Paul Mankoo

@stevenbjohnson @TheEconomist British English 👏

We snuck a little preview of coming attractions into the audio and video overviews for our new featured notebook with @TheEconomist... notebooklm.google.com/notebook/34510…

@NotebookLM British English…please

We're working hard to support even more languages. Please keep giving us your feedback and let us know-- what languages do we not support yet that we should? 🤔 🤔 🤔 Current list here: bit.ly/478UdBB

GREAT NEWS for our multilingual users! Rolling out this week: 1) Video Overviews in all 80 supported languages 2) Short & Default length controls for non-English audio overviews– so you should start seeing longer AOs! Because great ideas shouldn't get lost in translation 😘

@tokumin @NotebookLM any update on when for British English?Aall the updates have been great but still would be amazing to have English with a British accent.

@pmankoo @NotebookLM soon!

This just in... the @NotebookLM hosts have some rather exciting news they'd like to share with you all:

@_petermason Historic England have refused the initial listing. Residents have appealed this and are therefore doing our bit to preserve the Borough's history. What are you doing with extreme urgency to protect the building?

🧵🏡Today, Ealing Council submitted an application to Historic England for a Building Preservation Notice (BPN) for the East Lodge at Lammas Park. Under law, the council is required to consult with Historic England before serving a formal notice…(1/3)

@_petermason Historic England have refused the initial listing. Residents have appealed this and are therefore doing our bit to preserve the Borough's history. What are you doing with extreme urgency to protect the building?

@_petermason Peter,It's a shame it was at risk in the first place. It has been 3 years and still unresolved for the council to implement the Conservation area extension and locally list it. Had this been done none of this would have happened.Can you commit to review all other assets at risk?

@Gabriel64869839 Out of interest do you know why it is called Project Ealing?

The new video from the latest Project EALING Radio Frequency Directed Energy Weapon trials (first with Army personnel) shows one important thing that was not, by any means, a given: the system can be seen working and keeping aim on targets with the truck on the move.

@MikeyCycling @EdinburghPicker Yet you’ve defended cyclists using mobile phones whilst cycling before! So the resultant distraction doesn’t apply to them apparently!

@EdinburghPicker TBF shouldn't be doing that either.

This is the sort of problem we're dealing with on the roads. A lorry driver making a phonecall whilst driving his lorry through a busy park, and this guy is upset he lost his job? youtube.com/shorts/JE4iR1x…

@raiza_abubakar Great to see such progress to an already amazing tool. Any chance of customising the accents of the presenters in audio deep dive. Would be much more resonant for my uses with a British accent?

New NotebookLM updates, rolling out today: 🎧Pass a note to the hosts – you can now click on ‘Customize’ in Audio Overviews to give additional instructions, such as focusing on a specific topic, source, or even adjusting the audience it’s optimized for. 🎧You can now minimize Notebook Guide and use the chat or other features, and Audio Overviews will keep playing in the background. 💼Over 80,000+ organizations are already using NotebookLM. Today we’re announcing NotebookLM Business: an upcoming version that will be offered via Google Workspace with enhanced features for businesses, universities and organizations. You can apply for the NotebookLM Business pilot program to get early access. 🚀With now millions of users, achieving quality and product milestones, today we’re dropping the product’s “Experimental” label. An exciting milestone - what a wild ride! @ me with your best customizations – y’all are way more creative than me 😆

@SayeedaWarsi The prosecution in that trial was ill prepared and badly executed and that is the only reason it failed to find her guilty What she and you have done in using the ‘coconut’ slur is racist and had been found so in other courts. theguardian.com/uk/2010/jun/28…

In response to the numerous press requests A court of law found #MariehaHussain not guilty. Whatever Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman think of that decision that is the rule of law and they are not above the law. I applaud the courts decision and judgement of Judge Vanessa Lloyd, the overwhelming evidence of multiple academics and other expert witnesses. It was the right decision and I rightly congratulated Marieha on her acquittal. I was subsequently asked to delete my public support for Marieha - I refused to do so. That is the basis of the complaint. No other comments or language is the basis of the complaint. The case was due to be conducted in private behind closed doors, I was not told who the complainant was and this is material considering the detail of bad faith practice the court heard about during the trial. I was also told I could not discuss the matter with others. It was effectively to be a secret retrial of the #coconuttrial I was not prepared to accept this. I felt it appropriate in the circumstances to resign my whip and look forward to dealing with these issues openly and transparently in the coming weeks and months

@nelsabbey For ‘Intra-communal’ read ‘racist’. Given that one characteristic of racism is ascribing to someone attributes based on their skin colour it’s amazing you are endorsing use of a racist term to people of colour because they don’t have the views you think they should have!

Barring a last minute outburst of sanity, in roughly two hours Marieha Hussain, a nine-months pregnant woman, will go on trial for making a political critique in the form of a satirical placard containing commonly used intra-communal humour. Welcome to Britain in 2024.

@nelsabbey @McGannSharpe Nah…it’s racist, that’s coming from a brown man! I also find it risible that the constant refrain one hears is that if someone of colour finds an insult racist it is racist and yet, here you are, a black man telling brown people what they should find racist or not!

@McGannSharpe Dude, it's not racist. It's political, it's satirical, it's intra-communal critique of political behaviour of literal politicians. Also, thanks to the huge power imbalance, the concept of "consistency" doesn't exist in racism. Educate yourself. mediadiversified.org/2018/10/11/in-…

This week, on Thursday 12th September 2024 at Westminster Magistrates' Court, Britain will place a nine-month pregnant Brown Muslim woman on trial for holding a satirical placard depicting two of the then most powerful politicians in the land (both also Brown) as coconuts.

@ContactusEaling @EalingHour Northala Fields?

Here’s another one of those “if you know you know, but you can also guess” pictures - does it look familiar? Say #whereinEaling it is in the comments below I’ll post the full uncropped pic at the end of #EalingHour around 9pm tonight #March2024 #everydayphotos

@MarkMachado @EalingShow Will listen in!

@pmankoo @EalingShow Thanks Paul, next episode out tomorrow

Hats off to @MarkMachado for his @EalingShow initiative.What local authority and communities need is more scrutiny and understanding in order to make positive decisions and change that makes quality of life for locals better. Give him a follow and listen to the podcast.

@EalingShow @MarkMachado Great initiative Mark. Ealing needs a strong local media presence to scrutinise what’s going on in the Borough and give voice to residents

Interesting piece on local media in the Guardian. We launched this week but our ambition is to fill this space. Please give us a follow and help us grow.

@theashrb The racism keeps on coming with you doesn't it! reported.

Cleverly confirmed as the new Home Secretary lmaoooooo as one c00n garnnn a next one born! 😅

@theashrb Nonsense, as a brown person, I can confirm it is racist! Those trying to justify it happen to be the same people that think brown people can only think one way or have one view! The very definition of racial bias.

P*ki is not comparable to “coconut” you just wanted to say the word. This is how stupid you end up looking when you refuse to mind your business. A coconut is something we call people within our own communities, it is not a slur.

@narindertweets Well here’s a brown man telling you it is racist!

Coconut 🥥 Coconut 🥥 Coconut Said it before, say it again- its a word used in the brown community to each other, its our word and not for the white man to tell us its racist .