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Aram Zucker-Scharff: "I mean... this is all 100% true, but the problem …" - Indieweb.Social
I mean... this is all 100% true, but the problem isn't the tech, it isn't the standard, it isn't even the implementation. It's Google and Apple's sizes and their ownership of browsers. There's only one solution here, it's antitrust action. https://proton.me/blog/big-tech-passkey
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6 days ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "dune movie spoilers" - Indieweb.Social
dune movie spoilers

I think that a decade from now, when imitators have wrung this particular tactic dry, we'll look back on some of these choices and view them as being as excessive as Lucas's overuse of CGI in the prequels. These sequences at these lengths are the sign of a filmmaker who is indulging in his passions at the cost of effective movie-making. It's frustrating.
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7 days ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "dune movie spoilers" - Indieweb.Social
dune movie spoilers

I find it frustrating because there is so much greatness in Villeneuve's works, but his incapacity for self-restraint makes the films less accessible, less watchable, and--to be blunt--boring. The exciting stuff in these films, the things that make them film and not screen-savers, they are really good, but they are overwhelmed by elaborate long shots of scenery.
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7 days ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "dune movie spoilers" - Indieweb.Social
dune movie spoilers

So many of these scenes could have been tighter, and there were sequences in there that were just overly long and gratuitous. The problem we have is that good film comes out of team work and these days either the studio interferes to the point of insanity or the director is given total free reign and honestly neither of those things work for good film.
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7 days ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "dune movie spoilers" - Indieweb.Social
dune movie spoilers

Look, I think the two new Dune movies are fine, but honestly, editing is part of the art of film and while I can see the need for two parts, neither film needed to be as long as it did, especially the 2nd one.

I appreciate the work put in to the 2nd film to make the 'hey, you should not be a fan of Paul' stuff way clearer, and the acting is all really great.

But also like...
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7 days ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: ""There has never been a worse time for independen…" - Indieweb.Social
"There has never been a worse time for independent publishers who rely on Google. Mass intellectual theft is happening; it’s pay to win, and Google is so openly crushing the livelihoods of many of their creators"

https://retrododo.com/google-is-killing-retro-dodo/
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21 days ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "This is wild and almost unbelievable on Forbes' p…" - Indieweb.Social
This is wild and almost unbelievable on Forbes' part, which was always willing to walk down a sketchy road for more money, but the indicator that this was *really* underhanded to me is that they didn't even try to defend their MFA site, they just shut it down.

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/brands-paid-for-ads-on-forbes-com-some-ran-on-a-copycat-site-instead-c01609ef
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22 days ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "Wow that last scene, right down to the quality of…" - Indieweb.Social
Wow that last scene, right down to the quality of the filming, was so derivative of the TV Birds of Prey show that WB should sue Sony
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5 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "That's not where the LIC Pepsi sign is or what's …" - Indieweb.Social
That's not where the LIC Pepsi sign is or what's next to it, even in the aughts.
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5 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "And now they're back in Queens? He just hopped of…" - Indieweb.Social
And now they're back in Queens? He just hopped off the Empire State Building! Now they're in LIC and in the wrong area for the wide shot that was associated with it.
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5 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "Like it is such a minor thing to get wrong, but s…" - Indieweb.Social
Like it is such a minor thing to get wrong, but so easy to get right, just pull up Google Maps right? It takes more effort to get wrong than right.
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5 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "Like they're going on Vernon Ave apparently, but …" - Indieweb.Social
Like they're going on Vernon Ave apparently, but the scenes are clearly shot in Manhattan except they didn't cross the bridge from Queens and Vernon doesn't go into Queens (which is where they had to have been). And the police scanner said 2nd and Vernon, two streets that absolutely do not cross.
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5 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "The weirdest thing about Madam Web thus far is th…" - Indieweb.Social
The weirdest thing about Madam Web thus far is that they can't keep track of where they are. She's in Queens, then Manhattan, then somewhere else, now in NJ, but the diner they are in is from the comics and t/f in Queens? It's a tiny thing to lose track of but so straightforward to keep right correctly if only they had done it.
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5 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: ""It's unclear what would be left, once everything…" - Indieweb.Social
"It's unclear what would be left, once everything is broken down and sold off. The idea, for the victors, is I guess to get enough money to ascend to a place of pure open-bar inconsequentiality, some vile branded party where the Chainsmokers are forever about to go onstage." https://defector.com/the-coffee-machine-that-explained-vice-media
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5 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "I gave a talk yesterday at #CMA2024 on how to bui…" - Indieweb.Social
I gave a talk yesterday at #CMA2024 on how to build quick, single-serving, and portfolio/archival websites, the sort of stuff that might be difficult to do in a traditional CMS. The presentation is also a website, with lots of useful links. https://aramzs.github.io/build-a-website/
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6 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "Just pass real federal privacy laws ffs. Do peopl…" - Indieweb.Social
Just pass real federal privacy laws ffs. Do people really not understand that TikTok or not the state of online privacy means that no one can prevent China from getting their data anyway? https://gizmodo.com/it-doesn-t-matter-who-owns-tiktok-1844595163
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6 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: ""The shadow of our destiny is racing towards us—a…" - Indieweb.Social
"The shadow of our destiny is racing towards us—a promise that meritocracy was a lie, and that we all live in and with the stagnant reality of that. There is a dread building, a bleakness that is already casting a shadow on the future. Maybe you feel it, too." https://defector.com/the-money-is-in-all-the-wrong-places
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7 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "It's pretty fked up that for all we mythologize t…" - Indieweb.Social
It's pretty fked up that for all we mythologize the American Farmer our country's terrible approach to health care is actively killing them off.

https://publichealthwatch.org/2024/03/04/texas-farmers-ranchers-health-uninsured/
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7 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "Me watching Halo: wow it sure is cool that the wo…" - Indieweb.Social
Me watching Halo: wow it sure is cool that the world of Halo has a whole tube just for dumping rubber hoses
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9 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "Ok, so I'm not done, but I will note I'm seeing m…" - Indieweb.Social
Ok, so I'm not done, but I will note I'm seeing more clips pop up online and can anyone explain why the makeup for all the elderly people who show up in this show is so bad? It's *really bad*. They look terrible, all the hair appliances look fake, they are either lit weird or the makeup reflects weird, it's very noticeable and very off-putting.
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9 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "You can't do the cabbages joke without the setup.…" - Indieweb.Social
You can't do the cabbages joke without the setup. The whole point is the setup.
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9 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "Ok I guess they realized pretty early that the li…" - Indieweb.Social
Ok I guess they realized pretty early that the little cgi boy doesn't look good
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9 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "Oh, it's a shame they are going to leave this act…" - Indieweb.Social
Oh, it's a shame they are going to leave this actress behind, she's quite good.
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9 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "I feel like I'm going crazy, there keep being wei…" - Indieweb.Social
I feel like I'm going crazy, there keep being weird distortions in the center of the screen.
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9 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "Holy sht it's 33 minutes in and gran gran is expo…" - Indieweb.Social
Holy sht it's 33 minutes in and gran gran is expositioning the opening credits at us for the third or fourth time
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9 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "glad we have this incomprehensible action scene f…" - Indieweb.Social
glad we have this incomprehensible action scene for five+ minutes where air nomads get slaughtered to show us that this is the Avatar for ADULTS that FKS
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9 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "It's 20 minutes and there has been one actual hum…" - Indieweb.Social
It's 20 minutes and there has been one actual human interaction and four exposition sequences
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9 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "Instead of putting him in a situation where he co…" - Indieweb.Social
Instead of putting him in a situation where he could show his emotions or at least talk to actual people he's standing in a green screen set monologuing to a digital animal this is wild
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9 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "It is wild to watch this show spend an incredible…" - Indieweb.Social
It is wild to watch this show spend an incredible amount of time explaining itself to the viewer like they're a little child when the original was for actual children and did none of that.
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9 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "and then there's another minute and a half where …" - Indieweb.Social
and then there's another minute and a half where they *re-explain it again* in a TV show that everyone who is watching has already seen three animated seasons that had explained this specific thing before.
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9 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "Avatar for kids: she said 'the fire kingdom attac…" - Indieweb.Social
Avatar for kids: she said 'the fire kingdom attacked'
Avatar Live Action: 5 minute pointless action scene with bad cgi and impossible to see color correction and a dude in a bad beard monologuing

me: oh no
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9 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "All of Archive Team's work creating files that ar…" - Indieweb.Social
All of Archive Team's work creating files that archive websites goes right into the Internet Archive where it is easy to find and access. You can actually see what they archive over on Archive.org as well: https://archive.org/details/archiveteam
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9 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "Also, if you're interested in how they do it, it …" - Indieweb.Social
Also, if you're interested in how they do it, it is all open source, check that out too! You could even participate! https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Main_Page
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9 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "Archive Team is a really cool collective of volun…" - Indieweb.Social
Archive Team is a really cool collective of volunteers who do work on their own to save the history of the internet and if you have a little extra cash, maybe support their efforts!

https://opencollective.com/archiveteam
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9 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "Interesting fact about Vice's content: a full sit…" - Indieweb.Social
Interesting fact about Vice's content: a full site archive, including saving outbound links, was performed by the volunteer Archive Team last year & it took ~6 months to capture all the Vice content across all the languages they publish in. They've published a lot! Archive Team is updating the archives now.
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9 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "A climate journalism superteam assembles with THE…" - Indieweb.Social
A climate journalism superteam assembles with THE CITY for the newest episode of Hazard, now in NYC! Episode one kicks off an essential listen for anyone living in northern Brooklyn:

https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/02/14/newtown-creek-superfund-pollution-hazardnyc-faqnyc-podcast/
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10 weeks ago
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "The Messenger's website is officially dead. The o…" - Indieweb.Social
The Messenger's website is officially dead. The one thing they managed to do quickly was turn it all off.
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12 weeks ago
The Story Behind WSJ’s New Data Pipeline for Audience Analytics
Published in WSJ Digital Experience & Strategy · 7 min read · Apr 6, 2021 How we moved from batch, asynchronous processing to a real-time, full-circle process…
from instapaper
january 2024
Majority of land hermit crab species now use trash for shells
The majority of terrestrial hermit crab species worldwide have used trash as shells, according to a study by experts at two Polish universities to be published…
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january 2024
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "You can click here to listen to the latest song s…" - Indieweb.Social
You can click here to listen to the latest song selection for Song Obsessed and... even better... it is now a full-blown Progressive Web App you can install from your browser. I'm even doing the painful app store process just for the sake of trying. https://songobsessed.com/songs/when-the-fires-come-kero-kero-bonito/
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january 2024
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "I'm trying to write more about music, so what are…" - Indieweb.Social
I'm trying to write more about music, so what are your favorite music reviews or pieces of music journalism?
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january 2024
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "Hey @ernie@writing.exchange has there been a Tedi…" - Indieweb.Social
Hey @ernie has there been a Tedium on Swatch Internet Time? I'd love to read something a little more detailed about wtf was going on there.
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january 2024
Aram Zucker-Scharff: ""It makes clear that these systems are using hund…" - Indieweb.Social
"It makes clear that these systems are using hundreds of thousands of public and private cameras to blanket huge swaths of our cities, particularly those in the Southeast, with the capacity for constant surveillance."

https://www.404media.co/fusus-ai-cameras-map-local-police/
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january 2024
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "No one can convince me there isn't a special joy …" - Indieweb.Social
No one can convince me there isn't a special joy in going to an afternoon matinee of a weird art movie in an art theater on a day off with only a few other weirdos there.
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january 2024
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "Every time I finish another volume and go to look…" - Indieweb.Social
Every time I finish another volume and go to look at reviews no one is even mentioning this. Does everyone crack the spines of their books in half?
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january 2024
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "I'm not the only one being driven fking crazy by …" - Indieweb.Social
I'm not the only one being driven fking crazy by the panel layout in the 'Something is K*lling the Children' comics right? The constant switching between horizontal double truck layouts and standard vertical page panels is impossible to follow, I end up missing the switch every time and reading panels out of order constantly. The gutter is constantly lost in the spine and mixing in unmotivated bleeds makes it even harder to detect the switches. How is no one talking about this, am I going crazy?
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january 2024
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "For copyright reasons there aren't many tracks th…" - Indieweb.Social
For copyright reasons there aren't many tracks that use the HTML5 native player, but for the curious, here is one of them: https://songobsessed.com/songs/computer-by-state-shirt/
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january 2024
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "I've been doing song-a-day sites since 2009 and t…" - Indieweb.Social
I've been doing song-a-day sites since 2009 and they always die out, break down, get redesigned badly, or otherwise don't do what I want. So I built one myself with the features that I wanted, including navigating around the site with a persistent audio player and playlist! https://songobsessed.com/
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january 2024
To Save the News, We Must Shatter Ad-Tech
This is part two of an ongoing, five-part series. Part one, the introduction, is here . Part three, about banning surveillance ads, is here . Part four, about…
from instapaper
december 2023
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "@carbontwelve@notacult.social Hey, I've really be…" - Indieweb.Social
@carbontwelve Hey, I've really been enjoying reading some of the stuff you've posted on Photogabble and the clean clear theme work. I was wondering if I could use your template and theme as a jumping off point for a microblog I've been thinking about putting together (with credit to you and CC BY-NC-SA). I know the license permits it, but I wanted to ask first.
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december 2023
Why (most) calls for genocide are protected speech
It only took a day for the University of Pennsylvania’s president Liz Magill to threaten to abandon her university’s commitment — already hanging by a thread —…
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december 2023
Your Browser Has a Hidden Setting That Will Speed Up the Web
Do more inside your browser tabs. A lot of us now spend much of our work and leisure time peering at the web through a browser—and for that time to be spent as…
from instapaper
december 2023
‘Sparring partners’: how ad agencies are evolving as brand consultants
For full access to this article, you must be a Campaign US subscriber to the Knowledge Tier. Ready to join the Campaign US commnity? Explore our subscription…
from instapaper
november 2023
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "Is your organization a member of the W3C? Make su…" - Indieweb.Social
Is your organization a member of the W3C? Make sure your AC rep votes on the PATWG charter!
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november 2023
Aram Zucker-Scharff: ""Speaking as a science fiction writer, I'd like t…" - Indieweb.Social
"Speaking as a science fiction writer, I'd like to offer a heartfelt apology for my part in the silicon valley oligarchy's rise to power. And I'd like to examine the toxic role of science fiction in providing justifications for the craziness."

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html
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november 2023
< Why Is It So Hard To Talk About Israel?
GENE DEMBY, HOST: Thank you so much for listening to CODE SWITCH. But we need a favor, though. So we're trying to get a better sense of who is listening and how…
from instapaper
november 2023
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "FFS. Would literally kill someone right now to fi…" - Indieweb.Social
FFS. Would literally kill someone right now to figure out how to turn off "Hands Free Mode" on OSX. All the posts about this are three years old and don't work or link to sites that no longer exist or both.
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november 2023
Aram Zucker-Scharff: "Is there a self-hosted alternative to SiteLeaf ou…" - Indieweb.Social
Is there a self-hosted alternative to SiteLeaf out there that I'm missing? I like the idea of a git-synced layer that can make a flat-file site accessible to non-engineers/non-markdown folks.
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november 2023
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