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  1. Travelers help fuel audiobook surge amid debate over what 'counts' as reading

    misryoum.com/us/lifestyle/trav

    NEWYou can now listen to US News Hub articles! From long drives to delayed flights and crowded commutes, more Americans are now reaching for headphones over hardcovers, and it has sparked debate over whether their audiobooks really count as...

    #Travelers #help #fuel #audiobook #surge #amid #debate #over #what #counts #reading #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

  2. Jury finds man guilty of 5 counts of 2nd-degree murder in Winnipeg drug house shootings

    misryoum.com/us/canada-news/ju

    US News Hub MISRYOUMEstimated 4 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.A jury has found a man accused of fatally...

    #Jury #finds #man #guilty #counts #2nddegree #murder #Winnipeg #drug #house #shootings #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

  3. Historic manor house 🏰 with land in the green north of Spain

    Welcome to the #historic #manor #house, an impressive #testimony from the #14thcentury. The property also includes a small #chapel dedicated to St. Barbara. 🙏✝️

    #Historically linked to the #Counts of #Monforte de #Lemos. It offers a fascinating #history

    475.000 €
    Rooms: 13
    Living space: 624m²
    Plot: 13.623m²
    #Lugo #Galicia #Spain 🇪🇸

    bluehomes.com/PE0895/en/Histor

    #medieval #Medievalhouse #history #realestate

  4. Historic manor house 🏰 with land in the green north of Spain

    Welcome to the #historic #manor #house, an impressive #testimony from the #14thcentury. The property also includes a small #chapel dedicated to St. Barbara. 🙏✝️

    #Historically linked to the #Counts of #Monforte de #Lemos. It offers a fascinating #history

    475.000 €
    Rooms: 13
    Living space: 624m²
    Plot: 13.623m²
    #Lugo #Galicia #Spain 🇪🇸

    bluehomes.com/PE0895/en/Histor

    #medieval #Medievalhouse #history #realestate

  5. A.I. Does Not Understand

    Artificial Intelligence is a wonderful thing. It can correct your grammar, help you write a college essay, and develop videos using a famous person’s face and voice without ever consulting  the famous person. Amazing. I am suitably impressed.

    It knows a lot and it knows how to put it all together in easily digestible formats. What it can’t do, however, is understand.

    Image via <a href=”https://www.vpnsrus.com/, CC BY 2.0 Wikimedia Commons

    It doesn’t understand nuances, individual differences, regional perspectives, or personal preferences. And, it doesn’t understand me. I know this because my new watch is simultaneously both useful and annoying.

    As I have said in the past, my lovely Google Pixel watch does everything I wanted it to do. It will alert emergency services if I fall and need help. It will even do that if I am in the shower. That is all I really wanted. Well, that and tell me what time it is.

    The problem I am having is that it does so much more that it is becoming annoying. It came with Fitbit installed and at first I thought this would be a good thing for me. It would count my steps, tell me how long I have slept, tell me how long I have not slept, and record a whole host of other personal measures including skin temperature variation, mindful days, something called Daily Readiness, and (gasp!) menstrual health.

    Along with all these measurements comes a thinly-veiled value judgement. You will be glad to know that my skin temperature is within personal range and my daily readiness is moderate, whatever that means.

    Image via Public Domain Pictures

    It also assigns me a sleep profile with an associated animal. When I first began checking on my sleep it told me I was a Dolphin. Now, apparently, I am a hedgehog. My sleep has not noticeably changed, but I have gone from being a lively adorable sea creature to a small spikey mammal. This is not encouraging. At least I am not a rodent. Yet.

    The system is also remarkably incapable of understanding how difficult it is to walk outside in snow, ice, wind, rain, or fog. All it knows is that some days I don’t walk. When I do go out to get some air it sends me a condescendingly approving text message which is the equivalent of, “Yay! You Walked!” Not enough to meet the optimistic standard I set for myself long ago, but I walked. Hooray.

    It doesn’t know that it’s cold outside, my foot hurts, my hip bursitis is acting up, and I could really enjoy a nap. It only knows step counts. It doesn’t even know when those steps are uphill, are on sidewalks full of other people, or are trodden gingerly over tree roots in a forest. It only knows the count numbers.

    Image via Traders Union

    My watch also comes with a gazillion other applications that I wish would just go away. The little identifying icons don’t tell me enough to know if I need them or not. I have used the little movie clapboard to turn the watch off when I was in the theatre, but most of the rest of the logos are a mystery to me. If I need the wallet I’ll use my phone or, dammit, my actual wallet.

    Admittedly, I am probably the source of my own frustrations. I could tell my phone or Fitbit more about myself in the hopes that they might understand me better, but then I’d be putting more information about me out there into the A.I. universe, and nobody needs that.

    No, A.I. does not understand me and that is because I haven’t told it much. I’m like that person who doesn’t communicate well and then complains when their partner can’t read their mind. Yep. That’s me. I’m a misunderstood introvert in a power-imbalanced emotional relationship with an extrovert technology.

    #ai #counts #extrovert #fitbit #google #icons #introvert #judgement #pixel #steps #understanding #watch

  6. Rams Week 4 Snap Counts Highlight New CB1 and Solidify Whittington as WR3

    Los Angeles Rams Secure Victory Over Indianapolis Colts: Key Insights and Player Highlights Rams Edge Out the Colts…
    #NFL #IndianapolisColts #Indianapolis #Colts #and #CB1 #counts #Football #highlight #New #Rams #snap #solidify #week #Whittington #WR3
    rawchili.com/nfl/416457/

  7. Rams Week 4 Snap Counts Highlight New CB1 and Solidify Whittington as WR3

    Los Angeles Rams Secure Victory Over Indianapolis Colts: Key Insights and Player Highlights Rams Edge Out the Colts…
    #NFL #IndianapolisColts #Indianapolis #Colts #and #CB1 #counts #Football #highlight #New #Rams #snap #solidify #week #Whittington #WR3
    rawchili.com/nfl/416457/

  8. I beg you.

    >>"promote its reach"
    not "promote it is reach" contracted.

    >>"we meet on Wednesdays"
    not "we meet on Wednesday is..." contracted.
    #words #have #meaning | #spelling & #grammar #counts
    The #plural of #TV is #TVs, #period

  9. I beg you.

    >>"promote its reach"
    not "promote it is reach" contracted.

    >>"we meet on Wednesdays"
    not "we meet on Wednesday is..." contracted.
    #words #have #meaning | #spelling & #grammar #counts
    The #plural of #TV is #TVs, #period

  10. I beg you.

    >>"promote its reach"
    not "promote it is reach" contracted.

    >>"we meet on Wednesdays"
    not "we meet on Wednesday is..." contracted.
    #words #have #meaning | #spelling & #grammar #counts
    The #plural of #TV is #TVs, #period

  11. I beg you.

    >>"promote its reach"
    not "promote it is reach" contracted.

    >>"we meet on Wednesdays"
    not "we meet on Wednesday is..." contracted.
    #words #have #meaning | #spelling & #grammar #counts
    The #plural of #TV is #TVs, #period

  12. I beg you.

    >>"promote its reach"
    not "promote it is reach" contracted.

    >>"we meet on Wednesdays"
    not "we meet on Wednesday is..." contracted.
    #words #have #meaning | #spelling & #grammar #counts
    The #plural of #TV is #TVs, #period

  13. Let be clear; calling TFG a convicted #Felon, convicted #slanderer, #Convicted #Fraudster or #criminal #conspirator does not constitute an 'attack'. It is merely an objective reality. Like water is wet, the sun is hot, and the sky is often blue.

    #ThirtyFour #Counts
    #fascism is the #gop

  14. Let be clear; calling TFG a convicted #Felon, convicted #slanderer, #Convicted #Fraudster or #criminal #conspirator does not constitute an 'attack'. It is merely an objective reality. Like water is wet, the sun is hot, and the sky is often blue.

    #ThirtyFour #Counts
    #fascism is the #gop

  15. Let be clear; calling TFG a convicted #Felon, convicted #slanderer, #Convicted #Fraudster or #criminal #conspirator does not constitute an 'attack'. It is merely an objective reality. Like water is wet, the sun is hot, and the sky is often blue.

    #ThirtyFour #Counts
    #fascism is the #gop

  16. Let be clear; calling TFG a convicted #Felon, convicted #slanderer, #Convicted #Fraudster or #criminal #conspirator does not constitute an 'attack'. It is merely an objective reality. Like water is wet, the sun is hot, and the sky is often blue.

    #ThirtyFour #Counts
    #fascism is the #gop

  17. Let be clear; calling TFG a convicted #Felon, convicted #slanderer, #Convicted #Fraudster or #criminal #conspirator does not constitute an 'attack'. It is merely an objective reality. Like water is wet, the sun is hot, and the sky is often blue.

    #ThirtyFour #Counts
    #fascism is the #gop