Rusty
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Repairman, design critic, promoting material literacy. Do the obvious thing.
in loco harmonium
Joined January 2022
lol, check this out. MacOS TextEdit spellcheck stopped insisting on accents between 2009 and 2013. Steve Jobs died in 2011.
pretentious spellcheck that insists upon the é in étiquette.
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Life itself has always been a death cult.
Longevity research guy unfollowed me and it’s about time. I am on the side of untimely death.
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Nice cognitive estrangement stunt there. Those are my techno-civililian path dependency casualties. They're load-bearing.
What if AI boosts the economy but, in return, kills 40,000 people and injures 5 million per year?. That’s the deal we currently have with cars.
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It irks me when extremely common words are given precise, technical definitions within a narrow domain and there's absolutely no indication, to the layman, that they're hearing jargon.
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So, for instance, emphasis would be added to a main passage door, to prevent guests from trying a closet door.
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A deep dive. According to this, moldings are supposed to do two things. 1. Reinforce structural elements: echo them. 2. Introduce scale and proportion.
@nealjclark1 Brent Hull has a couple great videos discussing the historical precedent and light/shadow effect of molding.
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The public sphere as serendipity infrastructure.
Every public space that is destroyed is a loss in chance encounters, a reduction in our “serendipity surface area.” That dead mall could have been where you met someone important. That trashed park, those shuttered bars… so many good friends, mentors, lovers never found….
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Always wondered what those were for.
The purpose of moldings beyond easing transitions is to create dramatic shadows in oblique lighting
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Are you familiar with the phrase: ."Reality contains a surprising amount of detail?".
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