I have been working in childcare for over 5 years now,, I DREAM of a future where there are approachable jobs that help guide children away from ipads and towards reading BOOKS.
It is my deepest wish to be paid a sustainable wage to be a childrens librarian.
Not exaggerating when I say the future depends on this catching on en masse. Kids, adults. Book clubs, silent reading groups. For the past twenty-five years tech has corroded our attention, intelligence and basic pleasure in living, and books are the key to winning them back.
The Full grown adults who can’t vacation, take a gap year, have hobbies, play an instrument, speak multiple languages, swim, cycle, skate, or backpack. Just a lifetime of hustling and trying to escape survival mode. These are subtle poverty metrics nobody really talks about.
Living in a system where nearly every place is designed to take money is so exhausting, every moment is meant to cost money, everything is about money. It’s like our entire lives are just for rent, nowhere to sit down for free, nowhere to rest, then you pay again.
Sean Astin, the President of SAG-AFTRA, recently testified before a U.S. House Judiciary subcommittee in support of the bipartisan NO FAKES Act.
The proposed law would protect everyone, not just celebrities, from unauthorised AI-generated replicas of their voice and likeness.