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If you’re a Spotify premium user, and your friends are all Spotify premium users, you now have the power— courtesy of a beta Spotify feature called “group sessions. It can be any song you want, but you’ll probably want to pick the first song in some gigantic playlist you’ve created or else you’ll be summoning all your friends together for, what, three minutes or so? Up to five people in total can hang out in a group session (though the UI seems to imply five plus you, Spotify’s announcement suggests group sessions only work with two to five people in total). That means that everyone can play or pause tracks whenever they want, skip to or select a new track to play, and queue up whatever new songs they want everyone to listen to.

podcast — is that if you give someone advice, productivity or any other kind of advice, and it is not embedded in a story, then it’s not actually advice. if you’re told what to do and can’t be shown what to do and see the process of discovering what to do, then the advice just doesn’t take root in most people’s brain. is that basically the right way to give advice is to figure out what the right answer is, and then figure out how to provide an answer in a story that will make it actually applicable for people’s lives. it’s not enough to find the right advice, you have to find the right story that explains how the advice gets implemented.

But like cultivating a playlist of new music, finding the good stuff takes time and research, especially if you have eclectic tastes. This suggestion comes to us from one Dr. Bob Nicholson (who bills himself as a “Historian of Victorian Pop Culture”). He started a massive Twitter thread highlighting some of the very excellent vintage theater posters assembled by Picryl, an online resource for materials in the public domain. It’s a slightly surreal glimpse into the pop culture of the time, and a stark lesson in the ephemeral nature of ... pretty much all of human endeavor.

In iOS, the read receipts option can be toggled on or off in the Settings app, under Messages, or within individual conversations by tapping on the person or group at the top, tapping “Info,” and enabling/disabling “ This will bring up a “context menu” offering a preview of conversation thread; you’ll be able to see the new message’s entire contents and even a few previous messages—everything that fits on the screen at one time. This preview feature of-sorts only works on iPhone 6S or later, so on the off chance you still use a 6-year-old iPhone, you’re out of luck (also, it’s probably time to get a new phone). Changes including adding information to cover iPhone’s implementation of haptic touch, expanding upon and clarifying the steps involved and adding a new header image and screenshot.