Blass Rose

I saw one like this where a guy hired a hacker to get into his encrypted wallet device because he was sure it had like $100k in it. Guy broke in, pulled up the Bitcoin wallet and… It was empty. Dude had forgotten that he sold all his Bitcoin YEARS ago.

Oh I’m glad this tech went somewhere useful! I remember reading the paper and toying with the models they released as a proof of concept like… 8 years ago? It was really powerful back then. The ability to do TTS of someone’s voice given literally 3 seconds of training data?! (In fact I found that it worked best with short, nonsense audio clips than actually saying anything. Saying “test test test” worked way better than reading an actual sentence.) But now it looks like it can actually handle tone well. It’s also probably way better now, and less… Asthmatic sounding.

Listen, I’m totally down for bioplastic straws. They’ve got a different texture and are far more brittle, but still compostable and lasts more than long enough for me to enjoy my drink.

I don’t get why customers at my work hate them so much. To the point some will bring their own straws if we don’t have the regular plastic milkshake straws. It’s weird…

And here I am glad that my savings account interest pays for my phone bill+90% of my car bill. Meanwhile I could just be buying a new car every month, instead, with a small loan of $6M