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Sent MS Edge feedback!
CC: @ericlawrence.com
First I want to thank you for the ReadAIoud feature. I use it a lot to catch up on the news while I work on other things. The problem now is, my work requires a lot of attention so sometimes I miss passages read in ReadAtoud. I often have to re—run ReadAIoud a few times to get the complete information. I suggest you add a Loop function to ReadAIoud whereby ReadAIoud will start over again with reading after reaching end of the article. Just like we have Loop in media players, please add loop function to ReadAloud. Thanks for listening.
December 15, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Humpty-dumpty sat on a lofty height. Humpty-dumpty fell, and there was no one to put Humpty-dumpty together again. #TheMightyFell #ShitHoleWH
The WH depicting the Grinch spreading hate and stealing the Christmas spirit. Rotten to the core!
December 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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I think I'm beginning to understand the relationship between politics and Silicon Valley.
The US has certainly spent the year opening doors to dramatically increase domestic energy production. Part of that has to give the signal that the US will embrace nuclear power in ways it hasn't for generations. This January, an executive order titled Unleashing Amer- ican Energy included an instruction for the government to eliminate rules and regulations related to power genera- tion. Its primary focus was to destroy environmental regulations limiting the extraction of oil, natural gas and coal, but also to remove roadblocks to the construction of new nuclear plants. Then, in May, a subsequent order de- clared a desire to ensure the deploy- ment of "advanced nuclear technolo- gies."
December 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Well, that explains a lot. They are Web Apps! Why do we have to tie resources into Apps consumers are never gonna use without Corp account?
December 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Still don't get why #Microsoft is forcing these AI Apps (Calendar, Files and People) on consumers. They are corporate Apps; you can't use them without a Corp account. Yet, you can't uninstall them, you can't disable them from AutoStart, MS just re-enable them with next reboot. This is crazy MS!
December 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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The Founders specifically designed the Internet to circumvent a Single-point-of-Failure! How did we get turned around 180-degree to return to SPoF? #AllEggsInOneBasket
Cloudflare Failure warning: 500 - Internal Server Error
December 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Was spelunking in Sys32 today, guess what I saw! Please tell me there are still people using phone dialer in Win11! 🤣
I can't believe Win11 is still carrying this around!

#Win11 #SweetMemories
Picture showing listing of Win11 System32 folder with PhoneDialer app highlighted.
December 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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What are these folks smoking these days that is affecting their brains? It's becoming epidemic. We are supposed to be evolving in the 21st century, not devolving right?
Joe Rogan's Jesus is an AI.
December 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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So, it happened that I was testing out the Microsoft virtual camera that brings Android Cameras to Windows, did a test recording and for the life of me can't find the recording! Turned out MS added a new location to the library with it not showing up in Explorer Tree!!!!

cc: @jenmsft.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Me when I see the Milky-way in a light-pollution-free countryside sky: It's full of Stars! 😁
A chimp expressing awe looking at something atop!
November 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Don't you sometimes wish they would just make up their minds?!
Jabra dialog show there's a device update available and at the same time for the same device says you're up to date!
October 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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When you see it, you see it.
Microsoft in conflict
September 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Anyone remembered when Biden stood on the world stage and declared: "America is BACK!!!"? We told him then; America is far from back. You can't change people who have been brainwashed for decades overnight. We all knew it was a respite, not a true change.
Enablers standing silently by while democracy is being murdered in broad daylight.
March 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Can someone please do a quick check? If you're pure irish-born white lady, they don't call you Alina Habba that last time I check. Eff these hostages rooting for their captors!

It's one thing to work for the dude, it's another thing to betray your Iraqi root!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alina_H...
Alina Habba, an Iraqi-american rooting a Nazi Führer.
March 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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In case you're wondering what the governor is talking about:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Gov. Pritzker warning about Nazism: ------------------------ "It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic" JB Pritzker Governor of Illinois
February 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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NATO is in zombie status, only they don't know it yet. We predicted this is coming.
Faytuks Faytuks News @Faytuks Follow Discussions about the withdrawal of US troops from all NATO states that joined the alliance after 1990 are one of the goals of the talks between Russia and the US, an Eastern European security official tells BILD https://biId.d o I iti us a nd-und-internationales/ukraine-krieg- europa-in-angst-geheimdienste-fuerchten-schon-us-abzug- 67b479a5a918eb195a71efba?t_ref=https%3A%2F%2Fm.bild.de%2Fpolitik%2Fausland- und-internationales%2Fukraine-krieg-europa-in-angst-geheimdienste-fuerchten-schon- us-abzug- 67b479a5a918eb195a71efba%3Ft_ref%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%252 hceZtbwu_zq8jg7jVhDTQjxE5VpzvpGj6L_w_jRyjmpt01Mpa93yw_aem_lC_L80BztxltGbr9- flRcA... An Eastern European security official told BILD: "According to our information, it is abo Putin's 2021 demands, i.e. a withdrawal of US troops from all NATO states that joined t alliance after 1990."
February 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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C'mon Microsoft! Things are getting out of hand in Apps & Features! Can you blame people for not wanting to use Microsoft Account?!
Screenshot showing repeated request from Microsoft to login to Microsoft Account.
February 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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The United States is the proverbial frog that is being cooked from cold state for decades, now it has come to the boiling point and the frog is dead.
Garry Kasparov's warning about Dictatorship in US in 2020 with following twee: Garry Kasparov@ @Kasparov63 When one group fights for power at all costs vs a group fighting for the rule of law, the second group had damned well better mobilize while it still can, because it only gets harder. Trust me on this one. 10:16 AM • sep 19, 2020
February 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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So, we're all paying for eDolf's youth trauma of eviction from South Africa's Apartheid System. The attack on USAID says a bunch.
Elon's repost of a tweet calling end of apartheid Genocide.
February 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Some heavy lifter joined @bsky.app I guess?
Bluesky metrics showing a spike in Follow metric last night.
February 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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The world is a global village now. When you fart in US, they smell it in Europe and react. #Tesla #DeadToMe
Screenshots showing Tesla sales dropping all over Europe. ================== Tesla Sales Plunge 63% in EU's second-Biggest EV Market. Tesla sales plunge 59% in Geremany. Sales slump in five European markets in January drops of 44% in Sweden ...38% in Norway and a 42% fall in the Netherlands.
February 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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I am so freaking tired of these Democrats still thinking they can reach Republicans on ANY matter right now. Republicans are compromised! They don't have brains anymore. They are just zombies running around. There's no 'discussing' and 'working' with them. They know they've lost their country!
Highlighting Blumenthal thinking he can still work with Republicans: Politicians' speeches seemed to provide some comfort to protesters. But they are still pushing for Democrats to be more disruptive, including by making it harder for Republicans to confirm Trump's nominees by denying them procedural shortcuts to swifter votes. Lawmakers, meanwhile, say there's only so much they can do on their own. "We have to reach beyond this crowd, reach beyond this city," says Blumenthal. "Reach beyond Democrats to Republicans and say, you are losing your country, too."
February 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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The 2028 AI principles being thrown overboad by Google:
Google AI Principles being abandoned: Applications we will not In addition to the above objectives, we will not design or deploy Al in the following application areas: pursue Technologies that cause or are likely to cause overall harm. Where there is a material risk of harm, we will proceed only where we believe that the benefits substantially outweigh the risks, and will incorporate appropriate safety constraints. Weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people. Technologies that gather or use information for surveillance violating internationally accepted norms. Technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights. As our experience in this space deepens, this list may evolve.
February 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Google is not only renaming Gulf of Mexico, but also weaponizing AI for the Fuhrer.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Google's parent compa- ny has lifted a ban on ar- tificial intelligence (Al) being used for developing weapons and surveillance tools after changing its long-standing principles.
February 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Now, it's time to revisit that 2017 debate: Is he or is he not? You judge give all we know since then.

www.newsweek.com/trump-putin-...
CIA Staff on Trump and Russia in 2017: "MY assessment is that Trump is actually working directly for the Russians."
February 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM