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Madrigal has long explored how technology, culture, and environment shape our lives; from his work co-founding The COVID Tracking Project to his books Powering the Dream and The Pacific Circuit. In this talk, Madrigal turns his attention to the question of how we come to know a place. Drawing on his background as a reporter, writer, and thinker of cities, landscapes, and histories, he explores different ways of writing about and understanding place, revealing how perspective, memory, and narrative inform the stories we tell about the world around us. 

About the Speaker

Alexis Madrigal is a journalist in Oakland, California. He is the co-host of KQED’s current affairs show, Forum, and a contributing writer at The Atlantic, where he co-founded The COVID Tracking Project. Previously, he was the editor-in-chief of Fusion and a staff writer at Wired. His latest book, The Pacific Circuit, came out in March 2025 from MCD x FSG. He is the proprietor of the Oakland Garden Club, a newsletter for people who like to think about plants. Madrigal authored the book Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. He has been a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Information School and UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Technology, Science, and Medicine as well as an affiliate with Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. He was born in Mexico City, grew up in rural Washington State, and went to Harvard.

Podcast and Transcript

Watch the panel above or on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URcgwVjoxbE ]. Or listen to the audio recording via the Matrix Podcast below (or on Apple Podcasts)."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Flying cars in the Jetsons, trains snaking around towers in Wakanda, or the sentient rail system on the newly terraformed Sask-E planet. In building future and alternative worlds, the way people get around can be used to reveal and ask questions about societies, technologies, and politics.

Watch this recording of the Public Transit Visions in Speculative Fiction panel discussion to learn how depictions of public transit in fiction shape the worlds of our imagination. This event took place on September 16, 2025 at the First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco as part of Bay Area Transit Month 2025.

​The panelists are Jeffery Tumlin, Annalee Newitz, Alissa Walker, Vincent Woo, and Alexis Madrigal. Discussion moderated by Audrey T. Williams.

Seamless Bay Area socials
Website: https://www.seamlessbayarea.org/

00:00 Introduction
07:23 Panelist Bios
10:52 Panel Discussion
55:24 Audience Q&A
01:18:00 Closing Remarks"

[See also:
https://luma.com/0olo6szj ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Next Friday, I’m doing a little thing at Fort Mason we’re calling The Memory Clerk. [https://fortmason.org/event/alexis-madrigal-the-memory-clerk/ ]

For a day, I’m going to be posted up inside the Gateway Pavilion filing your memories of Fort Mason. We can record audio. You can write your memories down. You can bring me pictures. I’ll create a of Bill of Lading (see below) and make sure that Transynaptic Consolidated Lines gets your memory cargoes where they need to go.

It’s part of a project I’m working on about the 50th Anniversary of the Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, which is one of the most improbable and remarkable institutions we’ve got. You can come on Friday from noon to 10pm and share an idea with me. Or if you really want to get into the performance art mood of it all, sign up for a slot late that night. If you don’t, it will just be me and the ghosts, which is also fine. They have memories, too, I bet.

I’ve found Fort Mason a fascinating subject for our times. How did this organization turn a vast amount of vacant space into a thriving culture focused on art and ecology? This is kind of the task of our era in Bay Area cities, no? And here we have this shining example of it, right there in one of the most beautiful points of the whole Bay.

Of course, Fort Mason is historically important in regular old American history because it was the Port of Embarkation for the Navy during the first two thirds of the 20th century, a time in which our country fought a lot of wars across the Pacific. Through a complex process, Fort Mason became part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and was given the mission of fostering arts in the city. That led it to host a vast number of playwrights, artists, musicians, restauranteurs, filmmakers, writers, radio folks, and so many more. And it’s those people and the memories of their work that I’m trying to capture here, first and foremost.

That said, Fort Mason is a place in which many other things have happened, too. People get engaged there. They swim under the pylons. They meet at the Interval. Their father takes them to Greens for a special occasion. They go to eat a quiet lunch on a bench looking out at the water. I want those memories, too.

So, September 5th into the 6th… Come out. If you don’t think you can make it, you can still leave me a memory to file. Try this little voice recorder. [https://www.speakpipe.com/FortMasonMemories ] Or send me an email. I’ll get you a receipt soon."

[See also:
https://fortmason.org/event/alexis-madrigal-the-memory-clerk/

"San Francisco Bay Area Journalist, Author To Spend 24 Hours “Filing”
Fort Mason Memories (and Chasing Ghosts) In Gateway Pavilion Performance
One-day project collects community stories as research for upcoming book
on the 50th anniversary of Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture

 In a unique blend of performance art, oral history, and historical research, KQED’s Alexis Madrigal transforms into “The Memory Clerk” for 24 hours, beginning Friday, September 5, 2025, stationed in Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture’s historic Gateway Pavilion, to collect and catalog five decades of memories from one of San Francisco’s most beloved cultural spaces.

To schedule a 15-minute session with Madrigal to discuss memories, please visit this Calendly link. Walk-in hours (no need to schedule) are available on Friday, September 5, 2025, from Noon to 10:00 p.m.

From noon Friday – dovetailing with the Fort Mason Night Market from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. – to noon Saturday, Madrigal conducts short oral history interviews and accepts online submissions of memories from anyone who has experienced Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture since its 1977 creation. The project serves as immersive research for a forthcoming book commemorating the center’s 50th anniversary and its role as an arts and cultural hub home to events as varied as the premiere of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, the People’s Republic of China’s first trade show in the U.S. in 1980, the debut of Windows 98, Macy’s popular Passport fashion shows, and the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, among thousands of others.

“I want to record and absorb as many memories as I can,” Madrigal explains, “from children who came to casting calls here to people who trained for radio jobs in these buildings to people who found themselves talking all night with a friend in the parking lot on some night in 2005.”

 The Gateway Pavilion, one of the historic buildings that once served as part of the U.S. Army’s Port of Embarkation, provides a fitting backdrop for the memory collection. Just as the clerks at Fort Mason kept tabs for the longshoremen on what needed to go where and ensured nothing important was lost, Madrigal’s performance, as well as the name of the project, hopes to record the people’s memory of the site.

A Model For Transforming Public Space

Fort Mason Center was one of the first sites to transform a closed-down military installation into a vibrant cultural hub, offering a national model in the reuse and adaptation of vacant public spaces. Since the mid-1970s, it has housed theaters, art galleries, museums, and community organizations, as well as hosted hundreds of thousands of events and cultural moments, becoming an integral part of San Francisco’s arts and cultural landscape.

“Looking around at San Francisco and the Bay more broadly, we need to understand how and why Fort Mason has worked so well, what led to its creation, and how the model could be extended elsewhere,” Madrigal notes.

“The Memory Clerk” project aims to capture not just official history, but the lived experiences that have made Fort Mason a cherished community space – the informal conversations, chance encounters, and quiet moments that happen between the scheduled events.

“Fort Mason’s buildings have seen so many things,” Madrigal reflects. “I am hoping the walls can still talk.”

 Mike Buhler, President and CEO at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, welcomes the project: “Fort Mason has been a sanctuary for artists and audiences for five decades, and so many of our most meaningful moments happen in the spaces between performances – in conversations after shows, chance encounters in the hallways, and the quiet magic that occurs when creative people gather. Alexis’ “Memory Clerk” project captures something essential about what makes this place special: it’s not just the official programming, but the countless personal stories that have unfolded within these historic walls.”

 Event Details:

    When: Noon Friday, September 5, 2025, to noon Saturday, September 6, 2025
    Where: Gateway Pavilion, Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, San Francisco
    What: Live oral history collection and online memory submission
    Who: Open to the public – anyone with Fort Mason Center memories from the 1970s onward is welcome

Community members who cannot visit in person – submit memories online at memories@FortMason.org. 

About the Book: The forthcoming book by Madrigal explores the 50-year history of Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, examining how a former military installation became one of San Francisco’s most important cultural destinations. Madrigal is a journalist who hosts KQED Radio’s Forum, and author of a new book, The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City, examining the logistical revolution that began in Oakland and has transformed urban America.

Free Admission"]

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Nicholas A Bloom, professor of economics, Stanford University — senior fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

Joan Williams, former professor of law, UC Law School San Francisco, and the founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law; UC Hastings College of the Law - author of White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America and the forthcoming title, "Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class"

Aki Ito, chief correspondent, Business Insider; Ito covers workplace issues, including burnout, hustle culture, and the end of workplace loyalty."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Like many people who live in New York, my understanding of urban life in America is admittedly focused on its oldest, largest, and most dense city. But the first city I really fell in love with was San Francisco, where my mom had grown up and which my family visited more or less annually when I was a kid. When I lived in the greater Bay Area, during and then after college, I passed through Oakland plenty of times—and yet it remained mostly amorphous, something tacked onto the place (San Francisco) that I romanticized so much. I can remember visiting someone on Alameda on at least one occasion, and I’ve driven the 880 dozens of times, and I have a distinct memory of being stuck in a train for hours in the East Bay for seemingly no reason. But I never really learned where Oakland started and stopped, and on the occasions when I knew someone who lived there, they were usually recent transplants.

I related this to Alexis, and he tried to explain how living in Oakland had shaped his understanding of the broader Bay Area. “On this side of the bay we have the big highways, we have the port, we have a lot of the backend infrastructure. It tunes people to think in a slightly different way than if you’re living in North Beach, or even the Mission.” We had driven north up the Mandela Parkway, then west towards the now-shuttered 16th Street train station, and were looping back on 14th Street towards downtown Oakland. “The crosswinds of development here are pretty intense for people,” Alexis remarked. “The financialization... the shear of it is pretty incredible.” Around Jefferson Street, I began to notice storefront after empty storefront: newly-constructed mid-rise buildings, their ground floor windows filled with colorful posters advertising their immediate availability for retail or restaurant use. “Work from home really took hold here,” Alexis told me. “I’m not sure I have a moral opinion about it, but I am worried that there’s been a structural change to the city. It’s hard to know if the density bonuses of a city can be maintained without in-person office work.”

This was a considerably gloomier perspective than I’ve had over the past few years, as New York’s street life has largely rebounded from the pandemic. Alexis continued: “Oh, it’s real here. In ways that are almost spooky, Oakland ends up concentrating so many of the problems of the Bay Area. If something awesome is happening in San Francisco—the weather, or the creativity of the population—Oakland is concentrating that same stuff. Like, there’s some cool anarchist types in San Francisco? We have cooler, more anarchist types. But if San Francisco is having a problem, we’re having that problem a little bit worse too.”

We meandered around downtown for a little while, then headed east on Grand Avenue. Lake Merritt, sparkling in the February sun, was to our right; on our left I noticed more unoccupied retail space. I asked about Alexis’ personal shopping habits, noting the multiple anecdotes in The Pacific Circuit which involve a crosstown errand, taken by bike and resulting in a meditative kind of reverie. He, in turn, described the feeling of going to a nationwide pharmacy and needing to press the customer service button just to get a tube of toothpaste. He described life in Oakland like a system that’s slightly out-of-balance. “It’s almost like there’s some nutrient that’s way too high in the mix, and you’re just waiting for some life form to figure out how to use it as an energy source.”

Our official tour was over; the part of West Oakland that The Pacific Circuit focuses on has a landmass of under two square miles, and we had traversed more or less all of it. Since its cultural institutions have either been shuttered or reduced to selling day-old coffee cake (a confection which Alexis dutifully purchased when he visited Revolution Cafe in a scene set late in The Pacific Circuit), we continued past Lake Merritt, parked, and got out of the car to sit down somewhere. “You should take your bag with you,” Alexis said offhandedly, reminding me of another scene in The Pacific Circuit in which he says “a small prayer” that his car’s windows will be intact when he returns. I was mildly surprised but took the suggestion, and we strolled down the block to a natural wine shop, where he ordered a glass of mineraly white and I got a bottle of ginger-lemonade kombucha.

I spent much of my young adulthood orienting myself towards San Francisco, and it still surprises me a little bit that I didn’t move there immediately upon graduating from college. Having grown up in eastern Long Island, San Francisco seemed distinctive, alluring, and totally different than New York. But Alexis sees the city from a broader perspective, and one that strikes me now as more accurate than my own. “San Francisco is California’s entry into the global archipelago,” he said. “The particular feature that might have differentiated it is this kind of street cosmopolitanism: Because it was a port city, it had all these people who were working class but extremely tolerant, and able to work across all these different cultures. These guys—their workplaces were the ships from all over the world, and their partners were drawn from all over the US, and on top of that they had all these interface points between the Italians in North Beach, and the Chinese people in Chinatown, and the yuppies in the Marina. That creates a totally different working-class sensibility than you find elsewhere, and I think containerization is one of the things that killed it.” This happened, as Alexis writes in The Pacific Circuit, because containerization required the building of new, more expansive ports. The potential of trans-Pacific trade was “too great for San Francisco. The only way that the levels of trade between a rising Asia and a dominant America could reach their potential heights would be the development of Oakland as a port.” And the development of Oakland as a port meant the loss of San Francisco’s tolerant, working class dockside labor.

This might seem a far-out claim to make: that containerization, a method of efficiently moving goods around, eroded the cosmopolitan sensibilities that defined mid-twentieth-century working-class life in San Francisco. But I do know that as soon as I was old enough to decide where I wanted to live, I found that San Francisco wasn’t quite the place that my mom, who left the city in 1981 and died in 1996, had shown me. San Francisco’s housing price index more than doubled between the year she moved away from the city and the year she died. By the time I got to college, in 2001, it had nearly doubled again, and it doubled a third time by 2017, when my first kid was born. Since 1975, the earliest year that the St. Louis Fed has data on, San Francisco’s housing price index has increased twenty-seven fold.

Meanwhile Oakland has, for better and for worse, remained significantly easier on working-class families. That is, working-class white and Asian families, and especially ones who were moving into neighborhoods like West Oakland, where property values had been depressed for decades by redlining—and by all of the negative externalities associated with living adjacent to one of the busiest container ports in North America. Alexis lays this history out in detail in The Pacific Circuit, through both aggregate statistics and through years of personal relationships with the people who live there. While his reporting resulted in more than a few heartbreaking stories, the accounting he gives is empathetic and nuanced; he refers to “administrative evil” at a few points in the book, but does not go so far as to include a villain. “The basic idea was that we wanted Asian economies to be tied to us,” Alexis told me. “We wanted access to their consumer markets, and we wanted access to their labor. This system got built, and it got built for particular reasons and on the backs of particular people. It’s had both positive and negative outcomes; the negative ones have been located in really specific places, but maybe one step up, at a regional level, you see that actually, it’s kind of been awesome for the Bay Area.”

hroughout our conversation, Alexis was clear about how much he cares about the city he lives in. His voice strained with endearment when he told me that he “has always felt more at home in Oakland than anywhere else.” I also got the sense that he genuinely appreciates the positive aspects of the globalized world that we live in today. He wears a decidedly cosmopolitan air, and on multiple occasions he expressed his engagement with and comfort in the conveniences—and the societal traits—that were brought on by containerized shipping, a strong dollar, and a Bay Area economy based on venture-scale returns on investment. But The Pacific Circuit looks hard at the complexities that these systems have resulted in, and the often painfully negative consequences that they’ve had for (among other people) the residents of West Oakland.

After having lived back on the East Coast since early 2008, it sometimes feels as if I never resided in California at all. So much of my time there seems to me now as a dream, my memories filtered through years of grappling with my own relationship with San Francisco, and its place within Californian culture, and the way that California has pulled on and been pulled around by the rest of American history. Which is to say that I’ve struggled to understand my time there. For that matter, the Bay Area has struggled a fair amount too. The economy collapsed shortly after I left, and about a year later Uber was founded (Alexis writes he isn’t “interested in Uber per se,” then goes on to note that the company’s worldview implies that “solidarity is an illusion” and “everything is transactional”). In the time since I left the state, San Francisco’s homeless population has increased by more than forty percent; California now has fifty percent of the country’s unsheltered homeless population. “We’ve pulled all of these different threads out of what was a very successful mid-century American society,” Alexis said as I sipped the last of my kombucha. “At times, while writing this book, I felt like I was describing a very high-stakes game of Jenga, where you’re asking, ‘What if we take this thing out, what if we take that thing out? What if we keep attenuating the city along all these different dimensions?’ And I just want to know, who’s going to be there to knit things back together?”

Like the rest of the country, Oakland’s Jenga tower is still a bit wobbly from the blocks that were pulled out of it in recent decades. And while Alexis introduces us to a number of admirable—if adversarial—characters in The Pacific Circuit, it’s fairly clear that the city will need new protagonists in the decades to come. I’ve never really known what to expect from the Bay Area; I suppose I’m too stuck reminiscing about what it must have been like when my mom lived there. But I, for one, am rooting for whoever its next protagonists might be—and Alexis Madrigal is high on my list of contenders."]]></description>
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    <title>Notes on My Book, The Pacific Circuit, in the Present Moment</title>
    <dc:date>2025-02-28T04:58:26+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["When I started work on The Pacific Circuit, my 9-year-old daughter was a newborn and Donald Trump was still the sure-to-lose Republican candidate. Yikes. Times have changed. I’ve put a lot into this book, and I think it says meaningful things about why our cities are the way they are and why environmental justice—construed broadly enough—holds the key to a different, better kind American city.

Pulitzer Prize winner Hua Hsu called it “dazzlingly imaginative.” Rebecca Solnit called it a “glorious, gripping urban history” that “everyone should read.” Jenny Odell says it is “a masterful feat of research and storytelling.”

I would love for you to buy The Pacific Circuit, read it, gift it, use it, email me about it, put it on your syllabus, pick it for your book club, and/or come to one of the launch events. Now is the time.

But if you need convincing, in today’s newsletter, I wrote a little bit about how I think the book fits into the current moment.

This last decade is best characterized by the Polish philosopher Zygmunt Bauman’s idea of “liquid modernity.” Slightly paraphrased, he says we now live in times where anything can happen, but nothing can be done. Donald Trump’s election, a pandemic that shut down the world, chainsawing through the Federal government, spiraling housing costs, a hot land war in Europe, the destruction of Gaza, the emptying of our downtowns: truly anything can happen.

But when individual people look around at the mechanisms for democratic control of their lives… they find that that the levers of power have melted away. Nothing can be done. The international systems of finance, trade, and production reside in a different dimension from political action. The big fights in cities might seem like they are with a mayor or a developer or someone with a different view on apartment buildings, but the underlying structures are controlled from and for elsewhere.

It’s kind of like the big newspapers. Yes, sure, there are union fights to be had, editorial conflicts to be resolve, etc. But the heart of the whole enterprise has been scooped out by forces far beyond any single paper. The social project of the news now lives and dies via private equity or billionaire ownership.

And so it is—with varying details—with so much of American life. My book looks at how and why we got to where we are. Specifically, it details how the development of global supply chains, working with a rising Silicon Valley, created a new and more distant power structure, what I call “the Pacific Circuit.” That trans-oceanic system fed dollars into our increasingly financialized economy, juicing the mortgage boom (and eventual bust) as well as the unbridled rise of venture-backed technology companies. My microcosm is the neighborhood of West Oakland, right up against the Port, and once the stronghold of the Black Panthers.

People in Oakland saw some of these changes coming. I draw on Huey Newton’s early insights into “the technology question,” as he put it. Logistics makes it possible to produce products that we love through a system that we, more or less, hate. Nations, he also observed, don’t play the same role in the globalized, technologized system he called “intercommunalism.” These conditions would force many more people, he thought, to become subject to the conditions of the Black ghettoes that the nation created during and after the Great Migration: Precarious employment, poor health, terrible debt burdens, hostile governmental interventions. He wasn’t wrong.

The services and stores that are part of a healthy urban ecosystem have been hollowed out by tech companies. Rather than shopping from a network of trusted humans and local businesses, you have a pile of Amazon boxes and a slate of apps on your phone. That is to say: logistics—born in World War II, containerized in Vietnam, and scaled up for the last 50 years—has gone inside all of us. We’re nodes in a network of flows of material, feeding production and distribution systems that are located far from where we actually live.

This has done some incredible things. We have access to so many products now at much lower prices. And I don’t want to minimize the pleasure people take in their stuff. Two, it’s created thick cultural, migratory, and economic bonds between the cities of the West Coast and different Asian countries. There’s a new and heretofore unseen demographic reality in places like the Bay Area. And I believe in the possibilities of that kind of cross-cultural ferment.

But man, the downsides. Our cities are in huge trouble for multiple reasons. Nowadays, cities are filled with wildly expensive assets we call homes. It’s almost impossible to keep a restaurant or retail store open. City governments have no idea how to house or even care for homeless people living in their cars or in tents. All the products have to get from Asia to Target and Walmart, and that happens through ports like the one in Oakland. Massive fleets of trucks grab boxes off ships and head for warehouses, and they pass through West Oakland. The neighborhood has long been a sacrificial landscape, a place that all levels of government intentionally polluted in an effort to crowd out the largely Black residents. While they’ve made remarkable progress on air quality, so much of the land there remains so badly polluted, it can’t be used. Much of it sits there now, empty and inducing despair.

The book centers the life of Margaret Gordon, a longtime activist and environmental justice leader in West Oakland, who has been working in the neighborhood for 35 years. At this moment, it’s worth considering that Ms. Margaret did not come up close to power. The Black women community leaders she learned from in Hunters Point (the Big 5) didn’t have access to the halls of power either. They couldn’t just participate in politics and expect good results. They had to create new political realities to have any chance to help the neighborhood.

So, who better to help everyone get a handle on liquid modernity than people who’ve always had to come from the outside and make the system respond to their demands?I ran into Ms. Margaret at a party a couple weeks ago, and I loved how mad she was about what’s happening in this country. Her impulse wasn’t to get sad or tune out, but to get in the trenches and fight. She was fired up.

There’s only one Ms. M, but many environmental justice leaders share this orientation. I don’t always have that same first impulse to go to the barricades. I sometimes think the movement is too oppositional instead of trying to build new opportunities.

But at a time when so much is being dismantled, don’t you want to learn from the tactical experts on slowing down the bad things? (There is a reason that the Trump administration immediately targeted environmental justice players inside and outside the government.)

I also believe in the core idea of environmental justice. EJ is a way to reckon with the physical aftereffects of racist practices in this country. Right wing forces can try to hide the history of segregation or redlining or police brutality, but the land in historically Black neighborhoods keeps the score. There is the lead in the soil. There are the toxics buried in the empty lots. These environmental realities haunt these neighborhoods and no amount of intentional forgetting or obfuscation can make the heavy metals and solvents go away.

There’s a lot more to talk about in this book from the Third World Liberation Front to the proposed coal export terminal in West Oakland to the model of longshore unionism to the way that Silicon Valley’s semiconductor companies led the way on outsourcing to Asia. I’ll address some of those things here in the newsletter over time. (A microseason of book content, perhaps.)

I believe Oakland — concentrating as it does, the good and bad of this country — can give us a view into the future. We’re part of a long struggle for democracy, for multiracial democracy, for fairness in labor, for environmental justice, for state capacity that serves the people, for transnational solidarities.

Sometimes, I am floored that fascism has risen again, that Elon Musk and Steve Bannon have both thrown Nazi salutes with no discernible consequences, that eugenicists are targeting disabled people, that bigots are trying to erase our trans community.

But then I remember that the forces of resistance have a long history, too. This book, I hope, honors those who came before me here on this land. And I hope their stories inspire us for our turn in the conflict. I think some new coalitions may emerge from this current moment, and I would not be at all surprised if they are guided by the radical frequencies of Oakland."]]></description>
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...

"It’s strange to feel a season of your self coming to an end. My second book, The Pacific Circuit comes out in about 10 weeks (you can preorder it). My next two smaller projects are coming into focus. They’ll both narrate different pieces of the Bay Area (Fort Mason, then Mt. Tam & Mt. Diablo). And after that, a cycle will be complete: A decade of place-based work on the politics, economics, culture, and environment of the Bay.

My next big project won’t be about the Bay Area. My focus is going to shift to minds, weird information processing, agency, the nature of language, life’s intricate, almost impossible processes. It’ll be rooted in what’s happening in the Bay, but it will not focus on the literal earth here, our living communities and cultures.

All this foreknowledge is a little terrifying. It forces me to confront what unites my work. Why these pieces and not those? How is this all one thing?

You might say it doesn’t have to be; we are multifaceted, etc. But I have noticed that my favorite creative people—whether it’s Rebecca Solnit or Ada Limón, Ta-Nehisi Coates or Miranda July, Mimi Tempestt or Richard Powers, Jenny Odell or Valerie June, Ross Gay or George Saunders—are engaged in a life project, each work a piece of some whole. Their books or poems or Instagram posts gather force from this larger system of thought, action, and intensity. And in any case: doesn’t it seem useful to search out the guidewires and mycorrhizal networks underlying your creative life?

My own production has been all over the place. Tech criticism, observational plant writing, logistics, renewable energy, lots of history, data work. Some of the diffusion is the fields I’ve worked in, which emphasize speed and relevance to the moment. But it’s also me. I am tirelessly associative, relentlessly driven to swoop up to larger scales and zoom in to smaller ones. I compulsively jump to adjacent fields and distant research. I’m interested in a huge variety of things and can at least passably understand most of them.

Only yesterday did I finally realize: wait, this isn’t a defect, but my thing. Tunneling (dreaming?) new routes between ideas, times, places, scales… That’s what I do.

I’ve been primed for this realization by my recent reading: Lots of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning literature. In these worlds, everything is “a space.” Mutations are random explorations of genetic space. Large language models project words into a high-dimensional space that can be traversed in nearly infinite ways. Little flat worms regenerate body parts in anatomical space. There are algorithms for “hill climbing” and also for “gradient descent.” Genotypes are subject to “canalization” where they produce the same phenotypes despite genetic variance, as if they can’t help but fall into certain latent canyons of development.

The mathematics of networks turn out to be filled with landscapes, and so, so, so many things can be described with this math, from forests to brains to internet ads to cell regulatory functions to all the language ever written down. So many spaces can be traversed. We need only imagine ourselves capable of travel.

I conceptualized this newsletter on the Lafayette Ridge Trail yesterday, looking back across the way that I had come, up a few miles and a thousand feet. The trail dipped into and out of view along the knobby ridgeline, patchwork forest on the flanking hillsides. Further to the horizon, Mt Diablo stood above its rapidly greening foothills. Scattered about: Tiny little buildings made by invisible humans. High clouds striped the sky.

[photo]

And I was thinking, actually, about conversations between my wife and me. I was thinking, more precisely, about conversational “space.” We are two whole universes connected, anchored by very deep connection, but there are a thousand books worth of experiences that belong to one of us alone. You spend 17 years together and we know the easy paths to each other. They are well-marked, assiduously maintained, no poison ivy. But how much more are all of us — are the hillsides — than the well-worn trails?

Every person on this earth is a monstrously huge landscape, and yet, we can drop into any of it with a simple incantation, the right string of words piped through this sparse interface. At a bus stop, taking in two dogs playing, paying for a muffin—you might unveil a secret path to walk for a year or just a few feet. I have been blessed with my mother’s gift of easy connection to others. But what is the nature of that gift? It’s saying: hey, that seems interesting, wanna go there? As simple as stepping off the trail to point out a mushroom.

Anything can open up a hillside to explore. But often, it is the components of conversations that open up the rest of me: an unexpected question, someone else’s lingering shower thought, a feral conjecture about the world, free empathy, a true thing offered, a scrambled memory reassembled in real time.

The writer Oliver Burkeman came on Forum this week, and a piece of advice he gave struck me: make choices in life that enlarge you.

I start from the proposition that we are all very very very large. So, perhaps, my interpretation of that advice is to make choices that allow for continual discovery: self, place, environment, relationships. What lets you know more of the space of your self? Not the sprite of consciousness working in milliseconds that the Tufts biologist Michael Levin calls a “selflet,” but that much larger entity that your second-to-second attention has been building like a coral reef for your whole life.

[image]

That bigger thing is the accumulation of messages from your past selflets, from your ancestors back to the beginning of life, from your environment.

As much as you might think you do, you cannot examine your memories like curios in a cabinet or investigate your ancestral endowments through a 23andMe test. No, everything your body and mind can do can only be known through this present moment, through doing the thing, through living. Every memory exists only now at the moment you pull it from the space where it has been encoded, and reimagine it. Remembering and dreaming and experiencing are not as different as they might seem.

Our minds can be hilariously literal, and I believe that exploring new physical terrain can make it easier to find new inner vistas. Our minds can also be devastatingly oblique, and sometimes it’s a piece of Georgian choral music that might unlock something inside you with its unexpected exploration of harmonic space (thanks, Kitka). There are notes between the notes. Maybe there are years between the years, selves between the selves.

[embed: "Alilo" by Kitka
https://open.spotify.com/track/0exFNvlb8EqZwxLY6vTGu9 ]


The most meaningful, awe-inspiring moments in my life have always been infused by the multiscalar architecture of existence. And somewhere nestled in there, a self exists that, for reasons that no one can quite explain, wants to do things, wants to get places. That agency feels like the key to understanding the nature of life, and yet it is still mostly just an observed fact. The big question is not: why do I want to do X or Y, but why does anything want to do anything at all?

This is where my next project is headed. BUT that’s a ways off.

In the meantime, have this poem, a different walk through this post’s terrain. I wrote it last week in and for my hometown (shout out, Gabriel Cortez), a place I am trying to be kinder about, so that the little boy there has a better place to grow up.

Overlooking I-5 at Exit 14 (1997)

The best nights of my youth, we walked along dark exurban roads to I-5, to the gas station, where we bought terrible food, burgers so bad we called them butt burgers, as we ate 3, even 4 of them. Chimichangas, too, which seemed to flirt with racism in concept and execution. There were many things like that in those days: maple syrup, Apu, Steve Urkel, Taco Tuesday, our school mascot being the Rebels, how people said African American sometimes. They also outright declared the n-word, rarely though. More common: beaner and spic and wetback, my least favorite. But laughing in the bright lights of the AM/PM, gorged on Nintendo 64, what beautiful fucking idiots, I can’t hate any of them. Did they have much choice?

There and back, I’d stop on the overpass, the endless river of cars below me, and I would get that Scientific American feeling. Cosmological vertigo. The vastness of everything, the individual lives of all those people, every unknown story playing out on some stupid night in 1997, floating on history, wrapped in personal drama, precisely dimensioned and textured, how much it mattered to every rushing car that they get where they were going.

Before I knew the names of trees, before I felt something go quiet when I found myself alone on the trails, before I could appreciate the ocean as something to look at, before I knew regret, before I began to notice the color of the light in early December, before I would wake with a child on my chest, or tugging at my sleeve, before I liked to wake up to a quiet house and make coffee in the dim pre-dawn, this monstrous freeway was my access point to infinity, this dull roar through the trees, this stream of lights: you can’t tell me it was not sublime. The sublime!

Endangered butterflies, massive rainforest fungi, blue whales, tardigrades, mantis shrimp, the whole corvid family, bristlecone pines, weltwischia mirabilis, a finch with a funny nose, reindeer, amoebas, blue-green algae, flatworms, those huge crabs at the bottom of an ocean trench, the hundred million fish no one has ever seen, even once, the dragonflies, the beavers, the tiny bird you almost saw yesterday, the cloud of bacteria coming out of your nose and mouth, the earthworm, and yes, truckers and travelers and people working the graveyard shift at PDX and middle school boys drunk on the weakest independence.

What right does anyone have to imagine they are not just a manifestation of the whole, a piece, a component, an envelope around and inside many beautiful layers, a nearly arbitrary circle drawn around unstoppable endless wriggling like a net full of anchovies that’s also made of anchovies in an ocean of more anchovies.

Life is ridiculous.

On the overpass, some dipshit would always joke about dropping something on the cars below. The spell would be broken. Tiny gods with greasy fingers marching off back to the room above the garage reeking of puberty and Mountain Dew, pits stained with videogame intensity, peach fuzz darkening by the hour, a place in the world coming into and out of view like a flying bird through binoculars.

Crunching through shoulder gravel, a flashlight, pointed at the ground, swinging on an arm, illuminating now and then, broken glass, used condoms, bits of tire, cans, chip bags, small dead things, lost items, cigarette butts that once flared, tossing sparks as they tumbled out of fingers dangling out windows.

How could every person’s life mean so much to that person? How could any person’s life mean anything at all?

To live and die is the most ordinary thing.

That’s what I learned in my hometown."
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    <title>The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City, by Alexis Madrigal (2025)</title>
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In The Pacific Circuit, the award-winning journalist Alexis Madrigal sculpts an intricate tableau of the city of Oakland that is at once a groundbreaking big-idea book, a deeply researched work of social and political history, and an intimate portrait of an essential American city that has been at the crossroads of the defining themes of the twenty-first century.

Oakland’s stories encompass everything from Silicon Valley’s prominence and the ramifications of a compulsively digital future to the underestimated costs of technological innovation on local communities—all personified in this changing landscape for the city’s lifelong inhabitants.

The Pacific Circuit holds a magnifying glass to the scars etched by generations of systemic segregation and the ceaseless march of technological advancement. These are not just abstract concepts; they are embedded in the very fabric of Oakland and its people, from dockworkers and community organizers to real estate developers and businesspeople chasing the highest possible profits. Madrigal delves into city hall politics, traces the intertwining arcs of venture capital and hedge funds, and offers unprecedented insight into Silicon Valley’s genesis and growth, all against the backdrop of Oakland—a city vibrating with untold stories and unexplored connections that can, when read carefully, reveal exactly how our markets and our world really function."]]></description>
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Erin Kissane's homepage: https://erinkissane.com/
Her XOXO talk notes: https://erinkissane.com/xoxo
COVID Tracking Project: https://covidtracking.com/
Fediverse Governance w/ Darius Kazemi: https://erinkissane.com/fediverse-governance-drop
Meta in Myanmar series: https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series "]]></description>
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    <link>https://oaklandgardenclub.substack.com/p/soviet-pomegranates</link>
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[via:
https://www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/breath-of-the-gods/ ]]]></description>
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jos%C3%A9-vadi-plumbs-californias-soul-in-inter-state/id73329719?i=1000538264140 ]]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2024-05-17T02:00:39+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["From this exact spot, I’ve asked myself the question, over and over… Why was this done? How?

And the answer I came to, over and over in this research, were these invisible systems, these ideas that were placed over the top of the land—ways of thinking about race and risk, about property and ownership, about the collective of the state and the individualism of the nation. Appraisal methodologies, zoning maps, imperial umbrellas, free trade zones, city council districts, areas of resistance. 

So much power converted into forms that you cannot see, but only feel, that you can feel, but not gain purchase on. The philosopher Zygmunt Bauman has identified these times we’re living in as liquid modernity, where anything can happen, yet nothing can be done. 

If this feels like a plea for history … maybe? But this is a living world and the temporal scope of our action is now. I have a friend, the Colombian-American author, Ingrid Rojas Contreras. And her last book is about a mission she and her mother took to appease the ghost of her father. She says the reason Americans don’t believe in ghosts is that we deny our past. 

Perhaps this is why so many powerful people are bewildered that our cities are in such trouble. Any honest accounting of the urban crises that began after World War II would say: no, we have never made an honest attempt as a society to build a fair, equal multiracial democracy. No, we have never accounted for the brutalities visited on Black people specifically and migrants  to our cities generally. No, urban renewal did not renew. No, the market did not lead to optimal distribution of resources. Decisions were made that extracted the most from those with the least, over and over again.

To look honestly at these things would require feeling the bonds of these lineages… their inescapability and need for reckoning. As Ingrid says: “With the framework of ghosts, we can suddenly think about what are the debts that we inherit and how can we begin to think about these debts? What gestures might we do now to appease the ghosts that are following us?” 

My work on the Pacific Circuit has convinced me that a first offering is standing with a place, not allowing it to be merely a box on a map or a node in a network or property to borrow against, but a specific piece of earth, with all its histories, its legacies woven into its soil and the chemistry of its flowers, the peel of its paint and the poems written on its porch. Make of the world an altar — as sacred as marigold, as profane as tequila (or maybe it’s the other way around). Recognize the hands and minds and lungs who formed this place in struggle and in joy. 

And then we can ask: do we fight for this place, or do we leave it behind? What do I need?  What do the people who live here now and once lived here need from me? I’m an immigrant’s son and I believe in change and the future, and I don’t think you have to stay wherever fate plopped you down on this earth. But perhaps it is my religion that you must honor the ancestors, not just those in your family tree, but all those who have tended to and are embedded in your home.

So, my tiny piece of advice, my life suggestion is … let yourself be haunted. Let yourself be haunted! Let yourself be haunted by what you have learned. Nobody knows how to make the city of my dreams, so I’m counting on you."]]></description>
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    <title>Berkeley Perfumer Mandy Aftel on the 'Curious and Wondrous World of Fragrance' | KQED</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["“You don’t just smell an aroma; you fall into it,” writes artisan perfumer Mandy Aftel. And entering her exquisite small museum, the Aftel Archive of Curious Scents, tucked into a backyard in Berkeley, is to fall into an ancient, mysterious world. Amid centuries-old books, bottles and curios are natural fragrances that come from the secretions of civets and the bowels of sperm whales, as well as from resins, rare flowers, roots and so much more. We talk to Aftel about her collection, the art of building a fragrance, and her new book, “The Museum of Scent: Exploring the Curious and Wondrous World of Fragrance”.

Guests:

Mandy Aftel, artisan perfumer and founder, Aftelier Perfumes and the Aftel Archive of Curious Scents in Berkeley; author, "The Museum of Scent: Exploring the Curious and Wondrous World of Fragrance""]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In his new book “Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy,” historian Adam Tooze analyzes the different ways governments around the world responded to the pandemic and what their responses say about the way power works in the modern world. Synthesizing information from dozens of countries, Tooze traces various levels of economic interaction and their impacts “from main streets to central banks, from families to factories, from favelas to traders.” Tooze joins us to discuss “Shutdown” and share his thoughts on what we can learn from the pandemic when it comes to preparing for future global “polycrises.”"]]></description>
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    <title>Why Can't My Camera Capture the Wildfire Sky? - The Atlantic</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“It looked like Mars, or the Southern Californian wasteland in Blade Runner 2049, or the deserts of Dune. Almost 100 wildfires have ravaged the western United States in the past month, scattering particles of ash and smoke into the air and forcing 500,000 people to evacuate their homes in Oregon alone. On Wednesday, residents across the West, already suffering from a pandemic, economic collapse, wildfires, and dangerously bad air quality, woke up to a dark, bronzed sky that nearly shut out all daylight. As the day wore on, the smoke thickened and receded, making the city seem red at some hours, amber at others. Masks to ward off the coronavirus now served double duty.

But as people tried to capture the scene, and the confusion and horror that accompanied it, many noticed a strange phenomenon: Certain photographs and videos of the surreal, orange sky seemed to wash it out, as if to erase the danger. “I didn’t filter these,” tweeted the journalist Sarah Frier, posting photos she took of San Francisco’s haunting morning sky. “In fact the iPhone color corrected the sky to make it look less scary. Imagine more orange.” The photos looked vaguely marigold in hue, but not too different from a misty sunrise in a city prone to fog. In some cases, the scene seemed to revert to a neutral gray, as if the smartphones that captured the pictures were engaged in a conspiracy to silence this latest cataclysm.

The reality is both less and more unnerving. The un-oranged images were caused by one of the most basic features of digital cameras, their ability to infer what color is in an image based on the lighting conditions in which it is taken. Like the people looking up at it, the software never expected the sky to be bathed in orange. It’s a reminder that even as cameras have become a way to document every aspect of our lives, they aren’t windows on the world, but simply machines that turn views of that world into images.

Before digital cameras, film set the look of a photograph. But when digital photography was created decades ago, color had to be recreated from scratch. Camera sensors are color-blind—they see only brightness, and engineers had to trick them into reproducing color using algorithms. A process called “white balance” replaced the chemical, color tone of film. Most cameras now adjust the white balance on their own, attempting to discern which objects in a photo ought to look white by compensating for an excess of warm or cool colors. But automatic white balance isn’t terribly reliable. If you’ve tried to take a smartphone photo of a scene with multiple types of light, such as a city sunset, you’ve probably watched the image change tones from redder to bluer as you frame or reframe it. The device struggles to figure out which subject should look white, and which exposure (the amount of light to capture) might best represent it.

Under the blood-red San Francisco sky, white balance doesn’t have a reference against which to calibrate accurately. Because everything was tinted red, the software assumed that the entire scene was generally neutral. People felt confused or even betrayed when their phone cameras transformed the tiger sky into images that washed out the orange, or in some cases made it look mostly gray, like an overcast day.

When people started to figure out what was going on, they downloaded apps allowing them to set the white balance on their own. “Here’s what it really looks like out there in San Francisco,” Frier tweeted alongside revised versions of her earlier, viral images. But that’s not what’s really going on, either. You can’t ever “turn off” color correction in a digital camera, because its sensor doesn’t see color in the first place. Color is always constructed in a picture, never simply reproduced.

The same is true of film cameras: Different stocks of film and development processes had their own renditions of color. Kodak Portra sought balanced skin tones, Fuji Velvia aimed for vibrancy, while ordinary color film was balanced for the outdoor tone of light (photographers call it temperature; blame physics). That could make indoor photos look unnaturally yellow, but most folks didn’t notice. A snapshot was a memory, and the colors would seem true enough days or weeks later, when you finally held it in your hands.  

Today, some cameras and apps allow a user to choose a white-balance preset, such as “daylight.” But despite the seemingly descriptive name, the setting is really just a way for the camera to choose a specific color temperature, not a surefire way to make daytime images look right. Others have sliders that allow a user to select a desired tone, dialing in an appearance that matches a desired ideal. That’s not duplicitous—it’s what all photographs have always done.

I don’t live in a place whose sky is flushed by fire, so I asked the author Robin Sloan, who lives in Oakland, California, to take photos illustrating the phenomenon. The image on the left, below, is from the iOS camera. The one on the right was taken with the Halide app, which lets you change exposure settings manually, including white balance.

[two images]

“I would say the reality is about halfway between them,” Sloan told me. He also shared another image taken with a Sony camera set to “daylight” white balance, which made the scene look much stranger than in person. The high contrast in that image, which appears below, tricks the eye into thinking the orange is brighter.

[image]

For Californians gawking at their fiery sky, an image might never be able to capture the embodied sensation of life beneath it. The smoke would have been moving in concert with the dynamics of the air, for example, causing the apparent colors to shift and dance in person. That phenomenon might be impossible to capture fully in a still image, or even a video. Likewise, the eerie claustrophobia of being surrounded by pure orange wouldn’t translate to a screen, much like a James Turrell installation looks less impressive photographed than in person. The images going viral on social media are evocative. But are they real? No, and yes.

***

Blaming cameras for their failures or making a That’s just how photography works defense of them can be tempting. But images and videos have never captured the world as it really is—they simply create a new understanding of that world from the light that emits from and reflects off of objects.

People who practice photography as a craft think of their work as a collaboration with materials and equipment. They “make” images—they don’t “capture” them—like how an artist creates a painting with canvas and pigment and medium, or a chef creates a meal with protein, vegetables, fat, and salt. But the equipment has become invisible to the rest of us—a window that steals part of the world and puts it inside of our smartphones.

The irony is that software now manipulates images more than ever. Today’s smartphones do huge volumes of software processing apart from just automatically adjusting white balance. Features such as “Portrait” mode, high dynamic range (HDR), and low-light capability strive to invent new styles of pictures. And then there are the filters—whose very name was borrowed from the optical instruments used to color-correct film. They make it plainly obvious that images are always manipulated. And yet, somehow, filters further entrenched the idea that images bear truth. An Instagram post tagged #nofilter makes an implicit claim against artifice: This is how it really looked. And yet, there is no such thing as an unfiltered image, just differently filtered ones.

People have become more aware of the risks of accepting a computer’s account at face value. Computer vision systems can exhibit racial and gender bias, for example, assumptions that can produce grave consequences when used to automate hiring or policing. Phone cameras failed to capture scenes amid the fires because camera software could once reasonably assume, at some level, that images taken in daylight should bear somewhat similar colors.

Nobody expected the noon sky to be orange, and even supposedly sophisticated equipment struggles to make sense of it. Maybe the current apocalypse in the West will abate and cameras will feel normal again. But maybe it won’t, and the equipment people use to account for their world will require adjusting or replacement. Everything is falling apart, it seems, even the sensor and the software that runs your camera.”]]></description>
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    <title>How the Bay Was Built – a community archive of documents about the Bay Area, focused on race and housing</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["a community archive of documents about the Bay Area, focused on race and housing"

"About
I’m Alexis Madrigal. I’m working on a book about how Oakland has been shaped by great floods of money and power. It’s a crossroads. Railroad, highway, ocean. Tectonic plates. Social movements. Racial groups. Ideologies.

The life of Margaret Gordon, an environmental justice leader in West Oakland, is the spine of the book. The setting is 7th Street, where the port connects to the city, and once the beating heart of the black community of the East Bay. So, it’s both a history of one black woman’s Bay Area, and a sweeping examination of the development of urban America. Because the questions that power this book are not only at play in Oakland. Racialized capitalism drives the development of cities, and cities drive the creation of wealth for most Americans through the property they own in them. At the same time, globalization, powered by software and containers, has run a cargo ship through the former raison d’etre for cities: making things and housing the people who made stuff. What are cities becoming when the big money is made inside a screen or manufactured somewhere in Asia? What is a city for? And what does a city owe to the residents who have made it what it is? 

That has led me to dig deep into the history of this city that I love. The quest to gather receipts has taken me all around the region just trying to understand what happened to 7th Street, to West Oakland, to Oakland, to the Bay. I now have a trove of documents that I’d like to share with people who are a part of all these communities that come from our libraries and museums.

Time and again, doing this work, I’ve been struck by the power of the primary source. It’s one thing to hear that black and mixed neighborhoods were targeted for financial disinvestment and demolition, but it’s a whole other thing to see the plans laid out in government documents, supported by academics, and encouraged by the press.

For example, Oakland-born Archie Williams won an Olympic gold medal in 1936, part of a group of American black men who dominated the games that Hitler hosted in Berlin. His father died young and he lived with his mother and grandparents on Telegraph Avenue, part of Oakland’s small but rising black middle class. His grandmother founded an orphanage for black children—and was a dedicated clubwoman who knew the mayor personally. His grandfather was a veteran. He was not only an Olympian, but also an engineering student at Cal. When he returned from Europe, he was literally paraded through town. “I have traveled all over the United States and Europe in the last three months,” the Oakland Tribune reported Williams said, “but right now I would trade them all for this little spot in my home town!” 

[image: The September 25, 1936 front page of the Oakland Tribune.]

And during the exact months when he was preparing for the Olympics, the Federal government, with local assistance, was evaluating his neighborhood in north Oakland as a place where the government would make or back loans. The Home Owners’ Loan Corporation hired people across the country to make maps that would help banks understand the risks facing the mortgages they’d underwrite. Two men, both named Ralph, who were part of the local real estate establishment, wrote a short report on Williams’ neighborhood, which marked the area a risky investment, assigning it a security grade of “Red.”

[image]

Archie Williams’ family was one of the 12. The Ralphs included a set of “Clarifying Remarks,” which I ran across five years ago now, and which are never far from my mind.

[image]

The Williams family were the best Oakland had to offer. But when the government looked at them, what did or could it see? Negro, infiltrator, detrimental influence, bringer of instability, property value destroyer. Imagine Archie working in the yard, back from Berlin, cutting the hedges, weeding, planting flowers. Imagine the Ralphs walking by, maybe they even had a nice chat. “Congratulations, son!”

But they were black. The map would be red. The shared understanding at the local and national levels was: any racially mixed area is marked for disinvestment.

Not every document contains a story quite like this, but my hope is that by putting the archive out there, it will make it easier for other people to do this kind of excavation, uncovering the real history of the places we live. Many black people in Oakland know what happened, the core truth of it, if not every detail about the demolition, the disinvestment, police brutality, the construction of the highways, the Knowland political machine, the environmental racism. Most other Oakland residents don’t. This is a city that as late as 1964 voted overwhelmingly against a Fair Housing law, as did the rest of the state. My hope is seeing the receipts across time helps everyone here come to a shared understanding of how the city was built.

Many thanks to the Oakland Public Library Oakland History Room, UC Berkeley’s Environmental Design Library, and Bancroft Library, the African American Museum and Library at Oakland, the Oakland Museum of California, SF State’s Labor Archives and Research Center, the Internet Archive, the San Francisco Public Library History Room, the Richmond Historical Museum, the Rosie the Riveter National Archives, the Prelinger Library, BART Archives, Port of Oakland, the National Archives at College Park, and the National Archives at San Francisco, which are really in San Bruno behind a mall and some condos.

As the list above shows, this is not a comprehensive accounting of everything in the Bay. But I hope the idiosyncratic piles that I’ve driven out into the liquid (and rapidly disappearing) local history can undergird broader efforts to bridge past and future.

If you have questions, have a document to add, or a story to tell, get in touch with me at alexis.madrigal@gmail.com.

(Oh, and if it’s not obvious, this is a real work in progress, both the site and the book. Expect change.)"]]></description>
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    <title>Why Silicon Valley and Big Tech Don’t Innovate Anymore - The Atlantic</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["AnnaLee Saxenian, a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information, literally wrote the book on what differentiated the Valley from other centers of technology (particularly New England’s Route 128). The key words were decentralized and fluid. You worked for Silicon Valley, and working for Silicon Valley often meant striking out on your own, not only to make your name, but because innovation itself required small firms with new visions. That’s how disruption happened, no?

Then the post-dot-com generation of companies became the most ubiquitous and valuable corporations in the world, and Silicon Valley’s rhetoric began to change. Over time, the leaders of Facebook and Google, specifically, began to argue a new line: The most innovative, competitive companies are not small and nimble, but big and rich with user data. The real game isn’t among American internet companies; it’s global, and pits American giants against Chinese corporations, governments, and values. In competition with such power, small will lose, or so the executives warn when facing down antitrust action."]]></description>
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    <title>No one’s coming. It’s up to us. – Dan Hon – Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2018-02-11T04:25:14+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Getting from here to there

This is all very well and good. But what can we do? And more precisely, what “we”? There’s increasing acceptance of the reality that the world we live in is intersectional and we all play different and simultaneous roles in our lives. The society of “we” includes technologists who have a chance of affecting the products and services, it includes customers and users, it includes residents and citizens.

I’ve made this case above, but I feel it’s important enough to make again: at a high level, I believe that we need to:

1. Clearly decide what kind of society we want; and then

2. Design and deliver the technologies that forever get us closer to achieving that desired society.

This work is hard and, arguably, will never be completed. It necessarily involves compromise. Attitudes, beliefs and what’s considered just changes over time.

That said, the above are two high level goals, but what can people do right now? What can we do tactically?

What we can do now

I have two questions that I think can be helpful in guiding our present actions, in whatever capacity we might find ourselves.

For all of us: What would it look like, and how might our societies be different, if technology were better aligned to society’s interests?

At the most general level, we are all members of a society, embedded in existing governing structures. It certainly feels like in the recent past, those governing structures are coming under increasing strain, and part of the blame is being laid at the feet of technology.

One of the most important things we can do collectively is to produce clarity and prioritization where we can. Only by being clearer and more intentional about the kind of society we want and accepting what that means, can our societies and their institutions provide guidance and leadership to technology.

These are questions that cannot and should not be left to technologists alone. Advances in technology mean that encryption is a societal issue. Content moderation and censorship are a societal issue. Ultimately, it should be for governments (of the people, by the people) to set expectations and standards at the societal level, not organizations accountable only to a board of directors and shareholders.

But to do this, our governing institutions will need to evolve and improve. It is easier, and faster, for platforms now to react to changing social mores. For example, platforms are responding in reaction to society’s reaction to “AI-generated fake porn” faster than governing and enforcing institutions.

Prioritizations may necessarily involve compromise, too: the world is not so simple, and we are not so lucky, that it can be easily and always divided into A or B, or good or not-good.

Some of my perspective in this area is reflective of the schism American politics is currently experiencing. In a very real way, America, my adoptive country of residence, is having to grapple with revisiting the idea of what America is for. The same is happening in my country of birth with the decision to leave the European Union.

These are fundamental issues. Technologists, as members of society, have a point of view on them. But in the way that post-enlightenment governing institutions were set up to protect against asymmetric distribution of power, technology leaders must recognize that their platforms are now an undeniable, powerful influence on society.

As a society, we must do the work to have a point of view. What does responsible technology look like?

For technologists: How can we be humane and advance the goals of our society?

As technologists, we can be excited about re-inventing approaches from first principles. We must resist that impulse here, because there are things that we can do now, that we can learn now, from other professions, industries and areas to apply to our own. For example:

* We are better and stronger when we are together than when we are apart. If you’re a technologist, consider this question: what are the pros and cons of unionizing? As the product of a linked network, consider the question: what is gained and who gains from preventing humans from linking up in this way?

* Just as we create design patterns that are best practices, there are also those that represent undesired patterns from our society’s point of view known as dark patterns. We should familiarise ourselves with them and each work to understand why and when they’re used and why their usage is contrary to the ideals of our society.

* We can do a better job of advocating for and doing research to better understand the problems we seek to solve, the context in which those problems exist and the impact of those problems. Only through disciplines like research can we discover in the design phase — instead of in production, when our work can affect millions — negative externalities or unintended consequences that we genuinely and unintentionally may have missed.

* We must compassionately accept the reality that our work has real effects, good and bad. We can wish that bad outcomes don’t happen, but bad outcomes will always happen because life is unpredictable. The question is what we do when bad things happen, and whether and how we take responsibility for those results. For example, Twitter’s leadership must make clear what behaviour it considers acceptable, and do the work to be clear and consistent without dodging the issue.

* In America especially, technologists must face the issue of free speech head-on without avoiding its necessary implications. I suggest that one of the problems culturally American technology companies (i.e., companies that seek to emulate American culture) face can be explained in software terms. To use agile user story terminology, the problem may be due to focusing on a specific requirement (“free speech”) rather than the full user story (“As a user, I need freedom of speech, so that I can pursue life, liberty and happiness”). Free speech is a means to an end, not an end, and accepting that free speech is a means involves the hard work of considering and taking a clear, understandable position as to what ends.

* We have been warned. Academics — in particular, sociologists, philosophers, historians, psychologists and anthropologists — have been warning of issues such as large-scale societal effects for years. Those warnings have, bluntly, been ignored. In the worst cases, those same academics have been accused of not helping to solve the problem. Moving on from the past, is there not something that we technologists can learn? My intuition is that post the 2016 American election, middle-class technologists are now afraid. We’re all in this together. Academics are reaching out, have been reaching out. We have nothing to lose but our own shame.

* Repeat to ourselves: some problems don’t have fully technological solutions. Some problems can’t just be solved by changing infrastructure. Who else might help with a problem? What other approaches might be needed as well?

There’s no one coming. It’s up to us.

My final point is this: no one will tell us or give us permission to do these things. There is no higher organizing power working to put systemic changes in place. There is no top-down way of nudging the arc of technology toward one better aligned with humanity.

It starts with all of us.

Afterword

I’ve been working on the bigger themes behind this talk since …, and an invitation to 2017’s Foo Camp was a good opportunity to try to clarify and improve my thinking so that it could fit into a five minute lightning talk. It also helped that Foo Camp has the kind of (small, hand-picked — again, for good and ill) influential audience who would be a good litmus test for the quality of my argument, and would be instrumental in taking on and spreading the ideas.

In the end, though, I nearly didn’t do this talk at all.

Around 6:15pm on Saturday night, just over an hour before the lightning talks were due to start, after the unconference’s sessions had finished and just before dinner, I burst into tears talking to a friend.

While I won’t break the societal convention of confidentiality that helps an event like Foo Camp be productive, I’ll share this: the world felt too broken.

Specifically, the world felt broken like this: I had the benefit of growing up as a middle-class educated individual (albeit, not white) who believed he could trust that institutions were a) capable and b) would do the right thing. I now live in a country where a) the capability of those institutions has consistently eroded over time, and b) those institutions are now being systematically dismantled, to add insult to injury.

In other words, I was left with the feeling that there’s nothing left but ourselves.

Do you want the poisonous lead removed from your water supply? Your best bet is to try to do it yourself.

Do you want a better school for your children? Your best bet is to start it.

Do you want a policing policy that genuinely rehabilitates rather than punishes? Your best bet is to…

And it’s just. Too. Much.

Over the course of the next few days, I managed to turn my outlook around.

The answer, of course, is that it is too much for one person.

But it isn’t too much for all of us."]]></description>
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    <title>The Great Thing About Apple's 'Town Squares' - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-25T05:14:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/the-great-thing-about-apple-christening-their-stores-town-squares/539667/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In adopting the faux democratic language of Facebook and Twitter, Apple has made the perfect physical metaphor for the largely ineffable problem the internet poses to democracy.

Maybe that will make people realize how absurd it is to expect fundamentally commercial entities to build community or to serve liberal democracy or to make your voice heard or to act as an agora or whatever else.

These are businesses. They sell stuff. People buy it. That’s great.

Bringing these democratic ideas inside private enterprises seems nice, but it warps the very idea of “the public.” Who is excluded from the Apple Town Square that should have equal access to the soapbox?"]]></description>
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    <title>The Weird Thing About Today's Internet - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-30T01:44:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/a-very-brief-history-of-the-last-10-years-in-technology/526767/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["O’Reilly’s lengthy description of the principles of Web 2.0 has become more fascinating through time. It seems to be describing a slightly parallel universe. “Hyperlinking is the foundation of the web,” O’Reilly wrote. “As users add new content, and new sites, it is bound into the structure of the web by other users discovering the content and linking to it. Much as synapses form in the brain, with associations becoming stronger through repetition or intensity, the web of connections grows organically as an output of the collective activity of all web users.”

Nowadays, (hyper)linking is an afterthought because most of the action occurs within platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and messaging apps, which all have carved space out of the open web. And the idea of “harnessing collective intelligence” simply feels much more interesting and productive than it does now. The great cathedrals of that time, nearly impossible projects like Wikipedia that worked and worked well, have all stagnated. And the portrait of humanity that most people see filtering through the mechanics of Facebook or Twitter does not exactly inspire confidence in our social co-productions.

Outside of the open-source server hardware and software worlds, we see centralization. And with that centralization, five giant platforms have emerged as the five most valuable companies in the world: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook."

…

"All this to say: These companies are now dominant. And they are dominant in a way that almost no other company has been in another industry. They are the mutant giant creatures created by software eating the world.

It is worth reflecting on the strange fact that the five most valuable companies in the world are headquartered on the Pacific coast between Cupertino and Seattle. Has there ever been a more powerful region in the global economy? Living in the Bay, having spent my teenage years in Washington state, I’ve grown used to this state of affairs, but how strange this must seem from from Rome or Accra or Manila.

Even for a local, there are things about the current domination of the technology industry that are startling. Take the San Francisco skyline. In 2007, the visual core of the city was north of Market Street, in the chunky buildings of the downtown financial district. The TransAmerica Pyramid was a regional icon and had been the tallest building in the city since construction was completed in 1972. Finance companies were housed there. Traditional industries and power still reigned. Until quite recently, San Francisco had primarily been a cultural reservoir for the technology industries in Silicon Valley to the south."

[See also:

"How the Internet has changed in the past 10 years"
http://kottke.org/17/05/how-the-internet-has-changed-in-the-past-10-years

"What no one saw back then, about a week after the release of the original iPhone, was how apps on smartphones would change everything. In a non-mobile world, these companies and services would still be formidable but if we were all still using laptops and desktops to access information instead of phones and tablets, I bet the open Web would have stood a better chance."

"‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/technology/evan-williams-medium-twitter-internet.html]

[Related: 
"Tech’s Frightful Five: They’ve Got Us"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/technology/techs-frightful-five-theyve-got-us.html

"Which Tech Giant Would You Drop?: The Big Five tech companies increasingly dominate our lives. Could you ditch them?"
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/10/technology/Ranking-Apple-Amazon-Facebook-Microsoft-Google.html

"Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and Alphabet, the parent company of Google, are not just the largest technology companies in the world. As I’ve argued repeatedly in my column, they are also becoming the most powerful companies of any kind, essentially inescapable for any consumer or business that wants to participate in the modern world. But which of the Frightful Five is most unavoidable? I ponder the question in my column this week.

But what about you? If an evil monarch forced you to choose, in what order would you give up these inescapable giants of tech?"]]]></description>
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    <title>What I learned from a week at the Mexico border wall | Fusion</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-25T02:27:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://fusion.net/story/359273/what-i-learned-from-a-week-at-the-mexico-border-wall/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As I looked back over the footage I’d shot, I kept coming back to that far eastern edge of Tijuana, where the city is at its most emergent and the wall ends. Many of the roofs were covered by what appear to be recycled billboards. A random smattering of advertisements face skyward, targeting no one. Models’ faces, beer cans, cars, movie posters. A jumble of discarded messages from the culture: 1-800-GET-THIN, Toyota of Riverside, Ariel from the Little Mermaid, a Mercedes, More Energy, Party!, Jack Black, a trumpet, Bud Light, a robot crossed out, Lying Game, Choose Me, a truck cab, Ringer, Any ID, Want More?, Love the Artist, Man on a Ledge.

My border experience felt like this kind of boisterous collage. Two countries connected by global capitalism, by local culture, by Spanglish, by the weather and the sunset and tiny blue-tailed lizards, by the Raiders, by Juanes, by trucks and cargo containers and radio waves, by Tecate and Dos Equis, by Tinder, by Disney princesses, by skinny jeans, by hair dye, by checking the Border Wait app to see how long it’s gonna take to cross.

The border as a wall, as a line on a map, as a way of life, as something you never visit until relatives come from out of town, as the storehouse for all the pieces that seem to go missing from every immigration story, including my family’s own."]]></description>
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    <title>It Doesn't Know What You Want Until You Teach It</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-20T00:58:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://tinyletter.com/realfuture/letters/it-doesn-t-know-what-you-want-until-you-teach-it</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["So, I just got home from Tel Aviv, which, while I happened to be there, was hit by a massive sandstorm that swept across from Syria.

Now, sandstorms, or at least the one I saw, do not work like the ones in Mad Max. I woke up in my little hotel cocoon, threw back the blackout curtains and saw … nothing. Because that’s what sandstorms do: they make landscape into nothing. They disappear buildings and the sea and the horizon and even the sun. Beyond half a mile, everything fades into white-yellow nothing.

I went for a run up the beach until I got to an old crumbling stone jetty. An old shirtless man with a huge belly was fishing from it. All I could see was a few big hotels behind me rising into dust and this jetty with the man in front of me. And it was possible to imagine that this was all the world, that this little narrow spit of land was all that was left.

That’s the dystopian story.

But, at the same time, I could snap a photo of the sea and the sky and send it to my wife across the world and have her send me back a picture of our son. And I could go look up the sandstorm and see it from a NASA satellite. And Apple would put out a new version of their phone, and just down the road, hundreds of Israeli startups were building new things in the world. And as I wandered around Tel Aviv, the strange light of the sandstorm making every photo look as if it were taken in a dream, I thought to myself: there are so many futures happening at once.

When we imagine a utopia or dystopia, both represent a hope that human lives will somehow be less messy and complex in the future than they are now. Because, good or bad, that’s the most comforting lie we can tell ourselves about what’s going to come: that we might be able to process and understand it more easily than we do our own short moment.

It's good to be back."]]></description>
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    <title>Surviving Cinco de Mayo: one man's ambivalent guide to the Taco Bell of holidays | Fusion</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-05T21:13:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://fusion.net/story/129831/surviving-cinco-de-mayo-one-mans-ambivalent-guide-to-the-taco-bell-of-holidays/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["But then one day, I was explaining this position to a dude I knew. He was a little guy, spiky gelled hair, ducktail in the back, looked like a striker for a soccer team relegated to the second-tier league. And as I dismounted from my high horse, he turned to me and said, “You gotta chill. It’s fun. And everybody wants to hook up with a Mexican on Cinco de Mayo.”

This is not exactly airtight logic, but it cracked my self-seriousness: maybe to hate on Cinco de Mayo was more pedantry than politics.

I started to dig a little deeper. My friend Gustavo Arellano, the eponymous Mexican of OC Weekly’s Ask a Mexican column, reminds us that no less a figure than Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Octavio Paz (after whom I named my first born) had ensconced partying as a core component of the Mexican soul. “Something impedes us from being. And since we cannot or dare not confront our own selves, we resort to the fiesta,” Paz writes in his linked series of essays, Labyrinth of Solitude. “It fires us into the void; it is a drunken rapture that burns itself out, a pistol shot in the air, a skyrocket.”

Perhaps Mexicans in the United States, in many cases prevented from citizenship (i.e. full legal recognition of their selves), didn’t mind having a drunken rapture once a year, even if the occasion was as fabricated as Valentine’s Day. And if all the gringos joined in, too, so much the better.

Faced with these various questions, I decided to turn to my most trusted authority on Mexicanidad, my dad Salvador Madrigal, who was born in Mexico DF, and came to the states in his late teens (returning various times over the next couple decades, including for my early childhood). He is my own personal connection to the homeland, of course, and a close observer of both nations."

…

"Well, then, I was back to my central dilemma. What is a half-Mexican kid who grew up in the US to do about Cinco de Mayo? Burn my sombrero or wear it to happy hour?

“The best you can do is provide good craft beer and good Mexican food for your Cinco de Mayo party guests,” he offered. “They’ll think you are weird for not providing Corona and nachos but your soul will feel better.”

We may not be able to win the battle of Cinco de Mayo against the corporate beer and restaurant brands. We will not find improbable victory in the way that Mexican troops did in 1862 in Puebla.

But our war has already been won. Demographics are destiny. We’re gonna be 30 percent of this country in 45 years, says the US Census Bureau. And our real culture will exert an ever greater influence on mainstream America from border to border, no matter how many bros don ponchos and mustaches to get pissdrunk on Corona today."]]></description>
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    <title>Press Play — Press Play: Making and distributing content in the present future we are living through. — Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2015-02-20T07:49:34+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This thing of ours:

This course, Press Play, aspires to be a place where you make things. Good things. Smart things. Cool things. And then share those things with other people. The idea of Press Play is that after we make things we are happy with, that we push a button and unleash it on the world. Much of it will be text, but if you want to make magic with a camera, your phone, or with a digital recorder, knock yourself out. But it will all be displayed and edited on Medium because there will be a strong emphasis on working with others in this course, and Medium is collaborative.

While writing, shooting, and editing are often solitary activities, great work emerges in the spaces between people. We will be working in groups with peer and teacher edits. There will be a number of smaller assignments, but the goal is that you will leave here with a single piece of work that reflects your capabilities as a maker of media.But remember, evaluations will be based not just on your efforts, but on your ability to bring excellence out of the people around you. Medium has a remarkable “notes” function where the reader/editor can highlight a specific word, phrase or paragraph and comment, suggest a tweak or give an attaboy. This is counter-intuitive, but you will be judged as much by what you put in the margins of others work as you are for your own. (You should sign on to Medium as soon as you can. You can log in with Facebook or Twitter credentials. Pithy instructions on writing and collaborating on Medium: here, here, here, and, yes, here.)To begin with, we will look at the current media ecosystem: how content is conceived, made, made better, distributed, and paid for. We will discuss finding a story, research and reporting, content management systems, voice, multimedia packaging, along with distribution and marketing of work. If that sounds ambitious, keep in mind that in addition to picking this professor and grad assistant, we picked you. We already know you are smart, and we just want you to demonstrate that on the (web) page.

What we‘ll create:

Together, we will make a collection of stories on Medium around a specific organizing principle — it could be a genre, topic, reading time, or event — which we’ll decide on in collaboration as well. And once we get stories up and running, we will work on ways of getting them out there into the bloodstream of the web.

In order to have a chance of making great work, you have to consume remarkable work. Fair warning: There will be a lot of weekly reading assignments. I’m not sliming you with a bunch of textbooks, so please know I am dead serious about these readings. Skip or skim at your peril.

I will be bringing in a number of guest speakers. They will be talented, accomplished people giving their own time. Please respond with your fullest attention.

So, to summarize: We will make things — in class, in groups, by our lonely selves — we will work to make those things better, and, if we are lucky, we will figure out how to beckon the lightning of excellence along the way."]]></description>
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    <title>Your guide to California in the Pacific world, past, present, and future</title>
    <dc:date>2015-02-15T19:22:11+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["via: https://twitter.com/the_wrangler/status/567023408064778240
"California is a queer place... it has turned its back on the world and looks into the void Pacific."—D.H. Lawrence: http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/1862325/d14d0bdf66/572442965/353d17b409/ "

"At Boom, we think of our mission as opening up conversations about California in the world and the world in California. California was part of the Pacific world long before it was part of the United States. Today, we live in many worlds. The Pacific is not the only one. But it is arguably most important for California—and one we are still trying to figure out.

We put together our new issue looking backward and forward on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco to try to provoke, inspire, and sustain a conversation about California in the Pacific world: 1915 | 2015 | 2115.

In the process, we found a strong current we didn’t anticipate running from the past through the present and into the future: the quest for a California cosmopolitanism in the Pacific world.

Our spring issue, in the mail to subscribers now, is divided into three sections. Colin Marshall, Wendy Cheng, Robert Gottlieb, and Jean Melesaine kick things off by exploring the state of California in the Pacific world—or Latin-Pacific world—today. Elizabeth Logan, Abigail Markwyn, Phoebe S.K. Young, and Suzanne Fischer explore the 1915 roots of California’s cosmopolitanism in an optimism for peace and prosperity on the eve of World War I, but also in the deeply troubling scientific racism that underpinned imperial aspirations abroad and segregation at home. And then we look ahead to 2115, with help from Gustavo Arellano, Alex Steffen, Alexis Madrigal, and Annalee Newitz. Will Silicon Valley's view of itself and California still at the center of the Pacific world prevail, or will a broader Pacific cosmopolitanism win out, one in which California may not be the center, but will always be a part?

The full issue is already available on JSTOR, and over the coming weeks we’ll be rolling it out at www.boomcalifornia.com, where historian Thomas Osborne’s introductory essay [http://www.boomcalifornia.com/2015/02/california/ ] is up now, along with my letter from the editor's desktop, the full list of contributors, and our quarterly Boom list of things to do, see, and read around California this spring. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter to be sure you don't miss a thing."

[See also: http://www.boomcalifornia.com/2015/02/from-the-editors-desktop-4/
and http://www.boomcalifornia.com/2015/02/contributors-spring-2015/
and http://www.boomcalifornia.com/2015/02/spring-2015/ ]]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2015-02-10T20:58:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://fusion.net/video/46988/this-defensive-drone-has-a-net-to-capture-other-drones/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["France gets 75 percent of its electricity from nuclear power, which means the country has a lot of nuclear plants. And in the airspace above those plants, French authorities have discovered a troubling thing: little drones flying to and fro. The AP reports that “a recent spate of mystery drones flying over its nuclear plants, military installations and even the presidential palace” have caused the country’s government to ask scientists to “devise ways to counteract the small — and so far harmless — motorized menaces overhead.”

The U.S. government is similarly interested in anti-drone technologies. American authorities are particularly worried about swarms of small drones.

But if you like your drone deterrence with a bit of French slapstick thrown in, behold the video above. That’s the Drone Interceptor MP200, a net-bearing flying vehicle developed by Malou Tech, a startup associated with the French telecom Groupe Assmann (not a typo or a joke).

The MP200 is designed to autonomously fly up to other drones—and using a suite of on-board sensors—literally drop a net on them. That binds their blades, and allows the MP200 to deliver the offending vehicle away from the nuclear power plant or presidential palace or what have you.

There is a future in which small drones flown by terrorists and governments evolve rapidly—like predators and prey after the Cambrian explosion. Your drone gets a net? Mine has on-board scissors. Your drone smashes my scissors with a hammer? My drone deploys a shield. And on and on.

Or, as the chief of Malou Tech told the AP after one of his drones dropped a 16-ounce water bottle by remote control: “Everything is possible.”"]]></description>
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    <title>Welcome to the Real Future -- Fusion</title>
    <dc:date>2015-02-03T19:11:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://fusion.net/story/42097/welcome-to-the-real-future/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I mean, who has not watched YouTube videos of parrots singing arias or animal mindreaders? Or looked up the reality of a memory-destroying apparatus? The Internet is the machine Buendía wanted.

The present is dazzling. People all over the world are desperately producing tweets and snaps and posts hoping that you’ll read and share them. Most media can be found by pulling one’s thumb down on a screen and waiting for a new set of free cultural products to appear. Time itself seems stranger now, too, thanks to the flattening effect of the Internet. (The futurist Bruce Sterling calls our state “atemporality.”) Go to the hippest Tumblr and you’ll see strange futuristic visions from the 1970s, retro photos of people jet-skiing in 1950s Florida, paintings of 1890s Hong Kong using an ancient Chinese technique, and daguerreotypes of Civil War soldiers. Yet we consume them all together happily, unable to peel the onion skins apart, even if we wanted to. The National Security Agency keeps watch, too, building a dark registry in the shadows of the new Library of Alexandria that Jill Lepore describes being created at the Internet Archive.

The present is also dark. Every other book seems set in a dystopian world with too much technology destroying human dignity, or too little giving back all the genuine progress of civilization. The TV show we got most excited about this year, Black Mirror, depicted the ways that near-future technology will leave us disillusioned and despairing. In the present, it’s hard not to be disillusioned by the many charlatans and thinkfluencers peddling bullshit in and around the tech industry. Consumed by the near-certainty that they will fail, the lucky few entrepreneurs who succeed rarely consider the ramifications of winning. The best monetary redistribution mechanism we seem to have is to enrich a few people with so many billions of dollars that they commit to giving almost all of it away.

At Real Future, we want to show you glimpses of the future alongside what we see of all the past eras. We can find the innovations and ideas that are going to carry forward in time and present them to you, alongside the rest of the timeline of technological development. We want to think about real futures. The ones where nothing goes according to plan, but Skynet doesn’t take over, either. The one where everything is amazing and nobody’s happy. Or maybe where everybody’s happy but nothing’s amazing. By loosening the present’s hold on us, we hope to find new ways of thinking. Just considering the future can shift our perspective about this moment. Why else would Margaret Atwood set her latest book’s release date 99 years from now?

If this sounds vague and theoretical, trust that it’s not. The core of our enterprise around here will be deep, interesting reporting about technology. But part of understanding how technology works is exposing the implicit or explicit political philosophies of the technology industry. So, yes, we will write about all the interesting stuff coming out of Silicon Valley. But we can’t ignore racism, sexism, homophobia, jingoism. We can’t overlook historical injustice just because there has been some progress that benefits everyone.

What tech gets made is organized by what people believe. If the mission of Fusion is to champion a more diverse, inclusive America, our mission is to champion a more diverse, inclusive future.

Our team isn’t new to this kind of work. Kashmir Hill, who came to us from Forbes, has been the best writer on the freaky future of privacy and data for years. Kevin Roose, a New York magazine alum, created inventive, brilliant ways of telling stories about the start-up economy. Daniela Hernandez gained a deep understanding of artificial intelligence through a PhD in neurobiology and a stint at Wired. Cara Rose De Fabio is an artist who has created live experiences that critiqued and deepened her audience’s sense of how technology worked within their minds. Pendarvis Harshaw has and will continue to cover the intersection of cities, justice, and technology.

Together, we want to help people understand the complex interplay of technical possibilities and ideas that come together to limit or open up different futures. The shorthand we’ve been using is that we’re going to tell stories about the worlds we’ll live in. And everyone in those worlds will be accounted for, not just those with geek bona fides or stock options. Too many technology stories are written from the perspective of the producers, and far too few about the users. (Who are the co-creators of all social technologies, anyway.)"]]></description>
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    <title>'In the 2000s, there will be only answers' -- Fusion</title>
    <dc:date>2015-01-06T04:53:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://fusion.net/story/36636/in-the-2000s-there-will-be-only-answers/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Some writers we know write about the future: William Gibson, Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Philip K. Dick, Ursula Le Guin. We expect them to find insights about how humans might live. But what about someone like Marguerite Duras, an influential post-war French novelist and filmmaker? She had important things to say about the 20th century. What might she say about the future?

Photonics researcher Antoine Wojdyla stumbled across an interview with Duras from September 1985 in the French magazine Les Inrocks. Struck by Duras’ perspective on technology and deception, he translated the article out of the goodness of his heart and sent it to me. It’s strange and remarkable, an uncanny interpretation of our present.

I read her statement as a kind of pre-answer to Google and wearables and the quantified self. When former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the Wall Street Journal in 2010, “I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.” That’s what Duras means when she says, “In the 2000s, there will only be answers.”

In any case, here’s Duras as translated by Wojdyla:

<blockquote>In the 2000s, there will be only answers. The demand will be such that there will only be answers. All texts will be answers, in fact. I believe that man will be literally drowned in information, in constant information. About his body, his corporeal future, his health, his family life, his salary, his leisure.

It’s not far from a nightmare. There will be nobody reading anymore.

They will see television. We will have screens everywhere, in the kitchen, in the restrooms, in the office, in the streets.

Where will we be? When we watch television, where are we? We’re not alone.

We will no longer travel, it will no longer be necessary to travel. When you can travel around the world in eight days or a fortnight, why would you?

In traveling, there is the time of the travel. Traveling is not seeing things in a rapid succession, it’s seeing and living in the same instant. Living from the travel, that will no longer be possible.

Everything will be clogged, everything will have been already invested.

The seas will remain, nevertheless, and the oceans.

And reading. People will rediscover that. A man, one day, will read. And everything will start again. We’ll encounter a time where everything will be free. Meaning that answers, at that time, will be granted less consideration. It will start like this, with indiscipline, a risk taken by a human against himself. The day where he will be left alone again with his misfortunes, and his happiness, only that those will depend on himself.

Maybe those who will get over this misstep will be the heroes of the future.

It’s very likely, let’s hope there will be some left…</blockquote>"]]></description>
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    <title>Selin Jessa on Twitter: &quot;Phrases, lately: (0. &quot;bits of poetry stick to her like burrs&quot; Jenny Offill's Dept. Speculation)&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-30T21:44:07+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Phrases, lately: (0. "bits of poetry stick to her like burrs" Jenny Offill's Dept. Speculation)"
https://twitter.com/selinjessa/status/549813158462775296

"i. "between kind wildness & wild kindness" @mojgani, https://twitter.com/mojgani/status/548544254339846144 …"
https://twitter.com/selinjessa/status/549813370346405888

"ii. "a practice of worlding" http://thomvandooren.org/2014/07/19/care-some-musings-on-a-theme/ …"
https://twitter.com/selinjessa/status/549813522259906561

"iii. "craftmanship of knowing" Latour in Visualization and Cognition"
https://twitter.com/selinjessa/status/549813748819439617

"iv. "to bring the body back in" Towards Enabling Geographies, Chouinard (ed)"
https://twitter.com/selinjessa/status/549814454817280000

"v. "your bones as piccolos" http://poeticise.tumblr.com/post/73755575134/how-to-love-bats-by-judith-beveridge …"
https://twitter.com/selinjessa/status/549814682618302464

"vi. "the bone of the planet" a misreading of @alexismadrigal's 11/05 5IT"
https://twitter.com/selinjessa/status/549814925434966017

"vii. "each cell shimmying on its little mitochondrial hilt" Carson, Red doc >"
https://twitter.com/selinjessa/status/549815236123844608

"viii. "the tree unleafing" http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poem/item/18623/auto/TO-SPARENESS-AN-ASSAY …"
https://twitter.com/selinjessa/status/549815847921786881

"ix. "visitations of light" Ledgard, Submergence"
https://twitter.com/selinjessa/status/549815954545180672

"x. "May your listening be good!" http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/passerby-these-are-words …"
https://twitter.com/selinjessa/status/549816439117332480]]></description>
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    <title>Metafoundry 6: Accident Blackspot</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-18T23:52:01+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["AGE OF NON-CONSENT: On my way home from the airport last week, I got into a cab that had a TV screen in the passenger area (as is now common in Boston and other cities). As I always do, I immediately turned it off. A few minutes later, it turned itself on again. That got me thinking about this amazing piece [http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-fantasy-and-abuse-of-the-manipulable-user ] by Betsy Haibel at Model View Culture, about ‘when mistreating users becomes competitive advantage’, about technology and consent (seriously, go read it; it’s more important that you read that than you read this). I had started thinking more about how technology is coercive and how it pushes or crosses the boundaries of users a few weeks ago, when I got a new phone. Setting it up was an exercise in defending my limits against a host of apps. No, you can’t access my Contacts. No, you don’t need access to my Photos. No, why the hell would you need access to my Location? I had to install a new version of Google Maps, which has crippled functionality (no memory of previous places) if you don't sign into Google, and it tries to convince you to sign in on every single screen, because what I obviously really want is for Google to track my phone and connect it to the rest of my online identity (bear in mind that the only objects that have have a closer average proximity to me than my phone does are pierced through bits of my body). Per that Haibel article, Google’s nagging feels exactly like the boundary-crossing of an unwanted suitor, continually begging for access to me it has no rights to and that I have no intention of providing.

This week, of course, provided a glorious example of how technology companies have normalized being indifferent to consent: Apple ‘gifting’ each user with a U2 album downloaded into iTunes. At least one of my friends reported that he had wireless synching of his phone disabled; Apple overrode his express preferences in order to add the album to his music collection. The expected 'surprise and delight' was really more like 'surprise and delete'. I suspect that the strong negative response (in some quarters, at least) had less to do with a dislike of U2 and everything to do with the album as a metonym for this widespread culture of nonconsensual behaviour in technology. I've begun to note examples of these behaviours, and here are a few that have come up just in the last week: Being opted in to promo e-mails on registering for a website. Being forced by Adobe Creative Cloud into a trial of the newest version of Acrobat; after the trial period, it refused to either run Acrobat or ‘remember’ that I had a paid-up institutional license for the previous version. A gas pump wouldn't give me a receipt until after it showed me an ad. A librarian’s presentation to one of my classes was repeatedly interrupted by pop-ups telling her she needed to install more software. I booked a flight online and, after I declined travel insurance, a blinking box appeared to 'remind' me that I could still sign up for it. When cutting-and-pasting the Jony Ive quote below, Business Insider added their own text to what I had selected. The Kindle app on my phone won’t let me copy text at all, except through their highlighting interface. When you start looking for examples of nonconsensual culture in technology, you find them absolutely everywhere.

Once upon a time, Apple was on the same side as its users. The very first iMac, back in 1998, had a handle built into the top of it, where it would be visible when the box was opened. In Ive’s words, ‘if there's this handle on it, it makes a relationship possible…It gives a sense of its deference to you.’ Does anyone feel like their iPhone is deferential to them? What changed? Part of it is what Ethan Zuckerman called ‘the original sin’ of the Internet [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/advertising-is-the-internets-original-sin/376041/ ], the widespread advertising-based model that depends on strip-mining user characteristics for ad targeting, coupled with what Maciej Ceglowski describes as ‘investor storytime’ [http://idlewords.com/bt14.htm ], selling investors on the idea that they’ll get rich when you finally do put ads on your site. The other part is the rise of what Bruce Sterling dubbed “the Stacks” [http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/459/State-of-the-World-2013-Bruce-St-page01.html ]: Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft. Alexis Madrigal predicted [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/bruce-sterling-on-why-it-stopped-making-sense-to-talk-about-the-internet-in-2012/266674/ ], “Your technology will work perfectly within the silo...But it will be perfectly broken at the interfaces between itself and its competitors”, and that can only be the case if the companies control what you do both inside and outside the silo. And, finally, of course, our willingness to play ball with them—ie why I didn't want to sign into Google from my phone—has eroded in direct proportion to our trust that the data gathered by companies will be handled carefully (not abused, shared, leaked, or turned over). Right now, a large fraction of my interactions with tech companies, especially the Stacks, feel coerced.

One of the reasons why I care so much about issues of consent, besides all the obvious ones (you know, having my time wasted, my attention abused, and my personal behaviours and characteristics sold for profit) is because of the imminent rise of connected objects. It’ll be pretty challenging for designers and users to have a shared mental model of the behaviour of connected objects even if they are doing their damnedest to understand each other; bring in an coercive, nonconsensual technology culture and it doesn't take a lot of imagination to consider how terrible they could be. The day before Apple’s keynote this week, London-based Internet of Things design firm BERG announced that they were closing their doors (although I prefer to think of them as dispersing, like a blown dandelion clock). The confluence of their demise with Apple’s behaviour made me extra-sad, because BERG were one of the few companies that worked in technology that really seemed to think of their users as people. Journalist Quinn Norton recently wrote a fantastic piece on the theory and practice of politeness, "How to Be Polite...for Geeks" [https://medium.com/message/how-to-be-polite-for-geeks-86cb784983b1 ], which could just as easily be "...for Technology Companies". The Google+ 'real name' fiasco and Facebook's myriad privacy scandals could have been averted if the companies had some empathy for their users, and listened to what they said, instead of assuming that we are all Mark Zuckerbergs [http://dashes.com/anil/2010/09/the-facebook-reckoning-1.html ]. As well as laying down some Knowledge about Theory of Mind and Umwelt [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umwelt ], Quinn notes that politeness is catchy--social norms are created and enforced by what everyone does. I commute by car daily in Boston but I spent a year on sabbatical in Seattle. The traffic rules in Boston and Seattle are virtually identical, but a significant chunk of driver behaviours (in particular, the ones that earn Boston drivers the epithet of 'Massholes') are the result of social norms, tacitly condoned by most of the community. And driving is regulated a lot more closely than tech companies are.

I don’t know what it’ll take to change technology culture from one that is nonconsensual and borderline-abusive to one that is about enthusiastic consent, and it might not even be possible at this point. All I really know is that it absolutely won’t happen unless we start applying widespread social pressure to make it happen, and that I want tech companies to get their shit together before they make the leap from just being on screens to being everywhere around us."]]></description>
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    <title>Inside Google's Secret Drone-Delivery Program - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-29T22:04:48+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-15T21:06:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/why-email-will-never-die/375973/?single_page=true</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["You can't kill email! It's the cockroach of the Internet, and I mean that as a compliment. This resilience is a good thing.

"There isn't much to sending or receiving email and that's sort of the point," observed Aaron Straup Cope, the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum's Senior Engineer in Digital and Emerging Media. "The next time someone tells you email is 'dead,' try to imagine the cost of investing in their solution or the cost of giving up all the flexibility that email affords." 

Email is actually a tremendous, decentralized, open platform on which new, innovative things can and have been built. In that way, email represents a different model from the closed ecosystems we see proliferating across our computers and devices. 

Email is a refugee from the open, interoperable, less-controlled "web we lost." It's an exciting landscape of freedom amidst the walled gardens of social networking and messaging services.

Yes, email is exciting. Get excited!

* * *

For all the changes occurring around email, the experience of email itself has been transformed, too. Email is not dying, but it is being unbundled. 

Because it developed  early in the history of the commercial Internet, email served as a support structure for many other developments in the web's history. This has kept email vitally important, but the downside is that the average inbox in the second decade of the century had become clogged with cruft. Too many tasks were bolted on to email's simple protocols.

Looking back on these transitional years from the 2020s, email will appear to people as a grab bag of mismatched services.

Email was a newsfeed. …

Email was one's passport and identity. …

Email was the primary means of direct social communication on the Internet. …

Email was a digital package-delivery service. After FTP faded from popularity, but before Dropbox and Google Drive, email was the primary way to ship heavy digital documents around the Internet. The attachment was a key productivity tool for just about everyone, and it's hard to imagine an Internet without the ability to quickly append documents to a message. Needless to say, email is a less than ideal transmission or storage medium, relative to the new services.

Email was the primary mode of networked work communication. …


The metaphor of electronic mail never fully fit how people use e-mail. But, now, perhaps it might. Email could become a home for the kinds of communications that come in the mail: letters from actual people, bills, personalized advertisements, and periodicals. 

* * *

Looking at this list of email's many current uses, it is obvious that some of these tasks will leave its domain. Each person will get to choose whether they use email as their primary identity on the web. Work and simple social messaging will keep moving to other platforms, too. The same will be true of digital delivery, where many cloud-based solutions have already proved superior. 

So, what will be left of the inbox, then? 

I contend email might actually become what we thought it was: an electronic letter-writing platform.

My colleague Ian Bogost pointed out to me that we've used the metaphor of the mail to describe the kind of communication that goes on through these servers. But, in reality, email did not replace letters, but all classes of communications: phone calls, in-person encounters, memos, marketing pleas, etc.

This change might be accelerated by services like Gmail's Priority Inbox, which sorts mail neatly (and automatically) into categories, or Unroll.me, which allows users to bundle incoming impersonal communications like newsletters and commercial offers into one easy custom publication.

That is to say, our inboxes are getting smarter and smarter. Serious tools are being built to help us direct and manage what was once just a chronological flow, which people dammed with inadequate organization systems hoping to survive the flood. (Remember all the folders in desktop email clients!)

It's worth noting that spam, which once threatened to overrun our inboxes, has been made invisible by more sophisticated email filtering. I received hundreds of spam emails yesterday, and yet I didn't see a single one because Gmail and my Atlantic email filtered them all neatly out of my main inbox. At the same time, the culture of botty spam spread to every other corner of the Internet. I see spam comments on every website and spam Facebook pages and spam Twitter accounts every day.

Email has gotten much smarter and easier to use, while retaining its ubiquity and interoperability. But there is no one company promoting Email (TM), so those changes have gone relatively unremarked upon.

…

And one last thing ... This isn't something the originators of email ever could have imagined, but: Email does mobile really well.

…

Email—yes, email—is one way forward for a less commercial, less centralized web, and the best thing is, this beautiful cockroach of a social network is already living in all of our homes. 

Now, all we have to do is convince the kids that the real rebellion against the pressures of social media isn't to escape to the ephemerality of Snapchat, but to retreat to the private, relaxed confines of their email inboxes."]]></description>
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    <title>2013: The Year 'the Stream' Crested - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-23T20:00:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/2013-the-year-the-stream-crested/282202/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I am not joking when I say: it is easier to read Ulysses than it is to read the Internet. Because at least Ulysses has an end, an edge. Ulysses can be finished. The Internet is never finished.

It's hard to know when changes are happening. As someone who spends all day on the Internet, I would say that I sense it. But the evidence I can present to you is partial, incomplete, suggestive more than authoritative. In that vein, I would say that nowness is not going away, but the bundle of ideas that formed the metaphor of the The Stream is pulling apart."]]></description>
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    <title>Our Favorite Poem For National Poetry Month Came From a First Grader - Studio 360</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[Or as Alexis Madrigal says: "What children do to and with language is miraculous." http://tinyletter.com/intriguingthings/letters/5-intriguing-things-121

"On the last day of National Poetry Month, our favorite poem we saw all month came from an unnamed first grader:

We did the soft wind.
We danst slowly. We swrld
Aroned. We danst soft.
We lisin to the mozik.
We danst to the mozik. 
We made personal space."]]></description>
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    <title>On Reverse Engineering — Anthropology and Algorithms — Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2014-03-03T11:12:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/anthropology-and-algorithms/d9f5bae87812</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As a cultural anthropologist in the middle of a long-term research project on algorithmic filtering systems, I am very interested in how people think about companies like Netflix, which take engineering practices and apply them to cultural materials. In the popular imagination, these do not go well together: engineering is about universalizable things like effectiveness, rationality, and algorithms, while culture is about subjective and particular things, like taste, creativity, and artistic expression. Technology and culture, we suppose, make an uneasy mix. When Felix Salmon, in his response to Madrigal’s feature, complains about “the systematization of the ineffable,” he is drawing on this common sense: engineers who try to wrangle with culture inevitably botch it up.

Yet, in spite of their reputations, we always seem to find technology and culture intertwined. The culturally-oriented engineering of companies like Netflix is a quite explicit case, but there are many others. Movies, for example, are a cultural form dependent on a complicated system of technical devices — cameras, editing equipment, distribution systems, and so on. Technologies that seem strictly practical — like the Māori eel trap pictured above—are influenced by ideas about effectiveness, desired outcomes, and interpretations of the natural world, all of which vary cross-culturally. We may talk about technology and culture as though they were independent domains, but in practice, they never stay where they belong. Technology’s straightforwardness and culture’s contingency bleed into each other.

This can make it hard to talk about what happens when engineers take on cultural objects. We might suppose that it is a kind of invasion: The rationalizers and quantifiers are over the ridge! They’re coming for our sensitive expressions of the human condition! But if technology and culture are already mixed up with each other, then this doesn’t make much sense. Aren’t the rationalizers expressing their own cultural ideas? Aren’t our sensitive expressions dependent on our tools? In the present moment, as companies like Netflix proliferate, stories trying to make sense of the relationship between culture and technology also proliferate. In my own research, I examine these stories, as told by people from a variety of positions relative to the technology in question. There are many such stories, and they can have far-reaching consequences for how technical systems are designed, built, evaluated, and understood."

…

"So what does “reverse engineering” mean? What kind of things can be reverse engineered? What assumptions does reverse engineering make about its objects? Like any frame, reverse engineering constrains as well as enables the presentation of certain stories. I want to suggest here that, while reverse engineering might be a useful strategy for figuring out how an existing technology works, it is less useful for telling us how it came to work that way. Because reverse engineering starts from a finished technical object, it misses the accidents that happened along the way — the abandoned paths, the unusual stories behind features that made it to release, moments of interpretation, arbitrary choice, and failure. Decisions that seemed rather uncertain and subjective as they were being made come to appear necessary in retrospect. Engineering looks a lot different in reverse."

…

"All engineering mixes culture and technology. Even Madrigal’s “reverse engineering” does not stay put in technical bounds: he supplements the work of his bot by talking with people, drawing on their interpretations and offering his own, reading the altgenres, populated with serendipitous algorithmic accidents, as “a window unto the American soul.” Engineers, reverse and otherwise, have cultural lives, and these lives inform their technical work. To see these effects, we need to get beyond the idea that the technical and the cultural are necessarily distinct. But if we want to understand the work of companies like Netflix, it is not enough to simply conclude that culture and technology — humans and computers — are mixed. The question we need to answer is how."]]></description>
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    <title>American Aqueduct: The Great California Water Saga - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2014-02-25T20:28:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/02/american-aqueduct-the-great-california-water-saga/284009/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A $25 billion plan, a small town, and a half-century of wrangling over the most important resource in the biggest state"

…

"It is an audacious plan, one that seems to come from another era, where governments were more ambitious in their transformation of the natural world. Brown explicitly invoked this grand spirit in unveiling an early version of the plan in mid 2012."

]]></description>
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    <title>@HistoryInPics, @HistoricalPics, @History_Pics: Why the wildly popular Twitter accounts are bad for history.</title>
    <dc:date>2014-02-06T19:12:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.slate.com/articles/life/history/2014/02/_historyinpics_historicalpics_history_pics_why_the_wildly_popular_twitter.single.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[["“I know what this is!” vs “I wonder what this is about?” - @rebeccaonion on shallow history vs historical discovery." https://twitter.com/samplereality/status/431435603029540865

"We need more things in this world that make us end our sentences in question marks instead of exclamation points." https://twitter.com/samplereality/status/431436258888679424 ]

"These caveats aside, Werner’s cry—“These accounts piss me off because they undermine an enterprise I value”—resonates deeply with me. Lack of attribution for the artists who took the photos these accounts use is only the beginning of the problem. By failing to provide context, offering a repetitive and restricted view of what “history” is, and never linking to the many real historical resources available on the Web, these accounts strip history of the truly fun parts: curiosity, detective work, and discovery.

…

"Attribution, meanwhile, isn’t just about giving credit to a creator. A historical document was produced by somebody, at some time, under certain conditions. To historians these details, and the questions they provoke, are what give historical documents dimension. As John Overholt, the curator of early modern books and manuscripts at Harvard’s Houghton Library (and an avid Twitterer and Tumblrer), said to me via email:

<blockquote>Every image is also an artifact—it has a creator, a context, and, in the era of film photography at least, a physical original that sits in a repository somewhere. Divorced from all that metadata, a stream of historical images is always going to be a shallow experience.</blockquote>

By not linking to sources or context, history pic accounts create an impression of history as a glossy, impervious façade."

…

"When she posted her rant on the history-pics phenomenon, the Folger’s Sarah Werner received pushback on Twitter, and was accused of being “against fun.” But a critique of this mode of history-on-Twitter is actually the opposite of elitist schoolmarmery. By posting the same types of photographs over and over and omitting context and links, these accounts are robbing readers of the joy of the historical rabbit hole—and they’re taking a dim, condescending view of the public’s appetite for complexity and breadth of interest.

In my capacity as blogger for the Vault, I spend a lot of time in (free!) digital archives, on the blogs of libraries and museums, and on sites produced by historians working inside and outside of the academy. A delirious pleasure of historical inquiry, on- and offline, lies in the twists and turns: You think you’re writing about children’s encyclopedias from the 1920s, and at the end of the day you’re researching the primatologist Robert Yerkes. This joy is easier than ever for anyone to experience, given the ever-growing body of linked information and original documents available on the Web.

I’m under no illusion that every blog reader follows the links I include to the archives where I find documents, or that every Twitter follower clicks on the links I put in @SlateVault tweets. But if they do, and they land in a digital archive or on a blog, they might see a slider pointing to related documents, a right rail with links to intriguing past posts, or an appealing subject heading. Or, they might decide to plug some of the information they find into Google Books, and see whether anything fun surfaces.

My hope is that I’m providing a starting point, not an end point, with each post. I never know for sure if what sparks my own curiosity will kindle a similar fire with readers, but if it does, I want readers to be able to pursue the subject beyond the confines of my short posts and tweets. The history-pics accounts give no impression of even knowing this web of legitimate, varied historical content exists. Given their huge follower counts, this is a missed opportunity—for their readers, and for the historians and archivists who would thrill to larger audiences for their work."]]></description>
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    <title>Your Job, Their Data: The Most Important Untold Story About the Future - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-22T05:05:13+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["My colleague Don Peck has an unnerving feature in this month's magazine on precisely this issue: "They're Watching You At Work." I highly encourage you to absorb this tale's anecdotes and data. 

After reading it, your gut may feel optimistic, like his, or queasy, like mine. Because the "Moneyballing" of human resources and corporate management has already begun, and who is going to stop it? 

Peck's reporting turned up some amazing/horrifying details about the current prevalence of data-driven corporate practices. For example, he writes, "The Las Vegas casino Harrah’s tracks the smiles of the card dealers and waitstaff on the floor (its analytics team has quantified the impact of smiling on customer satisfaction)." 

Maybe that's nice from a bottom-line perspective, but imagine working at Harrah's: "Hey, Alexis, your smile ratio was down today. Keep those lip corners up, buddy!"

Do we want to live in that world? 

As we reported this week, American truck drivers will soon have all their miles logged by electronic devices. Though safer roads are the nominal goal, no one really disputes that the data on braking or fuel efficiency might be used for other things (like hiring and firing decisions). 

Corporations already have so much power relative to their workers. And the data — because they're the ones generating it — only seems likely to enhance that imbalance. At least that's how I see it."]]></description>
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    <title>Cloudy With a Chance of Beer - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-22T04:02:22+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Weather Company’s Vikram Somaya talks about why marketers are clamoring for weather data."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/what-internetorgs-stirring-video-cut-from-the-kennedy-speech-it-quotes/278896/">
    <title>What Internet.org's Stirring Video Cut From the Kennedy Speech It Quotes - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2013-08-21T20:33:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/what-internetorgs-stirring-video-cut-from-the-kennedy-speech-it-quotes/278896/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["And that's really the point here: Don't pretend to be saints. We are not stupid.

Because the narrow scope of Internet.org's actual mission sounds both reasonable and, perhaps, attainable, given the 60-year decrease in costs associated with all semiconductor-based technologies.

Not even a grump could take issue with an industry trying to make itself cheaper, so that more people could use its products.

But that's only one level of what Internet.org is trying to do. The public facing-side of Internet.org is not satisfied with looking and sounding like an industry collaboration to increase technical efficiency. It's also working at an ideological level to reinforce the idea that connectedness means peace, that Internet access means progress (or even Progress), that working for a tech company is about making the world a better place. 

At some point, it may (may) have made sense to associate Facebook with peace. But that time is over. 

The thing is: People love the Internet, and they'll hop on it if it's available, even given all privacy concerns. The tech business is safe. But its leaders also want our adulation. 

And we shouldn't have to worship web products, or the people who make them, or the values they hold, to use the Internet."]]></description>
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    <title>The Machine Zone: This Is Where You Go When You Just Can't Stop Looking at Pictures on Facebook - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2013-08-01T04:38:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/the-machine-zone-this-is-where-you-go-when-you-just-cant-stop-looking-at-pictures-on-facebook/278185/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What an anthropologist's examination of Vegas slot machines reveals about the hours we spend on social networks"

…

"In Schüll's book, Addiction by Design, a gambler named Lola tells her: "I'm almost hypnotized into being that machine. It's like playing against yourself: You are the machine; the machine is you."

There's that word again: hypnotized, like Stone's grandmother. Many gamblers used variations on the phrase. "To put the zone into words," Schüll writes, "the gamblers I spoke with supplemented an exotic, nineteenth-century terminology of hypnosis and magnetism with twentieth-century references to television watching, computer processing, and vehicle driving.""

…

"When we get wrapped up in a repetitive task on our computers, I think we can enter some softer version of the  machine zone. Obviously, if you're engaged in banter with friends or messaging your mom on Facebook, you're not in that zone. If you're reading actively and writing poems on Twitter, you're not in that zone. If you're making art on Tumblr, you're not in that zone. The machine zone is anti-social, and it's characterized by a lack of human connection. You might be looking at people when you look through photos, but your interactions with their digital presences are mechanical, repetitive, and reinforced by computerized feedback. "

…

"It just so happens that the user behavioral patterns that are most profitable for Facebook and other social networks are precisely the patterns that they've interpreted to mean that people love them. It's almost as if they determined what would be most profitable and then figured out how to justify that as serving user needs. 

But I actually don't believe that. You can say many things about the entrepreneurs, designers, and coders who create social networking companies, but they believe in what they do. They're more likely to be ideologues than craven financial triangulators. And they spend all day on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, and Pinterest, too. I bet they know the machine zone, too. And that's why I have hope they might actually stop designing traps. 

In any case, fighting the great nullness at the heart of these coercive loops should be one of the goals of technology design, use, and criticism. 

In the great tradition of the Valley, we'll make a t-shirt: Just Say No To The Machine Zone."

[Related: http://seriouspony.com/blog/2013/7/24/your-app-makes-me-fat ]]]></description>
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    <title>Why Do Women Disapprove of Drone Strikes So Much More Than Men Do? - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2013-07-27T21:27:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/why-do-women-disapprove-of-drone-strikes-so-much-more-than-men-do/278112/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["When it comes to drones, men are from Mars and women are from some other planet not named after the Roman God of perpetual war."]]></description>
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    <title>Object Lessons</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-07T21:35:37+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Object Lessons is an essay and book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things, from abysses to consumers, hierarchies to histories."

"Each Object Lessons project will start from a specific inspiration: an anthropological query, ecological matter, archeological discovery, historical event, literary passage, personal narrative, philosophical speculation, technological innovation—and from there develop original insights around and novel lessons about the object in question.

Object Lessons invites contributions from scholars, writers, scientists, artists, journalists, and others. Potential topics include: rubber band, plastic bag, tornado, turpentine, wind, wall, Glock, drone, Lamborghini, flak jacket, steamboat, shoehorn, laughter, hatred, air, Google Glass, catnip, platinum, money, rebar, polyester, microchip, marriage, time machine, celebrity, Blowpop, cornbread, combine, honey, Velcro, copper wire, cruise ship, cilium, hot wing—the possibilities are quite literally endless.

SERIES EDITORS

Ian Bogost, Georgia Institute of Technology
Christopher Schaberg, Loyola University New Orleans

Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic
Haaris Naqvi, Bloomsbury Publishing"]]></description>
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    <title>Why People Really Love Technology: An Interview With Genevieve Bell - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-07T02:55:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/why-people-really-love-technology-an-interview-with-genevieve-bell/265596/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There's something in it that you recognize as being a kind of truth. The early ideology of the Internet was about radical transparency, free information, and the sense that the consequences of that would be this sort of massive social upheaval. I sometimes think the more-interesting things are the really mundane, banal things that the Internet and digital technologies are now part of: everything from how we balance our checkbooks to how we arrange our romantic lives to how we insure that there's still a paper that gets delivered to our houses every two weeks. I'm fascinated by that piece. And the ways in which the Internet has become not just part of our romantic lives but also our spiritual and religious ones, and clearly it's part of our political landscape."

"We've been in a decade of dematerialization, all the markers of identity. You and I, when we were younger, knew how to talk about ourselves, to ourselves and others, through physical stuff--music, the books on our shelves…"]]></description>
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    <title>Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-13T01:33:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/dark-social-we-have-the-whole-history-of-the-web-wrong/263523/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["tl;dr version 

1. The sharing you see on sites like Facebook and Twitter is the tip of the 'social' iceberg. We are impressed by its scale because it's easy to measure.

2. But most sharing is done via dark social means like email and IM that are difficult to measure.

3. According to new data on many media sites, 69% of social referrals came from dark social. 20% came from Facebook.

4. Facebook and Twitter do shift the paradigm from private sharing to public publishing. They structure, archive, and monetize your publications."]]></description>
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    <title>Detroit's Gleaming Start-Up Tower - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-24T03:32:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/12/09/detroits-gleaming-startup-tower/262730/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For me, the narrative of Detroit has outstripped at least what I could see of Detroit. Good things are clearly happening, but the lack of connective tissue is a bigger problem than you might imagine. Between downtown and an area like Corktown, which has an excellent coffee shop, the oft-applauded Slow's BBQ, Arbor and Folly, and a couple other bars, there's just nothing. When we left Slow's on a Thursday night at 9pm to drive the couple miles to our hotel, we got about halfway when I looked in my rearview mirror and realized that there wasn't a single other car behind us, nor approaching. There were no bikes or pedestrians, either…

But I do not know that I have that sense of euphoria. The story requires a fairy tale ending. And the reality is so daunting. I can practically hear Linkner reading this and saying, "He's soft. He's not made for Detroit." And that's probably true."]]></description>
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    <title>How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-07T07:20:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/12/09/how-google-builds-its-maps-and-what-it-means-for-the-future-of-well-everything/261913/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As we slip and slide into a world where our augmented reality is increasingly visible to us off and online, Google's geographic data may become its most valuable asset. Not solely because of this data alone, but because location data makes everything else Google does and knows more valuable.

Or as my friend and sci-fi novelist Robin Sloan put it to me, "I maintain that this is Google's core asset. In 50 years, Google will be the self-driving car company (powered by this deep map of the world) and, oh, P.S. they still have a search engine somewhere."

Of course, they will always need one more piece of geographic information to make all this effort worthwhile: You. Where you are, that is. Your location is the current that makes Google's giant geodata machine run. They've built this whole playground as an elaborate lure for you. As good and smart and useful as it is, good luck resisting taking the bait."]]></description>
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    <title>Ekstasis: A Kind of Media</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-14T06:13:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ekstasis.tumblr.com/post/5143966386/a-kind-of-media</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["An event is something you want to interact with. Events demand a certain level of participation, if only in the form of paying attention. Hooting and hollering or RTing and linking, certain situations take on a character of interactivity, for good or for ill. The gap between a mob and the crowd at a “happening” isn’t so vast. This isn’t bad, not necessarily. Instead, it’s just something we HAVE to be aware of. The “event,” online or elsewhere, is going to be a defining feature of the near future. It’s the next step in marketing and advertising, among other things and we won’t be able to escape it. “Passive” media of transmission are giving way to “active” media, that demand (at least) close attention be paid to them. This isn’t just about TV, or the internet, or sporting events, or whatever.

It’s about mediation and it’s everything.

“A crowd of people gathered together in public is a kind of media.”"]]></description>
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    <title>Against TED – The New Inquiry</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-19T23:18:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/against-ted/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["TED is not simply “engaging” & “entertaining” but a specific type of entertainment that is increasingly out of touch & exclusionary.

…appears that whole TED brand induces laughter from many of those skeptical of corporate speak & techno-jargon. At first, I thought I was laughing alone; however, it turns out that lots of other people are equally unimpressed by the current state of TED…I’m not the only one who does not take TED very seriously or worse, views the whole project as suspect…

Perhaps the biggest complaint I heard was that TED smells of corporatism…

So many of the TED talks take on the form of those famous patent medicine tonic cure-all pitches of previous centuries, as though they must convince you not through the content of what’s being said but through the hyper-engaging style of the delivery…

As Mike Bulajewski pointed out in a Tweet, “TED’s ‘revolutionary ideas’ mask capitalism as usual, giving it a narrative of progress and change.”"
]]></description>
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    <title>How 'Radiolab' Is Changing the Sound of the Radio - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-17T23:12:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/how-radiolab-is-changing-the-sound-of-the-radio/251509/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What's different about Radiolab (&…changing about the web) is that it *is* a production…one of a very new kind. Radiolab is actually post-blog & post-livestream…not aping oratory of old or raggedness of new…a hybrid that takes lessons from the past, recent & deep. 

That's where…web journalism is headed…"No one wants to read a 9,000-word treatise online. On the Web, one-sentence links are as legitimate as 1000-word diatribes—in fact, they are often valued more."

While this might have been true at one point, it simply no longer is…at The Atlantic, there is a very strong positive correlation between length of post & readers attracted. The genre conventions of blogging are changing. Few old-style linkblogs exist & a whole culture has developed around the longread. New online publications…look beautiful.

This is the Radiolab effect extended: expect less pretension to authority, greater understanding of one's nodeness, but greater respect for the production culture of the pre-web era."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/11/why-i-feel-bad-for-the-pepperspraying-policeman-lt-john-pike/248772/">
    <title>Why I Feel Bad for the Pepper-Spraying Policeman, Lt. John Pike - Alexis Madrigal - National - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-20T16:03:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/11/why-i-feel-bad-for-the-pepperspraying-policeman-lt-john-pike/248772/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Structures, in the sociological sense, constrain human agency. And for that reason, I see John Pike as a casualty of the system, too. Our police forces have enshrined a paradigm of protest policing that turns local cops into paramilitary forces. Let's not pretend that Pike is an independent bad actor. Too many incidents around the country attest to the widespread deployment of these tactics. If we vilify Pike, we let the institutions off way too easy.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/11/occupy-the-tech-at-the-heart-of-the-movement/248435/">
    <title>#Occupy: The Tech at the Heart of the Movement - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-16T02:59:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/11/occupy-the-tech-at-the-heart-of-the-movement/248435/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This essay inaugurates a series of stories on the ways that protesters have shaped technologies to fit their needs -- and how technologies opened up new space for their messages.

Let's start with what seems self-evident, but what I'm sure is more complex than it appears: Occupy is different from the protests that preceded it. To be honest, I'm not sure anyone can explain why. The list of factors contributing to its outstanding run is long: economic circumstances, a distance from the enforced patriotism that followed 9/11, disappointment on the left with Obama's presidency, the failure to adequately regulate banks, the neverending foreclosure crisis, the Adbusters provenance, severe cuts to social programs at the state and local level, the language of occupation, and the prolonged nature of the engagement.

But among those factors, technology plays a central role…"]]></description>
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    <title>How to Build the Pixar of the iPad Age in Shreveport, Louisiana - Technology - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-09T00:15:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/print/2011/11/how-to-build-the-pixar-of-the-ipad-age-in-shreveport-louisiana/247749/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As you get closer, the landscape gets scrubbier, with empty lots separating the buildings like gaps in a smile. A man may walk down the street in welding gear. Pull into the parking lot of BioSpaceX, a shiny new building originally intended to house biotechnology startups. Walk through the doors. You're at Moonbot.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://quarterly.co/">
    <title>Quarterly Co.™</title>
    <dc:date>2011-09-18T05:20:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://quarterly.co/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["…new way to connect w/ the people you follow & find interesting. We spend so much of our lives connecting w/ people online that we forget the value of tangible interactions that happen in the real world. Quarterly wants to bridge that gap by allowing anyone to subscribe to influential contributors and get physical items in the mail from them. It is like a magazine, but instead of receiving words on a page, our subscribers receive actual items that tell a compelling story crafted and narrated by the contributor.

What kind of stuff will I get? A blend of original, exclusive, & consumer items that are timeless, practical, exciting, & fly under the radar. We don’t want to fill up your house w/ clutter, & we’re mindful of the waste that each of us generate every day. But we also recognize that consumption isn’t inherently bad, it’s just a matter of making smarter choices about the things we surround ourselves with.

Each product should reflect on the person who selected it…"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This piece in The Atlantic by Alexis Madrigal deals with an interesting case in technological evolution: the stabilization of a technical objects, which in this case in the so-called graphing calculator."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["You know when a cat falls, it always lands on its feet. Thomas Kane was the kind of scientist who saw a cat fall and wanted to deduce the biophysics of the trick. In a series of experiments, he dropped cats and photographed them at high-speed, then broke their movements down into mathematics. Then, he had a trampolinist (in a spacesuit!) perform similar motions to imitate the feline. The images of the cat appeared in LIFE Magazine and the International Journal of Solids and Structures. In the latter, Kane's model of the phenomenon is superimposed on Ralph Crane's photographs."]]></description>
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    <title>Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL+F - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-21T08:13:37+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This week, I talked with Dan Russell, a search anthropologist at Google, about the time he spends with random people studying how they search for stuff. One statistic blew my mind. 90 percent of people in their studies don't know how to use CTRL/Command + F to find a word in a document or web page! I probably use that trick 20 times per day and yet the vast majority of people don't use it at all.

"90 percent of the US Internet population does not know that. This is on a sample size of thousands," Russell said. "I do these field studies and I can't tell you how many hours I've sat in somebody's house as they've read through a long document trying to find the result they're looking for. At the end I'll say to them, 'Let me show one little trick here,' and very often people will say, 'I can't believe I've been wasting my life!'""]]></description>
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    <title>The art of working in public « Snarkmarket [&quot;Work in public. Reveal nothing.&quot;]</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["…two very different dudes…different positions…different objectives…both written in essentially the same style, with common characteristics both superficial—a smart but very informal voice that reads like a long email from your smartest coolest friend ever—& structural:

…both conjure a sense that the piece is almost being written as you read it…slightly chaotic & totally thrilling…both let you inside their heads…But!—they don’t let you all the way inside. There’s plenty withheld…here’s the genius of the style: they don’t tell you much at all…

I tend to zero in on this kind of writing because I aspire to do more of it myself, & to do it better. Working in public like this can be a lot of fun, for writer & reader alike, but more than that: it can be a powerful public good…When you work in public, you create an emissary (media cyborg style) that then walks the earth, teaching others to do your kind of work as well. And that is transcendently cool."

[See the great comments too.]

[See also Clive Thompson's post, which references this one: http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2011/08/the_art_of_publ.php ]]]></description>
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    <title>Bradley Manning, the Person: The Making of the World's Most Notorious Leaker - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic</title>
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    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/07/bradley-manning-the-person-the-making-of-the-worlds-most-notorious-leaker/241920/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Manning finally felt like himself, like he didn't have to hide anything. "i mean, i dont think its normal for people to spend this much time worrying about whether they're behaving masculine enough, whether what they're going to say is going to be perceived as 'gay'... not to mention how i feel about the situation..." he wrote. "for whatever reason, im not comfortable with myself... i mean, i behave and look like a male, but its not 'me'"

It's incredible to think that as Manning was allegedly passing off the biggest data leak in US government history, he was experimenting with a different kind of transparency and public display of previously secret information. He rode the Acela. He went into gas stations to buy cigarettes. He did normal things.

A few months later, after Lamo told military officials he knew about Manning, Manning was arrested and he's been held ever since. He's awaiting a trial to find out if he'll be courtmartialed."]]></description>
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    <title>What Big Media Can Learn From the New York Public Library - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2011-06-27T08:08:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/06/what-big-media-can-learn-from-the-new-york-public-library/240565/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Despite looming budget cuts, the library is flourishing and putting out some of the most innovative online projects in the country"

"The lions guarded the doors when the main branch of the New York Public Library was dedicated in May of 1911 and they watch over it still, rather haughtily looking over the heads of visitors to one of the world's great libraries. Yet over the last 100 years, and particularly over the last 10, everything about the storage and dissemination of knowledge has changed. The lions still guard the building, but the information's gone out the back door, metastasizing in the new chemistry of the Internet.

With all this change -- not to mention a possible $40 million budget cut looming -- it would be no surprise if the library was floundering like the music industry, newspapers, or travel agents. (Hey, man, we all get disintermediated sooner or later.) But that's the wild thing. The library isn't floundering. Rather, it's flourishing, putting out some of the most innovative online projects in the country. On the stuff you can measure -- library visitors, website visitors, digital gallery images viewed -- the numbers are up across the board compared with five years ago. On the stuff you can't, like conceptual leadership, the NYPL is killing it."]]></description>
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