US ranks first in swearing (popsci.com)

the research found the United States and Great Britain ranked ahead of Australia in terms of using vulgar language online

Fucking-A right. USA!

This research was limited to written communications. I’d love to see an analysis of “everyday speech.” It feels like swearing in conversation has become more accepted over recent years, or at least like it carries less shock value. I still won’t swear when talking to my mother, or mother-in-law, but I’m mostly unfiltered otherwise.

Interestingly enough, I’m very guarded online, to the point that I have a high degree of confidence that the f-bomb above marks the first in my decades-long online presence.

Trump administration ban on Harvard international student enrollment halted by judge (cnbc.com)

The order came a day after the Department of Homeland Security revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign students under the F-1 visa program at the behest of Secretary Kristi Noem, saying the private school tolerated “anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators” on campus.

For the record, Harvard’s lawyers had a TRO in place before lunch on the day after Trump announced his ban.

Kuo: Apple Better Off Taking 25% Tariff Hit Than Move iPhone Production to US (macrumors.com)

…even a 25% tariff would represent a smaller financial burden than the capital expenditures and operational challenges required to replicate its Asian supply chain in America.

Yet another “tariffs don’t work the way you think they do” lesson.

‘A new form of mass murder’: the terrifying, twisty unsolved mystery of the Tylenol killer (theguardian.com)

Despite extensive efforts, including a nationwide search and the involvement of the FBI, the perpetrator of the poisonings has never been identified or apprehended.

I was pretty young at the time (12-13), but I remember the Tylenol scare vividly. I had no idea it remains unsolved.

Mozilla is shutting down Pocket (theverge.com)

Mozilla says it’s shuttering Pocket because “the way people save and consume content on the web has evolved.” Pocket’s email newsletter, called Pocket Hits, will continue under a new name, “Ten Tabs,” but it will no longer have a weekend edition.

This is true. I remember—and still miss—the original del.icio.us site and service. That was the way I saved web content back in the day. Then Yahoo! (I think) bought it, and the decline began. The “read later” era came after, with Pocket and Instapaper emerging as the standouts. I’ve used both, but I always leaned toward Instapaper. Now I’m wondering if it’s the last living leaf on a dying tree. The Instapaper Blog hasn’t mentioned the Pocket news yet, but this Twitter post shows they’re working to handle a surge of Pocket imports. Maybe the tree’s not dead after all.

Links on Daystream (like this one) are an outgrowth of my old del.icio.us habits. I use them to save and reflect on articles that catch my attention. Just my way of creating a personal, annotated archive of web content I want to remember.

Also—del.icio.us is probably where I first encountered domain hacks, which now feel like a nostalgic relic of the early web. Matt Mullenweg’s site is still my favorite example. Wish I’d thought of something like that.

Speaking of nostalgia, I’m hoping Marco Arment has thoughts on all this in the next—i.e., first post-Pocket-announcement—episode of ATP.