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spring just started here which means 9pm sunsets and 70-80 degree days are just around the corner
the city has its charm during the winter but it’s def an “inside” city during the rainy season; the energy is absolutely unmatched when everyone is outside and the weather and the nature are projecting maximum vibrations
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Jun 12, 2024
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a little chilly, moisture in the air, sun peeking out. always reminds me of going to swim practice or my summer babysitting job or being on vacation with my family and going to see some old historic site.
so magical and makes me remember why i love the northeast and nyc🩷⭐️
Apr 17, 2024
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If you hate summer you are boring and no fun.
I am half joking…
But really all I talk and think about these days is the season SUMMER. I wish it would stop raining already in South Florida because I really need to hit the beach early this year. Starting my summer once the rain season is over and I recommend everyone to do the same
Jan 24, 2024
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Mar 23, 2024
a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason it’s still standing is bc it’s unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isn’t just charting the attention economy but also attempting to “solve” it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
Mar 25, 2024