Open source text-to-speech suggests that I could, perhaps, add an automatic audiobook option to ZWIBook. Wouldn’t fit on the drive I sell ZWIBook on now, but it would on a larger one. Thing is, you’d need to transfer the generation software function to your local machine FIRST, which is a heavy lift for most users. So I’d have to make a “local installer” for this software. Somebody COULD support this work of the KSF…

We also, of course, need to create a “read this article aloud” function for EncycloSearch and EncycloReader.

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Tell me again how the good guys are in charge.

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I wonder if Trump really meant this!

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These are my old stomping grounds—this is what I am nostalgic about.

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A reminder from the distant past…back in the third grade, 47 years ago, we moved to a new house in the Oceanview neighborhood of Anchorage, Alaska. I wanted to continue going to my old school, Rabbit Creek Elementary School, but to get there, I would have to walk 1.5 miles both ways in the freezing cold in the winter. I remember the walk pretty well. I had to go through one neighborhood, then another, then across the main highway through Anchorage on a long pedestrian bridge, and the wind was very cold on that bridge. I tried it a day or two, in January—and that was enough for me. So I went to Oceanview Elementary School, and made new friends there.

Well, that pedestrian bridge just blew down in 70-mph winds.

Anchorage windstorm blows down pedestrian bridge

I guess I’ll say the obvious: the recent push by left-wing Wikipedians to stop using the Heritage Foundation as a source, because Heritage seeks to dox (name and shame) anti-Semitic editors on Wikipedia, is predictable. If Heritage is de-sourced, it will cause Wikipedia to become even more biased and less relevant. 😱

There does, of course, need to be some accountability for Wikipedia editors. For one thing, admins and those with significant authority in the system should be as easily named and shamed as any ordinary journalist.

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“A Defense of Eucharistic Symbolism” is now on YouTube (it was on BitChute first):

The official response to the Rotherham scandal, as PJW describes, is “insane” indeed. Here’s the situation:

U.K. police were reported, in 2014, to have ignored organized mass sexual abuse of underage British girls by Muslim men, mostly Pakistanis. Instead of cracking down on the perpetrators or addressing police negligence, authorities allegedly sought to suppress the story. Government and media covered this up, allowing the abuse to continue.

Fathers who tried to seek justice were dismissed or even arrested for hate speech. This level of malfeasance demands years-long prison sentences for both the criminals and officials.

Recently, Elon Musk criticized the British authorities for this situation. Now, rather than addressing his concerns or ensuring justice, officials are circling the wagons and doing nothing but accuse Musk of abusive speech.

How the British public can continue to elect these people is truly a mystery.

A question regarding this platform:
When I lick on “Alerts” (i guess alerts are created triggered by reactions to my activity here), I just see a list with users, but no reference to “alerts”. Is that the intended behaviour …?

THE litmus test of whether a corporation is actually committed to freedom and decentralization is simply this: Do they publish free, open RSS feeds for general public use of their content?

BitChute, for example, passes this test. Even YouTube does. So do all blogs and most news services.

But NOT X.com, that bastion of free speech. Also not Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. That’s because the corporations that own these web services want you locked inside their walled gardens.

The tension between open access and walled gardens is an old problem we were talking about back in the 90s, but it is evergreen. It is THE basic issue of internet politics. It’s not going away.

Get on the right side of this problem, people. It’s important. Learn about it, talk about it. Pressure Elon to support RSS. If he did this one little thing, it would mean a lot.

BTW, in a one-on-one convo over the phone, Jack Dorsey told me in spring 2019 that Twitter was going to add RSS support. He never did.

I’m working on this. It’s gonna be pretty cool. A script that uses ChatGPT-4o autogenerates the comments (and more, soon).

This will be a fascinating part of our media world going forward: the use of AI to reconstruct focused, detailed, color video from relatively simple videos.

Coming in a year or two: the automatic conversion of silent movies into talkies.

If you like this sort of micropost from me, you can always post a link to it on your own social media account on X.com or wherever you have one. (That’s how the Internet used to work, you know.)

Or if you want to “like” or respond to this post right here on SangerFeed, you can make an account here and do just that!

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