Hi geeks, and music with GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES! (thanks OJ!), BADBADNOTGOOD, and Dario Indjic playing Sanṭūr.

Around the interwebs,

• Donaldese:
  • Zeynep Tufekci: America’s next authoritarian will be much more competent and twitter thread. Via kottke.
  • Kottke: Lessons from the Roman republic about the political collapse and recovery of self-governing communities.
• Tech:
  • Jeffrey Paul: Your (mac / windows) computer isn't yours (r/prog, HN), further clarified by Jacopo Jannone: Does Apple really log every app you run? A technical look (HN1, HN2). This marks the day I stop praising Apple for their laudable stance on privacy (compared to other bigtech). This feature is privacy garbage and, to add insult to injury, a disaster of a technical implementation. Fuck Apple. Passersbys using a Mac and considering migrating to Linux/BSD, here are a few Linux tips.