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Machine learning and maps applied to the ordinary infrastructure of daily life: third places, platform algorithms, neighbourhoods, and the politics of what gets measured.
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Why I Outsource My Biggest Decisions to a Chatbot - and None of the Small Ones (opens the original)
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A while back, my AI chatbot told me to quit my jobs, so I did. It told me to travel Australia, so I did. It told me to leave London and you can guess it by now: I did, which is why I spent last month priming, painting, laying a floor and assembling every single piece of furniture in a new-build rental in The Hague.In the same period I have never once asked it what to have for dinner, which running route to take or at which point I really spent too much money on food (the Hague hasn’t been disapp
Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same (opens the original)
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I’ve spent most of the last decade unable to answer the simplest question anyone asks: where’s home? I’ve lived in multiple countries, with a passport situation that makes border guards frown. Now I’m moving again, to The Hague, and it was house-hunting that finally made me see it. Every flat I scrolled, in a city I barely know, I already recognised: the same refinished parquet, matte-black taps, rewilded pot plant on the same windowsill. Same with the café near every place I’ve lived, flat whit
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