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 -- 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, postironic week 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 Mayors Civic I/O Mayor’s Summit o Using Augmented Reality to Drive Inclusive City Development - Also at SXSW: Imagine Harder: Prototyping Impossible Futures - 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)