Lucho Jacob by Gabriel Rocca for Herencia Argentina, Spring 2011
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hey what would you do if i dressed them up again. hypothetically
AWAAAAAAH WAAAAAAAHHHHHH WAAAAAAAAHHHHHH faux STOPPIT /affectionate
youre so good at giving them little outfits i am OBSESSED im OBSESSED
ehEhehEhEHEHE LOOK AT THEM YOU GUUUUYYYYYYSSSSS
FAUUUUUUXXXXX
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Fifth Avenue, looking uptown from 38th Street, ca. 1925. Lord & Taylor is on the left.
Photo: History 101
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Turns out that if you delete all industry and commerce and agriculture and outside connections in Cities Skylines 2, the city continues to grow and thrive like nothing has even happened. While in Sim City fucking One from 1989, if there weren't enough jobs your citizens would move away
It's a sad time to be a simulation gamer when simulation games don't simulate.
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Norman Parkinson
Traffic, Ivy Nicholson in New York
1950
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The Next Web Needs To Be A Forest
Been mourning the '90s and '00's internet for a while. Been hating the enshittified, platform-capitalistic internet dystopia.
Been saying for a while that the next internet must get away from centralized control, and be founded on distribution and federation.
There is no single monolithic "TCP/IP server farm" run by one company with one mentally-diseased white man at the helm. This is why internet traffic can get more or less anywhere. But there ARE monolithic social media sites (Twitter/X, FB). And there is monolithic identity management ("log in to BuyJunk with your Google account"). Even Discord where anyone can make their own "server" is hosted and runs on Discord-proprietary software and hardware.
The next internet -- if it's to be any good and not just further enshittification -- is going to be less like the hub-and-spoke system of airports, and more like a forest where trees and clusters of trees interconnect with each other organically.
Group chats, where some members of the group chat are members of multiple group chats.
But the only way that internet is going to happen is if people -- not corporations -- make it. There's no profit in a distributed internet. It's going to have to happen for the same reason that people throw parties, or stage demonstrations, or just get together regularly to go climb rocks.
It's going to have to happen out of love.
And that means that the gap between WANTING to build this new net and BEING ABLE to build this new net needs to get a lot smaller.
Keep an eye out for technologies, organizations, and education that narrows the gap. Help them.
And beware legislation and corporations that want to put barriers in the way. Fight them.
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