https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/14/grok-is-unpromptedly-telling-x-users-about-south-african-genocide/

I bet he totally got special access to go up to the crown or torch whenever he wanted.

Checkmate!

I firmly believe that everyone enjoys reading* most just haven’t found their books. That’s why there are spikes in reading around popular erotica like 50 shades, or smutty fantasy, or book release parties for the Harry Potter books etc…

*- for definitions of reading that aren’t strictly processing printed words on a physical page.

I could be wrong, but this seems problematic…

This is why I’ve started reading one book, listening to a different audio book in my right earbud and streaming someone doing a YouTube read a loud in the other Earbud. Burning through that TBR…

This was in Minneapolis earlier this year and the demand was through the roof.

https://northloop.org/event/book-fair-for-adults/

They also don’t produce it either apparently.

That was what I was referring to. I was being a bit hyperbolic, but a year in national service (beyond just the military) to do community service and gain skills in general not a new proposal. Pete Buttigieg suggested it after HS as part of his candidacy during the 2020 democratic primary.

That’s fair. In my district your insurance is covered if you qualify for assistance, but intentional damage isn’t included in insurance.

In my school we will still replace the Chromebook though (barring admin or district saying otherwise), and the financial impact will be fought by others at the district level. It’s above my pay grade.

Yes they are. These 9th graders are feral though. That realization would require forethought.

Some of these kids should have been sent out to cut trail for a year between HS and Middle School.

Hoffstetter has been on fire lately. He’s a fun follow.

Yore thinking of a feeling of sadness, I think the word you’re thinking of is Melania.

Chicago Pope proclaims he’s “on a mission from God”, looking to “get the band back together.”

The late 90’s to early 2000s were a terrible time on the internet in many ways and yet in may others it was the best of times.

Can we just pick up and move King’s Island and Cedar Point somewhere better?

Sadly I fully expect to hear that parroted from family soon.

An older acronym for the same thing, BSABSVR

Both Sides Are Bad So Vote Republican.

Though I tend to skew more towards her fantasy than her horror, T. Kingfisher is one of my favorite authors that I’ve just discovered more recently

I have the same struggle. By the time I hit my flow, the story is over and now I have to start over.

The challenge with LitRPG is the same challenge with fanfic. They are written and just put out into the aether for fans. The good ones are most often from people who are experienced writers and used to dealing with power creep and resisting putting in every joke or reference you can think of.

My favorites are Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinnmann and This Trilogy is Broken by JP Valentine. Ready Player By Ernest Cline is mostly 70s-80s reference fan service but mostly holds up. There are some from the 70s and 80s that are prototypical of the genre where people enter some sort of VR like Tron or their D&D setting and some of those are solid. He Who Fights with Monsters gets a bunch of recommendations typically but it struggles as time goes on.

So far I’ve enjoyed all of Novik’s works that I’ve read.