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#Oracle stock is now lower than before they touched #OpenAI ... turns out making up numbers and throwing around rumours of "300bn deals" and whatnot with nothing but butterfly farts behind it is bad.

Lawsuit filed. Main plaintiff -- love it -- the Ohio Carpenters' Pension Plan.

Sources:

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pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/15/bon…

via @davidgerard @ParadeGrotesque

A chart showing Oracle stock prices. 9 Sept 241.51 USD. 15 Jan: 191.24 USD.

Bondholders sue Oracle over OpenAI debt deals

Oracle sells enterprise databases. It’s a very solid business. They have so many corporate and government deals that Larry Ellison doesn’t even slightly have to pretend to be human any more. But El…
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#oracle #openai @Parade du Grotesque 💀 @David Gerard

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"The idea of using a YAML map for flexible vowel scaling seems good. It allows any vowel to be specified, not just English ones. I think applying the scale only to lengthened vowels fits with the user’s request while keeping short vowels unchanged. I'll check the existing setup to make sure everything aligns."
You better. I'm done implementing settings by hand into this thing. C++ is getting old.

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POV: Macie #ADHD i naprawdę spore problemy z przetwarzaniem tego, co słyszycie, a typ z którym rozmawiacie przez telefon się bardzo spieszy. Najważniejszym elementem rozmowy ze spieszącym się typem jest zdobycie adresu. Adres jest w miejscowości Mąchocice-Scholasteria.

Koniec żartu.

***badum-tsssssss***

(tak, typ powtórzył pięć razy, ja musiałam zapisać)

🙈

#adhd
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oh my gosh. So even if you load the 64-bit NVDA after using the 32-bit NVDA, your system gets fucked. List view controls don't read right, alt+tab switcher stops reading your enumerations and window list, it's horrifying. So, don't flip between them often, you'll need a system restart, I can't believe we're in 2026 dealing with that.

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I haven't powered up the Development VM since November. Kinda scared to since VSCode will most likely update, and every time it does, it breaks settings that I have to then track down and edit! Oy! But also really would like to get back to working on my Apps. Gotta switch Soundkeys over to...something other than WX because the Accessibility issues are driving me bonkers and UIA doesn't seem to be working much better. I do like Python a lot, though.

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This is honestly super cool. I wonder if Ableton works with NI stuff, Native Instruments.

Zach Bennoui

2026-01-19 06:55:55

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I should really go to bed but first have this thing I spent the last few hours making in Ableton. It's a remix of "Be Like You" by Taylor Acorn and it's probably one of my favorite songs of the last few years. Here's the original: youtu.be/Cys2K0rx2T0



Taylor Acorn - Be Like You (Official Audio)

Taylor Acorn - Be Like You (Official Audio)Stream Survival in Motion: https://onerpm.link/survivalinmotionFollow Taylor:▶ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/a...
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Well, I heard you all loud and clear. In the next pack update we're going back to some of the old values in the phoneme file but with language-specific safeguards in place to make NVSpeech sound not like it is speech impaired. Nothing against those who are, it's just that robots are too perfectly made of math to need to suffer from those problems

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Today is a company holiday in the US I think, but I sat in on an AI best practices meeting anyhow, since I still know next to nothing about AI, and upper management cares about it.
Someone made a comment that AI will change the nature of technical/development positions.
So I wonder, will it? I presume it will, in some way, since most change has consequences, but I feel like it's too early to say how or to what extent?
It's fascinating how much change there is right now, both in terms of technology created by humans and the ecology of the planet due to humans.
I think about the Mesozoic Era and how long it lasted and how there must have been long states of stasis, with each generation of any given life form essentially playing the same role as the last.
But maybe long periods of stasis followed by relatively rapid bursts of change constitute the norm (the meteor that ended the Mesozoic initiating the latter, for instance).
So I wonder if/when we will enter another period of relative calm and what it will look like, but it feels impossible to say.
I presume that life 20 years from now will be similar to life in 2025 but different in some ways, and life in 2065 will be similar to 2045 but different in some ways, and so on, but, if I were to fall asleep and wake up 1,000 years from now, then the world would be utterly unrecognizable to me.

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THE WAR FOR THE OPEN WEB WILL BE WON IN THE STREETS!
GET OUT THERE!
RAISE HELL!
ATTACK!
ARISE!
BECOME UNCOMPUTABLE!
BE THE GLITCH IN THEIR SYSTEM!
BECOME THE SIGNAL THEY CANNOT JAM!
ON THE BUS!
GET ON THE BUS!
RIDE THE BUS!
WITH THE CARDBOARD SIGN!
CAN'T STOP THAT!
DO YOU THINK THEY'LL BAN WIZARDS FROM THE BUSSES?
THEY CAN'T STOP US!
I HAVE A FUCKING BUS PASS AND I'M PREPARED TO USE IT!
ONE BILLION CARDBOARD SIGNS!
ONE BILLION WEB SERVERS!
NOW IS THE TIME!
BECOME THE FUNGUS!
THE MULCH MUST FLOW!
TRASH ROBOT DOT NET!

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"Cow Tools 🐮" : Brown Swiss (cow) in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

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#Cows

A brown cow using a long stick to scratch her back

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows

Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees
Ian Sample (The Guardian)
#cows
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From the 17 January edition of The Week:
"The US Consumer Product Safety Commission keeps a database of the various items that people in America have got stuck in their rectums. The most recent
data shows that about 4,000 people (average age: 43) seek hospital treatment for such mishaps per year. Among the items recorded were beard clippers, a sandal, uncooked pasta, a dog chew toy, an egg, a turkey baster, a pair of glasses and a shampoo bottle."

The mind is not the only thing that boggles 😂

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Also, people can now play around with a new setting: legacyPitchInflectionScale (default 0.58) - if you feel like it's overly inflected, lowering it while having the LegacyPitchMode set to true will improve things. I realized what made him sound like his balls were squeezed. The default inflection on the 2016 era driver used inflection 35, but we now us inflection 60 at default. So that scale setting will help. Or you can lower the inflection itself in your setting to the desired effect. The formula we do: effectiveInflection = inflection * legacyPitchInflectionScale
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often when you see messaging like "we all need to do our part" it's a kind of cynical justification for cutting some essential, centralized, mostly-efficient public service in favor of an ad-hoc, individualist approach that externalizes the issue and disclaims responsibility for neglect and poor outcomes. if you protest such a change, or suggest that perhaps some problems are better dealt with collectively by pooling resources, then it must be you who are lacking the collective spirit!
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josef

this specific form of greenwashing is so successful and has basically normalized the idea that we should be satisfied with a gradually-worsening quality of life. people will genuinely get angry with you if you bring it up, and point to leaflets with stock photos of immaculate, smiling actors who are overjoyed to have remembered to switch off the water while brushing their teeth, rather than perhaps the idea that somebody needs to be paid a living wage to fix the pipes, or dig a new reservoir
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josef

every 5 years the spokesman of the You Can Recycle! trade organization says "no seriously we can actually recycle plastic now, so remember to recycle plastic" and you recycle plastic and then 5 years later there's a video of your empty coca cola bottles and your aunt's labubus and a couple of hundred thousand blu ray boxes all on fire on a riverbank. and the new spokesman of the You Can Recycle! trade organization is like "we promise this won't happen again" and the old spokesman is now at Exxon

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Earlier today I learned that pip includes a bunch of telemetry data in the HTTP User-Agent header for every request it makes, and has for >10 years (with increasing amounts of info): github.com/pypa/pip/blob/545ed…Not only is this not opt-in (as any telemetry should be), but there isn't even an opt-out. I'm still shocked and not sure what conclusions to draw from this, except: This is not okay! ​:neocat_scream_stare:​
I remember there was quite an uproar when Go tried to add opt-out telemetry a while back, and rightly so. How did I never hear about Python doing this before? Sure, less details, but still sending telemetry without ever asking for consent.

I like #Python, I want to keep using it, but can I if core tooling ignores user consent like this? And what other key development tools (Python or otherwise) have things like that and I just haven't noticed yet?


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Bubu

From what I can tell this is parsed here: github.com/pypi/linehaul/blob/… (via github.com/pypi/warehouse/blob…)

Not sure if that's the only place where anything is done with this, but at least in this instance it seems to ignore any of the more privacy invasive and non UA-fitting info anyway. 🤔

(Like a UA saying "I'm pip x.y on python 3.z" seems somewhat reasonable to me, the rest not so much.)

The place to ask for more info/clarification about this would probably be discuss.python.org/t/about-the…?


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Well, a LegacyPitchMode setting will be nice. It'll replicate that sound NVSpeechPlayer had before they moved to using Espeak's calculations for pitch curves. Next update it's planned for. The constants I'd be copying are right there: 25000, 1.5, 1.2, 8, 1.75, and the stressInflection decay rules.
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