April 30, 2025

Gawr Gura memorial song: "In the Real World" by the Little Vir-maid

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The virtual shark-girl streamer who took the world by storm officially graduates today. I have a whole backlog of tribute songs I'll be ...
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April 29, 2025

Memorial song, "IRL-mei" by Moomlan

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Now that Hololive's owl-girl Mumei has left the nest, here's one last tribute song to memorialize her, in case she's still lurki...
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April 12, 2025

Programming note: series on coziness in architecture, from the room scale to the city plan scale, with cross-cultural and cross-temporal studies

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It's back to architecture for a little while, and the next series of posts will all be on the same overarching theme -- coziness. It wil...
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March 30, 2025

Further failures of AI slop "art", wannabe Ghibli edition

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Gonna post the comment thread from the previous post into a standalone post, to get a new ball rolling, and start some more aesthetics posti...
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March 5, 2025

Treehouses, and friends entering your 2nd-story room through the window, as tropes from the rising-harmony phase of the 50-year civil stability cycle

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While preparing a post on friends vs. frenemies during the rising-harmony vs. rising-strife phases of Turchin's 50-year cycle in civic c...
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February 17, 2025

The truce in the battle of the sexes during peaks of social harmony, 1940s and 1990s, halfway between peaks of social chaos circa 1920, 1970, and 2020

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A topic I've been exploring lately relates to the 50-year cycle that Peter Turchin uncovered in social chaos and civil breakdown in Amer...
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January 20, 2025

RIP David Lynch, who mythologized the normies of Edenic Americana, through saturated dreamy naturalism

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Following up on a series of comments starting here on the topic of "cool vs. weird," and another series starting here on the top...
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