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Markets and Montana NIMBYs
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 visito…
Drew Austin
5 hr ago
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#152: Disconnection Notice
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…
Drew Austin
Feb 19
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Space, Time, and Weather
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…
Drew Austin
Feb 18
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#151: Crystal Silence
There were a couple of entertaining articles last month about people tragically losing access to Bitcoin wallets containing tens of millions of dollars…
Drew Austin
Feb 13
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From Bauhaus to Clubhouse
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 …
Drew Austin
Feb 11
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#150: Bright Size Life
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…
Drew Austin
Feb 5
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Vapor Revolution
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 …
Drew Austin
Feb 4
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#149: Listen, the Snow Is Falling
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…
Drew Austin
Jan 22
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Neom
NEOM Earlier this month, Saudi Arabia made a cryptic announcement about a new project called The Line, which turned out to be something quite strange: …
Drew Austin
Jan 21
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#148: Steady Diet of Nothing
Last week I linked to this piece by Molly Fischer about the “Millennial aesthetic” (published in March 2020 but new to me). You can probably conjure an…
Drew Austin
Jan 15
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Too Big to Fail
Adam Tooze’s book about the 2008 financial crash, Crashed, provides a thorough investigation of its causes and effects, paying particular attention to …
Drew Austin
Jan 14
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#147: Friend to Friend in Endtime
One year ago, a new decade had just begun, and for the first time ever I felt the urge to make predictions about the future. Fortunately, I only got ha…
Drew Austin
Jan 8
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