They'll be sorry someday, but it'll be too late. They'll have pictures and that's it. Hong Kong gets rid of its neon.

If you took a survey, asked people what they liked in signs, neon would top the list, and back-lit plastic would be on the bottom. No one would say "oh, please, more LED signs that blink 'OPEN' in a cheap, sad simulacrum of neon." Neon has a human quality no other signs can match; it's handwriting.

US! These things pop up in my feed all the time: all the cool things to do in Minneapolis! And maybe St. Paul but mostly Minneapolis! This admission caught my eye:

Because no one is as provincial as East Coast people.

SCIENCE! The Irish Times:

Yes, "basically 'aliens'" is some rock-hard science there. Get past that, and it's an interesting piece, but not if you have octophobia.

Speaking of phobias, Young People Today are afraid of . . . the telephone. The Atlantic:

You don't have to be a Millennial to feel that way. I agree. Phone calls are intrusive. You there, whatever you're doing: stop doing it and answer my call. It took me years to suppress instinct and let the phone go to voicemail; the ring of the bell was a blunt demand, and when it fell silent, unanswered, rebuke somehow hung in the air.

The article is also a love song to the Western Electric 500, a venerable piece of tech whose virtues will never be matched by cellphones.

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