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Disneyworld Day 3: Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom, The Void, Disney Springs
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No comments on Disneyworld Day 3: Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom, The Void, Disney SpringsHollywood Studios lived up to its reputation as “the half day park”. The problem is that the theming of “hey, we’re in Hollywood” just isn’t as interesting or as resonant as it used to be, certainly not compared to other parks or even Epcot. Which is I guess why they’re adding on Toy Story and…
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Disneyworld Day 2: Blizzard Beach, Epcot, Boardwalk
The free intra-resort bus service has pretty good thus far. In some cases it’s been faster than an Uber, since the buses can usually get closer to the actual entrance of the park. But on average, I think the buses are about 10-15 min slower than Uber, which is not bad given the savings. My…
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Disneyworld Day 1: Magic Kingdom
The Magic Kingdom Park is a lot more crowded than I expected, and slightly unpleasant to get around. Perhaps this is because it was Presidents Day in Monday, but I’d hate to see how busy it gets during high season. I don’t know how anyone puts up with waiting for 30+ minutes in line. We’ve…
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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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