
Aram Zucker-Scharff | @Chronotope@indieweb.social
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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
Joined June 2008
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Aram Zucker-Scharff is an Engineering Lead for Privacy at The Washington Post and a consultant. Tech solutions for journo problems.
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Subscription exhaustion is real
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When you consider the rising costs of ad-free streaming, the shift to ad-supported platforms isn’t all that surprising.
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RT @feross: 1/ 🚨 Major supply chain breach just hit the JavaScript ecosystem. Attackers hijacked popular npm packages — including is (~3M….
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RT @TeamWashPost: We are hiring a Director of AI & Machine Learning. If you have at least 10+ years of experience in machine learning, appl….
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In an inevitable move, Substack is going ad tech.
nytimes.com
Substack, originally a newsletter service, says its app now has millions of users interacting with its creators.
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RT @Chronotope: honestly the fact that we've gone ahead and let *experian* get into the ad targeting game is evidence of total societal fai….
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RT @BenMullin: New: Inside the last-ditch fight to save funding for NPR and PBS, feat. Kerry Washington, Bill Nye, Ken Burns and a farmer's….
nytimes.com
As a vote to cut more than $500 million per year in federal funding nears, stations are making their pitches to lawmakers, listeners and “Viewers Like You.”
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RT @WashPostComms: Statement from Executive Editor Matt Murray: . “For three decades, Ellen Nakashima has been one of the most careful, fai….
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RT @carlhendy: If you’re in media, this is worth a watch. Cloudflare handles ≈20% of global traffic, so when CEO Matthew Prince warns at….
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I call this the ad tech profitability escalation cycle: . "Then you’ve got the stories in which people are more clearly using new AI tools against one another in an escalatory way." .
nymag.com
Chatbots fighting chatbots is the new normal.
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I mean *yes* but also the problem is that many brands are explicitly attempting to avoid appearing next to LGBTQ+ content generally, which is extremely troubling.
admonsters.com
GLAAD's 2025 Social Media Safety Index rates the LGBTQ safety of TikTok, X, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
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RT @glenngabe: OK, it's official. AI Mode comes to GSC. Google just updated its documentation about this. And like @patrickstox saw, Google….
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RT @ChrisHarihar: If you haven’t figured it out, day one at Cannes has been all CTV/streaming. 📺.
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RT @STOPSpyingNY: FOIL was supposed to ensure government transparency. Instead, NYC agencies use it to stall public records requests for mo….
nydailynews.com
In February 2024, the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) filed a public records request with the NYPD to understand how they use surveillance technologies in connection with prote…
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RT @gbrumfiel: BREAKING: Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner Chris Hanson has been fired by President Trump. The NRC is one of the most indepen….
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