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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2019
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Bloated Alphabet thinks buying Fitbit will turn it around

YouTube. Looker. Elastifile. HTC. Bitium. Owlchemy Labs. Kaggle. LeapDroid. If there's one thing the fat, bloated Alphabet needs to buy it's Fitbit because it's high time they took back control instead of just consuming everything in sight.

It's hard to look at yourself in the mirror and take stock. It's even harder if you don't have eyes because you are a multi-national megacorporation. But there comes a time in every fat, bloated, tax-avoiding entity's life when it's necessary to take a deep breath, decide to make a change, and then go buy Fitbit for $2.1 billion.

It's tough staying one step ahead of government regulation, but staying 10,000 steps per day ahead of government regulation just got a little easier.

Godspeed, Alphabet. We'll be Apple Watching closely as you try to lap the competition.

 
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Irreplaceable engineer straight up using office phone booth as welding studio

Become irreplaceable. Do what you love in life. For DevOps Lead Engineer Joe, this meant turning his company phone booths into his personal welding studio. Isn't that lion in the middle of the floor just so majestic? And just wait until you see the 1:100 scale Eiffel Tower that's taken over Conference Room 1A-17.

What are they going to do, fire him? Fat chance. He built the entire code base on paper clips, chewing gum, and Ruby on Rails. He's the only person who can maintain it. He's irreplaceable. He's Hack Reactor™.

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CARL TO ACTION

Dearest Loaf-heads and crust-freaks,

Our readership is now the size of a small country and I feel it is my duty as our de-facto President to make sure I give you, the people, a voice.

So I asked you to hit “reply” in the last email and tell me what you’re working on.

My dearest gluten-children, you did not disappoint…

You’re an entrepreneurial bunch and I was astonished by the sheer boldness of some of the startups you all have launched.

One of you is building a revolutionary cryptocurrency that will overthrow nation-states. It is unclear how exactly it is different from Bitcoin, or how exactly said nation-states will be brought to their knees, but that makes the opportunity all the more tantalizing.

Another reader shared details on an AI-powered dog-walking app that will make Rover look like the primitive dog-feces tracking GPS service that it is.

One of you boldly proclaimed, “I’m working on getting CBD on the blockchain.”

Visionary.

But, alas, there was one startup that rose above them all: WellSaid.

As I began to wrap my head around the mind-stretching potential of this small upstart’s technology, my pupils dilated, Java Monster Coffee + Energy™ ejected from my nostrils, and my now ex-wife Esmeralda demanded I tell her what had me so riled up.

“AI voice artists,” I uttered, slowly wiping the now-congealing half-soda, half-coffee beverage from my keyboard. “AI voice artists.”

Indeed, WellSaid has built a completely humanlike, AI-generated voiceover tool that lets you pick an AI “voice artist” and have them say anything you’d like.

Morgan Freeman, beware. These AI voices can narrate your product explainer videos, they can provide voiceovers on that indie video game that you’ve been meaning to finish the last 6 years…. A couple of them could have even replaced that guy from Her’s digital girlfriend after that absolutely heartless breakup.

Check out this absolutely ridiculous demo of one voice in action (this voiceover is NOT a human).

So, there you have it: a TechLoaf reader has built a text-to-speech AI tool that can produce perfectly humanlike speech.

But wait...

I demanded that this reader give access to their service to other TechLoaf readers. After all, this is a gluten-community.

And alas, they have done just that.

As of today, any Loaf-head can request access to this absolutely mind-stretching technology by clicking here.

The future has arrived...and it's being built by your fellow Loaf fans.

Loaf On To Infinity,
Carl “Cantana” Cantana, Esq.
Founder, President, CEO
TechLoaf International Holding, Inc.

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