Tootfinder

One of world’s smallest fish is as loud as a gunshot which makes you wonder what they're being so chatty about
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/27/smallest-fish-sounds-loud-danionella-cerebrum

Trump Supporters Aren’t Even Hiding They Hate the Constitution | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/post/180312/president-life-trump-backer-says-quiet-part-loud

Trump Supporters Aren’t Even Hiding They Hate the Constitution
Donald Trump’s backers are saying the quiet part out loud now.

They bully me cause I can't get finger pictures right :neofox_cry_loud: :neofox_cry_loud: :neofox_cry_loud:
#Resonite #VR #FurryVR

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
James Brown:
🎵 Say it loud - I'm black and i'm proud
#JamesBrown
https://open.spotify.com/track/5h8ve1B7Gr3k4W0WXAgLxE
https://drunosanddubs.bandcamp.com/track/james-brown-say-it-loud-im-black-and-im-proud

Was just watching a scary TV show at home at 11 at night, when I’m interrupted by… is that a loudspeaker? A voice from outside, loud enough to be easily heard indoors with the doors and windows closed, over a video playing. But I can’t make out the words. Opening the door… is that the sound of a helicopter!? Maybe, maybe not. The voice keeps getting louder and quieter. It’s a looping message. I hear “call 911”… “repeat”… “police”. But that’s all I can make out.
This actually ha…

sounds like a helicopter landing outside my office, so loud. just flying low I guess.

Megan McArdle: Google's Gemini AI Said the Quiet Part Out Loud (John Sexton/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/02/27/megan-mcardle-googles-gemini-ai-said-the-quiet-part-out-loud-n3783699
http://www.memeorandum.com/240227/p73#a240227p73

Since I'm talented at remembering wrong things, I distinctly remember someone (perhaps @…) mentioning this idea out loud and I even started working on it. But I eventually gave up halfway because I thought nobody would care anyway.
But I definitely wouldn't invent such an excellent domain name.
@…

The nature of compact radio-loud AGN: a systematic look at the LOFAR AGN population
J. Chilufya, M. J. Hardcastle, J. C. S. Pierce, J. H. Croston, B. Mingo, X. Zheng, R. D. Baldi, H. J. A. R\"ottgering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19424

The nature of compact radio-loud AGN: a systematic look at the LOFAR AGN population
We investigate the nature of low-luminosity radio-loud active galactic nuclei (RLAGN) selected from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) first data release (DR1). Using optical, mid-infrared, and radio data, we have conservatively selected 55 radiative AGN candidates from DR1 within the redshift range $0.03$$1-3$ kpc, 42 are compact at the li…

MrBeast's "retention editing", which uses quick cuts and loud sounds, took over social media, but may fade away as the YouTuber shifts to slower, focused videos (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/3J13EWc

The ‘Beastification of YouTube’ may be coming to an end
“Retention editing,” a video style featuring bangs and flashes, may have peaked.

Danioella in with a BANG!
@… in the Guardian!
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/27/s…

A scholar and a gentleman.
#CatsOfMastadon

The X-ray enhancements of radio-loud quasars at high redshift: New results at $z = 4\text{ -- }7$
Zihao Zuo, Shifu Zhu, W. N. Brandt, Gordon P. Garmire, F. Vito, Jianfeng Wu, Yongquan Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17828

The X-ray enhancements of radio-loud quasars at high redshift: New results at $z = 4\text{ -- }7$
Highly radio-loud quasars (HRLQs; $\log R>2.5$) at $z\gtrsim 4$ show apparent enhanced X-ray emission compared to matched HRLQs at lower redshifts, perhaps due to a redshift-dependent fractional contribution to the X-ray luminosity from inverse-Compton scattering of cosmic microwave background photons (IC/CMB). Using new {\it Chandra} observations and archival X-ray data, we investigate this phenomenon with an optically flux-limited sample of 41 HRLQs at $z = 4$--5.5 all with sensitive X-ray co…

MrBeast's "retention editing", which uses quick cuts and loud sounds, took over social media, but may fade away as the YouTuber shifts to slower, focused videos (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/3J13EWc

The ‘Beastification of YouTube’ may be coming to an end
“Retention editing,” a video style featuring bangs and flashes, may have peaked.

Republicans Increasingly Reveal They Barely Know Where Babies Come From
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/republicans-increasingly-reveal-they-barely-know-where-babies-come-from?utm…

Loud Explosions Heard All Over Belgorod, Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/16/loud-explosions-heard.html

Da fällt mir spontan ein, dass ich von meinem allerersten Schottlandurlaub (1987) noch eine nie abgeschickte Postkarte im Archiv habe. Und da sieht man an den Onomatopöien rechts neben dem Dudelsackspieler, dass die Briten tatsächlich ein Wort speziell für diese Art der Tonerzeugung haben: to skirl.
https://

skirl
1. a loud, high sound, especially that of bagpipes (= a musical instrument…

A scholar and a gentleman.
#CatsOfMastadon

Een zorgvuldige, uitgebreide en toegankelijke samenvatting van het WHO document dat deze week uitkwam waarin de WHO eindelijk maar dan toch toegeeft dat #COVIDisAirborne. Hopelijk het begin van een Schone Binnenlucht Revolutie! #SBR

Thread by @_CatintheHat on Thread Reader App
@_CatintheHat: 🚨 Indoor AIRBORNE Risk Assessment in the context of SARS-CoV-2 from the World Health Organisation (@WHO) For clean air advocates, this is HUGE! The WHO are finally saying, loud & proud: COVID IS AIRBO...…

Young male psychopathic sadists drive illegally-loud cars. Film at 11. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/loud-car-study-psychology-1.7177688
(Snarky comment aside, this 100% checks out.)

Thought-experiment relevant (although of course not perfectly identical) to current campus protests.
Imagine defenders of southern culture camped out on the college green, devoting the vast majority of their time to scholarly rebuttals of the history curriculum's denigration of Robert E. Lee and John C. Calhoun & loud chants of slogans that favorably remember them. Only occasionally do participants yell epithets, some overtly racist & some referring to DEI, at Black students…

I don’t think I appreciated how incredibly loud airplanes are until we had good noise cancelling headphone technology. Soooo loud! (And I don’t mean crying babies, they are allowed to cry, being a baby is hard work)

a couple of canadian geese flying down dundas street west, low and loud

Let's say it out loud. There is an anti-worker, anti-social, downright fascist and pseudo-nationalist vein running through Silicon Valley. Whether it's Musk, Google, Ellison in the backroom, or this CoinBro, it runs deep and wide.
I remember when Steve Jobs and Larry Ellision were, famously, best friends. I wonder what Steve would say today. On BitCoin and AI and all this neo-fascist BS…
At risk of sounding like I am calling upon a saviour... I wish he was here.
<…

Souvenirs...
#Music #Quotes

This piece, by Samuel Earle is very good, IMO. It's important.
It shows the how the far right weaponises some topics as a way to divide people, in its efforts to destroy the Conservative party as well as progressives. I worry for the future of democracy itself.
"Loud and uncowed: how UnHerd owner Paul Marshall became Britain’s newest media mogul"

11870, 11935, 13830 & 15565 kHz: all four frequencies scheduled for Vatican Radio's Via Crucis commentaries are up. However, 11935 Arabic seems to have fallen in a Houthi (?) trap - apparent heavy buzz #jammer targeting Republic of Yemen Radio in exile, which has been changing frequencies across 25m a couple times in the past months. Bad stuff...

Fascinating to see the Times slowly trying to come to grips with the way they’ve been played by Moscow.
It takes them seven paragraphs to get to the fact that the allegations against Biden were (passive voice) “made up.”
Not till paragraph twelve does the real protagonist appear: Russian intelligence. It’s a Russian disinformation operation. Let’s see if we can say that out loud.

Why do motorcycles have to be so fucking loud. Jesus.

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio1's #Radio1Anthems
Olly Murs:
🎵 Heart Skips A Beat (feat. Rizzle Kicks)
#BBCR1 #OllyMurs
https://open.spotify.com/track/2629nSdHjNQ17wSEWRYbFl
https://louiloudlowa.bandcamp.com/track/olly-murs-my-heart-skips-a-beat-loui-loud-lowa-orient-mix

Een zorgvuldige, uitgebreide en toegankelijke samenvatting van het WHO document dat deze week uitkwam waarin de WHO eindelijk maar dan toch toegeeft dat #COVIDisAirborne. Hopelijk het begin van een Schone Binnenlucht Revolutie! #SBR

Thread by @_CatintheHat on Thread Reader App
@_CatintheHat: 🚨 Indoor AIRBORNE Risk Assessment in the context of SARS-CoV-2 from the World Health Organisation (@WHO) For clean air advocates, this is HUGE! The WHO are finally saying, loud & proud: COVID IS AIRBO...…

$125K stolen in 10 minutes
From Kim Komando's newsletter —
"Feb. 16 was a typical Friday night. Barry and I decided to stay home, grill chicken and make a salad for dinner. At about 6:45 p.m., we heard some loud rumbling overhead.
We walked onto the back patio, and two police helicopters were shining lights all over our property. A recording echoed, “Police. You are under arrest. Stay right there and I won’t shoot you.”
As I looked across the fence, a swarm of armed Phoenix SWAT team members with a few dogs were circling our property. One of the guys said, “Yeah, there’s a jammer right here.” He picked it up. I leaned over the patio and asked, “What’s going on?”
The police told me to go inside
When I asked again, a SWAT member said, “Ma’am, it’s a South American gang targeting homes to steal from. The jammer says you might have been next. Do we have permission to enter your property?” I said, “Yes!” and then he asked something like, “If we find anyone, will you pursue charges so we can arrest them?” I replied, “Of course!”
I opened the driveway gates to our property and the guest house while Barry tossed the police keys to open the security gates. People asked me if I was scared. How could I be? There was a team of really professional police officers protecting me from who knows what.
Turns out, when the gang saw we were home, they likely diverted their attention to the house next door. A house four doors down from us wasn’t so lucky.
The homeowner left at 5 p.m. to have dinner and got a notification his security cameras were offline at 5:05 p.m. He thought the internet went down. Nope, the gang broke in and took $25,000 in cash and valuables worth $100,000. They were in and out in under 10 minutes.
How are they getting away with this?
The gang places cellular and Wi‑Fi jammers around the homes they’re targeting. This way, security cameras and phones are useless. A Phoenix police officer told me the gang probably noticed nothing was down in our house.
We have our cameras and internet hardwired. Even when they tried to jam our signals, the red lights on the security cameras still showed they were recording everything.
But how frightening is that? Your phone doesn’t work. Your cameras aren’t recording anything. On the upside, the gang doesn’t carry guns. This way, if they get caught, they’ll spend about six months in jail before being extradited to Chile.
Nothing is random
The gang scopes out homes beforehand. They drive the neighborhood and look up houses on real estate sites to get an idea of where the primary bedroom is located. They look for dogs, too.
It’s not just in Phoenix, by the way. This is happening all over the country. A friend was robbed by this gang, and he lives in a guarded, gated community in California. Kudos to the Phoenix Police Department — they arrested three members of the gang who were in my neighborhood that night.
So, what can you do?
☑️​ Wireless cameras go kaput with no signal. Try a wired camera for a backup.
☑️​ A cam with SD card storage will still record if there’s no Wi‑Fi.
☑️​ Put up motion-activated lights; they make it harder for anyone to sneak around.
☑️​ A femtocell (think of it as a mini cell tower) could be enough to keep your connection if thieves use jammers — T‑Mobile or Verizon.
☑️​ Have an Amazon Echo? Away mode lets you control your lights so it looks like someone’s home.
☑️​ Make it look like someone’s watching TV at your house when you’re not there with a Television Simulator.
☑️​ A University of North Carolina survey of over 400 incarcerated burglars found security system signs deter thieves.
☑️​ Check Zillow, Realtor⁠.⁠com and Redfin for photos of your house. The more crooks know about the layout, the better for them. Ask to have them removed.
☑️​ Blur your house from Google Maps and Apple Maps while you’re at it.

Spotify: in 2023, 66K artists received $10K , up from 57K in 2022, with 50% from non-English speaking countries, while 11,600 got $100K , and 1,250 got $1M (Stuart Dredge/Music Ally)
https://musically.com/2024/03/19/spotify-updates-lou…

🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
Mannequin Pussy:
🎵 Loud Bark
#NowPlaying #MannequinPussy
https://open.spotify.com/track/4iaSz388a4iRMNRJZSClVG
https://mannequinpussy.bandcamp.com/track/loud-bark

There needs to be more lesbian bars that are just quiet libraries with some cats and beanbag chairs and coffee.
I cannot with this loud.

The annual Conservative Political Action Convention (CPAC) is seldom subtle. This year they aren’t just saying the quiet part out loud — they are screaming it.
At a panel session Wednesday, right-wing conspiracy theorist Jack #Posobiec said without irony or sarcasm, “I just wanted to say, welcome to the end of democracy.
We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on…

CPAC Speaker’s Goal: Ending Democracy
Turning point the media missed

I have overheard loud conversations that sounded like they might end in gunfire, but I have never overheard a conversation that did end in gunfire.

Russian media: Shelling in Belgorod damages apartment buildings: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/29/russian-media-shelling.html

I been slowly chipping away at improving the fully decentralised aith story for NATS and starting to feel really good about this zero config file touch experience. I only cat the file to show here but you never need to see or edit t really and I can extend to support clusters etc
The form builder gave me nightmares to build as that wizard is just a yaml file template but anyway yay.
Also wtf is up with these new laptops and LOUD keys. Older macs weren’t this bad.

There’s been a couple of headlines going around lately about this topic (particularly in #Scandinavia), so as someone working in this field I’d just like to say out loud:
#Datacenters don’t create jobs*.
Yes of course there’s some, yes it depends on a bunc…

Once again I laughed out loud several times.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OGt6SgZcuqs

Daily pic of Brisbane

Whenever Say It Ain't So comes on, I will always turn it up way too loud and ruin my eardrums massively just a little more. That's just how it goes

VLBI observations of the high-redshift X-ray bright blazar SRGE J170245.3 130104
Yuanqi Liu, Tao An, Shaoguang Guo, Yingkang Zhang, Ailing Wang, Zhijun Xu, Georgii Khorunzhev, Yulia Sotnikova, Timur Mufakharov, Alexander Mikhailov, Marat Mingaliev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19202

VLBI observations of the high-redshift X-ray bright blazar SRGE J170245.3+130104
Aims. The X-ray luminous and radio-loud AGN SRGE J170245.3+130104 discovered at z $\sim$ 5.5 provides unique chances to probe the SMBH growth and evolution with powerful jets in the early Universe. Methods. We present 1.35 - 5.1 GHz Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) results on the radio continuum emission and spectrum analysis for this quasar in a low flux density state. Results. This source is unresolved at three frequencies with the total flux densities of 8.35$\pm$0.09 mJy beam-1, 7.47$\pm$0.0…

Attend “Feminist -vs- Fascists: Justice Can't Wait! Trump Is Not Immune!” rally
Organized by Women’s March
Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 9:30 AM EDT
At the Supreme Court of the United States
https://action.womensmarch.com/events/

Feminist -vs- Fascists: Justice Can't Wait! Trump Is Not Immune!
Join our Noise Protest so the Supreme Court will hear us loud and clear: 📣 📣 📣 JUSTICE CAN'T WAIT! TRUMP IS NOT IMMUNE! On April 25, defendant Trump will argue to the Supreme Court that he shouldn’t face prosecution for his January 6th insurrection attempt. His rationale: because he was President. We disagree. Presidents should not given a free pass for attempting to overthrow our Democracy. Period. Ever. 📣 WHY IT MATTERS • Accountability: Being president doesn’t mean yo…

I know they’re out of Moffett because they flew over me while taking off and they are LOUD

Painting doors and trim in the basement (that renovation isn't going to finish itself unfortunately) and got my music up loud. I haven't heard this version of "Five Days In May" for a few months and forgot how great the guitar solo is at the end. Starts around the 4:45 mark.
Back to painting.... sigh...
#MyPlaylist

Funny thing this morning. I dreamt that the alarm went off, and it woke me up, an hour earlier than I needed.
Her: It did go off 45 minutes ago, at 6am. I heard it too.
Me: no, it was not set to go off at 6am.
Her, glaring: It. Woke. Me. Up.
Me checking: so my phone doesn't know which weekday it is? Look here, it's set for Friday, 7am.
So either the built in alarm/clock app on my phone is utterly untrustworthy, or my dreams are very loud.

The question of whether BEV's actually save substantial carbon compared to ICE cars is a little more complicated than you think, and there are loud-voiced deniers. Here’s a report that digs deep on the issue and has the numbers: https://www.bloomberg.com/news…

EVs Are Much Lower-Emitting Than Combustion Cars
Electric vehicles’ lifecycle emissions can be 70% lower than gasoline and diesel vehicles, BNEF finds in a new analysis.

The council's grass-verge-trimming contractor is outside and the #strimmer is so much less unpleasantly loud than previously — it seems to be #electric!

Eine neue Folge #StarTrekTagebuch
Diesmal mit viel Diplomatie und einem Exkurs zu #Behinderung in der #ScienceFiction

"Delyth Jewell, who speaks on climate change for Plaid Cymru, said: “I don’t want us to lose sight of how radical this policy is. There will be loud voices who tell us that it’s only outside schools where children need to be kept safe, forgetting that children don’t live at school.”
Welsh government may reverse 20mph limit on hundreds of roads – but denies U-turn | Wales | The Guardian

Souvenirs...
#Music #Quotes

Randomly joined my local working men’s club last night!
Went there for the first time ever to a charity do in the function room. Then had a drink downstairs.
The bar downstairs was really nice. Cosy, but bright and not too loud. I don’t really drink alcohol, but my friend and I thought it could be a good central place to meet friends.
It has a big carpark and I could also walk/scoot/cycle there along the cycle route.
It was only £15/year so nothing lost and potentiall…

"Ooh, yeah, you're amazing
We think you're incredible
You say we're fantastic
But still we don't head the bill".

Maybe it's true, maybe it's not.
Either way, play it loud, sing and dance along with #KateBush.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ar7vovnH5I

"Ooh, yeah, you're amazing
We think you're incredible
You say we're fantastic
But still we don't head the bill".

Maybe it's true, maybe it's not.
Either way, play it loud, sing and dance along with #KateBush.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ar7vovnH5I

Dear !deity. The continued loud conversation of this 30-something women on today’s train is making me consider ritual suicide.
20 min so far, excessive and unnecessary use of the word literally, inane topics; and my noise cancelling earbuds aren’t in easy reach right now. 😣
#PublicTransport #Perth

Having been made to write a weekly column (the kind of thankless, incredibly hard work nobody sane does voluntarily), I've taken to stabbing the South African government in the face repeatedly about its foreign policy.
Makes for a nice soft target, infinitely exploitable, and maybe the complaints will be loud enough to make me stop.
Plausible undeniability: Navalny died while SA was providing cover for Moscow
https://www.news24.com/news24/opinions/columnists/phillipdewet/phillip-de-wet-plausible-undeniability-navalny-died-while-sa-was-providing-cover-for-moscow-20240222

Oh for crying out loud. throws away avatar in disgust

@… I think I’m just thinking out loud that some of the most successful products in tech are seen as successful because they are well funded (via business acumen or investment)—and the tech is secondary.
Probably still thinking about this old blog post:

OMG 🧵
I made a chicken & dressing casserole for my husband today. I decided to use up leftover veggies from the fridge—a Tupperware of sliced mushrooms & one of peas carrots—in it. As it was baking, I wondered out loud why the leftover peas carrots had had a few green beans mixed in. My husband’s face dropped.

Oh my….. this made me laugh out so loud even the dog looked at me like
„wuz up dude“
🤣😂🤣

https://library.xandra.cc/gloria/

Saying the quiet part out loud #sora #openai

⚮⚮Amusing that #books are shipped from #Powells, Portland OR to Fife WA to Salt Lake City UT to get to Boise ID.
⚮⚮⚮Loud Year of the Dragon 2024 coffee cup is loud. I have, of course, misplaced it.

Bernie Sanders tangles with reporter over question on 32-hour workweek: 'I can yell as loud as you' (Danielle Wallace/Fox Business)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/bernie-sanders-tangles-reporter-question-32-hour-workweek-yell-loud-you
http://www.memeorandum.com/240314/p71#a240314p71

Revisiting Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background in the Strong Signal Case
Zheng-Cheng Liang, Zhi-Yuan Li, En-Kun Li, Jian-dong Zhang, Yi-Ming Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18709

Revisiting Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background in the Strong Signal Case
Weak-signal limit is often used in estimating stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) intensities. This approximation fails and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) can be much weaker when background signals are loud compared to the detector noise. In this work, we highlight this limitation for the SGWB detection using space-borne detector networks. For the TianQin + LISA network, the SNR estimated under the weak-signal limit might be off by as large as an order of magnitude. Contour plots o…

I’m late to this but, in honour of my friend @…’s beloved Jack, today is officially international Ice Cream and Loud Music Day.
Celebrate irresponsibly. Piss off your neighbours. :)

Canada's Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives can’t be trusted to stand up for workers
:mastodon: :mstdnca:
https://canadianlabour.ca/poilievre-and-the-conservatives-cant-be-trusted-to-stand-up-for-workers/<…

Poilievre and the Conservatives can’t be trusted to stand up for workers | Canadian Labour Congress
Bruske: Poilievre loud on rhetoric, but silent on his real agenda OTTAWA––With his lengthy anti-worker track record and history of cutting health care, Pierre Poilievre’s election as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada is a concern for working families, warned Bea Bruske, President of the Canadian Labour Congress. “Pierre Poilievre has used populist rhetoric to hide away his real agenda. But his long track record of attacking workers’ rights and siding with profitable corporati…

Once again I laughed out loud several times.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OGt6SgZcuqs

Schumer said out loud what many of Israel’s friends are thinking
“Chuck Schumer’s speech is proof that one by one, Netanyahu is losing Israel’s biggest supporters in the U.S.,” said Israeli centrist opposition leader Yair Lapid. 

That Schumer reflected a current running deep among traditionally pro-Israel Democrats was brought home Friday when President Biden called his effort
“a good speech” that “expressed a serious concern shared not only by him but by many Americans.”<…

Schumer said out loud what many of Israel’s friends are thinking
Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah.

man, that destruction of the DOJ building from the next block down sure is pretty loud...

A 😀 ->
Jacuzzi Lifeguard - SNL
"A man (Will Ferrell) tries to relax in a jacuzzi but a loud, hyperactive lifeguard (Jim Carrey) ruins it with every tool of the lifeguard trade - rules, a bullhorn, and finally "rescuing" him from a life threatening foot cramp. Aired 05/18/96"
https://www.

So, update on the 45Drives HL15 case: still friggin' awesome. The drives are secure, the backplane works very well, and it looks nice. Not too loud, good airflow, and generally great. Also holds a lot of drives. The upgrade allowed me to take it apart a bit and the wiring is done well, front fans have connectors that makes removing the front easy, and you can route the SAS cables behind the backplane. #homelab

Motivational Speaker...
#Motivation #Cartoon

OK, just laughed out loud.
Found this on a 3D model repository. That note below the download button just killed me. 😂

Ever noticed how loud voices for feminism & BLM and other public issues suddenly go silent on Gaza? That’s because taking a stand on Gaza risks careers, networks, & relationships.
It’s not activism if it's safe, and these people are all cowards.

When Medvedev calls for “a new civil war” in the U.S., who is he reaching out to? https://mastodon.social/@josephwelch/112310610461949874

The question of whether BEV's actually save substantial carbon compared to ICE cars is a little more complicated than you think, and there are loud-voiced deniers. Here’s a report that digs deep on the issue and has the numbers: https://www.bloomberg.com/news…

EVs Are Much Lower-Emitting Than Combustion Cars
Electric vehicles’ lifecycle emissions can be 70% lower than gasoline and diesel vehicles, BNEF finds in a new analysis.

And here is a snippet of wren friend. Suspect if you hear a loud elaborate song in Mendocino it will be this tiny pacific wren. Note the wagging tail.

OpenAI updates ChatGPT with a "read aloud" feature supporting 37 languages, allowing it to read its responses out loud, available on the web and mobile apps (Emilia David/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/4/24090500/chatgpt-openai-voi…

ChatGPT can read its answers out loud
OpenAI rolled out the Read Aloud feature so ChatGPT users can have the chatbot’s responses verbally read to them in one of 37 languages.

Whale songs are so powerful (traveling up to thousands of miles/kilometers) because of a specialized voice box that no other animal has
https://apnews.com/article/whales-song-ocean-voice-box-humpback-baleen-afc3b4c42606c09782…

How do whales sing? Scientists point to a specialized voice box that other animals don't have
Whales sing loud enough that the sound travels through the ocean. But how they do that has been a mystery. A newly published study says whales have a specialized voice box that isn't seen in other animals. The study was too tiny to be definitive, but experts say the discovery will direct future research into how whales communicate. The research looked at voice boxes from three dead, stranded whales. Lab experiments showed the whales use a cushion of fat and tissue to sing.

When Medvedev calls for “a new civil war” in the U.S., who is he reaching out to? https://mastodon.social/@josephwelch/112310610461949874

This shit has to stop NOW !
https://x.com/dailycaller/status/1769485612938035691?s=61

Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) on X
11-Year-Old Leaves Schoolboard SHOCKED After Reading Inappropriate Book from School Library Out Loud

Mr Loaf and Mrs Loud. #TOTP

The loud fast talkers, how do they find me?

That loud 'clunk' you hear is a whole lot of jaws hitting the floor in a collective 'WTF???'
Putin says Russia prefers Biden to Trump because he's 'more experienced and predictable'
https://news.yahoo.com/putin-says-russia-pr…

Putin says Russia prefers Biden to Trump because he's 'more experienced and predictable'
President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia would prefer to see U.S. President Joe Biden win a second term, describing him as more experienced than...

Relevant to my #DeGoogle project: https://cantrusthosting.coop/canwork-cloud/
Tl;dr: Worker-coop-hosted/managed NextCloud. I wonder how many of these there are out there?

canWork: Canadian Hosted Business Tools
Canadian hosted collaboration work-space and messaging system. CanWork provides a non-corporate, open-source Canadian replacement for Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Apps, and encrypted chat.