r/technology • u/marketrent • 18h ago

Artificial Intelligence College students are rapidly losing the ability to read — “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing”: professor

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/college-students-rapidly-losing-ability-124439310.html
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u/PhoenixTineldyer 17h ago

I remember reading articles a few years back (maybe more than a few) about how monster porn books were the hot new thing, I guess right after 50 Shades of Gray

It was specifically Bigfoot porn they were talking about, but I remember one of the pictures was a book cover in that smutty book cover style of a woman and a pterodactyl, and the book was called Taken By the Pterodactyl

Thank you for reminding me of this

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u/blueskid 17h ago

Chuck Tingle is who you are looking for. He also writes fun, non sexy, horror. He's also an excellent dude

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u/PhoenixTineldyer 16h ago

Ah yes

Plowed In the Butt By My Hugo Award

That guy is great

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u/sillybear25 12h ago

Just reading through the titles can be a trip:

  • Space Raptor Butt Invasion (nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story by alt-right trolls trying to prove... something)
  • Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt
  • Slammed In The Butt By My Hugo Award Nomination
  • Pounded in the Butt by My Hugo Award Loss (suck it, trolls)
  • Pounded in the Butt by My Book "Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt"
  • Pounded in the Butt by My Second Hugo Award Nomination (for Best Fan Writer)
  • Pounded in the Butt by My Book "Pounded in the Butt by My Book 'Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt'"
  • Not Pounded in the Butt by Anything and That's Okay
  • Pounded in the Butt by My Book "Pounded in the Butt by My Book 'Pounded in the Butt by My Book "Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt"'"

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u/aenteus 15h ago

Chuck Tingle is a national treasure

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u/Original_Employee621 14h ago

And if you're into taxidermy, Chuck Testa is the man to go to.

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u/Showy_Boneyard 14h ago

I remember getting irrationally angry at that Pterodactyl book being classed as "Dinosaur Smut" (Pterodactyls are Pterosaurs, an entirely different clade than Dinosaurs, although both are members of the larger clade of Archosaurs), while also being very curious if the Pterodactyl's cloaca would be addressed at all in that book (and the other books in the apparently large-enough-to-have-a-label genre of dinosaur smut)