When Apple News initially became available and could include content from any RSS feed, I made my blogs available in Apple News. Eventually Apple deleted them from Apple News because I did not post as frequently as Apple later decided to require.

To be clear, I never asked that my blogs be featured or even discoverable in Apple News. I never asked for or even wanted Apple to highlight content from my blogs. I just wanted my website visitors to be able to click on a Subscribe in Apple News link on my website to read it through Apple News. Just like one can do in any RSS reader.

The HEY situation is analogous. Basecamp is not asking Apple to promote HEY. Basecamp does not need Apple to host HEY app downloads. Basecamp is explicitly asking not to use Apple’s payment processing system. Basecamp just wants to distribute a native iOS app for HEY. Apple made the App Store the only mechanism for doing so in the name of security. Basecamp chose to distribute the HEY Mac app itself, without the Mac App Store.

For some developers, the benefits of distributing through the App Store are worth the cost. For others, the App Store is just a burden. Apple’s requirements for simply distributing an iOS app are absurd and the cost is too high.

Andy Ibanez: Please Help, Apple Is Threatening To Terminate My Apple Developer Account With No Clear Reason

For fellow registered voters in Massachusetts: a petition to put ranked choice voting on the ballot.

There was a good crowd today for the Black Lives Matter protest here in Haverhill, MA. I would guess there were about a thousand in attendance.

Before the 2016 election The Boston Globe posted a satirical front page detailing what a Trump presidency could look like.

I am looking forward to tonight’s online CocoaHeads Boston meeting. New participants are always welcome, as are those who are not in the Boston area.

Get in touch if you need video conference details.

This episode of 9to5Mac Watch Time with @ishabazz and @apollozac is an informative discussion of racism.

Cedric L. Alexander at CNN:

I am a black American man who has been privileged to serve in law enforcement for 40 years. Today, if a young person of color asks me what they should do if a police officer stops them, I answer: Put your hands on the steering wheel where they can be seen, cooperate and comply. And should they answer me back, as they likely would today – Even if I did all that, we are still getting murdered – I would have nothing to tell him or her. With my decades of experience, I would have nothing to say.

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The problems we face at this moment are part of our long history. But the complete absence of leadership – political, moral, policy, strategic – strikes me as genuinely unprecedented. What’s the plan now, America?

Sick to my stomach.

Last night I went to bed happy that, for the first time this year, it was warm enough to sleep with the windows open.

By morning I wished I had put the air conditioners in the windows.

Thanks to @chuckjoiner for interviewing me about Unread 2 on MacVoices.

CNN: A 5-year-old boy was pulled over in Utah on his way to California to try to buy a Lamborghini

I have so many questions about this.

My “e” key is sticking. On my 16-inch.

I was interviewed in this week’s Club MacStories newsletter about Unread 2 and my vision for Unread’s future. Check it out if you are a Club MacStories member.

I am going to let the domain names trumpadministration.wtf and trumppresidency.wtf expire on June 1. If you want them I am happy to transfer them at no cost. Just get in touch.

TIL: Stress dreams can have sequels.

I released an update to Unread that adds full trackpad and mouse support, new keyboard shortcuts, and several other improvements.

Last night I participated in an adult spelling bee via Zoom (running from a macOS volume dedicated to Zoom and without access to my data).

Apparently liaison has two i’s.

It looks like I cannot avoid Zoom, so I created a dedicated APFS volume and macOS installation for it.

This is an interesting new Inoreader feature.

Convert Almost Any Webpage Into RSS Feed With Inoreader’s Web Feeds

Hoping that the next iPhone adds Mask ID.

Thanks to Macworld for reviewing Unread 2.

Congratulations to Stefan Reitshamer on the release of Arq 6. I have been using Arq to back up my Macs since before version 1.0.

Is it weird that my way of unwinding at the end of the day recently has been to watch Andrew Cuomo’s press briefings?

My smoke detectors did not get the memo that this is not the best time to demand new batteries.