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Yeah you def need the right conditions.

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Imma use the 24TB NAS I already have but totally.

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Yeah I guess I was just using the term that gets used. UHD I guess.

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Why did this take me so long to do? I don't think I realized that you can get a little box that accepts the coax input, connects to your network, and streams the over-the-air signal to phones and Apple TV and the like.

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Turns out you can just put an HDTV antenna in your attic and have television.

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Discussed some of this in the comments to the article.

Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 19/09/2026

I thought this story would be what I was waiting for but it is profoundly not. Has anyone posted actual image comparisons of the variable aperture settings? Absolutely bananas that Apple didn’t show this but hey.

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It took just one photo for me to realize the awesome power of the iPhone 18 Pro's variable aperture

Here is the tale of my first day with the iPhone 18 Pro Max's new variable aperture and why it's such a game-changer.

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 19/09/2026

In this thread, Nathan Altice, a UC Santa Cruz teaching professor, describes his experience inside the research-teaching mismatch of the American research university. His account strikes me as paradigmatic.

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 18/09/2026

I wrote about how American college, a bundle of competing and largely unrelated missions, became incompatible with itself. (Gift link)

Successive, overlapping crises reveal that American higher education makes no sense.

College Is Coming Apart

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 19/09/2026

Thanks for sharing your experience in these posts.

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 18/09/2026

I wrote about how American college, a bundle of competing and largely unrelated missions, became incompatible with itself. (Gift link)

Successive, overlapping crises reveal that American higher education makes no sense.

College Is Coming Apart

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Ian Bogost @ibogost.com · 18/09/2026

This is SO Knowledge Navigator-coded in its diction. "Your wife, Nicki, sent you a message saying..." Surely this is intentional?

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Been a while since this has happened.

Yeah. It's mostly been entry into the club since the start. We pretended it was for everyone, for a while—and need-blind admissions and aid are still an example of that. But even those just provide entry into the club.

Yes. Different topic, in essence. I've written about "college life" several times before: Even if you do not attend a residential 4-year college, that concept guides the whole sector—and indeed a great deal of American life. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

America Will Sacrifice Anything for the College Experience

The pandemic has revealed that higher education was never about education.

I willingly embrace my own banality.

I will be doing a live Q&A about this story at 1pm ET today. Just go to the article and it will tell you what to do! (Note that you need to be subscriber to The Atlantic to use our discussion features.)

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I can see that. I wonder if we have the ability to set AI in drop.

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American college has faced three successive crises: COVID, the Trump research-funding chaos, and artificial intelligence. Together, the three have revealed that higher education is a bundle of incompatible missions. That tenuous marriage is unraveling—and has been for a long time.

Successive, overlapping crises reveal that American higher education makes no sense.

College Is Coming Apart

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Apple One is a real disappointment. I don't want all of the services, but I'd pay Apple more than I do for a bundle if the bundle had services I actually want.

People, myself included, are trying to understand why streaming services feel like a rip-off compared to prior (and yes, systemically different) paid television-entertainment options. The fact that there are differences is the reason to do the comparison.

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I can't do this anymore.

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Right. But interesting that, at least in theory, the adjusted cost of cable TV is roughly the same as it was 35 years ago.

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Not including internet tho, right? Just if you also subscribe to broadband?

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