Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Apr 14, 2020The future never arrives with the aesthetics of anybody who’s been actually preparing for it even if it’s a functional equivalent338129
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Apr 14, 2020Exhibit A: colorfully home-made domestic cozy Etsy masks where all the preppers were prepping grimdark80s tacticool madmaxterminatorQuote TweetVenkatesh Rao@vgr·Apr 14, 2020This but with hello kitty aesthetics rather than 80s grimdark would be a winning product twitter.com/DavidSacks/sta…3225
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Apr 14, 2020Exhibit B: Everybody projecting their favorite dystopian scifi onto today’s regionalism tendency of governors vs Trump. It’s going to play out with tediously bureaucratic banality. You’re not getting names like “Cascadia” etc out of this.Quote TweetQC (4/10 Substack posts)@QiaochuYuan·Apr 13, 2020oh shit we're in *that* part of the YA post-apocalypse backstory twitter.com/mattparlmer/st…Show this thread2131
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @liminal_warmthNo fun. Only grimdark cozy.5:38 AM · Apr 14, 20201 Retweet1 Like