Trump “America First” Eagle design looks like the Nazi parteiadler emblem / Boing Boing
July 2, 2020
America First was a protectionist movement in the early 20th century whose name ultimately became the slogan of those opposed to fighting the Nazis. Revived by the Trump campaign in 2016, its antisemitic associations galvanized supporters while alarming wavering Republicans; his use of the phrase was a key moment in the forming of the “Never…
— Read on boingboing.net/2020/07/02/trump-america-first-eagle.html
Daring Fireball: Donald Trump’s Praise for the Tiananmen Square Massacre: ‘When the Students Poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese Government Almost Blew It’
— Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/06/04/trump-tiananmen-square
Daring Fireball: Zuckerberg Sticks With Trump
May 30, 2020
Even if you think Zuckerberg’s doing the right thing by not touching Trump’s posts — which I see the argument for — you’re admitting that he lied while answering Ocasio-Cortez’s question.
— Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/05/29/zuckerberg-trump
Physical distancing and obsessive sanitation at schools is impossible. Now is the time for schools to prepare robust distance learning, close the technology gap, and meet our families’ basic needs…
— Read on medium.com/@harley.litzelman/we-cannot-return-to-campus-this-fall-1ad91b8a65e0
I suspect what Apple has done with the mouse pointer on iPadOS is going to get ripped off far and wide. It’s too natural, too obviously correct.
— Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/05/06/panzarino-ipad-trackpad
Copied badly I suspect… No other system has the fluid UI work put into making this kind of thing possible.
Daring Fireball: ‘The Plan Is to Have No Plan’
May 5, 2020
How could anyone expect or hope that thousands of deaths a day, every day, could ever become normal? you might ask, because you are a caring person with a capacity for empathy.
— Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/05/05/the-plan-is-to-have-no-plan
Wake me up when Word starts flagging the use of Arial with “Did you mean to use Helvetica?” if you want to give Microsoft any credit at all for doing right by good typography.
— Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/25/word-two-spaces
Daring Fireball: ‘Capitalists or Cronyists?’
April 18, 2020
The thing to remember is that if allowed to fail, the cruise ships won’t sink to the bottom of the ocean. The jobs won’t disappear. The companies will go into bankruptcy, existing shareholder equity will get wiped out, and new ownership will take over. A bailout won’t rescue the industry or the jobs — it will rescue the shareholders.
— Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/18/capitalists-or-cronyists
Daring Fireball: Right-Wing Nuts Turn Against Bill Gates and Anti-Vaxxers Dig In
— Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/17/anti-gates-nuts
Brutal, but we need to look this square in the eye. A lot of this just seems politically unviable in the U.S. Especially so with a president who — despite spending over an hour on TV every single evening — has not spoken in even vague terms about any actionable plan whatsoever.
— Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/10/klein-normalcy-plans
