Daring Fireball

Mike Monteiro returns to the show to talk about the Capitol insurrection and riot, Twitter and Facebook permanently banning Donald Trump, the shutdown of Parler, the fate of liberal democracy, and Mike’s new book, The Collected Angers.…

Peter Jamison, Carol D. Leonnig, and Paul Schwartzman, reporting for The Washington Post on how Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s refusal to allow their Secret Service detail to use any of the bathrooms in their home forced the agents to look elsewhere in the…

George Orwell, writing in 1946:…

Pew Research:…

Calum Marsh, writing for The New York Times:…

Representative Cedric Richmond, on the House floor:…

Siri: “Chess was invented in 1959 by Mr Chess.”  ★ 

Nathaniel Popper, reporting for The New York Times:…

Twitter Safety:…

Two links from The Times this afternoon illustrate how quickly Trump is falling into political ignominy and shame. First, Republicans in the House began inching away:…

Staggering essay by historian Timothy Snyder, published last weekend in The New York Times, accompanied by startling photographs of the Capitol insurrection by Ashley Gilbertson.…

Turn frontend deployment previews into your hub for continuous product review.…

This, without question, is the funniest thing I’ve seen all week. My friend Louie Mantia tweeted a parody statement from Olive Garden, and it was so convincing to humorless wingnuts that Sean Hannity made it a segment on his show.  ★ 

New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, formerly “great friends”, in a statement:…

The New York State Bar Association:…

Russ Choma, reporting for Mother Jones:…

Good thread on Twitter by Dave Troy, on the troubles facing Parler if they try to rebound after being cut off by AWS. Technical hurdles, for sure — AWS is hard to replace, and most of the top alternatives, the ones that are closest to drop-in…

My thanks to Motion for sponsoring last week at DF. Motion is a Chrome extension that reduces sources of friction people experience using their browser to do work. Think of it sort of as a productivity tool for Chrome power users. It’s not some sort of tool…

Wonderful thread on Twitter by Lili Saintcrow, on her dealings with an old racist neighbor:…

The Wall Street Journal:…

Parler CEO John Matze, late last night in a post on Parler whose URL will likely soon stop resolving:…

Powerful and deeply personal message, directly equating the Proud Boys and the storming of the U.S. Capitol to the Nazis’ Kristallnacht of 1938.  ★ 

John Paczkowski, reporting for BuzzFeed News:…

Apple, in a statement to MacRumors:…

Kieran Healy:…

Not a good day for Nazis, fascists, or kooks. Pretty good day for the rest of us.  ★ 

Caroline Haskins, reporting for BuzzFeed News:…

From Apple’s letter to Parler, as published by BuzzFeed News:…

Twitter:…

Thumbs down. Lowercasing the letters looks unserious, a bit childish, and the letter combination makes it look a bit like the icon for a chat app. Scott Simpson: GM’s new logo looks like an app that came free with CorelDraw in 2014.  ★