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A Few DF Sponsorship Openings
Weekly sponsorships have been the top source of revenue for Daring Fireball ever since I started selling them back in 2007. Theyâve succeeded, I think, because they make everyone happy....
Federal Appeals Court Says Trump DOJ âWould Reduce the Rule of Law to Lawlessnessâ
CNN: A federal appeals court rejected the Trump administrationâs request that it halt the next steps Judge Paula Xinis is seeking to take in the case concerning a migrant who...
E.U. Delayed Fines for Apple and Meta Just Before Trade Talks With U.S. Started
Kim Mackrael and Sam Schechner, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (News+ link): The European Commission, the EUâs executive body, had initially planned to announce cease-and-desist orders targeting the tech...
Spending More to Get Less Is Good?
Brian X. Chen, in a column at The New York Times headlined âWhy a Tariff-Inflated $2,000 iPhone Is Nothing to Fearâ: Donât panic. Even if tariffs did cause the iPhoneâs...
Glenn Fleishmanâs Kickstarter for âSix Centuries of Type & Printingâ
Glenn Fleishman: The book Six Centuries of Type & Printing briskly tells the story of the evolution of type and printing, starting with early documented efforts and surviving artifacts from...
Man of the Hour: Judge James Boasberg
Josh Kovensky, reporting for TPM: In a withering 46-page opinion on Wednesday, D.C. Chief Judge James Boasberg laid out how he came to believe that the Trump administration was acting...
Wink Martindale Dies at 91
Dennis McLellan, writing for the Los Angeles Times (News+ link): Over the decades, according to his website, Martindale either hosted or produced 21 game shows, including âWords and Music,â âTrivial...
Meta Botches Redaction of Slides in Antitrust Trial, Angering Google, Apple, and Snap
Wes Davis, The Verge: During Metaâs antitrust trial today, lawyers representing Apple, Google, and Snap each expressed irritation with Meta over the slides it presented on Monday that The Verge...
The WSJ Reports on How Elon Musk Manages His âLegionâ of Children and Harem of Mothers
Dana Mattioli, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (main link is a gift link; also, hereâs a News+ link): Musk has had at least 14 children with four women, including...
DOGE Dingalings Cut Off Funding for CVE Program
Jessica Lyons, reporting for The Register: US government funding for the worldâs CVE programâââthe centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flawsâââends Wednesday. The...
Figma Files for IPO
You will recall that in September 2022, Figma entered into an agreement for a $20 billion acquisition by Adobe, but abandoned the deal 15 months later. Â â Â
ChatGPT Can Now Remember and Reference All Your Previous Chats
Samuel Axon, writing for Ars Technica: Some time ago, OpenAI added a feature called âMemoryâ that allowed a limited number of pieces of information to be retained and used for...
[Sponsor] DekĂĄf Coffee Roasters
Coffee has always been about bringing people together. For us, it started with a simple question over a late-night cup of decaf: why do coffee lovers who skip the caffeine...
Seth Godin on How to Win an Argument With a Toddler
Seth Godin: You canât. Thatâs because toddlers donât understand what an argument is and arenât interesting in having one. Toddlers (which includes defensive bureaucrats, bullies, flat earthers, folks committed to...
Bill Maher on His Dinner at the White House With Donald Trump
Bill Maher personifies the difference between a liberal (which he is) and a leftist (which he isnât). But heâs been a stridently vocal critic of Trump since long before Trump...
âWhat It Feels Like, Right Nowâ
Crackerjack essay by Chuck Wendig: Maybe itâs like turbulence on an airplane, you think. Just a bumpy unpleasant awful experience you gotta get through. But when turbulence hits itâs not...
Chris Whipple on the End of the Biden Administration
Vanity Fair published an excerpt from Chris Whippleâs new book on the final years of Joe Bidenâs presidency, under the headline âDid Aides Cover Up His Mental Stateâââor...
Jamelle Bouie on Trumpâs Tariff Obsession
Jamelle Bouie, writing at The New York Times (gift link): There is a hypothetical president with a hypothetically similar agenda who could answer these questions. This actual president cannot. He...
Warren Buffettâs 2024 Report to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders
Warren Buffettâs annual shareholders letters are always a must-read. The honesty, clarity, and striking humility of his prose stands out in a world where corporate communicationsâââfrom companies of...
Smartphones and Computers Are Now Exempt From Trumpâs Latest Tariffs
Auzinea Bacon, CNN: Electronics imported to the United States will be exempt from President Donald Trumpâs reciprocal tariffs, according to a US Customs and Border Protection notice posted late Friday....