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Pinterest is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between October 04, 2021 and November 03, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Sometimes I look at people’s furniture Pinterests. If Pinterest is any kind of representative window”; “everyone wistfully lists on their Pinterest before grudgingly accepting reality and buying IKEA”. It most often appears alongside Art Nouveau, United States, 19th century African art.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: October 04, 2021
- Last seen: November 03, 2023
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- Art Nouveau (2 shared issues)
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- United States (2 shared issues)
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- 19th century African art (1 shared issues)
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- 20th century (1 shared issues)
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- 23andme (1 shared issues)
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- 9-11 (1 shared issues)
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- abstract art (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (1 shared issues)
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- administrative state (1 shared issues)
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- Aka (1 shared issues)
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- Akhenaten (1 shared issues)
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- Albert Gleizes (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
I got a new place recently and have been looking for furnishings. Sometimes I look at people’s furniture Pinterests. If Pinterest is any kind of representative window into the soul of the modern furniture-enthusiast, people really like Art Nouveau. Typical pictures that people pin will look like this:
If all of this is too ambitious, come up with a roadmap for how to start with small achievable victories and build up to cathedrals and concert halls. For example, maybe we should start by getting someone to produce the sort of Art Nouveau furniture everyone wistfully lists on their Pinterest before grudgingly accepting reality and buying IKEA. If that works, we can leverage what we’ve learned and the publicity we’ve gained to start working on bigger targets.