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When you get the new @atp.fm episode push and know exactly what it’s about
A push notification for the podcast ATP
December 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Every parent-whos-young-kid-doesnt-have-their-own-Spotify’s wrapped
Spotify wrapped. Every top five song is from k pop demon hunters
December 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Incredible that the top/last email in Epstein’s inbox was the Quora weekly digest
A screenshot of Jeffrey Epstein’s email inbox showing an email from Quora
November 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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I hope one day we invent the technology to line up all the chase logos on cards in Apple Wallet
A screenshot of three chase cards in Apple wallet. The logos do not line up vertically
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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“Fuck it, who cares” is replacing “Insanely great” as Apple’s design mantra for software.” - @gruber.foo onefoottsunami.com/2025/11/05/t...
Old and new macOS icons for Automator. The old one is good and the new one is bad.
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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I don’t understand why the default logged out view for Twitter account is now “show some random old tweets, not the most recent ones”
A screenshot of the Fortnite account on Twitter Screenshot of the Fortnite Twitter account
November 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social @byelacey your halloween costume is "sexy" + the last thing you google searched this year i'll be going as "sexy bus schedule" 9:55 AM • 2018-10-21 from Earth
October 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Damn you know its bad if the retail side had to put this banner on their app through gritted teeth
Disclaimer on the Amazon app
October 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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An accurate description! We did this for a month almost every day. Ate a lot of lobster rolls too. First day on the job and this guy came to speak. A surreal time.
Then-Vice President Joe Biden speaking to a crowd in October 2016 at DNC HQ
October 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Yay, my one published mention in a book about our response to the 2016 Russian DNC hack. Crazy this was nearly a decade ago. archive.org/details/hack...
FIREFIGHTERS 189 intrusion. In this hodgepodge of a network, they would be facing them several times a week. Plus, they believed this work was vital to the election, much more important than what they had imagined when they signed up. The team also needed more people. Rob and Ryan roughed out a list of people they were going to approach about coming to DC for a few weeks. They needed a great infrastructure person to help them gather the information necessary to make sense of the activity in more than thirty cloud accounts, several data centers and hundreds of desktops and laptops across the DNC. Each piece of the network produces data for every action taken and those actions are recorded in logs. To make this environment easier to analyze they wanted Lom Cook, an infrastructure expert who has worked at the biggest Internet service companies in Silicon Valley, to set up the telemetry. Rob and Ryan also needed hunters: engineers who are gifted at poring through the information generated by the network logs, server monitors, applications and cloud event logs to find patterns that identify where the bad stuff is hiding. They called Chris Long and another hunter TIl call Ron because he doesn't want his name used. Then Ryan ordered $200 worth of Soylent, a meal-replacement fluid designed in Silicon Valley that supposedly fulfills all your body's nutritional needs. Ryan believed the schedule would be that they'd get up around eight, grab some Soylent, and Uber over to the DN for a day that would last until nine or ten at night, sometimes longer. Ryan decided he needed to buy the Solyent bars, too, as they didn't know if they'd be able to leave the computer room when an incident was underway. And Rob called his girlfriend to cancel the trip to Paris they had planned for later that month. "We can go to Paris, or we can save the election," he told her. Lucky for him, she reluctantly agreed they could go another time.
October 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Interesting that in the post-purchase survey Apple sends iPhone buyers there’s an explicit mention of tariff worries (also lol I wonder how many people check the “Apple Intelligence” box)
Screenshot of an iPhone post-purchase survey
September 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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The size of even mundane iOS apps is unhinged. A bank app should not be in the same ballpark as Adobe Photoshop.
A screenshot of apps in the iOS App Store updating. The Chase bank and Photoshop apps are roughly the same size.
September 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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iOS 26 already doing a good job filtering spam political text messages into “unknown senders”. This will be a godsend during election season
Screenshot of iOS messages app
September 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Somehow I have found an antisemitic USB cable on Amazon (?)
A screenshot of a power cable on Amazon with the brand name “okjew” A close up of the cable
September 13, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Still one of the worst parts of the iOS experience that Apple could end if they cared: promotional push notifications from apps that you otherwise need to get pushes from (banks, services, etc) and with no way in the app to turn them off or mark as spam cc: @pschiller.bsky.social
A screenshot of a terrible push notification from the Xfinity app
September 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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The back looks terrible too!
A photo of the backside of the new LEGO Death Star. It looks random and not worthy of $1000
September 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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“Generate a world map showing the presumed location of each fictional Disney princess.”
Weird world map with lots of misspellings showing where Disney princesses live (but most of them make no sense) Weird world map with lots of misspellings showing where Disney princesses live (but most of them make no sense)
August 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Hopefully this is what comes next
A mentat from Dune
July 27, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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classic
Screenshot of an unhelpful reddit thread
July 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Ah yes, time to settle in and listen to my favorite Apple podcast @siracusa.social @liss.bsky.social @marcoarment.bsky.social
A screenshot of an iPhone playing an episode of the Accidental Tech Podcast. Onscreen is the title of the podcast “ATP Tier List: Pizza Rankings” and a giant photo of a stack of pepperoni labeled “Pepperoni”
July 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Love to get notifications from system-level apps on iOS
A screenshot of a push notification from the Apple Wallet app that is a promotion from Apple: “$10 off at Fandango. Save on 2+ tickets to F1® The Movie with APPLEPAYTEN. Ends 6/29. While supplies last. Terms apply.”
June 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Just got my invite for Alexa+ and it includes a lovely glaring typo in the welcome email. Love this attention to detail from Amazon!
Try all-new Alexa capabilities, like: • Talk naturally to create smart home routines: Let Alexa know to wake you up, turn on the lights, and start the coffee maker weekdays at 7 AM, and your routine is all set. • Explore virtually any topic: Discuss almost any topic and Alexa will recall the little details—as if your tutor, DIY export, movie buff, historian, or sportscaster were right there with you. • Scout deals and save: The new Alexa tracks deals, notifies you when products go on sale, and seamlessly completes your purchase.
June 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Siri will never change #WWDC
A screenshot of a Siri answer where it says today is the wrong date A screenshot of the date on an iPhone
June 9, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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“Sorry I won’t be able to attend the season-ending live event, I’ll be at a five year old’s birthday party instead”

At least I got the galaxy Evie skin right under the wire, though.
A screenshot of Fortnite
June 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Easy to see how we go from a functioning economy to Kim Jong Un-style tours of domestic factories proudly producing four items per week
Kim Jong Un tours a factory Kim Jong Un tours a factory Donald Trump tours a factory
May 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM