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Trump, Supposedly, Thinks the U.S. Has the ‘Resources’ Needed to Make iPhones

9to5mac.com/2025/04/08/trump-thinks-the-us-has-the-resources-needed-to-make-iphones/

Chance Miller, writing at 9to5Mac: Ahead of that, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said today that Trump firmly believes that Apple can move iPhone manufacturing to the United States. In response to a question from Maggie Haberman of The New York Times about ...

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★ WebKit Adds Support for ‘text-wrap: pretty’, Now Shipping in Safari Technology Preview

I think it’s a good start, and I couldn’t be happier that the WebKit team is even tackling the problem at all. As Simmons notes, line-wrapping layout in web browsers has, until now, been very crude — and the web has been around a long time.

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★ How Many New iPhones Can Fit on a Freight Plane?

This sounds like one of those puzzles job interviewers often ask, but there’s a practical relevance at the moment.

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Trump Cuts Most Tariffs to 10% but Increases Tariffs on China to 125%

truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114309144289505174

President Trump, in a post on Truth Social, which is apparently how the world’s financial markets now run: Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, e...

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The Cootie Zone

All Trump is doing is making the US the cootie zone. We won't make anything here and we won't buy anything. We'll have nice 2025 computers, phones, cars, medicine, lumber, energy, but all the shit we import will break and be used up and we won't be able to replace it. The re...

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The big vision behind WordLand

I believe that eventually WordPress will be the hub for writers the way the web itself became the the hub for apps. Initially, the web wasn’t the best place to host apps, the Mac had a much more developed set of meaningful features for app devs, and we already knew the Mac A...

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Apple Is Hustling to Fly Planes of iPhones Into the U.S. Ahead of Trump’s Tariffs

9to5mac.com/2025/04/07/iphone-inventory-united-states-planes/

Chance Miller, writing for 9to5Mac: According to senior Indian officials cited in the report, Apple flew five planes full of iPhones and other products from India and China “in just three days during the final week of March.” “Factories in India and China and other key ...

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Doing what you think, not what you thought

Whenever I talk about working in real-time, making decisions as you go, figuring things out now rather than before, I get a question like this... "If you don't have a backlog, or deep sets of prioritized, ranked items, how do you decide what to do next?" My answer: &nbsp...

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Today's song: Come on Eileen.

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Rachel Maddow's show these days often begins with a hard-to-watch over-the-top endorsement of Bluesky. She shouldn't be doing that. It's a private company and someday she may criticize them as strongly as she did Facebook. I'd love to hear her explain exactly what's the difference between Bluesky and Facebook. A lot less than you might think.

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There’s no reason RSS and social media have to be separate worlds. RSS is the easiest and fastest way to connect systems. When I see people endorse RSS over social sites I think we took a wrong turn somewhere because all these systems should be connected on the open web.

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Hillary Clinton makes a very important point. "Republicans in Congress can put a stop to this at any time." By this, she means the crashing US economy. And even if you believe they'll "never do it" -- it's still the right thing to repeat this over and over -- people should know they could. This should be repeated until enough people get it, this is being done on purpose by the Repubs. This isn't about winning elections, it's about understanding who's doing this to you and how deliberate it is.

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A question on GitHub: Is OPML the native file format for Drummer? It's better to first use the product or read the docs or search on web or use an AI chatbot before getting humans involved. Anyway, the answer is yes, OPML is the native file format of Drummer. It's the reason...

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Democracy

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My sincere thanks to The Ole Independence Hall Hooligans for sponsoring this past week at DF to promote democracy. That’s it. A real sponsorship, real money, raised by a group of readers who simply wanted the ad space on DF to promote, as they described it, “the enduring and...

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The Spectacle of Incompetence

newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/07/the-greater-scandal-of-signalgate

David Remnick, in a fine short piece for The New Yorker on Signalgate: This is an Administration that does not have to slip on a Signal banana peel to reveal its deepest-held prejudices and its painful incapacities. You get the sense that we would learn little if we were...

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I wonder when ChatGPT or Claude.ai will compete with Wikipedia. I think Wikipedia is great but it has always had a weakness in that it can be manipulated to tell a story from a very limited point of view. For example the RSS page has a long section explaining the benefits of Atom. What I like about the AI versions of the basic history of things is that it isn't so easily manipulated. I talked about this with Claude, and asked it to write up a proposal for ClaudeWiki, a Wikipedia workalike, not too expensive to run, make it part of a user's $20 per month subscription. I think it would be useful, if only as a demo how Wikipedia itself might improve its service.

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A search for WordPress on this blog tells an interesting story.

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If I were designing a social network, I would implement replies differently. When you reply to a post, only the person who wrote the post sees it. If they want they can RT it. The way it works now on all twitter-like systems means most of the replies are basically spam, people using your post as a way to reach people who follow you.

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BTW, when you post something on Bluesky it's just a tweet. These things don't need different names on each platform.