*72 percent* of teens say they have turned to AI for companionship at least once. Read that again: 72 percent. Half use it a few times a month. HALF! 13 percent say *every day.*
A third use LLMs "conversation practice, emotional support, role-playing, friendship, or romantic interactions.” /10
Some good news for a change www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's a nice thing to see that your jr high crush has grown up into a good person, but also that they look exhausting, so maybe the Universe knew what it was doing that they didn't know you existed. 😅
Funny enough, when we fantasize about moving to Vancouver, it's to the blue areas. The pink ones are not even under consideration.
Reading a really good self-published novel about Spain in the aftermath of the death of Franco.
You know. For no reason.
(It's THE CARDBOARD KING by Chris Atkins, and we got an Early Reviewer copy from @librarything.com!)
#BookSky
Damn, and I thought my birth control was expensive.
Rubio is very excited about this, while also completely blind to the fact that he will be the next head handed to the mob.
Ana Marie Cox
Well, time to log on and see what horrible things happened while I was sleeping…
This part of the book is... unexpectedly hard.
I really need to take a walk to work through how to handle it, but Montreal has decided to have a monsoon today, so sitting with a hot tea and staring into space will have to do. #writing
tear down your steve jobs posters, internalize the fact that getting hyped about the new gadget is cringe, sell your elon musk company stock, and let's get on with life
