I know right!
The good news is: this is coming with iOS26.
@gruber.foo These steps don’t seem nearly as likely to hide the majority of messages as implied, and there’s a pretty clear way to make sure the messages go through.
Marketers complaining about not being able to annoy people as much as they like is 🥱🖕
@gruber.foo Also, when you turn on Screen Unknown Senders, you immediately see an option to set Notification preferences. Verification Codes notifications are on by default, and there’s an option to turn on Other.
@gruber.foo Re text message filtering in iOS 26: I don’t know about you, but Screen Unknown Senders is not on by default on my iPhone.
I mean, if I had to choose:
North south east west
kill the best and buy the rest
it's just spend a buck to make a buck
you don't really give a flying fuck
about the people in misery
See the paid-off local bottom feeders
passing themselves off as leaders
kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows
open for business like a cheap bordello
IMF dirty MF
takes away everything it can get
always making certain that there's one thing left
keep them on the hook with insupportable debt
North south east west
kill the best and buy the rest
it's just spend a buck to make a buck
you don't really give a flying fuck
about the people in misery
Sinister cynical instrument
who makes the gun into a sacrament --
the only response to the deification
of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations'
idolatry of ideology
Who rob life of its quality
who render rage a necessity
by turning countries into labour camps
modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom
Padded with power here they come
international loan sharks backed by the guns
of market hungry military profiteers
whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared
with the blood of the poor
Yes: "Part of our task in the face of [GenAI] is to make an argument for the value of thinking–laboured, painful, frustrating thinking...the student skipping those steps is costing themselves experience & expertise in problem solving, crucial abilities for living, not to mention working or studying"
This isn’t directly related, but it is an absolutely wild ride following the rise and fall of America’s online DMT kingpin.
apple.news/A-GBoZ7oxTbK...
lol. My bad!
But there is measurably better visibility driving forwards from between two cars than backwards, so…
I assume there was glue in this. 😬
Repost w/ the five shows you would be happy to rewatch over and over again for the rest of your life, as your sole TV diet.
This is awfully tough, but today I’m going with:
Frasier
The Great British Baking Show
Law & Order
Cracker with Robbie Coltrane
Star Trek: Voyager
Most eLearning is incomplete.
NYT state of journalism, 2025:
“Our reporting doesn’t make racist generalizations because we only wrote a racist generalization we heard other people say. And it’s okay because an author made the same racist generalization on a podcast where they claimed other people will say it too.” 🤦🏻♂️
Young Chinese women have small fingers, which is why TSMC can produce 3nm chips while Americans, with our big fat sausage fingers, can’t seem to get past 7nm. But to reach the next generation 2nm process size, we’ll need smaller fingers yet, which is why the US and China are rivals to buy Lilliput.
Good shows, watched blurry, is not ideal.
Our BBC, CBC, is still quite poor. There is no 4K option, which I would gladly pay for.
💯 We are saddled with Crave in Canada which offers notoriously awful quality at an unspecified bit rate and is the only legal way to stream HBO.
I read a couple of years ago that AppleTV+ offers the highest bitrate and every release is 4K.
Here’s a recent chart with some detail.
welp I sent an email
That is a tough point to make, particularly in the US where local TV news is owned and operated at scale by agenda-driven conservative conglomerates. 😬
youtu.be/GvtNyOzGogc?...
I would think this would largely drown out hyper local community news publications. I’d love to be wrong about that.
I’ve heard great things about Co-Intelligence from Ethan Mollick.
Here’s a bit of a backgrounder via an interview:
www.forbes.com/sites/peterh...
It’s sold out but maybe some tickets available closer to.
I saw them with @eatsomefood.bsky.social a few years ago at the Phoenix and the first half of the show was more recent ear-splitting-guitar metal monotony and then the last half of the show was joyously spectacular nuanced classics.