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Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/meta-suspends-ai-image-instagram-fea…

Meta Suspends Instagram AI Image Feature After Days of Backlash
Meta said on Friday it would discontinue an AI feature that allowed users to generate images using public Instagram accounts.

Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/meta-suspends-ai-image-instagram-fea…

Meta Suspends Instagram AI Image Feature After Days of Backlash
Meta said on Friday it would discontinue an AI feature that allowed users to generate images using public Instagram accounts.

Since it was relevant to a discussion I just had on here and is something most people probably haven't thought about much (unless you've taken one of a handful of philosophy classes), I thought I'd try to lay out a key piece of Descartes' Meditations (#philosophy

LOL
https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-discontinues-ai-image-feature-days-after-launch-2026-07-10/

YouTube rolls out a new in-app messaging system for sharing videos and having 1:1 conversations; it discontinued its previous Messages feature in 2019 (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/06/10/youtube-new-messaging-chat/

YouTube rolling out new in-app messaging with invite-only chats
After testing got underway last year, YouTube is now more widely rolling out a new in-app messaging system...

Can a brain implant restore vision? Elon Musk says yes https://www.dhakatribune.com/feature/tech/416707/can-a-brain-implant-restore-vision-elon-musk-says This is actually a decent news article by not just regurgitating Musk's unsubs…

An expert panel with Daron Acemoglu, Dean Ball, Ethan Mollick, and Clara Shih discusses AI's impact on jobs and how to prepare for the future of work (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/magazin

In the Hybrid A.I.-Human Work Force, Who Will Actually Thrive?
A panel of experts explains how job seekers should prepare for the future of work.

"Increased Sightings of the Two Largest Whale Species Decimated By Hunting Provides New Hope for Survival"
#Whales #Animals

Increased Sightings of World’s Two Largest Whale Species Decimated By Hunting Provides New Hope for Survival
Increased sightings of the world's two largest whale species–the blue and fin—offers new hope for the future of the endangered ocean giants.

In 2018, Abdul El-Sayed ran for governor in Michigan.
He had a resume full of credentials including stints at the University of Michigan, Oxford, and Columbia for medical school
— but no political experience.
He conducted a Bernie Sanders-style progressive campaign against Gretchen Whitmer
but found himself stonewalled by the political establishment and powerful interest groups.
In the end, he faced a sedated electorate disinterested in a campaign centered aroun…

The Michigan Senate Primary Is a Battle for Democrats’ Future
The Democratic primary for Senate in Michigan pits Abdul El-Sayed against Haley Stevens in a battle is reverberating through the party.

Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke's Entire launches a decentralized Git network to handle high coding agent traffic, with servers in the US, the EU, and Australia (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/githubs-form

GitHub's former CEO launches a distributed Git network built for the agentic coding age
The developer tools startup said it's building better infrastructure for a future run by coding agents.