Chris Burnham

Goddamn kids keep stealing my Xerosic’s Machinations

Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. 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. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.

If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

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Colin MacNeil the Judge Dredd guy? Oh mannnn you’ve got a whole lot of great comics to look forward to!

YET

The "Frieren Looking Up" Art Trend attracted some Big Names in Animation! Excited for Season 2?

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Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.

Gmail users!!

They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.

Pass it on!!

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Whoa congrats!!!

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.

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nostalgia is a scam invented by big new to sell more old

I got my Event Horizon comps today! The art in the actual book looks fucking diseased! I want to read it with dishgloves on so I don’t get infected! Good work, Tristan Jones!

Maroon security password

I want to only look good in a 1cm square

Ugh fine just get it over with

Event Horizon Dark Descent #3 by @cjward.bsky.social, @tristansbones.bsky.social, @pipmartin.bsky.social & Alex Ray. We are in the hell dimension now and the shit has hit the fan. This comic is so brutal! Variant cover by @theburnham.bsky.social #EventHorizon #DarkDescent #IDW #Comics #Comicsky

I did! I did not enjoy explaining it to Erin, though. “Uhhh, that woman he’s setting on fire is a doppelgänger of his one true love that he accidentally killed and then had to re-kill when she came back as a zombie. He’s mad that her roommate charged him for sex. Metaphorically?”

Hey nerds, are Michele Soavi’s Italian police movies worth tracking down?

WHATTTTTTT

Damn LEGO Pokémon coming out next year. Maybe they’ll cancel each other out and I’ll spend no money on it at all..?

He pointed to the red flannel guy and said “Probably the brains.”

I’ve never seen it, but that’s one of the best posters of all time.

That Frankenstein scene, goofy as it is, really got under my skin. Hit me at the perfect age I guess. The silly sound effects and music and Zack Galligan mugging for the camera while the doctor’s head was being crushed… my brain couldn’t handle the tonal contrast!

@hellocookie.bsky.social my 7yo gives Racc Pack the thumbs up and immediately asked for the sequel!

We went MO. We stopped near Hannibal to pee!

What are the consequences for doing this stuff?

I never skipped a single class in college and read all but one book. (Apologies to Professor Chaves, but The Tale of Genji was just too long!)

It's a very boring drive. I'm not sure where MO ends and IL begins!

My anecdotal observation is that every time I make the drive from KC to Chicago there are more and more wind farms. Are my eyes right?

Just cut the left half

I was cursing god for creating oak trees when I shoulda been cursing the devil for creating lawns.