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Kevin Shay
@kshay.com
· Aug 30
Thread of AI Overview fun:
Gmail added inbox tabs in 2013. If you want to continue to use them you cannot opt out of the new “Smart Features” AI setting. This is essentially equivalent to making that setting mandatory
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Gmail added inbox tabs in 2013. If you want to continue to use them you cannot opt out of the new “Smart Features” AI setting. This is essentially equivalent to making that setting mandatory
I hope it’s tickets to “Oh, Mary!”
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I hope it’s tickets to “Oh, Mary!”
Dear Apple,
This is probably great news! However, I had not updated *my* device, so I can’t manage these new settings. Specifically, my approval of “12+” apps is no longer respected under the new “13+” setting (though 12 < 13, and my teen is in fact > 12).
Liquid Glass for me, I guess.
This is probably great news! However, I had not updated *my* device, so I can’t manage these new settings. Specifically, my approval of “12+” apps is no longer respected under the new “13+” setting (though 12 < 13, and my teen is in fact > 12).
Liquid Glass for me, I guess.
![Safety settings enabled for your teen
Dear Kevin Shay,
Screen Time and parental controls include a number of important tools to help you manage how your teen uses their device. When [...] updated their device to iOS 26.1 or later, two safety settings in Screen Time were enabled to help keep them safe: Web Content Filtering and Communication Safety.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cet4nxcnv2frhnrncyoopv4c/bafkreichenelnsfsou42hvbzn32kbrokeyk2kjupgcjbtsihh6us4qjy44@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Dear Apple,
This is probably great news! However, I had not updated *my* device, so I can’t manage these new settings. Specifically, my approval of “12+” apps is no longer respected under the new “13+” setting (though 12 < 13, and my teen is in fact > 12).
Liquid Glass for me, I guess.
This is probably great news! However, I had not updated *my* device, so I can’t manage these new settings. Specifically, my approval of “12+” apps is no longer respected under the new “13+” setting (though 12 < 13, and my teen is in fact > 12).
Liquid Glass for me, I guess.
Alan keeps providing opportunities to repost this www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ala...
Alan Dershowitz’s Grammarian Responds to Pierogi Incident
When the police arrived, they also advised Dershowitz to use non-gendered pronouns. Dershowitz was hesitant. “I’ll use whatever language I choose t...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Alan keeps providing opportunities to repost this www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ala...
How are they pronouncing Nuzzi?
Secondarily, I feel the hyphen in “sext-ramarital” is a mistake
Secondarily, I feel the hyphen in “sext-ramarital” is a mistake
November 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
How are they pronouncing Nuzzi?
Secondarily, I feel the hyphen in “sext-ramarital” is a mistake
Secondarily, I feel the hyphen in “sext-ramarital” is a mistake
Grandmagotchi
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Grandmagotchi
Hang on, her show is called “All’s Fair” and the character is named Allura? I have GOT to update this site one of these days www.staggernation.com/mf/
November 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Hang on, her show is called “All’s Fair” and the character is named Allura? I have GOT to update this site one of these days www.staggernation.com/mf/
Why is everyone talking about The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and not The Wreck of the Hesperus (as illustrated by Wally Wood, MAD Magazine, 1954)? jeffoverturf.blogspot.com/2012/07/wrec...
![4 cartoon panels with lines from Longfellow’s “The Wreck of the Hesperus”
1. Then up spake an old sailor, / Had sailed the Spanish Main
[Popeye: “Spake?”]
2. [Popeye, his coat and hat blown off:] “I pray thee, put into yonder port, / For I fear a hurricane.”
3. [Popeye, his shirt and pants blown off:] “Last night the moon had a golden ring, / And tonight no moon we see!”
4. The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe / And a scornful laugh laughed he.
[Skipper, blowing a facsimile of his wife from his pipe:] HOO HAH
[Chorus of 3 sailors] Not wife! ...WHIFF!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cet4nxcnv2frhnrncyoopv4c/bafkreibzsqqcbr5qm2wgjxobth27fzxktm3ck7thmadyc6lfuqyrx3ustm@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Why is everyone talking about The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and not The Wreck of the Hesperus (as illustrated by Wally Wood, MAD Magazine, 1954)? jeffoverturf.blogspot.com/2012/07/wrec...
You can eat blueberries at any time.
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 AM
You can eat blueberries at any time.
If I never open this I’ll live forever
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
If I never open this I’ll live forever
I’m not a doctor but aren’t these pretty different
![Alfred died on 26 October 899 at the age of 50 or 51.[164] How he died is unknown, but he suffered throughout his life with a painful and unpleasant illness. His biographer Asser gave a detailed description of Alfred's symptoms, and this has allowed modern doctors to provide a possible diagnosis. It is thought that he had either Crohn's disease or haemorrhoids.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cet4nxcnv2frhnrncyoopv4c/bafkreie73st34yjalq5pkt7pn5ngc6ghmdaascfulwkvw64xsdykmqhrxm@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I’m not a doctor but aren’t these pretty different
Who’s your favorite musician whose name is two methods of transportation? Mine might be El DeBarge
November 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Who’s your favorite musician whose name is two methods of transportation? Mine might be El DeBarge
What was the starkest vote disparity between adjacent districts? Perhaps Brooklyn ED 75 (Mamdani +60) vs. ED 49 (Cuomo +70)
November 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
What was the starkest vote disparity between adjacent districts? Perhaps Brooklyn ED 75 (Mamdani +60) vs. ED 49 (Cuomo +70)
Isn’t that the Chiquita Banana song
Trump on the need to abolish the filibuster: "It will be impossible to beat us."
November 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Isn’t that the Chiquita Banana song
Those Grapes Were Sour Anyway
By Ross Douthat
By Ross Douthat
November 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Those Grapes Were Sour Anyway
By Ross Douthat
By Ross Douthat
My hottest take is that if Cuomo had never entered the primary, Lander would have won narrowly in a fairly boring and uncontroversial way, the general would have been the typical Dem cakewalk with middling turnout, and nobody would be talking about it today
November 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
My hottest take is that if Cuomo had never entered the primary, Lander would have won narrowly in a fairly boring and uncontroversial way, the general would have been the typical Dem cakewalk with middling turnout, and nobody would be talking about it today
Regretting my vote after overhearing Mamdani’s campaign was run by the Luftwaffe?! … Hang on, being told that was “aloof wife”
November 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Regretting my vote after overhearing Mamdani’s campaign was run by the Luftwaffe?! … Hang on, being told that was “aloof wife”
Terrible news: Kirkland T-shirts fell off
November 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Terrible news: Kirkland T-shirts fell off
Wanted to find out when to arrive at a certain location to watch the NYC Marathon. Let’s ask AI Overview!
First attempt, looks pretty good, even breaks the info down into a handy table. Though it seems a bit suspect that the men will start at 9:05 and may arrive at 9:00. Maybe we should try again?
First attempt, looks pretty good, even breaks the info down into a handy table. Though it seems a bit suspect that the men will start at 9:05 and may arrive at 9:00. Maybe we should try again?
![[Google results for "when will the first professional runners reach lafayette avenue"]
Al Overview
The first professional runners are expected to reach the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn at approximately
8:50 AM ET, and the intersection of Lafayette and Classon Avenues around 9:00 AM ET
during the NYC Marathon on Sunday, November
2, 2025.
Here is a general timeline for the professional divisions passing through the area:
Division / Start Time (Staten Island) / Est. Time at Lafayette Ave.
Professional Women / 8:35 AM /~8:50 AM
Professional Men / 9:05 AM / ~9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Handcycles & Athletes with disabilities / 8:22 AM / ~8:40 AM](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cet4nxcnv2frhnrncyoopv4c/bafkreihbqbgfqkst2t2bts2r5je445b7qsnuviwvh5ffx6tzb6mq3mbfee@jpeg)
November 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Wanted to find out when to arrive at a certain location to watch the NYC Marathon. Let’s ask AI Overview!
First attempt, looks pretty good, even breaks the info down into a handy table. Though it seems a bit suspect that the men will start at 9:05 and may arrive at 9:00. Maybe we should try again?
First attempt, looks pretty good, even breaks the info down into a handy table. Though it seems a bit suspect that the men will start at 9:05 and may arrive at 9:00. Maybe we should try again?
Wonder if this creates a bit of a perverse incentive for how writers and editors structure articles
November 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Wonder if this creates a bit of a perverse incentive for how writers and editors structure articles
If I knew nothing about Mamdani or Cuomo it would still be an easy choice based purely on who is supporting them. I don’t think there’s a single Cuomo-backing public figure I respect
November 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
If I knew nothing about Mamdani or Cuomo it would still be an easy choice based purely on who is supporting them. I don’t think there’s a single Cuomo-backing public figure I respect
When I say “I resent that document” I don’t mean that I sent it again but that I harbor resentment toward it
When I say "I have a conflict with this meeting" I do not mean that I have another meeting at the same time.
What I mean is, I take ubmrage against it. I have a feud with it on a historic scale.
What I mean is, I take ubmrage against it. I have a feud with it on a historic scale.
October 31, 2025 at 4:58 PM
When I say “I resent that document” I don’t mean that I sent it again but that I harbor resentment toward it
The other funny thing is that Adams didn’t drop out in time to get his name taken off. He’s the sitting mayor! If he’s on the ballot, he’s going to get some votes!
i feel like NYC ballot design will have a non-zero impact on the actual result
mamdani and sliwa are given more prominence on the top row (as well as being mentioned multiple times), while cuomo is just funneled off in the bottom right corner
mamdani and sliwa are given more prominence on the top row (as well as being mentioned multiple times), while cuomo is just funneled off in the bottom right corner
October 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The other funny thing is that Adams didn’t drop out in time to get his name taken off. He’s the sitting mayor! If he’s on the ballot, he’s going to get some votes!