Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models.

Be afraid, be very afraid... "i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt."

Sencha junkies

What Was ChatGPT? A Chatbot Optimized for Social Distance

Today, @hlautismactcom.parliament.uk published their report, 'Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy'. Access the full report and recommendations (including easy read report, video from the Chair, and shorthand story) here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... [1/4]

things change: authors and wizards are not always to be trusted: nobody can explain a dragon.

OMG "Drawing on a corpus of over 15,000 scholarly articles published between 1800 and 2024, we map the linguistic landscape of eugenics in scholarly discourse to reveal its institutional, scientific, and sociopolitical entrenchment." dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

About today Freeman Tilden (Btw, Tilden’s seminal 1957 book is finally! being translated into Croatian! How timely his ideas feel; sad but true.)

One of the most sublime movies I’ve seen. Achingly beautifully cinematography by Adolpho Veloso. nextbestpicture.com/the-little-e...

Sunday 📰 mailchi.mp/mrak/nedjelj...

Who do children belong to: the parents or the state? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Why do this? Slow the fuck down.

The inability to cope with the idea that we are HARMED by viral infections, unlike exposures to commensal bacteria, has contributed to social adoption of the tenet that getting sick will improve health through immunity. www.fredhutch.org/en/news/cent...

Breakdown of the social devastation

Cause of death? *slow drag on a cigarette* Groove...in the heart

AOC is far more pragmatic than her detractors and her fans think because she is interested in advancing policy outcomes.’

I come with empty hands and the desire to unbuild walls.

Subotom uveče idem u krevet u 22 s termoforom i knjigom u ruci. Mmmmmmmmm

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Cis people, how many times have you been asked to describe how you masturbate, and what you think about when you do, to access healthcare on the NHS?

CHRISTIAN DIOR, Paris (couture house), John GALLIANO (designer) Look 39 2000 {designed, The tramp collection spring-summer 2000}; made 2003 www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/coll...

About today Beware of the emotional tripwire www.theschooloflife.com/article/thre...

Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive. www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...

They line up perfectly.

On neutering resistance

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Many moons ago, I had a food blog called Mirisi, zlato i začini. A blog reader and a fan! gifted me Deborah Madison’s Vegetable Soups cookbook as a sign of gratitude for the recipes. It became my favourite place to turn to whenever I need something soothing for the heart and soul.

👏🏼the 👏🏼 state 👏🏼 is 👏🏼 not 👏🏼 a 👏🏼 household 👏🏼 or 👏🏼 a 👏🏼 business 👏🏼 and 👏🏼 should 👏🏼 not 👏🏼 be 👏🏼treated 👏🏼 like 👏🏼 either 👏🏼

The future starts with the next honest idea.

Next up: did they die *with* bird flu or *from* bird flu?

No one joins a cult willingly. A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors.

Neither grief nor pride had so much truth in them as did joy, the joy that trembled in the cold wind between sky and sea, bright and brief as fire.

Jeffrey Epstein Inbox Simulator Oh me, oh my!

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Just had a lovely chat with the uni kid who has been volunteering at a food bank in between writing essays. Young people are great! ☺️

I’ve scored the most beautiful & melancholic ugly sweater EVER!

My mind: You mean Lucifer Morningstar?

Who prioritises what? Which voters prioritise which political issues? Research agrees that issue salience i.e. how important an issue is to voters, affects vote choice by moderating the relationship between issue attitudes and vote choice www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

About today share.theschooloflife.com/article/428d...

Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Navukla sam teensa na Reformer u 7. My work here is done.

But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.

This

The heart that changed medicine. And he still lives with that same heart he received 40 years ago. news.llu.edu/patient-care...

The Stone Roses (1989) [2015 re-issiue] #music #musicsky #vinyl #vinylsky #nowplaying RIP Mani