looksunfamiliar What ‘adult’ books and magazines were you insatiably curious about as a youngster? Steamy novels, complex science fiction, saucy humour, lurid crime encyclopedias.. anything labelled ‘explicit content’ basically. Let’s hear about them!
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@looksunfamiliar As an early teenager I basically accidentally read Jackie Collins’ _Lovers and Gamblers_, which I seem to remember as an eye-opener. That and the “red triangle” Channel 4 films, especially Montenegro! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_trian…
@RealDramRob Criminal Minds.
@ahnlak “Alexa! Order me an emergency st—D’oh!”
@ahnlak I’d have to *stretch*, though.
Never mind, I’ll just sit in the dark.
@ahnlak “Brain the size of a planet and he asks me to set a timer for the air fryer…”
@hayles I ALWAYS say please and thank you. #notmyfault
@morrick Only people old enough to have paid their mortgages off and started to need reading glasses can afford the bloody things.
Come to think of it, I did tweet about emergent AI nightmares earlier today. Sorry, my bad. #alexadown twitter.com/hayles/status/…
Hrm. #alexa seems to be down, at least for me.
@cgpgrey @imyke I honestly don’t know if you’d have got through Moretex if this thread had existed first.
An emergent AI horror story… twitter.com/supercomposite…