6/10/2023 0 Comments Empire of vampireGabriel de León, half man, half monster and last remaining silversaint – a sworn brother of the holy Silver Order dedicated to defending the realm from the creatures of the night – is all that stands between the world and its end. Now, only a few tiny sparks of light endure in a sea of darkness. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own. Featuring the darkly beautiful illustrations of Bon Orthwick 'This book is bloody brilliant' - V.E Schwab, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. From the Sunday Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Nevernight Chronicle, comes this masterful new series.
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6/10/2023 0 Comments The world made by handA speech-to-text system determines the words the user speaks, which are then forwarded to a conversation agent. The new Assist Pipeline integration allows you to configure all components that make up a voice assistant in a single place.įor voice commands, pipelines start with audio. To watch the video presentation of this blog post, including live demos, check the recording of our live stream. With this functionality, Home Assistant’s Assist feature is now able to provide a full voice interface for users to interact with.Ī voice assistant also needs hardware, so today we’re launching ESPHome support for Assist and to top it off: we’re launching the World’s Most Private Voice Assistant. Today, the Home Assistant community has translated common smart home commands and responses into 45 languages, closing in on the 62 languages that Home Assistant supports.įor Chapter 2, we’ve expanded beyond text to now include audio specifically, turning audio (speech) into text, and text back into speech. In Chapter 1, we focused on intents – what the user wants to do. Today we’re presenting Chapter 2, our second milestone in building towards this goal. It is our goal for 2023 to let users control Home Assistant in their own language. This year is Home Assistant’s Year of the Voice. 6/10/2023 0 Comments Walter benjaminThe fact that Benjamin persistently reworked the essay indicates that he was constantly analysing and re-analysing the political potential of contemporary art forms.īenjamin begins the essay with Marx’s prognostications about capitalism. He worked on the essay from 1935 to 1939 and produced three versions. Therefore, it is only inevitable that as a response to the political turmoil he experienced and suffered, he would envision the work of art in his ongoing projects as an active political instrument. Benjamin was deeply affected by the extremely politically tumultuous situation in France. Walter Benjamin wrote “The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility” during his years of exile in France from Nazi Germany. 6/9/2023 0 Comments City of thorns by ben rawlenceGuled is a chancer who lives for football and his beloved Manchester United. The result is City of Thorns, a superb work that highlights the essential humanity of those faceless masses buffeted by events and desperately seeking salvation in one of the world’s most troubled spots. Visiting the camp three years ago, I met Ben Rawlence, a former Human Rights Watch researcher who spent the best part of five years patiently documenting life inside this teeming, sprawling and chaotic camp in north-eastern Kenya. They end up in Dadaab, the world’s biggest refugee camp, which is a place of abuse, brutality, hunger and fear – supposedly fed and protected by the United Nations. Guled and his wife, Maryam, are among the lives chronicled in this outstanding glimpse into the shattered and insecure lives of those on the frontline of the global migration crisis. These are the sort of reasons why millions of people end up as refugees. It is only when Jess skims through the pages that she finds a shocking connection between her own family and this notorious event -a murder mystery that has never been satisfactorily solved. At Nora's house, Jess discovers a true crime book chronicling a long-buried police case the Turner Family Tragedy of 1959. Her books are published in thirty-six languages and have been 1 bestsellers worldwide. A phone call summons her back to Sydney, where her beloved grandmother, Nora, who raised Jess when her mother could not, has suffered a fall an is seriously ill in hospital. Kate Morton is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden, The Distant Hours, The Secret Keeper, The Lake House, and The Clockmaker’s Daughter. Homecoming by Kate Morton - 9781760630485 - Dymocks Home / Books / Fiction / Historical fiction / Homecoming Homecoming By Kate Morton paperback4 April 2023 24.99 RRP 32.99 or 4 payments of 6.25 with Learn more ADD TO CART Booklovers earn 1. Having lived and worked in London for nearly two decades, she now finds herself unemployed and struggling to make ends meet. Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Police are called and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of Australia. At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. The essays were insightful and well written.” “An essential guide to the creative process, as well as a fascinating look at four accomplished writers.” The insights of the Russian authors were fascinating, and I learned a lot about how to approach both my own work and the works of others.” “This was an amazing book that gave me a new appreciation for writing and reading. He is the author of several collections of short stories, including Lincoln in the Bardo, which was awarded the Man Booker Prize. George Saunders is a critically acclaimed author and professor who has taught creative writing at Arizona State University, Syracuse University, and The Writer’s Institute at New York. The book lacks a clear structure, making it hard to navigate.
6/9/2023 0 Comments Snow crash graphic novelThe metaverse is an escape, and the novel's main character - a nearly broke computer hacker and pizza delivery driver who bears a tongue-in-cheek name, Hiro Protagonist - spends much of his time there. Set in the early 21st century, "Snow Crash" imagines a bleak future: The global economy has collapsed, and federal governments have lost most of their power to a handful of giant corporations. Here's what the author predicted 29 years ago, and how it compares to the virtual worlds that Meta and other tech companies are trying to build today. Last week, Stephenson told Axios that he has "never had any communication with Zuckerberg." That might be good: If Meta fulfills all of Stephenson's prognostications, its metaverse may not be such an idyllic place to spend the future. And Stephenson now works as virtual reality start-up Magic Leap's "chief futurist," after an advisor stint at Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin. Companies like Microsoft, Roblox and Epic Games are also planning their own metaverses. Nearly three decades later, that's essentially the future that Zuckerberg says he's trying to build with Meta - minus the dystopia. In the novel, people use digital avatars of themselves to explore the online world, often as a way of escaping a dystopian reality. Author Neal Stephenson coined the term "metaverse" in his 1992 science-fiction novel "Snow Crash," which envisions a virtual reality-based successor to the internet. 6/9/2023 0 Comments Infini by Krista RitchieThat’s what Nik calls their “non-existent” relationship. When Thora unknowingly walks into the crosshairs of Nikolai’s after-show, her audition process begins way too soon. Confident, charming and devilishly captivating, 26-year-old Nikolai Kotova aggravatingly lives up to his nickname as the “God of Russia.” Thora knows she’s out of her element the second she meets Amour’s leading performer. The best aerial technique won’t land 21-year-old Thora James her dream role in Amour-a sexy new acrobatic show on the Vegas strip. I give it all to someone, and they give it all to me.” The circus is based one-hundred percent off of trust. “Every day,” he says lowly, “I hold a person’s life in my hands. However, it’s not necessary to read Amour Amour prior to Infini Luka Kotova is introduced in Amour Amour, and Infini takes place in the same acrobatic world. Recommended for readers 18+ for mature content. And she tells me that she’s having trouble in a certain “area” of her life - because of our past. Now I’ve signed back on to the same Vegas acrobatic show as Baylee, working together for the first time in years. He should have told me that when a darkness crawled towards us, there’d be no safety net. He should have told me to protect her from what was coming. My cousin should’ve told me that being best friends with Baylee Wright - since she was twelve - would be the best and worst decision of my life. Because he followed with, “friends don’t f*ck friends. “Don’t have a best friend that’s a girl” - this was the advice from my older cousin. When all is said and done Violet ends up taking the gentleman to her home – she’s a widow – and nursing him back to health. Well, he does save the day but ends up getting hurt in the ensuing struggle. Almost immediately she believes she is saved as a lone horseman shows up and tries to save the day. Violet is heading home after visiting friends when her carriage is set upon by thieves. But when Kit is no longer able to hide his identity, will he sacrifice his pride and claim Violet as his own? Or will he return to his dissolute ways and destroy the fragile love he never believed he could find? He wants nothing to do with prim and proper young ladies, even a beautiful widow who makes him question all of his previous assumptions.Įvery touch, every glance between them builds a passion that neither can deny-or control. The Marquess of Kittrick has vowed not to marry, despite his family’s wishes. But the closer they become, the more Violet fears the inevitable moment when he must leave her. He is badly injured and doesn’t remember who he is, so she takes him home and cares for him. When Violet Laurens is accosted on the road by thieves, a handsome stranger comes to her rescue. A dissolute Marquess determined not to marry. So can this be my goal in life? Thanks, but no thanks! I don't (want to) care what do you think of me! Do I want to be popular? Popular with what? I am not an actress and I don't want to be, I am not a singer and I don't want to be, I am not a royalty and I don't want to be. 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