Hell, it happens to me all the time. On my iPhone, Siri is turned off. And yet, when the head phones are plugged in and I try to start my podcast playback, there is always a chance of activating Voice Control by chance instead of starting playback. And since that records a few seconds of me swearing, the wind blowing, and nearby people speaking random stuff, I fear a lot of Apple contract workers listen it trying to figure out WTF I wanted to say. But all I want is to disable this shit.
We have to sell it to China, guys! --- RT @markmackinnon@twitter.com There’s a new Top Gun movie coming out. And Maverick is wearing the same leather jacket - only this time it’s Communist Party of China-approved, so the Japanese and Taiwanese flag patches are gone (screenshot on right is from the new trailer)... https://twitter.com/markmackinnon/status/1152241649893945346
English Letter Frequency Counts: Mayzner Revisited or ETAOIN SRHLDCU
> ...My distillation of the Google books data gives us 97,565 distinct words, which were mentioned 743,842,922,321 times (37 million times more than in Mayzner's 20,000-mention collection). Each distinct word is called a "type" and each mention is called a "token." To no surprise, the most common word is "the"....
I recommend people just turn off voice assistants whenever they can. That includes smart watches and the like! If you don’t depend on them, then there always the chance of activating them by mistake and of voice samples getting sent and stored where they don’t belong and listened to by people you don’t like. Don’t do this to yourself. Don’t do this to the people around you, either.
https://www.sarahsmarsh.com/heartland-in-the-news "Smarsh maps her family’s impoverished lives against the destruction of the working class that the Reagan era wrought: the demise of the family farm, the dismantling of public health care, the defunding of public schools, and wages so stagnant that full time laborers could no longer pay the bills. Readers will learn what Smarsh did: the working poor in America are sold a lie. Working hard in this country probably won’t get you ahead after all."
'Djinn & Chthonic" would make an awesome premise / foundation for a somewhat darkish (and definitely undrground) superhero / superantihero literary series.