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After many months of injuries, he’s finally back! 😌🏆

Queer kids deserve to become queer adults. Nex deserved a life full of joy, not a hateful death. Say their name. Their death wasn't just caused by a couple bullies, they were killed by a system that's determined to protect ideology instead of real human lives. Where are all the conservatives who "just want to protect children" now? Don't forget Nex. Don't let anyone forget them.

Rotterdam | 15 years ago | Rafael Nadal vs Grigor Dimitrov

DICE ONEW (2022)

@nechethebrand

Brown Barbie 💅🏾🎀

AVANTIKA VANDANAPU photographed by Bea Oyster for Teen Vogue — January 2024

Fun fact: this blog was originally for Chinese and Russian. I don’t study Russian anymore (and have mostly forgotten it), but I’ll always remember a phrase my teacher taught us: понедельник – день тяжелый (ponedel'nik – den' tyazhelyy).

It means “Monday is a hard day,” and I think about it almost every Monday 😖

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Heads up to not use Duolingo or to cease using it

In December 2023 they laid off a huge percentage of their translation teams, replacing them with ai and having the remaining members review the ai translations to make sure the translations are “acceptable” (Note how they use the world acceptable and not accurate)

Link to the tweet that informed me of this:

https://x.com/rahll/status/1744234385891594380?s=46&t=a5vK0RLlkgqk-CTqc0Gvvw

If you’re a current user prepare for an uptick in translations errors as I’ve already seen people in the comments say they’ve noticed

Duolingo has been shifting toward AI since last September according to their blog.

https://blog.duolingo.com/how-duolingo-experts-work-with-ai/

The rate of mispronounced words (mostly on/kun substitutions in Japanese) has gone dramatically up in my lessons, and I'm willing to bet this is why.

Grec Johnz by Amer Mohamed for Hapers Bazaar Arabia Magazine December 2023