primates and corvids, if you are an animal that uses sticks and rocks and your environment to solve problems i’m a fan
one time i saw a crow push over a half-empty coffee over a trash can so the liquid flowed down the lid so they could drink. very cool
Mar 20, 2024
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"Near a pond, we scattered some peanuts, but many of the crows lost interest: they had spotted a young girl who was eating brioche."
tech bros tried to hack crows but the crows hacked us.
Mar 14, 2024
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They like perching on top of my building and I love seeing them chilling up there when I look out my window. also big fan of @poe_the_raven on ig
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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
