Kneeling Bus
It’s already hard to fathom, but one of the defining trends of the era immediately preceding the pandemic was overtourism, the growing influx of visitors to places like Iceland, Venice, and Tulum that, as Kyle Chayka wrote, is large enough to alter the quality of life for the pe…
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Several years ago, a friend told me, “I wish I was the type of person who could go 12 hours without noticing a text message” (he’d been waiting for a r…
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During the past year, the centrality of COVID-19 in our collective attention frame has been a slight (and unwelcome) distraction from another ongoing c…
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There were a couple of entertaining articles last month about people tragically losing access to Bitcoin wallets containing tens of millions of dollars…
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Last week I was thinking about how the “death of cities” narrative that was inescapable in 2020 has largely subsided. Certain big cities in the United …
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I haven’t really kept up with animated films lately but whenever I periodically check in, as I did last week by watching Pixar’s latest, Soul, I’m once…
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Last week I found out that Nick Land, the godfather of accelerationism, is on Twitter. Shortly after I followed him, as expected, he tweeted something …
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A few years ago a friend and I were hanging out and decided we should both try posting something to Instagram that would get zero likes (or as few like…
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