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Trump Admin Warns States They’ll Lose Billions In Broadband Grants If They Try To Make Broadband Affordable The Trump administration is once again warning states that they risk losing billions of dollars in historic infrastructure bill grants — if they attempt to make the taxpayer-subsidized broadb…

Trump Admin Warns States They’ll Lose Billions In Broadband Grants If They Try To Make Broadband Affordable.

Feels important to mark today’s gift from Apple to Trump. Tim Cook continues to hurt his legacy, in almost an Elon Musk-like way, between the direction of the App Store and dealing with Trump. Just sad. He was the right ... www.manton.org

RFK Jr. Ends Federal Contracts To Develop mRNA Vaccines One of the more frustrating parts of the RFK Jr. experience is nailing down his views. Part of that is because he tends to keep quite vague about those views, especially when it comes to vaccines, …

RFK Jr. Ends Federal Contracts To Develop mRNA Vaccines.

Good post from A New Social about the difference between bridging and cross-posting. The illustrations really help too. www.manton.org

No, The UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online Young people should be able to access information, speak to each other and to the world, play games, and express themselves online without the government making decisions about what speech is permi…

No, The UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online.

Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube Last fall, heavily influenced by Jonathan Haidt’s extremely problematic book, Australia announced that it was banning social media for everyone under the age of 16. This was already a horrifically …

Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube.

Jules, our asynchronous coding agent, is now available for everyone. simonwillison.net

Daily Deal: The Adobe Lightroom Creative Cloud Training Bundle The Adobe Lightroom Creative Cloud Training Bundle has 6 courses to help you learn how to manipulate photos like a pro. This bundle is packed with secrets, tips, and techniques for organizing and e…

Daily Deal: The Adobe Lightroom Creative Cloud Training Bundle.

Area Bigots Annoyed ICE Is Offering $50,000 Signing Bonuses To Area Bigots The recently passed budget bill throws nearly $200 billion at something that doesn’t actually seem to be that much of a problem: undocumented migrants. Law-abiding, hardworking taxpayers are …

Area Bigots Annoyed ICE Is Offering $50,000 Signing Bonuses To Area Bigots.

Speaking of age-gating, I filled out Apple’s new age questionnaire for apps last week. Micro.blog’s apps are 16+. I think by design our platform is better protected than many in exposing harmful content, but to be safe for ... www.manton.org

UK's Online Safety Act. www.manton.org

Tom MacWright: Observable Notebooks 2.0. simonwillison.net

Elon Says Teslas Drive Themselves. The Crash Data Tesla Tried To Hide From A Court Says Otherwise Just days after a jury found Tesla partially liable in a fatal Autopilot crash and ordered the company to pay over $200 million, Elon Musk took to Twitter with a bold proclamation: “Teslas ca…

Elon Says Teslas Drive Themselves. The Crash Data Tesla Tried To Hide From A Court Says Otherwise.

Comparing Ghost and Micro.blog. www.manton.org

Pluralistic: Which jobs can be replaced with AI? (06 Aug 2025). pluralistic.net

Quoting Artificial Analysis. simonwillison.net

Trump Cuts Kill The Corporation For Public Broadcasting, Harming All Of Us The U.S. right wing has won a generational war against education and informed consensus with the closure of the Corporation For Public Broadcasting (CPB), which states it will being shuttering its …

Trump Cuts Kill The Corporation For Public Broadcasting, Harming All Of Us.

Nick Heer blogging about the Ghost 6.0 release:

If Ghost added MarsEdit support, I would be awful tempted to switch from WordPress.

Probably not going to happen. People have asked for it. Ghost has oddly never cared about ... www.manton.org

Mastercard Claims NSFW Game Bans Aren’t From Them, Valve Explains How Mastercard Launders Its Control This whole attempted censorship of adult games on gaming platforms is becoming a thing. Collective Shout—a group out of Australia that wraps itself in a feminist flag while behaving like the religi…

Mastercard Claims NSFW Game Bans Aren’t From Them, Valve Explains How Mastercard Launders Its Control.

No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive. simonwillison.net

This is a helpful table from Molly White, breaking down the costs for hosting a newsletter with Ghost, Substack, and other popular platforms. I had missed in the initial Ghost 6.0 announcement that in addition to the price ... www.manton.org

The Trade Deal Coup As the Jeffrey Epstein scandal continues apace, and MAGA grapples with the gaslit reality they live in, the Trump Administration continues to negotiate so-called trade deals, which are negotiated a…

The Trade Deal Coup.

OpenAI’s new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good The long promised OpenAI open weight models are here, and they are very impressive. They’re available under proper open source licenses—Apache 2.0—and come in two sizes, 120B and 20B. OpenAI’s …

OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good.

Another Horror Story Leaks Out From Trump’s Favorite Deportation Hellhole Anyone with the tiniest bit of humanity would have found a better way to mass deportations, if they even felt compelled to do it all. Under Trump, the extra layers of cruelty are an essential part …

Another Horror Story Leaks Out From Trump’s Favorite Deportation Hellhole.

OpenAI releases new open models. www.manton.org

Take Back Our Digital Infrastructure To Save Democracy Watch the tech oligarchs who lined up behind Donald Trump at his inauguration, and you’ll see the most important story of our time: the fascists are winning because they’ve built a dire…

Take Back Our Digital Infrastructure To Save Democracy.

Claude Opus 4.1 Surprise new model from Anthropic today - Claude Opus 4.1, which they describe as "a drop-in replacement for Opus 4". My favorite thing about this model is the version number …

Claude Opus 4.1.

The “Warrior Ethos” According To Trump: A Field Guide To Being Scared Of Everything The Trump administration wants you to know they’re very, very tough. So tough, in fact, that they’re launching a comprehensive purge of the Naval Academy to eliminate “corrosive D…

The “Warrior Ethos” According To Trump: A Field Guide To Being Scared Of Everything.

Shipped a couple new things this morning: Micro.blog for iOS bug fixes, and a slight redesign to how the automatic accessibility description works when adding a photo on the web. Much smoother workflow. www.manton.org

Learned on Hard Fork’s interview with Matthew Prince that Cloudflare may take a 20-30% cut when creating their marketplace between websites and AI crawlers. This supports the concerns I raised in a blog post last month. www.manton.org