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今日は初めてフォトスタジオを借りて、写真撮影（しゃしんさつえい）をしました。
とても良いスペースで、大満足（だいまんぞく）☺️

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jīn tiān shì xīnɡ qī wǔ bɑ ？ 
今 天  是 星  期 五 吧 ？ 
shì de 。 
是 的 。 

zhè shì nǐ ér zi bɑ ？ 
这 是你儿子 吧 ？ 
bú shì ， shì wǒ ɡē ɡe de ér zi 。 
不 是 ， 是 我 哥 哥的 儿 子 。 

tā kě nénɡ bú qù rì běn le bɑ ？ 
她 可 能  不 去日 本 了吧 ？

JOJO CHINESE

吧ba：question and guess

Today we're talking about a piece of vocabulary that we can use to talk about simple solutions to complicated problems. I hope you find it useful!

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This solves everything!

If there is one valuable lesson about humility and personal development that I learned from the book of Ryan Holiday, "it is the fact that for you to improve, you have to accept the fact that you are not as good as you think."  TRAIN like a NEWBIE in everything.

FLO TALKS 

"You are NOT as GOOD as you think." (EGO IS THE ENEMY."

Like many other grandmothers, Daisy likes to knit, and she isn't very good with technology.

Or, at least, that's what she might tell people on the phone.

Daisy also describes herself as "your worst nightmare." But don't worry, she's not talking to you — she's talking to phone scammers.

That's because Daisy is actually an AI chatbot. She was created by UK phone company Virgin Media O2 to speak to scammers on the phone and make them believe they're talking to a real person.

Older people are very vulnerable to scams. In July, a UK study found that about 67% of people over the age of 75 were victims of at least one scam attempt in the six months before the study — with almost 75% being phone scams.

Enter Daisy, who has been trained to have conversations with phone scammers and waste their time.

Virgin Media O2 worked with Jim Browning, a YouTuber who has spent years "scambaiting" — that is, pretending to be a clueless victim to waste scammers' time.

And that's the whole point — Daisy can't stop scammers, but she can slow them down.

"Whenever she's on the phone with a scammer, your parents, your grandparents, your relatives, are not being scammed," Browning told Sky News.

The company says Daisy is already "wasting hundreds and hundreds of hours of scammers' time," and has shared real-life conversations the chatbot has had with scammers.

Some conversations last nearly an hour. She talks about her cat, Fluffy, and people in her family. In some conversations, she gives the scammers what they want — bank details. But of course, they're not real.

Murray Mackenzie from Virgin Media O2 said Daisy is also a reminder that the person you're speaking to on the phone might not always be who they say they are.

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Meet the AI Grandma Wasting Scammers' Time


EN LA ESCUELA HACEMOS MUCHAS ACTIVIDADES. UNAS NOS GUSTAN MÁS
QUE OTRAS. LAS QUE PEOR HACEMOS SON LAS QUE MENOS NOS GUSTAN.
EN ESTA LECTURA VERÁS LO QUE LE SUCEDIÓ A SOFÍA CON LA GIMNASIA.

Antes de comenzar la lectura

1. ¿Qué actividad de las que haces en la semana es la que más te gusta?

2. ¿Cuál es la que menos te gusta?

3. Adivina qué le ocurrió a Sofía con la gimnasia.

Presta atención a la lectura de tu profesor

A Sofía no se le da muy bien la gimnasia.

-LOS juegos de pelota son los que menos le gustan.

Casi todos los niños de la clase son más altos y más
 fuertes que ella. Y siempre lleva las de perder.

Cada vez que toca el balón, le gritan:

—Eres un desastre, Sofía.

Lo de ser un desastre a Sofía no le gusta nada.

Así que trama algo.

Antes de la clase de gimnasia se acerca a la señora Ana, que
es la profesora, le enseña la pierna, más bien flaca, y le dice:

-No puedo jugar. Me duele aquí.

-¿Te duele mucho? —le pregunta la señora Ana.

Sofía dice que si con la cabeza, la mar de convencida.

—Entonces será mejor que te quedes en el banquillo.

Sofía está encantada de lo bien que le ha salido.

Y desde entonces, a la hora de gimnasia, suele dolerle la pierna.

Pero la señora Ana no se lo ha creído del todo.