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Cope in the comments about Safari getting trounced *in Apple's own benchmarks* by an early iOS/Blink bring-up is reaching heretofore unseen levels. Incredible scenes.

🤔 What if browsers on iOS could use their own web rendering engines? What would, e.g., Blink look like on iOS? Spoiler: it would be awesome 😎 Check out @kylealden.bsky.social's fun perf and feature comparison between Safari and our prototype Blink-based browser: www.linkedin.com/pulse/test-d...

Trump is attempting to undo the republic to retain personal power. No one in DOJ or FBI should be assisting him in this essentially criminal and anti-American undertaking. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Elon Musk's incitement of pogroms in Belfast reveals he'll use his immense wealth and influence to foment untold fascist violence in the future. Only a global movement can break his power. New piece from @polphilpod.bsky.social and me. Threading highlights below. 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2119...

/2 Seriously, though, it’s VERY hard to make the showing to win fees on a Hyde Amendment motion, it’s very winnable for the government even when there’s bad misconduct, and it suggests that there is even WORSE stuff that hasn’t come out that they are willing to do ANYTHING to keep quiet.

Holy shit. The government is conceding it willl pay some amount of fees to the Broadview Six. They are DESPERATE to stop further inquiry into the case. Never heard of such a thing.

This is bombshell stuff.

Allow me to offer a simpler explanation: the deal is very, very, very bad. A total unconditional surrender to Iran and the biggest boon to that country's geopolitical position in modern history. Because of a war that Trump started for no reason at all

Temu Mussolini strikes again: beige.party/@Lana/116760...

People laughed when Trump said the war would only end with unconditional surrender but he's a man of his word and he has now surrendered unconditionally

Billionaire donor with highly polluting business gets special favors from Trump admin. This basic story is repeating itself hundreds of times over, in every corner of policy. It will be all but impossible to undo or reverse them all -- it's difficult to even *track* them.

Here's something fun: I think my iPhone may have the world record Speedometer score for any iOS device? www.linkedin.com/pulse/test-d...

Professor Wurman complained that my paper did not devote attention to his historical fiction. Well, he got his wish in a new paper by Keener and Whittington, who thoroughly demolish the hackery: reason.com/volokh/2026/...

These chuds think they can yell say "national security!" every time they get caught (tariffs, ICE, etc.), and while that used to work for admins that didn't view judges as marks, losing the presumption of regularity will bite harder and harder if we keep a quasi-independent judiciary.

OMG, it's real, and I don't know what's funnier: that it's just sitting there in the JS, or that they were done in by React and shitty web design:

"Under no circumstances may we touch the endowment. We would sooner take Henry Kissinger’s name off our Center for the Study of Human Rights than take another penny out of the endowment."

Trump's dipshit war on wind power is over, for now at least.

Bank robbery adds a dash of volatility to savings accounts.

I've seen the following cycle play out a million times: 1. Progressives implement some well-meaning but flawed attempt to address a problem. 2. "Centrists" attack the flaws, with the intention of replacing it with something better. 3. RW media amplifies the attacks, creating a media din. ...

There's a far better case for banning social media for people 65+ than for people 16-18

The slides from my talk "Fun with CSS Grid Lanes", at #CSSDay, are available at patrickbrosset.com/talks/

Terms of Iran deal remain secret to hide fact that Trump is a loser www.editorialboard.com/terms-of-ira...

He withdrew from the JCPOA. He has flagrantly violated the North Atlantic Treaty & literally every single one of our trade agreements, including the WTO treaty & the USCMA that <he signed>. The basis for reporting on this as a normal "deal" is nonexistent. There is less than zero credibility.

The other aspect of this that I don't get is why media outlets are covering this as if Trump hasn't ignored, violated or withdrawn from ~every international treaty the US has signed & ratified since WWII. All the data indicates that a "deal" isn't a "deal" he'll abide by anyway. <That's the story>.

Musk is worth more than South Africa’s GDP. Bernie Sanders and I proposed a 5% tax on people like him. In one year, it could fund: - free public college & trade school -$10/day childcare - Special-needs education nationwide Wealth inequality is the moral failure of our time.

When @chriscoyier.net asks you to write an article, you say yes! 🙌 master.dev/blog/demysti...

My Modest Proposal re: social media remains unchanged: if you're going to lop off access for an arbitrary amount of the bottom of the actuarial scale, do the same at the top. No under 16s in the UK? Great!, so long as no over-65's either (80.9 year avg lifespan, minus 16).

I don't know what everyone's up in arms about; Trump's fixes to the reflecting pool are having the intended effect. I am reflecting very deeply on how fucking stupid this moment in history is.

Just thinking about how Iran keeps slow walking these near deals and how that saves them from being attacked while our stockpiles dwindle and the economic consequences mount and continued intelligence that they know full and well they can keep this stalemate going for months and America is screwed

We’ve got the Onion Newsvan circling the cursed UFC fight outside the White House.

En route to SFO from AMS and grateful for all the lovely people who invited me to events and said hello. Particularly chuffed I got to stop in on the Web We Want event and the CSS Café; amazing talks that gave me hope.

Welp, I think WPT is totally cooked. 6+ months ago I walked a Catchpoint employee through how the new version fails to meet basic needs and how unbelievably slow it is. Did I mention unusable on mobile? Traced the WPT UI again using WPT. "Enjoy": portal.catchpoint.com/UI/Entry/WPTITP/…

The world's first trillionaire did this

So we gave Iran more money, additional control of the strait and got…. like a fraction of the nuclear oversight we got from the JPCOA while killing a bunch of civilians???

My position on new HTML elements is the same as my view of new underground Muni & BART lines: we should be adding a new one every year, based on good data about needs, until life feels meaningfully better for the average user. Then we should keep at it for another decade to make up for lost time.

This is the correct framing. It sounds hyperbolic at first, but when we break the spell, it will seem like the most obvious point you could make.

It continues to be perverse that those with the least power to murder millions are at most risk of the barbarism of the death penalty, while those with power to murder millions are entirely immune not only from that penalty, but even any discontinuance of reward. www.the-reframe.com/the-cost-of-...

You can help to keep Ukrainians safe. By contributing, you are allowing people to survive and helping people to persevere. You are also letting them know that they are not alone, and that you can see a better future, and want to part of it. Please help if you can. snyder.substack.com/p/sky-defens...

Looks a lot like a centrally planned economy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Brexit disaster in charts. National Bureau of Economic Research paper shows UK GDP per capita is today 6% to 8% lower than it would have been if Britain had remained in the EU. @rjpartington.bsky.social

When Big Tech tech talks about privacy, the way judge if it's to sell you a placebo vs. a serious commitment is the ratio between their marketing budget and the dollars spent to lobby for abolishing data brokers and making data about you *your* property: nooneshappy.com/article/data...

What the absolute unholy fuck

This is accurate & not hyperbole from @jfallows.bsky.social With support from USAID, the DRC had built an outbreak preparedness & response system “ready to go,” e.g., surveillance, labs, health workers, & stockpiles of personal protective equipment When Musk killed USAID, that system collapsed 😢

To my friends in tech: if you're not happy with how your bosses are behaving, this is an effective thing you can do about it.

When I bang on (and on) about the unbridled cynicism of Big Tech regarding privacy -- *particularly* Apple -- this is my comparison point. You can't win this game by buying a new phone, only through demanding giants lobby for change, or at least stop opposing it: nooneshappy.com/article/data-bro…

Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...

Triggered by @patrickbrosset.com's talk at #CSSDay: Progressively enhanced data-dense layout with grid-lanes www.projectwallace.com/blog/using-g... Or, less keyword-heavy: how grid-lanes can be used for data-dense layouts and not just for fun/newspaper-like stuff for browsers that support it.

Trump's NTIA literally just gave him $700+ million in taxpayer infrastructure bill money (with much more on the way) for doing absolutely nothing differently with Starlink "we" endlessly shower him with money for no reason (got a Verge story about this in the pipeline)

This has been a common theme today at #cssday and it’s true: complaining about broken stuff in browsers is a great way to get them fixed! Don’t silent. Let us know. Have a new idea: write a blog post!