Donald Trump warns that “it would be very dangerous” for Jack Smith to jail him. boingboing.net/2023/07/2…

Mighty nice country you got here. Wouldn’t want nothing to happen to it.

I bet a lot of people are found dead in the act of Googling whatever killed them. “Is this spider poisonous?”

Today’s ephemera: moonshine, guns and a Chevrolet coupe

H.S. “Dick” Hickman, Chief of Police in Colorado City, Texas, poses at City Hall with moonshine, guns, and a Chevrolet coupe after an arrest around 1937, as Mitchell County remained dry even after prohibition. Via www.reddit.com/r/History…

Jason Snell: Why everyone should be running the latest betas on their Apple devices www.macworld.com/article/2…

Jason Snell is being a bad influence. I’ve got the public betas on my Watch and iPhone. I like ’em. I’m holding off on the Mac because I need it to run the business and holding off on my iPads because, well, I haven’t seen a reason to upgrade those.

Google Tests A.I. Tool That Is Able to Write News Articles www.nytimes.com/2023/07/1…

That moment when you drink thirstily from a big glass of water that had been sitting on the counter overnight, and notice two dead fruit flies floating on the surface of the water.

And then you convince yourself there were not three dead fruit flies.

Cosmic Crisp apples are 50% less expensive than Honeycrisp apples, and Cosmic Crisps are better. I will die on this hill.

I made several comments to Julie as I was making coffee. The last one seemed to require a response, and when none was forthcoming, I turned around to look at her to find she had left the room. Probably I’d been talking to myself the entire 10 minutes.

Comic Sans has been reinvented as a monospace font for programmers, according to this article which frames the news in vile anti-Comic Sans propaganda. I like Comic Sans. boingboing.net/2023/07/1…

Marjorie Taylor Greene is a Biden supporter now? Wait, what? boingboing.net/2023/07/1…