Yeah but it lets people feel like they’ve boycotted. Which isn’t coddling/faux activism so much as it is starter-activism. We don’t want activism to seem hard… even though we know that effective activism pretty much requires meaningful changes to behaviour which often brings discomfort. People are really out of practice and our goal is getting people into the habit

Thanks for this

Thanks for this. Yeah I’m trying out a few apps. Do you have a favourite?

Yeah I was hoping there was a way to do so automatically, like with feedly

Sorry, yes. For example with Feedly you can set your feed to never show the same post twice

I wish you other kinds of human interaction today

No I’m saying that when we get a new game changing technology things don’t tend to become better produced, they become cheaper to produce cheaply and quality be damned

“Having an audio book that shifts voices and tone easy but can also include background noises”

That’s not what you’re going to get. Even with A.I they all requires sound editing and reviewing and fixing errors which all costs money. We already have the tech to do A.I voice acting and I’ve tried a few. What we’ll get is what we have now, a single A.I voice with eerie intonation that modifies some words to their context but not others so it functions for a sentence but cannot emote a paragraph.

I don’t know if this is dumb or not but I have it installed on an old phone with nothing else installed on it and just use it on the home WiFi sometimes.

Another plus being that I have to intentionally get the phone and intentionally turn it on to use the awful-but-intriguing-app.