• in libras libertas •

Sometimes you read a book, and it takes you months on false starts to get through the first chapter, and then you finish the rest in a week. Sometimes you read a book, and no matter how much you try, you just can't get into it. Sometimes you read a book, and it's an effortless joy from the beginning; you finish by the end of the day, and it feels the same as a whole day spent gaming. Sometimes you read a book, and from the first paragraph alone you start vibrating. You feel it. You feel yourself on a precipice, close to free fall. Should you take that step, you will come to three days later having remembered nothing about it save the exact words only on the pages you tore out and swallowed.

being vulnerable rn but i play a lot of horrible ipad baby slop games one of them being monopoly go which is partially a sticker collecting game and there's another app where u can trade the stickers and it just got hacked and now the app is sending hourly notifications with various messages begging people to not uninstall it

genuinely, from the bottom of my heart:

how are all the teenagers who complain about writing 500 words for homework going to get through college without AI

This is a FIXABLE problem, by the way!

The answer to 'how are they going to function' is, and I say this as someone whose mom was a social worker in Appalachia for 20 years: they're going to get scammed. They're going to be victims of fraud, scams, and exploitation, due to their low literacy making them easier targets for others. And then they're going to be unable to read and write well enough to advocate for themselves in a court of law or fight back in any meaningful way.