#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'
https://www.psypost.org/congressional-speeches-have-shifted-away-from-evidence-based-rhetoric/
Before you say anything, ask yourself whether it’s necessary or not. If it’s not, don’t say it.
This is the first step in training the mind — for if you can’t have any control over your mouth, how can you expect to have any control over your mind?
~Ajahn Fuang
Journal of Open Source Software: voice: A Comprehensive R Package for Audio Analysis
{voice}
"...a free, open-source toolkit designed to streamline audio analysis by integrating music theory and advanced computational techniques. It enables researchers to extract, summarize, and analyze voice data efficiently, supporting applications such as speech recognition, speaker identification, and mood inference..."
"It’s not censorship in the traditional sense...It’s something colder and more insidious: the assertion that the federal government may penalize you—your funding, your press credentials, your contract eligibility—if you decline to adopt the administration’s ideological line."
@harrylitman.bsky.social nails the present executive's assault on the constitution.
https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/i-read-the-news-today-oh-boy
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#keynote #speech by Dr Salman Abu Sitta, #Barcelona University conference JUN-04 2025
#EUcrimesByDesign #humanrights
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
Video credit: PalestineLandSociety
https://www.europesays.com/2266228/ Chalmers, Ley in tears as France pays tribute to late son in first parliamentary speech #AliFrance #australia #FirstSpeech #leukaemia #parliament #PeterDutton #son #speech
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/20/two-uk-pro-palestine-organisations-have-bank-accounts-frozen-gmfp-psc. This is yet more #evidence of #freedom to #protest, freedom of #thought, #speech & #expression being suppressed in this supposedly "free" country, especially insofar as it relates to #Palestine, @palestine.
A Technical Look at Iran's Internet Shutdowns
https://zola.ink/blog/posts/a-technical-look-at-irans-internet-shutdown
https://www.moezine.com/1974706/ 平祐奈 大人の魅力の新写真 平祐奈 大人の魅力の新写真 平ナが最近大人の色気を感じさせる新しい 写真を公開しました。ファンはその魅力に 雰囲気が違うめっちゃ可愛いと驚きと小さ の声を寄せています。彼女のスタイルや 表情はこれまでとは一戦を隠す新たな … #actress #automation #python #speech #女優 #平祐奈
A quotation from Louis Brandeis
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty. To courageous, self-reliant men, with confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning applied through the processes of popular government, no danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present, unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is opportunity for full discussion. If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
Louis Brandeis (1856-1941) American lawyer, activist, Supreme Court Justice (1916-39)
Whitney v California, 274 US 357, 377 (1927) (concurring)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/brandeis-louis/12073…
**The Most Common Public Speaking Fails - and How to Fix Them**
"_They include a boring beginning, an ineffectual ending, trying to be too clever, overwhelming your audience and sloppy slides._"
#Video length: fifty-seven minutes and twenty-seven seconds.
A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden — “Speech is silvern, Silence is golden”; or, as I might rather express it: speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 3, ch. 3 (1834)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/62906…
Some news. I'm now working on a #Conlang named Glasprache/Glassspeak. (G-leh-sch-preh-ke)
"Ik li NerdNextDoor; de schepper fan Glasprache. Ike lekt programming zwei yahren.
Wat denk du vit fan mi Spraake?"
"I am NerdNextDoor, the creator of Glassspeak. I've done programming for two years.
What do you think of my language?"
It is a mix of German and Dutch while trying to make it easier without umlauts. Spoken how it's read. Lemme know what you think.
How Steve Jobs wrote the greatest commencement speech ever…
Steven Levy has one of the best reads of this week: How Steve Jobs Wrote the Greatest Commencement Speech Ever. People might disagree, but it moved me when I first heard. I wish I’d heard it during my own graduation in 2005. But, I first listened to this in 2006 after Google acquired YouTube and I started using YouTube a lot more. It was mesmerizing.
I have not stayed true to every recommendation from Steve in the speech. However, it changed me to pursue a life in technology, make a dent in the universe and stay true to leaving the world a better place. I am inventing my own future, finally.
Steve Jobs Archive also released a great set of emails that Steve emailed himself as he prepared and thought about this for almost 6 months. Honestly, this was the most interesting part of the email archive and the article. It shows Steve not as the sure-footed master presenter as we often got to see him. It highlights a thoughtful person who’s trusting the process of moving the needle forward a day at a time. Thoughtfulness is a skill. It requires time, practice and I really wish I’d started it sooner than I have.
Gallaudet News: Gallaudet experts drive accessibility of speech tech for deaf voices . “Some people use their voices to control tech, from cell phones and remote controls to home appliances and in transportation. Voice command capabilities are made possible through training AI and machine learning. The Speech Accessibility Project is creating datasets of more diverse speech patterns, which […]
