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Apple CEO Tim Cook donates $1 million to Trump inauguration - I imagine british people will be agast at this whip around from tech billionaires. I have no idea if this is a normal thing in US politics. The whole 'unity' vibe is an interesting way to dress it up. What are they going to spend the money on? One metric to watch out for during the next 4 years is how diversified the stock market is by the end of it. At the minute it’s very heavily weighed towards the mag 7, which is quite risky. axios.com #

comfyanonymous/ComfyUI - "The most powerful and modular diffusion model GUI, api and backend with a graph/nodes interface". This appears to be quite popular in the AI / LLM space. It’s interesting that no code node based graph UIs are being used. It hadn’t occurred to me, but it makes complete sense. github.com #

The Great American Tradition - John Gruber wonders about the whole tech billionaires inaugural donations whip around thing. Quite possibly a new tradition. daringfireball.net #

The Intricacy of ASML’s Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Machines - The precision of these machines which are behind all the chips manufactured around the world these days is kind if unfathomable. daringfireball.net #

Simon Willisons’s Approach to Running a Link Blog - I’ve been thinking for ages to add a 'via' field to my linkblog posts frontmatter. I do try to mention author names. I read both John and Simon’s writing so it’s interesting to hear how they think about it. daringfireball.net #