Intro/Outro: “Miss You,” by the Rolling Stones

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Discussed:

• Spotify throws a sprocket in our jam-bulance wheels
• Ubik-like terms of service, as written by Philip K. Dick.
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act
• Dubai: Mistakes were made
• 15-minute cities are in the Dubai 2040 plan
• Junkspace
• Diriyah Gate
• Qiddiya
• North Pole Riyadh, 2-kilometer tower by Foster + Partners
• The Ministry of McKinsey
• The US Senate Inquiry into the PIF Consultants
• Dubai Creek Harbour and the delayed Dubai Creek Tower maybe restarting?
• Jeddah Tower also maybe restarting?
• Pritzker Prize goes to Riken Yamamoto
  • Work includes The Circle, Zurich Airport
• Bjarke Ingels had a big, postmodern, postironic week
  • Museum/Casino of Freedom and Democracy, New York
  • Las Vegas A’s Stadium
• Exhuming Baudrillard
• Bears and Sox lobbying Chicago and Illinois for stadium subsidies
• F1 < Saudi Vegas > F1
• Saudi 2034 World Cup Stadium by Populous
• Greg’s SXSW calendar
  • Conference of Mayors Civic I/O Mayor’s Summit
  • Using Augmented Reality to Drive Inclusive City Development
• Also at SXSW: Imagine Harder: Prototyping Impossible Futures
• Don’t drive or walk outside using Apple Vision Pro goggles
• Upcoming guests:
  • Joshua Comaroff & Ong Ker-Shing, authors of Horror in Architecture
  • Kevin Kelley, Shook Kelley, author of Irreplaceable (not Kevin Kelly)