The Reasonabilist

People are starting to wake up and ask the right questions. Democrats are NOT incentivized for Black Americans to do better. The ongoing cycle of struggle among Black Americans benefits their political power. Once Black Americans are thriving and less focused on racism, Democrats will actually have to offer something of real value.

@BretWeinstein It seems to me that many people are emotionally compromised. They are letting their anger and spite dictate their actions instead of making a rational decision. It looks to me like social media is actually devolving some humans.

Reality is not a team sport. Failing to understand that can cause autism.

@ScottAdamsSays If you can use AI that is specifically trained on targeted information to limit hallucinations, this could be useful. I can see how it plus the Internet could easily replace traditional education. I always found Khan Academy more useful than what my children were using.

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@ThomasSowell Committing a crime, in fact, does make you a "criminal". I maybe get her point but her wording is poor. My guess is she is trying to say that changes need to be made to make the conditions these people live in such that they no longer need to commit "crime" to survive.

Jasmine Crockett: "Just because someone has committed a crime, it doesn't make them a criminal. That is completely different. Being a criminal is more so about your mindset."

@stevenmarkryan There is always a cost you may not just see it directly. I'm curious about this belief that humanity will elevate itself if this happens. This contradicts what I have observed of basic human nature. Smart phones have made everyone dumber. AI is accelerating the problem.

When the marginal cost of: - Energy - Labor - Intelligence Fall to ~$0. Humanity enters an era of ABUNDANCE. The future is gonna be amazing.

@OwenGregorian These products already exist. They are on Amazon. Just search ear bud translators and you will get a litany of them ranging from $40 to $400 with different capabilities. Hope this helps.

Apple, Google and Meta are trying to perfect a science fiction gadget: The universal translator | Kif Leswing, CNBC Key Points - Apple, Google and Meta are capitalizing on advancements in AI to bring new translation features to their latest hardware devices. - For Apple, Live Translation is a key selling point for the AirPods Pro 3, which the company unveiled on Tuesday. The new $250 earbuds go on sale next week. - Translation is emerging as a key battleground in the technology industry as artificial intelligence gets good enough to translate languages as quickly as people speak. --- For decades, shows like “Star Trek” and novels like “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” have showcased fictional universal translators, capable of seamlessly converting any language into English and vice versa. Now, those gadgets once limited to works of science fiction are inching close to reality. During its iPhone unveiling event on Tuesday, Apple included a video of many travelers’ dream scenario. It showed an English-speaking tourist buying flowers in an unnamed Spanish-speaking country. The florist addressed the tourist in Spanish, but what the tourist heard was in clear, coherent English. “Today all the red carnations are 50% off,” the tourist heard in English in her headphones, at essentially the same time that the clerk was speaking. The video was marketing material for Apple’s latest AirPods Pro 3, but the feature is one of many of its kind coming from tech companies that also include Google parent Alphabet and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram. Technological advancements spurred by the arrival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in late 2022 have ushered in an era of generative artificial intelligence. Almost three years later, those advancements are resulting in real-time language translators. For Apple, Live Translation is a key selling point for the AirPods Pro 3, which the company unveiled on Tuesday. The new $250 earbuds go on sale next week, and with Live Translation, users will be able to immediately hear French, German, Portuguese and Spanish translated to English. Live Translation will also arrive as an update to AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 2 on Monday. And when two people are speaking to each other wearing AirPods, the conversation can be translated both ways simultaneously inside each user’s headphones. In Apple’s video demo, it looked like two people talking to each other in different languages. Analysts are excited that the feature could mark a step forward for Apple’s AI strategy. The translation feature needs to be paired with a new-enough iPhone to run Apple Intelligence, Apple’s AI software suite. “If we can actually use the AirPods for live translations, that’s a feature that would actually get people to upgrade,” DA Davidson analyst Gil Luria told CNBC on Wednesday. Translation is emerging as a key battleground in the technology industry as AI gets good enough to translate languages as quickly as people speak. But Apple is not alone. A crowded market In the past year, Google and Meta have also released hardware products featuring real-time translation capabilities. Google’s Pixel 10 phone has a capability that can translate what a speaker is saying to the listener’s language during phone calls. That feature, called Voice Translate is designed to also preserve the speaker’s voice inflections. Voice Translate will start showing up on people’s phones through a software update on Monday. In Google’s live demo in August, Voice Translate was able to translate a sentence from entertainer Jimmy Fallon into Spanish, and it actually sounded like the comedian. Apple’s feature does not try to imitate the user’s voice. Meanwhile, Meta in May announced that its Ray-Ban Meta glasses would be able to translate what a person is saying in another language using the device’s speakers, and the other party in the conversations would be able to see translated responses transcribed on the user’s phone. Meta will hold its own product keynote on Wednesday, where the company is expected to announce the next generation of its smart glasses, which will feature a small display in one of the lenses, CNBC reported in August. It’s unclear if Meta will announce more translation features. And OpenAI in June showcased an intelligent voice assistant mode for ChatGPT that has fluid translation built in as one of many features. ChatGPT is integrated with Apple’s Siri, but not in voice mode. OpenAI is planning to release new hardware products with Apple’s former design guru Jony Ive in the coming years. The rise of live translation could also reshape entire industries. Translators and interpreters are the No. 1 type of job threatened by AI, and 98% of translators’ work activities overlap with what AI can do, a Microsoft Research study published in August found. Purpose-built translators In the past several years, a number of purpose-built translation gadgets have entered the market, taking advantage of global high-speed cellular service and improving online translation services to produce puck-like devices or headphones with translation built-in for a couple hundred dollars. “What I love about what Apple is doing is it really just illuminates the fact that how pressing of an issue this is,” said Joe Miller, U.S. general manager of Japan-based Pocketalk, which makes a $249 translation device that goes between two people conversing in different languages and translates their conversation in audio and text. Given that Apple shipped about 18 million sets of wireless headphones in the first quarter alone, according to Canalys, the company’s entry into the market will expose a wider subset of customers to improvements translation tech has made in recent years. Despite Apple’s entry into the market, makers of purpose-built devices say their focus on accuracy and knowledge of linguistics will provide better translations than what’s available for free with a new phone. “We actually hired linguists,” said Aleksander Alski, head of U.S. and Canada for Poland-based Vasco Electronics, which released translation headphones called E1 in January, and is planning a forthcoming model that can imitate the user’s voice, like Google’s feature. “We combined the AI with with human input, and thanks to that, we were able to secure much higher accuracy throughout all the languages we offer.” There’s also home-field advantage. Vasco Electronics’ largest market is Europe, and Apple’s Live Translation isn’t available for EU users, Apple said on its website. Some of the products being introduced by tech companies are less than universal, and are limited to a small number of languages for now. Apple’s feature is only available in five languages, versus Pocketalk’s 95. Pocketalk’s Miller believes that the potential of the technology goes far beyond a tourist ordering a glass of wine in France. He says that it’s most powerful when its used in workplaces like schools and hospitals, which require privacy and security features that go beyond what Apple and Google provide. “This isn’t about luxury tourism and travel,” Miller said. “This is about the intersection of language and friction, when a discussion needs to be had.” Read more: cnbc.com/2025/09/12/app…

@DefiantLs Blaming an inanimate object for the actions of an individual is an odd take, I do not understand it. America has always been armed to the teeth, that is not new. What is new is the amount of people thinking it is ok to murder, to me this is the obvious factor to look at.

Randi Weingarten calls for banning guns in America

"Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it." - Charles R. Swindoll

@TRHLofficial To be fair, there are plenty of men who should not be voting either.

The 19th amendment was a mistake. Whatever the British equivalent is, was also a mistake.

"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them." - Albert Einstein

This is some of the greatest advice that I think few people will ever take.

@ComicDaveSmith In the past when a nation is being devastated to this level that nation will normally accept an unconditional surrender in order to save its people or some semblance of its country. Maybe they shouldn't surrender, I don't know. But there is more than one side in this conflict.

Say what you will about this lady but it is refreshing to see basic humanity from a person in Congress. A rare sight.

@ScottAdamsSays Every system inevitably develops corruption and the larger the system the more likely it is to have corruption. The most effective government though is small government. Less bureaucratic layers means more work gets done.

I assume every local government is corrupt. Their systems are designed to guarantee it over time.

X in 2025: If you look for drama you will find drama. If you look for knowledge you will find knowledge. Drama stays broke. Knowledge compounds. Choose wisely.

@TRHLofficial This is good advice for processing any information you consume from any source. Always be skeptical and curious enough to find out more. If you are unwilling to this, you should probably avoid consuming most information because everyone is trying to influence you.

The Smith Mundt Act banned domestic dissemination shortly after this video was made. The ban was lifted in 2013. This video has been relevant since. Pay attention.

@lizbennetlez @PorterReporter9 @the_jefferymead The electoral college exists because the United States was created as a republic, not a democracy. The system was designed this way intentionally to protect individual liberties not democratic equality. It helps to guard against the ever encroaching soft despotism.

Gavin Newsom says “democracy is at risk” because Texas might redraw its districts. But in California, Harris got 58.5% of the vote in 2024 and Democrats hold 82.7% of House seats. Republicans got 38.3% of the vote and just 17.3% of the seats. Replace the word “democracy” with “Democrats’ political power” and suddenly his outrage makes perfect sense. He’s not worried about protecting democracy. He’s worried about winning and keeping Democrats’ political power.

White people didn't invent slavery. Here's the uncomfortable truth.

Getting lean is stupidly simple. They made it confusing so you'd keep buying meal plans and fat burners. Here are 9 things I did to lose fat without tracking a single calorie🧵: 1. Prioritize protein at every meal.

Only ~1.5% of white Americans in 1860 owned slaves. Why do so many people act as if this was all white people? Also around 300,000 white men died in the Civil War fighting to end it. History is more complex than the narratives we’re being sold.

@JackPosobiec @D_Tarczynski @realTanyaTay My assumption here is that we are trying to compare this to other cities that have problems on the streets? My guess is that the difference is that not only do they have laws but they also enforce those laws.

Midnight in Poland Where are the gangs? Where are the fights? Where are the youths?