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Do you believe that Formula 1 can be romantic? Before immediately answering to the negative, at least consider Kimi Antonelli. He is freshly 20 years old, and just became the first Italian driver to win the Italian Grand Prix since Ludovico Scarfiotti did so in 1966. If your...

Last week was the fifteenth week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we’re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

It's been over 80 days since Mitch McConnell's vanishing act from the Senate. When his fellow Kentuckian Rep. James Comer was asked about his absence during an appearance on this Saturday's The Big Weekend Show on Fox, Comer assured cohost Lucas Tomlinson that McConnell wo...

For those of us who followed Microsoft in the early days of the web, this was kind of a revelation. I didn't realize Ballmer was this weird, corrupt, basically stupid.

Worrisome reporting from Mark Gurman:

Ternus and services chief Eddy Cue want to make even more money from the App Store and figure out ways to raise margins and squeeze additional recurring revenue from the platform. Schiller, on the other hand, seems to believe that such moves will only further irk developers and governments. While there was no internal blowup or anything like that, it’s something he wanted no part of.

John Gruber adds:

I sure hope that’s not true, because that would be awful — making a bad situation worse — and pretty much the exact opposite of what Apple ought to do.

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Thad with a comment about calls for RFK Jr.’s resignation coming entirely from Democrats: And that’s why trying to distill partisan politics down to just “team blue” vs. “team red” is reductive at best and false equivalence at worst. This and many other life-or-death […]

New York Post: “The number of Republican-held Senate seats that are toss-ups or lean Democratic has surged from three in May to six as the post-Labor Day midterm homestretch is about to begin.” “In May, only the GOP-held seats in North Carolina, Maine, and Ohio were considered toss-ups or leaning towards Democrats. Now, Texas, Iowa, […]

“Republicans’ are growing increasingly worried their mid-decade gerrymandering push isn’t going to save their House majority,” Politico reports. “The norm-breaking plan hatched by the White House last summer to draw new maps to protect the party from an unfavorable midterm environment is not on track to bear the fruits they hoped it would. Two months […]

“Democrats want voters to see data centers as giant outposts of megacorporations that enjoy undue tax breaks and ill-begotten monstrosities that suck up precious water and hog electricity,” Politico reports. “After months of probing and message-testing, Democrats are aligning on a few key thematic attack lines as they figure out how to take advantage of […]

My thanks to WorkOS for once again sponsoring Daring Fireball. Give an agent an access token and it spreads: into the context window, into tool call logs, into notes it keeps between steps. Each copy works from anywhere, long after the fact.

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Matt Haughey: One case in point is the Honda Prologue EV. It’s a partnership between Honda and Chevrolet, where the Prologue is basically a Chevy Blazer EV with Honda badges, slight visual differences in the sheetmetal and interior, but all the underpinnings are straight...

Cog editor Kate Neale Cooper suspects the over-the-top dorm rooms all over social media are one way of dealing with over-the-top emotions. "We can’t control our kids, but we can control the color scheme of their room," she writes. "The thickness of their rug pad. The opacity of the blackout shade that covers their window."

The Economist: “Perhaps AI will eventually make many humans unemployable—but there is no sign of it yet. On September 4th the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the American economy added 162,000 jobs in August, far above expectations. The unemployment rate is just 4.1%, lower than in almost 90% of months over the past half-century.” […]

Leaving the Bath, 1885 #degas #edgardegas

D. & R. G. Locomotive, 1925 #edwardhopper #americanart

Every summer morning, we open the back door before the heat of the day settles in. We open it to the sound of the quiet mountain world, when no lawnmowers or weed-whackers whine, when no cars growl to life or rumble across asphalt. The only sounds are birds chirping and maybe a gentle rustle of […]

“In 2023, a young speechwriter for the presidential campaign of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida suffered a seemingly devastating career setback,” the New York Times reports. “Within days of Nate Hochman’s promotion of a pro-DeSantis video that flashed an image embraced by white supremacists, public outcry grew, and he was among a group of staff […]

“Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Germany of moving toward a direct confrontation with Russia as he criticized Berlin’s decision to close some diplomatic offices after a drone incident at Leipzig airport,” Bloomberg reports. Said Lavrov: “In general, this is, broadly speaking, kind of the beginning of a real war. I remember that before the […]