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“Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Choose words with care and purpose.
#Clarity #Wisdom #Speech

Tim Cook’s lobbying hangs over a key kids online safety vote https://thever.ge/8gWB #Antitrust #Politics #Google #Policy #Report #Speech #Apple #Tech

Southern Speech Slower?
Let me explain…
We aren’t talking slower, a lot of our words are longer.

Here, let me show you:

North: ‘Why’
South: ‘Whyyyyyyyyy’

North: ‘Bye’
South: ‘Byyyyyyyyyyyye”

We just wring the word out for all its worth, takes some time, patience my man, patience.
#humor #speech #southernus

I wrote this imaginary #speech for a hypothetical #Canadian #politician during the 2019 election campaign. Unfortunately, the critically important issues it alludes to remain unaddressed. doncurren.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-... #Canada #cdnecon #climatechange #productivity #environment #cdnpoli

The Canadian Campaign Speech I...

Blinking Drops When We Strain to Hear Speech

https://neurosciencenews.com/blinking-auditory-neuroscience-30033/

#blinking #hearing #neuroscience #speech #press

#ICE does not get to decide what Americans can & can not say. #FreedomOfSpeech #1stA #1A #Speech #US #America #US #USNews #News #DHS #Fascists #Nazis #Gestapo

Australia boots kids under 16 off social media: how platforms are responding https://thever.ge/8gqE #SocialMedia #Politics #Policy #Report #Speech #Tech

Mania Insights: AI Listens For Mood Swings In The Voices Of Those With Bipolar Disorder. “A new study from China suggests that artificial intelligence may one day help doctors spot mood swings in people with bipolar disorder just by listening to how they talk. The experimental system correctly identified manic, depressed, and stable states in Mandarin-speaking patients with around 86% […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/09/mania-insights-ai-listens-for-mood-swings-in-the-voices-of-those-with-bipolar-disorder/

@mcc

Not to be an ass, but corporations really can't censor you.

Censorship is a government using its sovereign power to (ultimately) lock you up for saying disfavoured things. It stops you from saying them anywhere, in any media, to anyone.

Corporations can stop you from using their property to spread a message they don't like. They cannot stop you from using someone else's property to do so, or your own, or using the public square. If some website says "You can't say that here" you are completely free to say it on millions of others, or start your own website and say it there.

Diluting the word "censorship" in this way endumbens political debate over what speech rights are.

#censorship #speech #debate #government #sovereign #force #corporations

The Great Dictator" #speech by #CharlieChaplin #yt

https://youtu.be/lDu6SQjiZ-I

#hope

#Government #Religious #Speech and the #EstablishmentClause

#VanderbiltLaw Review, forthcoming 2026
73 Pages Posted: 3 Dec 2025
Mark Storslee, University of North Carolina School of Law
Michael A. Helfand, Pepperdine University - Rick J. Caruso School of Law

This Article proposes that several important strands of Founding-era #history suggest an alternative principle: that the #religious opinions of the populace are not proper objects of government action.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5847562

#Speech Is Only Free for the #Privileged: The Moral Mechanics of #Neutrality

34 Pages Posted: 1 Dec 2025
Candice Mason Kulbeth

This Article argues that the integrity of the #FirstAmendment's promise of free expression depends less on the right to speak than on the discipline to translate speech into neutral, verifiable judgment.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5661270

Trump admin may deny H1-B visas to people who worked in content moderation, report says https://thever.ge/KsgG #SocialMedia #Politics #Policy #Speech #News #Tech

A leading kids safety bill has been poison pilled, supporters say https://thever.ge/hfUc #Politics #Policy #Report #Speech

@benjamingeer @NilaJones @ShaulaEvans
Part of the explanation is that pronunciations have changed (diverged) over time, whereas spellings have been slower to change. For example, Old English, Old French, Old High German and Latin all had apical trilled [r], but words with that sound came to be pronounced various different ways. So the present-day variation is not totally random. Also, within each language there are other factors leading to a certain amount of variation. Variation and change are always with us, so it's unwise to expect constancy and uniformity in pronunciation and other aspects of language.

#phonetics #sociolinguistics #speech