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Image created from ChatGPT (OpenAI) and Gemini (Google) Technology is both a blessing and a curse, depending on how it is used. With its rapid advancement, humanity has entered perhaps the most pivotal epoch since the birth of Jesus Christ: the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI), inaugurated by the release of ChatGPT by OpenAI on November 30, 2022. That moment marked a turning point in human history. Whether we accept it or not, humanity crossed a threshold – becoming, in effect, creators o…

William Gargurevich-Sutherland July 4, 2026 Abstract: Using data derived from NASA's Cassini mission, three independent artificial intelligence systems — Gemini AI (Google), Copilot AI (Microsoft), and ChatGPT (OpenAI) — conducted convergent analyses of cryogenic plume samples ejected from Enceladus' subsurface ocean. The analyses targeted enantiomeric excess (EE) as a biosignature, integrating spectral deconvolution, supervised machine learning, and Bayesian statistical inference. All thr…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) The Good News. Slow but determined work gets the job done. We can report that the download to pc, and the creation/change of icon and banner for a user's home page, and for groups, are again working. And that the AI driven content scrapers causing the overload have finally been blocked, (mm/dd below). 2) Progress on our server issues. Please read all of the below carefully The Story Back in April our servers began being…

Work on the Website is scheduled for the following days/times: Friday, May 22 17:00 - 20:00 UTC - COMPLETED Wednesday, May 27 Beginning 14:00 UTC - COMPLETED Thursday, May 28 - COMPLETED Friday, May 29 - COMPLETED ADDITIONAL DAY: Monday, June 1 This is being done to help us investigate solutions to our current issues including: SERVER OVERLOADS DOWNLOAD FAILURES GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL BANNER & ICON UPDATES NOT WORKING ---------------------------------------------…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Communicating on ipernity. Let’s take a moment and celebrate our community! Connecting with people on the internet can be a difficult thing to do, but here on ipernity the vast majority of our communications are rooted in enjoyment and curiosity. That’s something to pause for, to notice and appreciate. We spend a lot of time viewing the world from another person’s perspective, both visually and in writing. This wonderful type of experience is a spe…

Help keep our association going. Join the ima team as an Executive assistant. Our current treasurer, Corinne, will be stepping down in less than a year. We are looking for someone to become an executive assistant to Corinne. Are you a Club Member with a love for ipernity? WE NEED YOU! Becoming an assistant to Corinne will also allow you to learn exactly what it means to be our treasurer and for you to consider whether you would like to stand for treasurer next year. Wh…

The IGA 2026 will take place on Sunday, 22nd March 2026, 5pm Paris (16:00 UTC). Please check the correct time in your country, perhaps with this Your time zone ============================================================ We encourage all full club members to attend. ▶️ Follow this link to the sign up procedure . The verification of your identity is only necessary, if you are participating for the first time. Otherwise, we only require an ipermail to ima moderator in…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Unwanted phishing emails. Further to the precaution of putting up a warning in our top banner, the policy on ipermails for new members has been revised. From the previous limit of 10 different recipients allowed per day for the first week, it is now far more restrictive to impact the scammers, while data shows that this should not affect honest new members. 2) Upcoming Ipernity General Assembly. First, a date for your diary, if you are able…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, Happy New Year! Let's work together to have a joyful and healthy 2026. 1) Images suggested for groups. We would love to hear from the membership with any thoughts and ideas on the initial roll-out of the following revision. With the effort to clean up groups, it has been noted that groups often have images that do not fit the group's theme/topic. This is more prevalent in groups where images are added without being checked by an administrato…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Interruptions to our website. As many of you know, we have been suffering recently from slow response times to actual failure to load a page. When this happens to you, please be patient and wait a minute or two before trying to refresh the page, because the site is not offline, just overloaded. This is due to high demand on our system from outside. This has also been causing other types of issues including interruption of daily news emails an…

While we don't have a solution at this time, there is a work around for this. It takes a small amount of effort, but if mapping is important to you, then you can do so as follows: One can manually change the longitude and latitude for a photo. If the photo is already placed on the map you will see this option just to the right of 'View on map'. If the photo hasn't been placed on a map yet, the option is right below the "Locate on the map" option. Of course you need to know what the longitu…

A warm welcome to our newest club members! Please visit their pages to personally welcome them and see what they bring to our community. Rolf Mahler ← publicly active Andre ← publicly active Jan Stojak ← publicly active Wild_Maddin ← publicly active Tiny Island ← publicly active Reinhard Wulff Corey Best ← publicly active Gerold ← publicly active Newell Reinvention ← publicly active Peterderzweite ← publicly active dacapo…

How the IGA will be run 2024 (Note: Some links will only be available after being signed up to attend) As an international community, the IGA takes place online and will be on Sunday, April 7, 2024 at 16:00 (UTC). The IGA takes place in the 'Ipernity General Assembly' group's discussions found here: IGA Group Discussions 1) How to Sign Up Register to attend by April 3rd, 2024. 2) How To Vote Learn voting method for 2024 (same as for 2023) before the meeting d…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Summary of the General Assembly of Members. We thank all of you who attended the online meeting. Please refer to the separate article: 2024 IGA Report . We have a plan to simplify the voting process, without the need for emails with links to each PollUnit, while still having a secure voting system. 2) Meeting in the real world. Last weekend, numerous ipernity members went to Hamburg to meet face to face. See Hamburg 2024 group . With…

Executive Board (elected by the Ipernity General Assembly on March 25, 2023 and April 7, 2024) William Sutherland , United States, President Corinne Pommerell , Luxemburg, Treasurer Rob Stamp , United Kingdom, Webmaster Laura Fletcher , United States, Moderator Executive Assistants ( appointed by the Executive Board in accordance with ARTICLE VII,10 of the IMA Statutes ) Helena-Paule Fitoussi , France (hotline, spam removal) Stefan Roßkopf , Germany (IT) S…

1) Ipernity General Assembly (IGA 2024) will take place Sunday, April 7th, 2024. For registered attendees only, (the deadline to participate was April 3rd), the following documents will be made available at least 24 hours in advance: ● Annual Financial Statement 2023 ● IGA 2024 - Treasurer's Report on 2023 ● IGA 2024 - Report of the President on 2023 ● IGA 2024 - Motions to Agenda item 11 (Miscellaneous) Please read these documents before the meeting to save time. Make a…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Two months until IGA. Sign up for the meeting now. Our annual membership meeting is due to be held on Sunday April 7th 2024, 5pm Paris (16:00 UTC) . "When are the others turning up?" Don't delay, please see Sign-Up Procedure for IGA . For anyone who has not attended previously, a look at the IGA group will give you an idea of how the meeting is conducted online. 2) Speaking of groups of animals... Our team advisor, past Club…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) One month until IGA. Sign up by April 3rd in order to attend. Our annual membership meeting will be held online on Sunday April 7th 2024, 5pm [Correction: 6pm] Paris (16:00 UTC) . Please see Sign-Up Procedure for IGA . For anyone who has not attended previously, a look at the IGA group will give you an idea of how the meeting is conducted online. There are two mandates open for election. 2) Meeting in the real world. We are inde…

Dear members and friends of ipernity, 1) Picture-in-picture (PiPs) in lightbox. The full screen 'Lightbox view [z]' now displays PiPs. It does not allow you to edit your own PiPs, but the feature is designed to help you be aware of PiPs when viewing other people's photos. The outline rectangles appear as you move the mouse, and then fade out when you stop moving the mouse. This is unlike the main photo page where they are always visible when the mouse is over the photo. The rectangle…

We received a bank transfer payment at the end of March without the reference of the ipernity account number, nor could any match be made via the name. If the member who we assume has lapsed to a Guest account, has knowledge of a payment made by E S Kessinger, please contact the team. This case is an example of the delay for the member, and the extra effort by team, when this piece of information is not included.