I remember during the AIDS crisis health workers starteed to use the phrase “Men who have Sex with Men” in their education outreach partly because a significant number of these men did not self-identify as gay or bi.

It’s in the past tense though; we don’t have to assume it was now-ish.

(I want to believe!)

They were just examples. My point is that novellas can be just as good as full length books!

You are very very fast!

I encourage you to read more novellas! Some really great writing is in them. For example One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Metamorphosis, Animal Farm, I Am Legend, War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, Ah Q, Heart of Darkness, A Clockwork Orange, The Third Man, and many many non-famous ones, like ZOMBIE by Joyce Carol Oates.

I find this attitude chilling.

I am by no means a speed reader, but even I think 238 words a minute is painfully slow!

There are too many alarming assumptions in your scenario.

Given their claim I would assume @Treczoks@lemmy.world will have a much faster reading speed.

Their collection quite likely contains shorter genres (novellas, plays, poetry) and might also contain fast reads (trashy fiction, collections they were published in themselves and skim read the rest to be polite, etc).

True!

Thank you so much for this!!!

For those of us who do skip the AI summaries it’s the equivalent of adding an extra click to everything.

I would support optional AI, but having to physically scroll past random LLM nonsense all the time feels like the internet is being infested by something equally annoying/useless as ads, and we don’t even have a blocker for it.

I agree with this.

It’s going to require DNA samples in my lifetime.

Christoph Waltz is so charming though! I would totally agree to meet his bees.

That last picture is so adorable. What a cute face!

Me. I needed to hear this.

Thanks!

Yeah, that was a real missed opportunity by whoever took the original photo!

Sort of but I think influence over emotional states is understating it and just the tip of the iceberg. It also made it sound passive and accidental. The real problem will be overt control as a logical extension to the kinds of trade offs we already see people make about, for example data privacy. With the Replika fiasco I bet heaps of those people would have paid good money to get their virtual love interests de-“lobotomized”.

Thanks!

Trouble is your statement was in answer to @morrowind@lemmy.ml’s comment that labeling lonely people as losers is problematic.

Also it still looks like you think people can only be lonely as a consequence of their own mistakes? Serious illness, neurodivergence, trauma, refugee status etc can all produce similar effects of loneliness in people who did nothing to “cause” it.

And Hastalavista if you wanted to find things that Altavista didn’t.