Whenever I see a modern built environment that looks like "fake" culture/personality facade on what's obviously a globalized-industrial-process output pattern, I do a perspective shift to "this would be impressive inside a starship"
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Premium mediocre is just one example of the resultant aesthetic, and decorated sheds in architecture terms are just one piece of the vocabulary. Nowhere is this clearer than in little towns created specifically to serve cruise ships and operated by cruise lines.
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Replying to @kneelingbus
nope... I don't really read architecture stuff, I steal the ideas second hand from people like you :D
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Replying to @vgr @kneelingbus
this thing huh? architects really like making up space-like characterizations huh.. junkspace nakatomi space, holey plane, extrastatecraft, bratton's stack...
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Replying to @kneelingbus
I'm kinda inclined to indulge people like that since I'm one myself. So long as we never exceed 10% of the population.
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same, i admire it - i realized at some point that however hard writing is, a lot of the time it's also talking your way out of having to do something harder
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The galaxy brain take is... let the people good at doing do the doing and the rest of us should kinda just step out of the way rather than mess things up by having a fetish for doering
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Replying to @vgr @kneelingbus
*constructive* do-fetish engagement: It's necessary to keep yr cutting edges from getting rusty. Common pattern for (computer) "architects" in industry. This is key bc I think we both *see* though our cutting edges. Rigorous task curation makes it work. Back to my code.
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