A new Google Earth update, which allowed users to alter satellite imagery with AI, let me cover my rural PA hometown with fake fire, drought, and soldiers. Google now says it's rolling back the feature. w/ @f-w-l.bsky.social futurism.com/artificial-i...

Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It Immediately Turns Into a Blatant Misinformation Crisis

Google is adding an image generation tool straight into Google Earth, allowing anyone to fabricate made-up satellite images.

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Took me seconds to make an image showing 'protesters' around Google buildings, using Google Earth's new AI generation tool. You can make bomb blasts, protesters, drone strikes, nuclear plants. How on earth did Google think this was a good idea www.404media.co/google-earth...

a colour wheel study

Concerning that, not a single organisation is taking Gaza's missing file even remotely seriously. If we've learnt anything, it will take 15 years to start the work, by which time the haphazardly collected data will be moot, while all access to burial sites & rubble victims becomes an impossible feat

Was lucky enough to be invited by the Belfast-based @sourcephoto.bsky.social to write a column on how an open source investigative researcher sees in images. It was titled "The View From Elsewhere" & it was about a 6th IDF outpost in Lebanon. But what's a 6th outpost amongst all the domicide, u say

The funnest

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 4w ago

Cycling is four times more efficient than walking and one hundred times more fun.

After 2.5 months, I finally have a place to call home

#serenaded

Very sad and infuriating news to read that the environmentalist Mona Kahlil died from her wounds after her house was bombed by #Israel. We visited her place a few years ago in Mansouri, and her work was invaluable for region. 💚🖤 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/w...

Mona Khalil, Defender of Sea Turtles, Killed in an Israeli Strike in Lebanon

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some rather exciting news

Soon, when a 15-year-old asylum seeker arrives in the UK, there’s a good chance that a border officer will feed a picture of their face into an AI age estimation tool that will guess whether they are an adult or not. New @lighthousereports.com investigation shows that tool is deeply flawed

I didn't realise how inferior my phone was till I took this picture and realised it's a tenth of what I actually saw

horrified to see towns I've once been to like Beit Yahoun here absolutely eradicated. The demolition between June 5 & 8 is the most devastating, according to the below Sentinel-2 imagery

And At Tiri since the ceasefire (April 16) vs June 8 via Sentinel-2 imagery

also Haddatha in South Lebanon within just one month. A near-wipeout. These are towns 10 kilometres or so into Lebanese territory. Sentinel-2 imagery May 9 vs June 8

Israeli airstrikes continued across South Lebanon today, the latest hitting a residential building in the town of Ansar in the Nabatieh district, killing one person and injuring another, according to an initial toll.

horrified to see towns I've once been to like Beit Yahoun here absolutely eradicated. The demolition between June 5 & 8 is the most devastating, according to the below Sentinel-2 imagery

never been excited about packing before but maybe that's a glaring sign I have been in Cairo for too long

There's visible damage/destruction on Sentinel-2 on the edge of Tyre's world heritage site between June 5 & 8. Right at the centre of both images

Today's front page of Belfast-based newspaper, Irish News

There's visible damage/destruction on Sentinel-2 on the edge of Tyre's world heritage site between June 5 & 8. Right at the centre of both images

Eight people were killed in Tyre today as a result of an Israeli airstrike. Point of view video around location, 33.26899579728612, 35.2201306358392, shows damage on both sides of the street Video: www.facebook.com/reel/8391398...

On March 2, Malika's mother was killed by an Israeli strike. Her last act alive was using her body to protect 4yo Malika, who sustained burns, shrapnel to her face, and damage to her eye. I wrote about how this war is impacting children in Lebanon www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Lebanon’s children face physical, psychological trauma amid Israel’s war

Experts warn of lasting trauma for Lebanon's children as war continues to shatter their sense of safety.

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Eight people were killed in Tyre today as a result of an Israeli airstrike. Point of view video around location, 33.26899579728612, 35.2201306358392, shows damage on both sides of the street Video: www.facebook.com/reel/8391398...

Mona Khalil, a well-known Lebanese environmental activist, known for her turtle conservation work, was reportedly rushed to hospital after a strike on her beachfront home in the southern village of Mansouri on Thursday.

One day, I'll have the wherewithal to analyse the psyche behind the person who created an Arab-centric dating app called "Baklava", even though not a single Arab calls it that, while gatekeeping Arab dates plus Turkish, Iranian & Greek(lol) for *checks notes* $10/week, provided u run out of likes

Everything feels the same. And AI won't help. Over and over, researchers put AI image generators in a feedback loop. All starting with a different prompt. What did they do? They converged on the same 12 generic image themes. They called it "visual elevator music." www.not-ship.com/nothing-new/

Nothing new here: Another sequel, another lighthouse

Movies, music, everything feels the same. It's not your imagination.

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