Back in 2011, I drew me, and Orv, and also us plus @animatronikki.bsky.social, as kangaroos. For no particular reason. Somehow it came up the other day. In both drawings I am the kangaroo on the right.
if this Duolingo news is annoying to you, check and see if your local public library offers something comparable. Mango Languages is pretty great and there’s Rosetta Stone and Pronunciator as well we pay a lot for these resources and they are often grossly underused!
In between bites of al pastor tacos and sips of a margarita, Duolingo billionaire Luis von Ahn talks about how AI will make some jobs disappear. “It’s a tough situation that'll affect the poor, the less educated. And not just in the U.S., but in poor countries.” Free: archive.ph/2024.09.24-1...
Duolingo’s Guatemalan Immigrant Founder Luis von Ahn Is Now A Billionaire
It's like feeding a hallucination to the victim. And then what? Do you pay a subscription fee to keep your relative alive? Will they put ads in their speech? Will they discontinue your relative just like other apps?
Anyone who says they want to see the “complete and total eradication of grief” vastly overrates what bots will be able to do but also speaks to how tech solutionists misunderstand what it means to exist in the world. A hollow amalgam of a loved one’s utterances can never replace what is lost.
Tech entrepreneur Justin Harrison is on a mission to fundamentally change how we experience loss, using artificial intelligence to recreate the essence of dead loved ones from their digital footprint....
Just a reminder for folks who may not know - Inktober is a trademarked brand and using it promotes a person who has some some shady things to other artists. Not saying don’t do it, but be careful with it, and if you sell your art or sketchbooks, make sure you don’t use Inktober in your listings.
