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Google rolls out Nano Banana image editing upgrades in Photos, including a "help me edit" feature that lets users make edits using text or voice prompts (Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/your-google-

Your Google Photos just got 3 huge Nano Banana image editing upgrades - for free
Google Photos just made it easier than ever to create realistic AI edits, thanks to Google DeepMind's top image-editing model.

Pour ceux qui ne peuvent pas écouter le match, voici une toune d'un ami d'antan et de sa gang :
Zéphyr Artillerie, « Scotty Bowman » (2008)
https://vimeo.com/4173544
Pour les paroles et un paquet d'autres chansons sur le hockey (19 pages astheure !), tchèque le site et le livre de

Oh, today is my iTunes Match-iversary. I pay Apple ~$30CAD annually for them to store and sync my 30 year old digital music collection of like ... 100GB and counting.
Looks like I wrote about it last year.
Most of my music purchases are Bandcamp/indie these days and uploaded to my home Ampache. https://bsky.ap…

Boris (@bmann.ca)
Oh, today is my iTunes Match-iversary. I pay Apple ~$30CAD annually for them to store and sync my 30 year old digital music collection of like ... 100GB and counting. Looks like I wrote about it last year. Most of my music purchases are Bandcamp/indie these days and uploaded to my home Ampache.

See, this — •this• — is what ICE CBP are actually for under this regime. •This• is why they got a budget the size of Russia’s entire military.
It’s nothing to do with immigration. It’s about the would-be dictator having his own private military that:
- can be deployed domestically
- at will
- unbeholden to the UCMJ etc
- or disciplined military culture
- or any accountability whatsoever
- with unpredictably violent behavior
- applied indiscriminately
- to anyone
- so that the entire population is terrified of it
…because for them, the problem with Jan 6 was that the coup wasn’t violent enough and didn’t have enough weapons.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/04/steve-bannon-ice-immigration-agents-polling-sites-midterm-elections

Pentagon will begin review of 'effectiveness' of women in ground combat positions (Tom Bowman/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/06/nx-s1-5667583/pentagon-review-women-in-ground-combat-roles
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p95#a260106p95

It's Bandcamp Friday! Here's what I grabbed. Had my eyes on these for a while.
* New Gorgeous Jefe singles, https://jefesgoods.bandcamp.com/album/keith-sweat-beamin and

Green banana flour. This was made from Cavendish bananas, green but fully rounded out, sliced about 5mm thick and dried at 58C (dehydrator using solar power) for about 8 hours, then milled in my new (to me) op shop Vitamix. It's a lovely fine silky flour. It takes about 40 Cavs to make a kilo of flour, so well worth it. #permaculture

wearing my boots that served at coventry, i braved brooklyn bowl & got in tune with taper's choice. the live debut of "song hat," a bunch of "whoa dude" peaks/pockets/turns, nearly as many "eleanor rigby" quotes, & '90s jam receptors generally activated. https:/…

Good Morning #Canada
Tomorrow one of Canada’s largest winter events kicks off in Ottawa. #Winterlude2026 runs from January 30th to February 16th, and may be considered in the top 2 winter festivals in Canada. Somewhere to the east, Bonhomme looks on dismissively.
A million plus attendees are expected to attend, assisted and pointed in the right direction by several hundred volunteers. The full 7.8 km length of the Rideau Canal Skateway, the equivalent of 90 ice rinks, is open for skating. The festival's mascots, the Ice Hogs family of Mama, Papa, Numa, and Numei, are opening their home in the Snowflake Kingdom and are ready to give hugs to all Winterlude visitors. Ice sculptors from around the world will compete in (checks notes) ice sculpting.
I think it's time for a #MercerMemories ...
https://youtu.be/GYgNY3xywCA