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☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻“Judging by recent controversy around the gamified <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a>-learning app he co-founded, it is not just <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> that can misjudge communication. Last month, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/vonAhn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vonAhn</a> shared on LinkedIn an email he had sent to all staff announcing Duolingo was going “<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AIFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIFirst</a>”. “I did not expect the amount of blowback,” he admits.“Unbelievable,” wrote one LinkedIn commenter, “Cancelling my account NOW.” “Well, there goes my 1,098 day streak,” posted another.The chief executive says many social media users mischaracterised the changes as though “<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Duolingo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Duolingo</a> has no employees, we have fired everyone and everything is being controlled by a massive AI”.He attributes this anger to a general “<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/anxiety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anxiety</a>” about <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technology</a> replacing jobs. “I should have been more clear to the external world,” he reflects on a video call from his office in Pittsburgh. “Every <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> company is doing similar things [but] we were open about it.”A CEO who expresses *surprise* at a call for “AI-first” in a consumer application is an incompetent TechWeenie. <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LuisVonAhn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LuisVonAhn</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/WhiteCollar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteCollar</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Techweenie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Techweenie</a> <<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/6fbafbb6-bafe-484c-9af9-f0ffb589b447" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/6fbafbb6-bafe-484c-9af9-f0ffb589b447</a>> (paywall) / <<a href="https://archive.md/juvfL" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.md/juvfL</a>>

☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<a href="https://turtleisland.social/@Yehuda" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Yehuda</a> not unless Mum says yes 🤣“Musk's mother Maye <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> has chimed in to decry the idea of her precious son getting bruised by the jiu-jitsu white belt (read: beginner) <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zuckerberg</a>.”<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TechWeenie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechWeenie</a> <<a href="https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-mom-not-allowed-fight-mark-zuckerberg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-mom-not-allowed-fight-mark-zuckerberg</a>>

☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻Day 14 cont 🗣️🎙️📺 🇺🇸“Price was appointed to lead a government efficiency unit if the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Coalition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Coalition</a> government is elected after 3 May. The unit, which would sit within the prime minister’s department, has been compared to one led by US <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> billionaire Elon Musk (<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TechWeenie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechWeenie</a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Oligarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oligarch</a>), whose Department of Government <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Efficiency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Efficiency</a>, or Doge, is taking a razor to US government departments.“Let’s be very, very clear, media, you’re obsessed with Donald Trump 🎃. We’re not obsessed with Donald Trump. We’re actually obsessed with ensuring that we can improve the circumstances for <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Australians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australians</a>,” she said.”Devoid of any <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/policy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#policy</a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/analysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#analysis</a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/costing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#costing</a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ideas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideas</a> an LNP Senator makes a word salad of foreign phrases about making the “Bond market” sexy again, from a <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BowlingClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BowlingClub</a> on a Saturday in <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Perth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Perth</a>.Repeat the slogans, Repeat the slogans, Repeat the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/slogans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#slogans</a>. <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusPol</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LNP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LNP</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Liberal</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#propaganda</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/JacintaNampijinpaPrice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JacintaNampijinpaPrice</a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/indoctrination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indoctrination</a> <<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/12/jacinta-price-says-coalition-will-make-australia-great-again-then-accuses-media-of-being-obsessed-with-trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/12/jacinta-price-says-coalition-will-make-australia-great-again-then-accuses-media-of-being-obsessed-with-trump</a>

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