Impatiently awaiting the return of democracy.
The Greater Tacoma Area
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20 years from now, it’s going to be hard to understand why attacking the planetary life support system was a behavior we chose to reward for so long after it should have been criminalized. In fact, some of us are having trouble understanding it now.
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I’ll go further: those in power don’t want you having passions or hobbies, which is why they seek to automate whatever brings joy. They want you to be a miserable, conformist sack of meat. You need to develop skills. You need to sharpen your brain. You need to read & create.
My brother who lives in The Other Washington just sent me a question about Jimothy, and I haven’t felt this culturally relevant since we visited D.C. in the summer of ‘91 and everybody kept asking if I knew Kurt Cobain.
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Not exaggerating when I say the future depends on this catching on en masse. Kids, adults. Book clubs, silent reading groups. For the past twenty-five years tech has corroded our attention, intelligence and basic pleasure in living, and books are the key to winning them back.
I absolutely did not have “Trump somehow manages to fuck up the chemistry of the most symbolic pool in the nation” on my bingo card, but as a former pool manager the situation is nourishing my soul with inexpressible hilarity and deep emotional fulfillment.
Algae resurfaces in reflecting pool after multimillion-dollar fixes dlvr.it/TT1BzL
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We’re not talking enough about the catastrophe that looms when the students who have never been asked to read a book grow up and become the adults who run our country.
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Note to America: The World is a necessary component of a World Cup
Some World Cup players and team staff are being questioned or barred from entering the U.S., angering fans and heightening concerns about how immigration enforcement will be carried out during one of the world’s most international sporting events. wapo.st/4oiZiOc
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No one believes me when I say this, but the decline in reading is already having dire consequences for art & culture. The media you loved in your youth—shows, albums, films—was made by artists who were widely read. You will not have that quality of art in a post-literate world.
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I don’t want comfort or convenience. I want abundant wildlife, I want a planet covered in forests & greenery, I want breathable air, I want literate kids, I want a revival of reading for pleasure and the arts, I want a culture not in danger of being dismantled by the tech-addled
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Not going to boost this account but this is a terrible way to approach life. This attitude is the reason kids are growing up never hearing of Robin Hood or King Arthur. They have been deprived of their inheritance. Resist the tyranny of the present moment.
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I think society would be in a better place if college first focused on youths exploring what it means to be human (liberal arts) and try to apply it to their own lives. People can focus on career but forget vocation, only to painfully realize later that our souls can't be bribed.
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Happy 100th Birthday to Sir David Attenborough
Thank you for being a friend to all animals and for helping the world to cherish us x
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In time we’ll see the mass closure of humanities departments as among the most clueless & self-defeating things that’s ever been done. As Carl Sagan said, a school that doesn’t teach history, philosophy, music, literature is offering you a half-education at best.
History, philosophy, English, linguistics & creative writing “are no longer financially viable” says University of Hertfordshire
Arts & Humanities are being squeezed into handful of elite universities, while huge parts of the UK are left without access
timeshighereducation.com/new…
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We ask, “Why have lyrics gotten less sophisticated? Why is satire no longer possible? Why do readers mistake authors’ depictions of events for moral statements?” & in each case the answer is, “Because people don’t read much & intelligent content no longer draws a wide audience.”
If @seattletimes.com can do without journalists, it can do without my subscription, too. And if it thinks Seattle wants to be served up slop by an unaccountable planetary destruction machine, it has seriously misread the Northwest.
YIKES: The Seattle Times rejected a union request to not replace workers with AI saying "Journalism doesn't mean journalists." instagram.com/p/DX7Tkxpj55K/…
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We went from “the humanities are utterly pointless” to “suddenly, no one can read” in the span of about a year.
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Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.
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The incentive to make money has so twisted our priorities that people can’t believe you enjoy learning for its own sake. It ends in a world where no one knows history, poetry, myth because they see no profit in it. Disdain for the humanities reveals a total poverty of spirit.
Happy President’s Dayto @BarackObama! Best president in my lifetime & strong candidate for best president ever.
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I find Gmail’s new “write this for me” feature deeply sinister. They’re trying to convince you that you are dumb and helpless. Don’t let them steal your ability to formulate thoughts and communicate. You were capable of writing an email in 2022 and you’re capable now.
