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Toronto man who played Hitler speech outside home charged with harassment
Investigators say the man attended the complainant’s residence on two separate occasions, where he banged on the door while making racist and antisemitic remarks.
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https://globalnews.ca/news/11730103/toronto-man-charged-hitler-speech/

Toronto man charged with criminal harassment after playing Hitler speech outside residence
Investigators say the man attended the complainant’s residence on two separate occasions, where he banged on the door while making racist and antisemitic remarks.
#Crime #antisemetism #TorontoPolice
https://globalnews.ca/news/11730103/toronto-man-charged-hitler-speech/

AI Speech Technologies

This page is a collection of notes and links related to AI speech technologies, including Text-to-Speech (TTS), Speech-to-Text (STT), voice synthesis, voice cloning, and other rela(...)

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Plámás

‘Don’t mind his plámásing.’

I heard someone say this on the Promenade in Salthill recently. It means: ‘Pay no attention to his flattery.’ Don’t and mind were merged, so the phrase sounded like /do:’maɪndɪz ’plɔ:mɔ:sən/.

Plámás /’plɔ:mɔ:s/ [‘plaw-mawse’] is an Irish noun and verb used in Hiberno-English; it means empty flattery, ingratiating talk, disingenuous praise. I’ve seen it anglicised as plaumause, plamause, and plawmass, or simply by dropping the accents.

It’s a word familiar to me since childhood, but I hear it only occasionally. A plámáser or plámásaí /’plɔ:mɔ:si:/ is a person engaging in plámás, while plámásach /’plɔ:mɔ:səx/ (‘flattering’) is the adjectival form. Here are some examples of its use.

Christopher Nolan, in The Banyan Tree:

now his big plámásing smile was back on

Eamonn Sweeney, Waiting for the Healer:

At midday, the inspector arrives. He is tall and thin and has the air of a true bureaucrat. Da tries to plámás him with coffee and some teacake I bought in the local shop.

A photo caption on a travel blog:

Eoghan plamasing the local women to get a cup of butter tea…

The Laois Nationalist:

On her re election as assistant treasurer Evelyn Dunne had words of support from her chairman Dick Miller: ‘She wont go out of her way to plaumause you or endear herself to you but I guarantee you she does the work.’

The blog Hunter S. Thompson Books:

Hunter S. Thompson a friend of the Mitchell brothers drifts in and out of this story. Reading it I can imagine him bounding around with his usual bow-legged gait, doing what he did best – plamasing everyone in sight, looking like he owned the place.

A quip on the IrishDogs community forum, in response to someone looking for a lift for a dog:

yeah plamause your way in there ;-)

A comment at the Irish Left Review:

Instead of the usual plamasach self-pitying oul’ guff which passes for analysis on the Irish Left…

A comment at Indymedia Ireland:

Concealing your argument with vague allusions and references without ever clarifying your point might impress and plaumause those already on your side, but it will only alienate everybody else.

Tom Mac Intyre in The Charollais, cited in Bernard Share’s Slanguage:

‘We are, in no sense, boasting.’
‘Shur I know ye’re not, m’lord — I always knew ye’d go places, an’ I’m not just plawmassin’ ye now.’

The origin of plámás is unknown. One suggestion is that it’s a corrupted form of blanc-mange, but the link seems tenuous. There’s a related word plásaí /’plɔ:si:/ (plausy, plauzy, plausey, plossey), which can mean either flattery or flatterer. See the previous link for examples.

When plámás was mentioned in the London Review of Books (1999), it prompted a letter with this amusing comment:

It is a word my Irish mother often uses in a verbal mode. I’d always thought it was ‘plum-arse’, as in ‘You’d think that Tony Blair could plum-arse them all into agreement, he’s certainly got the mouth for it.’

I wonder if this line was borrowed verbatim. Plum-arse probably qualifies as an eggcorn, but it’s unlikely to gain any currency given the original term’s scarcity. Even in Ireland, plámás isn’t in common usage: an enthusiastic commenter on Boards.ie from Gorey, Co. Wexford thought plámás was a word his mother had invented.

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(To mark long vowels in IPA, I’ve used ordinary colons instead of the standard triangular marks, because WordPress isn’t rendering the latter clearly.)

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Updates:

Plámás making headlines in the Irish Times Magazine (7 March 2026), in which Australian columnist Brianna Parkins digs into the cultural differences between her native and adopted lands:

If there’s one difference I’ve noticed in Ireland it’s that decision-makers will heap praise on me when they’re trying to pay me less than I would like. […]
Like the time my colleague told me I need to “sweeten up” a person for them to essentially do their basic job description. I was annoyed I had to perform flattery to get them function but this was Ireland where it was considered manners so I did.
What Irish culture might consider harmless plámásing, Australians might see as an attempt to “piss down their back and tell them it’s raining”. […] Personally, I prefer abrasive honesty while still yearning for the mandatory 10-minute friendly chit chat at the start of Irish meetings.

Plámás, a coffee shop on Dominick Street in Galway, Ireland

#dialects #HibernoEnglish #Ireland #IrishEnglish #language #speech #words

Newspaper headline: "Give me abrasive honesty over Irish plámásing any time"

‘Be real’: NHL coaches on pre-game speeches
Mike Sullivan has delivered plenty of speeches in the locker room.
#Sports #Hockey #Leafs #Leafshockey
https://globalnews.ca/news/11726000/be-real-nhl-coaches-on-pre-game-speeches/

PM Modi at Dheevara Sabha golden jubilee celebrations in Kochi. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/speech-pm-modi-in-kochi-qm5zpto1?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #NarendraModi #Kochi #Speech

TADA: Fast, Reliable Speech Generation Through Text-Acoustic Synchronization

https://www.hume.ai/blog/opensource-tada

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Inspiring speech on TED by JR around Street Art!

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https://streetartutopia.com/2011/03/04/inspiring-speech-on-ted-around-street-art-by-jr/

Donald Trump: "The soil was no match"!?!??!

What the heck is that supposed to mean?

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SXSW에서 사람들의 실음성(목소리 손실)을 겪은 이들이 AI로 복원한 자신들의 목소리를 사용해 직접 내레이션하는 첫 다큐 시리즈 '11 Voices'를 공개한다고 발표. 이는 100만 명의 목소리 회복을 돕는 프로젝트의 일부로, AI 음성 합성의 사회적 응용과 접근성 측면에서 주목할 만한 사례이다.

https://x.com/elevenlabsio/status/2031028304246112317

#ai #voicecloning #accessibility #sxsw #speech

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Eisenhower warned us 65 years ago…Is it too late?

Source: instagram.com

In his farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned the nation of the dangers of the military-industrial complex. If anyone could or should have been aware of these dangers, it was the former commander of the Allied forces during World War II. Listed below are four key quotes from this speech:

“Our military organization today bears little relation to tha known by any of my predecessors in peacetime.”
“The conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience [in 1961]. The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government.”
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
“We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense without peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”

– SOURCE: blog.ucs.org

President Eisenhower’s concerns about the military-industrial complex have become painfully true in past six and a half decades and were likely accelerated by fear following September 11th. Now, with the ballooning wealth and influence of billionaires and the advent of artificial intelligence, the military-industrial complex expands ever further through quasi-military power being applied to immigration, border patrol, customs, drug-enforcement, and other Federal departments/agencies.

Source: Facebook.com per the World Bank and does not include quasi-military spending nor does it include separate funding for wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and elsewhere.

Without some form of backbone from Congress, the courts, a free press, and yes the voters, this trajectory will likely continue unabated. As a result, we will see even more unconscionable amounts of money directed to the military-industrial complex instead of health care, child care, housing, food stamps, and many other programs designed to make our lives better, safer, and healthier.

But, instead we spend, spend, and spend on weapons of death and then use them like an angry child because our policies/beliefs are not convincing enough. Frankly, any government that willfully bombs elementary schools and/or hospitals (regardless of the reason) is illegitimate and immoral.

Graves being dug outside bombed girls elementary school in Minab – Source: instagram.com

If safeguards are not employed vigorously by those with the authority to do so – Congress, the courts, the press, and the voting public, the military-industrial complex will likely collapse upon its bloated self in a self-destructive feeding frenzy spurred by hate, distrust, egoism, self-interest, and paranoia.

Regardless, the continuously escalating military-industrial complex is scary to observe taking place in real time. Let us hope for a return to some semblance of sanity amongst humanity before it’s too late.

Peace!

#doomsday #government #history #military #militaryIndustrialComplex #opinion #PresidentEisenhower #speech #war

Do Carney and Poilievre have different visions for the Canada-U.S. relationship?
The clearest attempt at a line of demarcation during Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's speech on Canada-United States relations was an apparent rejoinder to Prime Minister Mark Carney's insistence that a "rupture" has occurred.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-poilievre-canada-united-states-analysis-9.7117567?cmp=rss

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