Aram Zucker-Scharff

@Chronotope

AramZS. he/him. Privacy Engineer. Tech for journalism. Ad Tech. Prev: Fullstack, strategy, econ/game journo, storytelling, altac. Views are only my own

NYC, NY
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Joined June 2008
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    24 Jun 2020
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    Everything connected to the internet eventually becomes ads :/

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    5 hours ago

    Big thanks to for updating the story to include . This is so important to us as a new org and we appreciate it!

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    4 hours ago

    Joni Mitchell Says She’s Removing Music From Spotify: ‘Irresponsible People Are Spreading Lies’

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    3 hours ago

    Spotify lost $4 billion in market value this week after rock icon Neil Young called out the company for allowing comedian Joe Rogan to use its service to spread misinformation about the COVID vaccine on his popular podcast.

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    6 hours ago

    He claims that we don’t understand the tech industry, but his real problem is that we understand it perfectly clearly—and our solution would tilt some power away from giant corporations and his billionaire buddies.

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    2 hours ago

    The time has come for Apple to contend with hosting Bannon’s seditious podcast.

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  7. 5 hours ago

    Watching the new Ghostbusters movie was like watching an old band at a big event, they played all the hits, covered some recent hits by other people, then threw their long dead member on stage as a hologram to run some sample to combine with a new track.

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    8 hours ago

    Important piece of history: we didn't end up with today's broken digital landscape because we didn't know or didn't understand. We knew — but made the decision to trust tech to self-regulate and be trustworthy. Read this thread for context, and for hope!

    On , I want to take a few minutes to talk about an important way we can work to defend privacy in 2022—creating/enacting/adopting new rules that actually limit the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data! But first, some history 🧵
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    8 hours ago

    Fascinating deep dive into the world of alt-meat: Due to the high cost to manufacture, plus the process of explaining what cell-based meat is, experts anticipate that this segment won’t be a relevant competitor in the US meat market for another decade.

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    7 hours ago

    “In a way, a lot of life is the result of chance encounters—we are all creatures of circumstance, if you think of it—but generally, those encounters don’t happen thousands of miles from home, without the benefit of cell phones or GPS.”

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  11. 7 hours ago

    Who *enjoys* this?

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  12. 7 hours ago

    Who in the world is keeping up with these? Rebirth was in 2016, the New 52 was 2011 and One Year Later was in 2006. Is the new mandate just to do one of these unreadable universe reboots every 5 years? Who can keep track? It takes 5 years to catch up.

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  13. 7 hours ago

    Wait so... DC is rebooting the comics multiverse... *again*?!?

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    9 hours ago

    "....after a months-long campaign by run by and forced them to act."

    Dan Bongino has been booted from Google ads over “persistently” breaching the company’s guidelines on publishing COVID-19 misinformation.
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    9 hours ago

    Thank you Josh. This is not just about credit, which is important, but also balance. My life is spent sharpening messaging, growing a non-profit, and managing an incredible level of abuse and harassment. Erasing from this story lets bad people win.

    Reporters should be talking to and about how their work is the reason Google pulled the plug on Bongino.
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    10 hours ago

    Tired: “Camera on” policies in Zoom school. Wired: “Headset on” policies in VR school.

    t also got Jan thinking about how the technology might be useful even when classes are held in person. She's now teaching a 14-student course that will use Quest 2 headsets for virtual crisis simulations in South Asia — for example,visualizing the 1947 partition of India with 360-degree videos so students feel like they're immersed in the event. "What it does is it kind of focuses the classroom," Jan said. Students are less distracted by other activities like texting and checking email, and, she pointed out, if any of them take off their headsets while they're supposed to be in her VR classroom their avatars will noticeably droop.
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    11 hours ago

    This long, expansive interview with Yanis Varoufakis is very thought provoking on his time as economist at Valve, the market for NFTs, the macroeconomics of bitcoin, and the transition to techno-feudalism

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    17 hours ago

    cryptocurrency scams, especially affinity fraud via social media, is the largest chunk of consumer losses to scams according to the FTC

    The largest chunk of monetary losses came from investing and cryptocurrency scams, which accounted for over $284 million, with more than half of the scams starting on social media. Reports to the FTC show scammers used social media to promote bogus investment opportunities, and even to connect with people directly as “friends” to encourage them to invest.
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    11 hours ago

    I'm about a week away from starting my new job. Are you interested in my old one? Here it is, refreshed with a fancy new title! Thinking about applying and want to chat about it? Let me know!

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    11 hours ago

    Waking up in the morning and asking yourself how you can exploit people and convince them that they should feel good about it. 🥴

    Merchants and other organizations collect a veritable treasure trove of data about consumers every day. Yet, with ever-changing data privacy regulations increasing in intensity and strictness across the globe, it’s clear that consumers are worried about the unbridled use of their personal information. So, the real question remains: How can we tap into the potential revenue streams offered by these massive caches of data without losing the trust and goodwill of the consumer? For owners of multifamily residential communities, the benefit of using and selling resident data can be significant. From contact data to demographic info to behavioral data, multifamily residents are a significant source of valuable data.
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  21. 12 hours ago

    Something updated and screwed up my settings in VS Code switching my Markdown List Items so that hitting tab indents them two spaces instead of one tab and it's driving me freakin crazy. I can't find the setting that's doing it.

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