Category Archives: Interesting

Why You Don’t Like A Recording of Your Own Voice

Speaker Rébecca Kleinberger. Researcher from MIT Media Lab

Your voice is indistinguishable from how other people see you, but your relationship with it is far from obvious.

Rébecca Kleinberger studies how we use and understand our voices and the voices of others. She explains why you may not like the sound of your own voice on recordings and the extraordinary things you communicate without being aware of it.

@SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch Last Night 12-28-2023

Leonor and I watched and recorded from our dock on Lake Huntley in Lake Placid, Florida. Partly cloudy night but still exciting!

Turn the sound on and listen to Leonor’s commentary!

Way to go @elonmusk!

#SpaceX

#FalconHeavy

#space

Halloween Block Party Lake Placid Florida, 2023

Halloween street party in Lake Placid, Florida. Shot, edited, and produced pro bono by R. Michael Brown at RMichaelBrown.com

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#Halloween
#party
#streetparty
#blockparty

Deer Crashes Through Window Into Crowded Wisconsin Restaurant

By Ben Hooper

Oct. 27 (UPI) — The lunch rush at a Wisconsin restaurant turned into a lunch stampede when a deer crashed through a window and wandered through the seating area and kitchen.

Security camera footage from the Noodles & Company eatery in Beloit shows the packed restaurant erupting into chaos when the buck breaks in through a window.

Customers scramble for safety as the deer wanders from the seating area into the kitchen, before leaving out the back door.

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#WackyNews
#deer
#disruption
#restaurant

Black Bear Burglar Hank the Tank Captured

Hank the Tank weighs over 500 lbs.

Aug. 7 (UPI) — Hank the Tank, a large black bear responsible for at least 21 home break-ins in South Lake Tahoe, is on her way to a Colorado wildlife sanctuary after California officials captured her and three cubs.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife transported the bear, identified officially as 64F, to The Wild Animal Sanctuary near Springfield, Colo., on Monday after a veterinary check, CDFW spokesperson Jordan Traverso told UPI in an email.

Biologists captured the bear Friday along with three cubs, the department said in a news release. The cubs may be relocated to Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue.

“The cubs were safely transported to Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue,” Traverso said. “The goal is to rehabilitate them. The time that can take varies. They will continue to be assessed to make sure they’ll make it in the wild before they would be released.”

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She’s Not Real…. But ‘It’ Has Plenty of Followers

Her fans think they found true love — but she’s not real. 

Milla Sofia is an artificial intelligence-generated influencer whose sultry photos on Twitter and TikTok are racking up thousands of likes from deluded social media users, Futurism reported.

“[I’m a] 19-year-old virtual girl from Helsinki Finland. I was made by AI. Check my other social media accounts from the link below,” reads the Twitter bio on Sofia’s account. 

Sofia, who goes by @AiModelMilla on her verified Twitter account, is certifiably fake, yet her 7,790 followers can’t help but drool over bikini photos of her in Greece.

“Still in Santorini, and I’m ‘Greek’-ing out over how to leave this paradise!” reads a punny tweet from July 19 with over 35,000 views and 2,000 likes.

‘Wow, look at you, so stunningly beautiful with a gorgeous smile,” writes one Twitter user.

Is digital beauty also only skin deep?

Do most of her followers know? What do you think?

See More [NY Post]

THE GIRO’S RACE OF SURVIVAL CONTINUES BEFORE THE MOUNTAINS HAVE EVEN ARRIVED

Illness, crashes, bad weather – there’s a lot more than just rivals to battle against at the Giro right now

Flooding rain and COVID have made the Giro de Italia a bicycle race from Hell. Now snow is expected in high mountain stages.

www.rouleur.cc/blogs/the-rouleur-journal/the-giros-race-of-survival-continues-before-the-mountains-have-even-arrived