I hate what it’s done to our information ecosystem.

I feel like people must not know that it’s often incorrect- but I despair that maybe they just don’t care.

I am just a Librarian, despairing at how many people on Facebook are using screenshots of the Google AI overview to prove a point.

Nostalgia is rose tinted but I do yearn from time to time for the pre social media internet and wish my kids were growing up in a different technology landscape.

When I lived on Fogo Island you could rent movies at the gas station/tanning salon/restaurant with a bar in the back.

Another day, another round of "Am I filled with incandescent rage because of perimenopause or because of the increasing inequity and inhumanity of society"

A lot of money and marketing trying to convince us of it- it helps me to remember this even if it’s obvious!

Honestly have struggled with this my whole adult life so thank you for this.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Honestly love this experience for you.

If you're using AI for search, for "reading," for writing... then how exactly are you doing research?

What's the point of you?

Having totally normal feelings about the moon this week.

😂

The space news this week is really cool, but it has also reminded me that moon truthers and flat earthers exist and that just makes me so tired.

A large language model/image generator that falls under the umbrella of generative AI.

you actually shouldn’t be anything about Trans Visibility Day if you’re supporting J.K. Rowling and the new Harry Potter show.

the two are at odds, with one end funding to literally destroy the other.

🤷🏾‍♂️

I will always remember haha! That early training is still engrained. Also, I love a MESS mention!

You could read them instead of Harry Potter, just for the lols.

There are two huge HP fan fiction rewrites that are currently published and on the shelf at chapters, and if you’d told me a decade ago that Manacled would have been reworked and traditionally published I would not have believed you.

That’s on our list to read next!

Legitimately a great series!

I have not but I’m gonna now!

My oldest loved the Skandar books!

You could read literally anything by V.E. Schwab and that would be great.

I did really like Lev Grossman’s The Magicians when I read it, but I’m not sure if I would now but that’s also magic school for adults (with upsetting content).

This is in no way comprehensive so as I think of books I’ll drop them here- or add your own!

If you really are stuck on the magic school of it all, read The Scholomance Trilogy by Naomi Novik (or any of her other books- she’s really really good).

Read Terry Pratchett! World building! Humour! So many books! Legitimately foundational reading for fantasy.

“But I’m an adult, and these are all children’s books!” I’m a children’s librarian, but don’t worry I got you.

The House at the Edge of Magic series by Amy Sparkes is ongoing and excellent. Magic, strangeness, a sentient house, found family, and a lot of humour!

The Aru Shah series by Roshani Chokshi, which is also middle grade and excellent- a female lead, based in Hindu mythology. Fast paced, well earned ending, really satisfying read (and they have been making them into graphics!).