The Deleted Scenes - New and Old #96
File Not Found, The Verge, Monica Chin, September 22, 2021 This is a fascinating piece. My dad used to do computer programming (nobody called it “coding” then), and he taught me how to organize computer files and folders. To this day I keep a fairly organized digital workspace. Since then, it’s always been intuitive to me that a computer’s graphical user interface is an analogy for an office. The desktop and the file/folder system are representations of actual desktops and actual file and folder systems, i.e. filing cabinets. And yet:
Why?
The extent to which efficient computer use actually relied on a familiarity with old and now largely forgotten physical or analog office procedures is really fascinating. These snippets are just snippets; there’s a lot here. Read the whole thing! What made John Deere change its tune on Right to Repair?, PIRG, Kevin O’Reilly, January 31, 2023
I’ve mentioned right to repair here before. It’s a very interesting, old-fashioned economic populist sort of idea: progressive but not left, if that makes sense. And its political clout is growing. This piece is promotional to an extent, but also a good example of what the movement is up to. How Nextdoor Put Neighbors In a Housing Policy ‘Cage Match,’ Vice, Aaron Gordon, January 24, 2023 I tried Nextdoor for a few months, and found it mostly boring. I found one housing fight—through my wife’s account, not even mine—and saw a bunch of “Was that just gunshots?” and “Why is there a helicopter flying over?” posts. I guess I didn’t have the most NIMBY neighbors. But I’ve heard a lot of stories, including about a fellow from a former communist country who found the Nextdoor debate too nasty and intimidating to participate in.
I increasingly sort of think housing is everything. None of this should be the way it is. But it is. Read the whole thing. The Toad Factor, Town & Country Magazine, Keith Hayes, February 19, 2020 I’ve been reading The Wind in the Willows, and I came across this article that bounces off of it to talk about the road to the dominance of the car in Britain:
It sounds, from this piece anyway, as though car dominance took longer to cement itself across the pond. Although, in an interesting turn, you can drive down a lot old bypassed U.S. Highways and find yourself in a ghostly version of the 1950s, like I did here. Related Reading: Thank you for reading! Please consider upgrading to a paid subscription to help support this newsletter. You’ll get a weekly subscribers-only post, plus full access to the archive: over 500 posts and growing. And you’ll help ensure more material like this! You're currently a free subscriber to The Deleted Scenes. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. |
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