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• Daring Fireball Department of Commerce

[Sponsor] Clerk — Complete User Management for Your iOS Application

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kottke.org Valid
• Jason Kottke

Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege. “[We’re writing] this...

Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege. “[We’re writing] this piece because we are alarmed about the risks of arbitrary & capricious political control of federal payments, which would be unlawful & corrosive to our democracy.”

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• Jason Kottke

Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t...

Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City. “I just wanted him to fix the old bowling alley like he promised in passing once.”

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• Jason Kottke

How People & Institutions in Budding Autocracies Obey in Advance

In a piece called The Chilling Consequences of Going Along With Trump, Russian exile M. Gessen outlines the five different types of arguments used by people & institutions when they engage in “anticipatory obedience” (aka, obeying in advance). For example: The second a...

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• Jason Kottke

One of the attributes of the modern condition is an inability to...

One of the attributes of the modern condition is an inability to be bored. “In one study, nearly half of participants left alone for 15 minutes with no stimulation chose to have an electric shock.” !!!

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• Jason Kottke

From Greg Storey, a list of “ways to take in information without...

From Greg Storey, a list of “ways to take in information without getting pulled under”. Including the Control Test: “Is this within my control? If yes, what’s my next step? If no, how do I adjust to move forward anyway?”

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• Jason Kottke

“The private companies in control of social-media networks possess an unprecedented ability...

“The private companies in control of social-media networks possess an unprecedented ability to manipulate and control the populace, to keep them in a kind of algorithmic cage divorced from reality.”

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• Jason Kottke

It’s a Coup, But It’s Not Just Musk’s Coup

This piece at The Verge from Elizabeth Lopatto is a great recap of Elon Musk’s coordinated attack on the infrastructure of the US federal government. I particularly appreciate the dozens of links throughout the piece that provide context for the text, a demonstration of the ...

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• Jason Kottke

This is a great thread on how an ordinary person stepped up...

This is a great thread on how an ordinary person stepped up to help her community during a crisis (her kids’ school burned down in the recent LA fires).

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• Jason Kottke

The Power of Chaos

The events of the last few weeks reminded me of this succinct summary of Timothy Ryback’s book, Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power fron Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker: Ryback details, week by week, day by day, and sometimes hour by hour, how a country with a functional, ...

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• Jason Kottke

Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show. Kendrick said, “The revolution ‘bout to...

Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show. Kendrick said, “The revolution ‘bout to be televised. You picked the right time but the wrong guy.” — with the wrong guy sitting in the audience.

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• Jason Kottke

Judith Butler: “Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be...

Judith Butler: “Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?”

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Incoming Asteroid

The bottom ones are also potentially bad news for any other planets in our solar system that have been counting on Earth having a stable orbit.

kottke.org Valid
• Jason Kottke

Some Wild Ice Skating

When Fairlee, Vermont’s Lake Morey freezes over in the winter, a 4-5 mile loop is cleared by a local resort for wild ice skating. I was able to get out on the ice with my family for a couple hours on Friday; it was great fun, and I’m looking forward to going again soon. I hope you got out this weekend and did something outside or active or new or comforting…we’re going to need to replenish our reserves in the coming weeks and months. Tags: Jason Kottke · skating · sports 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

Daring Fireball Valid
• John Gruber

Eddy and Tim’s Excellent Super Bowl Adventure

x.com/johnsummit/status/1888373521123819528

Looks like more of an Eddy scene than a Tim scene, but everyone’s having fun. There’s a reason this is the 11th Super Bowl held in New Orleans. Should be a good football game, too. The Chiefs and Eagles are both very good teams (and both very well-run franchises). There’s a...

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• John Gruber

The Internet Archive Unveils Marble Bust of Aaron Swartz

sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/aaron-swartz-marble-statue-unveiled-internet-archive/

Zara Stone, reporting for The Standard: “There’s a renaissance happening now in Aaron Swartz-land,” said Lisa Rein, the co-founder of Creative Commons, a nonprofit devoted to expanding public access to information. She founded Aaron Swartz Day in 2013, an annual hackatho...

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• John Gruber

TikTok Is Now Distributing Its Android App for Installation via Sideloading

x.com/TikTokPolicy/status/1888048200486949249

TikTok, on X: We’re enhancing ways for our community to continue using TikTok by making Android Package Kits available at http://TikTok.com/download so that our U.S. Android users can download our app and create, discover, and connect on TikTok. Tens of millions of use...

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• John Gruber

Jason Snell Went There, Calls for iOS to Follow the Mac Model for Software Distribution

macworld.com/article/2525708/the-app-store-era-must-end-apples-already-got-the-solution.html

Jason Snell, in a column for Macworld back in November (same column at Six Colors, for members): This is an important moment. Apple has built two separate models for running software on our devices. In one, there’s a gradient of trustworthiness that strongly encourages u...

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• John Gruber

‘Torrenting From a Corporate Laptop Doesn’t Feel Right’

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/

Ashley Belanger, reporting for Ars Technica on new details from an authors group lawsuit alleging Meta trained its AI models on a trove of pirated books: Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of million...

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• Jason Kottke

Extinction Burst Explains MAGA Voters’ Racist Anger

This fantastic two-minute video, from a guy named Rich, neatly explains why the anger and frustration of Trump’s supporters has been growing over time — why the pushback on things like diversity, equity, inclusion, trans rights, and LGBTQ+ issues seems to be increasing and...