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Blaugust

August 2026
In a Game of Marketing One-Upmanship, Anthropic’s Claude Hacks Three Sites
August 2026
The ‘Gen Alpha Melody’
August 2025
‘Photography as a Tool of Power and Subjugation’
August 2025
L’appel du Vide/Call of the Void
August 2025
‘I Am An AI Hater’
August 2025
RFK Jr.’s FDA Issues New Limitations on COVID Vaccine Eligibility
August 2025
Ken White on the Flag Burning Executive Order
August 2025
Cracker Barrel Un-Rebrands
August 2025
Apple ‘Awe Dropping’ Event Scheduled for September 9
August 2025
Penn & Teller on the First Amendment Rights of Flag Burning
August 2025
Trump Signs Blatantly Unconstitutional Executive Order on Flag Burning
August 2025
Strong Songs: The Music of the Muppets
August 2025
Inaugural Martini Expo Coming to New York City September 12–13
August 2025
‘No Frame Missed’
August 2025
Strong Songs: ‘Lean on Me’ by Bill Withers
August 2025
Nine Employees Accuse Jay Blahnik, Apple’s Head of Fitness, of Harassment
August 2025
Xcode Install Size
August 2025
Site Update: Search, Fonts, Tipping
August 2025
Mike Brock on the Lie That Is ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’
August 2025
50 Years of My Favorite Obsession
August 2025
A Correction to Andrew Cunningham’s Claim in Ars Technica on Cyberpunk 2077’s Mac Install Size
August 2025
Apple’s SillyBalls
August 2025
George Carlin on Muhammad Ali and the Vietnam War
August 2025
Naming My Devices
August 2025
‘A Family Unification Preference Would Preserve America’s European Character’
August 2025
Wikipedia Has a ‘List of Unarmed African Americans Killed by Law Enforcement Officers in the United States’ and It’s Exactly as Disturbing as You’d Expect
August 2025
‘The Last SS Guard’
August 2025
Jen Pawol Becomes First Woman to Umpire Regular Season MLB Game
August 2025
On Apple’s $100 Billion Investment and the Tim Cook Appeasement Trophy
August 2025
OpenAI Introduces ChatGPT-5
August 2025
Cloudflare and Perplexity Battle Over ‘Stealth Crawling Behavior’
August 2025
Aulia Masna: Apple and Perplexity Are a “Cultural Misalignment”
August 2025
Blaugust
August 2025
Apple: The First 50 Years
August 2025
John Gruber Doesn’t Like Substack
August 2025
Ghost 6 Announced, and $8.5M in Annual Revenue, Too
August 2025
The Tick Meat Lovers Fear is Spreading
August 2025
Kamala Harris Interview on ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’
August 2025
Figma Pops 250% in Market Debut—Adobe, Who?

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