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Are there any photo print/card companies that *don’t* reserve rights to use your photos to train AI?

“Historians, librarians and volunteers are racing to document museum displays and historical records they fear the Trump administration will remove or alter.”

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-04/volunteers-race-preserve-history-museums-national-parks-trump

Sharing this poem to remind you all to make the most of the last days of stone fruit season! 🍑

From Blossoms
Li-Young Lee, 1957
From blossoms comes
this brown paper bag of peaches we bought from the boy
at the bend in the road where we turned toward signs painted Peaches.
From laden boughs, from hands, from sweet fellowship in the bins, comes nectar at the roadside, succulent peaches we devour, dusty skin and all, comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.
O, to take what we love inside, to carry within us an orchard, to eat not only the skin, but the shade, not only the sugar, but the days, to hold the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into the round jubilance of peach.
There are days we live as if death were nowhere in the background; from joy to joy to joy, from wing to wing, from blossom to blossom to impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.

The world may be chaotic and unpredictable, but a sweet treat, a walk outside, a good book, and a nap will never let you down

Becoming a parent is realizing you’ve gone from main character to backstory

AGI is always about 50-100 years away. Short enough to seem exciting, long enough that the hype men won’t live to see their predictions fall short https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/115129673045360506

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Google 'our AI just drinks teeny weeny sips of water' quietly removes net-zero carbon goal from website amid rapid power-hungry, water-guzzling AI data center buildout — industry-first sustainability pledge moved to background amidst AI energy crisis

Google, Google, Google

Google senior executives super enthusiastic to endorse Trump admin's claim that coal is super clean.

Google. Google. Google.

Don't be evil, Google.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/google-quietly-removes-net-zero-carbon-goal-from-website-amid-rapid-power-hungry-ai-data-center-buildout-industry-first-sustainability-pledge-moved-to-background-amidst-ai-energy-crisis

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"Buffy the COVID Slayer: Sarah Michelle Gellar posts masked selfie on set of reboot"

"I will wear a mask in my shower if that means I don't get this again" said Sarah Michelle Gellar after recovering from COVID-19.

Source: https://archive.md/iTPlt

@auscovid19

“I realize I’ve been really quiet on here. After two and a half years COVID finally got me. Thankfully I’m vaccinated and boosted,” she wrote on her Instagram Story. “But to those out there that say ‘it’s just a cold’ …maybe for some lucky people it is. But for this (relatively) young fit person, who has struggled with asthma and lung issues her entire life, that is not my experience.”

“Even with therapeutics and all my protocols it’s been tough. I know I’m on the road to recovery, but it’s certainly not been an easy road. I’ll be back soon (hopefully with super antibodies…even if just for a bit),” Gellar continued. “To quote a friend of mine – ‘I will wear a mask in my shower if that means I don’t get this again.'”

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Article from The #Verge a few days ago, cited by @pluralistic in his post about #Wikipedia

Worth reading in full (audio version also available).

#pressfreedom #neutrality

https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales

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The published version of my April 2024 talk, "Generative AI is Doomed" 🤖📉

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4802313

@vicgrinberg @DrFerrous I’d stay home as well. And remind students you encourage them to do the same if not feeling well. Help protect the health of the school community together!

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finally (after literally everyone else *) I got my print copy of The Secret Rules of the Terminal!

https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal/

(* or I hope after literally everyone else, please send us a support email if you didn't get your preordered copy yet!)

The Secret Rules of the Terminal, by Julia Evans - The cover illustration depicts three people doing arcane terminal magic in a temple with a smoking censer in the background. Each of the three people has curly brown hair and light brown skin. They are all wearing dresses, billowing cloaks, and utility belts with keyboard symbols on them. The one on the left holds a palette of paints and a brush. The one on the right has a staff with a $ symbol on it and a starfish at the top. The one in the centre has a sword and is reading from a book whose cover says “>_” and “./”, which rests on a lectern with a smiling snake wrapped around it.

Text: another Supreme Court news day

Image: sad Kermit the frog doll

I will vote for any candidate that can do these 3 things:

1. Stop the authoritarian takeover of America

2. Restore and revitalize public services

3. Don’t spam my phone

The annoying thing about AI is that the tech is exciting and full of potential! But the hype cycle incentivizes companies to build
increasingly asinine, useless, and harmful applications.

Silicon Valley execs will not be giving their kids AI toys that risk their emotional development. But they’ll gladly sell them to yours.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-barbie-dolls

Just saw a trend described as “recession-core” so, yes, we are doomed

@Canevecchio @Flux will read! Thanks for the rec.

We Lived Happily during the War
Ilya Kaminsky, 1977
And when they bombed other people's houses, we
protested
but not enough, we opposed them but not
enough. I was
in my bed, around my bed America
was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house.
I took a chair outside and watched the sun.
In the sixth month
of a disastrous reign in the house of money
in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us)
lived happily during the war.

I’m not saying he’s definitely going to accidentally sell Alaska back to Russia, but…

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