-news-exist-without-big-tech-the-atlas-says-yes/id1858321416?i=1000793833685

...When The Atlas, a digital newspaper, launched earlier this year, it billed itself as “the new samizdat.” The term recalls the dissident networks that distributed forbidden news and literature in the Soviet Union in the 1950s and ’60s, evading the censors. According to The...

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10 Oct 04:48 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

US surpasses 4,000 measles cases with infections confirmed in 45 states: CDC

abcnews.com/Health/us-surpasses-4000-measles-cases-infections-confirmed-45/story?id=137125273

Measles cases in the United States have surpassed 4,000 this year, according to data updated Friday from the CDC.

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10 Oct 04:48 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Quartz website mainly produced by one AI-assisted reporter writing 50+ stories per day

pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/quartz-website-mainly-produced-by-one-ai-assisted-reporter-writing-50-stories-per-day/

Digital marketing expert Cris Tolomia appears to be making heavy use of AI.

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10 Oct 04:48 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

US imposes sanctions on ICC, hours after Nobel award to former judge

lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/10/09/us-imposes-sanctions-on-icc-hours-after-nobel-award-to-former-judge_6758431_4.html#

The court rejected the US sanctions as an attack on international law and warned in a statement that 'history will judge this moment.'

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10 Oct 04:48 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Ties to Kalshi Throw Gambling Addiction Group Into Disarray

barrons.com/articles/kalshi-prediction-market-gambling-addiction-hotline-f4e64c71?st=69TiQT&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Kalshi donated $2 million to the National Council on Problem Gambling. Advocates rebelled.

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10 Oct 04:48 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Air Force Academy residents say children tested positive for lead

gazette.com/2026/10/08/air-force-academy-residents-say-children-tested-positive-for-lead-3/

Residents living in Air Force Academy Family Housing are concerned about lead contamination in their water after their plumbing fixtures tested positive for lead.

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10 Oct 04:48 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Apple’s Safari ad tech blocklist sends publishers back to IAB Tech Lab’s Trusted Server

digiday.com/media/apples-safari-ad-tech-blocklist-sends-publishers-back-to-iab-tech-labs-trusted-server/

That leaves publishers looking again at a fix they’d long put off: running their own ad infrastructure through IAB Tech Lab’s Trusted Server.

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10 Oct 04:48 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Publisher ad supply fell by up to 40% in Q2 as AI search choked the open web

digiday.com/media/publisher-ad-supply-fell-by-up-to-40-in-q2-as-ai-search-choked-the-open-web/

Publisher ad supply fell 40% in Q2 as AI‑era, zero‑click search choked the flow of traffic to news and other open‑web sites, per Ozone.

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10 Oct 04:48 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Global adspend to hit $1.34trn as AI goes gangbusters

decisionmarketing.co.uk/top-story/global-adspend-to-hit-1-34trn-as-ai-goes-gangbusters

Global adspend to hit $1.34trn as AI goes gangbusters. Advertising market set to surge by 11.9% despite ongoing consumer caution

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10 Oct 04:48 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Google And The DOJ Filed Their Proposed Final Judgments In The Ad Tech Case – Here’s What They’re Still Arguing About

adexchanger.com/publishers/google-and-the-doj-filed-their-proposed-final-judgments-in-the-ad-tech-case-heres-what-theyre-still-arguing-about/

Google and the DOJ filed the next round of paperwork that will determine what Google's punishment will be in the ad tech antitrust case.

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10 Oct 04:48 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Raptive's Bannister links Apple's 30% App Store fee to its Safari block

ppc.land/raptives-bannister-links-apples-30-app-store-fee-to-its-safari-block/

Revised Apple Ads terms took effect July 28 while iOS 27 restricts adsrvr.org, affecting buyers and publishers. Is a 20% unblock fee coming? No source says so.

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10 Oct 04:48 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

How Data And Ad Tech Vendors Are Preparing For The iOS 27 Fallout

adexchanger.com/platforms/how-data-and-ad-tech-vendors-are-preparing-for-the-ios-27-fallout/

Against the backdrop of Advertising Week New York this week, the programmatic ecosystem has been buzzing madly like the inhabitants of an overturned beehive. That’s because Apple’s latest operating system update, iOS 27, which launched in mid-September, has been, without warning, unconditionally blocking data and identity vendors. The original list included LiveRamp, Permutive, Audigent (now […]

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10 Oct 04:48 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

“We’re in their shit. They’re not in ours”: USA Today Co. execs defend Palantir deal

niemanlab.org/2026/10/were-in-their-shit-theyre-not-in-ours-usa-today-co-execs-defend-palantir-deal/

USA Today Co. executives are revealing new details about a controversial deal with Palantir. In a joint interview with Fast Company's Alex Pasternack, three executives from the country's largest newspaper chain explained why they moved ahead with the Palantir deal despite major opposition from thei…

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10 Oct 04:48 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

AI Is Not ‘Super Intelligence.’ Why No One Should Use Trump’s Term

cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/ai-not-super-intelligence-no-one-should-use-trumps-term/

Commentary: Words evolve based on public use and technical precision, not because a president orders people to adopt them.

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10 Oct 04:48 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

What it's like to witness a botched execution

thehandbasket.co/p/christa-pike-steven-hale-nashville-botched-execution

Q+A with Steven Hale of The Nashville Banner, who watched as Christa Pike survived two lethal injections.

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10 Oct 04:48 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Scoop: AI companies plot "the day after"

axios.com/2026/10/09/ai-companies-day-after-major-attack

Inside the AI industry's worst-case-scenario prep.

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10 Oct 04:48 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests

wired.com/story/ice-agent-at-nyc-shooting-has-history-of-alleged-violence-and-illegal-arrests/

Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.

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10 Oct 04:48 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Peter Thiel slams Obama, Pope Leo in new ‘Antichrist’ lectures

politico.com/news/2026/10/08/peter-thiel-ai-obama-pope-leo-01112122

The tech billionaire accused them of using AI concerns to “boost their own popularity,” according to recordings obtained by POLITICO.

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10 Oct 04:48 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

World must change way it produces food to avoid biodiversity collapse, says WWF

theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/08/world-must-change-food-avoid-biodiversity-collapse-wwf

Recovery of tigers, tuna and green sea turtles show nature loss can be reversed when action taken, charity says

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10 Oct 04:48 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Stage Four: The Trump Simulacrum and Attention Economy Decay

hipcrimevocab.net/stage-four-the-trump-simulacrum-and-attention-economy-decay/

The contemporary media apparatus has completed Baudrillard's fourth stage of simulation: coverage no longer reflects, distorts, or substitutes for political reality — it generates one. Donald Trump did not cause this. He is its perfect product.

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09 Oct 05:00 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

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