Here’s a bunch of links that I’ve been enjoying lately but don’t really warrant much commentary from yours truly. These automatically get piped in from Instapaper, with the 50 most recent showing up in this list. Enjoy!

• Review: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro, two gems, one jewel – TechCrunch

• iPhone 12 and 12 Pro review: Virtually flawless

• Last Exit From Autocracy

• What a Second Trump Term Would Mean for the World

• When the Republican Party Was Sane

• The iPad’s Handwriting Recognition Shows How Apple Does Machine Learning

• The Trump Era Sucks and Needs to Be Over

• Google, the Stupidity Amplifier — Greg Egan

• Fast Software, the Best Software

• The Only Music Critic Who Matters (if You’re Under 25)

• The Bullshit Web’s Ubiquity

• A Step Back

• Rethinking the App Store

• Trump Is Running His Campaign Like He Ran His Businesses

• Those who like government least govern worst

• North Star metric: What is it and how to find your company's metric | Mixpanel

• How Capitalism Changed Football for the Worse

• The GoFundMe Economy Was Never Going to Work

• My Apple Watch is my secret weapon to surviving the pandemic

• Apple and Privacy in 2020: Wide-Reaching Updates with Minimal User Intrusion

• Apple, Epic, and the App Store

• The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back

• On Monopolies, Apple, and Epic – iA

• Apple stumbled into a war with the gaming industry, and the future of iOS is at stake

• Apple is WRONG About Xbox Game Streaming

• Your Mid-Year Leadership Check-in

• Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: The Complete Listing (So Far): Atrocities 1-842

• First Look: macOS Big Sur Public Beta

• Apple explains how it uses machine learning across iOS—and soon, macOS

• Atlanta United in Disguise

• The Unlikely Resurgence Of Vintage Graphics Standards Manuals

• China Is What Orwell Feared

• On Two Seasons as England’s Dominant Team and Liverpool’s Inevitable Let-Off

• The Political Education of Killer Mike

• Atlanta United’s Failures Aren’t Solely on Frank de Boer

• America, Land of the Pathetic

• Above Avalon: The Secret to Apple's Ecosystem

• Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel

• WFH

• Two Weeks with iPadOS 14: Redefining the Modern iPad Experience

• A fresh look at Overcast's Now Playing Screen — Paul Sahner

• Above Avalon: Apple Is Pulling Away From the Competition

• The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design

• HEY Email: How It Has Disrupted My Email Workflow – The Sweet Setup

• Google Is Not God of The Web

• How Do We Change America?

• You're tired because your lizard brain knows that Zoom meetings aren't natural - Scott Hanselman

• Newsonomics: The New York Times is opting out of Apple News

• Jurgen Klopp - the fist-pumping genius who turned dreams...

• After iOS 14, there's almost no reason to buy an Android phone anymore