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.

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

@sujato.bsky.social

Are you now on Signal again?

I spent the last three months in Australia, visiting a number of monasteries and temples. I also spent a week on tudong north of Sydney. People were kind and generous everywhere. Thank you!

Spending countless hours translating the Buddha, one thing stands out. He doesn’t join conversation without uplifting it with something meaningful and beneficial.

I am working out of a public library and there are a good number of people who seem to be on hard times using the facilities for various reasons like job searching, entertainment, charging peripherals, using the bathroom, etc., and I am struck by how important it is that libraries continue to exist

Today, I left Seattle after visited Ajahn Kovilo, Ajahn Nisabho and the Clear Mountain community (www.clearmountainmonastery.org).

Yesterday, I arrived in Portland after a week long train ride journey starting in Boston. Midway, I was invited by a group of lay people for a Q&A in Michigan.

A couple days ago I left the US northeast and started heading westward via train. I plan on arriving on the west coast by Tuesday.