Brief Diversions

cats and chaos || she/her

[shondratasha]

Another Reindeer on 32ct opalescent stitched with Fox and Pirate Noel, classic colorworks Ruby Slipper, classic colorworks Queen Bee and Anchor 245. Pattern by ScreamingHeartDesigns.

[stealingpotatoes]

wishing all christmas-celebrating cat owners a very Good Luck with keeping your tree upright <3

[kaijuno]

[maliusaidh]

[joytri]

[monstrousliarstold]

[wintercorrybriea]

beco+18

[only-cat-memes]

[pubby-pupperoni]

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

[redsixwing]

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.

[emwheezie]

Gamer cats

[may12324]

The Main six Baldur's Gate Companions

[yuumei-art]

From autumn 🍂 to winter ❄️

[fixing-bad-posts]

🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈

[stillbitteraboutsusanpevensie]

the passive voice is doing so much lifting in the Somerton apology video that it'll be hot enough to send Americans running off to war soon

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[thjazispixie]

FINALLY some good fucking feature ideas from the tumblr devs. tamagotchi renaissance now

[89cats]

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