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BloomEPU t1_jduugg7 wrote

I've been really into the Murder Most Unladylike series and I'd describe that as enid blyton but with modern sensibilities, and it's a lot of fun. I used to love the st claires series but once I realised you can have boarding school hijinks without the dodgy attitudes to women and minorities I never looked back.

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BloomEPU t1_jdqmifr wrote

I think the kind of chatbots that are marketed as genuine companionship and relationships should be heavily scrutinised. I don't think they're inherently bad, if a desperate person uses one of these and just gets useful life advice I'm not going to complain, but there's always a possibility that they could be telling desperate impressionable people things that are very unhelpful.

Honestly, all chatbots should be scrutinised for that, people are probably turning to them for the same stuff.

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BloomEPU t1_jcf57l0 wrote

I read circe before SoA and honestly, it made me feel a bit disappointed in SoA. Going from circe being this cool complex lady to achilles who's like, some grumpy asshole was a bit rough :P

I still love how SoA is written, both novels are really beautiful, it's just I preferred circe waaay more.

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BloomEPU t1_j9ya7qm wrote

This is mostly just silly clickbait, but I have heard mild concerns that some people are going to turn to these chatbots for companionship (the platonic kind) and end up in a worse place than they started with. It's kinda funny to watch this AI chatbot act like it does, but maybe microsoft shouldn't have released a 'search assistant' that acts like a manipulative weirdo.

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BloomEPU t1_iy3ps3b wrote

I've heard plenty of stuff about how bad raycons sound, and the fact that they're basically just bad chifi buds with a brand name slapped on, but I've also heard that they're not great for spoken stuff. I think it was crinacle or someone else that mentioned offhand that sibilant sounds (s and z etc) tend to sound really distorted, has anyone else noticed that? I have auditory processing issues that make muffled or distorted voices hard to understand, that sounds absolutely horrible.

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