drew gooden video: The us governments obsession with integrating ai into every facet of our daily lives is going to bring about the collapse of society if we don’t get of our ass and start taking action

This is not metaphorical. I mean actual, literal pieces of paper/plastic/metal/whatever explicitly erected to inform the public.

“How did you know this was the right trail?” I read the sign.

“Wow, how did you know what that flower is?” There’s a SIGN.

“How did you know we needed to use the side door?” THERE IS A SIGN POSTED ON THE FRONT DOOR.

Just…why are we having such different experiences of the world? People can read. I KNOW they can read. There’s nothing wrong with their vision.

Just. READ. THE. GOD. DAMN. SIGN.

This also applies to:

Syllabi

“To Make a Long Story Short”

Stephen Andrade’s wonderful pulp-style tribute to Clue (1985)

but i also remember how, even just a few years ago, it was SO hard for me to focus on getting through books at all. for like a solid ten years i struggled to read any books outside of what was assigned to me for class. and you know. even then. like my attention span was so shot that i couldn't make it more than a page or two at a time.

over the past four years i've really been working on that by setting incremental goals (10 books a year, then 25, then 50, and now 100). i wanted to share some of the tools & tricks that have been the most effective for me. since i'm constantly asking y'all to read some book or other, it felt like the right thing to do, lol.

if you've been through this process & have anything that really worked for you, feel free to add it in a reblog!

and if you want to get into reading with les misérables or dense nonfiction because that's what you're into, then that's awesome! more power to you! but also remember that it's fine to read books that have a "lower reading level" than what you feel like you should be reading at. reading middle grade or young adult fiction can be a great re-entry point if you haven't finished a book in a long time, and there are a lot of good books to be found in those genres even if you're not the target audience. when I started reading again as an adult I read a lot of middle grade fiction that I liked as a kid, which really helped build up my stamina and attention span for reading, before moving on to more "advanced" books.