going to the park on a snow day, setting up forts and stockpiling ammo, running around for hours until it hurt your eyes to go inside bc you’ve been in a stark white environ reflecting light in all directions for some hours. childhood distilled
kind of sad to think that maybe this isn’t really a thing anymore; besides snowfall being fewer inches and less frequent every year, i remember hearing something about how post-covid schools were planning to implement remote learning during inclement weather days
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i love the shared experience of staying inside and bundling up. still think the kids should’ve just had a snow day instead of a virtual day tho.
Feb 13, 2024
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it’s so fun to wake up and see snow on the ground it brings back a feeling of childhood innocence that is fleeting and always pursued
Feb 13, 2024
it's clinging on where i live still, as usual. i really do feel grateful for the snow. we haven't been getting that much over the past few years, which has got me reminiscing on when there would be literal 10 feet tall snow drifts in between the houses after a particularly harsh snowstorm. i miss the winters where i would go out and play in the snow forts with my sister. that is home to me, and i don't feel the need to rush it out of here.
Apr 6, 2025
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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
