i was put in charge of three grandchildren for a few hours yesterday so we headed straight to ben & jerry's to split a milkshake, then explored the state theater (and even sneaked into a movie but later got thrown out for horsing around on the escalator), then i gave a nickel tour of angell/mason/haven halls, then they chased squirrels on the diag which took longer than you might think, then we looked in all the windows in nickels arcade. it all went slowly and well.
Hands-on with Apple's new Speech framework components in the macOS Tahoe beta: the APIs deliver transcription speeds significantly faster than OpenAI's Whisper (John Voorhees/MacStories)
https://www.macstories.net/stories/hands-o…
On Wednesday,
the Washington Post
named the Economist’s Washington correspondent
Adam O’Neal as its next opinion editor.
In his announcement on Twitter, O’Neal parroted his new boss’ words from last February almost verbatim,
telling Post readers in a chummy front-facing camera announcement that:
[Washington Post opinion page writers and editors are] going to be stalwart advocates of free markets and personal liberties.
We’ll be unapologetically patri…
wait mastodon finally has the "followed by X people you know" thing on peoples profiles? unless that's a glitch or chuckya thing. i missed that feature from bluesky and twitter i'm happy it's there now
Series B, Episode 09 - Countdown
VETNOR: All right, come with me, we're searching the next level.
PROVINE: Right, sir.
[Teleport section. Avon and Grant are suited up]
AVON: You adjust the temperature with this [Points to knob on suit] You all set?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/209/356
Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
TRAVIS: Oh, yes. I'm a hero, too.
CHENIE: So. You've saved his life twice. Why?
TRAVIS: It's my noble nature.
CHENIE: Oh, yes, Travis. I can see. It shines from your one yellow eye. Nobility?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/140
Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
TRAVIS: I've told you, I want my command back. It's the only way I can catch -
SERVALAN: You really are obsessed with Blake, aren't you?
TRAVIS: It's my right.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/112/237 B7B4
Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
MELLANBY: I don't know. [Lauren enters]
LAUREN: [Enters] Do you hear it, Father?
AVON: Any idea where it came from?
LAUREN: There's nothing inside the ship.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/257 B7B2