@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.

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"

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

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.

welp I sent an email

“...we use the healthcare system to treat the consequences of poverty, and we do it in an inefficient and expensive way,” she says. “We wait until people live horrible lives for many years, get sick as a consequence, and then we go in all guns blazing to make things better.”

Here's the registration link for our book launch zoom party on April 15! berklee.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Post a movie from the year you turned 18.

So from my uniquely weird perspective after living in the UK through Brexit, being in India during Modi's demonetization, and living in Brazil when the real tanked during the Bolsonaro administration, I can confidentally say that Americans do not and can not understand how bad this is going to be.

Absolutely remarkable. Approaching 24 hours and @booker.senate.gov is still standing up for others, literally and figuratively.

“Laurene Powell Jobs is a stalwart and brave publisher at a time when cowardice rules the day.” ~ @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social Thank goodness for that. America needs more patriots and fewer cowards in positions of power and influence. h/t @gruber.foo at daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, but your government only when it deserves it.” ~ Mark Twain. More from a very sincere Conan O’Brien during his Mark Twain Prize acceptance speech. youtube.com/watch?v=Yr8q...

Help me test something fun! I'm adding loads of effect controls to Ambiphone, my ambient soundscape/white noise app It's a big change and I want to make sure I haven't broken anything before I roll it out - so please visit test.ambiph.one to give it a go

On this day in 2021, The A11y Project published a fantastic primer on the subject of accessibility overlays. "We view these kinds of products as actively harmful, and a step backwards for digital accessibility efforts."

The Baby Tooth Survey in the 60's. Scientists collected 320,000 baby teeth from St Louis children to test for strontium-90 via a a mail-in program using happy posters in elementary schools. This experiment is the origin of the tooth fairy. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_To...

18F was also massively effective in seeding its alums throughout not only other federal government agencies, but state and local agencies too. And also in -- you guessed it -- digital service consultancies like the many companies that comprise the digitalservicescoalition.org 5/

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Something we all should remember, as we talk about worst case scenarios and ways to plan for and survive them: It's very much worth remembering that we collectively can and will survive them. And, we will build something beautiful on the ashes of their corrupt and childish violence.

JD Vance is skiing at a Vermont resort this weekend. The resort’s snow reporter took the opportunity to make some good trouble, sending out a message of resistance against an administration “threatening our democracy, our livelihoods, our land”. [kottke.org]

I love this graphic- I wanted others to access too. I downloaded it to the free actuallyusefulai.com Alt-text generator and it came up w/ the following (see on photo) in 10 seconds. #AltTextChallenge doesn't have to be difficult. I am not always the best at coming up with it, so I use my helper!

Please add alt tags on your images, especially if they are screenshots of posts or include all the context of your post. When you upload an image there’s a + ALT button top left for each image so it’s just a quick tap, description, and save. #Accessibilty #AltTags #PhotoDesciptions

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

Hang out with the #EduSkyChat community tonight at 5:30pm PST / 8:30pm EST! Our topic tonight is "Beyond Stickers: The Power of Digital Badges & Competency-Based Learning!" @karlymoura.com ura.com @scandela9.bsky.social y.social @dustinpearson2.bsky.social

I'm working with a team of user researchers in Rwanda. They asked me to find great online resources to help them upskill, especially in qualitative research methods and creating effective documentation. Are there any courses, videos, etc. that you'd recommend?

“I filmed hundreds of clips of Kamala Harris telling young people to believe in themselves because they can achieve anything. And I noticed myself changing my conversations with my nieces, stopping myself from commenting on their outfits and asking instead about the thoughts in their heads.” 😊💪

@gruber.foo On a related note re the languishing Web, nothing seems more anti-Web and anti-UX to me than every restaurant menu QR-code ever loading an 8.5” x 11” PDF on my cell phone. 🤦🏻‍♂️ daringfireball.net/2025/01/one_...

This is the biggest typo I’ve ever seen! lol. apple.news/AjlWbk8cpTIy... #toronto #coors #advertising

There was a fire that almost destroyed Pacific Palisades 47 years ago. I wrote about growing up in that magical neighborhood in the 1980s, and what we need to do to prevent more of our world from burning down overnight. 🙏 mikeindustries.com/blog/archive...

These live audio captioning glasses are super cool, but is it just me or does it feel like there’s a disability tax when these cost $2000 but Meta Raybans are under $500? #Accessibility #AccessibleTech #Deaf #Captioning youtube.com/shorts/rulE3...

We’re ringing in the new year with an evening of music at home. 🔊 We got things started with Uncle Waffles and Skepta, and are currently enjoying Skratch Bastid’s eclectic end of year mix that finishes with our one year old’s favourite track of the year before I play my NYE mix. Happy new year! 🎉

A group of shareholders tried to force Costco to eliminate their DEI initiatives (“illegal discrimination” in their words). Costco’s board: “Our Board [believes] an enterprise rooted in respect and inclusion is appropriate and necessary.” [kottke.org]

The story of the scale a developer needs to be at to get a reluctant Apple to pay attention, how planned change can take years, even in the world of software, and how it all led to some amazing apps getting even better. h/t @gruber.foo

New magical L&D tool alert! Bring your Articulate Rise courses to life with Shine, a read-along narration add-on feature from Say Yeah that lets you effortlessly incorporate audio into existing Rise courses. See it in action: sayyeah.com/digital-insi... #RiseCourses #EdTech #Accessibility

The excellent show Lovesick is leaving Netflix December 31 if you’d like something fun to binge before the end of the year: www.netflix.com/us/title/800... Fun fact: it was originally titled Scrotal Recall. #TVNews #NetflixShows #LastCallToWatch

We don't understand violence in this society. We think of it only as interpersonal, but it's systemic too. So when Brian Thompson is murdered we see that as violence. But when his company denies legit care to millions, we don't. It reminds me of something else...A 🧵...

Wow. End of an era. My first web development job was at 1 Yonge St, working for Torstar as they began publishing their print portfolio online and establishing Toronto.com. But, I get it, there’s no more prime address at the foot of Toronto and that building was old when I was there in the 90s.

I quite enjoy finding the great original samples or tracks from recent hits. Sometimes this leads down unexpected paths. I was listening to Pharcyde Passin’ Me By from ‘92 the other day and it reminded me of something else I knew from my youth but couldn’t place: music.apple.com/ca/album/pas...

I was reminded as I topped up my little guy’s RESP, that Embark generously offers $300 to each child for any referral that deposits $, in addition to the government matching 20% annually for the first $2500 contributed. secure.embark.ca/signup?promo_id=LEEDAL527531 #Canada #Education #Childcare

Happy to be at Seneca Polytechnic this evening workshopping how AI is impacting all programs and sectors across the college, including computer science, learning and development, and more. #HigherEd #LearningAndDevelopment #AI #FutureOfWork

Love to see that the @petshopboys.co.uk sound fantastic in 2024. They’re revisiting two classics in this performance, 1972 & 1984. youtu.be/G_Dg6Ioxz74?... Also available to stream: music.apple.com/ca/album/all... open.spotify.com/album/2fVvwC... #LiveMusic #PetShopBoys #MottTheHoople

New from me: Two influencers make very similar content promoting Amazon products. They dress the same. They buy the same stuff. They even have a similar tattoo. Now one is suing the other, claiming her rival won't stop copying her. But who influenced whom? www.theverge.com/2024/11/26/2...

To the #I4PL #LearningAndDevelopment audience @danpontefract.com: “You are human performance change agents”. At its best L&D is at the fulcrum of shaping Employee Experience and Customer music because shaping EX shapes CX. Inspiring stuff from Dan! #PeopleAndCulture #Empathy #FutureOfLearning

More wonderful accessibility news: WhatsApp voice messages are getting transcripts. #Accessiblity #Transcripts #Whatsapp www.macrumors.com/2024/11/21/w...

I love these examples of augmented reality glasses prioritizing accessibility shared by Dr Helen Papagiannis at the #I4PL conference. #AR #Accessibility

Well, hey there. It feels like a breath of fresh air under this Bluesky. 🌞 We'd love to connect with people passionate about #LearningAndDevelopment, #DigitalTransformation, #Accessibility, #InclusiveDesign, #HCD, and #LifelongLearning. 💕 You can also catch our CEO at @leedaleyyz.bsky.social. 👋

At #LNConnect24 last week, I suggested that folks read Human Competence by Thomas Gilbert. One of the best tools I pulled from the book is the BEM (Behaviour Engineering Model). This article on BEM will hopefully give everyone a push: open.substack.com/pub/idtips/p... #LearningAndDevelopment #LnD

Before my boy was born I had the ambition to create a collection of music of epic proportions, knowing that my free time would be limited as I worked to raise a good man. So I set out to create a mix of delicious music and curated this 8.5 hour mix. Enjoy :-) www.mixcloud.com/nathanleedal...

Call for speakers is now open for our 2025 event and we want to hear from you! Proposal link is in bio. #cdnelearning #duetslearning #elearning #onlinelearning #instructionaldesign #learninganddevelopment #landdevelopment #learningtech #learningtechnology #learningconference #canadianconferences