Last 7 Reads ( 10/12/2023 )

[🚇] A real-time 3D digital map of Tokyo's public transport system https://minitokyo3d.com/

[🇺🇸] “It’s kind of sad. However I’m mostly agreeable with it because I looked at rooms in West Yellowstone,” O’Connor said. “You’re looking at $190 to $290 in West Yellowstone, if you book in advance.” https://montanafreepress.org/2023/09/28/who-can-still-afford-a-yellowstone-road-trip/

[🦀] Spadaro has roughly a hundred crabs in the Florida Keys, and just shy of 200 at a new breeding facility in Sarasota. He’ll start dropping them into the ocean as soon as the end of the year or in early 2024, he said. https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2023/9/27/23883039/florida-coral-reef-caribbean-king-crabs-restoration

[🎥] Tokyo Story is laden with nonspeech; it punctuates the conversation of the grandparents, rendering their observations and questions melancholic, tentative. The grandfather in particular indulges in almost incessant hmms and sighs, each seeming to remark, worryingly, on the fragility and formality of the space in which parents and their adult children must meet. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/07/19/where-farts-come-in/

[✈️] They make more money from mileage programs than from flying planes—and it shows. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/airlines-banks-mileage-programs/675374/

[🦤] You can’t reach an audience on X. You can’t organize on X. You can’t follow breaking news on X. The people who made Twitter fun have all given up. There’s nothing worth sticking around for anymore. https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/does-anyone-think-twitter-gets-better

[🏠] Originally bestowed by the Tsar to reward courtiers, this custom continued following the revolution, with Soviet cooperatives building dachas for their members https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/sep/13/a-fairytale-wooden-world-soviet-country-cottages-in-pictures