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You ever listen to SACOYANS? They're pretty great. If you're ever in Osaka, and you find yourself on a rollercoaster called the Hollywood Dream, make sure to select the song "Osaka Lover" as your ride music. It's not by SACOYANS or anything, they're just both Japanese.
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I think minimalist UIs are condescending. They assume the user doesn't know what they want, and needs their attention directed to a pre-digested subset of visible menu options.
Minimalist UIs are a warning that someone is either trying to sell you something or sell you. There are way more words on any single internal page of a book than on its cover. The discrepancy was less stark in 17th century frontispieces.
How do conversational UIs (i.e. chatbots) fit into this?
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Most media is social media if you view your past and future selves as different "people" interacting across time. Your childhood journal is a small social media platform, it just has a weird, linear social graph.
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I've realised my poems naturally tend to be bad robert lowell impersonations, so I'll be doing bad ashbery and o'hara impressions as penance for the foreseeable future. e.g.:
Some consoling narrative may still be wrung out of these events
it may already be being wrung
like, for instance, a bell, or a certain precise flower,
or part of a ladder not yet discarded.
Surmounting each morning stoically enough,
we carry on without regard for the past.
It is possible that you have already missed your chance to mourn it.
At the time, it's harm entirely passed you by, and only now are you noticing
the repercussions. A lull in the conversation. And i find it important to tell you
That what we're doing here is not a waste, that it will in some sense
"come together", eventually. You could think of it like painting,
or re-potting orchids, if that makes it any easier for you.
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I think the fact the D-Day landings were successfully kept secret (despite involving so many people) makes complicated conspiracy theories more plausible.
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