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@navneetalang.com Oh I think I can publish straight from Bear, which is what I write in anyway… Thanks! Gonna test this one out

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@navneetalang.com That’s what I use now and I want to change (though this may be laziness on my part)

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@ibogost.com Assuming the idea is for people with an older iPhone who want to switch based on context, season etc., no? My brother uses a larger phone in winter and smaller one in summer

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@navneetalang.com Sure. But if it happens anyway, this seems the likely effect to me

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@navneetalang.com Amazing

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@navneetalang.com Or just brown! Trust me, I know

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@navneetalang.com What else that commonly appears on Bluesky appears to be brave truth-telling or an important counter-narrative but is in fact not true?

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@navneetalang.com (obvious addendum here is that there were also networks – proto-algorithms? – of influence, money, connections etc. that also determined what music I heard prior to streaming services)

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@navneetalang.com Is what to me feels like a rise in minimalist instrumental music in fact a rise in minimalist instrumental music? Or is that I listened to one artist and then was served similar ones such that what once felt like an observable aesthetic trend is now occupied by my mode of discovery?

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@jm-mcgrath.bsky.social perfect McGrath response to this

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@navneetalang.com We’ve seen some examples of that re ChatGPT use too. Still not clear on how that leads to extinction

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@navneetalang.com I lost a couple of days to that game

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@navneetalang.com Right but how does the eliminating happen?

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@navneetalang.com when the future feels so unpredictable, squirrelling away money in order to enjoy oneself down the road feels less wise than it once did (though perhaps if I’m around in 20 or 30 years it will in fact have seemed foolish to not save more!)

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@navneetalang.com that seems much worse! Canadians = 42 million. Gender = I dunno, 3 billion? This could just be a weird hangup of mine. Think it’s likely about a way of speaking that makes sense form most but doesn’t line up with my own weird idiosyncratic thing

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@navneetalang.com (Aside: Don’t know why, exactly, but I feel much more strongly about being Torontonian than I do Canadian.)

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@navneetalang.com Dunno!

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@navneetalang.com Sure, that makes sense. But I can’t see myself ever using “we” to talk about being Canadian (or British or Indian). I think it obfuscates too much to be useful except perhaps in those kind of idealized terms you refer to. But it’s also specific to me and my own experience.

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@navneetalang.com Actually, Nav, the physical cost of homes themselves is only one small part of a much wider crisis that has its roots in zoning, urban planning, entrenched interests, financialization across the Anglosphere, the gerontocracy and and and

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@navneetalang.com I like that (not the “always be there“ part, the image)

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@navneetalang.com Maybe this is ahistorical! Maybe the middle class is itself a product of wealth creation in capitalism and the idea at least is that that continues to extend until… And yet. Doesn’t seem like the so-called “bottom” rung is on the mind of many in positions of genuine power.

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@navneetalang.com I guess I just mean that when people talk about technology X upending things, it can mean a reorganization of flows of capital, the structure or nature of commercial operations, people’s day-to-day experience of life… And yet: we accept that some portion of people can suffer and that’s ok.

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@navneetalang.com This isn’t revelatory or anything. But markets grow, luxuries increase. The people I know spend what other people might spend on rent or emergencies on… cookware? Vacations? Home upgrades? And yet some portion of people genuinely suffer from material deprivation.

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@navneetalang.com My non-expert sense of things is that the middle of the last century brought more material comfort to the middle. Ostensibly to the bottom, too. An optimist might say that things have thus improved. But the basic structure remains the same, in particular that that a %age at the bottom suffers.

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@navneetalang.com Really not a fan when things that are explicitly cost-cutting measures are pitched as improvements and they are in fact worse! It’s a Mercedes - you can just charge more?

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Listening to Oscar Peterson on vinyl: navneetalang.com

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The Trouble with David Schwartz: navneetalang.com

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Transportation is about bodies \"\" : navneetalang.com

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A (sort of) optimistic case for AI: navneetalang.com

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Thoughts on living through an inflection point: navneetalang.com

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Trees and Champagne: navneetalang.com

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Idle thought: some BIPOC ppl, esp 2nd gen etc, want the kind of representation of Bridgerton to satisfy a fantasy of inclusion in the dominant culture in which they live. The alternatives are narratives in different cultures, in different languages and that’s not what they want.

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“When the Hindu Right Came for Bollywood” www.newyorker.com/magazine/…

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Test

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Just testing something

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Does Toronto Need a Restaurant Critic? navneetalang.com

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Punch Magazine leans into the Martini hype (or re-hype? or?) with a comprehensive roundup. punchdrink.com/articles/…

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About the Martini : navneetalang.com

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On the Pleasures of Not Reading: navneetalang.com

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Media as Metonym: On E3, Auto Shows, and White Supremacist YouTube: navneetalang.com

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Stick with this ‘til the end even if you find parts of it to be too much hazlitt.net/longreads…

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Well that seems optimistic

\n\"\"\n","summary":"","url":"https://navneetalang.com/2023/01/22/well-that-seems.html","date_published":"2023-01-22T17:30:35+00:00","author":{"name":"Navneet Alang","url":"http://navneetalang.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fed4367c49aaa08085b1f3d628417c816%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"navalang"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-01-22 17:30","date_timestamp":1674408635,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://x.com/navalang/status/1617213172271796228"]}},{"id":"15920291","content_html":"Some random thoughts on White Lotus in no particular order:\nIt is a fine thing for a show to be obvious about its targets and to go about its business obviously. I guess.\n“Relatability” is a curse all 21st century art must face — I don’t know who’s to blame for that (Tumblr?) — but othe... navneetalang.com","summary":"","url":"https://navneetalang.com/2023/01/12/some-random-thoughts.html","date_published":"2023-01-13T02:35:15+00:00","author":{"name":"Navneet Alang","url":"http://navneetalang.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fed4367c49aaa08085b1f3d628417c816%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"navalang"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-01-13 02:35","date_timestamp":1673577315,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://x.com/navalang/status/1613726353139851266"]}},{"id":"15793072","content_html":"

I’ve reluctantly spent a lot of time in malls recently. I forgot about that unease you feel while in one: all of us slowly plodding along, desperate to cobble together our own individuality from the sameness.

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Watched S1 of White Lotus. There was a message in there somewhere… but whatever it was, it was extremely subtle.

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To be Principled You Have to Avoid Pleasure : navneetalang.com

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I am these days a bit obsessed with things. Stuff. Objects.\nI am typing this little note on a new mechanical keyboard that I’m not sure I had any real need for. I upgraded my iPad despite my older one already being far more than I needed. I keep spending money that, if I were more pract... navalang.micro.blog: navalang.micro.blog

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When will there be a backlash to “immersion”? : navalang.micro.blog

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Listened to more of CBC Ideas’s series “The Shock of the New” and it’s great. It’s about “hinge years” – 1600, 1789, 1833, 1913, 1947 – admittedly arbitrary moments in global history that act at least as symbols for radical or deep change.\nIt’s satisfyingly meaty, erudite, and features ... navalang.micro.blog: navalang.micro.blog

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