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In primary elections across the United States, the Republican Party will test its voters appetite for revenge, and the Democratic Party will test its voters appetite for change. The New York Times journalists Shane Goldmacher, Lisa Lerer and Reid Epstein sat down with Michae...

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Last week, the Supreme Court gutted protections against racial gerrymandering, and Donald Trump is already urging Republicans to capitalize on it. We recently wrote that Trump has no idea what this will unleash, and that’s the topic of today’s episode. Indeed, ...

Two weeks into Automattic's Radical Speed Month, the WordPress.com Reader has grown a Mastodon tab, a Bluesky tab, and a Google Reader-compatible API. Here's what shipped, what's still to come, and how it connects back to the ActivityPub plugin.

William Randolph Hearst bought the New York Morning Journal in 1895 - and immediately started running stories designed to make his readers furious before they’d finished their breakfast. The pages manufactured a mood, and that mood sold papers.

Three years later, when his correspondent Frederic Remington cabled from

Wow, had a chance to win it at the buzzer. Spurs only shooting 28% from 3-point range is just too low, though. Wemby 0-8 from 3 but amazing otherwise. 🏀

Monday, May 4, 2026 It's just dawning on me how thoroughly the AI apps are building on Markdown. People love Markdown because it's simple and its virtually impossible to screw it up, unlike HTML which got a lot of crazy-ass features in the 90s when Micosoft was trying to ru...

Looks like this might be a tough series. Spurs and Timberwolves tied with only 45 each at the half. Anthony Edwards is fine. Wemby already has 7 blocks! 🏀

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So tired of Apple’s tactics with this Epic case that started five years ago. How many billions of dollars have they made while these decisions are in limbo?

In a filing sent to the Supreme Court today, Apple is asking the court to stay the Ninth Circuit’s mandate, which would send the case back to the District Court to determine what commission it can charge on off-App Store purchases.

Meanwhile I’ve been trying for a week to get Inkwell approved. One of the holdups is Apple wanting me to add in-app purchase so they can skim their 30%.

Nick Heer: If you do a little poking around in Adobe’s application bundles, a key reason for the jankiness of these user interfaces becomes apparent: it is because they are little webpages. These dialog boxes are HTML files that reference a chunky CSS file and oodles of ...

Chess Peace — a new iOS game by Sam Shepherd — is my kind of logic puzzle. Each puzzle is a board with a few unplaced chess pieces. To solve you need to place all the pieces so that none of them attack each other. There’s a timer if you care, but I don’t. (And you can hide the clock.) Clever name too: the pieces need to be ... at peace with each other. You can download Chess Peace and try it out free of charge, and it’s just a one-time payment of $7 to unlock everything. Great simple premise, really well implemented.

When people think about running a Mastodon instance they often picture servers, code, and technical infrastructure. They’re right! That’s important and non-trivial work, but it’s not the only kind of work involved in building a Mastodon community. The “people” work is just a...

OpenAI’s cofounder and president revealed in federal court on Monday that he’s one of the largest individual stakeholders in the AI lab.

Paul Thurrott:

I may or may not write and publish a short e-book about Markdown sometime this year, most likely as part of a monthly focus. But l’ve written small parts of it already, as I do, and I figured it might be interesting for at least some readers. And so here’s an early draft of an introductory chapter that may or may not be called “On writing.” We’ll see.

It’s odd how things turn out in life. Thurrott’s and my careers are almost uniquely parallel, but have seldom intersected. This book would have been a very surprising outcome to me, if you’d told me about it 20 years ago. Sort of a fun outcome, though, and I must admit to being curious what comes of it.

The news isn’t good.

The fact that Paul Graham personally has billions of dollars at stake with OpenAI doesn’t mean that his public opinion on Sam Altman’s trustworthiness and leadership is invalid. But it certainly seems like the sort of thing that ought to be disclosed when quoting Graham as an Altman character reference.

The Booksellers is a 2019 feature-length documentary film about antiquarian and rare book dealers; you can watch the whole movie for free on YouTube.

Took me a while to realize why I’m enjoying fewer articles online, at first thinking it was the paywalls. Or maybe it’s because tech journalism has become so cynical. Probably not intentional — just a natural result of the growing distrust in big companies. But I’d like to be inspired sometimes too.

Listened to a bunch of the Greg Brockman testimony. Really interesting to hear the lawyers at work. First part, Greg probably came off too guarded. Second part, more in his element retelling OpenAI’s founding story. (I still don’t see how Elon Musk can win this case.)