My mom got our little guy a Poe Play-ai story telling bear.
The unit is a bluetooth speaker with a servomotor set up to move based on the volume level to flap the jaw. The left and right ear are a blue and green light with a little contact button inside.
Sound quality is about as good as a bottom tier bluetooth speaker, not great.
The unit uses an AI app to generate a story with characters you pick from a list using chatgpt, then reads it out by playing the sound file on your phone.
The interface is fairly limited, and so you don't have much control over the stories that get generated. You are supposed to be able to pick who the protaganists and antagonists are, but I found the stories were just kind of a gray paste where there wasn't really much coherence in the stories. I don't really like this feature.
One thing that's nice though is you can play anything and it's fine. We played some of the winnie the pooh audio book and it was just fine, then some books read aloud on youtube.
Another thing I'd be cautious about is right now the app is free, but not forever according to the website. It looks like eventually you'll run out of free credits. I suspect this means the toy will eventually become a pay to play device on the AI side, and it'll really need to produce better stories to be worth paying for on that front.
The unit is a bluetooth speaker with a servomotor set up to move based on the volume level to flap the jaw. The left and right ear are a blue and green light with a little contact button inside.
Sound quality is about as good as a bottom tier bluetooth speaker, not great.
The unit uses an AI app to generate a story with characters you pick from a list using chatgpt, then reads it out by playing the sound file on your phone.
The interface is fairly limited, and so you don't have much control over the stories that get generated. You are supposed to be able to pick who the protaganists and antagonists are, but I found the stories were just kind of a gray paste where there wasn't really much coherence in the stories. I don't really like this feature.
One thing that's nice though is you can play anything and it's fine. We played some of the winnie the pooh audio book and it was just fine, then some books read aloud on youtube.
Another thing I'd be cautious about is right now the app is free, but not forever according to the website. It looks like eventually you'll run out of free credits. I suspect this means the toy will eventually become a pay to play device on the AI side, and it'll really need to produce better stories to be worth paying for on that front.
I think he's achieved a monopoly. Nobody wants any other product because the rest are overpriced and not as good.
My favorite is the fact that the media is acting exactly like the caricature of the clueless tv executive.
"We need to have a left-wing Joe Rogan. Maybe he's successful cuz his name is Joe? No, he must be successful cuz he's a podcaster. Wait, maybe he's successful because he's bald! Okay everyone we need to create a podcast with a guy named Joe who's bald!"
Or maybe you could just stop lying all the time.
(The guy who said that was defenestrated)
"We need to have a left-wing Joe Rogan. Maybe he's successful cuz his name is Joe? No, he must be successful cuz he's a podcaster. Wait, maybe he's successful because he's bald! Okay everyone we need to create a podcast with a guy named Joe who's bald!"
Or maybe you could just stop lying all the time.
(The guy who said that was defenestrated)
We use margarine for reasons.
So we got the olive oil margarine.
First ingredient: canola oil.
We like mayonnaise.
So we got the olive oil mayonnaise.
First ingredient: canola oil.
So we got the olive oil margarine.
First ingredient: canola oil.
We like mayonnaise.
So we got the olive oil mayonnaise.
First ingredient: canola oil.
So strange, why aren't we hearing about how world hunger could have been solved this time?
So much that they deify some spoiled rich kid who hurt himself doing spoiled rich kid things then went out and killed someone whose company he wasn't even doing business with.
I feel like someone needs to mention to the congressman and senators who are cheering for this that the US government spends more money on healthcare than countries with single-payer medicine such as Canada with United Kingdom. So if we're cheering for going after healthcare ceos, they *are* next. United health denied something like 30% of claims, universal health Care in the United States doesn't include like 95% of Americans.
I feel like someone needs to mention to the congressman and senators who are cheering for this that the US government spends more money on healthcare than countries with single-payer medicine such as Canada with United Kingdom. So if we're cheering for going after healthcare ceos, they *are* next. United health denied something like 30% of claims, universal health Care in the United States doesn't include like 95% of Americans.
And it sure is a good thing that the numbers on an episode of a podcast can't be gamed in any way. It would be really embarrassing if there was an entire industry over in Bangladesh of clicking on links to make them look more popular than they are.
Honestly, that seems to me to be the most ideal solution for this problem.
Yeah, it means that there won't be a huge market for sports in these particular leagues, that's a question of reality and reality isn't fair sometimes.
Yeah, it means that there won't be a huge market for sports in these particular leagues, that's a question of reality and reality isn't fair sometimes.
"I won the fighting tournament at the palliative care ward. It's looking pretty bright for me!"
If we think of woke ideology as fundamentally postmodern neomarxism, it's a contradiction in terms. Postmodernism inherently tries to relativize everything and eliminate grand narratives, but neomarxism is a grand narrative with an explicit black and white morality.
In the ideology, neomarxism uses the postmodernism like a machine gun -- a major force multiplier. It ensures that the bullets are pointed away from itself at all times and only points the barrel of the gun at something it wants to destroy. It's good trigger discipline, but just as unfair as using a gun actually is.
Ironically, this analysis is an application of postmodernism back at postmodern neomarxism, conducting a deconstruction of its elements to demonstrate the fundamental contradictions within itself. Normally I absolutely blast postmodernism as a bad idea for all the damage its done to important and good things that happen to be internally contradictory, but it seems every dog has its day.
In the ideology, neomarxism uses the postmodernism like a machine gun -- a major force multiplier. It ensures that the bullets are pointed away from itself at all times and only points the barrel of the gun at something it wants to destroy. It's good trigger discipline, but just as unfair as using a gun actually is.
Ironically, this analysis is an application of postmodernism back at postmodern neomarxism, conducting a deconstruction of its elements to demonstrate the fundamental contradictions within itself. Normally I absolutely blast postmodernism as a bad idea for all the damage its done to important and good things that happen to be internally contradictory, but it seems every dog has its day.
Most of the time they're meaningless because for 99% of people it's obvious (Omg thanks for the pronouns, Kamala Harris! I couldn't tell your pronouns are she/her because I'm a flaming retard!)
This is a prime example of several parts of an effortpost I did a little while back.
One being that the pseudo-intellectualism here where people include pronouns to look like they're enlightened and intelligent when all they did was identify what everyone in the room already knew (usually).
The orthodox nature of wokeness such as including pronouns means you just need to follow simple and stupid rules and rituals and you get to be a goodspeaker which appeals to midwits.
Finally, the militancy of the pronoun people causes the practice of pronouns to become toxic. In a short term it led to a lot of success for a short while but doom it to ultimate failure. People avoid them like they avoid wasps, but just like in the case of wasps, eventually people will (metaphorically I must stress) call the exterminator, not on any people but on the ideological practices.
This is a prime example of several parts of an effortpost I did a little while back.
One being that the pseudo-intellectualism here where people include pronouns to look like they're enlightened and intelligent when all they did was identify what everyone in the room already knew (usually).
The orthodox nature of wokeness such as including pronouns means you just need to follow simple and stupid rules and rituals and you get to be a goodspeaker which appeals to midwits.
Finally, the militancy of the pronoun people causes the practice of pronouns to become toxic. In a short term it led to a lot of success for a short while but doom it to ultimate failure. People avoid them like they avoid wasps, but just like in the case of wasps, eventually people will (metaphorically I must stress) call the exterminator, not on any people but on the ideological practices.
I normally don't talk about it, but my gender is "your lord", and my pronouns are "my lord/my lord". In certain parts of the world you'll face major fines for misgendering me and using the wrong pronouns.
And I don't just mean the pronouns that are gendered. ALL my pronouns are "my lord".
Or rather:
And my lord doesn't just mean the pronouns that are gendered. all my lord's pronouns are "my lord". Yes, even referring to my lordself.
And I don't just mean the pronouns that are gendered. ALL my pronouns are "my lord".
Or rather:
And my lord doesn't just mean the pronouns that are gendered. all my lord's pronouns are "my lord". Yes, even referring to my lordself.
This doesn't even feel like an accusation I would fight. "Why yes I did have a good afternoon, thank you."
Lol one of our servers federation just woke up, looks like I'm getting weeks of federation all of a sudden.
(I actually started on friendica, but my hardware wasn't suited to PHP based federation)
(I actually started on friendica, but my hardware wasn't suited to PHP based federation)