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Gmail users!!

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

Pass it on!!

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
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.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Trump’s attempts to dehumanize large segments of the American people in order to use military force against them fits the classic definition of “tyranny,” and right wing rhetoric using the phrase “third world” to justify it is no accident (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Tyrant Test
A leader who uses military force to suppress his political opposition ought to lose the right to govern.
www.theatlantic.com
June 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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The Day I Became a Bird – a tender illustrated parable about falling in love and learning to unmask our true selves www.themarginalian.org/2016/09/26/t...
The Day I Became a Bird: A Tender Illustrated Parable of Falling in Love and Learning to Unmask Our True Selves
Imaginative assurance that we are worthy of love just as we are.
www.themarginalian.org
May 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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"We are never as kind as we want to be, but nothing outrages us more than people being unkind to us."

A magnificent antidote to outrage culture and the socially condoned unkindnesses that flood us daily, especially on (anti)social media www.themarginalian.org/2015/07/13/o...
How Kindness Became Our Forbidden Pleasure
“We are never as kind as we want to be, but nothing outrages us more than people being unkind to us.”
www.themarginalian.org
May 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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This morning, contemplating this:

."The Tongue Says Loneliness” Jane Hirshfield

...this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it.

Not a bell,

but the sound of the bell in the bell-shape,

lashing full strength with the first blow from inside the iron.
April 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?

Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.

Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
April 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Trumps chaotic first week was an intentional strategy meant to overwhelm his opponents and make it harder for them to focus on any one issue for long.

From Jennifer Walter, a Swiss sociologist and mental health advocate, on what’s happening in the USA right now and how to combat it:
January 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Worth revisiting regularly: The four Buddhist mantras for turning fear into love
The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love
“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer that person is your presence.”
www.themarginalian.org
January 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM