It is, I can attest, a leap forward in cookie technology.

— Julia Moskin

I texted my sisters. I have four sisters and said, “You’re not gonna believe this. The president just called me a bitch,” and they went into one and we just laughed about it. We ended up making a lot of jokes about it, and my one sister said, “Oh gosh, next he’ll be calling you Rocket Mom.” So we were laughing about it, and that’s about all you can do.

– Teresa Kaepernick

Ben Strauss for Politico:

According to Reuters, more than 83 percent of NFL fans are white and they are more than 20 percent more likely to be Republicans than Democrats. All but one owner is white, too. Eighty percent of the players, meanwhile, are black. And if Trump continues to antagonize players, they will respond.

The NFL isn’t running an election campaign. Football is a business. The league and its teams should be focused on the marginal fan who almost certainly isn’t a Republican.

I texted my sisters. I have four sisters and said, “You’re not gonna believe this. The president just called me a bitch,” and they went into one and we just laughed about it. We ended up making a lot of jokes about it, and my one sister said, “Oh gosh, next he’ll be calling you Rocket Mom.” So we were laughing about it, and that’s about all you can do.

– Teresa Kaepernick

[The European Commission] found that companies that did their business online were paying an effective tax rate of 8.5 percent, or less than half that paid by more traditional businesses.

If the ad industry is complaining, you know Apple made the right decisions for us. Thanks, Safari team!

– Marco Arment, on Twitter

Facebook is a morally corrupt company. They’re just bad people.

Gruber, on fire this week.

John Gruber:

I think Jony Ive either lost a bet or lost his mind. It looks silly, and to pretend otherwise is nonsense.

Marco Arment has been banging a similar drum on his podcasts for a while and now with security researchers at Carnegie Mellon University figuring it out too, maybe it will get some serious attention.

Ben Smith for BuzzFeed:

The new spotlight on [tech] companies doesn’t come out of nowhere. They sit, substantively, at the heart of the biggest and most pressing issues facing the United States, and often stand on the less popular side of those: automation and inequality, trust in public life, privacy and security. They make the case that growth and transformation are public goods — but the public may not agree.

On the one hand, the politics looming over tech companies has been obvious for a while. On the other hand, no one believed me or maybe no one cared when I would point it out.