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Opinion | Democrats Are Losing the War for Attention. Badly. The MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes on why attention has become more valuable than money in politics.

I really enjoyed this podcast. It is a critique of how the internet has affected democracy. Chris Hayes and Ezra Klein provide some interesting insights. They talk too about podcasts and how the format itself hasn't (yet) been captured by the attention economy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/o...

days since I was followed by
someone named alexxxoxia: 1️⃣ !

Thank you! I’m a newbie but the view is still nice on the green runs!

Skiing!

Sarah Evans
Scotland
Acrylic on wood
2023

Jan 1, 2025

Literature Professor: "By its very nature, metaphor does not strive for mimetic perfection."

2025: ⬇️

Reading my horoscopes for the year ahead is my most favourite time of the holiday season ♐️ ♑️ ♉️ ☺️

New Year's Restitutions

Man. Something in my eye.

Sexy Facebook profile picture of girl with Kardashian butt

Someone hacked into my #Facebook account and is using this as the new profile picture. If I ever get my account back, I think I’ll keep it!

trying to make each day a whole lifetime

Bluesky Promised Writers Freedom. Now It’s Feeling a Lot Like Work | The Walrus With every new platform comes the expectation to punch in as a professional, curated version of ourselves

Wrote about the intractable pressure to perform our professional identities online, even when we don't wanna
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Orcas moved into the Arctic. It could be bad news for other whales, and humans too - Canada News Killer whales are expanding their territory and have moved into Arctic waters as climate change melts sea ice, with two genetically distinct populations being identified by Canadian scientists.

Orcas moved into the Arctic. It could be bad news for other whales, and humans too (Arctic)

Ukrainian Christmas art

Христос Родився 🎅🎄

CIA Behavior Control Experiments Focus of New Scholarly Collection Washington, D.C., December 23, 2024 – Today, the National Security Archive and ProQuest (part of Clarivate) celebrate the publication of a new scholarly document collection many years in the making on...

CIA Behavior Control Experiments Focus of New Scholarly Collection

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"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes."
-- Dylan Thomas (Letter to Editor)
#Literature The Collected Letters

Rachel Olynuk ~ Winter Solstice
#WinterSolstice

* Winter Solstice *
of Pause, then Pivot.

Prelude to the Solstice,
through the dark hours of night.
Winter Solstice Morn, this morning.

Mark Rothko | Mark Rothko

This is an incredible testament to the loss of local news coverage. A congresswoman disappeared for six months and no one noticed.

It’s almost solstice. This time of year is tough, but I believe it’s in part because we work against our natural rhythms, pushing for “productivity” at all costs, instead of listening to the rhythms of the natural world to which we are intrinsically connected. Seasons of growth, seasons of rest.

Getting it done now could save his legacy

Foolish!
Get us electoral reform first, FFS!

#ERRE

Me in 2004, teaching 10th graders: For the love of god don't cite Wikipedia, it's not a reliable source

Me in 2024, to literally anyone in earshot: Good ol' Wikipedia, the only thing the internet hasn't fucked up yet

Spray painting on wall saying “today is a good day”

I took this in Iqaluit in 2019. It’s also gone.

B.C. man drops camera into ocean, accidentally captures 'breathtaking' whale video Before it turned into an extraordinary day, Peter Mieras says it began being quite ordinary.

bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-man-drop...

🆕#cdnpoli poll: ABACUS: Decided + Leaning: #CPC 45 | #LPC 20 | #NDP 18 | #GPC 4 | Dec 16-17 Online n=983.

Optimist: the cup is ½ full

Pessimist: the cup is ½ empty

Proponent of dangerously incorrect carbon accounting: half of the cup has water in it, and the other half has avoided water in it. Therefore, the cup has achieved net zero water.