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If I were a sassy Democratic Party leader I'd cop to being woke. "Why yes I am woke. Aren't you?" The Repubs have never explained why it's bad to be awake. Dems have to learn how to engage to win. Another one -- "read, fire, aim" is how Trump leads, just look at the tariffs, and it's been a huge disaster for hard-working American wage-earners of all generations. The "all generations" part opens an interesting conversation, how it isn't just old people or young people, it's also people who are working today whose earnings are being stolen, and those of us who have been working for 50 years who were paying into a fund so we could benefit when we retire. That money is coming out of your paycheck with no intention of ever paying it back. That's the Republican-run America. Not so great.
As long as the Chinese company BYD is making such interesting and inexpensive EVs, and Tesla is a shithole company, if I were in charge, I'd give BYD a negative tariff to encourage them to flood the US market with nice cheap EVs so we can get rid of the shitstain Tesla once and for all. I'd give them an even better price if they agreed to recycle Teslas as trade-ins so we don't have to feel ecologically irresponsible. And yes, dear MAGAs, I am woke. You all can go back to sleep now. Zzzz.
‘American Disruption’
Ben Thompson:
The problem with these tariffs is that their scale and
indiscriminate nature will have the effect of destroying demand
and destroying the capability to develop alternative supply. I
suppose if the only goal is to hurt China then shooting yourself
in the foo...
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 ...
★ 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.
★ 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.
Trump Cuts Most Tariffs to 10% but Increases Tariffs on China to 125%
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...
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...
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 ...
Jason Fried
• Jason Fried
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:  ...
Today's song: Come on Eileen.
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.
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.
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.
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...
Democracy
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...
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...