Nick Roskelly

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Nick Roskelly has spent a career in frantic newsrooms and hushed magazine cubicle farms. Now, he writes and edits from a porch with a pink ceiling in Chicago.
DuolingoBoredByBaseball

Duolingo Thinks Baseball is Boring, and So Do You

It’s official. Baseball is boring. The Duolingo owl said so. During a recent lesson, it shared this opinion with me: No me gusta el béisbol porque es aburridísimo. I can honestly say that I’ve never felt so close to an animated bird of prey, possessed by an algorithm. But I wish it would have elaborated on what specifically about the…