I wanna have a witty line about "haha the economy will NEVER recover at this rate" but it's not funny?

Hi banks! Hi financial apps! You have literally one job! TF are we keeping you around for if you're not doing it?

I don't think I ever saw any marketing for it. I remember seeing a couple journos responding to a press release with complete disinterest and disdain, but otherwise I didn't even know it came out.

Amazon keep trying to sell me cat scratching posts I ALREADY OWN on Twitch, but not their own games!?

A concurrent player count of 100,000? For something not part of an established series? Advertised on a youtube channel mostly watched by tweens aka people who don't have their own money, and has had a few unsuccessful business ventures beyond his primary grift? In what world?!

yeah I also have literally zero awareness of this. it sounds very much like they did have just completely nonsensical assumptions about where to find an audience

P.S. Cockroach is an unofficial mascot of the province because Cantonese cockroaches are big, fat, and can fly. The absolute terror is lovingly referred to as "Cantonese Twin Tails"

...where it absolutely EXPLODED in popularity with Boomer children and suddenly it was the most popular genre EVER again for another 30+ years, defying all logic of historic frame-of-reference.

Sometimes a single thing is in the right spot.

There is really no pedagogical explanation for this activity. Why not have the student draw an image themselves? I really hate how tech has been added unnecessarily to so many aspects of education - with no real consideration of its value.

Three important facts about this: 1) LAUSD’s own policy states that students under 13 are not allowed to use gen AI tools, and yet they have enabled access on student devices, 2) If you ask which AI tools are being used and how they’re vetted, they won’t tell you, and 3) Parents can’t opt out.