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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

No AI. Our games are hand-drawn, animated and coded by the finest dinosaur experts in all the land. Pictured: the finest dinosaur expert at work

Currently, complete fossils of human beings are very rare; the most complete ones discovered are only two. One is crystallized in calcite at the bottom of a cave, the only one with a preserved skull, and the other was found on the seabed, which offers a glimpse of the outline of the human body.

this is basically the most effective thing you as an individual can do to fuck with ICE and good on this dude for dedicating his retirement to fucking with them

Cannot be stressed enough that Black trans women were immediately sidelined in the early 2020s. Just pushed out of the convo immediately, even though transmisogynoir has always been an emergency and Black trans women are disproportionately targeted

This lil drawing I made for the first TDOR I was out for. So many complicated feelings with today. Hoping you are alive and well today.

She moves slowly

Asterion

we must abolish ICE

A Chinese immigrant named Chaofeng Ge died in ICE custody. He was found hanging with his hands and feet tied behind him in the “hog tie” position. Deaths within these camps continue to rise, with more people dying in the last nine months than in the entire previous four years. Abolish ICE

Black Friday raiders! Starting today, the Bread Wyrm's store will offer a 10% discount on all books for a whole week. Come grab some! And don't mind the giant corrosive fire-breathing dragon in the corner. I told him you're cool. thebreadwyrm.com

I will die. I cannot repeat this often enough. I require dialysis to live. It costs $1000 per treatment. I need treatment three times per week. Without Medicaid, I can't afford it. Without my treatment, I will die. Republicans are trying to kill me.

Very hungry caterpillar

🌿 weeds in the garden...? #b3d #pokemon #art

i like following people's ocs and wols but i never really comment on anything about them because what if i got something wrong about them and a trap door opens under my feet with crocodiles waiting for me

Neighbor Indicted in Murder of ‘King of the Hill’ Star Jonathan Joss www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Nadja, typical sailor type, enamored with a terrifying thing you only find in the middle of the ocean

Remember: don't eat the mid tier fast food chicken, don't play the wizard game, don't shop at the hobby store run by the bad guys from Indiana Jones, and don't donate to the bigot bucket.

Sure, conservatives are in the middle of a gleeful orgy of corruption, kidnapping, rape, and murder, but the real problem is when liberals say it's bad.

the mind of the artist

Cyclist turns down trans exclusionary honour for woman cyclists (and you can feel the BBC’s teeth grinding about it). "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".

the sudden break of all the republicans in congress on this, along with trump's sudden change in attitude over the release of these files, tells me that they have figured out some bullshit to give him cover

I think the word you’re looking for is “kept”

My oldest OC, Nadja Hikmat, with a storied history. Here she is. Sundari’s mother. 🤭🍯

pretty much beyond question that Larry Summers led the charge against Claudine Gay because he is personally a vitriolic misogynist and racist www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...

The problem with having rather openly purged DOJ of all but the most shameless stooges and loyalists is precisely this: Even once the Epstein files are released, why would anyone believe that release is complete and undoctored?

I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say. "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

vampires

Man-made horrors beyond comprehension, and an extremely deep lore callback. Readers of this comic often ask the characters about their favorite animals, likely because they are Creature Enthusiasts, but Idrisah is the only one of the main cast who is a fellow Creature Enthusiast.

Earlier this year I drew this magnificent Metallyticus splendidus. I'm very pleased with how it turned out. That's all.

"But there is a humility to using gar as a yardstick, as these are long-lived animals. You do not rebuild a century-fish’s prospects in a single season. That is why the team keeps returning, and why this story is still being written." They're like LOTR elves. 🥹 SingGAR or VanGAR, perhaps.

In newly reconnected backwaters of the Lower Mississippi River, an ancient fish finds its way home www.nfwf.org/media-center... Update on National Fish & Wildlife Foundation and partners’ Mississippi River floodplain restoration work!

I wish we, like, regulated shit nowadays. Between car bloat, blinding headlines, and neighbourhoods packed with rental suites but no on-property parking, driving is an absolute nightmare now.

Motivational Mucus! Behold the glorious Pigbutt Worm (Chaetopterus pugaporcinus) #TidalFarce #SciArt #comic 🦑 more info about this critter -> tidalfarce.com/index.html?p...

This morning, there was a public hearing at Bessemer City Hall in Alabama to discuss the zoning of a new data center, which would likely cause the extinction of a newly-discovered small endemic fish, the Birmingham Darter. Best of luck to the fish people. abc3340.com/news/abc-334...

a cool thing that happened is ppl destroyed a remnant prairie at Rockford Airport. While the rusty-patch bumblebee foraged there, there was no proof it *nested* there. So 💥 Publications only had proof they nested in forests This paper would have saved the prairie link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Kneesvember 2025 Day 11

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Kind of feels like the IOC expected for the study to say "yeah trans women are like the hulk somehow" and when it completely undercut the reasoning behind banning us. They have simply elected to ignore their own work.

The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.

'I'll stop being in the news but I'll continue doing sexual harassment'

The story isn't so much that a senile rapist is having his inhibitory impulse filters dissolve, but that the media *does not seem to have a problem with this* Think about how journalists who don't lick boots, would respond to this at that moment.

some more concepts for my botw2 project (complete totk overhaul, world, design, narrative, gameplay etc) here some bits for the reworked sky area "yellow" (bc im adding dif bioms) featuring an ancient monk NPC that lets you register tamed birds #art #fanart #zelda #botw2 (idk what tag to use lol)

Hello internets, there's a paleontological museum in danger of being closed. Please help.

Finally came up with a composition to have a take on Giganotosaurus! The group behavior based on the remains of Mapusaurus seemingly showcasing that lifestyle. Otherwise, I always love reflections and unconventional approaches to showcasing well known animals! #paleoart #paleosky #giganotosaurus