The Deleted Scenes - New and Old #80
Secret Menus and TikTok Order Hacks are Out of Control, Eater, Jaya Saxena, October 12, 2022
Well, I’m not completely innocent here (ever try adding all the toppings to a pizza through the app?) But this is probably a bad thing. There’s a bit in the story, which is worth reading in full, where a barista recounts customers sending back these made-up drinks because they don’t look the way they do in the TikTok posts. It’s a kind of entitlement, really, that gets a pass because the target is seen as being the corporation, not the actual workers. Not that you can’t have fun with these menus, I guess, but it’s come a long way since Burger King dubbed choosing or declining a few burger toppings “Have It Your Way.” How YouTube Created the Attention Economy, The New Yorker, Kevin Lozano, October 4, 2022
The first part is what interests me here—the fact that apart from all the trendy entertainment crap and the political extremism, you can find an unbelievable amount of pretty normal content, where ordinary people share their passion or expertise about almost anything you can think of. YouTube is to instructional knowledge as eBay is to old stuff. (I wrote about that here.) So, in commenting on a critical book about the site, Lozano might be right:
But you can also put all of that down and figure out to caulk your sink or replace your kitchen light fixture. There’s really nowhere else you can do that, with the clarity of narrated video, from the comfort on your own home. YIMBY vs. NIMBY: The real answer is ‘maybe’, Curbed, Karrie Jacobs, November 25, 2019
That’s an interesting way to put it. It’s not an argument for more hearings and public engagement meetings, but—at least for me—an argument to make more room for smaller developers, to devolve the scale at which development is done. There should be a lot more projects, smaller and more widely distributed, such that it doesn’t generally even occur to anyone that any particular one is their business. This is also interesting:
This is, by the way, why I’m hopeful about California’s statewide upzoning plan, which effectively withdrew the power of localities to enforce single-family zoning. (I think “preemption” is the wrong way to think about this, because the power to enact zoning was specifically given to localities by states, but that’s another issue.) America’s Next Great Restaurants Are in the Suburbs. But Can They Thrive There?, New York Times, Priya Krishna, January 18, 2022
This dovetails with what I wrote in my big piece for Vox back in summer. The suburbs are growing, but in doing so, they’re also becoming…less suburban. If by “suburban” we mean the sort of boring bedroom communities that we often mean. I was writing mostly about the D.C. area, but this is happening in major metro areas all over the country, and it has been happening for 20 or 30 years at least. You could say that it’s suburbia with urban characteristics. Also see this paragraph:
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