Linked List: September 30, 2020

Wednesday, 30 September 2020

The Talk Show: ‘Subscribed to a Hamburger’ 

Special guest “Underscore” David Smith joins the show to talk about iOS 14 widgets, WatchOS complications, sleep tracking, and his App Store chart-topping hit Widgetsmith.

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Relay FM for St. Jude 

Today is the last day of September, and thus the last day of Relay FM’s annual fundraising drive for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. St. Jude is simply an amazing institution: they both provide world-class treatment for kids with cancer free of charge and perform research to make those treatments better and more effective. They’ve blown past their campaign goal for 2020, but every dollar donated to St. Jude is a dollar donated to a truly great cause. Let’s give them the old DF boost and push their campaign way over the top.

Today 

We’ve only gotten to mid-afternoon and here are today’s stories:

  • “It’s the kind of language you might expect from a dictator”: Trump’s remarks on election integrity and poll-watching alarm experts.

  • The Commission on Presidential Debates said on Wednesday that it would make changes to the format of this year’s remaining match-ups in the wake of Tuesday night’s melee in Cleveland, where frequent interruptions from President Trump led to a chaotic and often incoherent event, though it did not elaborate on what those changes would entail.

  • Trump wouldn’t categorically denounce white supremacists. Members of the far-right Proud Boys are celebrating.

  • The debate suggests the most direct threat to the electoral process now comes from the president of the United States himself.

That’s just today, mid-afternoon. If you don’t see this man as the threat to U.S. democracy itself that he obviously and proudly proclaims himself to be, you’re an idiot. If you see it and don’t care, you’re garbage.

Everyone else: don’t despair. Organize, donate, spread the word, and vote.