Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

Just strong visceral reaction as a parent. I cannot imagine willingly allowing your kids around *any* of these humans.

WILL COCAINE MAKE COLLEGE OBSOLETE?

In the tulips. Retina iiic trix. #FolderWeek #BelieveInFilm

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

Multi-species moment while doing some work with some locally collected clay this morning.

Picked this up for $300 CAD brand new at an auction this weekend. Any Pentax 17 users with tips for this half frame delight? #believeinfilm

Couple soccer snaps on film. Minolta maxxum 7, fp4+ #believeinfilm

This is an absolutely stunning piece of research and visualisation! Tracking letters from one merchant’s company in the 14th-15th century. He was trading spices from the eastern med and importing English wool into Tuscany. Click on the link for an interactive map!

A project I’ve been involved with for 25 years ends, and I’m literally held up by one of my ex grad students at the SAAs . #🏺archaeology

Back alley snap. Minolta alpha 7, expired fp4+ #believeinfilm

It was a day of amazing talks by a group of colleagues, many of them former students, that demonstrated that being around creative and inspired people has let me be creative and created scholarly community across frontiers and languages. And showed I use many animal based metaphors: Be unicorns!

this is why we’re archaeologists, baby!!!

What is the opposite of a green leader?

Happy Friday to everyone except the Canadian oil industry, which made $1.9 billion in profits this week. 🧵 Thread...

Something so meta of having colleagues text you making fun of your floating head while you give a pre-recorded talk.

Wish I could be in San Fran with friends and colleagues, but avoiding that US border and ICE fascists. Did send a video paper for @rajoyce.bsky.social giant retirement session. What a career! (Which of course will continue for many years yet) 🏺 #Archaeology

Photos of strangers (always love passing off the Pentax 67 for folks to handle). Minolta xd11, Kodak Gold. #believeinfilm

This is not justice. You never have to listen to an Ontario Progressive Conservative talk about law & order again. Put this back in their face. Every minister, every back bencher. They all voted for secret govt.

Hey, it's Canadian Thatcher!

France announced a plan to phase out the use of coal by 2030, oil by 2045, and gas by 2050. France’s plan includes commitment to phasing out fossil fuel production, electrifying sectors like heating and transport, and helping to finance the energy transition in other countries. 👀

Vassy Kapelos: What if [a windfall profits tax on big oil] deflates them? NDP leader Avi Lewis: Tell the family where 1 in 4 Canadians is skipping a meal .. to feed their kids, that an industry making $90B in profits this year can’t afford to pay a little bit more. I’m sorry I just don’t accept it.

Pine tar and beeswax were mixed to make the protective hull coating that kept this Roman ship afloat. Archaeologists figured out the recipe by analyzing pollen samples recovered from the shipwreck! archaeology.org/news/2026/04/27/pollen-trapped-in-pitch-tracks-repairs-made-to-ancient-ship/

Mark Carney was hired by Canadians to solve a problem. The issue: the problem Carney’s intent on solving is something else entirely.

More snaps from last weekends bike race. Here with the Yashica t3 super and some expired panf+. #believeinfilm

Canadian man reading date never knows which is day and which is month unless day is above 12

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

A remarkably well-preserved Late #Neolithic flint dagger, found in Allensbach at Lake Constance, dating 2900-2800 BC. The blade was made of flint from Monte Baldo, northern Italy. It was fastened with birch tar in a handle made of elderwood. 🧵1/2 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social 🏺 #FindsFriday

Carney's appeals to nostalgia are apt, because none of his ideas are about a Canada of the future. It's all about a return to the past. Fossil fuels, big army, powerful corporations. It's all more of the same but worse. That's the Canada he's selling.

Confederation park, Hamilton. Minolta alpha 7, FP4+ (expired) #believeinfilm

The silence of the US/Canadian/European media on the role of Israel in driving the nightmare in the gulf is deafening. The complicity extends to editorial board rooms across the western nations. A powerful reflection by a global expert on fascist propaganda. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Using the Rolleiflex 2.8e for some sports photography (Portra 160/ trix) Love (love!) the Paris-Ancaster bike race. I installed myself at the “mud chute” this morning. #believeinfilm

Catching the blossoming. Bronica ETRSi (trix) and Minolta alpha 6 (panf+) #believeinfilm

Every day I watch the tech industry build The Boot On the Neck Of Humanity Machine and watch universities say “we are going to sustainably and ethically prepare our students to become innovators in The Boot On The Neck Of Humanity Machine space”

Beautiful set tonight at Massey Hall by Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman.

David Cochrane: "I never stop to be shocked at how shocked the Americans are at the logical consequences of their actions, 'Can you believe they're not selling our booze after we disrupted all of their core industries?'"

Spring popping in Gage Park Hamilton. Retina iiic Kodak Gold #believeinfilm

Heading into the last two weeks of the semester like... www.getty.edu/art/collecti... 🍷

Today is a good day for Entroducing. Timeless album.

Great stuff - now a Hamiltonian

So, an EDI argument.

Portraits of strangers. (They could not explain their top/bottom look) Confederation Park, Hamilton. Bronica ETRSi, trix. #believeinfilm

“If you ask tobacco companies to help write your school’s policy on cigarettes…you’re going to end up with guidance on how to smoke responsibly in school.”

Found the first tick on me this season. Blurgh.

This law is as authoritarian and undemocratic as anything Trump has ever pushed. Members of the Conservative party and ONLY the Conservative party are now 100% shielded from any Freedom Of Information requests from the public or reporters. And it's retroactive, too. Some real Innocent Guy shit.

Next time I rock my bottom right corner outfit, you'll know I'm in fact a Stasi agent.

This is so Wes Anderson, I can almost hear the affectless Jason Schwartzmann voiceover saying "My mother used to design undercover disguises for the Stasi"

A bike meander around Hamilton with the retina iiic and some Kodak gold. #believeinfilm

Enough with this. Nobody asked for this shitty future

We could just ... not let them do this.