Dale Lowery
@drblue42
Dale Lowery
I was able to try Personal Voice. This feature has you teach the Pin your voice, and then when you use the translation feature, it will spit out the translation in … your own voice. It's a synthetic, AI-generated version of your voice. Before you enable this, you have to agree to <their terms>. I accepted. I then repeated a few sentences alou
... See morefrom Wired review of Dec. 2024’s version of the AI Pin. By
“Julian Chokkattu is a senior reviews editor at WIRED”
Critics and readers tend to be insufferable nostalgics. In a letter he sent from exile in 1513, Niccolò Machiavelli described his evening routine: After coming home from the “vulgarity” and “trifles” of daily life, he donned “garments regal and courtly” to commune with the dead. Reading those before him, he was “not frightened by death,” and instea
... See moreNiccolò Machiavelli’s inspirations? Or condolences?
2025 Books Read: Minsoo Kang, “The Melacholy of Untold Hustory,” Harper Collin’s, 2024; via NO Public Library
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2024
nytimes.com
Best SciFi of 2024!
“You may have heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect, which is that incompetent people don’t have the skills to recognize their own incompetence.”, writes David Brooks, NYT, Jan 30, 2025: “The 6 Rules Of Stupidity”
Not the best version, the best is the Live In London version, but this one is a placeholder. It’s too brief. FAR too brief.
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“A Democratic Party that is oriented toward attention seeking, toward picking fights, toward telling a simple story of big problems and clear villains, toward performing politics as much as talking about policy is a Democratic Party that would be a little more successful than the one we have. I should add, too, that this is a Democratic Party whose
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