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fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Rise of the Western Minimalist Aesthetic

Cafés worldwide adopt a homogenized Western minimalist aesthetic, signaling modernity and status while diminishing local identity and creating subtle class boundaries.
fromThe New Yorker
3 months ago

My House Burned in the L.A. Fires. What Happens Now?

I grew up moving, so often that I sometimes lost count: New Jersey, Ohio, London, Maryland, Missouri, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Hong Kong by the time I was eighteen. When I left New York to join my soon-to-be husband, Billy, in Los Angeles, at the beginning of 2005, it occurred to me that I had never lived anywhere longer than seven years.
Los Angeles
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