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“On the older Metro stocks, the voyageur gets to open the door…This is done either by pressing a green button or, on the still older trains, by employing a winding motion to lift a steel latch called a loqueteau, whereupon the double doors spring violently apart as if they’d always hated each other.”

“The overwhelming success of ‘hip’ advertising in the 1960s solidified the idea that youth culture possessed the most valuable asset to a successful ad campaign: being cool. Whatever young people were thinking, it needed to be appropriated and capitalized on. If they loathed consumerism, advertising employed anti-advertising tactics. To keep up with the styles of the time ‘typefaces and graphic design reflected new hallucinogenic styles as quickly as they could be invented.’”

As Nilay Patel observed, the product of a social network is content moderation.