this is like a miracle

21. you are not alone
22. you are not alone
23. you are not alone
24. you are not alone
25. you are not alone

I’ve been poking around text-to-speech models and the people making and using them, and – setting voice cloning and that hot mess aside – actually listening to the voices provided by the models suggests that is a site where a very unrepresentative version of masculinity is structurally performed.

I am but a humble link in a grand tradition.

Which is to say, thinking of calendars as objects instead a bundle of attributes and relationships is why you’re right and also why the current standards will fight you every step of the way.

Insert shameless slightly orthogonal self plug about how calendar complexity is systematically underestimated

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Fascinating that this rhymes (but does not parallel precisely) with South Asian usage of the term in a totally different cultural context.

I think it’s one of those frameworks where the conceptual question underlying it is more important than the actual structure that you end up using.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Tana Dery Na (Audio) YouTube video by Real World Records

I’m sorry to hear that, Joe. May his memory be a blessing.

Sometimes grief is best processed pre-linguistically. Nusrat often does that for me:

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matthew spends their entire life helping others even when their tank is already empty. we first met when they were living on ss disability, & i helped out on their work to save the ACA under trump1, again during the early covid, & again during the 2024 election + medicaid fights

i donated $500

PS: I meant to say: very cool website, I love the popup previews of linked notes.

I’m inspired to figure out how to do that myself.

This doesn’t go hard enough.

Computer literacy is a euphemism for forcing humans to decipher and model the behaviour of systems constructed by people who did not care for their context and needs.

I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!

Oh yeah Apple’s one is quite bad (though it’s quite fast). Parakeet has been better though it hallucinates strings on occasion.

Do you mean the traditional ASR or newer LLMized ones?

The new leader of Hungary is called “Magyar”?!

Whats’s next, “Johnny English”?

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My spicy take for today is that anybody who thinks that traditional speech transcription systems are better than LLM based speech transcription systems is monolingual and monocultural

Yes, those are good principles for structure.

What I'm trying to get to on top of that is about the aliveness of a space and one's relationship to it over time.

For interfaces that have dynamic information displays, one is not just orienting to things but also to activity.. hence phenomenology

ooh that's an interesting framing

and even if these things don't hold (I am already quibbling with my own mapping)

I think the human experience might still be structured in the same way.

- aesthetics are semantics
- clutter is a function of familiarity

And then there are things that are idiosyncratic: e.g. whether time spent → greater? or lesser? conscious awareness of things.

My suspicions are
- some spaces are more expressive of fields of action (arenas)
- navigation is signage
- crosslinks are portals
- dashboards are corridors
- duplicated tabs are desire paths
- interaction is orientation
- interaction is also disorientation
- sidebars are landscape

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Yeah, I think digital systems have a strong and underappreciated spatial component that's a bit lost in the focus on navigation and taxonomy.

were I to try to transfer your frames to IA...

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I see a lot of joking on the timeline about the splashdown and in my headcanon it is because we all have so much hidden emotion about wanting to see good things happen that when they do we need outlets for moving that emotion around because of its intensity.

I suspect it is not that tech ate the world,

as much as it is that the world ate tech, and found some of it quite indigestible and some of it rather poorly cooked.

(consider the tech news of these past 10 days)

We can sling a group of people in a box around the dang moon with extreme precision but making a phone call when we need to is too much to expect

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Unsurprisingly someone also is asking the recovery team to "confirm that they are pushing the PTT on the radio" because they can't hear the crew.

😂 never change, technology

One of the most poetic images of technology I have seen lately,

in a context that reflects well on all of us.

some things never change! including the confidence of people who think they've solved problems.