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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · Sep 9

I know right!

The good news is: this is coming with iOS26.

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

Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · Jul 28

@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 🥱🖕

Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · Jul 28

@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 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.

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · Jul 28

@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.

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.

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · Jul 2

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

Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · Jul 2

And they call it democracy

youtu.be/Gfcfdt0jcWs?...

Bruce Cockburn - Call It Democracy

YouTube video by BruceCockburnVEVO

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · Jul 2

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

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · Jul 2

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

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · Jul 2

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

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · Jul 2

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

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · Jul 2

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

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · Jul 2

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

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · Jun 11

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"

Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Jun 11

"Part of our task in the face of generative AI is to make an argument for the value of thinking – laboured, painful, frustrating thinking."

activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...

On Generative AI in the Classroom: Give Up, Give In, or Stand Up

Edward Dunsworth Two approaches dominate discussion about how professors should handle generative “artificial intelligence” in the classroom: give up or give in. Give up. Faced with a powerful new …

activehistory.ca

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · Jun 9

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...

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.

apple.news

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · Jun 3

lol. My bad!

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · Jun 3

But there is measurably better visibility driving forwards from between two cars than backwards, so…

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · Jun 1

I assume there was glue in this. 😬

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · Jun 1

- Saw a Coke or Pepsi flavor maybe 6-12 months ago where it said it was created with AI. Had zero desire to try (and it disappeared from shelves a few weeks later)

Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · May 26

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

Peter Merholz @peterme.com · May 26

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.

Barney Miller
Adventure Time
The Simpsons
Jeopardy!
Fringe

Ghostin GOREvella @austingovella.bsky.social · May 26

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.

The West Wing
Law & Order
Archer
Supernatural
The Good Place

Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · May 26

Most eLearning is incomplete.

Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · May 24

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

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.

daringfireball.net

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · May 24

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.” 🤦🏻‍♂️

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · May 24

honestly speechless

“Our reporting does not make racial or genetic generalizations, but simply cites experts who have experience with the industrial process in U.S. and Chinese factories.”

like ok but you said “young Chinese women have small fingers” … ?? ?

Charlie Stadtlander 1:03 PM
to julia.wong v
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Julia- Charlie here from The Times's
communications team, your note made its way to me and thank you for reaching out. As The Times's story makes clear, multiple people familiar with Apple's production facilities is China have put forward their observations on the workforce there.
Our reporting does not make racial or genetic generalizations, but simply cites experts who have experience with the industrial process in U.S. and Chinese factories.
I can also point you to the comments of Patrick McGee, the author of the new book "Apple In China" , on a recent podcast appearance said: "The tasks that often are being done to make iPhones require little fingers. The fact that it's young Chinese women with little fingers like that actually matters. Apple engineers will talk about this."
Charlie Stadtlander
Managing Director, External Communications, Newsroom and Opinion
The New Work Times

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · May 24

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.

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · May 24

Good shows, watched blurry, is not ideal.

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · May 24

Our BBC, CBC, is still quite poor. There is no 4K option, which I would gladly pay for.

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Lee Dale @leedaleyyz.bsky.social · May 24

💯 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.

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.

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