Aram Zucker-Scharff

Oh at some point Memento Web dot org died. That's sad. Sort of ironic too.

As well as being very sad, this is deeply worrying. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/conde-nast-teen-vogue-newsguild-1236417079/

Reading this article really put in perspective how the Mamdani campaign is a threat against right-wing attempts to mainstream itself via crypto-white-nationalism. His success is a rebuke of their entire theory of the world, undermining their arguments of separation & racism […]

Enjoyed reading The Atlantic's take on the highly incestuous and circular investments that are powering AI companies as they scrape and scrounge for more data centers. Or, why all this AI investment promises to be a lose/lose for everyone but the super rich. Tranches. Packaging and repackaging […]

Bonfire Social 1.0rc3 Bonfire’s latest release puts data portability (moving and taking your data with you) and anti-enshittification (avoiding manipulative platform tricks) front and center.

📣 Bonfire Social 1.0rc3 just dropped!
This latest release puts data portability and anti-enshittification front and center.
Read what's new: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-social-1-0rc3/

Photo in a shopping mall in Sydney, Australia, which includes Content Credentials.

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Photograph taken with a Google Pixel 10 of objects on a desktop: A small black statuette of Budai, a crystal ball, and the base of a wooden lamp. Two wooden shafts appear in the background, but their nature is a mystery. The photo has been edited using Google's Magic Erase and that fact is disclosed in its Content Credentials.

Last week I gave a talk at the IPTC’s “Photo Metadata Conference”. Here’s a blog-ified version, with lots of juicy digging into exactly what works and what’s broken in C2PA in 2025. Also strong opinions about provenance. And a link to the YouTube recording […]

[Original post on cosocial.ca]

@davep are people surprised by this behavior from him? He always came off as a creep to me

Revisiting this piece about how to build a strong newsroom technology culture.

"I like to say that journalism treats technology as something that happens to it — like an asteroid. But technology is too important to the future of news for it to be treated passively. [...] If you want to spread a […]

Idea for a service:

You submit your resume / CV and links to any professionally relevant websites (your own, LinkedIn profile, social handles, etc).

A panel of hiring managers in your field then gives you anonymous feedback, letting you know the first impressions that you wouldn't otherwise […]

@ricard Yeah, maybe if I *do* have to build out a separate site for my amplifies (links I'm reading) area I'll investigate it. That's where the most scale of content I have is. Thanks!

Read too many things & killed my static site build process w/ all the articles. Time to do another round of performance improvements and seriously consider breaking out my quotes and amplifies to a subdomain/separate build process. 11ty just can't take the scope + do the cool things I want it to do.

@ben I hate that providers are so inconsistent.

🧐 https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia-amd-pay-15-china-chip-sale-revenue-us-official-says-2025-08-11/

"But the “fear of being left behind” argument is particularly dangerous: it suggests that you should pick a technology first and then find problems for it to solve. That’s always backwards." In case you missed it, how I think about AI - in terms of vendors, tech, and power […]

XSLT is still important Microblog and feed from Aram Zucker-Scharff.

XSLT *should* be part of the web platform.

https://aramzs.xyz/noteworthy/xslt-is-still-important/

@ben Yeah, these are not the mentors I want training the next generation of bloggers. I'm very down to support this, would be glad to even volunteer to help with technical setup and support for bloggers if you wanted to run this forward.

The idea of a blogging residency is lovely. One based on the kinds of conversations hosted on Lesswrong is less appealing to me. I kind of want to start an equivalent for optimistic humanist writers who believe in a community, equity, and human-centered view of the present and future […]

On bridging between networks vs cross-posting:

"They’re similar, but they’re different in some important ways. Notably, bridging results in more unified conversations, while cross-posted conversations are more fragmented."

That's why Bridgy Fed's approach is so interesting - and, imo […]

> In a 2015 lecture, Wreden declared that a “fearful state of mind” within the mainstream video-game industry had led to “an art form in which by far the most ubiquitous form of expression is that of firing a gun.” We have, he went on, “a culture where violence is understood and implied to be […]

Ghost is building a blogger decentralized future Microblog and feed from Aram Zucker-Scharff.

I am happy to have been wrong about Ghost and excited with what they're building! I can't wait to try out the latest version, and test out its really cool integration with the decentralized web.

https://aramzs.xyz/noteworthy/ghost-is-building-a-blogger-decentralized-future/

What is the absolutely gold-standard, best-in-class, most diamond-class experience for a Linux laptop in 2025? I'm interested in model, distribution, etc. My work computers are all Mac but I'm thinking about diverging for my next personal machine.

Frontier AI Labs: the Call Option to AGI Microblog and feed from Aram Zucker-Scharff.

Ads on your AI chats and in your AI systems are just inevitable now https://aramzs.xyz/noteworthy/frontier-ai-labs-the-call-option-to-agi/

lol

More people read my blog via RSS than any other single platform or social media platform. I think that's really cool! Here's how I figured out how to get a rough count of how many people read my site via RSS […]

It should be said, and doing this in their free fucking time as a volunteer effort too.

> And we ordinary people are all out here in the feeds trying to piece it together in our heads.
https://mas.to/@kissane/114558323930891999

20 things I would do with Pocket if they gave it to me Mozilla shuts down one of my favorite websites. I thought abut what I would have done to keep it going.

Had some time on the train back from DC so had fun writing out 20 things that would be on the top of my priority list if they gave me Pocket https://aramzs.xyz/thoughts/20-things-i-would-do-with-pocket-if-they-gave-it-to-me/

@thomasjorgensen I'll take a look!

I don't think it's possible to be where we are in #uspol (and in the global authoritarian slide) without our information ecosystems being such a mess.

There's a ton of work to do on the distribution side of the problem, but also on the info-making side: Even great newsrooms aren't built to make […]

Mastodon updating some legal features [Mastodon] Mastodon's legal updates are an important way to support different kinds of communities. It's great to see the Mastodon team grow to support these features. I'd love to see CC-licensed terms of service for communities to use. Those features: * "Mastodon servers already have Server Rules and a Privacy Policy, that owners need to define when they create their instance. There will also now be an optional Terms of Service. To help you get started, we’re providing a generator (based on a template from our own law firm). The effective change date of the Terms of Service will be included, to allow users to review them before taking any action." * "We’re providing the ability for server rules to be translated into multiple languages. This means that the rules which apply to everyone that uses your Mastodon instance, will now be able to be read in different languages, as appropriate for your community." * "We are introducing a new option for server administrators to set a minimum age requirement for user sign-up. When the option is enabled, the Mastodon instance will require a date of birth to be provided when a new account is created. This value will be validated against the minimum age setting, and then discarded." These aren't necessarily the _sexiest_ features, but they protect community owners. Increasingly, as requirements for running sites with user generated content get tighter around the world, these will allow online communities to continue to exist. #Fediverse [Link]

This is an important way to support different kinds of communities. It's great to see the Mastodon team grow to support these features. I'd love to see CC-licensed terms of service for communities to use. #Fediverse https://werd.io/2025/mastodon-updating-some-legal-features

Anyway, I've asked the Linus Tech Tips guys if they would run the n=13 search, over at https://linustechtips.com/topic/1612153-this-world-record-took-years-and-a-million-dollars/page/2/#comment-16732910. We'll see if they take me up on it.

If not, maybe I'll actually do the n=12 version myself […]