Generation Z college students are reportedly arriving on campus struggling with basic reading comprehension, even difficulty processing full sentences, per FORTUNE.
Just a quick warning, fella at work reckons we’re going to lose gravity for 7 seconds on the 14th of August, resulting in 40 million deaths, doesn’t sound great tbh.
@unusual_whales Reading books is seriously overrated these days. People act like cracking open a 400-page book is the only path to wisdom or success, but honestly, in 2026 you can pretty much just ask Grok anything you wanna know.
I see this as a positive thing to be honest - the fact that less people read just means it’s easier to compete in literally any industry out there because there are more morons now than ever before
The Washington Post is getting rid of its Books section. We’re losing the institutions—journalism, middle-class artistic and intellectual culture—that once made life bearable. Those things were a threat to the super-rich who increasingly govern us. Democracy dies in illiteracy.
I’m sorry but “why read books when you can just ask Grok” is an excruciatingly brainless take. This way of thinking will leave you not only illiterate but also emotionally impoverished. A good book will bring you empathy, wisdom, companionship. Reading can save your life.
There have been thousands of generations of humans, and you are alive to witness the first photo of a Sunset on another World.
This is a real photo of the sunset on Mars.
I am suffering from tech fatigue. I do not want any more apps, social media accounts, passwords, user names, pass codes, PINs, or A.I. mentors. Anybody out there know of a cure?
1932 Nobel Prize winner physicist Werner Heisenberg dies of kidney cancer in Munich, West Germany. He was 74. His last words were: “I’m excited to meet God. I have some questions about physics to ask him.”
What was one small purchase you made that improved your quality of life in a big way?
For me it was spending $60 to buy 6 phone chargers and putting them in every location I'd need them instead of taking one charger everywhere I went