I miss Mung-i, I’ve been out in the field for last three weeks, and his trainer has been sending me photos and videos everyday 😭
Look at my boy
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What bothers me about this is that it tries to circumvent the laws of physics. And I mean the physics of copper wire. It isn’t theoretical.
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This is the final aesthetic form of the managerial internationalist order and it is sad that Singapore Airlines has finally succumbed to it. It is truly grotesque.
Welcome to millennial grey or as I prefer to call it, the globohomo aesthetic. It signals the triumph of the neutral, the scalable, and what Marc Augé called "the non-place."
These are spaces designed to erase the friction of being somewhere specific and it has now found its full expression in the airline's newly unveiled cabin interiors.
The whole point of this soulless minimalism is to make the transition between places feel effortless, to optimize for global movement, and the result is the smoothing away of rooted cultures, traditions and visual particularities.
You also see this design now in airports, hotels, new apartment builds and AirBnBs. They employ the same materials, the same restrained color palette, the same soft-touch surfaces, and the same implication of competence. You are everywhere but nowhere at once.
The passenger is not meant to feel the particular hospitality or visual culture of Singapore. Who was this designed for? The bean counter? The management consultant? The flagship cabin has become merely a container for productivity and rest rather than an experience with its own local character and heritage.
This is tragic beyond belief because Singapore Airlines still flies the most distinctive cabin crew uniform in commercial aviation: the sarong kebaya designed by Pierre Balmain, unchanged since 1968, its batik detailing a living fragment of Peranakan culture tied to a specific place and history.
Every other airline has updated or abandoned its uniforms for mass production or modern fashion cycles. Singapore Airlines refrained.
Yet for whatever schizo reason, they've decided to yeet their identity everywhere else that matters. The airline that once treated its visual identity as a point of pride has chosen the path of least resistance. The earthy tones are gone. The leather, the wood trim and the art - all gone. Just safe cool grey interiors that are dreary, corporate and characterless.
You legit can't tell if you're in a Silicon Valley headquarters or a German automaker's concept vehicle or in the waiting room of a medical clinic.
Welcome to the internationally interchangeable visual language, which I suppose is par for the course for what Singapore has become - competent, sure, but risk averse, and increasingly unsure of who it is or worse. It's just a well-run node in the global network.
The new SQ business class colour palette is a friendly reminder that you're still very much at work as your ticket is paid for by your employer.
I don't know where the $2 billion went to or how much of it was wasted on useless consultants.
'Buy Singapore' these days either means you get ripped off by a local company slapping its brand over a Chinese OEM or you grossly overpay for a so-so product that's past its heyday, sort of a reflection of the Singaporean graduate market.
It's honestly hard to justify paying for SQ prices especially in the premium cabins when the competition has caught up and layovers are a minor inconvenience when you're like a full 1/3 cheaper or even 1/2 the price of SQ.
Maybe it's just symptomatic of a wider Singapore problem where once the competition catches up, you realize there isn't too much that makes us intrinsically special and to generate more revenue/profits, the easiest option is to turn to foreign labour and crank up the frequencies.
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I don’t know what the upper limit is on the number of cybersecurity posts I want to read from VCs, but I can safely say a16z has surpassed it
100% - often times in our space at day job, we often achieve a higher security bar through working with the business to improve processes, provide them with actionable intel into said processes or other mechanisms before driving tech investment.
A lot of cybersecurity problems are really organizational dysfunction problems hidden behind a layer of tech. No amount of AI tokens can fix that.
Feel free to send this post to your boss.
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a major Seattle life hack is eating out at a teriyaki joint. not only was teriyaki literally invented here (so we have the best), but you can get two meals out of one order. in a city of insane dining prices, you can split one $18 order of chicken between two meals or two people
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Please read:
Every GOP strategist, consultant, and candidate should be forced to participate in a role-playing exercise this morning.
Your name is Bob. You’re a 49-year-old blue-collar worker in Ohio. You’ve always struggled to make ends meet. The good jobs were all shipped to China and the few remaining pay a pittance wage, undercut by endless illegal labor.
You’re a 3x Trump voter because you believed he would finally make America great again.
You put your son through Ohio State. He graduated cum laude in computer science. You couldn’t have been prouder. After months searching, he landed an entry-level job at Microsoft. Beneath his qualifications, but a good start for a smart kid.
Then he got laid off. That same month, Microsoft applied for 150,000 more H-1B visas because it can’t find qualified Americans.
Your son has spent six months back in his childhood bedroom, sending hundreds of applications without landing an interview.
On TV, Trump boasts about the greatest economy in history and how many women and minorities are finding jobs.
You decide a father-son steak night might cheer him up.
Gas is $4.50 a gallon. Filling your truck costs over $100. At Kroger, ribeyes are $30/lb. You settle for hamburger, even though 70/30 ground beef still costs $10+.
At checkout, a fat black woman is screaming at the cashier because her EBT will only cover most of the filet mignon and lobster in her cart.
You think to yourself how the Iran war has made everything expensive, but at least we’re stopping their nuclear bomb. You weren’t even sure where Iran was before you googled it after we first bombed them in March.
After dinner, you take your son to the county fair. Half the people aren’t speaking English. Virtually none of the crowd looks like you. You’re forced to leave early after a “teen takeover” turns violent. A foreign born judge pledges none of them will go to jail.
Back home, you turn on the TV. Vivek Ramaswamy is lecturing the crowd about American mediocrity and why Ohio needs more foreign talent.
Your son grows upset. You change the channel.
Now a Republican surrogate, the daughter of a governor or wife of an elderly billionaire, explains that young White men are the REAL welfare queens. They’d rather play videogames in their parents’ basements than work.
Your son says nothing. He just goes back to his childhood bedroom. You turn off the TV.
Then your neighbor starts blasting reggaeton and cracking open Modelos. He brought his cousin’s family from Mexico to help with all the minority-business contracts his construction firm keeps winning. Tonight they’re celebrating his nephew’s birth, the family’s first birthright American citizen.
You sit alone in your living room.
You worked hard, paid taxes, obeyed the law, and raised your son to do everything right. You voted Republican again and again because you believed somebody in Washington would finally fight for you.
Instead, your wages are stagnant. Groceries are unaffordable. Your community is unrecognizable. Your country is fighting another foreign war.
And upstairs, the son you sacrificed everything for is lying awake in the bedroom he slept in at twelve, wondering what the heck he’s even supposed to do with his life now.
Every time you turn on the TV, the Republicans you elected are either congratulating themselves or explaining why you and your son are the problem.
For ten years, they told you America’s future depended on your vote. Now you aren’t even sure America has a future worth defending.
The Republican Party needs to answer one simple question this morning:
You’ve spent a decade demanding Bob’s loyalty. You’ve given him stagnant wages, unaffordable groceries, another foreign war, and a son who did everything right but can’t find work.
And when they complain, you call them lazy, entitled, and racist.
What possible reason have you given Bob and his son to vote Republican? Do you honestly think you deserve their vote?
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HEADS UP re: RAILWAY INCIDENT: Josh @joshmanders needs some help with incident response so I am posting this on his behalf and with his permission asking for those of you in my orbit who are qualified, and many of you are, to reach out to him with serious intent about helping him with the recent Railway incident.
Triage.
Log analysis.
Correlation.
Josh will give you the specifics.
And no trolling or I'm going to lose my shit on you. This is a serious tweet and inquiry.
Make me proud.
P. S. Retweet far and wide please.
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blue wave and ocarina of time remake this week. You know what means. State mandated hunter schafer as zelda
