A streak where you actually learn every day makes sense to me. Missing a day and then paying money to maintain your streak doesn't. I know I missed a day, and if the streak isn't for me, then who is it for?
The thing is... when you're actually learning, the learning itself provides the dopamine hits generating a positive feedback loop to keep coming back and doing more learning.
Gamification of the streak itself means its wholly unnecessary for the app to facilitate learning to produce engagement.
Duolingo is the junk food of language learning. Always has been.
I am posting an article that states there was disenfranchisement on a scale large enough to tip the election. You can find other sources than just this article.
Yeah I don't get why so many people are willing to believe conspiracy theories when the actual theory that many people in this country just have shit for brains is much more persuasive.
On my feed I get AI-generated pictures of castles and houses in the woods. There are enough real places where we don't need to make stuff up. Makes me feel bad, actually.
Yes. I also got fake airplanes and way too long Wikipedia summaries of random things. It seems to me that there are really only a handful of outfits that really have the Facebook algorithm over their knee. It seems like the sort of thing that content moderators should be able to combat, but Facebook has just sort of given up.
What's the difference between a screen reader and this guys show hn script? If he were releasing it as a paid podcast feed or something I might take offense, but it seems just like a screen reader to me that blind people might use.
Right when covid started I drove around Austin to pick something up. There were hardly any cars on the road and the air looked pristine after several days of people mostly staying at home.
Immediately followig 9/11 in the US, there were a number of atmospheric scientists that were able to conduct studies for the first time without jet con-trails in the air.
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