@Ayzacoder: Attention if you have a Gmail account:
Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.
Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
The Trump administration is asking #SCOTUS to put back into effect its executive order giving the USPS more control over mail-in voting.
Today's bonus "One First" explains why this is a purely procedural dispute at this juncture (about standing/ripeness)—albeit one the government should still lose:
Bonus 241: The Mail-In Voting ...
In case you were wondering...
https://www.usluck.com/869741/major-repurcussions/ Major repurcussions! #Humor #Political #PoliticalHumor
@Nickiquote This one's for you! I am now quite certain this is indeed the very same powerful owl each time, in the same location. I love the expression in the last photo.
Good morning from Wollongong, everybody!
Flock managed a shocking 29% accuracy rate reading license plates, a product that puts people in jail, or worse: https://www.businessinsider.com/flock-camera-misread-license-plate-reader-california-roseville-police-2026-7
Tech companies will sell completely broken non-functional products when they think they can get away with it. "It doesn't work" should never be our only critique of tech, but it's vital to point out when something does not in fact work; we should never automatically concede their default claims that their products work perfectly or even reasonably well.
Today’s smile
The pro Israel platform Stop Antisemitism launched an incitement campaign against popular American children’s content creator Miss Rachel, urging parents to keep their children away from her content and describing her as "nothing more than a fraud."
The campaign followed a post by Miss Rachel in which she asked: "Does the Israeli government have a communication problem?" before answering: "No, it has a genocide problem."
The platform wrote on its X account: "Miss Rachel is nothing but a larper. Keep your children away from her content."
radaronline.com/p/trump-back...
Yikes I can’t imagine being around that 🤢
#Blues
'This Is Not Normal': Trump Fa...
The cybersecurity firm Cloudflare reports what we all suspected: that bots outnumber humans online. According to the company’s Radar dashboard, bots account for 57.5% of all HTTP requests to HTML content, with humans lagging behind at 42.5%. It’s a bot-eat-bot World Wide Web.
Just think, there are enough vacant homes in the U.S. that every homeless person could have multiple vacation homes, just like the billionaires do... except for the fact that those vacant homes are owned by those billionaires and deliberately kept vacant.
New on my blog: On the Joys of Imperfection
Italy putting nearly all major cities on highest heat alert
Some 19 major Italian cities - including Rome, Milan and Naples - are already on red alert, and by Monday all but two will be.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr7k4gdrgljo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
For at least twenty years, in every hotel I've stayed in, if there's a Bible I've signed it 'Cheers for believing, all the best, Jesus'. As a full-time touring musician it's well past the thousand mark by now.
@davidtheeviloverlord
Found an article about Anthropic's theory that the stolen sci-fi rich tech bros are training their AI on is teaching them to be "evil". I've noticed quite a bit of AI sci-fi plagiarism in my own testing of frontier models. I doubt many of the tech bros have read enough to even notice their cognitive offloading to systems regurgitating dystopian fiction.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/anthropic-blames-dystopian-sci-fi-for-training-ai-models-to-act-evil/
Dozens injured as earthquake hits near Naples in seismic swarm | Earthquakes | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/01/scores-injured-as-earthquake-hits-near-naples-in-seismic-swarm