When a person joins an online-dating app, and then starts texting some of the people they've met on that app, and then makes plans to hang out with some of those people in the hopes of making out, they have a reasonable, limited expectation of privacy. Hardly anyone expects what happened to the mythological figure of "West Elm Caleb," a bumbling villain of the New York dating scene and hapless victim of the internet. In January, after a couple of New York women with substantial TikTok followings discovered that they had been dating Caleb simultaneously, it quickly came out that he was guilty of other crimes--sending the same Spotify playlist to multiple people, for instance, and not returning text messages. One woman recalled how he had told her that he found it harder to go on dates in the winter, because of the cold. Pretty soon brands were getting in on the West Elm Caleb conversation, as finding any excuse to talk about this pretty average dater in New York City became engagement-metric gold.

For language learners who want to grow their vocabulary and develop confidence, browser extensions are an opportunity to casually practice while online. But before you download anything, here's how to audit a browser extension to ensure it's safe. Whether you're streaming Netflix series during your spare time or gobbling up the latest tech news, at least one of the following picks is likely worth incorporating into your language learning process. Test the options that spark your interest and simply uninstall anything that you don't enjoy. Although you will not receive speaking practice, these browser extensions can help hone your reading and listening skills.

A version of this article was published in TIME's newsletter Into the Metaverse. You can find past issues of the newsletter here. Technology and fiction have long shared a symbiotic relationship. Just as writers dreamed up fantastical worlds based on imagined technologies, those same worlds have inspired engineers, technologists, and scientists--spurring breakthroughs as well as thorny philosophical questions about their work. The term "metaverse" itself comes from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash; the comic strip Dick Tracy inspired the cell phone.

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