Strange message,

Let’s just say we’re experimenting with silence,” a spokesperson for Duolingo told Fast Company over email. “Sometimes, the best way to make noise is to disappear first."

Duolingo is run by fucking idiots.

Yep

Microsoft has no soul. I’m going to guess that Google will follow suit. There is no class solidarity quite like corporate class solidarity. Fuck all these companies.

Wow, I’m shocked. /s

Oh no, anyway…

Every technological innovation has been described this way in recent history. Some think it utopic navel gazing. The reality is that until capitalism is seriously reigned in, or eliminated, this sort of thinking can never be true.

That said, I agree that AI is a tool for capitalism, it simply will not exist without it. It takes gigantic for profit server farms to function, farms run by big corporate entities with shareholders to appease.

(I read the content of the post)

The dual motor was originally announced to be US$39,900, not 50,000. It is lies all the way down at Tesla.

Great point. There’s a reason that boomers are intractably captured by Facebook.

No I mean them buying a seat at Trump’s inauguration, rolling back DEI commitments / departments, ushering in AI to lay off thousands, and all the privacy / security issues they already do.

Meta helped fuck over the global economy. Why does Meta think anyone cares about their fucking AR spy glasses at a time when severe global recession is expected to hit?

HarmonyOS is not AOSP anymore. It does not run Android apps anymore.

I run that already with CalyxOS. I dig it.

Before anyone gets too excited, the headline is clickbait. The bigger Chinese phone brands are looking into de-googled Android. They are still going to use Android.

several prominent Chinese smartphone manufacturers, including Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and OnePlus, are exploring the possibility of developing versions of the Android operating system that do not rely on Google Mobile Services.

Chinese laptop makers are also in search of an OS that isn’t Windows. Queue a race to prop Linux with Android support on that side of things.

“Research” in want of a conclusion, at least from the article’s perspective. Card stacking fallacy at work.

Call centers have been axed or trimmed at many places, including IKEA, Duolingo, Best Buy, etc. Who wrote this, the Wizard of Oz?

Edit: The research stems from Chicago School of Business and not in an economic or rigorously scientific field. Funding came in part from a “Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence” and a “Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation”.

Take those as you may.

What a douche.

Kei cars are illegal to purchase in certain states because of the comparitave danger they face due to the size of other vehicles.

States include: Georgia, Maine, New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Michigan.

Gigantic vehicles should be outlawed, not these.

It is always a stock market manipulation grift.