Jay Lloyd

Would resisting the attention economy help solve the problems of a frenzied, profoundly unequal, and environmentally damaged world? @jasonglloyd thinks not. Read his review of Jenny Odell's "How to Do Nothing": issues.org/review-of-jenn…

"Odell speaks to an imagined audience of coastal creative types who share her politics and worldview and tells them … well, not much of anything they probably don’t already believe." @jasonglloyd reviews "How to Do Nothing": issues.org/review-of-jenn…

"Is anything more un-American than an empty shelf?" The incomparable Geoff Dyer on life during coronavirus. newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…

Saying "learnings" instead of "lessons" makes my ears bleed. theatlantic.com/health/archive…

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"Malthus isn’t wrong because his sums don’t add up, or because his hypothesis has been disproved by fresh evidence. He’s wrong because he recast a political problem of production & distribution as a biological problem of reproduction & consumption." bit.ly/2JkuUAz @LRB

"He came to eat your nephew’s soul, and he’s eating yours for dessert." @DushkoP on the infamous photograph from El Paso, in @nplusonemag: bit.ly/2TR9dfs

Figured the best use of my flight to @ASU_SFIS’s #RightfulPlaceOfScience 2 Conference was to finally read Dan Sarewitz’s “Frontiers of Illusion.” Definitely the right choice.

Perfect use of the passive voice in the description of this $2.2 million home's kitchen.

Thoughts while reading @VladDavidzon's piece in @tabletmag: - This is insane - This is really insane - Didn't Matthew Barney have a kid with Bjork? - An art-world #FyreFestival? - Ayahuasca—of course! - This is totally insane - How can I see this? bit.ly/2XzI4zt

Climate change is obviously very bad but it’s not a “national emergency.” My latest @slate slate.com/technology/201…

With respect to Jeff Koons, "it often feels like you need either a PhD or a lobotomy to understand his explanations," as per @HadleyFreeman's great piece in the @guardian: bit.ly/2X5lDSl

Against dogma: Isaiah Berlin is a good antidote to election-day anxiety. the-tls.co.uk/articles/publi… via @TheTLS

You'll soon be able to freeze your credit file without fees -- and you should! Here's why: slate.me/2eXX7O7 via @Slate

Books about the Soviet Union must be red, it’s the law.

As fires blaze in the West, I recall this piece I wrote with @jasonglloyd last year @Slate. CO2 isn’t the biggest human driver of disaster loss, nor the strongest lever of policy action. slate.com/articles/techn…

Work with the public and 'un-engaged' groups on global change problems? Join us at #AGU18 in December and share your experience bridging communities, policy, and science. Abstracts due tomorrow (!) Aug 1. Please share! @theAGU @farooquema @ThrivingEarth @dsfeld @scicheer

Ling Ma’s novel “Severance” (out in Aug.) sounds fantastic.

Our director @zonal, writing for @techreview, on how driverless cars might dramatically reshape vehicle-centric US cities: technologyreview.com/s/611420/phoen…

"The case underlines the burgeoning problem of crime committed by Japan’s growing population of elderly people." bit.ly/2KT7Jfl