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That these turned out to be car dependent is could be a fundamental issue with current societies? It is hard to have small, dispersed towns, and also ensure that there are workplaces for everyone nearby, without central planning. We'll need density anyway, unlike the New Town planners envisioned.

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I love this; clear connections to comics theory and hence also information design!

A nice-looking, oddly abandoned bike near our place, just leaning by a planting pot. Had a closer look, it was unlocked. Thanks to a service QR sticker on it I could call the company where it had been for service; the owner just called back and said it had been stolen from Eastern Helsinki!

One thing that really drives home how different experiences can be even between wealthy countries is the US recollections of COVID. Realizing this is a privileged position, but after the initial terror the lockdown in Finland, for our family, was ”strange, and sometimes even cozy”.

Jos luit Kontulan haastattelun Hesarissa, niin lue vielä robotiikka-asiantuntija Brooksin artikkelin humanoidien haasteista. En usko, että ihmisiä geneerisesti ja edullisemmin korvaavat humanoidirobotit olisivat vielä lainkaan näköpiirissä www.hs.fi/politiikka/a... rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-h...

Virgin NEOM vs the Chad New Town: UK post-war urban planning propaganda went hard

This 1948 infomercial about the first UK New Towns built to alleviate post-war housing issues would no doubt feel provocative to current conservatives riled up about 15-minute cities. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ne...

oh, I’m a pretentious playwright and author, squandering his inheritance on bad business deals

somewhat absurd, Finnish banks now apparently ask for PICTURES of your apartment when applying for a loan. Referring to FIN-FSA financial supervisory authority's instructions from 2021. So presumably they're not looking if you have design furniture, it is rather about proving you own the apartment?

An idea that got reinforced on this summer’s road trip: for an relative outsider all the Nordics are more or less the Same Country, with some tiny exceptions like Icelandic not really being mutually intelligible, Finnish in a different language family, and the Danish not having an alcohol monopoly