One of my close friends is in medical school and she was telling me how she uses ChatGPT to write all her emails and just for fun like guessing her favourite clothing brand. And I'm like bro not only is that bad for your brain but it's also so harmful to the environment. Her response was oh haha you would hate my classmates and I was like you guys are future doctors and she got annoyed with me.

I feel like AI is being shoved down our throats. Every single app nowadays seems to have an AI feature, everyone I know uses it for the most basic tasks. And sometimes I just want to scream and be like USE YOUR BRAIN THIS ISN'T A DIFFICULT TASK JUST THINK.

I love how Pagebound is so anti-AI. It feels like one of the last spots on the Internet that's AI free. I get that AI may have some useful applications but I genuinely just feel like it's a can of worms that we should never have opened. I feel like people don't think critically anymore and just be like, "Oh I'll ask chat". So I love how Pagebound is just real humans sharing their thoughts. I love how this app always promises to be strictly anti-AI which again is getting to be quite a rarity nowadays.

so i’ve realized as of late that a character type i find incredibly compelling is that of a character who has a pure obsession with an achievement/goal, to the point where they will do almost anything to achieve it. couple examples are the book To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage (main character is obsessed with the goal of becoming an astronaut) and the documentary Free Solo (about free-solo climber Alex Honnold and his quest to climb El Capitan). would love to know what books you guys can recommend that have characters/plotlines like this!! thank you!! (both fiction and non-fiction is fine with me)

Does this progressively get more unhinged?? 15% in and I’m convinced June is incredibly unwell