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21 Jul 05:36 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Man Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With a Ticket Home

newrepublic.com/post/213277/man-died-running-from-ice-tourist-visa

The man has been identified as Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, who was in the U.S. on a tourist visa and already had a plane ticket to go back to Mexico.

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21 Jul 05:36 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

'Just stop burning fossil fuels.' Scientists stress that our smoky skies have only one true fix

cbc.ca/news/science/wildfire-climate-emissions-smoke-9.7274862

Smoky skies in Toronto have led to new scrutiny of government efforts to fight fires and manage forests. But scientists say the realistic way to tackle the smoke is fighting climate change itself.

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21 Jul 05:36 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

How Biden Enabled Israel’s Aggression Toward Gaza—and Iran | The New Yorker

newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/27/how-biden-emboldened-israels-aggression-toward-gaza-and-iran

Top officials from the previous Administration now express regret over their failure to rein in Netanyahu.

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21 Jul 05:36 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The Game Narrative Reader, Zeroth Edition

azhdarchid.com/the-game-narrative-reader-zeroth-edition/

Announcing a curated, thematic link page of important essays and articles about video game narrative.

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21 Jul 05:36 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Fires, floods and record heat: This is the summer of compounding disasters

cnn.com/2026/07/20/climate/climate-compounding-disasters-summer

This summer has proven we don’t have to wait for climate change to smack us in the face. The signs of global warming are all around us, right now.

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21 Jul 05:36 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Judge orders Paramount to temporarily pause Warner Bros acquisition

reuters.com/world/judge-orders-paramount-temporarily-pause-warner-bros-acquisition-2026-07-20/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6a5e56771fe70a000174f6a3

A coalition of states led by California won a pause of Paramount's $110 billion ‌acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on Monday, after the states argued letting the merger close would irreparably harm competition.

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21 Jul 05:36 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

U.S. Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their Relatives

nytimes.com/2026/07/20/business/media/new-york-times-subpoenas-phone-records.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

The Trump administration sought the phone records of several New York Times journalists and their relatives — including one reporter’s mother — in its effort to unmask the confidential sources who had provided information for articles about the security capabilities of President Trump’s new Air Force One jet.

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21 Jul 05:36 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Hey Look, We Redesigned Our Website

defector.com/hey-look-we-redesigned-our-website

Well, well, well, would you look at that. We have a fancy new website. This redesign is the result of a lot of hard work by our esteemed partners at Lede, and they have provided us with a homepage that is much more customizable. We now have the ability to highlight specific stories, coverage areas,…

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21 Jul 05:36 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Legionnaires’ Outbreak: Health Workers Say They’re Burnt Out, Understaffed

thecityreporter.nyc/2026/07/20/legionnaires-disease-staff-shortages-nyc-health-department/

The union representing Department of Health scientists says low wages and overwork make it hard to recruit and retain staff amid a summer of public health emergencies.

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21 Jul 05:36 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers

theintercept.com/2026/07/20/google-maps-reviews-ice-detention-centers/

In the past year, Google Maps was deleting all the reviews for dozens of ICE jails, a new study found.

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21 Jul 05:36 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Why date when Love and Deepspace exists?

mothership.blog/why-date-when-love-and-deepspace-exists/

I’m setting my relationship status to “Complicated” with Infold’s hit boyfriend simulator

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21 Jul 05:36 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The Meaning of Nolan’s The Odyssey

kottke.org/26/07/the-meaning-of-nolans-the-odyssey

I suspect like many of you, I saw The Odyssey this weekend. I really liked it and the more I read & think about the film, the more it grows in my esteem. This t

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21 Jul 05:36 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Why space games still struggle with the scale of the universe

space.com/entertainment/space-games/why-space-games-still-struggle-with-the-scale-of-the-universe

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is."

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21 Jul 05:36 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Federal prosecutors are under fire after critics accuse them of smearing man killed by ICE in Houston

yahoo.com/news/us/articles/federal-prosecutors-under-fire-critics-103025397.html

Legal experts are questioning whether the DOJ is playing politics in an unorthodox way after the surprise unsealing of an FBI search warrant following ICE shooting.

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21 Jul 05:36 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

A 'D' and a bunch of 'B's — my report card for the media covering Trump's awful speech

margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/a-d-and-a-bunch-of-bs-my-report-card

Some flashes of courage, some good analysis and still too much normalization

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20 Jul 05:27 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Artificial

inkandswitch.com/tangents/artificial/

An LLM is a computer program. We should talk about it like a computer program.

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20 Jul 05:27 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

FBI will no longer investigate ICE confrontations, The New York Times reports

cnbc.com/2026/07/19/ice-assault-claims-fbi.html

The Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security have both denied that any change in oversight has taken place.

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20 Jul 05:27 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Under a new federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid

npr.org/2026/06/30/nx-s1-5835631/turner-camhi-do-no-harm-college-loans

If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?

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20 Jul 05:27 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

At 23, he was functionally cured of sickle cell. Now he’s ready to fly.

washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2026/07/18/illness-kept-him-becoming-pilot-then-came-life-changing-treatment/

At 23, he was functionally cured of sickle cell. Now he’s ready to fly.

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20 Jul 05:27 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

No, AI Written Romance Novels Are Not Inevitable

aftermath.site/ai-romance-novel-new-york-times/

The New York Times interviewed two authors who claim AI is the future of romance novels, who coincidentally also sell courses about how to use AI to write romance novels.

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20 Jul 05:27 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

quick rant - follow friction

longfrom.stznz7qsokto2345qtdzogjb.com/a/3mqyswqegoj23-quick-rant-follow-friction?bridge_completed=1

#atdev : So I'm making an offprint component so people can follow me on semble, grain, currents, etc. BUT WHY?!?!

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20 Jul 05:27 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don’t Exist — And They’re Being Cited in Real Journals

rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484/

Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

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20 Jul 05:27 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Israel’s $50 Million Experiment to Change U.S. Public Opinion

wsj.com/politics/israels-50-million-experiment-to-change-u-s-public-opinion-253b3b70?st=uV1SyA

Millions of similar texts have flooded American cellphones in recent months.

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20 Jul 05:27 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/idaho-pushed-anti-trans-laws-transition-care-bathroom-trump-rcna350199

The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.

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20 Jul 05:27 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Politicians Are Trying to Change What Chatbots Say About Them

nytimes.com/2026/07/19/us/politics/chatbots-political-campaigns.html

Fortunately for Mr. Lloyd, there was a fix.

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20 Jul 05:27 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

We’re Underestimating the Power of ‘One-in-a-Thousand-Year’ Solar Storms, NASA Warns

gizmodo.com/were-underestimating-the-power-of-one-in-a-thousand-year-solar-storms-nasa-warns-2000787305

New research led by NASA Goddard found persistent “erroneous measurements” skewing past estimates for how severe geomagnetic storms can get.

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20 Jul 05:27 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

FDA says sample of iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms tested positive for US parasite outbreak

reuters.com/world/fda-says-sample-iceberg-lettuce-supplied-by-taylor-farms-tested-positive-2026-07-18/

The FDA on Saturday said a sample of shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by ‌Taylor Farms tested positive for a parasitic illness that has sickened thousands of people in the U.S.

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20 Jul 05:27 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

People are making wildfire bets on prediction markets. Experts say it could lead to disaster

cnn.com/2026/07/17/climate/betting-wildfires-polymarket-prediction-market-platforms

As the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires raged last year, people placed bets on how how many acres the fires would consume, which locations they would reach and when they would be contained.

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20 Jul 05:27 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

A conflict as old as punk itself

welcometohellworld.com/a-conflict-as-old-as-punk-itself/

Rax King on Crass

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19 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

He Wants to Believe

kennawong.pckt.blog/he-wants-to-believe-bnd3cy2

Aliens exist. At least, they do for Steven Spielberg. This has remained constant across a career defined by restless movement. Spielberg has spent 60 years maki...