Sign up
An external list from lists.opml.org.
https://lists.opml.org/daveblogroll.xml

Embed this list

Copy this code and paste it into your website’s HTML to show this list there.

AramZS's Amplify RSS Feed Supports Webmention
Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Elon Musk Settles Class Action Lawsuit Over Duping Trump Supporters

huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-duping-trump-supporters-lawsuit_n_6ad11706e4b0a7bf79af6747

Musk promised voters in the 2024 presidential election a chance to randomly win $1 million. The winners were predetermined.

AramZS's Amplify RSS Feed Supports Webmention
Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Whatever you think of Ilhan Omar, these threats are unconscionable

forward.com/opinion/856106/whatever-you-think-of-ilhan-omar-these-threats-are-unconscionable/

American Jews should oppose the intimidation and denaturalization of the Minnesota Congresswoman

AramZS's Amplify RSS Feed Supports Webmention
Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Replit’s CEO says the future of work is the ‘self-driving company’

techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/replits-ceo-says-the-future-of-work-is-the-self-driving-company/

Replit CEO Amjad Masad envisions a future of “self-driving companies,” where AI agents handle day-to-day tasks and people focus on higher-level decisions.

AramZS's Amplify RSS Feed Supports Webmention
Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The Slow Formation of Durable Software

newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-slow-formation-of-durable-software/

How a group of historians took years to imagine Zotero, the research application that would eventually be used by millions

AramZS's Amplify RSS Feed Supports Webmention
Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Rockstar accused of rewarding 'moles' for spying on union members with additional time off

verticalslice.news/rockstar-accused-of-rewarding-moles-for-spying-on-union-members-with-additional-time-off/

The Grand Theft Auto maker has been accused of union busting after firing over 30 employees in October 2025.

AramZS's Amplify RSS Feed Supports Webmention
Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The first vibe-coded gun is here

theverge.com/tech/1011950/vibe-coded-3d-printed-gun-ai-generated-cody-wilson

Cody Wilson says his AI model can generate new gun designs for 3D printing. We saw him fire the first one.

AramZS's Amplify RSS Feed Supports Webmention
Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Israeli settlers attack Palestinians and Washington Post photographer in West Bank

washingtonpost.com/world/2026/10/16/palestinians-washington-post-photographer-attacked-west-bank/

The settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives and beat Heidi Levine, a veteran photojournalist. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers did nothing to halt the violence.

AramZS's Amplify RSS Feed Supports Webmention
Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The Eurosky Identity Platform is now a Digital Public Good

eurosky.tech/news/eurosky-identity-platform-digital-public-good/

Eurosky is a European initiative to build and operate sovereign social web infrastructure

AramZS's Amplify RSS Feed Supports Webmention
Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

A Muse for the Mindless

cornellsun.com/article/2026/10/a-muse-for-the-mindless

Ali AlSaif '29 comments on the cute-ification of AI models and negative impacts on intellectual ability.

AramZS's Amplify RSS Feed Supports Webmention
Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Trump’s Attempt to Deport Ilhan Omar Is Another Leap Toward the Abyss

nytimes.com/2026/10/16/opinion/ilhan-omar-deportation-trump.html

In his final speech as president, Ronald Reagan emphasized the essential role of immigration in American greatness.

AramZS's Amplify RSS Feed Supports Webmention
Text • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Researchers Say an Israeli Firm Used Online Ads To Spy on People, Turning Simple Browsing Into Surveillance

techtimes.co.uk/discover-tech-spyware-delivery-online-ads-1809194

An investigation links Israeli ad-tech company Discover-Tech to spyware vendors that allegedly used targeted online advertising to profile devices and deliver malicious code without user interaction.

Scripting News for email Valid
Text • Dave Winer

Scripting News: Friday, October 16, 2026

Friday, October 16, 2026 Tried a Wirecutter podcast about the state of sound bars. I thought, wow if they could really cover this I might try buying one again. But it was one of those all giggles shows and people saying how they didn't know anything about soundbars except t...

@art.feediverse.org - Great art on Bluesky Valid
Text

Jackson Pollock, Summertime: Number 9A, 1948 #jacksonpollock #museumarchive

Techdirt
Text • Timothy Geigner

MLB Plans To Play Stupid Games With Its Website Again In Upcoming Lockout

Back in the much simpler times of 2021, we wrote about some of the games Major League Baseball decided to play as part of a brief owner’s lockout of players while both sides negotiated a collective bargaining agreement. This included essentially scrubbing the MLB website of all pictures of current players, stories about current players, […]

Manton Reece Supports Webmention Valid
Text

On the Empire Builder. Starting to turn east, with the moon in the sky. 🚂

Mitch's Blog Supports Webmention
Text

Data Centers Are War Targets Now (Matthew Gault / 404 Media) — American towns with planned data centers are taking notice of attacks like Ukraine’s bombing Russian facilities and finding additional reason to oppose construction.

Mitch's Blog Supports Webmention
Text

Looks like there’s a new Stargate series in the works. Maybe. Woo-hoo!

I don’t suggest clicking the link to the article, btw. It’s a lot of twaddle and speculation

Mitch's Blog Supports Webmention
Text

Trump's Democracy-for-Diesel Deal Shames Us All

Thomas L. Friedman at The New York Times: Donald Trump, meet Neville Chamberlain. When future students search online for “sellout,” “appeaser” or “traitor to his country’s core values,” their two pictures will come up first, side by side. And deservedly so. At least Chamber...

Mitch's Blog Supports Webmention
Text

The White House put out a statement saying that it will protect people and companies that gave Trump $330 million in bribes and “relentlessly pursue those responsible” for “cowardly” leaking the bribers identities.

Which is, of course, a lie. Trump shows no loyalty, even to his subordinates, and the White House is too incompetent to identify the leakers.

Mitch's Blog Supports Webmention
Text

She lasted 0.45 scaramucci.