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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoHow do I use the internet now? (Is there a sane way to use the internet?) - Search Engine with PJ Vogt (October 2023)2024-03-26T22:46:27+00:00
https://pjvogt.substack.com/p/how-do-i-use-the-internet-now
robertogrecopjvogt ezraklein internet web online 2023 media news journalism newspapers magazines reporting 2024 socialmedia algorithms analytics attention information nicholascarr sambankman-fried slow time marshallmcluhan mediumisthemessage instagram twitter speed efficiency neilpostman tc television donaldtrump elonmusk seo facebook digitalmedia jennyodell context conversation audience howwethink brain blogs blogging motivation intrinsicmotivation extrinsicmotivation influencers podcasts podcasting quiet silence thinkinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ec9a3e3ac999/The End of the Extremely Online Era - by Thomas J Bevan2024-03-26T04:30:08+00:00
https://thomasjbevan.substack.com/p/the-end-of-the-extremely-online-era
robertogreco2023 internet web online socialmedia extremelyonline thomasbevan ai artificialintelligence algorithms content authenticity twitter smartphones web2.0 anxiety attention community communities bahavior society sociopathy botshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c490e965ef52/Bias, Skew, and Search Engines Are Sufficient to Explain Online Toxicity – Communications of the ACM2024-03-25T21:32:17+00:00
https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/bias-skew-and-search-engines-are-sufficient-to-explain-online-toxicity/
robertogrecosocialmedia algorithms 2024 bias skew searchengines henryfarrell cosmashalizi engagement internet web onlinehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:663b2b6dce97/Rabbit-holes, zombies and platform pathologies2024-03-25T21:16:25+00:00
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/zombies-rabbit-holes-and-platform
robertogrecoalgorithms henryfar 2024 online internet socialmedia behavior psychology engagement cosmashalizi facebook youtibe twitter tiktok addiction compulsionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:efe33730252c/How AI is shaping the music listening habits of Gen Z2024-03-25T20:51:04+00:00
https://theconversation.com/how-ai-is-shaping-the-music-listening-habits-of-gen-z-224053
robertogreco2024 ai artificialintelligence music genz generationz mixtapes history algorithms identity community beatrizilari lynnesnyderhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ae8553b24ee0/Is TikTok ban about national security, Gaza censorship – or something else? | The Listening Post - YouTube2024-03-24T03:01:27+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTTvVh1NNwo
robertogrecotiktok us confress socialmedia web online zionism china alinadotsenko ihorposhyvailo milenachorna russia gaza palestine juliaangwin russelbrandom marwafatafta evangreer rhetoric algorithms nicholasmuirhead adl jonathangreenblatt censorship media brainwashing generations genz generationz bytedance steve mnuchin politics twitter hypocrisy freedomofspeech freedomofexpression surveillance nationalsecurity genocide ethniccleansing joebiden data userdata edu privacy bigtach dataharvesting databrokers instagram benjaminnetanyahu israelhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:359ab3b68bf7/TikTok Crackdown, Fueled by Anti-China Sentiment, Misses Real Threat of Big Tech: Ramesh Srinivasan - YouTube2024-03-15T01:36:07+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8S2QIHelkk
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eegzTvPT6xY
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https://stevesalaita.com/the-customs-of-obedience-in-academe/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Y6luyN8wc
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https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/un-watch-un-track/
robertogrecoaudreywatters 2024 quantifiedself tracking watches smartwatches data exercise training time timekeeping strava running injury bodies fitness garmin trainingpeaks health gps perfomance applewatch nikerunclub finalsurge paper technology gamification algorithmshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a4cb8f97d882/Build a Songbird Compass: Agency, Communion, and Tech2024-03-04T08:12:53+00:00
https://pilgrimsinthemachine.substack.com/p/build-a-songbird-compass-agency-communion
robertogrecovia:daniellucas 2024 communion agency individualism community collectivism spirituality pecogaskovski ruthgaskovski convivialtools bodies machines humans humanism life living socialmedia tools technology personhood consciousness algorithms manipulation addiction attention bigtech power davidbakan belonging love affiliation union status mastery competence jonathanhaidt cognition anxiety wholeness wellbeing reality jamescamperon visionpro apple ar augmentedreality virtualreality vr christianity judaism markweiser 1991 jackleahy society compass body mind morality relationships language reason emotions naturehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:97638c6c2872/BookTok and the Rituals of Recommendation - Post452024-03-01T18:24:24+00:00
https://post45.org/2023/12/booktok-and-the-rituals-of-recommendation/
robertogrecotiktok algorithms books reading howwereadlindaythomas socialmedia recommendations recommendation 2023 booktok publishinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e03847e58536/Why We Can’t Build Better Cities (ft.Not Just Bikes) - YouTube2024-02-23T21:19:07+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lHNkUjR9nM
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https://www.vox.com/culture/2024/2/1/24056883/tiktok-self-promotion-artist-career-how-to-build-following
robertogrecointernet web online marketing branding socialmedia careers creativity media tiktok promotion self-promotion books rebeccajennings music writing video williamderesiewicz brookeerinduffy leighstein healthcare precarity hustle hustleculture art artists capitalism freemarket tachelkayalbers business linkedin instagram publishing film consolidation technology algorithms spotify carlywattershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bc8e95065d72/The Bizarre World of Celebrity Philanthropy2024-02-06T17:44:56+00:00
https://culturestudypod.substack.com/p/the-bizarre-world-of-celebrity-philanthropy
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6txuBWSPtlI
robertogrecospotify music streaming labor algorithms business musicindustry 2024 businessmodels napster histtory internet web online payola playlists tencent morganstanley universalmusic radio recommendations attention filterbubbles virality inequality josem josemnormalhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3ef9fd19f080/Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI? – Locus Online2024-02-01T18:10:33+00:00
https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/
robertogrecocorydoctorow ai artificialintelligence siliconvalley sanfrancisco bubbles hype venturecapital technology business 2023 dotcombubble dotcombust fraud crypto cryptocurrencies ethics aiethics policy software internet web online automation cruise avs autonomousvehicles radiology enron worldcom electricity uber scams wework hedgefunds nfts financialderivatives greatrecession globalfinancialcrisis algorithms pensionfunds bayarea techbubbles pumpanddumphttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9168839df7fe/Choosing Consideration, Not Consumption - by John Warner2024-01-25T23:17:47+00:00
https://biblioracle.substack.com/p/choosing-consideration-not-consumption
robertogrecoconsideration consumption howweread howwewrite slow 2024 johnwarner pitchfork criticism gq music appreciation kylechayka algorithms critics art media substack newsletters robertchristgau publishing socialmedia web online internet latimes chicagotribune thecommonreader thevillagevoice markharris frenchnewwave film davidthomson jamesmustich culture siskelandebert tottentomatoes annawintour musiccriticismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e80705cc02fb/The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same | | The Guardian2024-01-21T16:42:10+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/jan/16/the-tyranny-of-the-algorithm-why-every-coffee-shop-looks-the-same
robertogrecokylechayka 2024 algorithms internet instagram marketing web ubiquity coffeeshops cafes sameness homogeneity monotony monoculture globalization airbnb homogenization spivak manuelcastells thomasfriedman local authenticity wework coworking platforms tiktok luisbarragán airspace whiteness wealth gentrification online socialmedia growth slow small consistency trends engagement metricshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:acc84ee12d15/ADD revisited – The Homebound Symphony2024-01-19T17:35:40+00:00
https://blog.ayjay.org/add-revisited/
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/coming-of-age-at-the-dawn-of-the-social-internet
robertogrecokylechayka internet web online 2024 platforms enshittification algorithms howweread fiy decentralization centralization facebook twitter blogs bloggin attention socialmedia personalbranding instagram tiktok feeds recommendations onkawara covid pandemic coronavirus blogging discord tumblr geocities are.na yoshitoshiabehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:41145a218cdd/Opinion | How to Discover Your Own Taste - The New York Times2024-01-19T16:29:19+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-kyle-chayka.html
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https://thedigradio.com/podcast/if-we-burn-w-vincent-bevins/
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https://thedigradio.com/podcast/the-missing-revolution-w-vincent-bevins/
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https://www.theverge.com/c/23998379/google-search-seo-algorithm-webpage-optimization
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https://www.are.na/blog/here-for-the-wrong-reasons
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https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/80-nick-seaver/
robertogreconickseaver 2023 algorithms music recommendation computing taste technology automation spotify softwarehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:65ec2b6a96e1/Game Theory: Why YouTube Feels Boring - YouTube2023-11-27T17:48:03+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yeRC6VhA1w
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https://www.are.na/block/2396514
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/why-the-internet-isnt-fun-anymore
robertogrecokylechayka 2023 web online internet socialmedia twitter tiktok instagram meta facebook algorithms blogs blogging google search reddit ai artificialintelligence jiatolentino twitch performance celebrity eleanorstern broadcast media reciprocity conversation monetization entrapment derekguy elonmusk choiresicha orisinal sharinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c9ec9722a84a/The Real History of the Luddites w/ Brian Merchant - Episodes - Tech Won’t Save Us2023-10-02T15:34:10+00:00
https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/187_the_real_history_of_the_luddites_w_brian_merchant
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https://www.publicbooks.org/spotify-vibes-algorithms/
robertogreco2022 spotify music algorithms segregation via:javierarbona kaitlyntodd tommcenaney technology streaming digitalhumanitieshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d27b1c7c2643/The Paris Review - Passionate Kisses: The Soundtrack at CVS - The Paris Review2023-09-03T03:28:28+00:00
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/08/30/passionate-kisses-the-soundtrack-at-cvs/
robertogrecomusic cvs shopping algorithms 2023 via:javierarbona mitchrherieau soundtracks musakhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f9b558f7a95d/I’m a Luddite (and So Can You!) | The Nib2023-09-02T20:21:37+00:00
https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/
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https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-how-big-tech-went-to-shh
robertogrecocorydoctorow amazon twitter internet bigtech web online monopolies drm publishing books ebooks audiobooks music socialmedia business digital advertising commerce 2023 search economics google facebook myspace meta collusion ads adfraud payola metaverse surveillance capitalism margaretthatcher seanparker napster dopamine attention time clickbait techbarons robberbarons antitrust jeffbezos markzuckerberg power wealth influence ronaldreagan robertbork law democracy monopsonies toobigtofail enforcement enshittification streaming content media recordcompanies recordingstudios carnivals marketing riggedgames joerogan spotify tiktok kindle substack feeds algorithms copyright legal ip intellectualproperty apple appstore walledgardens freemarket platforms linakhan ftc noncompeteagreements competition consolidation lobbying congress regulation cryptography encryption adtech brookegladstone privacy security lag behavior contextads coppa turingcompleteness computing bigdigital pricing policy communities community data bighttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3fb36d6b6de6/What would the internet of people look like now? - The Verge2023-08-02T00:30:35+00:00
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/22/23803538/google-facebook-myspace-internet-culture-web-dot-com-crash
robertogreco2023 internet algorithms history web online elizabethlopatto socialmedia whatsapp telegram discord imessage twitter facebook instagram met google mastodon bluesky discovery howweread monetization myspace friendster livejournal web2.0https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ed5c755301cb/Surveillance Won’t Protect Students w/ Chris Gilliard - Episodes - Tech Won’t Save Us2023-06-17T16:31:09+00:00
https://techwontsave.us/episode/132_surveillance_wont_protect_students_w_chris_gilliard
robertogrecoparismarx chrisgilliard technology edtech surveillance education highereducation highered schools schooling control colleges universities 2022 piaceres amazon predictivepolicing lawenforcement police policing toddfeathers davidgolumbia ring privacy safety monitoring testing tests drones axon ethics ai artificialintelligence algorithms reproductivehealth health healthcare davidnoble dangreenehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7ea200bff247/You Are You. We Live Here. This is Now. - Freddie deBoer2023-03-30T06:16:43+00:00
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/you-are-you-we-live-here-this-is
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_snJshw-aGw
robertogrecofrancescafiorentini internet online web instagram twitter feeds adamjohnson danfromtheinternet bigtech platforms socialmedia mastodon parismarx tiktok algorithms youtube advertising monetization creativity artificialintelligence repetition ai metrics twitch compensation corydoctorow enshittificationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:06519e577998/How a Secret Rent Algorithm Pushes Rents Higher — ProPublica2023-01-31T23:42:56+00:00
https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-rent
robertogrecorealpage economics algorithms housing rent rents landlords software collusion heathervogell 2022https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:725c3cd51dd2/cohost! - "I saw RealPage's crappy rent-jacking-up software so you don't have to; or: the banality of algorithms and landlords"2023-01-31T23:41:55+00:00
https://cohost.org/morayati/post/925436-i-saw-real-page-s-cra
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https://www.curbed.com/2023/01/nyc-real-estate-covid-more-apartments-higher-rent.html
robertogrecomigration nyc rent rents housing algorithms landlords 2023 collusion statistics marketing lanebrown realpage software automation usps datahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4ef7328ef878/Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow2023-01-27T05:24:02+00:00
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/
robertogreco I don’t know why.
> They "trust me"
> Dumb fucks.
https://doctorow.medium.com/metaverse-means-pivot-to-video-adbe09319038
Once you understand the enshittification pattern, a lot of the platform mysteries solve themselves. Think of the SEO market, or the whole energetic world of online creators who spend endless hours engaged in useless platform Kremlinology, hoping to locate the algorithmic tripwires, which, if crossed, doom the creative works they pour their money, time and energy into:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/11/coercion-v-cooperation/#the-machine-is-listening
Working for the platform can be like working for a boss who takes money out of every paycheck for all the rules you broke, but who won't tell you what those rules are because if he told you that, then you'd figure out how to break those rules without him noticing and docking your pay. Content moderation is the only domain where security through obscurity is considered a best practice:
https://doctorow.medium.com/como-is-infosec-307f87004563
The situation is so dire that organizations like Tracking Exposed have enlisted an human army of volunteers and a robot army of headless browsers to try to unwind the logic behind the arbitrary machine judgments of The Algorithm, both to give users the option to tune the recommendations they receive, and to help creators avoid the wage theft that comes from being shadow banned:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/tracking-exposed-demanding-gods-explain-themselves
But what if there is no underlying logic? Or, more to the point, what if the logic shifts based on the platform's priorities? If you go down to the midway at your county fair, you'll spot some poor sucker walking around all day with a giant teddy bear that they won by throwing three balls in a peach basket.
The peach-basket is a rigged game. The carny can use a hidden switch to force the balls to bounce out of the basket. No one wins a giant teddy bear unless the carny wants them to win it. Why did the carny let the sucker win the giant teddy bear? So that he'd carry it around all day, convincing other suckers to put down five bucks for their chance to win one:
https://boingboing.net/2006/08/27/rigged-carny-game.html
The carny allocated a giant teddy bear to that poor sucker the way that platforms allocate surpluses to key performers – as a convincer in a "Big Store" con, a way to rope in other suckers who'll make content for the platform, anchoring themselves and their audiences to it.
Which brings me to Tiktok. Tiktok is many different things, including "a free Adobe Premiere for teenagers that live on their phones.""
...
"Enshittification truly is how platforms die. That's fine, actually. We don't need eternal rulers of the internet. It's okay for new ideas and new ways of working to emerge. The emphasis of lawmakers and policymakers shouldn't be preserving the crepuscular senescence of dying platforms. Rather, our policy focus should be on minimizing the cost to users when these firms reach their expiry date: enshrining rights like end-to-end would mean that no matter how autocannibalistic a zombie platform became, willing speakers and willing listeners would still connect with each other:
https://doctorow.medium.com/end-to-end-d6046dca366f
And policymakers should focus on freedom of exit – the right to leave a sinking platform while continuing to stay connected to the communities that you left behind, enjoying the media and apps you bought, and preserving the data you created:
https://www.eff.org/interoperablefacebook
The Netheads were right: technological self-determination is at odds with the natural imperatives of tech businesses. They make more money when they take away our freedom – our freedom to speak, to leave, to connect.
For many years, even Tiktok's critics grudgingly admitted that no matter how surveillant and creepy it was, it was really good at guessing what you wanted to see. But Tiktok couldn't resist the temptation to show you the things it wants you to see, rather than what you want to see. The enshittification has begun, and now it is unlikely to stop.
It's too late to save Tiktok. Now that it has been infected by enshittifcation, the only thing left is to kill it with fire."]]>corydoctorow amazon business history 2023 internet tiktok twitter facebook algorithms economics seo bots feeds socialmedia tracking userexperience advertising freedom enshittificationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2b5b3094c00b/Two Men Down - by Harmony Holiday2023-01-23T02:57:53+00:00
https://harmonyholiday.substack.com/p/two-men-down
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJHf_SwNurY
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https://twitter.com/AREdotNA/status/1588557094151913476
robertogrecoare.na socialmedia twitter 2022 social online internet libraries publiclibraries algorithms emotion moderation ads advertisinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a9e248a93ce8/Abby Martin on the Left Media PURGE - YouTube2022-03-22T06:47:39+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXDENfoIOi8
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE-b8yEmJQE
robertogrecothatgirl influence influencers algorithms 2021 irisolympia motivation depression capitalism productivity life living faixhad influences tiktok instagram contentcreators lifestyle lies marketing propaganda youtube fakeness socialmedia internet online influenceculture scale trust reality fabrication authenticity self-care self-help aesthetics fitness behavior food health diethttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f4f87bf961fb/influencers are lying to you // tiktok's 'that girl' trend is toxic - YouTube2021-12-20T22:15:17+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6qFLoKBQJg
robertogrecoinfluences tiktok instagram contentcreators algorithms depression 2021 lifestyle capitalism lies marketing propaganda youtube fakeness socialmedia internet online influenceculture scale trust reality fabrication thatgirl authenticity self-help self-care influence influencers motivation productivity life living fauxhad aesthetics fitness behavior food health diethttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d70a4807f3b2/HORT’s Eike König on Collaboration, Teaching, and Having Friends Who Aren’t Designers – Eye on Design2021-12-02T16:37:11+00:00
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/horts-eike-konig-on-collaboration-teaching-and-having-friends-who-arent-designers/
robertogrecoeikekönig hort design graphics graphicdesign education schools schooling instagram uniformity algorithms failure competition teaching howwelearn howwework collaboration studyinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:08e23dfd1823/Telling the computer what to think about (Interconnected)2021-09-25T22:47:37+00:00
https://interconnected.org/home/2021/09/21/playhead
robertogrecomattwebb 2021 computing learning ai algorithms attention focus guidancehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a2d3b295a607/Care is not an infinite scroll | New_ Public Magazine2021-09-23T22:57:33+00:00
https://newpublic.org/article/1589/care-is-not-an-infinite-scroll
robertogrecosarahendren 2021 slow small socialmedia algorithms families children sharing kinship scale technology notabli facebook instagram jessekriss care attention local nourishment celebration frictionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:52c03cc57556/COMPOST Issue 02: Uncivilizing Digital Territories by Luandro2021-09-23T22:30:37+00:00
https://two.compost.digital/uncivilizing-digital-territories/
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https://thebaffler.com/latest/ways-of-knowing-bonhomme
robertogrecoednabonhomme katherinemckittrick interdisciplinary howwelearn howweread howwewrite inquiry collections collecting science uncertainty empiricism frantzfanon thewretchedoftheearth blackskinwhitemasks culture poetics poetry aesthetics octaviabutler liberation creativity making books text place aimécésaire sylviawynter knowledge knowledgesystems politics nature cartography neurology transdisciplinary wesleymorris blackness freedom fredmoten music badbrains silviorodríguez leikeli47 curiosity storytelling bodies simonebrowne jmarionsims medicine radicalism failure community algorithms living howwelive academia privilege chandaprescod-weinstein wonderhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f3533c379d29/The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand | by Tim Maughan | Nov, 2020 | OneZero2020-12-07T22:56:37+00:00
https://onezero.medium.com/the-modern-world-has-finally-become-too-complex-for-any-of-us-to-understand-1a0b46fbc292
robertogrecotimmaughan 2020 technology systems systemsthinking complexity supplychains shipping politics policy governance algorithms containerships automation finance trading investment covid-19 coronavirus pandemic economics economy capitalism internet web online maersk global international markets edtech policing predictivepolicing youtube spotify bias transparency decisionmaking adamcurtis society government donaldtrump borisjohnson brexit nigelfarange stevebannon consipracytheories understanding scale slow small unknowable agency power anxiety powerlessness joebiden elections processhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c4b53a36452b/The Analog City and the Digital City — The New Atlantis2020-11-08T23:13:43+00:00
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-analog-city-and-the-digital-city
robertogrecoThe machine-like behavior of people chained to electronics constitutes a degradation of their well-being and of their dignity which, for most people in the long run, becomes intolerable. Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed.
We have focused on how digital media transforms the subjective experience of individuals. The political corollary is that it enables and empowers regimes of algorithmic governance, predictive analytics, and social credit. The profound erosion of trust in the Digital City leaves a vacuum, and we look to our tools to fill it. We seem set upon interlocking trajectories: of ever greater swaths of the human experience being computationally managed, and of intractable human subjects increasingly breaking down or revolting against these conditions.
From another vantage point, however, we might see this as a hopeful moment, full of promise and opportunity. Another path also seems possible. Freed from certain unsustainable illusions about the nature of the self and the world, we may now be called back to reckon with reality in a new, more chastened and more responsible manner. It is possible that the Promethean aspirations that characterized the modern self and modern society may now yield to a more sober assessment of the limits within which genuine human flourishing might occur. It is possible, too, that we may learn once again the necessity of virtues, public and private — that we will no longer, as T. S. Eliot put it, be “dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.”"]]>lmsacasas digital newmedia writing howwewrite reading 2020 howweread secondaryorality walterong politics discourse audience abundance scarcity news print text communication neilpostman digitalcity analogcity truth speech digitalmedia socialmedia saintaugustine change liminality factchecking publishing jaydavidbolter reformation scientificrevolution history internet web online smartphones publiclife cities urban urbanism community howwethink thinking nicholascarr 2008 web2.0 facebook twitter algorithms moderation commenting tv television video dialogue criticalthinking affordances technology citizenship censorship values char charlestaylor bufferedself disenchantment meaning meaningmaking magic power objects heresy security purity bots data bigdata automation knowledge systems systemsthinking vulnerability time place now identity sharedtime sharedspace simultaneity realtime telegraph radio presence social belonging ivanillich memory memories language literacy orality oraltradition fables institutions bureaucrahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9c6b35065c0c/Dana Simmons on Twitter: "My kid started Jr. High last week. He couldn't stop talking about how much he loved his History teacher. This afternoon we found him in tears, overcome by stress and self-doubt. His grade for his first short answer homework: 50/12020-09-02T17:57:52+00:00
https://twitter.com/DanaJSimmons/status/1300639757165191170
robertogrecogrades grading assessment unschooling deschooling algorithms 2020 edgenuity learning howwelearn schooling schooliness schools technology edtech ungrading danasimmonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c4da7ce9a0af/How TikTok Holds Our Attention | The New Yorker2019-12-12T20:22:50+00:00
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/30/how-tiktok-holds-our-attention
robertogrecotiktok jiatolentino 2019 attention algorithms china artificialintelligence aihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a8e489c594ee/Opinion | A Better Internet Is Waiting for Us - The New York Times2019-12-02T04:14:37+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/30/opinion/social-media-future.html
robertogrecoannaleenewitz internet web online future publicspace facebook twitter blacktwitter algorithms publicgood socialmedia socialnetworking facetoface f2f truth communication abuse information misinformation democracy media slow dialogue erikahall mikkikendall bias safety digital community communities consent context curation shafiqahhidson anonymity trolls trolling fakes yourslipisshowing publicsphere relationships publiclife privacy johnscalzi technology unintendedconsequences siliconvalley cmabridgeanalytica 2019https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ba690cd62eae/What Happened to Tagging? | JSTOR Daily2019-11-29T01:29:24+00:00
https://daily.jstor.org/what-happened-to-tagging/
robertogrecotagging folksonomy 2019 alexandrasamuel web2.0 flickr del.icio.us socialnetworking socialnetworks tags rss web online internet chaos messiness bottomup twitter facebook algorithms efforthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2dd086c9cc85/Tools – Undergraduate Seminar-Studio @ The New School | Fall 2019 | Shannon Mattern + Or Zubalsky2019-08-30T02:31:28+00:00
https://tools.wordsinspace.net/2019/
robertogrecoshannonmattern syllabus syllabi tools 2019 affordances disabilities accessibility conviviality history ideology siliconvalley detournement computationalthinking algorithms alogrithmicthinking criticalthinking computing computation howweteach howwelearn teaching communication labor thought expression creativity anthropology archaeology mediastudies moiraweigel détournementhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6eca785a89bc/Engagement Is the Enemy of Serendipity – Dan Cohen2019-07-28T20:57:05+00:00
https://dancohen.org/2019/07/23/engagement-is-the-enemy-of-serendipity/
robertogrecodancohen 2019 education newspapers socialmedia technology trends media engagement serendipity algorithms libraries adjacency interface digital digitalmedia design journalism nytimes web generalists exposure experience interaction personalization filterbubbles learninghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b871451b0503/Schools Are Deploying Massive Digital Surveillance Systems. The Results Are Alarming - Education Week2019-06-06T00:10:19+00:00
https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/05/30/schools-are-deploying-massive-digital-surveillance-systems.html
robertogrecoprivacy surveillance schools 2019 algorithms policy data information technology edtechhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bf13eb2c0000/anton on Twitter: "Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union: - waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it's of poor workmanship and quality - promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in,2019-05-05T01:52:59+00:00
https://twitter.com/atroyn/status/1014974099930714115?lang=en
robertogrecosiliconvalley sovietunion tesla uber lyft us 2018 antontroynikov russia space utopia society propaganda labor work housing politics social elitism collateraldamage militaryindustrialcomplex evil currency fake economics economy planning algorithms mainstream computing henrykissingerhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:664ae073b0ec/Language Is Migrant - South Magazine Issue #8 [documenta 14 #3] - documenta 142019-03-21T00:42:55+00:00
https://www.documenta14.de/en/south/904_language_is_migrant
robertogrecoa heart in pain,
changing the heart of the earth.
The word “immigrant” says, “grant me life.”
“Grant” means “to allow, to have,” and is related to an ancient Proto-Indo-European root: dhe, the mother of “deed” and “law.” So too, sacerdos, performer of sacred rites.
What is the rite performed by millions of people displaced and seeking safe haven around the world? Letting us see our own indifference, our complicity in the ongoing wars?
Is their pain powerful enough to allow us to change our hearts? To see our part in it?
I “wounder,” said Margarita, my immigrant friend, mixing up wondering and wounding, a perfect embodiment of our true condition!
Vicente Huidobro said, “Open your mouth to receive the host of the wounded word.”
The wound is an eye. Can we look into its eyes?
my specialty is not feeling, just
looking, so I say:
(the word is a hard look.)
—Rosario Castellanos
I don’t see with my eyes: words
are my eyes.
—Octavio Paz
In l980, I was in exile in Bogotá, where I was working on my “Palabrarmas” project, a way of opening words to see what they have to say. My early life as a poet was guided by a line from Novalis: “Poetry is the original religion of mankind.” Living in the violent city of Bogotá, I wanted to see if anybody shared this view, so I set out with a camera and a team of volunteers to interview people in the street. I asked everybody I met, “What is Poetry to you?” and I got great answers from beggars, prostitutes, and policemen alike. But the best was, “Que prosiga,” “That it may go on”—how can I translate the subjunctive, the most beautiful tiempo verbal (time inside the verb) of the Spanish language? “Subjunctive” means “next to” but under the power of the unknown. It is a future potential subjected to unforeseen conditions, and that matches exactly the quantum definition of emergent properties.
If you google the subjunctive you will find it described as a “mood,” as if a verbal tense could feel: “The subjunctive mood is the verb form used to express a wish, a suggestion, a command, or a condition that is contrary to fact.” Or “the ‘present’ subjunctive is the bare form of a verb (that is, a verb with no ending).”
I loved that! A never-ending image of a naked verb! The man who passed by as a shadow in my film saying “Que prosiga” was on camera only for a second, yet he expressed in two words the utter precision of Indigenous oral culture.
People watching the film today can’t believe it was not scripted, because in thirty-six years we seem to have forgotten the art of complex conversation. In the film people in the street improvise responses on the spot, displaying an awareness of language that seems to be missing today. I wounder, how did it change? And my heart says it must be fear, the ocean of lies we live in, under a continuous stream of doublespeak by the violent powers that rule us. Living under dictatorship, the first thing that disappears is playful speech, the fun and freedom of saying what you really think. Complex public conversation goes extinct, and along with it, the many species we are causing to disappear as we speak.
The word “species” comes from the Latin speciēs, “a seeing.” Maybe we are losing species and languages, our joy, because we don’t wish to see what we are doing.
Not seeing the seeing in words, we numb our senses.
I hear a “low continuous humming sound” of “unmanned aerial vehicles,” the drones we send out into the world carrying our killing thoughts.
Drones are the ultimate expression of our disconnect with words, our ability to speak without feeling the effect or consequences of our words.
“Words are acts,” said Paz.
Our words are becoming drones, flying robots. Are we becoming desensitized by not feeling them as acts? I am thinking not just of the victims but also of the perpetrators, the drone operators. Tonje Hessen Schei, director of the film Drone, speaks of how children are being trained to kill by video games: “War is made to look fun, killing is made to look cool. ... I think this ‘militainment’ has a huge cost,” not just for the young soldiers who operate them but for society as a whole. Her trailer opens with these words by a former aide to Colin Powell in the Bush/Cheney administration:
OUR POTENTIAL COLLECTIVE FUTURE. WATCH IT AND WEEP FOR US. OR WATCH IT AND DETERMINE TO CHANGE THAT FUTURE
—Lawrence Wilkerson, Colonel U.S. Army (retired)
In Astro Noise, the exhibition by Laura Poitras at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the language of surveillance migrates into poetry and art. We lie in a collective bed watching the night sky crisscrossed by drones. The search for matching patterns, the algorithms used to liquidate humanity with drones, is turned around to reveal the workings of the system. And, we are being surveyed as we survey the show! A new kind of visual poetry connecting our bodies to the real fight for the soul of this Earth emerges, and we come out woundering: Are we going to dehumanize ourselves to the point where Earth itself will dream our end?
The fight is on everywhere, and this may be the only beauty of our times. The Quechua speakers of Peru say, “beauty is the struggle.”
Maybe darkness will become the source of light. (Life regenerates in the dark.)
I see the poet/translator as the person who goes into the dark, seeking the “other” in him/herself, what we don’t wish to see, as if this act could reveal what the world keeps hidden.
Eduardo Kohn, in his book How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human notes the creation of a new verb by the Quichua speakers of Ecuador: riparana means “darse cuenta,” “to realize or to be aware.” The verb is a Quichuan transfiguration of the Spanish reparar, “to observe, sense, and repair.” As if awareness itself, the simple act of observing, had the power to heal.
I see the invention of such verbs as true poetry, as a possible path or a way out of the destruction we are causing.
When I am asked about the role of the poet in our times, I only question: Are we a “listening post,” composing an impossible “survival guide,” as Paul Chan has said? Or are we going silent in the face of our own destruction?
Subcomandante Marcos, the Zapatista guerrilla, transcribes the words of El Viejo Antonio, an Indian sage: “The gods went looking for silence to reorient themselves, but found it nowhere.” That nowhere is our place now, that’s why we need to translate language into itself so that IT sees our awareness.
Language is the translator. Could it translate us to a place within where we cease to tolerate injustice and the destruction of life?
Life is language. “When we speak, life speaks,” says the Kaushitaki Upanishad.
Awareness creates itself looking at itself.
It is transient and eternal at the same time.
Todo migra. Let’s migrate to the “wounderment” of our lives, to poetry itself."]]>ceciliavicuña language languages words migration immigration life subcomandantemarcos elviejoantonio lawrencewilkerson octaviopaz exile rosariocastellanos poetry spanish español subjunctive oral orality conversation complexity seeing species joy tonjehessenschei war colinpowell laurapoitras art visual translation eduoardokohn quechua quichua healing repair verbs invention listening kaushitakiupanishad awareness noticing wondering vicentehuidobro wounds woundering migrants unknown future potential unpredictability emergent drones morethanhuman multispecies paulchan destruction displacement refugees extinction others tolerance injustice justice transience ephemerality ephemeral canon eternal surveillance patterns algorithms earth sustainability environment indifference complicity dictatorship documenta14 2017 classideashttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7ada86a335b2/Scratching the Surface — 104. Cab Broskoski and Chris Sherron2019-01-11T20:22:24+00:00
http://scratchingthesurface.fm/post/181237427850/104-cab-broskoski-and-chris-sherron
robertogrecojarrettfuller are.na cabbroskoski chrissherron coreyarcangel del.icio.us bookmarkling pinterest cv tagging flickr michaelcina youworkforthem davidbohm williamgibson digital damonzucconi stanleykubrick stephaniesnt julianbozeman public performance collections collecting research 2000s interview information internet web sharing conversation art design socialmedia socialnetworking socialnetworks online onlinetoolkit inspiration moodboards graphicdesign graphics images web2.0 webdesign webdev ui ux scratchingthesurface education teaching edtech technology multidisciplinary generalists creative creativitysingapore creativegeneralists learning howwelearn attention interdisciplinary crossdisciplinary crosspollination algorithms canon knowledge transdisciplinary tools archives slow slowweb slowinternet instagram facebookhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ecbeefb34cac/The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2018)2018-12-27T03:27:40+00:00
https://hackeducation.com/2018/12/18/top-ed-tech-trends-stories
robertogrecoaudreywatters education technology edtech 2018 surveillance privacy personalization progressive schools quantification gamification wholechild montessori mariamontessori eugenics psychology siliconvalley history venturecapital highereducation highered guns gunviolence children youth teens shootings money influence policy politics society economics capitalism mindfulness juul marketing gritty innovation genetics psychotechnologies gender race racism sexism research socialemotional psychopedagogy pedagogy teaching howweteach learning howwelearn teachingmachines nonprofits nonprofit media journalism access donaldtrump bias algorithms facebook amazon disruption data bigdata security jacquesellul sociology activism sel socialemotionallearninghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b6652c04e6a1/The Library is Open: Keynote for the 2018 Pennsylvania Library Association Conference – actualham2018-10-21T01:04:53+00:00
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