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  • J’ai tenté de tester VoiceStudio le weekend dernier. C’est un logiciel de synthèse vocale libre qui fonctionne à base d’IA générative.

    J’ai réussi à générer une phrase de 3 mots avec ma voix et c’est bluffant. Par contre, une phrase de 20 mots, c’était déjà trop lourd pour mon PC…











  • At the end of Chapter 11 - I: Totalitarian Propaganda The fundamental reason for the superiority of totalitarian propaganda over the propaganda of other parties and movements is that its content, for the members of the movement at any rate, is no longer an objective issue about which people may have opinions, but has become as real and untouchable an element in their lives as the rules of arithmetic. The organization of the entire texture of life according to an ideology can be fully carried out only under a totalitarian regime. In Nazi Germany, questioning the validity of racism and antisemitism when nothing mattered but race origin, when a career depended upon an ‘Aryan’ physiognomy (Himmler used to select the applicants for the SS from photographs) and the amount of food upon the number of one’s Jewish grandparents, was like questioning the existence of the world. The advantages of a propaganda that constantly ‘adds the power of organization’fn58 to the feeble and unreliable voice of argument, and thereby realizes, so to speak, on the spur of the moment, whatever it says, are obvious beyond demonstration. Foolproof against arguments based on a reality which the movements promised to change, against a counterpropaganda disqualified by the mere fact that it belongs to or defends a world which the shiftless masses cannot and will not accept, it can be disproved only by another, a stronger or better, reality. It is in the moment of defeat that the inherent weakness of totalitarian propaganda becomes visible. Without the force of the movement, its members cease at once to believe in the dogma for which yesterday they still were ready to sacrifice their lives. The moment the movement, that is, the fictitious world which sheltered them, is destroyed, the masses revert to their old status of isolated individuals who either happily accept a new function in a changed world or sink back into their old desperate superfluousness. The members of totalitarian movements, utterly fanatical as long as the movement exists, will not follow the example of religious fanatics and die the death of martyrs (even though they were only too willing to die the death of robots).fn59 Rather they will quietly give up the movement as a bad bet and look around for another promising fiction or wait until the former fiction regains enough strength to establish another mass movement. The experience of the Allies who vainly tried to locate one self-confessed and convinced Nazi among the German people, 90 per cent of whom probably had been sincere sympathizers at one time or another, is not to be taken simply as a sign of human weakness or gross opportunism. Nazism as an ideology had been so fully ‘realized’ that its content ceased to exist as an independent set of doctrines, lost its intellectual existence, so to speak; destruction of the reality therefore left almost nothing behind, least of all the fanaticism of believers.











  • Je bosse dans les transports publics et j’avais un collègue, ingénieur proche de la retraitre, ferrovipathe achevé. Avec des compétences très pointues. Je lui ai demandé pourquoi il n’était jamais parti bosser dans le ferroviaire et il m’a répondu : “parce que j’ai peur d’être déçu”.








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    18 days ago

    Une chance oui mais elle est difficile à estimer. Si le mouvement actuel dans les lycées et le retour des gilets jaunes prend de l’ampleur on pourrait avoir une sorte de vent de révolte qui fasse basculer l’opinion. Et il faut aussi que Méluche ne se saborde pas comme il l’a régulièrement fait en sortant une connerie provocatrice grosse comme lui.







  • C’est que tu n’as pas vu le meuble ! Il est très moche et pas très droit. Mon objectif est de trouver une méthdologie pour construire des étagères à partir d’agglo de récup, sans pièces en métal (j’utilise des tourillons en bois), qui ne nécessite pas trop de matériel, des compétences minimales et qui soit rapide à faire.