Simon de la Rouviere

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Financilization can crowd out other incentives. Like, imagine sharing news about dead children? Just awful combination of context. Memes and "content" work better but you're still changing the relationship to the media.

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Tempted to do some NFT pickups of collections I loved but I was priced out of in 2021/2022. Anyone eyeing some gems? 👀

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Bummed a bit that I'll be missing farcon. Would've loved to meet some you all in person.

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After ~119 weekly newsletters (posting every Sunday), I’m taking a hiatus as I go on a long walking trip through Spain. Taking this opportunity to thank everyone who’s been reading. :) https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/on-walking

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Avoiding midcurving is like fingertrap toys. Resist too much and you end up actually midcurving.

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Do you also sometimes just England on Google Maps? (I love English place names 😅)

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Pretty happy with the quality of this test print from Lulu.com. 👏 Would recommend. I kinda want a smaller book so will have to check again if they can do it smaller.

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The Minecraft Movie memes in theaters kinda makes me think theaters should really just lean into being concert-ish experiences. If you want silence and contemplation, it's deliberate (silent screenings) or you just watch it at home.

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Going to walk the Camino Frances at the end of the month. 😱 Anyone done this before?

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I was 2 km away from today's mystery location. (Yeah... Pretty sure today's pin is at the wrong location! 😅)

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Been wondering more about the rise of using LLM chatbots as therapy. Curious to hear your thoughts. I covered it on my recent newsletter: https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/the-therapy-in-chatgpt-and-me

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One thing that still surprises me about living in the US now for 4 years: the amount of wealth, size of the population, and massive geography, creates far more niche geographical communities than I anticipated. So much to see.

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I was 0 km away from today's mystery location 📍. Can you beat me? (I've driven this road countless times in my life. Easy. 😅😅)

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Re-upping the prediction that cheap therapy mediated through a patient yes-and LLM is going to have profound downstream effects. More than we realise today.

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Keep thinking about this map showing amount of cross-gender friendships and why culturally, being South African, I sometimes struggle with Americans. Downstream of this, it's a different attitude of how you see each person (independent of their gender).

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It's all just so incredibly dumb and stupid. Sigh.

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A longer essay this week on my newsletter. On what’s downstream of AI Ghibli. From AI Ghibli to Rebuilding our Tribes: https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/from-ai-ghibli-to-rebuilding-our

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Discovered this track today. Lovely ambience for a spring morning. They are a 7 (!) piece band. That suddenly sounds so dreamy: having a life that allows you make music like this with 6 other people on the regular. So far removed from my own life atm. https://youtu.be/lEqYxA6JarQ?si=TsqRExLukcKvWpti

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Planning on a digital detox sabbatical around the end of April exactly when two of my favourite TV series are starting again (The Rehearsal S2 and Andor S2). My timing isn't that good lol

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A song that I keep coming back to when I'm struggling is Deafheaven's Dream House. Few songs encompass the bittersweetness of grief. You're sad and angry but just happy to have experienced it at all. Legendary track. https://youtu.be/RWyVhIBmdGw?si=ABrxOTgK09eWk506

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