“A mixed-age permaculture school in Mexico is showing how an education based on autonomy and care prepares students better for life.”
Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Cheri has been an editor at Longreads since 2014.
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Maintenance Futures
“Future visions tend to organize around narratives of gain or loss, dystopia or utopia. But what of the neutral position?”
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Searching for Jobs, Gen Z Feels Like It’s Staring Into ‘the Void’
“Hundreds of applications later, even being rejected by an actual human being counts as a victory.”
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No iPad Till After Dinner, Mom
“Seniors are spending more time than ever on their slop-filled feeds. It’s their adult children’s job to save them.”
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Traveling Route 66 in the Age of Data Centers
“Driving through America’s back roads, the emptiness of the information superhighways comes into sharp relief.”
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You Finally Got a Wikipedia Page. Then It Vanished.
“Every day, Wikipedia biographies of living people are flagged for deletion because the subjects are not ‘notable’ enough. How do these poor souls take the news?”
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Benchma(r)king
“James Bridle experiments with combining their practical carpentry skills and the abundant theoretical knowledge of AI to build a chair.”
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Deskilling the Body
“We are, moment by moment, doing less sensing, navigating, remembering, walking, choosing, and attending.”