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Waking up in Europe:

Trump didn't nuke Iran, ceasefire! Yay!

Newest anthropic model will definitely kill your job this time and maybe take over the world. Aww.


I've built my own tts apps testing whisper and while it's good it does hallucinate quite a bit if there's noise, or just sometimes when the audio is perfectly clear.

It often gives the illusion of being very good but I could record a half hour of me speaking and discover some very random stuff in the middle that I did not say


Yup, you're absolutely right. The open source models do have their rough edges. I use NVIDIA's Parakeet v3 model a lot locally, and it will occasionally do this thing where it just repeats a word like a dozen times.


It'll make you more paranoid to hear that the Pentagon prepared an Easter Sunday service exclusively for non-Catholic Christians. Nothing was arranged for Catholics


Why is organising a religious service the business of government?


Without speaking to the topic of GP, military chaplaincy is highly common. (I want to say universal, but I can't say with 100% confidence.)


It's common in theocratic governments:

  Afghanistan
  Iran
  Mauritania
  Saudi Arabia
  Vatican City
  Yemen
and there are a number of current USofA admin supporters and personal who are Dominionists, onboard with a Christian theocracy, particularly now the war / not war / excursion is officially (by declaration of the former TV host / national guardsman in charge) a holy war supported by Jesus, Prince of Peace.


Because those in power believe that the government should run for the purpose of white evangelicals -- there's a real struggle for power here. I know that I sound hyperbolic here but I'm not: they've made it quite clear what their goals are.

Project 2025 is their playbook and that has been followed extensively so far and if they get their way the will "purge" the US of all that don't belong, i.e., anybody who's not a white evangelical.

They are literally hacking democracy, and they are black hats.


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