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Rod2ik 🇪🇺 🇨🇵 🇪🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇱☮🕊️<p>Alerta, la última actualización de seguridad de Windows 11 puede causar fallos críticos en tu SSD y dejarlo inservible</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Use" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Use</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> </p><p>It's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/free" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>free</span></a>, as in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/free" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>free</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>speech</span></a></p><p><a href="https://computerhoy.20minutos.es/tecnologia/alerta-ultima-actualizacion-seguridad-windows-11-puede-causar-fallos-criticos-ssd-dejarlo-inservible-1478828" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">computerhoy.20minutos.es/tecno</span><span class="invisible">logia/alerta-ultima-actualizacion-seguridad-windows-11-puede-causar-fallos-criticos-ssd-dejarlo-inservible-1478828</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/78478/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Kurt Vonnegut</b></a></p><blockquote>People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.</blockquote><p><b>Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.</b> (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist<br><i>Cat’s Cradle</i>, ch. 76 [Castle] (1963)</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/78478/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/784…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=kurtvonnegut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kurtvonnegut</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=communication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communication</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=blather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blather</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=meaning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meaning</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>speech</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=talking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>talking</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=verbiage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>verbiage</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>Google President Praised MAGA Speech Slamming 'Climate Extremist Agenda'</p><p><a href="https://www.desmog.com/2025/08/19/google-president-praised-maga-speech-slamming-climate-extremist-agenda/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">desmog.com/2025/08/19/google-p</span><span class="invisible">resident-praised-maga-speech-slamming-climate-extremist-agenda/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/President" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>President</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Speech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Change" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Change</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extremism</span></a></p>
Max Lab UW Seattle<p>📣 Now published:</p><p>"Auditory-motor adaptation and de-adaptation for speech depend more on time in the new environment than on the amount of practice"</p><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-025-00304-8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s44271-025</span><span class="invisible">-00304-8</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/MotorLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MotorLearning</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Adaptation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Adaptation</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Speech</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Sensorimotor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sensorimotor</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/MotorControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MotorControl</span></a></p>
Max Lab UW Seattle<p>👀 </p><p>"Delayed Auditory Feedback Increases Speech Production Variability in Typically Fluent Adults but has the Opposite Effect in Stuttering Adults"</p><p><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2025.1628114/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">frontiersin.org/journals/human</span><span class="invisible">-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2025.1628114/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Stuttering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stuttering</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Speech</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Variability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Variability</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DAF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DAF</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SpeechLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpeechLanguage</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SpeechLanguagePathology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpeechLanguagePathology</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SLP</span></a></p>
Elod<p>I've been making spelling / <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maths</span></a> exercises for the kiddos with fireworks, confetti, video, stickers and now <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/TTS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TTS</span></a> to read out the maths problems and help memorise the times table!</p><p><a href="https://codeberg.org/csirmaz/learning-aid" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">codeberg.org/csirmaz/learning-</span><span class="invisible">aid</span></a></p><p>Sneakily introducing them to variables and symbolic algebra, too.</p><p>Feel free to take the components and build your own exercise system or update the problems to fit your needs.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/school" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>school</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/js" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>js</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>speech</span></a></p>
SnowyCA :vivaldi_red:<p>🔤 Words Do Have Power ✊ <br>Names have power<br>Words are events<br>they do things<br>change things<br>They transform <br>both speaker and the hearer,<br>They feed energy back and forth<br>and amplify it.</p><p>--Ursala K LeGuin </p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Communication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Communication</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Speech</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <br><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Zine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zine</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Media</span></a></p>
GNU/Linux.ch<p>Libre Office Texte unter Linux diktieren mit Speech Note</p><p>Die TTS und STT Anwendung Speech Note liefert gute Ergebnisse, auch auf mittelstarker Hardware. Die verschiedenen KI-Modelle werden alle lokal ausgeführt. </p><p><a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/TTS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TTS</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/STT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>STT</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Texte_sprechen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texte_sprechen</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/LibreOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibreOffice</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Speech</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a></p><p><a href="https://gnulinux.ch/libre-office-texte-unter-linux-diktieren-mit-speech-note" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gnulinux.ch/libre-office-texte</span><span class="invisible">-unter-linux-diktieren-mit-speech-note</span></a></p>
Max Lab UW Seattle<p>Hantao Wang will defend his PhD dissertation on Tues 8/19 (10 am PDT), open to all via Zoom!</p><p>"Examining Cortical and Subcortical Processes Underlying Speech Auditory-motor Adaptation and Syllable Sequence Learning"</p><p><a href="https://washington.zoom.us/j/94491363101?pwd=NGjWWgAy9SjuVM8eKCbPmeiDvxGiI2.1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">washington.zoom.us/j/944913631</span><span class="invisible">01?pwd=NGjWWgAy9SjuVM8eKCbPmeiDvxGiI2.1</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Speech</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/MotorControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MotorControl</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Parkinsons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Parkinsons</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/EssentialTremor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EssentialTremor</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DBS</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Subcortical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Subcortical</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Adaptation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Adaptation</span></a></p>
Dorian Santner 🇦🇹<p>Best <a href="https://graz.social/tags/paper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paper</span></a> title in a long time ...</p><p>"How to wreck a nice beach you sing calm incense"</p><p>.. which is ..</p><p> "How to recognize <a href="https://graz.social/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>speech</span></a> using common sense"</p><p><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1040830.1040898" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1040830</span><span class="invisible">.1040898</span></a></p>
RAWCHILI<p>Watch Ray Lewis, Michael Phelps Give Speeches to Ravens | Baltimore Ravens <a href="https://www.rawchili.com/4461142/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">rawchili.com/4461142/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Baltimore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Baltimore</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/BaltimoreRavens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BaltimoreRavens</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/BaltimoreRavens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BaltimoreRavens</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Football" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Football</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/hype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hype</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Maryland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maryland</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/MichaelPhelps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MichaelPhelps</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Motivation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Motivation</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/NationalFootballLeague" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalFootballLeague</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/NFL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NFL</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Olympics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Olympics</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Ravens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ravens</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/RayLewis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RayLewis</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>speech</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/sports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sports</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/team" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>team</span></a></p>

#GWU had students arrested & barred from campus, sanctioned orgs, modified policies, closed quads, brought in extra security, & more that I say obstructed too much legit #speech. Even built an ugly fence in Trumpian style - maybe if they’d gilded it!
All called “no meaningful action” and demands for “immediate remediation … and related reforms.” Testing social sciences theory is tough but pretty tidy proof “anticipatory obedience” won’t save you! #law #academia #higherEd justice.gov/crt/media/1410936/

#politics #speech #rhetoric #logic

'A new study... has found that speeches in the U.S. Congress have increasingly relied on emotional and subjective language over the past several decades, drifting away from language grounded in facts and evidence'

psypost.org/congressional-spee

PsyPost Psychology News · Congressional speeches have shifted away from evidence-based rhetoricBy Eric W. Dolan

If you're American...you should very worried. I am. Freedom of speech, could go out the window.

Ted Cruz wants to use RICO laws on alleged protest funders
The bill would classify alleged protest funding as a racketeering offense.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is going after companies and individuals he says are funding 'antisemitic, pro-illegal' violent protests across the country.

#RICO #protests #racketeering #speech #freedom

chron.com/politics/article/ted