Kevin Shay
kshay.com
Kevin Shay
@kshay.com
Brooklyn
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
I hope it’s tickets to “Oh, Mary!”
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 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.
November 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A very funny pairing suggests itself
November 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
How are they pronouncing Nuzzi?

Secondarily, I feel the hyphen in “sext-ramarital” is a mistake
November 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
So it’s like that is it
November 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
It’s probably just a missing word but I like this usage. ”They cast some really good youngs”
November 14, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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...
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
You can eat blueberries at any time.
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 AM
If I never open this I’ll live forever
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
November 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
PSA
November 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I’m not a doctor but aren’t these pretty different
November 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I’ve always found it a bit funny how the App Store handles age ratings for e.g. banking apps. I guess it’s not offensive content, per se, but really?
November 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
November 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Who’s your favorite musician whose name is two methods of transportation? Mine might be El DeBarge
November 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I just learned that this exists
November 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
When she swore on her children’s lives this was true, I wasn’t impressed, because who knows whether she cares about her children’s lives? But then she clarified so now I believe her
November 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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
November 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Even if one given refresh yielded an accurate time, it would only be by accident; they all sound equally authoritative.

One last try. Everything’s phrased differently, but same outcome: variables correct, conclusion wrong.

My conclusion: don’t expect basic, fully knowable facts from AI Overview
November 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Now we’re getting somewhere, discovering the crucial data point that the location is at mile 8. Given that, plus the expected pace, plus the start time, it should be trivial to calculate the... oh, I see, it’s completely wrong
November 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
OK, we’ve lost the table—n.b. all of these are just refreshing the identical query—but gained a precise time. (Also an edifying 8th-grader-didn’t-do-the-reading-ass paragraph that basically says “runners go fast.”) Can the women really get from the start to this location in 12 minutes, though?
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?
November 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
OK, we’ve lost the table—all of these are just refreshing the identical query—but gained a precise time. (Also an edifying 8th-grader-didn’t-do-the-reading-ass paragraph that basically says “runners go fast.”) Can the women really get from the start to this location in 12 minutes, though?
November 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM