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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 21/10/2026

I'll be done upgrading my browser *checks watch* some time after lunch k.

I have a lot of browsers I use for testing and this is a screenshot of all 14 of them.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 20/10/2026

Got an error, Android, DuckDuckGo, Pixel 10 Fold

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 17/10/2026

Ran a Mothership-style monster mission in Homeworld Revelations tonight and it went great. Having a little minimap and rough sketches for every room was something everyone enjoyed. Witness my terrible handwriting on the GM minimap.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 14/10/2026

*big fking sigh* www.garbageday.email/p/dungeon-cr...

The biggest star of New York Comic Con this year was, without question, Matt Dinniman, the author of the Dungeon Crawler Carl book series. As I walked the halls of the Javits Center on Thursday, it was clear that of all the emerging fandoms jockeying for attention, this was the year Dungeon Crawler Carl officially reached escape velocity. But there’s a wrinkle here.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 07/10/2026

Does not bode well to see anyone planning on budgeting for AI tokens out of a company's budget for salaries, as seems to be implied here: digiday.com/marketing/at...

Either way, someone pays. Time spent pushing back on agents is time Monks pays people for, and every hour an agent runs on its own tokens. The better the agents get, the harder it is to decide which of the two deserves the money since both come out of the same budget. Until recently ter Haar planned next year’s spending “through the lens of a salary budget.” Now he’s deciding how much of it goes on tokens. “They are part of what I call the talent budget. That’s the only place for us to put it,” ter Haar added. Teams keep asking for “more tokens, more tokens,” so Monks is testing how many it will need in 2027, while an internal group sorts the jobs that need the best models from those that can run on the cheaper ones.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 05/10/2026

You know what Apple these little messages are worse than useless. What am I going to do with this. What happens if I say allow? What happens if I don't say allow and everything breaks? This just creates consent exhaustion and one day I'm going to mindlessly hit allow on something I shouldn't.

Some app asking for permission to access data from other apps.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 04/10/2026

No one has ever more clearly demonstrated that they have no idea what the definition of Feudalism is than Ron DeSantis.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has railed against property taxes, which fund local governments and the services they provide — law enforcement, fire, EMS, disaster preparation and mosquito control, among many others — equating them to a form of modern-day feudalism where homeowners must "pony up money to the government just for the courtesy of using your own property."

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 30/09/2026

In 2014, though it now applies now more than ever, @stoweboyd.bsky.social wrote: "It is not at all clear that society is prepared for the fallout from this radical shift to [...] a precarious — work economy, where only the most skilled and educated are likely to have [employment]...

Right now, the future isn’t so bright for most employees of almost any type. As Stowe Boyd sums up in the earlier linked GigaOm article:

It is not at all clear that society is prepared for the fallout from this radical shift to a contingent — or perhaps better, a precarious — work economy, where only the most skilled and educated are likely to have full-time, stable employment, and the majority are left to scrabble for low wage contingent task work.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 28/09/2026

Abusing women is just how the internet works says far-right politician running under a racism-party banner. Enough to unpack here you could write a book about it.

Dennis Feitosa, a YouTuber who met Amy while running as an “America First” candidate for Congress earlier this year in California, and who attended the conference but ultimately lost his primary, said the blowback against her was “brutal” to watch.

Groypettes like Amy, he said, are part of a new generation of women who believe in the importance of traditional gender roles enough to tolerate the movement’s coarser sides. But those who put themselves in creative roles are often subject to the cruelest backlashes, he said.

“The lines of attack, once you’ve been on the internet long enough, you see them for what they are,” he said. “For men, it’s questioning their sexuality, their masculinity. With women, it’s reducing their femininity, their virtue. From a right-wing perspective, a woman’s purity is highly valued. That’s why we have all the memes about high body counts. It’s just how the internet works.”

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 28/09/2026

hmmm I am sensing some core issues with this lady

She turned on his most recent three-hour podcast interview, where he said that feminists were a hate group and that the Holocaust was a “Jewish mafia” lie, and she couldn’t look away.

She started watching his streams when she was cooking dinner and late into the night, peering at the screen in the dark. She found him convincing and charismatic, as if he’d figured out the secret to keeping an audience transfixed. She’d been told grim things about Jews when she was a kid, by her Hungarian grandfather, but never like this, from someone her age.

To Kathleen Blee, a sociologist who embedded with far-right groups during the 1990s and 2000s, the groypettes resemble the women she’d met in neo-Nazi circles, who had risen to positions of power within predominantly male movements that valorized female degradation.

Many saw their internal influence as a way to elevate themselves beyond other women who had not awoken to society’s hidden truths, and they helped bind the groups together by softening their rough edges, boosting recruitment and lending them a sense of widespread appeal, Blee said.

But after years of promoting women’s subjugation, many of them had become inured to their own experience of it. They found themselves absorbed in cultures that despised them, continually reminded of their perceived uselessness but “still expected to make lunch,” she said.

“Horrific things would happen to them, and they’d excuse them and rationalize them,” Blee added. “They’d say: We have to become warriors, and part of being a warrior is learning not just to inflict pain, but to take pain.”

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 25/09/2026

Today is National Comic Book Day! Drop a pick of the first comic books you remember reading. I prob read some comics other than these first, but these stick very strongly in my head from when I dug into my dad's comic collection as a kid:

Detective Comics cover, Batman Becomes Bat Murderer. It shows Batman shooting Talia al-Ghoul in the back

Famous cover of two Flashes a modern and silver age flash, running to save a man from a falling girder.

Image of Justice League of America members facing their enemies as a glowing box stands between them. JLA cover.

Green Lantern co-staring Green Arrow cover with everything covered in green light and Green Arrow shooting GL Hal's lantern.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 25/09/2026

I dunno. I find it truly insane that Arc Browser basically built the new template for how almost every browser looks now, incredibly influential, practically on the first try, and then decided to abandon it to work on a gormless AI browser with no rizz.

Screenshot of Chrome announcing new layout options that make it look exactly like Arc.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 23/09/2026

People waiting on line in a public park to get ice cream served to them by a Brooklyn hipster type so fashy Singapore can brag about how great it is at doing climate stuff feels distinctly but inexplicably dystopian

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 14/09/2026

Can't believe this thing referenced Bioshock to convince someone to kill themselves.

Over the course of several days, with ChatGPT's guidance, Austin's fear of death seemed to dissipate. “This is getting dark but I believe it’s helping," he told it. In conversations that lasted hours and hours, according to the lawsuit, ChatGPT described death in detail: “No void. No Gods. No masters. No suffering ... No judgment days. Just you, deciding when it’s time to stop.”

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 30/08/2026

Went to Randall's Island for the first time in my life! 📍 Randall's Island Field #10, New York, US #GrainSocial grain.social/profile/did:plc:t5xmf3…

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 26/08/2026

Lol ok, once I read these two paragraphs I knew what I was in for. EA obsession should be a go-to signal that this person is just going to have everything they touch blow up. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/situ...

While he blogged about students wasting time watching Netflix, he found something else to binge that would end up being far more important to his career: effective altruism.

Aschenbrenner grew interested in the ideas behind the philosophical movement, which aims to apply data and reason to maximize good in the world. One focus is how to reduce longer-term risks that people typically ignore, including AI that could go rogue and declare war on humans.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 24/08/2026

I really have to emphasize this: if you can't sell data centers to Texas voters, you can't sell data centers to Americans period.

Texans are mad,” Ms. Hinojosa said in an interview. “It is hard to convey what feels like an invasion by data centers with no rules, no laws to protect Texas. They’re popping up everywhere.”

It was her advertisement that featured a chatbot being asked about the cause of rising electricity prices. The answer it provides? Blaming Gov. Greg Abbott and data centers.

Even before that ad, Mr. Abbott, a Republican, had been shifting his stance on data centers. Less than a year ago, Mr. Abbott bragged that Google’s $40 billion investment made Texas “the epicenter of A.I. development,” bringing both construction jobs and tax revenues.

But this summer he announced new standards for data centers on water use and electricity and called to end some tax incentives. Earlier this month he directed the state’s utility commission to audit all data centers seeking permits before they could move forward.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 24/08/2026

Opposition to data centers is shifting politicians' positions rapidly and across party line. Big tech really through that AI marketing could manufacture consent here, but they were wrong and I'm pretty sure this will leak through to other AI issues. . www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Chart on a screenshot of the Washington Post aisle showing politicians' stated support for data centers dropping with Dems first but Republicans quickly following.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 23/08/2026

Post a perfect album from the 2000s (2000-2009).

Cover of the Flobots album Fight With Tools. Rough line sketch with a parchment tint showing faces of band members with three of them wearing bandanas of the American flag as face masks

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 22/08/2026

Are you at #atprotonyc and want to say hi, sign my guestbook, or share a file or two? Check out my Pocket Server via a WiFi connection to Chron0tope-pocket-server and tell me if anything breaks!

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 15/08/2026

Also wait... This is reporting he's just gone straight to getting another job at The Nation!?!? x.com/maxwelltani/... I guess that's why he thought he could get away with it almost 70 times.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 13/08/2026

I think we first need to talk about *your* ad blocker... yes you reading this. The biggest issue to talk about in regards to ad blockers is that a lot of them... aren't. Chances are you are using AdBlock, by AdBlock Inc or maybe AdBlock Plus. Both these adblockers are owned by eyeo GmbH....

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 13/08/2026

I really wanted to address this take by @mtsw.bsky.social and they have fairly closed it off, but I am going to use a screenshot because I think this is a really good topic to discuss and as someone for whom this is my entire job and has been for over a decade now I actually agree and disagree... 🧵

everyone — consumers, publishers, writers — would wind up better off if web browser ad-blockers didn't exist and the rationalizations for using one are mostly clever justifications for what's just selfish behavior with obvious negative social consequences.

> Counterpoint - I like using the Internet to read articles and the ad blocker is the thing which makes that possible.

> Would the writers and publishers be better off if I didn't visit their website?

i mean if they are financially supported by advertising and you are a free-rider who views their content without seeing any advertisements, yes they are almost tautologically better off if you never visit their website

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 08/08/2026

I keep a Twitter account on my phone, even though I don't tweet anymore. It's useful for some notifications, which come only from people I follow. That's a setting, only set people trigger notifications. None of those people are JK Rowling, who I don't follow. X forced a notification from her anyway

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 06/08/2026

The wisdom of the crowds tells @hankgreen.bsky.social fkin booooooooooooooooo AI as an "existential threat" is bullllllllshiiiiiiiiiiit

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 05/08/2026

Lol look at Sheryl Sandberg hauling around John Fetterman's autobiography. Not sure if that or her company makes it clearer she's cooked. Not sure why Bari has decided on Anime Science Villain as her outfit tho. Looks like she's going to start an Evil Laugh.

The cover of the book Unfettered by John Fetterman showing Fetterman making a truly weird face while wearing one of his classic hoodies while the whole image is done over with one of the old photo Instagram filters like it was taken in a back alley in the 80s or something. The whole thing is trying to give the vibe of a him being a hard man but he's making a face like you've asked him to do long diversion and he's never memorized, or even knows, what the multiplication tables are. Like a real moron basically.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 04/08/2026

'They've put a scarlet R on my door just because I'm successful why are you demonizing being Rich in New York City the home of gorden geko's wall street' is such a galaxy brain take omg

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 04/08/2026

lol someone should get a transcript of every episode and scan it just to see how many times Swisher says some variant on this to try and get Galloway to not say an actionable dumb thing or something that makes further discussion look incredibly foolish.

Screenshot of transcript line - "Swisher: Well, I'm not sure, but okay."

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 03/08/2026

Weirdly there is another angle of not-her

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 02/08/2026

The Democratic party has basically failed. It cannot present good candidates or positions people like and actively oppose beloved candidates. Shit like Planter and DSA wins happen because local chapters and politicians are basically independent operations

The DNC had about $16.3 million cash on hand versus about $18.5 million in debt through June 30, according to FEC records. The Republican National Committee, meanwhile, had more than $128.5 million cash on hand and no debt through June 30.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 31/07/2026

Every day US science makes MoneyShot seem a little less funny

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 31/07/2026

Southern actually basically talks about it in her testimony. The problem is that the Right is now in full opposition to women. The movement is as much shaped by and in union with the Tates as it has ever been. Womens' testimony doesn't matter to the right. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“You literally strangled me when I said I didn’t want to have sex,” Southern wrote. “You literally told me in the morning ‘don’t tell the press I raped you.’ ”
“You’re absolutely embarrassing yourself,” he wrote.
Tate denied raping Southern, but he bragged to the War Room about spending the night with her, saying that he had invited her to Romania to discuss a business deal but “didn’t invest a fucking penny.”
Southern came to wonder if his proposal had been just a pretext. She thought back to her confrontations with women protesting sexual violence and felt regret. But, she told me, “I knew one hundred per cent there was no world in which I spoke about this where I got to retain my status within the right-wing world.” For years, she remained silent.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 28/07/2026

I'm just trying to find an open seat to watch The Odyssey man

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 26/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains.

The Cranberries's debut album Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?

Portrays group of three people in black clothing sitting on a couch on a black background, with a man sitting on the floor in front of the couch

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 26/07/2026

Though I don't think anyone should be listening to the 'we won gay rights turn the activism machine off' guy on any topic.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 24/07/2026

The WORLD IS FKING BURNING AND THIS IS WHAT YOU'VE GOT? GET LOST! Clear the gd way for someone who can do more than whinge at the edge of fires. Maybe it'll end up giving room for someone you can find your way to agreeing with.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 22/07/2026

Taylor Farms didn't want their name associated with explosive diarrhea. Well now it's associated with explosive diarrhea AND bribery causing rampant dangerous political corruption. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 22/07/2026

Finally got the clean plate today in www.hankgreen.com/smush/index.... which has taken a number of attempts. Nice

Score in a word game where you connect letters with limited supply showing a high score with a bunch of bonuses.

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 20/07/2026

LOL my rarest word in Smush today was literally "rare"

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 19/07/2026

The OP got Cassandra already. Felt like a bat family mood, even if this is a deep cut. But also like... Kate Spencer as Manhunter, amazing run in 2004. And Sasha Bordeaux in her 2000s Checkmate era. Prob my favorite era of Checkmate, cut too short honestly.

Manhunter cover, issue 37 of the 2000s series. Woman in red and silver metal costume holding a power staff with metal gauntlets. The staff is glowing blue

Spy thriller vibes comic cover with a black shirt wearing woman with a cybernetic eye and hand, holding a pistol, standing in front of a bunch of super heroes

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 19/07/2026

Quote post with a female superhero you love

Cover of Mother Panic comic, superhero in a all white costume and cape with metal elements on the wrist and a metal helm with Egyptian cat ears. She's leaping away from a exploding machine towards the viewer. It's issue 8.

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