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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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Screenshot of TikTok's Privacy Settings that's given them permission for AI to remix everything you've ever posted on TikTok . "Allow AI To remix content" is toggled on and there a red circle drawn around to highlight

Between this & TikTok quietly adding your permission to "allow AI to remix content" on every picture/video you've ever posted, we're doomed. With TikTok, you have to go into every post individually & change the permission and there's nowhere to turn that permission off for future posts.

OS map of The Wrekin (a hill in Shropshire, UK), containing features named "Hell Gate", "Heaven Gate", "Raven's Bowl" and "Needle's Eye"

it's utter chaos up there, choose your gate

heated chivalry

The dude directly in front of the Artemis plushie has a Sailor Moon lanyard so that is probably his. Fucking beautiful.

Gosford Park (2001)

Gosford World (2015)

Gosford World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

Bugs bunny in a suit meme saying "I wish all aces a very pleasant international asexuality day"

Happy international asexuality day!!! 🖤💜🤍

Promotional photo for the mini-drama Sharp Downpour.

Promotional photo for the mini-drama Sharp Downpour.

xuan lu is that you

John Waters standing beside a wall with a sign that says: The John Waters Restrooms. All Gender. Not my photo.

In 2000, John Waters donated 372 pieces of his art collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art. They named a rotunda after him in their gallery. He requested an all-gender restroom be named for him instead. #BOTD

A screenshot of the part of the accessibility settings with the option of “Require alt text before posting” selected

Reminder: including alt-text on your images is helpful in many ways! It increases accessibility, can add context/detail, makes search more effective, & can improve your reach (a lot of us won’t re-share images without alt-text). If you set it as required in accessibility settings, you can’t forget!

Wang Yibo - Like the Sunshine - translated English/Ch/Pinyin lyrics YouTube video by Caroline Avawtsn

It's Easter and also Qingming, and a friend just got Like the Sunshine (像阳光那样） in my head so you're all getting the link to Caroline's translation again because this song and translation were like a prayer to me, at one of the hardest times in my life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QkL...

nancy sluggo olivia jaimes and caroline cash holding hands and skipping in front of a banner that reads "how life is when you don't read the comments"

newest Nancy ends with one of the most important panels ever, what a gift from @cashbrowns.bsky.social

Perplexity's "Incognito Mode" is a "sham," lawsuit says Google, Meta, and Perplexity accused of sharing millions of chats to increase ad revenue.

Perplexity’s “Incognito Mode” is a “sham,” lawsuit says

Google, Meta, and Perplexity accused of sharing millions of chats to increase ad revenue.

Say no to Palantir in the NHS NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

UK peeps!
Important shit.
Takes a couple of minutes.

The War You’re Not Allowed to See: How the UAE Rewrites the Story of Iranian Strikes - bellingcat A review of official statements shows that the public account does not always align with what can be observed through open sources.

As Iranian drones target the UAE, Bellingcat reveals a number of instances where authorities downplayed damage and mischaracterised interceptions. Meanwhile the UAE’s attorney general warned that publication of images or videos of strikes is illegal. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/04...

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A deadly bacterial disease is returning, doctors warn, as vaccination rates fall Hib once killed 1,000 children a year, permanently disabling many more. Doctors who've never seen the disease say the comeback is changing the way they practice medicine.

“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.”

-Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University

This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.

PSA: Anyone with a link can view your Granola notes by default Double-check your Granola settings.

Whoops the buzzy AI notetaking app is a privacy minefield that also trains on your notes www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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Illustrated poster for inQ! London's Queer Comic Fair. At the top, the text says "London's Queer Comics Fair is Back" There is a circle on the top-right corner that says "Free Entry" in it. The image has a person with their back us, wearing a leather jacket. The leather jacket has inclusive, LGBTQ+ and progressive patches on the sleeves. On the back of the jacket it has the text "26 + 27 Sept 2026. inQ! London LGBTQ+ Community Centre. 60-62 Hopton St. SE1 9JH. 10:30am to 5:30pm. The person is reading a comic. In the background is the London landscape.

London’s Queer Comic Fair is back with a WHOLE WEEKEND of queer comics joy this September 26th and 27th 2026. Double the comic fair fun!

Entry is FREE. We’re family friendly so bring all your friends. Tell everyone! Get excited! inQ! is BACK!

[Poster by the brilliant @kitsuneart.bsky.social]

The exhibition on the second floor shows devils created by folk masters, craftsmen, and authors of professional art, which were donated to the museum after the death of the initiator of the collection A. Žmuidzinavičius. The collection increased intensively in the 1970s and 1980s. The prevailing political system at that time was favourable for making this mythological character popular. It was not merely an artefact illustration of the past time folklore. The character of a devil became a convenient reflection of Soviet ideology to introduce the Catholic faith as a rudiment of the past to be destroyed. Anyone could make fun of the faith by portraying a devil, and it was a funny joke to impart to a negative character an "innocent" transformation into a cheerful, naive, trustworthy, charismatic, or even sympathetic personage. At that time, there was an increase in the production of folk art souvenirs with devil images (medals, wooden masks, sculptures, ceramic vases, mugs, candlesticks, whistles, cups), which were purchased as merry holiday gifts.

On the third floor, the gifts donated by foreign visitors are shown. These are devils and masks from the European, American, Asian, African countries. The exhibits help to reveal the concept of a devil in the ethnography of the nations of the world, demonological beings, celebrations. They are displayed according to foreign countries from which the objects have come to the museum. Most of the exhibited works are the gifts of visitors.

A fine fellow in my Insta comments told me about the Devil Museum in Kaunas, Lithuania, home to over 3000 demonic items. It's going on The List. Particularly fond of the accordion guy...

No one needs to know what Graham Linehan thinks in 2026, you can stop screenshotting him now

I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence -but we are as valuable as ever| Stephen Marche The Guardian The, GuardianOpinions

You wrote a novel using AI? Cool. It's like that time I ran a marathon using a Ford Focus.

Oh here we go, another nostalgic feast