Lee Dale
@leedaleyyz.bsky.social
I help organizations leverage technology to learn and work smarter, am raising a boy I hope gets into good trouble, and I DJ epic mixes in my spare time.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/leedaleyyz
https://www.mixcloud.com/nathanleedale/
https://sayyeah.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/leedaleyyz
https://www.mixcloud.com/nathanleedale/
https://sayyeah.com
@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.
July 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
@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.
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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"
"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...
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
June 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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. 😬
- 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)
June 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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
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
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
Barney Miller
Adventure Time
The Simpsons
Jeopardy!
Fringe
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
The West Wing
Law & Order
Archer
Supernatural
The Good Place
May 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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
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.” 🤦🏻♂️
“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.” 🤦🏻♂️
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” … ?? ?
“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” … ?? ?
May 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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.” 🤦🏻♂️
“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.” 🤦🏻♂️
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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.
May 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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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welp I sent an email
May 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
welp I sent an email
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“...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.”
April 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
“...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.”
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Here's the registration link for our book launch zoom party on April 15! berklee.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
April 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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.
April 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Post a movie from the year you turned 18.
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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.
Every damned word of this 4-graf brief, except “By WSJ Staff,” should scare the bejeesus out of you this morning.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
April 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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.
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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/...
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/...
The Atlantic Has an Owner Committed to the Cause: Laurene Powell Jobs
Link to: https://www.status.news/p/atlantic-jeffrey-goldberg-signal-texts-war-plans
daringfireball.net
March 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
“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/...
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...
More from a very sincere Conan O’Brien during his Mark Twain Prize acceptance speech.
youtube.com/watch?v=Yr8q...
Excerpt from Conan O'Brien's Mark Twain Prize Acceptance Speech
YouTube video by Conan O'Brien
youtube.com
March 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
“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...
More from a very sincere Conan O’Brien during his Mark Twain Prize acceptance speech.
youtube.com/watch?v=Yr8q...
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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
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
March 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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
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
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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."
"We view these kinds of products as actively harmful, and a step backwards for digital accessibility efforts."
Background: Should I use an accessibility overlay? - The A11Y Project
There are two types of accessibility overlays: Temporary bandage solutions, and permanent plugins. The use of a permanent plugin is incredibly problematic.
www.a11yproject.com
March 9, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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."
"We view these kinds of products as actively harmful, and a step backwards for digital accessibility efforts."
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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...
This experiment is the origin of the tooth fairy.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_To...
Baby Tooth Survey - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
April 20, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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...
This experiment is the origin of the tooth fairy.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_To...
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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/
Digital Services Coalition - Home
Our goal is to collaborate, not compete, by bringing like-minded small to midsize companies together to work toward the common mission of serving the American public by improving how government works.
digitalservicescoalition.org
March 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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/
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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
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
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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
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
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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.
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.
February 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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.
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.
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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]
Good Trouble: JD Vance Chastised by Vermont Snow Reporter
JD Vance, fresh off of helping his boss ambush & insult a foreign leader in the White House yesterday afternoon, is on vacation in Vermont with his family this weekend and will be skiing at Sugarbush Resort in Warren, VT
kottke.org
March 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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]
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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!
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!
February 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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!
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
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
February 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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
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
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“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.
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
February 22, 2025 at 4:50 AM
“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.
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
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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
@karlymoura.com ura.com @scandela9.bsky.social y.social @dustinpearson2.bsky.social
February 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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
@karlymoura.com ura.com @scandela9.bsky.social y.social @dustinpearson2.bsky.social