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06 Aug 05:33 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The Coffee Industry Is Unequal. A Marxist Economic Theory Explains How.

newsletter.mariannedhenin.com/the-coffee-industry-is-unequal-a-marxist-economic-theory-explains-how/

Demand for coffee is growing, and climate change threatens supply—yet consumers don’t want to pay more. In an intensified and unequal industry, however, someone always pays.

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06 Aug 05:33 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Recommended but not forced segregation: New guidance could push Trans+ people out of public life

wearequeeraf.com/recommended-but-not-forced-segregation-new-guidance-could-push-trans-people-out-of-public-life/

The long-awaiting Code of Practice may have been watered down, but it could roll back trans inclusion laws by more than two decades.

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06 Aug 05:33 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The inevitable weakness of metrics

technologyreview.com/2026/06/19/1138778/inevitable-weakness-metrics-quantified-life-book-review/?utm_source=bsky&utm_medium=tr_social&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement

Quantifying our lives is easier than it’s ever been. But a philosopher of games warns that external metrics and data can never capture what’s truly important.

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06 Aug 05:33 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law

gamedeveloper.com/business/ea-is-now-owned-by-saudi-arabia-and-donald-trump-s-son-in-law?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky

The U.S. publisher has been taken private in a deal worth $55 billion.

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05 Aug 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

🌻 no data centers in my backyard

jasmi.news/p/no-data-centers-in-my-backyard

money, power, and populism in the AI buildout

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05 Aug 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

TikTok Withheld a Safety Feature From Millions. One Died by Suicide

bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-04/confidential-tiktok-report-shows-algorithm-safety-feature-withheld-from-millions?srnd=phx-bigtake

A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement.

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05 Aug 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

[Editor’s desk] Controlling colons and dodging bullets

silverbranch.co.uk/2025/03/controlling-colons-and-dodging-bullets/

TTRPG and boardgame writers tend to throw around too many colons. A lot of it is about right and wrong ways to use bullets. Tim Gray explains.

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05 Aug 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?

wired.com/story/a-civilian-plane-crashed-in-new-mexico-was-the-militarys-tech-to-blame/?_sp=3e192a0e-d114-4877-baca-258ed45ab017.1785878098731

Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.

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05 Aug 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

DOJ Takes Aim At Off-Label Prescriptions in Gender-Affirming Care Fight

autonomynews.co/doj-off-label-prescriptions-gender-affirming-care-subpoena-abortion-pills/

The Trump Administration’s arguments in a recent hearing over a subpoena for trans patients’ medical records could also spell danger for abortion access.

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05 Aug 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed - Bloomberg

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-03/the-world-crossed-a-major-solar-milestone-no-one-noticed

After crossing the 100-gigawatt mark in 2012, it took the world 10 years to deploy 1 terawatt of solar power.

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05 Aug 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Now you can securely link multiple phones to one Signal account

theverge.com/tech/975407/signal-linked-devices-sync

Signal in sync.

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05 Aug 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

How to Snoop Through Property Records Like a Reporter

thecityreporter.nyc/2023/11/03/how-to-snoop-through-property-records-like-a-reporter-two/

Maybe you need to find the name of a contractor who botched a repair, or your landlord’s real mailing address, or how many violations a building has racked up.

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05 Aug 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Scott Galloway: I Got ‘Doxed’ by Mamdani

nymag.com/intelligencer/article/scott-galloway-i-got-doxed-by-mamdanis-pied-terre-list.html?utm_source=nymag_app_article_share

Pivot co-hosts Galloway and Kara Swisher discuss the bumpy pied-à-terre tax rollout.

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05 Aug 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers

techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/android-app-developers-may-be-unwittingly-sharing-their-users-location-data-with-advertisers/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky

Developers may not realize they are sharing their users' location data with advertisers, per new research.

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05 Aug 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy

andre.arko.net/2026/07/30/ruby-centrals-destructive-legacy/

At conferences and meetups, and in conversations online, many Ruby developers have asked me about Ruby Central and my disagreement with them. This post is my attempt to answer the questions I’ve been getting over and over, covering: 1) what is Ruby Central doing now? 2) has the dispute over Bundler and RubyGems been resolved? 3) what has Ruby Central said about the dispute? and 4) what can Ruby developers do now?

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05 Aug 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Online advertising giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are necessary

this.weekinsecurity.com/online-advertising-giant-adform-was-hacked-proving-once-again-why-ad-blockers-are-necessary/

The hacked digital advertiser was caught serving malicious ads that allowed hackers to steal a victim's cryptocurrency.

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05 Aug 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Inside a Mass Shooter’s Harrowing History With ChatGPT

motherjones.com/media/2026/08/openai-chatgpt-fsu-mass-shooting-chat-logs/

A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.

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05 Aug 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Who goes transphobe?

welcometohellworld.com/who-goes-transphobe/

by Sandy Ernest Allen

It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go transphobe. By now, I think I know. I have gone through the experience many times—in California, in Iowa,

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05 Aug 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Piloting paid memberships for the open social web!

lab.leaflet.pub/3mruusj6wtc2j

Lab Notes 035: building monetization features for Leaflet creators, starting with paid memberships — tell us if you'd like to be the first to try, and what else you need!

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05 Aug 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock

404media.co/do-not-mention-alpr-usage-how-cops-are-trying-to-hide-the-existence-of-flock/

“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."

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05 Aug 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Massive ChainDrop npm supply-chain attack infects hundreds of packages

bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/massive-chaindrop-npm-supply-chain-attack-infects-hundreds-of-packages/

Self-propagating malware named 'ChainDrop' has compromised more than 1,300 packages with a combined 2 billion monthly downloads on the Node Package Manager (npm) registry.

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05 Aug 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Tom DeLay helped create TV ownership cap—he says Trump FCC has no authority to repeal it

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/can-trump-fcc-repeal-39-tv-ownership-cap-republican-who-wrote-cap-into-law-says-no/

Congress set ownership limit at 39%, but FCC claims authority to kill the rule.

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05 Aug 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Introducing Linting to your Existing Design Tokens System

alwaystwisted.com/articles/introducing-linting-to-an-existing-token-system

A practical rollout plan for adding design token linting to an existing system without blocking delivery.

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05 Aug 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Designing for Uncertainty

atproto.com/off-protocol/2026-08-03-designing-for-uncertainty-ethan-marcotte

Ethan Marcotte, who first coined the phrase Responsive Design, joins to discuss how to operate in a world defined by uncertainty.

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05 Aug 05:30 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The Skim: Stonetop

oldmenrunningtheworld.com/the-skim-stonetop/

It is this organ’s firm and unyielding belief that one cannot review an RPG from reading it. You can review a manual, certainly, but you’re not reviewing the