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I worked on my audio book converter a little bit. I realized I could easily add transcription via whisper, and that was pretty easy to set up. This then let me build an EPUB file, which was ALSO really cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, whisper doesn’t handle things like paragraph breaks or quotation marks (which is how it’s supposed to work, so fair), which made the resulting EPUB file not really readable. I played around with pumping the output into an LLM to update the text, but the results were unreliable enough for me to think it’s not really a viable path forward. Still fun to play with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What I’ve been reading<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/jacobin.com\/2025\/10\/bankification-financialization-debt-interest-credit<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hooray! More banks and less regulation! I can’t think of any way this can go poorly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/bigthink.com\/the-future\/the-great-progression-china\/?ref=feedle.world<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is another good post in an interesting series. I appreciate the optimism, even if I don’t 100% share it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/billmckibben.substack.com\/p\/something-extraordinary-just-happened<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Good news for a change! Mostly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/buttondown.com\/blog\/rss-vs-ice<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Great deep dive into some RSS history that I was unaware of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2025\/Oct\/7\/vibe-engineering<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Interesting definition. We’re still too early along to have much of a shared vocabulary, and trying to define things is good. That lets us have meaningful conversations about the topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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