Kitten TTS: 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source Voice Model
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Kitten TTS: a 25MB, CPU-only, open-source voice model. Build real-time speech without GPUs or fees. Install in minutes and ship fast.Jainil Prajapati (Algogist • Your Dose of Tech Insight)
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After 10 years as an AWS customer and open-source contributor, they deleted my account and all data with zero warning.Abdelkader Boudih (Seuros Blog)
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Recent China RISC-V summit showed the rapidly advancing domestic RISC-V ecosystem, driven by an imperative for technological independence.News Desk (EE Times)
I can't see the future, but it seems pretty clear that China is going to wipe the floor with the US in the next decade technologically, and 75% of that is just us doing it to ourselves driven by idiots, racists, arrogant techbros, protectionists, and simplistic nationalism.
No idea how Europe is going to do, but...
@trabex I assume so. Like the British, we'll probably continue to delude ourselves for another 50 years or so.
The 20th century was definitely "The American Century", but the 21st? No.
On one hand "they" want to make smart cities for everyone and on the other hand, "they" want to sell off hundreds of millions of acres of "national" land.
Are you getting it now?
Who is ending up where?
Family of Saudi student killed in UK pay tribute to ‘best of brothers’ @saudi
Amazing Stories vol. 20, no. 7 (October 1946)
This is a REALLY striking image, what with the intensity of the eye contact, and I like his whole vibe, but it has zero narrative content. It's … a green man. OK, I guess?
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#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration
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Saving money and his wife thinks she is winning
Is his wife also forbidden from driving or does she cheat when she drives a car?
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Russia considers itself entitled, if necessary, to take steps to deploy land-based intermediate- and shorter-range missiles< Kremlin spokesman Peskov said.Sputnik Africa
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mRNA vaccines are one of the most important tools we have for preventing future catastrophic pandemics because we can update them more quickly than any other vaccine technology in response to new emerging viruses and variants.
RFK Jr cancelling millions in mRNA research makes the world far less safe.
Taylor Fritz and Ben Shelton set up all-American semifinal in Toronto
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NYC gunman who blamed NFL for hiding brain injury dangers suffered from sports concussion, mom said
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I am one of the laptop class.
I know I don't work hard because I was in the military and worked construction.
All IT jobs are full of smarter lazy people by design.
I have done rack and stack at datacenters and that sucked.
Lazy Gen Z Female Microsoft Worker DESTROYED! This Is Who Is REPLACING A...
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BTW. Every job was 8 to 5 with an hour lunch.
Plus evenings and weekends as required. Usually holidays
I have an idea I would like to call a Freedom Test. The idea of this test is to determine if you really value freedom or if you value something else. Many people will claim they are about freedom, but often they either are conflating freedom with another value that is not actually freedom.
One example of the misuse of this term is by those who call for "free healthcare." Whether or not you value this, it is not freedom, but a provision.
The Freedom Test is helpful in determining who is for freedom and who is for "freedom."
The test is this: if we remove government entities from the equation, are you able to get what you want? The answer should be quite clear if you think about this.
For those who want their freedom to have firearms, the government being out of the way would not change your ability to have firearms. But if your "freedom" is paid for by the government ("free" healtchare), then you do not have true freedom.
Not everyone is going to be all about genuine freedom. And that is not necessarily a bad thing. But people should not be so quick to proclaim that they are about freedom if they require others to be forced into some action in order to attain their "freedom."
I would not consider myself anarcho-capitalist, but they at least are those that would be genuinely about freedom. But considering we have yet to have an ancap example in the world, that might show that 100% freedom might not be possible.
We can apply this test in multiple facets too. For example, gay marriage.
Whether you like it or not, if there are no restrictions to marriage, then gay marriage would be possible under the value of freedom.
The problems start coming in when the state is involved, such as lawsuits for gay wedding cakes or forcing others to acknowledge their marriage as valid. Many gays fail the freedom test the moment they are confronted with the fact that others do not want to participate.
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In anarcho capitalism you can buy a marriage contract and the marriage contract would be enforced by a privatised rights enforcement agency
If there is a dispute between multiple rights enforcement agencies then it can be settled by arbitration
All without government
See the machinery of fteedom posted by bitbutter on youtube to learn about the arbitration process in law without government
State sponsored firearm ownership just like state sponsored healthcare
The government gives you a free firearm if you are below a certain income level
If you make too much money then you have to buy a firearm but you can opt out and pay a fee for not purchasing a firearm instead
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At his confirmation hearing, RFK Jr claimed he wouldn’t take away vaccines. So far he has:
Removed COVID vaccine recommendations
Fired the CDC’s vaccine committee
Replaced scientists with antivaxxers
Cancelled vaccine hesitancy research
Pulled $500m in mRNA vaccine research
Hmm, have any countries start to think about an LA Olympics boycott yet? Will we be seeing a complete choreographed opening ceremony celebrating Dear Leader? Will they be renditioning and probing the gender of athletes at the events, or at the border?
LA Times: Trump names himself chair of L.A. Olympics task force, sees role for military during Games
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Trump’s news conference may prompt questions about whether a president with a penchant for showmanship might assume an unusually active role in planning the Olympics.Michael Wilner (Los Angeles Times)
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Israeli media have reported a fresh missile attack launched from Yemen targeting the occupied Palestinian territories.Tasnim News Agency
Honk Hitler
Why would Hitler honk?
Because this joke has been censored
That is not funny
Censorship never is funny
You can listen to the #EasyEnglish #Bible.
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Pakistan to Land Lunar Mission by 2035 with China’s Support, as Ahsan Iqbal confirms astronaut launch in 2026 and deepens space cooperation.News Desk (The Daily Cpec)
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A new report was immediately panned by onlookers that Ghislaine Maxwell told the Justice Department last month nothing that would prove "harmful" to President Donald Trump.Daniel Hampton (Raw Story)
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I like this meme but deep down I think N Korea is a MK Ultra lab for the US and China.
Call me crazy.
Everyone does.
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@Killer_Mule they'll just Ruby Ridge us. Its baked in. Not to be a downer, but seriously considering liquidating and exiting. Many factors involved, a constant undergirding stress in my life.
The idea that Del Norte residents are repped by the same critter as Santa Rosa is absurd. They have no rep ever under this construct.
I'd split Sonoma County into two if I had such an axe.
worse yet, when the last tray was out i used a chunk out of the defrost.
Guess that explains why she didn't like the scotch and water i served.
dames.
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It is time to embrace moderate nationalism in foreign policy Join us on Telegram, Twitter, and VK. Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Foreign policy liberals are merely impotent…Strategic Culture Foundation
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maidris is cracked vs blue chokmah
she's still 20 levels to max and I haven't even maxed her skills yet either
Chevy Silverado EV drives over a thousand miles on a charge.
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GM Engineers recently took the 2026 Chevrolet Silverado Work Truck out on a real-world test and achieved a world record on EV range.Scooter Doll (Electrek)
Any Takers.
Roku’s New Ad-Free Streaming Service is $3/Month
Meet Howdy, an affordable ad-free video streaming service from Roku.
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In the first part of the program, Andrew Crespo, professor of law at Harvard University joins us to discuss the mass incarceration system, a system that’s upheld by lawyers and promoted in our institutions of higher learning.Kate Horgan (Project Censored)
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NEW: Meet the man quietly redrawing Texas to keep the GOP in power. His name is Adam Kincaid. He doesn’t live in Texas. But he drew the unfair map in 2021 and the unfair map again this year. From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social…
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#Trump names himself chair of #LA #Olympics task force, sees role for #military during Games
In past #OlympicGames held on American soil, sitting presidents have served in passive, ceremonial roles. Trump has other plans.
An #ExecutiveOrder signed by Trump on Tues names him chair of a White House task force on the 2028 Games in #LosAngeles….
#AbuseOfPower #law #PosseComitatusAct
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Trump’s news conference may prompt questions about whether a president with a penchant for showmanship might assume an unusually active role in planning the Olympics.Michael Wilner (Los Angeles Times)
At the White House, speaking in front of banners adding the presidential seal to the logo for #LA28, Trump said he would send the military back to #LosAngeles if he so chose in order to *protect* the Games. In June, #Trump sent the #NationalGuard & US #Marines to the city amid widespread immigration enforcement actions, despite…condemnation from Mayor Karen Bass & other state officials.
#LA #Olympics #OlympicGames #AbuseOfPower #law #PosseComitatusAct
“We’ll do anything necessary to keep the Olympics safe, including using our National Guard or military, OK?” #Trump said. “I will use the National Guard or the military. This is going to be so safe. If we have to.”
Trump’s #ExecutiveOrder establishes a *task force* led by him & #JDVance to *steer* federal coordination for the Games.
#LA #Olympics #OlympicGames #AbuseOfPower #law #PosseComitatusAct #NationalGuard #military
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Wife of South Korea's ousted ex-President Yoon appears for questioning over corruption allegations
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Did you follow the 3-2-1 backup rule?
Uh no, we have just tape backups.
LOL good luck with that!
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I hate bare metal restores, but they work. If you took the time to test. And sometimes not.
One system we had reached out for some config files from another source. Completed a restore and the config started trashing the system as soon as it reconnected. Support, " Yeah, you should have turned that off on your 'dashboard' " Oblique and footnoted documentation for mission critical steps, FTW. Right?
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