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“Where is this?,” implying another question: How can I get there, too? A certain ambivalence has always been a part of travel, knowing you’re a tourist but also craving direct contact with a different place. Yet algorithmic recommendations have automated that process of word of mouth and turned tourism into a conveyor belt that intrudes much deeper
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It’s true that walking through central London in 2024 can feel like navigating a bleak, postmodern satire of the thrills of urban spontaneity: ballpit bars and escape rooms for contrived office socials; expensive, ticketed mega-events; and security guards cosplaying as cops, moving civilians on from heavily surveilled POPS, or privately-owned publi
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