Archive - Schizochronotopia

Fk You to Threads' In-app Browser

Threads presents an invasive, shitty, UX for no justifiable reason, but I guess we're used to this now.

Jul 13, 2023 •

Aram Zucker-Scharff

June 2023

Programming Note: A Name Change

Rebuilding for purpose

Jun 22, 2023 •

Aram Zucker-Scharff

On Twitter, we look down

Why am I still on Twitter? An in-depth investigation.

Jun 9, 2023 •

Aram Zucker-Scharff

April 2023

Data brokers, what are they good for?

Following up on Congress’s questions around data brokers… this is quite a question. In the vast and complicated ecosystem of advertising and ad …

Apr 20, 2023 •

Aram Zucker-Scharff

Data Brokers Stalk Privacy Nightmares

It depresses me relatively good articles that analyze the rise of privacy usually fail to realize or explore the threat to privacy that is so st…

Apr 10, 2023 •

Aram Zucker-Scharff

March 2023

TikTok Nonsense

Who cares, stop flexing for the electorate, pass real privacy laws

Mar 18, 2023 •

Aram Zucker-Scharff

Moral hazard for thee but not for me

Why are people mad at me? An explainer for VCs.

Mar 13, 2023 •

Aram Zucker-Scharff

Notes on Privacy Extremism

or How to Blow Up a Digital Billboard

Mar 4, 2023 •

Aram Zucker-Scharff

December 2022

More newsletters coming soon, because Twitter is insane now.

It's all going up in flames

Dec 18, 2022 •

Aram Zucker-Scharff

March 2022

Twitter explains Web3 to me

How does one develop a technology that no one can define?

Mar 4, 2022 •

Aram Zucker-Scharff

November 2020

How Spotify asks listeners to hack its algorithm

Spotify's user experience for music asks us to control recommendations, instead of letting it control us.

Nov 9, 2020 •

Aram Zucker-Scharff

November 2019

Our house is a very, very, very fine house

When will we escape Forbes?

Nov 2, 2019 •

Aram Zucker-Scharff

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