"Will ICE Ignite a Mass Strike in Minnesota?"

"“We are not going to shop. We are not going to work. We are not going to school on Friday, January 23. For some people they call that a strike.. For many of us, this is our right to refusal until something changes.”"

*edited to fix a typo in a hashtag, also muting

labornotes.org/2026/01/will-ic…

#Minnesota #unions #strike #LaborNotes #uspol #ICE

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Hmm. So, To balance clarity and accent reduction, I'll set default stress modifications to (1.25, 1.07), as suggested by Gemini, with some exceptions. English might go to (1.4, 1.1), Hungarian to (1.15, 1.04), and Romance languages to (1.2, 1.05). For Portuguese, I'll consider a new nasalization tweak, removing ̃ and `` globally.

I'm working on these fun things called allophones. Sounds like a musical instrument right? "Now come on my son, go inside to eat and put down those allophones this minute!"
Not even close. They are different, non-meaningful pronunciations (variants) of the same phoneme (basic sound unit) that occur in specific, predictable phonetic environments, like the aspirated 'p' in "pin" versus the unaspirated 'p' in "spin". Speakers of a language perceive these variations as the same sound, but they are distinct phonetic realizations that don't change a word's meaning, unlike phonemes which do.
in reply to André Polykanine

they're all mapped in data.py - right now about 100-130 or so, but the IPA symbol of the sound is what each dictionary key entry is, and then the various voicing properties that create that sound. Many TTS engines do not pronounce IPA notation, oddly enough Espeak and NV Speech player do because Espeak has mapped these well in its own table. Eloquence? Just treats it like a questionmark. Haha, OK, it looks like there are 97 keys in the current data.
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in reply to Bri🥰

it offs me piss, when someone will go at a ice cream joint thingy, will carmel do? no fuck it i'll just not order cause you don't have what I really want, and then, nothing else will satisfy it, because, while i like carmel, it is not, what I god damn god damn asked for. Hileo. I could just opt for a vanilla shake,but no Iasked, for a butterscotch mult,you have neither butterscotch, and no mult

One of my favorite artists ever, Taylor Acorn, was involved in writing this song so of course it's good. youtu.be/4okJouEbZ_s

#newmusic #pop #rock #indie

This company supplies #ICETerrorists - you know what to do, internet.
#511Tactical - #TrumpTerrorism suppliers.
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#Boycott #Phonebank #FloodEmail #DisruptBusiness #Fascists #USNazis #BoycottUSA #FuckICE #ExposeNaziCompanies

I wish that more FOSS / ethically licensed projects would be more forthright about asking for donations of help *outside tech stuff*.

There are plenty of people who value FOSS who have skills to contribute, be it legal, accounting, comms, marketing, graphic design, project management, and loads of other things, and plenty of projects which could benefit from some volunteering time in those areas.

Finding a match can be difficult, so seeing people asking for help is excellent.

#FOSS #volunteering #ProBono

Attention all ricers: GNOME Calendar 50 will be able to use your gamer mouse's dedicated back/forward buttons to switch between the previous/next month or week, thanks to @zoeyTheWitch having implemented this very handy feature: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…

#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #UX #hardware

I just spoke to one of those technicians whose career in radiology has them buried in a basement most of their working hours, locating and pumping out info and requests for vital information that changes people's lives for the better. I thanked them, saying "You've helped me so much, thanks for what you do". They cried. No one says thanks anymore, just gimme. Let's change that. Make someone's life better. SEE THEM.

Putting on my storage hat…

Windows hasn’t supported native NVMe UNTIL SOON!

The hell?

It’s an open-enough standard.

People have been buying “premium” drives for years.

And all a bunch of SCSI emulation? 😳

techcommunity.microsoft.com/bl…