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In an exclusive with the Wall Street Journal, Tim Cook announced that Apple will be raising the prices on its products¹ as a result of high prices for memory and storage worldwide:

“Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable,” he said.

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Our public postmortem for the incident on June 14th–15th, 2026.

You either loved it, or were using it wrong.

Let’s review. Token costs are rising. In response, Meta and Amazon have shut down their internal “artificial intelligence” leaderboards; Microsoft has pushed its employees toward Copilot, and away from Claude Code’s rising costs. Uber has already capped its usage of LLMs internally, setting a monthly cap for every employee’s token spending. All of this is happening against the backdrop of the biggest “AI” platforms still borrowing money against hypothetical future returns, and markets are becoming increasingly skittish over America’s big, all-encompassing bet on LLMs. And according to reports from NOTUS and Reuters, major “AI” providers are already having discussions with the United States government, in which they’re laying the groundwork for “too big to fail”-style bailouts.

The Breville Barista Express and Ninja Luxe Cafe Pro are two of the best early Prime Day deals I've seen in 2026.

Leaked files show the invite-only network grades members by their money and fame, shaping who’s in, who’s out, and who pays.

A California ballot initiative aims to fund schools and poverty programs by taxing billionaires. Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to kill it.

Thinking about the new Mastodon collections, it reminded me that we have blogrolls on Micro.blog that don’t get enough attention. Today I improved a few things with adding blog recommendations, including a search across other platforms if you don’t have the URL for someone handy.

The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought. “It is a well-known feature of civil society that nervous middle managers often act far more radically than top executives out of a sense of self-preservation.”

A rare selfie for the blog… Enjoying some time with family in Rosemary Beach, Florida. Found this Eadweard Muybridge shirt randomly last month at a Goodwill and had to get it.

Flowers growing through the fence.

Money can't buy happiness, and it seems money plus an NBA title doesn't necessarily buy charisma. The New York Knicks held their championship parade and rally in Manhattan on Thursday, and although not everyone could get in to see the actual procession, there were plenty of ...

Anthropic still can’t distribute Claude Mythos or Fable 5 after running afoul of the Trump administration. But no one can say exactly what the company did wrong.

Stop duplicating WordPress block theme templates just to load different sidebar content. Learn how to use the render_block_data filter to dynamically swap template parts based on post category, page context, or any conditional logic — no extra templates required.

Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown. “This is absolutely crazy. It is also about 20C above normal for this time of the year. That is a huge anomaly.”

I’m still getting my head around how this would actually work:

“co/core is a place where people share the compute they already own to run AI for each other, instead of renting from a handful of giant providers. It’s an experiment in inference we build, share, and own together — and your existing code works as-is, because we speak the same standard API everything else does. The models are open ones that run on the hardware people already have. Every new user is granted 1m tokens that can be run on the network - when tokens are used, they are debited from the requestors account. 95% of those tokens are then credited to the owner of the machine that ran the compute - 5% are held by the co/core account. At the end of each month, the co/core account then disburses its holdings as a dividend to all active users on the network.”

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Almost every startup or small business today has a wingperson, a principal working partner, or a co-founder.  When it comes

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Apple opens up app distribution for Brazil:

Beginning with iOS 26.5, developers can distribute apps on alternative app marketplaces, operate alternative app marketplaces, process app payments for digital goods and services outside of Apple In-App Purchase in iOS, and more.

So we’ve got the EU, Japan, Brazil, and partially South Korea. Slow progress, but still progress.

As the World Cup gets underway here in the Americas, here’s a look back at a football battle for the ages: Germany vs. Greece in The Philosophers’ Football Match. Germany’s lineup included Nietzsche , Kant, Hegel, Wittgenstein, and Marx while the likes of Plato, Socrates, Sophocles, and Archimedes took the field for Greece.

Hegel is arguing that reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant — via the categorical imperative — is holding that ontologically, it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming it was offside.

(thx, meg)

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