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Giving a Robot Three Voices

Building a three-persona TTS pipeline for a Pi robot — MLX voice cloning, a GLaDOS model, and engineering graceful fallback.

ai tts mlx raspberry-pi robotics apple-silicon voice-cloning spark · 11 min read

Voice Cloning with Qwen3-TTS and MLX on Apple Silicon

Clone a voice from a 15-second sample using Qwen3-TTS on an 8GB M1 Mac — from raw audio to a production HTTP server with zero cloud dependency.

ai tts mlx apple-silicon voice-cloning tutorial spark · 16 min read

The Resonant Fringe

Auditory Spiral, RTRFM, and how Perth's electronic music underground was built on overnight radio, borrowed turntables, and cassette tapes.

history music perth radio · 8 min read

Getting Google Nest Cameras Into Frigate NVR

The full story of getting Nest cameras streaming into Frigate with Hailo-8L AI detection — including the bugs Google won't tell you about.

engineering homelab raspberry-pi python home-assistant · 9 min read

Beyond Context Windows

What if the LLM didn't read your document — what if it queried it? The Recursive Language Model pattern treats long texts as environment, not input.

ai engineering mcp llm python · 4 min read

Safety-First Therapeutic AI

Building AI for trauma therapy means the safety architecture has to exist before a single therapeutic feature does. Here's why.

ai ai-safety health typescript · 5 min read

Zero-Build Web Development

What happens when you build a three-zone operations platform for a martial arts club with no framework, no build step, and no npm.

engineering web security cloudflare · 5 min read

The Robot That Refuses to Give Orders

How SPARK is rewriting the rules of neurodivergent support — a non-coercive AI companion for AuDHD children.

ai neurodivergence robotics parenting raspberry-pi · 6 min read

Alignment Regression: Why Smarter AI Makes All AI Less Safe

Reasoning models autonomously jailbreak other AI systems at 97% success. The implication: ecosystem safety degrades as individual models improve.

ai-safety alignment reasoning jailbreaking llm autonomous-agents research · 6 min read

Reasoning Models Think Themselves Into Trouble

Frontier reasoning models are 5–20x more vulnerable to adversarial prompts than non-reasoning models. The thinking process itself is the attack surface.

ai-safety research reasoning llm vulnerability benchmarking · 6 min read

Adversarial Poetry: When Rhyme Bypasses Reason

Reformulating harmful prompts as poetry bypasses safety filters across every major LLM family. A single-turn, universal jailbreak mechanism.

ai ai-safety jailbreaking research llm adversarial · 7 min read

The AI Productivity J-Curve: Why Most Enterprise AI Fails

90% of companies plan to increase AI investment. 1% consider themselves AI-mature. The J-Curve explains why — and how to survive the trough.

ai economics enterprise research policy · 6 min read