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With help from ChatGPT, I made a #Python script that can convert voc files to MP3, or any other audio file of your choice. I have an old RCADVR recorder that would record in that format. The idea is that I would zip the folder, put it through the python script, it would convert it to MP3 or another audio file format, and then unzip it with the converted audio. I'll need to install dependencies first, like pydub. Then we'll see how it works.
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Fireflies face ‘one-two punch’ of climate change, habitat loss, and light pollution.

Ecologist warns of dwindling numbers as winters warm and droughts increase. #ClimateChange

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#climatechange

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Launching Model Airplanes With a Custom Linear Induction Motor


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#science #airplanelauncher #electromagnetic #launcher #linearinductionmotor #hackaday
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"Memes for thought"
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#tzm #rbe #zeitgeist
#RBE #zeitgeist #tzm

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A Ukrainian military medic helped a pregnant woman from Sudzha, Kursk region of Russia give birth. Later, Ukrainian Defenders brought the mother everything for the baby.

Her mom said the woman could have died if the Ukrainian medic hadn't helped.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia

#News #Russia #ukraine #press #headline #aurefreepress

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LOL!!

We're irresponsibly "both-sides-ing" and after spending months on Biden's age/health and zero on Trump’s, boo hoo independent journalism is taking our lunch!

Don't worry NYT/WaPo. Those of us who believe in and support journalism are supporting it. It's just not you.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/20…

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I'm curious why you lump the post in with NYT - I think the post could be doing better in highlighting some of Trump's unrelation to reality, but I feel like they're wayyyy ahead of the NYT in terms of both-sidesim (and yes I understand that this is an op ed by the publisher of the NYT running in the Post)
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@designatednerd I just found WaPo to be equally as bad at being a serious newspaper as the NYT.

Maybe they've improved. I last subscribed or gave WaPo the time of day, several years ago. Then it was NYT.

And yeah this weird running an Op Ed from one on the other is.... little weird.

If I had to rank them, agree, NYT would be by far the worst.

@Ellen Shapiro
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IMO nobody named Sulzberger has a right to an opinion on the issue of journalistic integrity. I first developed that opinion on the day the NYT reported the Tonkin Gulf Incident, and I have seen plenty of evidence to support it in the 60 years since.

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Today I learned, you can have a java(card) implanted into you if you wished to do that for some reason: dangerousthings.com/product/fl…

Finally, a GPG/SSH Smartcard that I cannot lose (well, if I do, I have bigger issues)

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The Portland City Council in Maine unanimously voted to divest all funds from companies complicit in Israeli human rights violations and war crimes against Palestinians.

Organizers say Portland is the fourth U.S. city, and the first on the East Coast, to adopt such a divestment resolution, which comes after intense campaigning from rights groups including Maine Coalition for Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace Maine.

#Divest #BDS #boycott WORKS #Israel #Apartheid

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"The special military operation should continue until the goals are achieved, because neither the United States, nor European states, nor Ukraine are inclined to a political and diplomatic means"
– Peskov

Russia doesn't want dialogue. Russia doesn't want peace. It wants Ukrainian capitulation. Russia started this war.
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First, they were fleeing because of a mass shooting, so those injuries were very much gun-related.

Second, look at how easily and casually he downplays a mass shooting at a school. America is not a decent place.

S.V. Dáte @svdate Don't blame guns for injuries that happened because *some* people are Bad at Fleeing! Rep. Mike Collins @RepMikeColl… -18m Very sad to confirm there have been for fatalities from the shooting at Apalachee High School in Wonder, GA. [This paragraph circled in red] Many others wounded, but not all gun -related or life threatening injuries, some from efforts to flee danger. [/This paragraph circled in red] The suspect is in custody.

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Diese Meldungen ist AfD-Wähler*innen völlig egal, denn
1. sie kommt vom amerikanischen Geheimdienst, ist deshalb gelogen und
2. unabhängig davon ist es gut, dass ein starker Mann wie Putin den grün-woken Migrantenfreunden in Berlin so viel Ärger wie möglich macht!
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An attorney for Hunter Biden said the president’s son would plead guilty on Thursday morning just moments before prospective jurors were to be summoned into the Los Angeles courtroom where his federal trial on tax charges was scheduled to begin. trib.al/9lIiE6q
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I heard this discussed some months ago I believe on Talking Feds, and the consensus from experienced lawyers was that if a person paid the IRS what was owed, it's almost unheard of to continue with criminal charges. So this is being done to satisfy a blood thirst on the extremist right, including the prosecution team and judge.
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@steven Glad to help
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Day 1 of #MDCsummit ending with @@chodacki. on the takeaways from the day, and goals for day 2. The case studies presented today show the challenges and nuance required (both technical and societal) for responsible use of data metrics
John Chodacki
#mdcsummit @John Chodacki

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Links: Friedrich Merz 2024. Rechts: 2021.

Ich mache mir wirklich sehr große Sorgen um die Zukunft dieses Landes.

NTV-Meldung: "Zur Empfehlung von Kretschmer, vom Begriff der "Brandmauer" gegentber der AfD Abstand zu nehmen, sagte Merz: "Das Wort Brandmauer hat nie zu unserem Sprachgebrauch gehört.Das ist uns immer von außen aufgenötigt worden." Er erganzte: "Ich brauche mich nicht von einem Begriff zu distanzieren, den ich selber nicht eingebracht habe." Kretschmer hatte argumentiert, die AfD nutze den Begriff Brandmauer fir sich aus, sie sei "eine Meisterin darin, sich als Martyrerin darzustellen". Das verfange bei einem Teil der Wähler.
»Wir sind nicht die XYZ-Partei. Wir sind die CDU.« Merz schlug auch strategisch erste Pflocke ein. So kiindigte er an, eine Kooperation mit der AfD unter allen Umstanden zu verhindern. "Mit mir wird es eine Brancmauer zur AfD geben", sagte Merz. »Die Landesverbände, vor allem im Osten, bekommen von uns eine glasklare Ansage: Wenn irgendjemand von uns die Hand hebt, um mit der AfD zusammenzuarbeiten, dann steht am nichsten Tag ein Parteiausschlussverfahren an.« Merz betonte: »Wir sind nicht die XYZ- Partei, die mit jedem kann. Wir sind die CDU.« Er werde im Verhaltnis zur AfD von Anfang an »sehr konsequent sein«. Franz-Josef Strauß habe mal gesagt, dass eine Jacke, die man einmal falsch zuknopfe, sich oben nicht mehr korrigieren ließe. »Da hatte er recht.«

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I’m the Supreme Consultant of Atypical Consulting, LLC and all my clients are AI-related, so I have no qualms about my description in the “lower third” in this interview with Tampa’s WFLA news. My thanks to Nicole Rogers for thinking of me when she needed a subject matter expert and to Nick Price for taking this photo from his TV!

Here’s the video:
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"I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend"

Remembering Farrokh Bulsara, aka Freddie Mercury, Born today 5th September 1946.

#freddiemercury #photooftheday #music #photography

📸 Richard E Aaron

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