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• Jason Kottke

From Just Security: “A timeline of actions that highlight the alarming level...

From Just Security: “A timeline of actions that highlight the alarming level of politicization and weaponization of the Department of Justice under the second Trump administration.”

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• John Gruber

Apple Hasn’t Updated Its US Government Transparency Report Since June 2023, 20 Months Ago

apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html

Apple: Apple is committed to being transparent about government requests for customer data and how we respond. We publish a Transparency Report twice a year disclosing the number of government requests for customer data Apple receives globally. Apple’s most recent repo...

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• Jason Kottke

Josh Marshall looks closely at Trump’s Feb 11th “workforce optimization” EO for...

Josh Marshall looks closely at Trump’s Feb 11th “workforce optimization” EO for its inevitable conclusion: “It will be like a permanent shutdown. That’s not hyperbole or a metaphor. It’s literally what they say in the executive order.”

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• Jason Kottke

Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds. A former anti-vax...

Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds. A former anti-vax parent whose kids got sick: “It was awful, and it didn’t have to happen, because I could have had them vaccinated. I felt guilty. I felt really guilty.”

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• Jason Kottke

Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins on disordered discourse (which is not mere misinformation). “When...

Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins on disordered discourse (which is not mere misinformation). “When truth is no longer a shared foundation, power shifts to those who control the most compelling narrative — no matter how detached from reality it is.”

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• John Gruber

iFixit’s iPhone 16e Teardown

ifixit.com/News/108430/iphone-16e-teardown-never-before-has-skipping-the-upgrade-made-more-sense

Elizabeth Chamberlain, writing for iFixit: But it’s still missing MagSafe, for no obvious reason other than making the phone less appealing to consumers than the rest of the 16 lineup. Wireless charging without the perfect alignment that MagSafe allows is troubling. I’...

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• John Gruber

The Free Speech Will Continue Until Trump’s Morale Improves

truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114104167452161158

President Donald Trump, on his very popular bespoke social network (random capitalization and various typos sic): All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to t...

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• Jason Kottke

On Public Service

Lisa Re Dale recently retired after 20 years of federal service. She worked for the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program (which she says returns 10x on its investment) and wrote about what she did at work and why it matters: I am retiring today after 20 years of fede...

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• Jason Kottke

“The ‘war on woke’ did not suddenly appear. It is an idea...

“The ‘war on woke’ did not suddenly appear. It is an idea deeply rooted in a form of scientific racism that has been laundered into the mainstream over decades by the Pioneer Fund and right-wing activists connected with this group.”

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• John Gruber

Claim Chowder: October 2022 Rumors Regarding the iPhone 16e (a.k.a. ‘SE 4’)

macrumors.com/2022/10/09/iphone-se-4-to-feature-6-1-inch-display-with-notch/

Hartley Charlton, writing for MacRumors in October 2022: The fourth-generation iPhone SE will feature a 6.1-inch LCD display and a “notch” cutout at the top of the display, according to Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) analyst Ross Young. Good call on the size a...

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• Jason Kottke

He Never Made the Same Choice Twice: 10 of Our Favorite Gene...

He Never Made the Same Choice Twice: 10 of Our Favorite Gene Hackman Performances. “That ability to conjure suspense from popcorn material is what made Hackman at once the best character of his generation and a singular movie star.”

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• Jason Kottke

Criminal defense attorney Ken White: “What happens if federal, state, or local...

Criminal defense attorney Ken White: “What happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President?” A: “SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH”

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• Jason Kottke

Is GoFundMe the New Insurance? “As the internet says, ‘This is not...

Is GoFundMe the New Insurance? “As the internet says, ‘This is not a heartwarming story.’” (Dynamic I was unaware of but that makes sense: higher income GFM beneficiaries receive more donation money.)

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• Jason Kottke

Total Context Collapse: New Polls Show That 100% Of Americans Have Forgotten...

Total Context Collapse: New Polls Show That 100% Of Americans Have Forgotten Why We Built A Society In The First Place And Why We Need To Keep Doing It. “Well damn. These poll results are far from encouraging!”

The Rewatchables

‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan

01:53:04

It ain’t about how hard you watch. It’s about how hard you rewatch and keep moving forward. The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan revisit the 1976 classic ‘Rocky’ starring Syllvester Stallone, Talia Shire, and Carl Weathers. Watch this episode on our Ringer Movies YouTube channel! Producer: Craig Horlbeck Video Producers: Jack Sanders, Chia Hao Tat, Jon Jones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• John Gruber

Framous 1.0

9to5mac.com/2025/02/25/framous-mac-app-device-screenshots/

Chance Miller, writing last week at 9to5Mac: Dark Noise developer Charlie Chapman is out with a new Mac utility called “Framous.” The app aims to be the best way to add device frames to screenshots. [...] Here are the ways Framous aims to streamline this process: Auto...

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• Jason Kottke

On Saturday, Steph Curry dunked in a regular-season NBA game for the...

On Saturday, Steph Curry dunked in a regular-season NBA game for the first time in 6 years (he’s only done it 27 times in his entire career). “That will probably be my last dunk.”

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• John Gruber

Another Tim Cook Product Announcement Teaser on X: ‘There’s Something in the Air’

x.com/BasicAppleGuy/status/1896602928984818121

Basic Apple Guy (with screenshot):

The same tagline from Apple’s 2008 announcement for the original MacBook Air.

On the cusp of that announcement at Macworld Expo, AppleInsider photographed a bunch of banners with that slogan Apple had hung inside Moscone West. I swear I’m not making this up, but a bunch of people were speculating that the big announcement would be a deal with Adobe to bring Adobe Air (their still-in-progress next-gen Flash platform) to the iPhone (which was just over six months old).

Fond memories. Here are my initial thoughts and observations on the MacBook Air, post-keynote, and here’s the January 2008 archive of Linked List posts at DF. There were a lot of bad early takes on the Air.

Link: x.com/BasicAppleGuy/status/1896602928984818121

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• Jason Kottke

A good, long profile of author Robert Caro, in which he reveals...

A good, long profile of author Robert Caro, in which he reveals that he’s written 951 pages of the fifth (and final) installment of his series of books on LBJ — but also that he’s “not nearly done”.

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• John Gruber

Apple Details Upcoming Changes and Improvements to Child Accounts, App Store Age Restrictions, and More

developer.apple.com/support/downloads/Helping-Protect-Kids-Online-2025.pdf

Dan Moren, writing at Six Colors: In a whitepaper posted to Apple’s developer site entitled “Helping Protect Kids Online”, the company details several improvements it’s rolling out in upcoming software updates, including making it easier to set up child accounts, providi...