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You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Well, who the hell else are you talking to? You talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only one here.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Talking Heads:
🎵 Once in a Lifetime
#TalkingHeads
https://situationsmke.bandcamp.com/track/talking-heads-once-in-a-lifetime
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Tr4K5MU5XYE44umXGDndd

This is such a devastatingly sad read for how "chat bots" are effectively exploiting people's loneliness: Inside ‘AI Addiction’ Support Groups, Where People Try to Stop Talking to Chatbots
https://www.404media.co/inside-ai-addiction-support-groups-where-people-try-to-stop-talking-to-chatbots/

Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Online Only | n 1 | Yanis Varoufuckice
"The deportation officer applicant pool was, I felt, shockingly diverse—one might say it looked like America. The whole place looked and felt like America."
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/two-days-talking-to-people-looking-for-jobs-at-ice/

does anyone know something about the coverage/deployment status of the LTE450 network of 450connect.de ? #cellular #lte #telecom

Inside ‘AI Addiction’ Support Groups, Where People Try to Stop Talking to Chatbots https://www.404media.co/inside-ai-addiction-support-groups-where-people-try-to-stop-talking-to-chatbots/

GGTalker: Talking Head Systhesis with Generalizable Gaussian Priors and Identity-Specific Adaptation
Wentao Hu, Shunkai Li, Ziqiao Peng, Haoxian Zhang, Fan Shi, Xiaoqiang Liu, Pengfei Wan, Di Zhang, Hui Tian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21513

GGTalker: Talking Head Systhesis with Generalizable Gaussian Priors and Identity-Specific Adaptation
Creating high-quality, generalizable speech-driven 3D talking heads remains a persistent challenge. Previous methods achieve satisfactory results for fixed viewpoints and small-scale audio variations, but they struggle with large head rotations and out-of-distribution (OOD) audio. Moreover, they are constrained by the need for time-consuming, identity-specific training. We believe the core issue lies in the lack of sufficient 3D priors, which limits the extrapolation capabilities of synthesized…

Calamus 44 Here my last words
In which the poet outs himself through talking about his poetry.
It's a short piece of Whitman talking about his own writing. But he's so twisted up!
Here I shade down and hide my thoughts—I do not expose them,
And yet they expose me more than all my other poems.
I read this as him talking about Calamus, the cluster of gay poems. And directly telling us that he's censored and hidden what he really wants to say. And yet still these poems still expose his true self. It makes me feel sad for Whitman, imagine his writing if he felt less fettered.
Still, he published some of the most clear gay poems of the 19th century. And got famous and mainstream doing it.

"Wie schreibe ich einen guten Businessplan?"
Aus dem Programm der #TinCon, der Teilkonferenz der #republica "für digitale Jugendkultur".
Die Jugend von heute, ich weiß ja auch nicht.

[disclaimer: not a political scientist, talking out of my ass]
For the two parties are going to divide up the electorate, if one is the fascist party, maybe the other •has• to be the anti-fascist party — not just philosophically, but for practical reasons. Maybe you just can’t maintain a viable coalition to oppose a fascist party without bringing everyone who opposes fascism into your coalition. Sure feels that way now.
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