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19 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy

bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/metro/trump-immigration-boston-university/

The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.

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19 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Lowlands Away, Me John

aftermath.site/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynched-sea-shanty/

Sea shanties don't need remakes

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19 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Huh? "AI entryism"?

olivia.science/entryism/

AI entryism subverts anti AI critique.

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19 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Fox’s Speech Snub

status.news/p/fox-news-donald-trump-election-speech-coverage?_bhlid=c465310d8e22228eea10bafc7229a217a9596c59

Donald Trump wanted a national conversation about election fraud. Fox News aired the speech, then spent the next morning talking about anything but.

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19 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Top Tax Official Pushed Out After Clashes With Trump Administration: Report

huffpost.com/entry/assistant-treasury-secretary-kenneth-kies-pushed-out-clashes-with-trump-admin_n_6a5a334fe4b0f033db1b91f1?origin=home-latest-news-unit

Assistant Treasury Secretary Kenneth Kies will be leaving the administration after reportedly warning that it might be breaking the law.

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19 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

ICE Agent Shoots and Kills a Motorist in Biddeford, Maine, Sen. Angus King Says

mississippifreepress.org/ice-agent-shoots-and-kills-a-motorist-in-biddeford-maine-sen-angus-king-says/

A federal immigration agent fatally shot a motorist in Maine on Monday. This is the second time in a week ICE has used deadly force.

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19 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

‘Enemies of civilization’: top Trump officials disparage leftism at event

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/16/political-violence-event-trump-marco-rubio

Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller took aim at only leftwing activism at meeting of 66 nations against political violence

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19 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Introducing Leaf Computing

jeremiahlee.com/posts/leaf-computing/

The leaf software architecture keeps users in control with local execution and data storage, autonomous functionality, and federated interoperability.

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18 Jul 05:12 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Citizens Bank parts ways with two prison operators amid ICE protests

bostonglobe.com/2026/07/17/business/citizens-bank-ice-protests-prisons/?event=event12

Citizens said the end of its relationships with GEO Group and CoreCivic was driven by changing financial needs of the two clients, not by protests.

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18 Jul 05:12 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Lichen-Markdown

codeberg.org/ukrudt-net/lichen-markdown/src/branch/main/README.md

lichen-markdown - Lichen-Markdown is a simple and friendly CMS for making static websites.

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18 Jul 05:12 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

There’s No Gotcha Here

readtpa.com/p/theres-no-gotcha-here

Calling Hegseth’s testosterone program "gender-affirming care" trivializes trans healthcare and misreads what we’re up against. Speaking only for myself: knock it off

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18 Jul 05:12 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Short sellers notch $8.7 bln profit as SpaceX shares dip to IPO price

reuters.com/business/media-telecom/short-sellers-rack-up-87-bln-profit-spacex-slips-below-ipo-price-ortex-2026-07-16/

Short sellers targeting SpaceX shares are sitting on an estimated $8.7 billion in paper profit since the rockets-to-AI firm's initial public offering last month, as ‌its stock slipped below the IPO price, according to data and analytics firm Ortex Technologies.

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18 Jul 05:12 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

“This Is Just So Sh**ty, We Gotta Watch”: The Beautiful, Inspirational Disaster of ‘Cabin Boy,’ 25 Years Later

theringer.com/2018/12/05/movies/cabin-boy-chris-elliott-anniversary-adam-resnick-comedy-get-a-life

How the film turned Chris Elliott and Adam Resnick into Hollywood pariahs … and comedy legends

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18 Jul 05:12 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

No code, no budget: 7 web scrapers put to the test

indicator.media/p/no-code-no-budget-7-web-scrapers-put-to-the-test

Scraping no longer demands coding skills or a big budget. Here's how seven options held up across three real-world tests.

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18 Jul 05:12 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Tiles Protocols

dasl.ing/tiles-protocols.html

Tiles ([[tiles]]) are intended for use in a diversity of environements. Depending on the environment that they find themselves embedded in, they will have access to different capabilities that expose various features and communicate with the host environment. Tiles Protocols are the mechanisms through which these integrations are made available.

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18 Jul 05:12 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Opinion | Kwame Anthony Appiah Hasn’t Done the Reading

chronicle.com/article/kwame-anthony-appiah-hasnt-done-the-reading

Scholars should welcome interdisciplinary contestation and dispute over fundamental questions of truth and method, and so this spring’s arrival of a “ Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences” was energizing.

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18 Jul 05:12 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The bright and bold summer perfection of OMC’s “How Bizarre”

pastemagazine.com/music/alt-rock-dept/alt-rock-dept-omc-how-bizarre-july-2026

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

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18 Jul 05:12 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

A $10K Bounty Aims to Make Sony’s PlayStation 5 a Computer Again

wired.com/story/a-10k-bounty-aims-to-make-the-ps5-a-computer-again/

Nice PlayStation you got. Bet it could probably run Linux too.

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18 Jul 05:12 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law

theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/16/how-europe-most-powerful-farming-lobby-copa-cogeca-killed-eu-pesticide-law

Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife

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18 Jul 05:12 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

wsj.com

wsj.com/finance/regulation/sec-quarterly-earnings-reports-complaints-2979d5a0

An aramzs.xyz post

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18 Jul 05:12 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

wendy murphy

wendymurphyonline.gumroad.com/

design enjoyer • she/her • portfolio on wendymurphy.online • IG: @wendyleftmealone • see more on linktr.ee/wendymurphyonline

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18 Jul 05:12 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/us-seeks-cheaper-hunter-killer-drones-after-iran-destroys-1b-worth-of-reapers/

US military drone losses in Iran war spur Pentagon call for cheap replacements.

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18 Jul 05:12 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

How the UN’s Scientific Panel Erases Human Responsibility for AI

techpolicy.press/how-the-uns-scientific-panel-erases-human-responsibility-for-ai/

The UN Scientific Panel's report casts artificial intelligence as a system from nowhere, writes Eryk Salvaggio. The definition will shape policy for years.

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18 Jul 05:12 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say

apnews.com/article/ice-david-brouillette-johan-guerrero-maine-shooting-dbc30d6d59e2a95fb470afc188e125c6?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6a59633a1fe70a00011e5671

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to close relatives who spoke to The Associated Press.

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18 Jul 05:12 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

I Got Slopped

nytimes.com/2026/07/16/technology/ai-slop-books-biography-amazon.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yVA.-M2B.EBjC4pOiWupM&smid=nytcore-android-share

This was news to me. I went to Amazon to investigate.

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17 Jul 05:33 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Traditional Social Media as a Prison

whatshappeningonmyfeed.leaflet.pub/3mqsc4nqyj22u

Social media apps have become a vehicle for community building, world news, and political campaigns.
As app owners have enmeshed themselves more with the state, the carceral logics that haunt marginalized communities offline, became a part of their digital realities online.

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17 Jul 05:33 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

White House teleprompter operator made more than $100K betting on Trump's speeches: Sources

abcnews.com/US/white-house-teleprompter-operator-made-100k-betting-trumps/story?id=134764573

President Trump's longtime teleprompter operator is believed to have made tens of thousands of dollars by placing bets on the contents of Trump's speeches, sources say.

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17 Jul 05:33 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Parts of Manhattan to sacrifice 10% of street parking as NYC installs new trash bins

gothamist.com/news/parts-of-manhattan-to-sacrifice-10-of-street-parking-as-nyc-installs-new-trash-bins?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=app.dashsocial.com/gothamist/library/media/696754634

The Upper West and East sides of Manhattan are set to lose thousands of parking spaces as the city begins to containerize residential trash.

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17 Jul 05:33 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Redditors Are Celebrating the Cutting Down of Flock Surveillance Towers With Based Memes

futurism.com/future-society/redditors-flock-surveillance-alpr-vandalism-memes

The Flock surveillance subreddit has quickly become the digital rallying point for anti-ALPR activists across the United States.

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17 Jul 05:33 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Pigeons can distinguish cancerous breast tissue from normal

universityofcalifornia.edu/news/pigeons-can-distinguish-cancerous-breast-tissue-normal

Study finds the birds are uncommonly good at distinguishing cancerous breast tissue from normal .