The Daily
• The New York Times
Gina Hinojosa Believes She’s the One Who Can Finally Flip Texas
The Daily
• The New York Times
links.daveverse.org
• Dave Winer
Knicks sent employees fake offer of championship rings in phishing test.
Seth's Blog
• Seth Godin
We don’t have written records, but I’m imagining that groups of cavemen made decisions around the fire in largely the same way we run sophisticated organizations today. About a hundred years ago, three disciplines helped create the modern world: Scientific management used a stopwatch and the assembly line to relentlessly improve the productivity of the […]
TorrentFreak
• Ernesto Van der Sar
A fresh academic paper on Z-Library cites a TorrentFreak article that doesn’t exist, and several other sources in the paper are also unfindable. The authors disclose that they used AI tools, which may explain what is going on. The use of AI in an academic paper on shadow libraries is also somewhat ironic, as rightsholders are suing AI companies for using these sites to train AI models.
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TorrentFreak
• Ernesto Van der Sar
A fresh academic paper on Z-Library cites a TorrentFreak article that doesn’t exist, and several other sources in the paper are also unfindable. The authors disclose that they used AI tools, which may explain what is going on. The use of AI in an academic paper on shadow libraries is also somewhat ironic, as rightsholders are suing AI companies for using these sites to train AI models.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Rachel Davis
Before trick-or-treaters arrive, check these 11 common Halloween hazards around your Central New York home to help keep kids and pets safe. Continue reading…
New Bridge #edouardcortes #cortes
The Adoration of the Magi, 1503 #raphael #highrenaissance
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Despite Trump’s statement yesterday that billionaire Elon Musk had removed the restrictions from Starlink and Starshield that are crippling Ukraine’s ability to protect itself from Russia, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky said today the restrictions continue.
In the Vanilla Grove, Man and Horse (The Rendezvous), 1891 #gauguin #paulgauguin
Three Dancers in Pink, 1886 #edgardegas #degas
AramZS's Amplify RSS Feed
• Aram Zucker-Scharff
texastribune.org/2026/10/23/ken-paxton-angela-blind-trust-investment/
The blind trust’s investment in Wildcatter offers a new, unreported look at the attorney general’s financial ties with the very type of business executives whose prosecutions he typically celebrates.
AramZS's Amplify RSS Feed
• Aram Zucker-Scharff
A beginner's guide to self-hosting an RSS reader with FreshRSS, Docker, and Tailscale
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
soraya.press/review-the-creaky-basket-boner-of-wicker-delivers-far-more-than-laughs/
My friend, the late Ann Hornaday, would have loved this film
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Federal officials brushed off the issue as Utah prioritized the fur industry’s interests. Little has been done to stop the spread of the virus and ensure it can’t spread to humans, a failure that experts called “irresponsible’’ and “astounding.”
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
People succumbed to heat at highest rates in Malta, Italy and Hungary, with health issues, loneliness and poverty exacerbating toll
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
In their fight against AI, professors are monitoring their students in ways previously unimaginable.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-is-mostly-a-sex-cult-in-berkeley-california
These people shouldn’t make policy.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
buttondown.com/apperceptive/archive/introspection-supervenience-consciousness-and-the/
"My personal Turing test is that I will accept machine consciousness when I can internalize that consciousness to the same degree that I can internalize...