Can’t wait for it to also not have any housing!
Oh boy!
Another crappy cyberpunk city without flying cars or affordable cybernetic augmentation so that I can finally live my dream of being chromed out to the gills and start a cyborg revolution
The NYT version of the article quotes the investors talking about a place “as walkable as Paris or the West Village,” but we’ll see how the monkey’s paw curls.
https://archive.li/iN7n9
"as walkable as Paris"*
*Walkable areas in private sections onlyWhaddya know, they’ve already techified the Dérive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dérive#Technology
Jeff Beck said something like "Things work out better by accident but you can't plan accidents." And that idea is wrong. You can encourage randomness to sort of "guide" you potentially happy accidents.
I remember googling "dérive" years ago and checking out the Wikipedia page but I didn't like what I read. What's a good, concise definition? Is dérive basically the walking around version of aleatory?
aleatory (also aleatoric)
1 Depending on the throw of a dice or on chance; random.
1.1 Relating to or denoting music or other forms of art involving elements of random choice (sometimes using statistical or computer techniques) during their composition, production, or performance: aleatory music a photograph can capture the aleatory chaos of modern urban life
Etymology: late 1600s from Latin aleatorius, from aleator "dice player", from alea "die", + -y^1.
That’s mostly how I understand it. Debord’s official definition is hardly helpful:
dérive
A mode of experimental behavior linked to the conditions of urban society: a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances. The term also designates a specific uninterrupted period of dériving.
rapid passage through varied ambiances... a specific uninterrupted period of dériving
Help! I'm stuck in a pretentious tautology loop!
It reminded me of my searches years ago. But that effort was actually better. I miss old google. I never thought google itself would become garbage.
For some reason I can't access any archive.li or archive.is links. It just makes me redo captchas endlessly.
It’s been doing that to me on Firefox, too, even with no VPN and with my extensions turned off. So now I use my default Microsoft browser exclusively for the purpose of archiving newspaper articles.
It does it to me no matter what browser I use. It's pretty annoying because it basically means I can't read a lot of what's posted to this site. I wish I knew of some kind of fix for it.
Damn, sorry switching browsers didn’t work either. I did some furious googling when the problem started for me and found absolutely nothing helpful. The Wayback Machine still worked, so maybe it does for you, as well. Here’s one: https://web.archive.org/web/20230826004320/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/business/land-purchases-solano-county.html
Thanks! I actually did get it to work, but only by using a VPN. I guess it doesn't like my IP for some reason.
The militarization of police has reached the point where they want their own self contained military installations
The future of the US will be a hellscape of little statelets centered on military forts and cop cities waging war against each other
Exactly what Scenes from the Suburbs was about. Militarized/Private security forces and warring suburbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7NffzMowP0
(also, an obligatory FUCK WIN BUTLER for the sexual assault allegations)
