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Simon de la Rouviere 🇿🇦🇺🇲 @simondlr.com · 6d

New Sunday Edition! Talking about social media decline, stablecoins, Ocean Vuong, Hades 2, and more fun things. Enjoy!

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Sunday Edition #18 - Social Media Use Really Is Declining

Also: Mass Stablecoins and Burning Money as Art, Ocean Vuong, and Hades 2

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Simon de la Rouviere 🇿🇦🇺🇲 @simondlr.com · 13d

New Sunday Edition is out. Enjoy! :)

Sunday Edition #17 - Too Much Information and the Loss of Dynamism

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Sunday Edition #17 - Too Much Information and the Loss of Dynamism

Also: Rifts by Hashrunner, Hades 2, and Metalcore Shoegaze

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Simon de la Rouviere 🇿🇦🇺🇲 @simondlr.com · 20d

Sunday Edition #16 - Social Systems Scaling

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Sunday Edition #16 - Social Systems Scaling

Also: History of Japanese Urbanism, Art Shows, and Adolescence

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Simon de la Rouviere 🇿🇦🇺🇲 @simondlr.com · 27d

*Heterotopia 😅

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Simon de la Rouviere 🇿🇦🇺🇲 @simondlr.com · 27d

Sunday Edition #15 - The Heteropia of Hypographic Media. Enjoy! (Also, most eclectic newsletter yet? Also contains comments on K-Pop Demon Hunters and Ocean Vuong 😂)

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Sunday Edition #15 - The Heteropia of Hypographic Media

Also: Sami Angawi's House, Half-Marathon #3, K-Pop Demon Hunters, and Ocean Vuong

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Simon de la Rouviere 🇿🇦🇺🇲 @simondlr.com · Sep 7

Just in time before the US Open Men's Final. Enjoy the latest Sunday Edition! :)

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Sunday Edition #14 - Protocol Design in Urbanism

Also: "Bullshit" jobs aren't "Bullshit", AI Boyfriends, and Sofia Kourtesis

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Jay Springett @thejaymo.net · Sep 1

Big thanks to Simon for highlighting my 'Exit through the Casino' post in his newsletter this week.

"Jay is one of my favourite linguistics wranglers, coming up or arriving at terms which so neatly encapsulate concepts or ideas."

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Simon de la Rouviere 🇿🇦🇺🇲 @simondlr.com · Aug 31

Sunday Edition #13 - Co-Composting Collaboration: sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edi...

Enjoy!

Sunday Edition #13 - Co-Composting Collaboration

Also: Exit Through the Casino, Protocol Futurology, and new Big Wild Album

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Simon de la Rouviere 🇿🇦🇺🇲 @simondlr.com · Aug 31

Sunday Edition #13 - Co-Composting Collaboration: sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edi...

Enjoy!

Sunday Edition #13 - Co-Composting Collaboration

Also: Exit Through the Casino, Protocol Futurology, and new Big Wild Album

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Simon de la Rouviere 🇿🇦🇺🇲 @simondlr.com · Aug 28

Instead of just seeing generative AI as a way to shortcut process, I tried sketching a vision for what it might actually be good for in terms of its medium. It's not a replacement of media we know and love. Written in collab.

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A Vision of LLM-Native Media

Conversations: When Kernels and Agents Combine

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Simon de la Rouviere 🇿🇦🇺🇲 @simondlr.com · Aug 24

Latest Sunday Edition is out. Enjoy!

Rethinking Cinema (by Making It More Communal) - sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edi...

Sunday Edition #12 - Rethinking Cinema (by Making It More Communal)

Also: Urban Archeology, Hiding Character Goals from the Reader, and new Tourist

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Simon de la Rouviere 🇿🇦🇺🇲 @simondlr.com · Aug 17

Sunday Edition #11 - The First Ten to Fifty Pages. Enjoy!

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Sunday Edition #11 - The First Ten to Fifty Pages

Also: Soft City, A-Corps Updates, Thoughts on Moving, and Lord Huron

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Simon de la Rouviere 🇿🇦🇺🇲 @simondlr.com · Aug 10

Sunday Edition #10 - On The Decline of Conscientiousness (also ht to Night Tapes for always having amazing music video thumbnails!): sceneswithsimon.com/p/sunday-edi...

Sunday Edition #10 - On The Decline of Conscientiousness

Also: On Rejections, Genie 3, Naked Gun, and new Night Tapes

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Simon de la Rouviere 🇿🇦🇺🇲 @simondlr.com · Aug 3

New Sunday Edition is out. Building Better Courtyards. Enjoy!

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Sunday Edition #9 - Building Better Courtyards

Also: A Decade of Ethereum, Getting Artists Paid, and Common Side Effects

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Simon de la Rouviere 🇿🇦🇺🇲 @simondlr.com · Aug 1

I *really* don't get how mega-budget films like Avengers: Doomsday don't shoot with a finished script. Sounds like a recipe for disaster. Why gamble like that?

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Simon de la Rouviere 🇿🇦🇺🇲 @simondlr.com · Aug 1

Wrote about my feelings about Ethereum a decade later. Not entirely happy with where the crypto space has gone in general. We need more cypherpunk and we need people to just, be better.

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