Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.

Bleats

IMO, it raises the question of how useful are executives?

These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art

"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!" "no problem boss. i'm on it"

The sheer number of ads touting AI tells you how fucked and over-leveraged these companies are. You don't spend this much on marketing a thing you called "inevitable" unless you are seriously underwater and it ain't inevitable

you better watch out You better watch out You Better Watch Out 𝘠𝘖𝘜 𝘉𝘌𝘛𝘛𝘌𝘙 𝘞𝘈𝘛𝘊𝘏 𝘖𝘜𝘛 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝘽𝙀𝙏𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙒𝘼𝙏𝘾𝙃 𝙊𝙐𝙏 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗕𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛 𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇 𝐎𝐔𝐓 《根据中华人民共和国相关法律法规，强烈建议谨慎行事》

Spoke to a number of devs about how, in the face of CEOs claiming gen-AI is the future, their declaration of being genAI free is making waves.

A triptych by @thene.bsky.social that i am calling "La Framboise"

My wife is an absolute smokeshow and it's unreasonable that I just have to put up with this all the time.

Alie got to go out and see a bunch of her friends and walk around for miles yesterday and now she doesn't understand why we can't do that every day.

Ada-1 #destiny2art #ada1 #destiny2

BREAKING: Elon Musk Begs His Mom to Fight Joyce Carol Oates

Doggo Dream Time.

do we know who, or is this some kinda willy wonka situation

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

So the streamer Ludwig recently found out that one of his earliest regular viewers, who was trans, passed away and tonight he's doing a charity stream for the Trevor Project. So far he's raised over $46,000 in about 5 hours. www.twitch.tv/ludwig

Me: Eh, I dont need to play Marvel Rivals. Too many games already. Marvel Rivals: But have you considered Gambit and Rogue??? Me: God damnit. I am a child of the late 80s/early 90s.

From czech.hunter.schafer on IG

lol

I think they're spooked. Out of no where today my YouTube algorithm has gone *extremely* 'Hey, wanna see some transphobia? Its so funny!!!'

inspired by @dialacina.com

Lol, get rekt fascists

Postcoloniality is a bitch

Happy Andrew Cuomo Moving To Florida Eve to all who celebrate

I will point out both my 80 something conservative Roman Catholic parents explicitly said "Because she fights Trump" when I asked about their support for her.

be pug-ressive 🇺🇸 be, be pug-ressive 🇺🇸

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Once more, for old times’ sake

♥️🍎

Bluesky rn

I love how the most universally-despised people in the world were like "we full-throatedly endorse this race-baiting rapist" and "don't vote for brown guy or we'll leave the city!" & now establishment Dems are panic-pretending this isn't also a clear referendum on their shriveled up quisling asses.

*hits refresh like he's pulling a slot machine* Come on Good News, Daddy needs another hit.

LMAOOOOO

The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!

you can win without billionaires supporting you you can win without party leadership endorsing you you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to

Hearing MSNBC say that you couldn't run Mamdani anywhere other than NYC because it's "cosmopolitan" is so frustrating. He could win in Chicago. He could win in Portland. He could win in LA. Bernie, AOC, and Elizabeth Warren are very popular among Democrats across the nation. Move to the left!

"giving people something to vote for instead of against" is like the #1 rule of successful electoral campaigning and yet, AND YET

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

Put this one on upset watch. This is a Trump +20 district.

paramount hates fun and purged the daily show archives so here's the part where jon stewart reports dick cheney shooting a guy in the face

Pope Leo is doing Catholicism the wrong way. by Ezra Klein

Holy fuck

Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't. Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.