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The Internet Is Dead…And Nobody Cares

AI Is Killing Everything...And We Don't Care

In this episode, I look at the new wave of AI "creators" that are cannibalizing attention and resources away from real creators. It's time to do something but no one seems to care.

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Daring Fireball
02 Jul 22:51 • John Gruber

April Report From Ookla: ‘A Return to mmWave 5G’

ookla.com/articles/a-return-to-mmwave-5g

Mike Dano, in a long (too long, I say) report for Ookla (makers of the nifty Speedtest app): Further, few other countries in the world followed in the mmWave footsteps of the U.S., with international spectrum regulators instead putting a focus on releasing mid-band spect...

Simon Willison's Weblog
02 Jul 22:18

llm-coding-agent 0.1a0

Release: llm-coding-agent 0.1a0 Another Fable 5 experiment. Now that my LLM library has evolved into more of an agent framework it's time to see what a simple coding agent would look like built on it. I started a new Python library using my python-lib-template-reposi...

Daring Fireball
02 Jul 22:00 • John Gruber

Introducing the Safari MCP Server for Web Developers

webkit.org/blog/18136/introducing-the-safari-mcp-server-for-web-developers/

Saron Yitbarek, writing on the WebKit blog, with a nice post-WWDC surprise: In Safari Technology Preview 247, we’re introducing the Safari MCP server — a Model Context Protocol server for web developers that makes your web development and debugging workflow faster and mo...

Daring Fireball
02 Jul 22:00 • John Gruber

EveryMac Turns 30

everymac.com/whatsnew/

EveryMac: Thirty years is a long time — and a great deal has changed since then — but what has not changed is that EveryMac.com has been there to provide you with detailed info on every Mac from the original 128k to the current line. Thank you very much for your support ...

Marques Brownlee
02 Jul 21:09

The Best Car I've Ever Driven: McLaren W1

I may never see this car again. But it's incredible.

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Daring Fireball
02 Jul 20:42 • John Gruber

I Repeat Myself (5G vs. LTE Edition)

daringfireball.net/linked/2022/03/23/5g-battery-life

Back in March 2022, Nicole Nguyen of The Wall Street Journal compared the battery life effects of 5G vs. LTE by streaming videos on several iPhone and iPad models. She found that using LTE saved significant battery life. (It would be nice if someone re-ran similar tests on m...

Daring Fireball
02 Jul 20:00 • John Gruber

Truth Social Is Still Just Trump’s Blog

daringfireball.net/2025/06/truth_social_is_just_trumps_blog

After I linked to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick posting on Twitter/X about the Trump administration allowing Anthropic to once again release Claude Fable 5, I was reminded once again that no one else in the Trump administration uses Truth Social other than Trump himself....

kottke.org
02 Jul 19:48 • Jason Kottke

As it was foretold: the Trump regime gutted the NOAA and...

As it was foretold: the Trump regime gutted the NOAA and now weather forecasts are less accurate. An atmospheric scientist: “The forecasts I’m able to offer you are less accurate than they would otherwise be.”

Daring Fireball
02 Jul 19:30 • John Gruber

‘A Perfect Reflection of Trump’s Washington’

politicalwire.com/2026/06/19/a-perfect-reflection-of-trumps-washington/

Taegan Goddard, two weeks ago at Political Wire: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become an almost too-perfect metaphor for Donald Trump’s presidency. He promised a quick, cheap fix. Instead, taxpayers got a no-bid project that ballooned to more than $14 millio...

Simon Willison's Weblog
02 Jul 19:09

Using DSPy to evaluate and improve Datasette Agent's SQL system prompts

Research: Using DSPy to evaluate and improve Datasette Agent's SQL system prompts One of this morning's AIE keynotes covered dspy, which reminded me I've been meaning to see if it could help me improve the system prompt used by Datasette Agent - so I fired off an asy...

kottke.org
02 Jul 19:06 • Jason Kottke

Something for the digital crate-diggers: The 40 Best...

Something for the digital crate-diggers: The 40 Best Albums From the Last 40 Years That You Probably Didn’t Hear (But Should’ve). I’d only heard of one or two these…

Daring Fireball
02 Jul 18:42 • John Gruber

Claude Fable and Kayfabe

anthropic.com/news/redeploying-fable-5

Anthropic: On Friday, June 12, the US government applied export controls to our newest models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5. This required us to restrict access to foreign nationals, whether inside or outside the United States. Because the order took effect immedia...

kottke.org
02 Jul 18:27 • Jason Kottke

“ Dictionary of the Illegible proposes...

“Dictionary of the Illegible proposes illegibility as a strategy for navigating a world increasingly governed by visibility, efficiency, and total surveillance.”

Rick Beato
02 Jul 18:13

It’s a great day to be alive! #surgery #anniversary #shorts

kottke.org
02 Jul 17:48 • Jason Kottke

“ The average paid newsletter costs $10 per month...

“The average paid newsletter costs $10 per month or $100 per year, according to analysis of thousands of publications hosted on Beehiiv.” KDO memberships start at $3/mo. and I haven’t raised prices since 2016. You folks are getting an incredible deal!

Simon Willison's Weblog
02 Jul 17:24

Understand to participate

I saw Geoffrey Litt speak at AIE yesterday, and one framing he used particularly resonated with me: Understand to participate Geoffrey was talking about the challenge of collaborating with coding agents as they construct increasingly large and sophisticated changes, and the ...

Daring Fireball
02 Jul 17:15 • John Gruber

‘Why Is Meta Destroying Its Engineering Organization?’

newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-meta-destroying-its-engineering

Gergely Orosz, writing at The Pragmatic Engineer (which, sadly, is a Substack blog): The biggest problem: people stop caring about real work and focus on performative work. Let’s check the four ingredients that Meta’s leadership has decided to introduce to their workplac...

kottke.org
02 Jul 17:06 • Jason Kottke

Hank Green interviews Ze Frank , who kind of invented...

Hank Green interviews Ze Frank, who kind of invented the modern YouTube format (aka vlogging). “At the episode’s end, Ze lays down some of the best advice Hank’s ever heard.”

Longreads
02 Jul 17:03 • Carolyn Wells

The Brits Panning for Gold

"In remote rivers, prospectors still hunt for treasure .They even hold tournaments."