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was at an uncle’s house and he had one of these (linked) toys with a voice box that played + danced along to the chorus. would listen for hours. almost sure this is what i was doing when i gained consciousness
Feb 21, 2025
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I never felt so cool seeing this thing spin around in the little window of my Discman and turning the volume dial up to 10 to drown out the sound of my sister watching Barney. Even if it was the censored version from Walmart.
May 18, 2025
My uncle co wrote it so we all blasted it on a daily basis ! me and my cousin would be sometimes put to bed listening to this and Chemical Brothers lol ( our mums used to be ravers and club enthusiasts)
Feb 22, 2025
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i had purple skinnies, a cartoon print zip up hoody and I was not a fuckin scene kid
Jan 28, 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
