Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

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I've called my reps and senators, but I know a lot of you have. PLEASE call them and let them know this is absolutely unacceptable and garbage. This has NOTHING to do with child safety and only puts ppls personal information at risk!

We have a chance of removing the Online Safety Act!

Any UK residents, PLEASE take the time to fill out the whole form. If we want to remove ID verification on websites that actually don't need it, we need to take action NOW!

He’s a man and married to Rhea Ripley, the dream goth mommy of many queer women.

It’s a sham run by a Holocaust denier. The “women’s rights” portion is three paragraphs of transphobia, but nothing about employment, reproductive health care, sexual harassment, etc. There’s an entire page based on COVID vaccine conspiracies.

www.igv.family/post/vaccine1

Photo of the South of Scotland regional ballot paper for the Scottish election on 7th May 2026. Added text identifies the "INDEPENDENT GREEN VOICE" as "NOT the Green Party" and "SCOTTISH GREEN PARTY" as "The actual Green Party".

Anyone who received their postal ballot today in the South of Scotland region, please be aware that "Independent Green Voice", which appears second on the list on the peach regional ballot paper, is NOT the Scottish Green Party. This is in fact a deliberate vote spoiling attempt by right-wingers.

Lyme disease on the rise as climate change expands tick range Spring is in the air, bringing with it green leaves, colorful flowers and — unfortunately — ticks. And with ticks, Lyme disease.

Ticks and Lyme disease are seeing range expansion due to climate change. This isn’t a new idea!

healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/04...

That is one small aspect of this article. Do you think that insect ranges are somehow unaltered by climate change…?

'A warmer, sicker world': Mosquitoes carrying deadly diseases are on an unstoppable march across the US West Nile virus, Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), malaria and dengue are gaining new ground in the US. The mosquitoes that carry these diseases are thriving in a warming world.

You may be aware that mosquitoes and the diseases they carry are expanding in range due to climate change. It’s the same thing happening with screwworms.

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What’s insane about the ranges of many animals, including screwworms, being changed by climate change? Habitat displacement one of the biggest threats climate change poses. Why do you *think* screwworms are expanding northward?

BLUESKY IS A WEBSITE THAT TURNS (post by jay.bsky.team claiming that bluesky is made with AI) INTO (picture of bluesky not working)

Post by treesq.bsky.social reading: The very direct causal link between climate change(and that includes our current droughts) and animal agriculture is so well established by science that I'm not going to argue with you about it. I literally organized an entire symposium around it. If you want to deny it, I'll just block you.

Oh, you’re a climate denialist?? Since they blocked you, I’ll let you see this and I endorse the message.

Trump’s climate denial may help a livestock-killing pest make a comeback Climate change could be helping the flesh-eating screwworm fly spread, undoing decades of progress — and the USDA isn’t doing anything about it.

Um, are you sure those aren’t related?

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Maxmaxxing is a scam by big big to sell you more more

Notice about adding arbitration provisions to your online banking agreement, explaining rights, disputes, and opt-out info.

https://social.lol/@rpm/116330374559525058 If you're a Bank of America customer go to https://bankofamerica.com/arbitration-optout today and opt our of their new arbitration agreement that would take away your rights.

a robot with the letters gt on the front of it Alt: The super robot Gunbuster rising up with its arms crossed.

Gunbuster

Congratulations to you and the newlyweds!

Tumblr user thereisselfpreservation "I'm seeing warnings about scammers trying to commission artists but the "reference sheet" for their character they want commissioned isn't an image but a .vbs file ("visual basic script"), and will run a script when you open it, probably to yoink your account(s), but I haven't seen this from anyone who's actually clicked it yet. Just be careful and never open a file like that, 'cause people suck." Reply from the same user: "For reference (heh)" Screenshots of messages. Sender: "Okay, I've sent it now." There's a file attachment called "Shork_YCH_MyReference_v1.vbs". The vbs extension is circled. Sender: "If everything is in order, I can send the overpayment." Sender, in reply to the file attachment (again with the vbs extension circled): "How much would the full piece cost?" thereisselfpreservation: "At a glance, the file name checks out. But!! do not open a .vbs file!!!

You should know that the infamous I Love You virus uses the same trick - Always make sure to turn on 'show file extensions' in your windows/browser settings.

this bit is important: this isn’t a “I shouldn’t give money to this homeless person, what if he’s lying and spends it on drugs” situation, it’s “I shouldn’t give money to this homeless person, what if he’s lying and spends it on another wing for his slave labor camp”

If you’ve been moved & inspired by Artemis, NASA needs your help. Literally during A2, the president proposed cutting NASA science 47%, canceling 54 missions, including many already in-flight. To help stop these cuts, check out @planetarysociety.bsky.social www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...

They didn’t choose to ban wrestling—the city of Berwyn pulled their license after the police and lawyers got involved.

The city of Berwyn pulled the Berwyn Eagles Club’s license after the police got involved. It wasn’t the management’s decision. (To be fair, Tony could probably pay them enough to reconsider.)

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Illinois Senate Illinois’ comeback story starts here.

Illinoisans, find your state senator at www.illinoispolicy.org/maps/illinoi... and tell them to oppose SB 3444.

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Ildar Ibatullin (@_ibatullin_ildar_) • Instagram 48,885 Followers - 202 Posts - "The Moon is far from being a single color. Its mineral composition reflects a complex geological history etched into the…"

I need people to know that the photos of colourful moon are not from Artemis II. They were made by a Ukrainian photographer, who enhanced the colours of the moon's surface to represent its mineral composition.

I can't stand to see an individual work be misattributed and misrepresented like this.

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For folks who don't know, I make a quarterly strip for Cornell's Living Bird magazine, and it's so fun to do.

I replied to you because you said you were trying to *get people to panic*, and I think that’s counterproductive. I haven’t seen anyone else spell that out as their intent in posting. No picking-on intended, just hoping to help you find more effective ways to drive action.