more αἰὼν; less λóγος // #occultism // #TTRPG #fatecore ~ #ctd / #c20 // Santiago, Chile
The fire that is time Borges warned you about.
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| Fr. B52 DK | αἰὼν παῖς ἐστι παίζων, πεσσεύων· παιδὸς ἡ βασιληίη |
The more skillful I become at reading, the more I want to just keep reading.
I enjoyed reading as a kid because it gave me some privacy and a significant level of gravitas and prestige that were quite synergistic, but I didn't become a skillful reader until well into my adulthood and a couple of BA's in life.
Now my studies require me to become very adept at deriving information effectively in the shortest time possible. And now I want to read and read.
Curiositas is a hunger.
From 2015 to 2022, I spent hundreds of hours on Duolingo, translating articles, answering language questions on the forums, and helping to improve the smaller courses by reporting mistakes.
There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo: the course creators who wrote their courses, the volunteers who created grammar guides (some smaller languages had an entire second course in the forums), the wiki contributors, the native speakers who answered questions in the sentence discussions.
All of their work made Duolingo the powerhouse it is today. Duo was built by a community who believed in its original mission: language learning should be free and accessible.
Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company. And now that work is being fed into their AI as training data.
Well, I've learned the true lesson of Duolingo: never give a corporation your labour for free. Don't ever trust them, no matter what they say. Eventually greed will consume any good intentions.
Alison Creekside
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