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In iOS26, the Alarm Options interface has a Snooze Duration setting that allows you to set snooze time from 1 minute to 15 minutes.

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 🥱🖕

iOS 26 Messages Settings offers an option to Allow Notifications from Unknown Senders section. This Settings subpage screenshot shows that Verification Code Notifications are in by default. There is an Other kinds of senders notifications that are off by default.

@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.

iOS 26 Messages Settings showing an Unknown Senders section with options for automatically filtering Spam and Screening Unknown Senders. Filter Spam is on by Default; Screen Unknown Senders is off by default.

@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

YouTube video by BruceCockburnVEVO Bruce Cockburn - Call It Democracy

And they call it democracy

youtu.be/Gfcfdt0jcWs?...

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"

The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin — WIRED Interdimensional travel, sex with aliens, communion with God. Anything is possible with just a sprinkle of DMT. Akasha Song’s secret labs made millions of doses—and dollars—until the feds showed up.

This isn’t directly related, but it is an absolutely wild ride following the rise and fall of America’s online DMT kingpin.

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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.

Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for Search Paying for Kagi today feels a *lot* like paying for HBO back in the cable TV heyday.

Also advocated for by @gruber.foo: daringfireball.net/2025/04/try_...

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.

A chart of streaming services and their average 4K bandwidth in Megabits per second (Mbps). Apple TV+ leads with the highest average bitrate at 29 Mbps, followed by BBC iPlayer at 25–30 Mbps. Netflix and Disney+ both average around 17 Mbps. Max (formerly HBO Max) ranges between 16 and 22 Mbps, and Amazon Prime Video averages approximately 15 Mbps. Several services—Hulu, MUBI, Crave (Canada), ITVX (UK), and All 4 (UK)—do not publicly disclose average bitrate figures.

💯 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.

Hi Tripp, I'm a reporter with the Guardian US, based in New York. I hope this finds you well. I'm reaching out about your most recent article and its inclusion of the claim, "Young Chinese women have small fingers." What is the source of this information? The full sentence attributes the claim that such small fingers make them "nimble" and therefore "valuable" to iPhone manufacturing to unnamed "supply chain experts", but it's unclear whether those same experts are the source of the claim that young Chinese women have small fingers in the first place. Are they? How do they know? Is there a study you can cite? And are we talking length? Circumference? Is it question of muscle strength? Or bone density? What is the normative range for finger size, to what extent do young Chinese women fall outside of it, and how do you - or your sources - know this?

Incidentally, how are you defining "Chinese" in this sentence? As I'm sure you and your supply chain experts know, China is a large country with dozens of ethnic minorities. It is hard to imagine that hand size is a trait linked to national identity, but the lack of specificity leaves the question open. Did hand size among Han Chinese living in Taiwan vs the PRC diverge after the civil war? Could this be a function of political economy rather than a genetic trait? So many questions. Relatedly, how are you defining "young"? Do Chinese women's fingers grow as they age? Or is size not actually the meaningful characteristic? It's hard to tell from the information you provided! I ask all these questions because unless you have answers to them, I am afraid that you may have portrayed racist pseudoscience as if it were fact in an article for the New York Times. If that wasn't your intent, I hope you will reflect upon the long history of certain forces using race science claims to attribute suitability for certain types of labor to certain types of people, and amend your article. Best, Julia Wong

welp I sent an email

Giving eLearning a voice.

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YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Sinclair Broadcast Group: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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.

Ethan Mollick On The Four Rules Of Co-Intelligence With AI Ethan Mollick's latest book is Co-Intelligence, in which he offers guidance on how best to leverage artificial intelligence generally and gen AI more specifically.

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.