“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

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This is a powerful, moving piece by A. O. Scott about John Berger that opens out into a meditation on what is lost if we lose the capacity to look closely, to pay sustained attention to the world around us (art, animals, the land, other people).

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socializing is friction, uncertainty, desire without requital, effort without wage but ours is an anti-social economy of flow, guarantee, instant fulfillment, infinite monetization socialize to organize! the prosocial provisioning state; also the meaning of life www.ft.com/content/989c...

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this year alone: UIC paid $11.6M to Volt AI for surveillance data analysis, $4.4M to Allied Universal Security ON TOP of UIC PD budget, over $100K on flock cameras while enforcing hiring freezes+stonewalling on faculty contracts everywhere the same grift: $ for AI + cops, NO$ for education

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Robin Reid is chairing Saturday's panel, and the other presenters are @roberttally.bsky.social and Kristine Larsen. If you can afford the hefty fee (for the NEPCA journal), here's registration for the conference, which is being held on zoom.

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