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Another ad. Donald Trump on Mt Rushmore. Donald Trump on the $20 bill. The Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial renamed Trump. Kennedy airport in NYC renamed Trump International. In the future the US will have only one founding father: Donald J. Trump.

If our political system worked we’d have wonderful heart-grabbing ads on TV about all the people who have meaningful jobs thanks to DEI. It wouldn’t be hard to make the Repubs look like Scrooges. Get people riled up. Another ad, about the people Trump pardoned and what they’re doing now. Wait till one of them commits a major crime and run Willie Horton style ads. Make it understood who these people actually are. Trump has to own each and every one of them. This really isn’t hard. But the Dems think campaigns end. They don’t end.

Google, in an announcement on X: We’ve received a few questions about naming within Google Maps. We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources. For geographic features in the U.S., this is when Geogra...

I thought this excerpt from Krugman's piece about his move back to blogging was right on. "For a while I tried to make up for the loss of the blog with threads on Twitter. But even before Elon Musk Nazified the site, tweet threads were an awkward, inferior substitute for blog posts." There's a need for a system that combines the full-featured writing of blogging and the timelines of twitter-like systems.

Openvibe, which mashes together multiple accounts from mulitple networks into a single timeline, is interesting, but not for me — and I’m not really sure who it *is* for.

Chance Miller at 9to5Mac has a good rundown of everything new in iOS 18.3, and his colleague Ryan Christoffel has a similar rundown for MacOS 15.3 all-five-vowels Sequoia. (See also: Michael Tsai.)

Jim Acosta, signing off from CNN for the final time: It is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant. I believe it is the job of the press to hold power to account — I’ve always tried to do that here at CNN, and I plan on doing all of that again in the future. One final...

Podcast: The Repubs are trying to kill you.

Could what happened to Twitter, happen there? To determine, ask yourself if you could continue to use it if it was acquired by a billionaire for their own personal political use? What would you switch to? Would you have to give up your history and followers? And developers, ...

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MG Siegler, writing at Spyglass: Anyway, this matters because it doesn’t mean that DeepSeek, an app based off of the Chinese-developed AI model of the same name, is the most popular app ever despite its current place atop the charts. Your mom probably isn’t downloading i...

Jenni Reid and Alex Harring, reporting for CNBC: Nvidia and other U.S. technology firms plunged on Monday, part of a global sell-off as Chinese startup DeepSeek sparked concerns over competitiveness in artificial intelligence and America’s leadership in the sector. Nvid...

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek made waves last week when they dropped their new “open reasoning” LLM named R1. But over the weekend the full repercussions of their achievements (plural) began to sink in across the industry. My partner-in-Dithering Ben Thompson has written an extrao...

Joe Rossignol, writing at MacRumors on Thursday:

Apple’s website said the first vehicle models with support for next-generation CarPlay would “arrive in 2024,” but that did not happen. A little more than three weeks into 2025, Apple has now updated its website in the U.S. to remove that 2024 timeframe from the next-generation CarPlay section of its overall CarPlay page.

It’s good that they updated this page last week, because it really was starting to look unlikely they’d hit their 2024 ship date.

This is a post for longtime Scripting News readers. As you know, I've been doing feed readers for a long time. They've been mostly organized around the river of news concept, which also happens to be the way twitter-like systems work. My rivers are built around RSS and forma...

10 years ago I ran a sponsorship from Meh, a then-new daily deals site from the founders of Woot (the OG daily deals site). In my thank-you post to Meh a decade ago, “I’ve been selling weekly DF RSS feed sponsorships since 2007 — just a hair under 400 consecutive weeks. I’ve...

I wonder if people understand what a sanctuary city is. In a sanctuary city the local government accepts the fact that there are people living in the city who are not there legally. They want these people to be able to call the police without fear of being turned into the...

Ben Stiller, on X, posted a short video with Tim Cook as a severed employee at Lumon Industries. Very fun, and it’s really the only thing on people’s minds about Tim Cook lately — that he’s a fun guy. Definitely the only thing people are thinking about him lately.

Sebastiaan de With, on Threads:

The Tim Cook Severance promo is wild because I always felt like the show could be about Apple - a company with such a deep, crazy culture of secrecy that they’d be the first to opt for severed employees in the workforce.

Also, my work there was always mysterious and important.

Update: Also, pitch-perfect aesthetic and tone on this video Lumon Industries posted to LinkedIn. LinkedIn is definitely the Lumon-iest social network.

Isn't it funny how the two political forces we thought we completely defeated in the 90s are coming back for their revenge.

I see four possible futures regarding phones that are too thin for USB-C ports.