Bill Kristol, at The Bulwark:
The American people have made a disastrous choice. And they have
done so decisively, and with their eyes wide open.
Donald J. Trump will be our next president, elected with a
majority of the popular vote, likely winning both more votes and
...
Tom Nichols, for The Atlantic:
Paradoxically, however, Trump’s reckless venality is a reason for
hope. Trump has the soul of a fascist but the mind of a
disordered child. He will likely be surrounded by terrible but
incompetent people. All of them can be beaten: in court...
Josh Marshall, signing off for the night:
If Harris loses, that is obviously a crushing result. There’s no way around that. It’s different from 2016 in that it’s not a shock. We all knew or should have known this was a very possible result. The polls and models were abou...
Jason Kottke, going meta on that one-paragraph hypertext editorial from the NYT that I linked to yesterday:
What makes this piece so effective is its plain language and its
information density. This density is a real strength of hypertext
that is often overlooked and tak...
Sarah Perez, TechCrunch:
It’s Election Day in the U.S., which means you’re likely glued to
the latest news about which presidential candidate is currently in
the lead. To help with this, Apple has released a Live Activities
widget within its Apple News app that will offe...
We recently attended the RSA conference in San Francisco — security’s biggest event of the year — and we were struck by how infatuated everyone was with the promise of new, shiny solutions to fix new, shiny problems. On some level that’s not surprising — tech is constantly d...
The New York Times editorial board, making deft use of good old-fashioned hypertext, has published a powerful endorsement on the eve of the election that covers so much ground, yet fits entirely in a single concise paragraph. In its entirety:
You already know Donald Trum...
The truth is this. Kamala Harris will protect your right to
disagree with her. About policies, or ideas. And then, as we
have done for centuries, we’ll debate them. We’ll work on them
together. And we’ll move forward. The other guy? He demands
unquestioning loyalty. Says he wants revenge.
I’m Harrison Ford, I’ve got one vote, same as everyone else — and I’m going to use it to move forward. I’m going to vote for
Kamala Harris.
Ford’s message is a powerful framing of the authoritarian, anti-democracy dynamic in this election. Short, gruff, and to the point. Worth sharing to anyone you think might still be on the fence.
Nilay Patel, endorsing Kamala Harris at The Verge:
But look beyond the locked-in message discipline to her approach
to campaigning, and it is clear Harris is deeply, meaningfully
committed to solving collective action problems. She has
assembled a politically diverse gro...
Bill Kristol, writing last month for The Bulwark:
The Democratic polling and messaging firm Blueprint recently
tested the effectiveness of several closing messages for
the Harris campaign. (This was before Kelly’s new remarks.) Here’s
one message the group put before vot...
My thanks to Nomorobo for sponsoring this week at DF. It’s perfect timing, especially if, like me, you live in an election swing state. The one thing all voters (and, now that I think about it, surely non-voters alike) agree on is annoyance at political robocalls and robotex...
The Des Moines Register:
Kamala Harris now leads Donald Trump in Iowa — a startling
reversal for Democrats and Republicans who have all but written
off the state’s presidential contest as a certain Trump victory.
A new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows Vice P...
Reflecting on the state of border security at the end of his
tenure, Mr. Trump said he regretted ever leaving office.
“I shouldn’t have left, I mean, honestly,” Mr. Trump said, adding,
“we did so well, we had such a great — ” and then cut himself
off. He then immediately noted “so now, every polling booth has
hundreds of lawyers standing there.”
I wish he wouldn’t have left the White House on his own (which he did like the complete turd that he is, refusing to attend his successor’s inauguration). Biden was prepared for that, and we’d have all gotten to enjoy seeing him marched out by the military after watching Biden take the oath of office.
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, on CNN today:
My version of being a man is like, hey, I like rib-eyes, I like
Motörhead, and I’m never going to pick on trans kids and gay kids.
[…] It doesn’t make you tough. It doesn’t make you a man to pick
on trans or gay kids. It just makes you an asshole.
My thanks to Nomorobo for sponsoring this week at DF. It’s perfect timing, especially if, like me, you live in an election swing state. The one thing all voters (and, now that I think about it, surely non-voters alike) agree on is annoyance at political robocalls and robotex...
Flexibits:
We’ve spent the last 4 years making Fantastical better than ever
across Apple devices, and with version 4.0 we decided to go even
bigger by finally bringing the world’s best calendar app to a
Windows PC near you. [...]
The best news is that Fantastical for Wi...
The Pixelmator blog:
Today we have some important news to share: the Pixelmator Team
plans to join Apple. [...]
Pixelmator has signed an agreement to be acquired by Apple,
subject to regulatory approval. There will be no material changes
to the Pixelmator Pro, Pixelmato...
Isaac Schorr, reporting for Mediaite (with video, in case you don’t believe the following was claimed in all seriousness, which it was):
Asked by his interlocutor, John Heers, if he thought “the
presence of evil is kickstarting people to wonder about the
good?” Carlson a...
Emma Roth, reporting for The Verge:
Claude, the AI chatbot made by Anthropic, now has a desktop app.
You can download the Mac and Windows versions of the app from
Anthropic’s website for free.
Sebastiaan de With, on X:
Big miss from Anthropic releasing a super clun...
While it’s true that after this week’s Mac announcements, every new Mac Apple sells now comes with at least 16 GB of RAM, Nick Heer reminds us that there remains a new Mac available with just 8 GB: the rather remarkableWalmart-exclusive $650 M1 MacBook Air.
Apple:
The Company posted quarterly revenue of $94.9 billion, up 6
percent year over year, and quarterly diluted earnings per share
of $0.97. Diluted earnings per share was $1.64, up 12 percent year
over year when excluding the one-time charge recognized during the
fourt...
Both teams had stretches of greatness on both sides of the game. Home runs. Clutch hitting in late innings. Freddie Fucking Freeman. Innings of unhittable pitching. There’s no question in my mind these are the two most talented teams in baseball. But one team made a bunch of...
Apple Newsroom:
Now available in space black and silver finishes, the 14-inch
MacBook Pro includes the blazing-fast performance of M4 and three
Thunderbolt 4 ports, starting with 16GB of memory, all at just
$1,599. The 14- and 16-inch models with M4 Pro and M4 Max offer
...
Joshua Nelken-Zitser, Business Insider:
A legal dispute between Google and Russia over suspended YouTube
accounts has led to a fine so large that it exceeds all the money
on Earth. Ivan Morozov, a Moscow-based lawyer, told the state-run
TASS newswire that a Russian court...
Joe Rossignol, reporting for MacRumors:
Apple today in its new MacBook Pro press release announced
that the MacBook Air lineup now starts with 16GB of RAM, up from
8GB previously. This change applies to the 13-inch model with the
M2 chip, the 13-inch model with the M3 ch...
Ellen Cushing, in a well-meaning piece for The Atlantic:
NPR, citing internal Post correspondence, reported that “more than
1,600 digital subscriptions had been cancelled less than four
hours after the news broke.”
It was a reasonable impulse. But if Bezos is indeed why...
Apple Newsroom:
With M4 Pro, it takes the advanced technologies in M4 and scales
them up to tackle even more demanding workloads. For more
convenient connectivity, it features front and back ports, and for
the first time includes Thunderbolt 5 for faster data transfer
sp...
Hartley Charlton, MacRumors:
The 2021 and 2023 iMacs have now been discontinued by Apple and
prices at third-party resellers are falling. As such, some
customers may be weighing up whether to pick up a 2021 or 2023
iMac instead of the latest model, while some existing iM...
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