utarzan
utarzan
@utarzan.bsky.social
Currently unemployed linguist (psycholinguistics, interested in readers’ morphosyntactic processing) who loves dancing, paper crafts, vegan food, and trying/failing to learn languages. Still covid-cautious & masking.
I remember that from Google+ years ago.
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Zoom is a large venue 🤷‍♀️
August 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
In this picture he’s holding the “Not judging your grammar, just analyzing it” coffee mug I gave him. He’d be tickled that the angle of the photo makes the printed text end in “anal.”
May 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Reposted by utarzan
I practice five languages on Duolingo, but I won't be renewing my family subscription. I don't want to hang on as another service becomes enshittified.

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Enshittification at Duolingo: Despite explosive growth in paid subscriptions CEO Luis von Anh announced "the company will start to phase out contractors for work that can be handled by AI".

The cracks are already showing. I won't be renewing my family subscription.

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Duolingo CEO says company will replace contractors with AI
Luis von Ahn said this was to overcome human limitations in creating the “massive amount of content.”
www.morningbrew.com
May 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“…and our employees.”
May 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Will the conference be accessible online?
April 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Any friend of Haj is a friend of mine! Thanks for pointing me to this series.
April 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM