My notes on today’s Daring Fireball posts
Man, John Gruber has been on a roll these days. Today’s posts were bangers.
As the adage goes, if the facts are on your side, pound the facts. If the law’s on your side, pound the law. If neither are on your side, pound the table.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/05/16/santa-clara-county-sues-meta-over-alleged-scam-ads
Love it. Never heard that adage, but I’ve certainly been on the receiving end of the latter part!
Basically our entire basis for modern authority is currently founded on this decision tree, some days. This is not a good thing.
But yes, in reference to the article this latest episode of enabling fraud is nothing new with regard to the way the facial book does business.
Reddit simply would not let me visit the site on my mobile phone. Instead, a new overlay popped up, saying, “Get the app to keep using Reddit.”
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/05/16/reddit-mobile-web Quoting Nate Anderson, writing at Ars Technica
As an almost-without-exception VPN user, being blocked by Reddit is nothing new to me. Usenet ain’t what it used to be.
I see no cognitive dissonance in being pro-AI, in general, but vehemently anti-slop.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/05/16/arxiv-anti-slop-rule
Hear hear. Given that one of the primary use cases of AI has been to offload responsibility for organizational actions, putting the onus of checking the accuracy of LLM output onto the user seems fair as a general rulemaking strategy. Though even in that case, one is still allowed to be vehemently anti-AI.