Say what you want about New York, when I ended up invited to some dude's mansion it was a fucking jazz age masquerade with an open bar and completely free. Sounds like all those tech people need to up their microdoses to real doses, loosen up a bit.
Granted, I've never hosted huge 100+ invitee parties. But I like my brother's philosophy on hosting: no covers, but the host should always end up with a net gain of booze.
I went to a sapphic house party (advertised on insta, DM for address type thing) a couple years ago in Florida that had a cover charge and no re-entry. There were DJs so I get wanting to pay them but the no re-entry part of it pissed me off, there were probably 100+ people jammed in this tiny house with no airflow. It was an awful time tbh. A lot of the branding of it felt misleading, maybe they bit off more than they could chew? Making a house party feel like the club sucks
I really like Happy for You by Claire Stanford. (Users by Colin Winnette and Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter are other recent reads that added to my perspective.) But your post most reminded me of some of the scenes described in Anna Wiener's memoir, Uncanny Valley. All of the above probably lean more towards a "tech menace" vibe than mere tech skepticism. I like to think I'm more of a gimlet-eyed realist than doomsayer decrying a dystopian tech hellscape, but that might depend on the day. :-o Got any other rec's for books that address the SF tech transformation of the last xx years? If so, I welcome any such, with thanks!
Say what you want about New York, when I ended up invited to some dude's mansion it was a fucking jazz age masquerade with an open bar and completely free. Sounds like all those tech people need to up their microdoses to real doses, loosen up a bit.
agree
Granted, I've never hosted huge 100+ invitee parties. But I like my brother's philosophy on hosting: no covers, but the host should always end up with a net gain of booze.
Yes exactly. Cash poor, but rich in friends and alcohol <3
I went to a sapphic house party (advertised on insta, DM for address type thing) a couple years ago in Florida that had a cover charge and no re-entry. There were DJs so I get wanting to pay them but the no re-entry part of it pissed me off, there were probably 100+ people jammed in this tiny house with no airflow. It was an awful time tbh. A lot of the branding of it felt misleading, maybe they bit off more than they could chew? Making a house party feel like the club sucks
no re entry is silly. let the people come and go with freedom!
I've apparently been reading too much tech-skeptical fiction and non-fiction lately, because your write-up reads like a scene from one of those books!
wow thanks! what are your favorite tech skeptical novels?
I really like Happy for You by Claire Stanford. (Users by Colin Winnette and Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter are other recent reads that added to my perspective.) But your post most reminded me of some of the scenes described in Anna Wiener's memoir, Uncanny Valley. All of the above probably lean more towards a "tech menace" vibe than mere tech skepticism. I like to think I'm more of a gimlet-eyed realist than doomsayer decrying a dystopian tech hellscape, but that might depend on the day. :-o Got any other rec's for books that address the SF tech transformation of the last xx years? If so, I welcome any such, with thanks!