Never mind the weather, don’t you feel it has been a coldand 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:

• Spotify throws a sprocket in our jam-bulance wheels

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

• Digital Millennium Copyright Act

• Dubai: Mistakes were made

• 15-minute cities are in the Dubai 2040 plan

• Junkspace

• Diriyah Gate

• Qiddiya

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

• The Ministry of McKinsey

• The US Senate Inquiry into the PIF Consultants

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

• Jeddah Tower also maybe restarting?

• Pritzker Prize goes to Riken Yamamoto

o Work includes The Circle, Zurich Airport

• Bjarke Ingels had a big, postmodern, postironicweek

o Museum/Casino of Freedom and Democracy, New York

o Las Vegas A’s Stadium

• Exhuming Baudrillard

• Bears and Sox lobbying Chicago and Illinois for stadium subsidies

• F1 < Saudi Vegas > F1

• Saudi 2034 World Cup Stadium by Populous

• Greg’s SXSW calendar

o Conference of MayorsCivic I/O Mayor’s Summit

o Using Augmented Reality to Drive Inclusive City Development

• Also at SXSW: Imagine Harder: Prototyping ImpossibleFutures

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

• Upcoming guests:

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

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