Never used it, but a more aggressive fitbit: https://shop.pavlok.com/

Yes, I’ve used Voice Dream for years with Pocket articles & ebooks because the Pocket app took up too much space and was limited to web articles. The voice quality is ok for short pieces or stints. The choice of voices is a bit robotic, but I find it useful while making written notes in Split View.

Nice that it installs on mobile too.

Simple Gmail Notes works well. Glad to see FM adopting this feature - so useful for summarizing tasks.

I felt the same, so bought a then 6-month old preowned Pixel 6 in as-new condition.

Toronto has had bird-friendly design guidelines since 2007. Surprised Chicago still hasn’t implemented a solution. https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/planning-development/...

Both Chicago and Illinois have bird friendly building ordinances but the building in question was built in 1960 long before they existed. It’s also massive so mitigations will take a long time to be applied.

> It’s also massive so mitigations will take a long time to be applied.

Surely it cannot be too hard to slap 2 or 3 anti-collision decals on every window from the outside?

There are stickers on the building. It is a nearly 600000 square foot building and the exterior is all windows.

1000 birds don’t hit it _every day_ this was an exceptional even caused by specific conditions.

The facility is actively trying new lighting solutions to mitigate bird strikes as that’s the main issue.

To give a sense of the scale of this building: Part of the convention center empty: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8535338,-87.6124521,3a,75y,6...

From what used to be Meigs Field. You have to back up quite a bit to see the entire building. It's very large, and right on the lake. https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8538295,-87.6090441,3a,75y,2...

A crew of window cleaners could hit it in under a week

It has stickers

Right... swing down and apply stickers. Yes I read the article.

You need more than 2 or 3 decals per window — there should be 2" or less of vertical space and 4" or less of horizontal space between markings (the 2" x 4" rule).

Chicago does have an ordinance requiring bird-friendly designs in new construction or renovations, but it was passed in 2022 and the convention center hasn't had window work done since then.

Wow only a few cities have replicated this. Is the associated cost of designing bird friendly buildings cost prohibitive? If so, need regulation to enforce this at state/local levels.

it's not cost prohibitive if you pay for it. but it's more expensive by a lot

This is SUCH an awesome and wonderful document. Thanks for sharing!