Clive Thompson
Writer, musician/songwriter, hobbyist coder. Contributing writer to New York Times Magazine and Wired. Author of “Coders”. Blogging at clivethompson.medium.com, archive of writing at www.authory.com/clivethompson #science #technology #coding #software #writing #literature #poetry [email protected]
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Cake day: October 31st, 2022
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I’m pretty sure we will
The brownstones of Brooklyn – over which these days Wall Street guys frantically try to outbid one another with $3-$4 million offers – because they’re regarded as gorgeous and iconic …
… were, when they were first built in the 19th century, utterly loathed by veddy propah citizens as being hideously ugly eyesores
While recognizing that horrible contemporary design does indeed exist, I have trouble fully trusting here-and-now aesthetic judgements