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How to opt out of Gmail smart features and AI training Once again, Google has decided for you that your data is its toy. Here's how to stop Gmail from training its AI on your email.

Gmail user? How to opt out of them training their AI on your inbox:
#privacy #AI #futureama

Vance Says He Hopes His Wife Embraces Christianity, Setting Off Backlash

…instead we have a “JD” ‘splaining superior “faith” to wife

#nokings
Edmonds, WA USA

@indivisible.org
@ricksteves.bsky.social

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day. Jews and Palestinians are both indigenous to the region.

How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution — The Atlantic The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.

Illuminating backstory of the Declaration of Independence and American Revolution in relation to #IndigenousPeoplesDay

Access via your The Atlantic or Apple News subscription #LegitJournalism

Biden's Final Numbers - FactCheck.org Statistical indicators of President Biden's four years in office.

Living during this post-fact age, actually, not a bad time to, you know, look at the data 🤔

A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech

The award-winning novelist and veteran tech activist Cory Doctorow has written millions of words in his nearly four-decade career. Now he's best known for a single one: "Enshittification." How did he get here? My profile: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

‘tis an ill wind that blows no minds.

(Shakespeare did not say. Or did he?)

Nazi interrupts psych 210 class gets predictable response

This is truly remarkable.

Now that everyone knows the Hamas devotees on the Gaza flotilla lost their collective homophobic shit over there being Queer activists on board, let’s talk about the other shit your heroes support 👇

Seriously, is it still not understood that Hamas tries to intercept and control all incoming aid to distribute to their men, for bribes, and for money to buy arms?

At least two people have been killed in an attack at a U.K. synagogue The attack took place outside a synagogue in Manchester. Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the attack "appalling" and "all the more horrific" for taking place on Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day.

So far, little coverage of this terrorist attack. Why?
Just doing my part to shine a light here

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kip...

Take regular breaks, go outside, take in autumn colors, smell the air
🍂🍃🍁

#pnw #fallcolors #selfcare #nature

When will we learn to stand with imperfect allies

THINGS BEHIND THINGS BEHIND THINGS by Bon Iver on Apple Music Song · 2024 · Duration 3:20

Seeing,
Seeing,
Contemplation,
without paranoia without assertions

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

Disney (owns Hulu, abc, espn) is a children’s entertainment company who folded to a corrupt pedophile and his lieutenants. In lead-up to Putin‘s authoritarian oligarchy rule of Russia, he canceled all media comedians who were critical. Playbook
#cancel #abc #disney #kirk

Looking up into #redwoods. #Yosemite national Park.

Inner peace creates peace in the world.

#peace #meditation #redwoods #Yosemite

A band of 9 Cal Scrub-Jays stopped by (Western Washington) on their migration south
#PNW #birdfeeders #corvids

"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Feed cleanser.
Pluviophile. Who knew.
#rain #contemplation

Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

Congressional Democrats need a bulletproof budget bill plan, and vests. I would help fundraise for bodyguards and bulletproof vests if that’s what Congressional Democrats need to stand up to the GOP thugs.

Donald Trump’s plan is one that’s been repeated over and over again by dictators across history — inciting the local population before sending disrupters.

That’s how you convert a democracy into something else.

Illinois won’t fall for this ploy.

A Sitting Senator Just Went Full Mask-Off White Nationalist America, he says, isn’t an idea—and isn’t for everyone.

A Senator Just Unapologetically Declared the U.S. a White Homeland

Covering up the Epstein files. Giving tax breaks for YACHTS. Trying to rewrite January 6.

That’s what Republicans are up to. Not lowering costs. Not prioritizing public health. Not focused on you.

Ouch.
But I see your (hopefully not) timely point

But as long as you do it.
10 years ago, realized I was Trekish (not quite Trekkie) so watched each series and movie in order of release, not chrono. Except TOS, finally now watching that in order (was hit or miss after school in ‘70s). And except LD & Animated, I’m just too old 🤪

Spock: “Fascinating” Star Trek #TOS S2E9 “Metamorphosis” Dr. McCoy/Bones, Captain Kirk, Spock.

Spock: “Fascinating”
Vulcan half of Spock restrains his human half from the human habit of ready, fire, aim upon the alien sentient energy cloud.

Star Trek #TOS S2E9 “Metamorphosis”