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Each day for the next 30, I'll tweet a mini-essay as part of #ship30for30.

Some of what I'll be exploring…

🌑the dark side of being human
🤔ancient ideas with timeless value
✍🏾how we make the stories that make us
🧠psychology, culture & faith as meta-stories

Join me! 🧵

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I’ve been publishing every week for months but I’m still struggling to build a daily writing habit.

So I’m excited to join the March cohort of #Ship30for30: committing to a tiny essay everyday for 30 days.

(Gulp.)

More info at https://t.co/ElBWOSYWvF

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@benspringwater Yes please!

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@noperator But isn’t the problem that it’s hard to say “humans are valuable” without an appeal to the sacred? Like, how do you meaningfully ground an inherent value to humans in an amoral view of reality?

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@adrgrondin Actually, don't worry, uninstalling and reinstalling fixed it!

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@adrgrondin The app is crashing for me (and the recovery mode isn't working either).

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@Nicolascole77 Prompt!

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@DoubleEph That’s interesting, I’d come to link it more to an unfortunate artefact of scientific thinking > the idea that only the “objective” is real > metaphor becomes viewed with suspicion > irony completely missed.

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@jdluk87 I don’t think you can? What I know you can definitely do is backup your iPhone on an iOS 26 beta and the new iPhone will sign into the beta programme, download the update and then restore your backup.

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@mweinbach When wearing jeans — and only then, because of the tighter side pockets – yes, I do. It’s been fine though.

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@mweinbach It’s not been for the past couple years: once it detects your old phone is on a beta, the new iPhone prompts you to download the beta to that too

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@bzamayo Yep! I do wish they did the eSIM-only version with the bigger battery for the UK, but I suspect they're worried about regulatory concerns.

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@flameszn3 @MurchieJosh @mweinbach Double the ANC of the 2s – which makes it 4x the ANC of the OGs.

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In other words, you love yourself by loving your neighbour.

There are few consistently powerful reasons that drive big changes than doing it for the sake of those we love.

(The version – “you can’t love your neighbour until you love yourself” has it backwards.)

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Lack of direction in life often comes from lack of genuine love for people around you; if you have a bunch of people you care about and want to support, it's only natural that you strive to become a healthier, smarter, wealthier version of yourself, or you will let them down.

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My favourite thing on alcohol is by GK Chesterton: “Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world.”

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@9to5mac @ChanceHMiller Still only in the US, apparently. Not in the UK, at any rate.

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@findmyke @nandoprince93 @BenQAmerica That still works actually as long as the window is still on screen. It only stops when you take it off screen.

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@e_valroj @AJWTheology Wait, they’re online??? Where?

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@OrdinaryInds Experienced an extreme form of this: installed betas immediately but my Watch battery completely crashed for 2 days. But then it completely stabilised yesterday, just as I was beginning to properly worry.

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@MaxJmb @mweinbach It was rough for me the first few hours, but that’s expected after a new update. It seems to be sorting itself out now. I’ve checked online and see no complaints from others!

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@hiAndrewQuinn I think you overlooked the most important bit: ads subsidise whole swathes of products and services most people couldn’t afford otherwise. They’re why we always gotten newspapers for cheap and TV (and now social media) for free.

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You can turn off this particular feature in the Maps settings (Settings > Apps > Maps > Apple Intelligence & Siri will take you to the image below), and you can either turn off “Learn from this app” or any combo of the options in “Suggestions” (the Home Screen one will turn off the one you mention in your post).

Also, for what it’s worth, personalised features, like locating your parked car, are created directly on your device and don’t leave your phone at all. And the data that Apple does collect is not linked to you, not just out of the goodness of their heart – their business model is such that they’d gain nothing from linking it.

The “monitoring” is key to what makes smartphones “smart.” You can turn it off if you’re worried but that would reduce a lot of the functionality you probably find useful. As another commenter notes, this isn’t advanced AI as much as basic pattern recognition, which allows the phone to surface useful info when you need it.

More here https://t.co/tDUpBvonhZ