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“Bar-tabacs are part café, part shop. You can buy cigarettes, lottery tickets, or newspapers, and sit down for a coffee or a glass of wine. They’re not particularly glamorous, but they serve as everyday meeting points, especially in rural areas … when a new bar-tabac opens, the far-right vote share will decline over time.” europeancorrespondent.com
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Japan runs out of robot wolves in fight against bears (not a sci-fi story). popsci.com/environment/japan-robot-wolf-army/
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Affluent families pay for the unbundled services and get something close to what civic infrastructure used to provide, except curated and selective and predictably high-quality. They aren’t just buying community. They’re buying social risk insurance: insulation from institutional failure, controlled peer environments, future opportunity pipelines. They’re also buying the option to never encounter the people whose lives are getting worse because the substrate they’re paying to replace has gone missing for everyone else.
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The Four Rules for a Good Walk:
useful, safe, comfortable, and interesting
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Personal Business. “The type of business that both sustains and is sustained by a community.” (are.na)
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Mangos. Manuals. Media.: librarians, heroes of the apocalypse.
Science Fiction Movie Lettering: “Glowing letters were a big trend that started in the late 80s, most likely set off by the Alien franchise. And I can never get enough of the 3D type in early films.” /via The Future is Like Pie
Examples of Good and Bad UX in Improvised Signage in Movie Theaters: answering is there an end or mid-credit scene?
Blackboard Bold: “a style of writing bold symbols on a blackboard by doubling certain strokes” /via SC 2.4.4
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“Dystopia is easy. You take what people are afraid of and tell them it’s right outside their door. The cure is to open the door and see the truth for yourself. What’s on the other side of the door is your neighbors, and some of them brought donuts.”
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From Found Way, an amazing are.na collection of wayfinding, signs, etc.
