“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

These are not just words, they are a pact. A civil contract. Not to party, not to policy, not to an ideology or an individual. It is a compact between a people, our people, and it is under threat. A democracy is a government of collective action by the people. Let this be a reminder, it is time to do more … before it is no more.

Daring Fireball is brought to you this week by the enduring and aspirational project that is democracy.

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Juli Clover (no iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, enterprise, no developer): iOS 18.4 adds Priority notifications for Apple Intelligence-capable devices, showing you your most notification first. There’s a dedicated Apple Vision Pro app for Vision Pro owners, and a new Apple News Food feature for Apple News+ subscribers. There’s lots more quoted in her article, though […]

Juli Clover (release notes, security, no developer): Apple shares full release notes for tvOS in its tvOS support document, which is updated after each new version of tvOS comes out. But all it says is “performance and stability improvements.” Previously: tvOS 18.3.1