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  Catholic Womens Council (@CWC_Equality) reported 8 minutes ago

  @gmail @Google What's up with Gmail failing to upload any images in-text or as an attachment since today? We just get message that says 'Error Occurred' with the option to dismiss it, but no explanation. We have a lot of invites to send!!! #Gmail #Help #googledown

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  𝐀𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐊𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐰𝐚𝐡𝐚 (@AmitKus90293655) reported 8 minutes ago

  Hey @amznsellerhelp — I've lost access to my Seller Central account on Amazon . The Gmail linked to my seller account is inaccessible due to a buyer account issue. Need urgent help to recover or re-link to a new email. Please assist! @amznsellerhelp @amazonIN

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  Alawy (@heyalawy) reported 10 minutes ago

  I really want someone to Fix Gmail UI, like how i turn the mode to dark and the email stays light and flashes me, like why.

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  Ginko (@Ginko2332) reported 13 minutes ago

  @AktaSezgin @gmail Experienced this issue; @KalyCTI on X resolved it.

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  JEVILHATER (& a ralseihater) (@jevilhater) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Kirwithdot @ThatEnbyIHate mightve actually died because theyre on the discord server too and hasnt been online for a long while there too. or at least left the internet or lost gmail acc. i feel like they couldve reached out in that case tho.

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  Chidanand Tripathi (@thetripathi58) reported 15 minutes ago

  20. Connected Account Vulnerability The Situation: Back in 2010, you finally made the jump from Yahoo, Hotmail, or AOL to Gmail. To make the transition easier, you linked your old legacy account to automatically forward everything into your new Gmail inbox. You haven't logged into that Yahoo account in a decade. The Mechanics: Legacy email platforms like Yahoo and AOL have notoriously outdated, porous spam filters compared to Google's billion-dollar machine learning infrastructure. By using POP3 or IMAP to pull that mail into Gmail, you are essentially bypassing Google's frontline defenses and piping raw, unfiltered internet sewage straight into your pristine Gmail ecosystem. The Fix: It is time to sever the cord. Go to Gmail Settings > Accounts and Import. Look under "Check mail from other accounts." Delete the legacy connections. If you absolutely still need access to that ancient Hotmail account for banking resets, log into it directly, aggressively clean it, and set up incredibly strict server-side rules there before allowing it anywhere near your primary hub.

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  Brette🌞 (@brettesims) reported 18 minutes ago

  Their job is to **** with your passwords, logins, gmail, security access to anything that c an slow down the process and progress of the work you are completing

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  Naomi N. Shelton (@NaomiSheltonDC) reported 21 minutes ago

  Every time I contact support I get the same script: "dots don't matter." That doesn't explain how two accounts were created. It doesn't fix the privacy problem. And it doesn't acknowledge that @Google made a @gmail policy change that harmed early users and never addressed it.

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  Eric Smith (@Eric_Smith08) reported 21 minutes ago

  1. The Newsletter Graveyard The Situation: You signed up for a 15% discount code from a trendy mattress company back in 2019. You bought the bed, ignored the emails, and never clicked unsubscribe. What you didn't read in their privacy policy was the clause allowing them to "share data with trusted third-party partners." Fast forward to today, and that single company has legally sold your email to 47 different data brokers, who then sold it to hundreds of affiliate marketers. The Mechanics: Every dormant newsletter in your inbox is a live wire. As long as you are on their list, your data is being refreshed in their CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software, marking your email as an active, deliverable address. The Fix: You need to aggressively audit the graveyard. In your Gmail search bar, type "unsubscribe". You will likely find over 200 active subscriptions you forgot existed. Do not just delete the emails, open them and kill the subscriptions at the source. Each one you sever closes a pipeline that is actively feeding your digital identity to data aggregators.

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  Terry Steffen (@steff147) reported 22 minutes ago

  If you are a sub or former sub of my Monday 5 stock picks please check your Spam folder. I've had issues with Gmail that I think are finally fixed. I love their filtering for incoming mail but heaven help you if you have to fight them on the outbound.

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  Irka IRON Pawłowski (@ironirka) reported 22 minutes ago

  The AI word of the week has been "loops" — adding yet another piece of jargon to the non-technical vocabulary. This is leaving a lot of people asking: what are they, how are they different from prompts? In a lot of non-technical circles the level of grey about what the parts of agentic AI actually are (and how to use them) can be overwhelming. What's more, they're not static — as things develop, so do their uses and how they work together. Loops themselves have evolved over the last few years. So, here's a little primer to make things easier: Prompt — we know this one. It's the instruction you write for the LLM. You send it, get your output, and any tweaking happens off the back of that output. Prompts are for one-off tasks. As you build reliable ones, you reuse them by pasting them into the terminal or chat. Agent — (this one we know too) the LLM running on its own, doing a series of steps without you watching each one. You give it a goal and walk away. Call — to invoke something by name so it runs. You "call" a skill (or a loop, a tool, an MCP) by typing its name and the LLM loads it and executes the setup. When you ask your LLM to use a skill, hook or loop you are calling it. Skill — a packaged set of instructions, files, and tools the LLM loads when you call it by name. A prompt is just one-off instructions; a skill brings the working setup with it — what to read, what rules to follow, what tools it can use, what to produce. You call it once and the whole setup runs. Some people stuff all this into their CLAUDE.md, but bloating CLAUDE.md causes context issues and the LLM starts ignoring your instructions. That's why skills are for specific contexts and tasks, not general ones. The rule of thumb is: when you have a task you do over and over, with rules → make it a skill. Call it by name instead of re-explaining the rules every time you want it done. Hook — a rule that says "when X happens, do Y." It executes automatically when triggered — a file is saved, a meeting ends, a session starts — and the hook runs the action you tied to it. These are basic automations. Use them when one task is dependent on a different event. Example: You save a new invoice PDF in your invoices folder → a hook automatically triggers your expense categorization skill and logs it in your accounting sheet. Loop — a small program you write that runs a prompt for you, over and over, and checks the work was done properly. It isn't the prompt itself — it's the thing that runs the prompt without you in the middle. Loops are more complicated than hooks and are not prompts. Where a hook does one thing from start to end when triggered, a loop initiates a process from start to end automatically at a time you define. Where a prompt is instructions, a loop is the directive to use those instructions. Use it for repeatable tasks where you're confident in the output and want them running without starting each one yourself. The loop runs the skill, checks the work, stops when the rules say so. Example: A daily "process inbox" loop that runs every morning at 9 a.m., summarizes new emails, extracts action items, self-verifies, and only pings you if something needs your attention. Loops only work if you set them up properly. A few things worth understanding before you do: - Self-verify — a step inside a loop where the LLM checks its own work against the rules before saving or moving on. Without it, the loop produces confident garbage. With it, the loop catches and fixes its own mistakes. - Simple loop vs supervisor loop — a simple loop is one LLM doing one task on repeat. A supervisor loop is a top loop that spins up several workers in parallel, each running its own prompt, then combines their output into one result. - Token budget — a hard cap on how much the loop can spend before it has to stop. Tokens are what the AI charges for, like minutes on a phone bill. Without a cap, a stuck loop can rack up hundreds overnight. Remember when you write you see words, the Agent sees tokens. - Orchestration vs execution — the loop orchestrates: decides what runs, when, and in what order. The LLM executes: runs the actual prompt and produces the output. Two different jobs. - .md files (markdown) — a plain text file the LLM can read. This is where most of your directions for an AI — instructions, rules, context — live. It's how you tailor an LLM to your project. Common ones: CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / GEMINI.md (depends on the LLM you're using) — master instructions for a folder or project. They live in the folder you launch the LLM from. The LLM reads them automatically when it starts working. These are the house rules for your project or workspace. SKILL.md — the instruction file at the heart of a skill. Tells the LLM what the skill is for, when to use it, and how. ADR (Architecture Decision Record) — a decision written as a rule the AI can apply. Format: what was decided, why, and what to do or not do because of it. ADRs are a development artefact, so most non-technical users don't touch them — but using them can substantially improve the output of your agents. If there's a rule you want the AI to always check its work against → write it as an ADR in a .md file. Any skill or loop can then check its output against the ADR before saving. This is one way of "harnessing" the agent — making sure its output matches what you're actually building, from meeting notes to full products. SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) — the process for a recurring task, written step by step so the AI can follow it. One SOP per repeating job, just like any standard process. The skill running the job reads the SOP for the steps. Note on terminology: The concepts above are fairly universal, but exact names, file conventions, and implementation details vary by tool (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.). You might see CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, .cursorrules, or different triggers depending on which system you're using. Other things you might be reading/hearing: CLI (Command Line Interface) — your terminal or Command Prompt window, where you type commands instead of clicking buttons. Most coding AIs live in the CLI. MCP (Model Context Protocol) — the standard that lets the LLM talk to outside tools and services. Without MCP, the LLM only sees what you paste in. With MCP, it can fetch your Gmail, read a Notion page, update a Google Doc, post to Slack — directly, on its own. How they fit togetherPrompts live inside skills. Skills live inside loops. Loops initiate via hooks or schedules. All of them read .md files — CLAUDE.md for the house rules, SOPs for the process, ADRs for the rules they have to follow. The prompt is the smallest piece. Everything else is a way of wrapping, packaging, or triggering prompts, so you don't have to type them in by hand.These are the concepts. The specifics — where files live, what triggers what, whether you write a loop or call a built-in one — vary by tool. If i've forgotten anything or you need more info let me know. #AgenticAI #AI

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  Ri ྀིྀིྀིྀིྀིri ྀིྀིྀིྀིྀི 𐔌 vtuber debut tba (@KoichigoRiri) reported 25 minutes ago

  not working out, i made another gmail just in case….

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  Linda Micciche (@LMicciche) reported 28 minutes ago

  @gmail what is the best way to handle identity theft happening using Gmail accounts? (It’s already been reported on your website but continues to happen.) It’s on going issue for recruiters.

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  AI Sparks (@AiSparks12) reported 29 minutes ago

  I used to waste 2 hours a day on email. That's 10 hours a week. Over 40 hours a month. This morning: 200 unread emails. Coffee ready: Inbox zero. I didn't write or touch a single reply manually. Here's the Claude + Gmail system I run every day: 𝟭. 𝗪𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝘂𝗽 𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲 Most people don't know Claude can live inside their inbox — not summarizing emails you paste in, but reading your Gmail directly. Settings > Connectors > Add Gmail. One OAuth login. Done. You set this up once and never think about it again. 𝟮. 𝗠𝗮𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗼𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝘁 Most people open their inbox blind. No sense of scale or priority. Before clicking a single email, run this: "Break down my unread emails from the last 7 days by sender." Now you have a map before you enter the territory. You're not reacting — you're deciding. 𝟯. 𝗟𝗲𝘁 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂 "Sort my unread into 5 categories: urgent replies, meetings, newsletters, notifications, and spam." Claude labels everything. You see what actually matters — without touching what doesn't. 𝟰. 𝗞𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘁 "Find every promotional email I never opened in the last 30 days. Archive all of them." One prompt. The pile disappears. No clicking through hundreds of emails one by one. 𝟱. 𝗡𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗮 𝟰𝟬-𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻 "Summarize this thread. What's been decided? What's still open? What needs a response from me?" Claude reads the full conversation and hands you a brief. You walk in knowing exactly where things stand. 𝟲. 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 "Draft a reply to this email. Direct but warm. 3-4 lines max." Claude writes the draft and places it in your Gmail Drafts folder. You review, adjust if needed, then hit Send. You wrote nothing. You approved everything. 𝟳. 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀 "Find emails where someone asked me a direct question and I never responded. Flag anything older than 3 days." This one prompt catches conversations you completely forgot about. 𝟴. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝟱-𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲 Three prompts. Every morning: → "What needs my attention today?" → "What are my top 5 emails to reply to first?" → "Draft quick replies for anything under 3 lines." 5 minutes. Inbox under control. Day started with clarity. —— Claude drafts. You send. Nothing goes out without your review. But you're giving AI access to real conversations — be deliberate about what you allow it to touch. Save this if email is eating your mornings. Which step would change your day the most? Drop it below 👇

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  DREY FASHION WORLD (@Oluwadamil14541) reported 30 minutes ago

  @JumiaNigeria @JumiaNigeria pls I’m trying to login to my account you sent verification code to my gmail and I don’t have access to the Gmail for now what can I do