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Success at work!
Vocabulary to help your career.  
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Confusing words  (A2 - Elementary)

Lego -short story. I read a story about Legos that I created on ChatGPT.

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Lego - short story

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.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Meet the AI Grandma Wasting Scammers' Time

日本の卒業シーズンについてお話ししました😊

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Analysis of the cultural, social and linguistic content, of the text of the song

SOLO MUSICA ITALIANA  PODCAST

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げんきのごい

＃0-0あいさつGreetings

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Today we're talking about the words success, succeed, and successful. We're discussing some common mistakes and how we use the different forms of this word.

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This podcast is really successful

Lilí Ledí.

A casi 40 años de la extinción de la fábrica Lilí Ledy es considerada una fábrica de culto en el mundo del juguete.

En 1977 los mexicanos estaban vueltos locos luego de ver la primera película de la Guerra de las galaxias. Niños, adolescentes y adultos de México querían tener cuanto antes los juguetes de la cinta de George Lucas, lo cual resultaba imposible si no se tenía un pariente en Estados Unidos o el presupuesto para viajar a ese país. Por fortuna, la fábrica mexicana de juguetes Lilí Ledy entró al rescate.

Hicieron un trato con sus colegas estadounidenses de Kenner Products para que les pasaran derechos, moldes de naves y figuras de acción de Star Wars a fin de fabricarlas en territorio nacional, y así ocurrió. El resultado fue que miles de chicos y grandes de Tijuana hasta Yucatán pudieron acceder a los juguetes de la saga intergaláctica a un buen precio y a una competitiva calidad.

Pero ésta no era la primera hazaña de Lilí Ledy, pues antes ya había hecho historia lanzado sus exitosas muñecas Belinda Lilí, Rosalinda Lilí, Carolinda Lilí y Leonora Lilí que operaban con mini discos alojados en su médula espinal que hacían posible que hablaran. La compañía patentó este sistema, lo que no evitó que unos jugueteros italianos lo copiaran bajo el nombre “Ozen” y lo implementaran para sus muñecas Sebino. 

Otro éxito para la compañía mexicana fue el lanzamiento de las sofisticadas muñecas Barbara y Señorita Lilí, una copia de las Barbie que habían dejado de venderse en México por un rompimiento de contrato por parte de Mattel. Se trató de otros los rescates de Lilí Ledy para que la infancia mexicana tuviera acceso a un juguete de moda en los Estados Unidos.   

A la par la compañía mexicana produjo el Horno Mágico Lilí Ledy, que con ayuda de un foco en su interior podía hornear pasteles hechos con harina Pronto.

Y antes, en 1966, fabricaron en territorio nacional un juguete que permitía crear a pluma figuras geométricas irreales...