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Kay's avatar

I love your newsletter and found this fascinating. However, I do have a correction. I absolutely guarantee you that TV writers do not look at social media for fan theories. It’s a bit insulting to those of us who write for TV to say that fans, who only watch what we produce, do a better job of it than we do. One day in a writer’s room would disabuse anyone of thinking this. By the way, I am also a huge fan of Dark and am looking forward to their new show. :-)

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The last time I was in London (ahem, 32 years ago), my friend who I was visiting insisted I buy an A-Zed, supposedly the most comprehensive collection of maps of the city that existed. “Not even native-Londoners will leave home without it”, she said. I wonder if Londoners still do this, or if it’s gone the way of Google Maps. And it amazes me that the cabbies also don’t simply use Google Maps.

Though I’m glad they don’t if only because it would make them (and makes us) significantly dumber. Studies have shown that the use of GPS technologies has dulled the brain functions that feed both memory and spatial awareness. I’m also weirdly convinced that the passivity it encourages primes us for fascism, or at least feeds our attraction to it. https://ashasanaker.substack.com/p/how-do-we-get-where-were-going

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