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Orlando Airport = perfect mid-90s cruise ship aesthetic
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Frank Chimero on the struggle between the commons and commerce of the internet, and the spirituality of technology: Most of our dream worlds are dystopias. One reason for this is that we feel technology is only producing commercial possibilities while neglecting or distorting the other essential parts of us. It’s not being very library-like. People…
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Alex Pareene on the link between the profitability and ethics of newspapers in the Columbia Journalism Review: In retrospect, it seems inevitable that American journalism’s professional norms around fairness and ethics emerged at a time when newspapers and magazines were good investments for normal financial reasons. Safe investments attract safe corporate investors. Corporations like clear…
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Like the original game, Life is Strange: Before the Storm has baffling lapses in writing quality and yet remains an beautifully touching and earnest story. What Remains of Edith Finch is great, but there aren’t that many mostly-realistic games like LIS these days.
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To celebrate The Space (an Arts Council/BBC-funded digital art body) being awarded £3 million to spend on 800 arts and culture organisations, here is my bridge-burning piece from three years ago on how they wasted ~£20m on laughably bad ‘digital art’.
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China’s Social Credit Score, and the distraction of Black Mirror
Adam Greenfield has a good introduction to the scope and folly of China’s new tech-driven social credit score in The Atlantic. On Metafilter, he also remarked on how he was disappointed by constant responses of “it’s just like Black Mirror!”: It makes me really sad that so much of the response to this piece has…
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Hit me up with your Disneyworld recs! I’m going there – and Kennedy Space Center – in two days time…
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I’m playing a whole bunch of story games for a Thing, and one is making me intensely motion-sick – even more so than the previous nausea-inducing champ, The Witness. I may have to resort to a YouTube walkthrough to make it to the end. Do devs just not test for these problems?
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Is it expecting too much of the BBC to want a comprehensive, fully searchable, and indexed list of Winter Olympic sports, with video clips plus chapter markers, preferably on the web and iPlayer? It’s surprisingly difficult to find my ol’ favourite Snow Cross wacky races.
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