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Yes, however scientific papers aren’t always linearly formatted PDFs (eg 2-columns), so pdftotext tends to be brittle.

If you only mean reading a file from a specific selection of text, I’ve never seen something that,

Okular actually does that, and with Pied I can use nice Piper voices, but the controls are very basic (start at the stop of the page, pause, stop).

ReadAloud sort of does but it requires sending the pdf to their website, which is obviously not ideal.

A screen reader reads what’s on the screen. What I’m describing is reading a document. ReadAloud does exactly that for Firefox, I am just asking for standalone applications.

A lot of anti-latino racism really boils down to colonial anti-indigenous racism. The fascists are usually fine with white latinos, but something really stirs in them when it’s about mestizos, i.e. people whose family tree includes indigenous ancestry. Think of the stereotype of the Latin American gangster, the Mexican cartel rabid dog, like the ones in Breaking Bad. What do they look like? They never look like Ricky Martin, now, do they?

Nope.

The numbers allow a continuation of a Liberal-NDP confidence-and-supply arrangement. This is a good result for those of us who don’t trust a banker to not sell out the working class.

What do you mean “narrowly”? It’s a clean victory and the trumpist conservative leader lost his own riding.

White?

Hey Americans, just establish a national identity document already. Belgium, Spain, Germany, Greece and other European countries that are definitely not tyrannies have them. It will fix so many of your problems.

You mean that some of those that burn crosses are the same that work forces? 🤯

Who stopped them, motherfucker?

I’m going to wager a wild guess: Jews and Israelis who oppose apartheid and genocide (IJV etc) and are facing harassment for it are not going to be considered as victims of harassment and discrimination. Only “good” Jews who are pro Israel will count, none of the “bad” ones. And nobody is going to even think of the word “antisemitism” when it comes to them being called JINOs.

Now somebody needs to kidnap Jude Law and keep him in a basement until after the white smoke.

Two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents, dressed in plain clothes, had shown up and instructed the staff to stage a fake meeting in the basement so they could apprehend him, according to Gad. Hospital staff were distraught but felt forced to comply.

STOP COMPLYING YOU FUCK HEADS

I missed a comma before “algorithms” it seems.

The kind of “extreme authoritarianism” you’re pearl clutching about is literally the age ratings system that was in place in the late 90s. Get a grip.

At this point, the guy could be a rabid neonazi pedophile for all I care: he should still not have been deported without a trial. People are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court. Do your fucking job.

“We live in a society where foreign alien terrorists have unlimited free legal representation,” Stephen Miller posted.

Did I stutter, bitch?

This is totally a diffusion of social media issue. Twenty years ago, the media that kids had available for consumption was age rated. We had agreed as a society that certain things should not be visible to children until they grow up. It was possible to do because it was centralized (TV, movies, radio, print) and it was accountable to regulatory bodies and the rest of society. If a TV channel showed something as shitty as Tate style propaganda, there was institutional pushback, there were letters to the editor, there was someone specific to be targeted for accountability.

With social media being dominated by US style “freedom of speech” algorithms and US style acceptance of the impossibility (or even undesirability) of regulation and with completely unaccountable megacorps running them while giving very minimal if non-existent attention to who is watching what, we have a complete lack of age rating. We have given up on the idea of protecting childhood it seems.

Coupled with every fucking other issue being brought up in this thread, from COVID, to economic issues, to cultural misogyny, there is a perfect storm…

I am capable of feeling empathy for ordinary people who got swept up in something, fucked around and found out. But a senior Maga politician? Hahaha hahaha hahahahahaha hahahaha, roast bitch.