Daring Fireball Articles

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Daring Fireball Aug 30, 6:35 PM

Finalist 4

My thanks to Finalist for sponsoring last week at Daring Fireball. Finalist is a remarkable, ambitious, and novel app for iPhone, iPad, and the Mac from indi...

Daring Fireball Aug 29, 5:53 PM

★ Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s First Immersive MLB Broadcast, a Yankees 1-0 Win Over the Red Sox

It felt like something new and different. Something at least as different from watching on TV as watching on TV is different from merely listening on radio. ...

Daring Fireball Aug 28, 9:35 PM

‘I’m the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them Into Our Company’s Insatiable AI Platform’

Jack Loftus, writing at McSweeney’s: People assume scanning is the exciting part. And, sure, it is impressive. They shear off the spine, separate the pages, ...

Daring Fireball Aug 28, 9:27 PM

‘How Americans See E.U. Tech’

I think at least half a dozen people have sent me a link to this video and now that I’ve watched it, I understand why. Perfect.  ★ 

Daring Fireball Aug 28, 7:42 PM

We Certainly Have Made a Hames Out of This

I mentioned earlier that for anyone going along with the ruse that Lake Ontario is now named Lake America, the HOMES mnemonic no longer holds, the only two v...

Daring Fireball Aug 28, 4:25 PM

‘Not Sure How You Own Canada by Deleting Your Own History’

Matt Walsh, described by Wikipedia as “an American far-right political commentator and podcast host” (a description that sounds harsh, but I’d say is describ...

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Daring Fireball Aug 28, 3:00 PM

From the DF Archive: ‘Golfo Del Gringo Loco’

Yours truly back in February 2025: The motivation behind the name change is simple as well. Trump didn’t change the US’s officially recognized name of, say, ...

Daring Fireball Aug 28, 2:02 PM

Trump Declares That Lake Ontario Is Now ‘Lake America’

Jackie Llanos and Jenna Monnin, reporting for NOTUS: President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order meant to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America,...

Daring Fireball Aug 28, 2:59 AM

U.S. Judge Blocks Trump Defense Department’s Anthropic Blacklisting

Jack Queen, Reuters: A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic, ​the latest turn in the Claude maker’s high-stakes fight with...

Daring Fireball Aug 27, 9:49 PM

Afterglow — Classic After Dark Screen Savers on Today’s MacOS

Jeff Halter has done it again: after bringing back the single greatest After Dark module (Ben Haller’s Lunatic Fringe game, via a modern runtime named Lunacy...

Daring Fireball Aug 27, 9:09 PM

The Load-Bearing Vocabulary of Claude

Fun (but depressing?) data analysis project from Louis Abraham, showing how repetitive Claude is in the words it chooses when submitting GitHub pull requests...

Daring Fireball Aug 27, 8:46 PM

Elizabeth Warren’s Incoherent Outrage Regarding Apple’s Tariff Refund

Speaking of tariff refunds, here’s an official statement from Senator Elizabeth Warren from a few weeks ago: U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote to...