Oskar Johanson

Vibecoding your way out of a war zone

Screenshot showing the text: Not the first time: This is far from the first battle over noise complaints in London. We’ve previously documented how hundreds of the capital’s iconic nightlife venues have seen their licences reviewed after petty noise complaints — including one pub that faced closure after “faint giggles” from patrons annoyed a single local resident.

Damned by faint giggles

@londonermag.bsky.social

Heatherwick here suggesting that if you run out of 19th century industrial buildings to turn into shopping centres, just start synthesising them.

Your child is making sand castles (unreconciled nostalgia for the feudal project). My child is sketching Marx's face in the sand. We are not the same.

The phone theory of urbanism

Incredible. Wasn't the Green only refurbed a couple years ago?

The SS United States in axonometric projection in the Hermann Bollmann map of New York City, 1963

How do you call among you the little mouse, the mouse that jumps?

Deranged

They've made it almost shrine-like

Can I get a subsequent prayer emoji

Ships are so often prostheses; see the Bibby Stockholm as an extension of the British immigration-carceral system; Carnival cruises ships at APEC 2018 as as extension of the fortified hotel compound; the aircraft carrier as four acres of 'sovereign' US or British territory moved to a theatre of war.

Checkmate, globeheads

Wild that large vessels like this are still deliberately scuttled and then called "reefs", as if by being sent beneath the sea they suddenly start to accord to a natural order

Why though

Gesturing wildly:

"—are you supportive of these onesies?"

Agree, no slow down in accretion of data. Just 0s, not Nulls.

But the speed at which we now demand digital maps, especially in journalism, means that cloud obscuration is back - there's no time to wait for a clear day. Just today, in a map representing the damage from the LA fires, the NY Times has placed a label not unlike the ones at the top of this thread.

Today, clouds have almost disappeared from the stable, seamless 'mosaics' that are the background layers for platforms like Google Maps. This is a function of blending thousands of images together. But there were moments, especially in earlier versions, when clouds appeared out of place.

But the throughline seems to be the industrialisation of content that no-one actually pays attention to - at the expense of everything else

Between @tavlin.bsky.social's n+1 article on the Typical Netflix Movie (TNM) and @lizpelly.bsky.social's Harper's article on Spotify's Perfect Fit Content (PFC), it's looking bleak folks

You've never needed a last minute pneumatic log splitter?

Lutheran infrastructure, Bodø

Featuring Miquette Giraudy of Gong, the film was scored by Pink Floyd, who then released the accompanying album 'Obscured by clouds'. The album makes use of the EMS VCS 3 synthesiser, which really sets the scene for misplaced spiritual voyages.

Schroeder skewers his colonials, who trick themselves with a kind of hippie truth-seeking until it is too late. But this critique is not really extended to the film itself, which repeatedly dislocates Indigenous people and their language in the service of spectacle.

Shame about the permanent mourning veil on the tower though

Can't DM you directly! Might need to change a setting

Would you post to Norway? Can cover the fee and any strange taxes they add over here.

Featuring Miquette Giraudy of Gong, the film was scored by Pink Floyd, who then released the accompanying album 'Obscured by clouds'. The album makes heavy use of Peter Zinovieff's EMS VCS 3 synthesiser, which supplies a decaying drone well suited to misplaced spiritual voyages.

Once such gap is the subject of Barbet Schroeder's strange and cynical 1972 film La Vallée, in which a group of bourgeois New Agers journey through the Papua New Guinean bush in search of what they believe to be one of the world's last scraps of the 'unknown'.