Good call out. We definitely need to clarify what is “political” more than what is there now.

I don’t think that was me that pulled it, but after listening to the song, which is dope, I probably would’ve made the same call.

Basically anything that spends a significant portion of time focusing on a politician, public policy, or geopolitics, we’re asking those to be posted to /polticialvideos. This video might have also been getting rule violation reports from the community.

Given the current wars and recent elections, political videos were becoming a large part of LW videos content. I personally have no problem with it, and I like political videos, but a lot of people in the community kept asking us to bifurcate.

We’re trying our best to do what the community asked us to do. It’s definitely an imperfect and subjective process.

Just like when Threads launched and or when Reddit made the API changes. You get a flood of new users who want to talk about being new users.

The way this article is framed sounds like bullshit to me. 18.1 was released less than 2 weeks ago. Any phone running this version of iOS would have had to already been in custody and somehow upgraded to this version, or otherwise brought into custody very recently—too recently for this to have already posed such a problem that law enforcement is “freaking out” and reporting it to the media.

A non-insignificant amount of people have been running the public betas because of Apple intelligence, RCS / iMessage toys, UI customization, etc. For example, MixPanel reported about 2% of the iOS install base running 18.0 before 18.0’s launch. IMHO, that’s pretty crazy for a beta OS.

https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/ios_18

Looks like the big difference is that this is on by default, it appears to get enabled when cops turn off internet access to prevent access to FindMy and remote lockdowns.

IMHO, the novelty of the feature isn’t what makes this headline worthy. This is noteworthy because of the scale. iOS is over a quarter of phones on earth, and in English speaking countries and Japan, you’re looking at numbers that are often over 50%.

This will impact a LOT more investigations than Graphene, and I imagine Apple will be back in court fighting cops who want to remove privacy and security features. Hopefully this stuff stands up to the autocrats coming into power in the states.

Why doesn’t MS do what Apple does with Writing Tools. Put it Rewrite at the OS level so that anything with text can access the feature? Doing this an app at a time is odd.

Elon’s entire product development career fits into this framework:

______ was supposed to ______ by now

I feel like all of your knowledge about “middle management” is derived from The Office.

To be fair, in a large company, there is usually only about 30 people who are actually good and know what is going on, and hundred of others who are checking in trash.

When the lasagna music kicks in

What if it’s just a 20oz cup of deli mustard from the condiment bar?

Rivian’s CEO looks like if Steve O was sober in the early 2000’s

On one hand, the CCP fucking sucks. On the other hand, the US alternatives to some of these banned / tariffed Chinese products also really suck - especially when it comes to bang for your buck. ugh.

After Fallout 76 and Starfield, I can’t say I’m eager for Todd Howard’s next RPG.

Not if you’re in the US with a 30 year fixed.

iPad / iOS I think is on by default, but not macOS. Maybe I’m wrong though.

Isn’t messages in iCloud off by default? I feel like I had to actively enable this in a preference panel.

School night?

The high end of millennials have grey hair and mortgages now.