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Daring Fireball
28 Aug 16:27 • John Gruber

‘Not Sure How You Own Canada by Deleting Your Own History’

x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/2093060290371870948

Matt Walsh, described by Wikipedia as “an American far-right political commentator and podcast host” (a description that sounds harsh, but I’d say is describing him euphemistically), on Twitter/X (retweeting the official White House account’s announcement of the name change)...

Daring Fireball
28 Aug 15:06 • John Gruber

From the DF Archive: ‘Golfo Del Gringo Loco’

daringfireball.net/2025/02/golfo_del_gringo_loco

Yours truly back in February 2025: The motivation behind the name change is simple as well. Trump didn’t change the US’s officially recognized name of, say, the Atlantic Ocean or the continent of Africa. He just as easily could, but he won’t. I’m starting to worry how ...

Daring Fireball
28 Aug 14:18 • John Gruber

Trump Declares That Lake Ontario Is Now ‘Lake America’

notus.org/trump-white-house/lake-america-ontario-canada-trade-war-trump-executive-order-rename

Jackie Llanos and Jenna Monnin, reporting for NOTUS: President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order meant to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America,” taking his apparent jab at Canada one step further as a trade war between the two countries escalates. The pres...

Radiolab
28 Aug 14:01 • WNYC Studios

Dolly Parton's America: Sad Ass Songs

The world lost a legend recently, and we wanted in some small way to pay tribute to the great Dolly Parton. So we’re playing you an episode from a series we had a small part in back in 2017, Dolly Parton’s America. The series kicked off with a simple question: How did...

Colossal
28 Aug 11:48 • Colossal

September 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

Time to brush up that artist's statement!

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article September 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists appeared first on Colossal.

Longreads
28 Aug 11:03 • Carolyn Wells

Africa’s Wild Dogs Are the Most Hated Carnivores on the Continent. Here’s Why Some Conservationists Are Saving Them Anyway

"Meet the team that closely monitors the playful canines, which need help to form diverse packs and stop their numbers from dwindling."

Dan’s Polaroids
28 Aug 10:23

27.08.2026

A large tent with a wooden terrace. The large inflatable duck hangs over the railing. — Accommodation

Longreads
28 Aug 10:12 • Longreads

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

In this edition: Bad medicine, imperfect sound forever, know when to fold ’em, brainiacs, and a call of the wild.

The Atlas Obscura Podcast
28 Aug 04:05 • SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Skinny Houses (Classic)

Producer Talon Stradley takes us on a tour of three skinny houses – each with a big story inside. Do these skinny houses have you curious about spite houses?

Check out that episode here.

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Daring Fireball
28 Aug 03:24 • John Gruber

U.S. Judge Blocks Trump Defense Department’s Anthropic Blacklisting

reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-blocks-pentagons-anthropic-blacklisting-2026-08-28/

Jack Queen, Reuters: A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic, the latest turn in the Claude maker’s high-stakes fight with the military over AI safety on the battlefield. Anthropic’s lawsuit in California federal court alleges that Def...

Rick Beato
28 Aug 00:45

Todd Rundgren on recording with effects #toddrundgren #musicproducer #shorts

Simon Willison's Weblog
27 Aug 23:09

Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode

Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode Anthropic are putting a great deal of faith in Claude Code's auto mode for protecting their coding agent users against prompt injection attacks. They recently made that the default and have made bold claims about its effectiveness. Johan...

Daring Fireball
27 Aug 22:00 • John Gruber

Afterglow — Classic After Dark Screen Savers on Today’s MacOS

morphing.cloud/afterglow/

Jeff Halter has done it again: after bringing back the single greatest After Dark module (Ben Haller’s Lunatic Fringe game, via a modern runtime named Lunacy), he’s now released Afterglow: Running After Dark modules in the present day has involved fussy configuration of ...

Colossal
27 Aug 21:24 • Grace Ebert

Pattern and Bold, Saturated Color Commingle in Ben Sledsens’ Rhythmic Paintings

While bold in color, Ben Sledsens' oil-and-acrylic paintings are quiet and intimate.

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Pattern and Bold, Saturated Color Commingle in Ben Sledsens’ Rhythmic Paintings appeared first on Colossal.

Daring Fireball
27 Aug 21:21 • John Gruber

The Load-Bearing Vocabulary of Claude

louisabraham.github.io/load-bearing/

Fun (but depressing?) data analysis project from Louis Abraham, showing how repetitive Claude is in the words it chooses when submitting GitHub pull requests. Abraham, in the project’s readme: GitHub pull request descriptions, grouped by the words they are written with r...

Daring Fireball
27 Aug 21:03 • John Gruber

Elizabeth Warren’s Incoherent Outrage Regarding Apple’s Tariff Refund

warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-pushes-giant-corporations-to-give-billions-in-tariff-refunds-back-to-consumers/

Speaking of tariff refunds, here’s an official statement from Senator Elizabeth Warren from a few weeks ago: U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote to Target, Apple, Amazon, Nike, Motorola, Walmart, and Energizer pushing these companies — each of which have or are...

Daring Fireball
27 Aug 20:33 • John Gruber

Panic Is Refunding Tariff Fees to Playdate Buyers

gamedeveloper.com/business/playdate-maker-is-refunding-tariff-fees-to-customers

Nicole Carpenter and Diego Argüello, reporting for Game Developer: “There was a specific window of time this year where we charged tariffs to customers,” Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser explained in an e-mail to Game Developer confirming the news. “We tried absorbing the c...

Daring Fireball
27 Aug 20:03 • John Gruber

Ads in Apple Maps Have Now Launched

9to5mac.com/2026/08/25/apple-maps-launches-ads-on-iphone-heres-whats-new/

Ryan Christoffel, 9to5Mac: Apple confirmed to 9to5Mac that the ads rollout in Maps began in the last few days. And it will continue ramping in the weeks ahead to all users. There are two places you’ll find ads in the Maps app: Before searching: Suggested Places in the...

Daring Fireball
27 Aug 20:03 • John Gruber

‘How Europe Is Killing Makers and Micro-Entrepreneurs’

lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/how-europe-is-killing-makers-and-micro-entrepreneurs

Alain Pannetrat, founder of Lectronz: Lectronz is a marketplace for open-source hardware makers and DIY electronics. Most of our sellers are not factories or well-funded start-ups. They are engineers, independent designers, and hardware enthusiasts working from spare roo...

Simone Giertz
27 Aug 19:27