My condolences. 😞
I'm so sorry for your loss.

Man, I live in Vegas and didn't know this was a thing. I should probably get out more, maybe?

Aaah, ok, I think I understand now. You were speaking exclusively to people speaking out specifically about CK. I took it as a more generalized message brought on by recent events. Sorry, my error. (For the record, I have not spoken out about CK, in keeping with my "I don't speak out, why would I?")

I've also just grown so tired of Social Media so I almost never post anything. Most days I don't even open up these stupid apps.

I absolutely don't believe in violence at all, political included. But no, I don't typically speak out on it; why would I? Who the Eff am I? Nobody, that's who. I'm just a non-important person with absolutely no say in anything that goes on anywhere. Kitties and Star Trek, that's my world.

Pretty sure they share a brain, so kind of the same thing, isn't it?

I don't suppose anyone knows of a 3rd party text to speech that doesn't rely on AI, is offline and not using everything you feed it to train AI, and is not only mostly accurate, but also at least consistent with how it pronounces words that only have one pronunciation?

These tech companies really need to take a step back and ease up on their AI fetish. I swear to God AI is making everything worse right now.

I hate how many previously useful apps/tools are now garbage because they are so heavily infused with generative AI. Photo editors for example; they used to help with enhancing a photo. Now they try and completely change the photo, including things like positioning, with horrifying results.

Been trying to make sense of everything going on these days and having no good theories. How about you Snowy?

OMG! You ok? Ish?

Oh, and regarding the post on Threads; I mentioned the views and likes and stuff because that has never happened before. I have posted many pictures of my precious, and he is always adorable, but those posts have never gotten more than a handful of likes. So I seriously smell nasty bots.

I don't know, maybe I'm just done with Social Media. I don't enjoy shouting to the void, but I also don't want to chat with bots. The Internet was an interesting experiment, but I think it's ultimately a failed experiment.

A lot of people praise BlueSky for not having a feed algorithm, and I get it, but I kind of liked the one Threads had. I always hated Twitters algorithm, but the one on Threads wasn't bad IMO. But Meta itself just sucks.

In fact, I posted on Threads that I'd probably be going dark for an unknown period of time and included the same pics of my cat that I posted here and that post got a ton of views and likes and responses, but it all seemed artificial. A lot of the replies were very bot-like.