Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation. That means Gemini seeing who you know and what you do. You likely have tens or hundreds of thousands of photos. They’re all exposed if you update.

We’re talking Personal Intelligence, Google’s latest AI upgrade path which lets users opt-in to connecting Google apps to Gemini. Why search for a doctor’s appointment when Google has access to all your calendar events. Why search for a party invite when it reads all your emails. And why search for a specific photo of you and your loved ones to create an image, when it sees all your photos.

This is the latest iteration in the ongoing battle between convenience and privacy playing out on our phones and computers. “Previously, to get a result that felt truly personal, you had to write long, detailed descriptions and manually upload a reference photo just to give Gemini the right context.” Not any more, Google says. Its AI can scan everything to form its own views of you and everyone you know."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/04/20/google-starts-scanning-all-your-photos-as-new-update-goes-live/

#AI #GenerativeAI #Google #Gemini #Privacy #DataProtection

#FossilFuels - Our World in Data

This is a metric often missed in the west’s attempt to blame #China and other #AsianCountires for having he temerity to want to develop. #Australia is often overlooked as being the second biggest culprit behind the #US. #Europe isn’t innocent either.

https://ourworldindata.org/fossil-fuel

#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #GreenhouseGases

California lawmakers are fast-tracking AB 1709—a sweeping bill that would ban anyone under 16 from using social media and force every user, regardless of age, to verify their identity before accessing social platforms. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/act-now-stop-californias-paternalistic-and-privacy-destroying-social-media-ban

please don't tell me to read that great essay on why AI is so bad, when it features:

> I use AI tools sparingly for assistance while refactoring code in languages I understand. I occasionally use it to help compose command line arguments for tools like ffmpeg.

straight after why not to use it

YOU CAN LITERALLY NOT DO ANY OF THAT AND NOT MISS A THING

and directly before

> The explosion of AI has played a significant role in my own burnout.

i mean,