The voiceover is very different from the article.

Yeah still experimenting with this, decided to provide a smoother narrative version over just raw TTS. Not great if you are using both at the same time.

I use a similar but simpler technique to cook eggs to a runny soft boiled by cracking eggs directly into a small quantity of boiling water. This sets the whites quickly but drops the temperature of the water before it can set the yolks. It's kind of like lazy poaching.

Hmmm. Still tempting.

the toc macro on asciidoc is sublime

:table-caption!: :toc: macro :sectlinks:

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Per the law of enshittification, soon only monthly subscribers will gain the ability to disable motion smoothing.

What? You don't want to fund the military industrial complex with a hand-held retro console?

Palmer Luckey founded Anduril which makes military drones.

> "bromine fluorine dioxide"

That's 3 reactive back-to-back no-thank-you's.

delightful!

> How did Ancient Greek music sound?

Like ass. Ass and kazoo.

Too bad there's not a netflix/spotify for journalism. No single journalism source is worth a subscription for 99.9% of people. Aggregated, maybe.

Apple News+ is trying to be that. I get it through my Apple One family plan.

The home page is shamefully Trump spam and tabloid garbage, but the magazine section isn’t terrible. I read The Atlantic and The New Yorker frequently on it.

The trump spam is probably because you read trump spam just enough to make it display more trump spam.

Avoiding that is easier said than done: I used to pay for Apple News+, but ended up clicking on just enough clickbait to only get clickbait in my feed.

If they had a way to only allow certain news sources then I’d probably re-subscribe.

I found that you can ignore news stories from certain outlets in Apple News, which I chose to do with certain celebrity gossip outlets that had been taking over my feed. Apparently this only replaces the stories with a placeholder that says "You've blocked this news source". Most of the time that's fine. But place that in the context of how they group related news stories in the feed: if you've got a group of news stories that reads "World War 3 has just started," "President So-and-so dies in attack," "You've blocked this news source," well, you might just be tempted to click on that blocked story. I'd rather they remove it from the feed entirely.

I noticed that.

The next problem is that news outlets are paid per click, so they have incentive to use dark patterns to get clicks.

The last straw for me were things like “Biden hog tied in back of pickup truck …” with “… tailgate mural” hidden behind the click.

If you fall for it once, they aggressively uprank similar news outlets in your feed.

I mean, the NYT/WaPo are basically aggregate sites for journalism?

They aren’t true aggregates since stories still go through their editors for filtering.