The internet is full of wonderful and weird things, and while social media is a great way to share your favourite findings, I think the ways that it forces us to compete for each other’s attention are pretty disgusting. It’s no longer about sharing snippets of your life or connecting with people you have shared interests with; instead, it feels like a constant feed of commodities being sold to you.
I want a break from the endless sales cycle, but I still want to share my life, my work and my interests with people out there in the world. I still crave that connection from a distance, but I want to shift my relationship with it. Instead of doom-scrolling through an algorithm designed to increase my dissatisfaction, I figured I should start documenting.
So here I am, documenting some of my favourite things and sharing them so that I may create and build connections through shared interests.
With that, below are a few things from around the web that have captured my attention lately.
Online Reads
“Poverty emerges when social stratification increases, leading to exclusion and restricted access to Earth’s resources. This exclusion worsens when money becomes the primary prerequisite for obtaining essential goods and services. Denying growing numbers of people direct access to food, shelter, trust and other vital resources makes them dependent on money to meet their basic needs and desires. Property enables and enriches those who own it as much as it excludes and impoverishes those without.”
Anirudh Krishna & Dirk Philipsen, Poverty is not permanent, AEON
“From a safe distance, I loved telling stories about San Francisco to people who didn’t know it. With words, I animated a place I didn’t always myself remember. Like every beloved city, San Francisco has been dying as long as it’s been alive. Compared to most other beloved cities, however, San Francisco hasn’t been living all that long. It’s easy to mythologize the young—perhaps because the less time a person or a place has existed, the less evidence they have accumulated to contradict the stories we’d like to tell. San Francisco has only been San Francisco, in name and reputation, for a few generations. The loss of each version of the city feels profound; there have been so few. Always, the young are mourned diligently.”
Charley Burlock, Bedrock, Los Angeles Review of Books
Videos
Art
Photography
Thanks for hanging around. If you check out anything I’ve linked above feel free to share your thoughts in the comments and tell me what you think. Or tell me some of your favourite things!
And of course, stay tuned for the next round of recent favourites.
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