Notices by Charlie. Probably. (charlie@hachyderm.io)

As a proponent of sleep, I applaud this, @molly0xfff — making bed-time reading more of a passive pastime must surely make it more conducive to falling asleep. Anything which gifts human beings with slumber is grand!

e-readers are already better for this than printed books, even without a mounting arm.

I envy your immunity to them, @inthehands

Does the super-plus-premium tier also cut out all the Dramatic-and-Emotional Musical Stings and pregnant pauses added-in-post, @inthehands ?

To be fair, @thomasfuchs , that's giving mediocrity a bad rap. Mediocrity is *better* than iteratively converging random noise to superficially-plausible drivel.

You do you, mediocrity! You're doing ok... er... by definition.

You are not wrong, @mattly . We should allow ourselves to enjoy this brief reprieve.

But we must never allow ourselves to perceive it as anything but a reprieve – it will only last as long as it takes for the usual parasites to latch on to the new channels.

When they do, will we be able to recognise them?

It took a long time for the common person to grok that search was answering them disingenuously and the proponents of new "A.I." are overtly touting their ability to imitate and deceive.