Hello folks,

A safety engineer at Anthropic just stepped down over ethical concerns (among other things). This reminded me of an article I read about their AI using blackmail and attempted murder to stay live in studies done by the company. I’m wondering if anyone may know of a good article about this issue.

Also, feel free to drop book recs about AI ethics and safety that are accessible.

Back in 2018/2019, I started my TBR list. I have not fully transferred my TBR over to Pagebound, and honestly, I dont think I will because on here, I have 30 (off the top of my head), whilst on Goodreads, its over 2000. It's just easier to plan over here and looks neater, lol. My physical TBR is probably around 100, and I've sworn off buying more than 12 books this year (one for each month). So far, I've only bought one. How big is your TBR, and have you ever decided culled some of it, or just let it grow? I cannot for the life of me cull any of mine 💔 I love reading everything!

Since I know book people tend to like tracking statistics. Does anyone have any spreadsheets or notion databases that they recommend? What is is something that you love tracking?

I tried checking the roadmap but I honestly find it difficult to find specific information.

I love this app but I find it frustrating that I can't have discussions or chats with folks I follow and who follow me.

I know the Discussions exist, but sometimes I just want to let my moots know something book related ie like the cool new book I just bought, that I'm not wanting to announce to the entire site.

Will there be something added to our feeds or pages that will allow for this in the future?

Thanks 🙂

I’m feeling very meh about this book so far. The description made it sound much cooler and action packed than what it actually is: a romantasy. It also feels very juvenile, almost like it should have been a YA book. I think my expectations were just not at the right place from the summary.

“I was about to marry an honest-to-goodness alien fucking cowboy.”

Girl no need to brag. Some of us can only dream 😩

I know I’ve seen posts occasionally about books people absolutely hate not just not like but I was thinking wouldn’t it be interesting if along with the Your Taste books there was Your Hate books category you could easily see if someone matches you there.

I’m not saying it should be a feature exactly I’m saying that I have definitely decided to follow someone if they hate a book I hate but it takes a little digging AND I know some people have started their shelves here from scratch so maybe the books you hated wouldn’t even be on your reviews or DNF shelf! Tragic

This came about because I was randomly talking about Divergent with someone and I remembered how much I despised the ending but like most super popular books it has tons of fans of course so I rarely have a conversation with someone who also was not a fan.

Like most I have many factors to following someone not just exact matching books tastes so this is just another criteria to consider.

If you’re a book lover you are also a book hater at some point!

hello🤗 while reading tonight i got curious and wanted to check if my kobo ereader was spot on with its prediction on how much time it would take me to finish my book… so i set up my little timer and said why not check this function out!

(for context its my first time having an ereader and this function is so funny to me because i’ve never thought to calculate my reading speed or pages per minute because im usually a slow reader🐌)

it said 3.4h hours for approximately 319 pages (counting the acknowledgments and all the back ads and so on and so forth)

🥁🥁🥁

ive made it in 2.55h (skipping the back ads and about the author and publisher pages)!! so i guess it was pretty spot on⭐️

have you ever tried to check out yours or am the only crazy one lol? feel free to share🩵