Never mind the weather, don’t you feel it has been a cold
and eerily quiet winter? Could it be because Unfrozen was offline due to unanticipated legal issues with our podcasting platform? Never fear, we are back in black / in the saddle again, we missed you, and we are ready to infiltrate your ears with our musings once again.


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


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Discussed:


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Spotify throws a sprocket in our jam-bulance wheels


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Ubik-like terms of service, as written by Philip K. Dick.


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Digital Millennium Copyright Act


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Dubai: Mistakes were made


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15-minute cities are in the Dubai 2040 plan


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Junkspace


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Diriyah Gate


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Qiddiya


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North Pole Riyadh, 2-kilometer tower by Foster + Partners


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The Ministry of McKinsey


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The US Senate Inquiry into the PIF Consultants


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Dubai Creek Harbour and the delayed Dubai Creek Tower maybe restarting?


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Jeddah Tower also maybe restarting?


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Pritzker Prize goes to Riken Yamamoto


o  
Work includes The Circle, Zurich Airport


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Bjarke Ingels had a big, postmodern, postironic
week


o   Museum/Casino of Freedom and Democracy, New York


o   Las Vegas A’s Stadium


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Exhuming Baudrillard


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Bears and Sox lobbying Chicago and Illinois for stadium subsidies


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F1 < Saudi Vegas > F1


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Saudi 2034 World Cup Stadium by Populous


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Greg’s SXSW calendar


o  Conference of Mayors
Civic I/O Mayor’s Summit


o  Using Augmented Reality to Drive Inclusive City Development


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Also at SXSW: Imagine Harder: Prototyping Impossible
Futures


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Don’t drive or walk outside using Apple Vision Pro goggles


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Upcoming guests:


o  Joshua Comaroff & Ong Ker-Shing, authors of Horror in Architecture


o  Kevin Kelley, Shook Kelley, author of Irreplaceable (not Kevin Kelly)