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It sounds like there was another ICE shooting today but there's almost nothing known about what happened.

"The individual, who has not been identified, was shot in southern Pima County near milepost 15 of West Arivaca Road at around 7:30 a.m., according to a news release from the Santa Rita Fire District. The fire department said it transported the person in critical condition."

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/perso…

#ICE #Politics #USPolitics #USPol


One person in critical condition after being shot in incident involving Border Patrol in Arizona

A person was shot in an incident involving U.S. Border Patrol in Arizona on Tuesday, according to a Pima County Sheriff spokeswoman.
Mirna Alsharif (NBC News)
#politics #uspol #uspolitics #ice

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One thing I love about being involved in my College is I get a direct line on what young people are thinking.

In my circle of 30-50-somethings, it's taken for granted that "AI" is changing everything. Some people express caution that we shouldn't even take any position on software engineering education because it will be out of date within a week.

Meanwhile, my students are telling me that in their cohort, everyone is tired of AI and wants to learn proper software engineering.

One lesson here is: do you remember how clueless your boss was about everything? Recognise when you are in the "boss" demographic, and that your breathless enthusiasm and concern may be equally misinformed.

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Cleverson

OK, now to another issue: the synth is adding a schwa after an r when it comes before consonants like f, m, r, s. this caused words like "permite, personalizado, interface, irmão" to sound strange, so I stripped off the schwa for testing, but then the r became too weak. One solution I found is to change the schwa to the other schwa, that's ᵊ can it be done with a single rule, or I have to normalize for every consonant?
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Tamas G

@clv1 hm, you shouldn't. you can try it this way:
normalization:
classes:
R_SCHWA_FOLLOW_CONS:
# consonants that were causing the full-schwa to sound too syllabic
# (you can expand this later if needed)
- "f"
- "m"
- "r"
- "s"

replacements:
# If we have r + schwa and the next phoneme is one of the consonants above,
# swap schwa to the reduced schwa ᵊ so /r/ stays audible without adding a full syllable.
- from: "rə"
to: "rᵊ"
when:
beforeClass: R_SCHWA_FOLLOW_CONS

@Cleverson
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Cleverson

One more detail: I did the following steps:
1. Add a rule using a text editor and save the file;
2. Go to the phoneme editor and save the file;
3. Now when I command the editor to speak something, it successfully takes into account the rule I've just added. However, the normalization rules list view is not updated accordingly. This issue applies to other lists like language settings as well.
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Tamas G

@clv1 oh yeah that's tricky since we'd have to check whether you made manual changes outside the editor for that one, like every minute, read the file or something. I'm not sure if we can do it without you needing to quit and reload the editor, though I can do a "reload language" option in the menu that can help this. Otherwise it becomes a mess with syncing whether the file was modified or not and more like the auto-save features in word haha. Not impossible, but right now yes, it only checks it once when you arrow to the language. So actually just up/down arrowing again will reload the new one.
@Cleverson
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Tamas G

@clv1 Setting _isVoiced: true on a phoneme does not actually add voicing. It’s metadata. It just says “this sound may carry voicing”, but it doesn’t generate any buzz by itself. It also allows for timing rules on that phoneme (voiced things are allowed to be longer)
If voiceAmplitude is still zero, the DSP has nothing periodic to work with, so your ears hear… nothing new. That’s why changing _isVoiced on x feels like it does nothing, it kind of does nothing.
To hear a difference, you must give the phoneme a voiced source and mark it voiced. For example:
"x":
_isVoiced: true
voiceAmplitude: 0.18
fricationAmplitude: 0.55
Now you’re actually mixing voicing + noise, which is how voiced fricatives work in Klatt. The effect will still be subtle (that’s normal), especially at fast speech rates, but it’s there.
@Cleverson

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Philip Glass withdraws his ‘Lincoln’ symphony from the Kennedy Center, citing conflicting values
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/philip-glass-withdraws-his-lincoln-symphony-from-the-kennedy-center-citing-conflicting-values/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Philip Glass withdraws his ‘Lincoln’ symphony from the Kennedy Center, citing conflicting values

Philip Glass has withdrawn his symphony based on Abraham Lincoln from the Kennedy Center, with the award-winning composer writing to the board of the arts institution that its values conflict with the work.
CNN Staff (CTVNews)
@world-CTVNews

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What we pay for electricity should cover proper replacement and scheduled maintenance... so, why doesn't it?

Documents show the utility has long identified Hampstead substation as a weak link in the local grid... but f*ck the anglophones—let them freeze, let their pipes burst, let their food go bad—they have insurance, so STFU, eh

An aging substation caused Montréal’s latest blackout. Its replacement is still years away! cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/co… #polQC #QCpoli #polMTL #MTLpoli #hydroquebec

#polqc #polmtl #hydroquebec #qcpoli #mtlpoli
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feld

they're not going to crack Signal's encryption, they absolutely have infiltrated these group chats a long time ago posing as concerned citizens trying to collect data on ICE agents and ICE activities

but I guarantee the majority of Signal users in that chat aren't using usernames, but still their phone numbers. So now you have all these contacts on Signal who have exposed their phone numbers to you, and you can look up who owns the number and start terrorizing those citizens for conspiring against ICE

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feld

oooh I guess the usernames don't protect you at all anyway

> If Signal receives a subpoena demanding that they hand over all account data related to a user with a specific username that is currently active at the time that Signal looks it up, they would be able to link it to an account. That means Signal would turn over that user’s phone number, along with the account creation date and the last connection date. Whittaker stressed that this is “a pretty narrow pipeline that is guarded viciously by ACLU lawyers,” just to obtain a phone number based on a username.

theintercept.com/2024/03/04/si…

so they'll just get your identity anyway, because we know they won't be able to guard this from the government no matter how "vicious" these ACLU lawyers think they are


Signal’s New Usernames Help Keep the Cops Out of Your Data

Ephemeral usernames instead of phone numbers safeguard privacy — and makes the Signal messenger app even harder to subpoena.
Micah Lee (The Intercept)

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If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI #Bots #Abuse
#bots #AI #openstreetmap #abuse

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RE: tech.lgbt/@JadedBlueEyes/11596…

Uff... @matrix heard of this?

Jade (@JadedBlueEyes@tech.lgbt)

Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable.
Jade (LGBTQIA+ and Tech)
@The Matrix.org Foundation
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Tamas G

@jscholes yeah, I think my feeling more is, it's not a full-time job, just something I (mostly) do after work or during my lunch when I can, else I'd risk jepordizing my job by shirking responsibilities and that isn't the way to live. So it really can't become my full-time gig unless I purposefully made it that and asked for donations, and people may carry that as an expectation on the project itself because they did so. That can get quite ugly too. Haha and thankfully we did split the displays, but I mean, both of us have full-time work so definitely not struggling with paying the house ETC. So, with that obligation burden, probably no donate button. xD
@James Scholes

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Re: last boost (mastodon.world/@anttipeltola/1…), I'm American, and I'd like more of that (open protocols, open source, no gods, no masters) over here as well.

Antti Peltola ⁂

2026-01-27 14:14:34

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Whatever this European tech sovereignty formulates into DO NOT give us European Big Tech.

Open protocols, open standards, open source. Like the 1990s internet I enjoyed as a kid. The European governments finance the projects and largely leave us the fuck alone.

No gods. No masters. ✊

#EU #Europe #EUPol #EuroPol


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Whatever this European tech sovereignty formulates into DO NOT give us European Big Tech.

Open protocols, open standards, open source. Like the 1990s internet I enjoyed as a kid. The European governments finance the projects and largely leave us the fuck alone.

No gods. No masters. ✊

#EU #Europe #EUPol #EuroPol

#EU #europe #eupol #europol

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Interviewed on Al Jazeera today about ICE killing Alex Pretti and Renee Good, and made it a point to speak the names of all 9 people ICE has killed so far in 2026. Including Keith Porter, Parady La, Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos.

We need unity of humanity against fascism and autocracy.

Will share the interview when it goes live.

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Still hanging on to your iPhone 5s or 6? Apple just gave it a new lease on life
https://www.digitaltrends.com/phones/still-hanging-on-to-your-iphone-5s-or-6-apple-just-gave-it-a-new-lease-on-life/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Still hanging on to your iPhone 5s or 6? Apple just gave it a new lease on life - Digital Trends

Apple just rolled out an update for a few older iPhone and iPad models that ensures iMessage, FaceTime, and device activation continue working smoothly.
Pranob Mehrotra (Digital Trends)
@Technology (UK Edition)

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Carney's bill to counter the 27% increase in food prices over the last few years will mostly serve to subsidize the big 5 grocery stores - Loblaw, Sobeys, Metro, Costco & Walmart - which have already profited billions by that same 27% price increase:

Carney's bill includes:
$11.7 billion boost of 25% to GST benefits over 6 years. Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit to 12 million low income Canadians.
$500 million to help businesses address the costs of supply chain disruptions without passing costs on to consumers.
$150-million Food Security Fund that will help small- and medium-sized businesses to expand greenhouses and abattoirs.
$20 million to food banks.

Poilievre said in the House yesterday that he will support the bill.

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Gordon J Holtslander

Agriculture Canada did an inquiry into Canada’s grocery industry and found it extremely “vertically integrated”. The differenent suppliers all owned by the same corporations that “compete” (NOT) to supply groceries.

Ag Canada is being cut back, these analysis will be abandoned to fund the tax break that offers minor relief while falling to challenge the issue, subsidizing these corporations allowing the profits to further integrate the industry.

Grocery corporations invest their profitability in becoming more profitable through integration. Until politicians are willing to recognize and challenge this the problem will continue to become more extreme

Taxpayer’s are funding failure, Poilievre fully supports this policy
#cdnpoli
agriculture.canada.ca/en/secto…

#cdnpoli
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RE: wandering.shop/@cstross/115967…

It's worse than that. Mandatory, authoritatively checked age verification is a short, slippery slope directly to mandatory, authoritatively checked internet access. This isn't hyperbole. Gating VPN access is just a short stop in between.

Charlie Stross

2026-01-27 12:19:30

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RE: social.vivaldi.net/@LonM/11596…

UK PEOPLE: this is REALLY IMPORTANT. If the government bans under-16s from using VPNs, then logically they must intend to REQUIRE AGE VERIFICATION FOR ALL VPN USE. Which will affect adults too!

*Your* privacy and right to anonymous web browsing is at risk!


LonM (@LonM@vivaldi.net)

@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social You might be interested in giving this petition opposing the motion a signal boost: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754408
LonM (Vivaldi Social)

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Question for #blind and partially sighted folk on the fediverse:

If you go to a museum or gallery, do you prefer braille or do you instead use a text to speech app?

(Or both, or something else)

I've got a bit of money to refurbish a small UK museum space with better provisions for Deaf and Blind folk, so I'm keen to know what will be the most useful.

Please Note: This is a question specifically for blind and partially sighted Fedi users, rather than fully sighted folk.

#blind

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Scott

Linking to an accessible companion guide on a site might be a better shout than braille. That would be easier to produce, easier to update, definitely cheaper to maintain and most importantly, it places the choice of how to consume that with each person who wants to read it. EG, I'm totally blind here, learned braille so young that I can't even remember not knowing it, but there are boatloads of blind/VI folk who lose sight later in life and never get that opportunity. IMO audio is a really nice to have extra if you can get it done within budget, but deafblind folk get the soggy end of the stick so often, I reckon I'd try to offset that a bit by commissioning a good writer over a sound designer if I were in your shoes.

BTW I live in London and my partner bloody loves a museum/exhibit. Would be happy to come and poke around ideas in progress. Holler whenever you've got something if that might help.

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Ivan Stloukal 🍎

už to někdo psal ( @babaq).
V tomto okamžiku by měl prezident říct “víte co, dám Andrejovi abolici, táhne se to dlouho, stejně nakonec dostane maximálně podmínku, tak to pojďme ukončit”.
A to bys viděl, jak by Macinka fičel. A Tomio by strachy seděl v koutě ve svém kulatém domečku 😇
A možná by na tom vydělala i ČR, protože Andrej by sice prskal na předchozí vládu, ale nechal by se vodit jak Hurvínek většinou lidi.
@Martin Bodlák 💙💛
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ɔǝlɐɟnoZ ®

@cynik_obecny Vy jste tak plny idealu...naivnich.
To bude spis: Macinka je borec ze se neda, Pavel je komunista, Turek to je frajer, aspon tem Fialovejm poskokum nekdo ukaze...atd
Bures bude drzet hubu, radost z toho nema, ale jde mu o kriminal. A prachy! Hlavne prachy. Pokud ho v dotacich a jinejch smeckach ta banda kretenu podrzi tak je necha bejt.
@Ivan Stloukal 🍎

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so after a lot of work, thanks to a few people, here are some links of interest, some of you may want these, others, may not. note, that I was not responsible for creating the contents contained in these archives, I'm just the host of the archives. Hey, you might even like these as test files for speedtests, lol! Firstly, here's the original main menu early years 7 zip file, covering 2000 to 2008, raw from the ACBRadio FTP server, curtisy of @sclower. file size: 5.51GB. downloads.shaned.net/MainMenu_… Next, curtisy of @gallagher123123 is a zip file where he reorganized, into one folder, per year, this same collection from 2000 to 2008. It looks like he also combined show segments into one file per show. file size: 24.5GB. Why it's almost 4 times the size of the previous file, I don't know, lol! downloads.shaned.net/MainMenu2… Next, curtisy of files provided by @Bri we have a main menu archive, organized into a folder for each year, and one file per show, for 2009 to 2015. File size: 18.5GB downloads.shaned.net/MainMenu2… and finally, you want everything from both zip files in one massive zip file, covering 2000-2015? Of course you do! note: this does not include the contents of the 7zip package. File size: 43.1GB downloads.shaned.net/MainMenu2… I hope these archives are of interest, to someone. note these links are perminant, and will not change. Enjoy!
@Cullen Gallagher @Steve @Bri🥰

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From Clawdbot to Moltbot: How a C&D, Crypto Scammers, and 10 Seconds of Chaos Took Down the Internet's Hottest AI Project
dev.to/sivarampg/from-clawdbot…

From Clawdbot to Moltbot: How a C&D, Crypto Scammers, and 10 Seconds of Chaos Took Down the Internet's Hottest AI Project

The 72-Hour Unraveling of Open Source's Fastest-Growing Star Three days ago, Clawdbot was...
Sivaram (DEV Community)

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I wish I wasn't so irrationally irritated with the folks who pick out my github username from gods know where and ping me in random issues or pull requests for random "Fix this!" or "Merge that!" reasons.

It's often not even my own project. Used to happen with Godot for a while, at a point when I hadn't merged any PRs in like 5-6 years. Often I don't even have merge rights on the project.

It's wrong, sure, but idiots gonna idiot whether or not my blood pressure spikes about it.

Just seems so entitled, though. "Hey random person! Do my thing now!" Fuck off.

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For These Women, Grok's Sexualized Images Are Personal

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But our ( :caflag: ) Minister of Chatbots say there is nothing they can do.
Apple and Google can't remove the app from their appstore because it is allowed to break the policies in place. (that would leave the website, but the point stands)
VISA and Mastercard still accept the payments because they have a double standard in censorship. One is about puritanistm, the other one is about allowing to break the law.


For These Women, Grok's Sexualized Images Are Personal

Elon Musk’s AI image generator has been used to create non-consensual intimate images on X. Meet some of the women affected by it.
Ella Chakarian (Rolling Stone)

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We’ll be out in force at @fosdem '26 at the end of this week, with eight talks on a wide variety of topics—the latest on @servo, GStreamer work, graphics stacks, MathML interop, WebAssembly runtimes, handing out Servo stickers, and more! #FOSDEM2026 igalia.com/2026/01/26/Igalia-a…

Igalia at FOSDEM ’26 | Igalia

Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions.
Igalia
#fosdem2026 @FOSDEM @Servo
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RE: social.vivaldi.net/@LonM/11596…

UK PEOPLE: this is REALLY IMPORTANT. If the government bans under-16s from using VPNs, then logically they must intend to REQUIRE AGE VERIFICATION FOR ALL VPN USE. Which will affect adults too!

*Your* privacy and right to anonymous web browsing is at risk!

LonM (@LonM@vivaldi.net)

@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social You might be interested in giving this petition opposing the motion a signal boost: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754408
LonM (Vivaldi Social)

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Fonant

The government has to discover that there is an illegal VPN being used in the first place.

It is quite possible for millions of VPNs to be made available to UK children, hosted all over the world. Perhaps hosted by children, sharing the small monthly server costs. Quite secret, extremely difficult to find.

The proposed law could only ever hope to apply to a few big VPN companies. Which just moves the VPN usage by children underground, where other dangers lurk.

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I've read this quote multiple times, over the years:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

It turns out it's from a comment on a blog post moaning about liberals: crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l…

The rest of the comment is a lot more interesting than the pithy quote, because it cuts through a lot of the usual noise in leftist discourse.

The travesty of liberalism — Crooked Timber

crookedtimber.org
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