Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco Does modernisation erase cultural difference – or amplify it? | Psyche Ideas 2026-07-08T20:44:36+00:00 https://psyche.co/ideas/does-modernisation-erase-cultural-difference-or-amplify-it robertogreco thomastalhelm modernity modernization china culture differnece 2026 perú flattening homogenization rice wheat farming demographics values perspective worldview diversity capitalism psychology bolivia democracy collectivism individualism weird us south https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:85732bf846d2/ Why Do I Keep Coming Back to Trains? - Electric Literature 2026-07-08T07:04:06+00:00 https://electricliterature.com/why-do-i-keep-coming-back-to-trains/ robertogreco weikewang trains writing howwewrite 2026 amtrak acelaus pennstattion travel rail railways germany asia europe greece china https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d4638278c702/ "Their appetite grows with every war" with Aslı Ü. Bâli - YouTube 2026-07-06T03:10:51+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DLYf-uRG1s robertogreco makdisistreet 2026 aslıbâli aslibali palestine israel iran syria lebanon egypt geopolitics benjaminnetanyahu politics policy iof idf sareemakdisi ussamamakdisi karimmakdisi genocide ethniccleansing icc icj gulfstates uae hegemony decline middleeast turkey türkiye jdvance whitenationalism zionism antizionism antisemitism impunity military internationallaw internationalorder order power asia china donroedoctrine law legal us israellobby lobbying aipac taiwan straitofhormuz naftalibennett war renewablenergy fossilfuels petroleum disorder stabilization destabilization castlead cyprus greece russia eu europe un nato ukraine zionistmccarthyism encampments highered highereducation colleges universities academia warcrimes lawfare richardfalk narrative legitimacy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cf937e3a2bc3/ It doesn’t have to be us versus nature | Aeon Essays 2026-06-30T04:25:01+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/it-doesnt-have-to-be-us-versus-nature robertogreco nature yadvindermalhi 2026 flourishing prospertiy humanity landscape environment ecology gdp economics humandevelopmentindex norway canada china kateraworth society well-being wellbeing hangzhou growth iceland switzerland us niger afghanistan krushilwatene daoism taoism metrics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bb40f74b03f6/ Theory Betrayed: An Essay on Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? by Doug Greene and Harrison Fluss (April 2026) [.pdf] 2026-06-29T06:05:11+00:00 https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/hm-dossier-001.pdf robertogreco gabrielrockhill westernmarxism 2026 douggreene harrisonfluss marxism criticism herbertmarcuse frankfurtschool us ussr sovietunion china germant spain españa france algeria 1968 ww2 wwii philosophy maga maozedong newleft theodoradorno maxhorkheimer stalinism left richardnixon socialism multipolarity fascism maotsetung via:javierarbona https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5fdb7462e9f5/ The Richest Country Is Pretty Mid Now - YouTube 2026-06-28T22:50:35+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZy1lBNykA robertogreco bennjordan leveragism capitalism internet online google gemini ai artificialintelligence aibubble journalism rugpulls authoritarianism elonmusk donaldtrump spacex israel gaza anarchism economics economy integrity finance ip intellectualproperty well-being wellbeing precarity gold debt politics us bigtech spotify suno streaming law legal happiness fuckyoumoney inequality money labor wealth laborreflexivity growth borders border privateequity libertarianism tescreal nerdreich peterthiel billackman rulingclass transhumanism extropianism singularitarianism singularity xenophobia inflation extraction rationalism oligarchy larryellison markzuckerberg jeffbezos effectivealtruism longtermism governance government democracy poverty work police policing iranwar austerity retirement maga trumpism muskism wallstreet stockmarket nasdaq indexfunds 401k leverage power policy autonomy obesity surveillance survival fear ice bronnieware life living courage death guatemala coca-cola unions wisdom pollution environment humanrigh https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e8e53f65ef4f/ Full article: Liberal crisis machine: The Hewlett Foundation in the era of polycrisis philanthropy 2026-06-26T07:11:37+00:00 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03085147.2026.2650057 robertogreco us hegemony neoliberalism latecapitalism post-neoliberalism polycrisis crisis hewlettfoundation philanthropicindustrialcomplex philanthropy charitableindustrialcomplex charities charity technocracy neutrality liberalism radicalchange change china thinktanks academia state democracy polarization politics policy inequity inequality farright rightwing donaldtrump inderjeetparmar https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:02fa4aeea4e7/ The Cult of Optimization 2026-06-26T00:41:11+00:00 https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-cult-of-optimization/ robertogreco philtinline 2026 optimization measurement quantification georgedantzig economics engineering algorithms objectivity judgement joaquimmartins andrewning diversification finance modeling 2021 leighhunt 1817 danwang china theodoreporter science publiclife corporations operations ideology governance democracy socialmedia tracking gilduran networkstate nerdreich technooptimism marcandreessen siliconvalley mattyglesias quantifiedself kevinkelly technology technosolutionism karlpopper 1945 friedrichhayek maxhorkheimer theodoradorno technofeudalism standardeconomicmodel evgenymorozov complexity johndrockefeller charlesdarwin socialdarwinism andrewcarnegie robberbarrons richardhofstadter business whitesupremacy imperialism eugenics standardoil us government friedrichvonhayek modernity rationalism rationality society policy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3458830a446e/ Empire Suicide Watch | Herman Mark Schwartz 2026-06-20T08:56:14+00:00 https://phenomenalworld.org/interviews/empire-suicide-watch/ robertogreco hermanmarkschwartz 2026 us power imperialism empire susanstrange finance production knowledge security yemen somalia nigeria iraq iran venezuela syria caribbean mexico ecuador cuba mariafernandasikorski jackgross israel despotism michaelmann edwardluttwak joebiden donaldtrump brazil brasil argentina southafrica wu northkorea uk canada barackobama china carlotaperez honhai thorsteinveblen economics brettonwoods richardnixon japan wto lbj lyndonjohnson stephenmiran ww2 history korea southkorea imf fima singapore denmark norway sweden australia steffenmurau hymanminsky federalreserve caymanislands banking money policy markengal romanempire ancientrome germany peaceofwestphalia hegemony empires josephschumpeter https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f99449a9f2e1/ In Defense of Our Country: On the Need to Resist AI and AI Data Centers - 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Culture is becoming more fragmented 2026-06-14T09:36:30+00:00 https://www.economist.com/briefing/2026/06/11/forget-the-world-cup-culture-is-becoming-more-fragmented robertogreco culture decentralization 2026 diversity denmark monoculture music language languages tv television film streaming latinamerica nigeria southafrica france germany italy poland willpage chrisdallariva worldcup attention videogames games gaming brazil brasil philippines indonesia thailand norway portugal ireland australia india czechrepublic dubai greece mexico middleeast africaeurope netflix asia larrytanz turkey türkiye southkorea korea christopherhamilton canada alexandregoncalves yeemanmargaretng youtube hindi matthewball xbox microsoft china japan manurosier newzoo garena singapore apple google roblox sensortower fortnite joostvandreunen entertainment https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8610b98e71c6/ Let’s save the Enlightenment baby from its muddied bathwater | Aeon Essays 2026-06-12T02:11:29+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/lets-save-the-enlightenment-baby-from-its-muddied-bathwater robertogreco 2026 enlightenment elianeglaser emmanueleze charlesmills kehindeandrews kant johnlocke voltaire davidhume henrydundas progress willhutton justice accountability socialfairness science siliconvalley peterthiel jdvance curtisyarvin darkenlightenment democracy equality inequality stevenpinker reason humanism globalsouth left leftists socialjustice davidbell economics power misinformation disinformation deepfakes ai artificialintelligence kateclanchy zizek intellectualhumility humility josephwright jeanlerondd'alembert montesquieu adamsmith jameshutton thomasreid mosesmendelssohn dorindaoutram marywollstonecraft angelasaini carllinnaeus humanity rousseau hierarchy hierarchies haiti china altruism humanitarianism jonathanisrael slavery abolition webdubois anticolonialism richardwhatmore discord frenchrevolution donaldtrump tolerance identitarians nationalism petergay ethnocentrism morality universalism objecttivity society corporations corporatism billionaires eleanorroosevelt humanrights pcchang totalitarianism t https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4596863a6be8/ Address to Revolutionaries of Algeria and of All Countries | libcom.org 2026-06-12T01:37:06+00:00 https://libcom.org/article/address-revolutionaries-algeria-and-all-countries robertogreco"Proletarian revolutions . . . pitilessly scoff at the hesitations, weaknesses and inadequacies of their first efforts, seem to throw down their adversary only to see him draw new strength from the earth and rise again formidably before them, recoil again and again before the immensity of their tasks, until a situation is finally created that goes beyond the point of no return." --Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Comrades, The collapse of the revolutionary image presented by the international Communist movement is taking place forty years after the collapse of the revolutionary movement itself. This time gained for the bureaucratic lie -- that supplement to the permanent bourgeois lie -- has been time lost for the revolution. The history of the modern world pursues its revolutionary course, but unconsciously or with false consciousness. Everywhere there are social confrontations, but nowhere is the old order destroyed, not even within the very forces that contest it. Everywhere the ideologies of the old world are criticized and rejected, but nowhere is "the real movement that suppresses existing conditions" liberated from one or another "ideology" in Marx's sense of the word: ideas that serve masters. Revolutionaries are everywhere, but nowhere is there any real revolution. The recent collapse of the Ben-Bellaist image of a quasi-revolution in Algeria is a striking example of this general failure. The superficial power of Ben Bella represented the moment of rigid balance between the movement of the Algerian workers toward the management of the entire society and the bourgeois bureaucracy in the process of formation within the framework of the state. But in this official balance the revolution had nothing with which to further its objectives -- it had already become a museum piece -- whereas those in possession of the state controlled all power, beginning with that fundamental repressive instrument, the army, to the point of finally being able to throw off their mask, i.e. Ben Bella. Two days before the putsch, at Sidi Bel Abbes, Ben Bella added the ridiculous to the odious by declaring that Algeria was "more united than ever." Now he has stopped lying to the people and the events speak for themselves. Ben Bella fell as he had reigned, in solitude and conspiracy, by a palace revolution. He was ushered out by the same forces that had ushered him in: Boumédienne's army, which had opened the road to Algiers for him in September 1962. Ben Bella's regime ratified the revolutionary conquests that the bureaucracy was not yet able to repress: the self-management movement. The forces so well hidden behind the "Muslim Brother" Boumédienne have this clear goal: to eliminate all self-management. The June 19th Declaration sums up the policy of the new regime with a mixture of Western technocratic jargon and bombast about enforcing Islamic moral values: "We must put a stop to the current stagnation, which is already manifesting itself in lowered productivity, decreasing profitability and a disturbing withdrawal of investments," while "keeping in mind our faith, our convictions and the secular traditions and moral values of our people." The astonishing acceleration of practical demystification must now serve to accelerate revolutionary theory. The same society of alienation, of totalitarian control (here the sociologist predominates, there the police), and of spectacular consumption (here the cars and gadgets, there the words of the venerated leader) reigns everywhere, despite the diversity of its ideological and juridical disguises. The coherence of this society cannot be understood without an all-encompassing critique, illuminated by the inverse project of a liberated creativity, the project of everyone's control of all levels of their own history. This is the demand in acts of all proletarian revolutions, a demand until now defeated by the specialists of power who take over revolutions and turn them into their own private property. To revive and bring into the present this inseparable, mutually illuminating project and critique entails appropriating all the radicalism borne by the workers movement, by modern Western poetry and art (as preface to an experimental research toward a free construction of everyday life), by the thought of the period of the supersession and realization of philosophy (Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx), and by the liberation struggles from the Mexico of 1910 to the Congo of today. To do this, it is first of all necessary to recognize, without holding on to any consoling illusions, the full extent of the defeat of the entire revolutionary project in the first third of this century and its official replacement, in every region of the world and in every domain of life, by delusive shams and petty reforms that camouflage and preserve the old order. The domination of bureaucratic state-capitalism over the workers is the opposite of socialism -- this is a fact that Trotskyism has refused to face. Socialism exists wherever the workers themselves directly manage the entire society. It therefore exists neither in Russia nor in China nor anywhere else. The Russian and Chinese revolutions were defeated from within. Today they provide the Western proletariat and the peoples of the Third World with a false model which actually serves as a mere counterbalance to the power of bourgeois capitalism and imperialism. A resumption of radicality naturally requires a considerable deepening of all the old attempts at liberation. Seeing how those attempts failed due to isolation, or were converted into total frauds, enables one to get a better grasp of the coherence of the world that needs to be changed. In the light of this rediscovered coherence, many of the partial explorations of the recent past can be salvaged and brought to their true fulfillment (the liberating content of psychoanalysis, for example, can be neither understood nor realized apart from the struggle for the abolition of all repression).(1) Insight into this reversible coherence of the world -- its present reality in relation to its potential reality -- enables one to see the fallaciousness of half-measures and to recognize the presence of such half-measures each time the operating pattern of the dominant society -- with its categories of hierarchization and specialization and its corresponding habits and tastes -- reconstitutes itself within the forces of negation. Moreover, the material development of the world has accelerated. It constantly accumulates more potential powers; but the specialists of the management of society, because of their role as guardians of passivity, are forced to ignore the potential use of those powers. This same development produces widespread dissatisfaction and objective mortal dangers which these specialized rulers are incapable of permanently controlling. The fundamental problem of underdevelopment must be resolved on a worldwide scale, beginning with the revolutionary overcoming of the irrational overdevelopment of productive forces in the framework of the various forms of rationalized capitalism. The revolutionary movements of the Third World can succeed only on the basis of a lucid contribution to global revolution. Development must not be a race to catch up with capitalist reification, but a satisfaction of all real needs as the basis for a genuine development of human faculties. New revolutionary theory must move in step with reality, it must keep abreast with the revolutionary praxis which is starting up here and there but which yet remains partial, mutilated and without a coherent total project. Our language, which will perhaps seem fantastic, is the very language of real life. History continues to present ever more glaring confirmations of this. If in this history the familiar is not necessarily known, it is because real life itself only appears in a fantastic form, in the upside-down image imposed on it by the modern spectacle of the world: in the spectacle all social life, including even the representation of sham revolutions, is written in the lying language of power and filtered by its machines. The spectacle is the terrestrial heir of religion, the opium of a capitalism that has arrived at the stage of a "society of abundance" of commodities. It is the illusion actually consumed in "consumer society." The sporadic explosions of revolutionary contestation are countered by an international organization of repression, operating with a global division of tasks. Each of the blocs, or of the spinoff splinters of blocs, ensures the lethargic sleep of everyone within its sphere of influence, contributing toward maintaining a global order that remains fundamentally the same. This permanent repression ranges from military interventions to the more or less complete falsification practiced today by every constituted power: "The truth is revolutionary" (Gramsci) and all existing governments, even those issuing out of the most liberatory movements, are based on lies inside and out. It is precisely this repression that constitutes the most resounding verification of our hypotheses. Revolutionary endeavors of today, because they have to break all the rules of false understanding imposed by the "peaceful coexistence" of reigning lies, begin in isolation, in one particular sector of the world or in one particular sector of contestation. Possessing only the most rudimentary conception of freedom, they attack only the most immediate aspect of oppression. As a result, they meet with the minimum degree of aid and the maximum of repression and slander (they are accused of rejecting one existing order while necessarily approving of an existing variant of it). The more difficult their victory, the more easily it is confiscated by new oppressors. The next revolutions can find aid in the world only by attacking this world as a whole. The freedom movement of the American blacks, if it can assert itself incisively, will call into question all the contradictions of modern capitalism; it must not be sidetracked by the "black nationalism" and "black capitalism" of the Black Muslims. The workers of the United States, like those in England, are engaging in "wildcat strikes" against the bureaucratized unions that aim first of all at integrating them into the concentrated, semiregulated capitalist system. It is with these workers and with the students who have just won their strike at the University of California in Berkeley that a North American revolution can be made; and not with the Chinese atom bomb. The movement drawing the Arab peoples toward unification and socialism has achieved a number of victories over classical colonialism. But it is more and more evident that it must finish with Islam, an obviously counterrevolutionary force as are all religious ideologies. It must grant freedom to the Kurdish people. And it must stop swallowing the Palestinian pretext that justifies the dominant policy in the Arab states -- a policy that insists on the destruction of Israel and thereby perpetuates itself since this destruction is impossible. The repressive forces of the state of Israel can be undermined only by a model of a revolutionary society realized by the Arabs. Just as the success of a model of a revolutionary society somewhere in the world would mean the end of the largely sham confrontation between the East and the West, so would end the Arab-Israel confrontation which is a miniature version of it. Revolutionary endeavors of today are abandoned to repression because it is not in the interest of any existing power to support them. So far, no practical organization of revolutionary internationalism exists to support them. We passively watch their combat and only the delusory babble of the UN or of the specialists of "progressive" state powers accompanies their death throes. In Santo Domingo US troops dared to intervene in a foreign country in order to back up fascist army officers against the legal government of the Kennedyist Caamano, simply for fear that he would be overwhelmed by the people he had had to arm. What forces in the world took retaliatory measures against the American intervention? In the Congo in 1960 Belgian paratroopers, UN expeditionary forces and the Mining Association's tailor-made state [Katanga] broke the impetus of the people who thought they had won independence, and killed Lumumba and Mpolo. In 1964 Belgian paratroopers, American transport planes, and South African, European and anti-Castroist Cuban mercenaries pushed back the second insurrectional wave of the Mulelists. What practical aid was provided by "revolutionary Africa"? A thousand Algerian volunteers, victors of a much harder war, would have been enough to prevent the fall of Stanleyville. But the armed people of Algeria had long been replaced by a classical army on lease to Boumédienne, who had other plans. The next revolutions are confronted with the task of understanding themselves. They must totally reinvent their own language and defend themselves against all the forms of cooption prepared for them. The Asturian miners' strike (virtually continuous since 1962) and all the other signs of opposition that herald the end of Francoism do not indicate an inevitable future for Spain, but a choice: either the holy alliance now being prepared by the Spanish Church, the monarchists, the "left Falangists" and the Stalinists to harmoniously adapt post-Franco Spain to modernized capitalism and to the Common Market; or the resumption and completion of the most radical aspects of the revolution that was defeated by Franco and his accomplices on all sides -- the revolution that realized truly socialist human relationships for a few weeks in Barcelona in 1936. The new revolutionary current, wherever it appears, must begin to link up the present contestatory experiences and the people who bear them. While unifying such groups, it must at the same time unify the coherent basis of their project. The first gestures of the coming revolutionary era embody a new content, both visible and hidden, of the critique of present societies, and new forms of struggle; and also the irreducible moments of all the old revolutionary history that has remained in abeyance, moments which reappear like ghosts. Thus the dominant society, which prides itself so much on its constant modernization, is going to meet its match, for it is at last beginning to produce its own modernized negation. Long live the comrades who in 1959 burned the Koran in the streets of Baghdad! Long live the workers councils of Hungary, defeated in 1956 by the so-called Red Army! Long live the dockers of Aarhus who last year effectively boycotted racist South Africa, in spite of their union leadership and the judicial repression of the Danish social-democratic government! Long live the "Zengakuren" student movement of Japan, which actively combats the capitalist powers of imperialism and of the so-called "Communist" bureaucracies! Long live the workers' militia that defended the northeastern districts of Santo Domingo! Long live the self-management of the Algerian peasants and workers! The option is now between the militarized bureaucratic dictatorship and the dictatorship of the "self-managed sector" extended to all production and all aspects of social life. SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL Algiers, July 1965 (circulated clandestinely) [TRANSLATOR'S NOTE] 1. "The discoveries of psychoanalysis have, as Freud suspected, turned out to be unacceptable for the ruling social order -- or for any society based on repressive hierarchy. But Freud's 'centrist' position, stemming from his absolute, ahistorical identification of 'civilization' with repression by exploitation of labor, and thus his carrying out of a partially critical research within an uncriticized overall system, led psychoanalysis to become officially 'recognized' in all its degraded variants without being accepted in its central truth, namely its potential critical use. This failure is of course not exclusively attributable to Freud himself, but rather to the collapse in the 1920s of the revolutionary movement, the only force that could have brought the critical findings of psychoanalysis to some fulfillment. The subsequent period of extreme in reaction in Europe drove out even the partisans of psychoanalytic 'centrism.' The psychoanalytic debris who are now in fashion (in the West, at least) have all developed out of this initial capitulation, in which an unacceptable critical truth was turned into acceptably innocuous verbiage. By surrendering its revolutionary cutting edge, psychoanalysis exposed itself both to being used by all the guardians of the present Sleep and to being disparaged for its insufficiencies by run-of-the-mill psychiatrists and moralists." (Internationale Situationniste #10, p. 63.) "Cardan [Cornelius Castoriadis], who here as elsewhere seems to think that it suffices to speak of something in order to have it, vaguely blathers on about 'imagination' in an attempt to justify the gelatinous flabbiness of his thought. He latches onto psychoanalysis (just as does the official world nowadays) as a justification of irrationality and of the profound motivations of the unconscious, although the discoveries of psychoanalysis are in fact a weapon -- as yet unused due to obvious sociopolitical reasons -- for a rational critique of the world. Psychoanalysis profoundly ferrets out the unconscious, its poverty and its miserable repressive maneuvers, which only draw their force and their magical grandeur from a quite banal practical repression in daily life." (Internationale Situationniste #10, p. 79.) Translated by Ken Knabb (slightly modified from the version in the Situationist International Anthology)."]]> situationist 1965 algeria revolution thirdworld mexico congo workers left repression society radicalism capitalism commodities abundance antoniogramsci oppression blacknationalism blackmuslims kurds dominicanrepublic africa latinamerica southafrica japan corneliuscastoriadis keknabb psychoanalysis dictatorship denmark spain españa barcelona franco houariboumédiène mauricempolo patricelumumba franciscocaamaño mulelists islam hierarchy hierarchies china russia ussr sovietunion imperialism socialism hegel ludwigfeuerbach totalitarianism creativity life living consumption consumerism sidibelabbes ahmedbenbella sidibelabbès freud karlmarx https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ce4fc6dd5c08/ What Would It Look Like If the AI Bubble Popped? 2026-06-12T00:31:48+00:00 https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/what-would-it-look-like-if-the-ai robertogreco mattstoller ai artificialintelligence aibubble bubbles finance 2008 globalfinancialcrisis greatrecession dotcombubble dotcombust investment stockmarket wallstreet nvidia google meta realestate economics crisis siliconvalley siliconvalleybank banks banking zohranmamdani federalreserve covid-19 coronavirus pandemic regulation deregulation newdeal greatdepression us deanbaker sarahmyserswest spacex ipos larrysummers robertrubin barackobama debt gigeconomy crypto cryptocurrencies jpmorgan florida housing datacenters taiwan southkorea korea consumers consumption wealtheffect privateequity ponzischemes berniemadoff donaldtrump fdic utlities politics openai samaltman amazon microsoft china hankpaulson japan russellsimmons fintech johnkennethgalbraith embezzelment https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:31ae93981e59/ Reflections on the Machine  - The Ideas Letter 2026-06-11T23:07:39+00:00 https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/reflections-on-the-machine/ robertogreco ain artificialintelligence data society popeleoxiv magnificahumanitas xiaoweiwang selinaxu 2026leifweatherby tylershoemaker benrecht kendraschaefer centralization mentalhealth psychology china us saschaaltmandubrul rationality rationalism objectivity human humans llms ai politics policy technology luhangabel pandemic covid-19 coronavirus optimization irrationality humanism pierpaolopasolini capitalism tidiness fascism control louis-jacques-mandédaguerre photography meaning meaningmaking encyclicals catholicchurch catholicism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f11702e7c92b/ Wang Hui | What is equality? - YouTube 2026-06-11T23:00:08+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXqOev4m3vc robertogreco wanghui 2026 china equality religion language civilization tianzia justice interdependence nature beliefs ethnicity culture traditions sociallife social history pluralism interconnected interconnectedness nationstates future hierarchy division dependence coexistence dependency https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:862a8e0f5922/ Come funziona la scuola in Cina - YouTube 2026-06-09T07:23:54+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU1U6VXLw2Y robertogreco china schools schooling gaokao tests testing standardizedtesting meritocracy pedagogy childhood teens adolescence anxity stress education hukou culture history linxiaoying excellence talent youth equality inequality simonepieranni zhongkao exams society socialselection universities colleges highered highereducation status technology science juzhuzheng urbanization residency socialmobility humancapital labor shehuizhili governance government wangtongban migration success middleclass disparity stratification survival https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c9b8a784f1bb/ Who Actually Sells the Most Watches? (1960–2026) Watch Brands Ranked by Units Sold Each Year. - YouTube 2026-06-04T23:42:06+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9VCoHx-0kE robertogreco watches history smartwatches japan quartz casio citizen seiko timex switzerland applewatch 2026 chronicledseiko data business economics swatchgroup rolex india vostok bulova omega poljot ussr sovietunion luch seagull orient q&q titan hmt tissot junghans china raketa slava shanghai quartzcrisis g-shock lorus watchmaking watchindustry pulsar sekonda guess fossil festina invicta cellphones smartphones phones pebble danielwellington fitbit samsung xiaomi huawei android garmin steptrackers covid-19 pandemic coronavirus google sleep bloodoxygen heartrythm patents https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:107f5f1a6dbb/ The Great Global Transformation: The U.S., China, and the Remaking of the World Economic Order - YouTube 2026-06-01T18:47:09+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr1zscNHeYI&t=2s robertogreco brankomilanovic qingao danielmarkovits adamtooze janetgornick us china economics society liberalism neoliberalism russia ussr sovietunion europe socialism capitalism meritocracy inequality labor work economicorder economy corruption globalization elitism donaldtrump xijinping vladimirputin protectionism tarrifs plutocracy multipolarworld 2026 income class middleclass industrialrevolution https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:abe12e2d6446/ A Quiet Pacific Village Becomes China’s Security Testing Ground - The New York Times 2026-05-29T09:22:45+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/world/asia/china-solomons-pacific-security-threats.html robertogreco china solomonislands surveillance 2026 davidpierson berrywang adamferguson security police policing policestate vietnam sheenachestnutgreitens ecuador soutafrica jacobzuma peterkeniloreajr fengqiaoexperience virginiacomolli pedicaltogamae https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d89b521494ee/ Opinion | The Nobel-Winning Psychologist Who Believed He Found the Secret to Happiness - The New York Times 2026-05-29T06:35:30+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/opinion/decision-making-herbert-simon.html robertogreco 2026 davidepstein psychology herbertsimon decisionmaking johnasllenpaulos innumeracy probability optimization socialmedia us china maximization maximizing harukimurakami goodenough whatmatters sufficiency options satisfaction voluntarysimplicity mihalycsikszentmihalyi flow cognitiveload comparison cognition ai artificialintelligence choices decisionsm life living howwelive cv boredom datingapps lothing uniform https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1b803425a8c8/ China’s AI and EV rise has fueled a new kind of tourism - Rest of World 2026-05-28T22:33:15+00:00 https://restofworld.org/2026/china-ai-tourism/ robertogreco china tourism 2026 technology ai artificialintelligence manufacturing factories kinlinglo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5e2af47d7bde/ Geoengineering with Shovels - by Do Not Research and myles 2026-05-28T07:45:28+00:00 https://donotresearch.substack.com/p/geoengineering-with-shovels robertogreco via:javierarbona 2026 geoengineering ecosystems landscape newdeal publichealth us spain spanish-americanwar españa cuba yellowfever 1898 santiagodecuba williamgorgas williammckinley theodoreroosevelt carlosfinlay walterreed panamá havana panamacanal canalzone imperialism empire lindanash ecologuy ecologies mosquitoes malaria fdr civilianconservationcorps hollyjeanbuck history politics china threegorgesdam franklindelanoroosevelt teddyroosevelt panamácanal https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:63d06b5ccb95/ After OpenAI (Vandal Live at Wake Forest Humanities Institute) 2026-05-14T04:33:50+00:00 https://theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/afteropenai?triedRedirect=true robertogreco openai chatgpt anthropic mattseybold dereklee michaelaappeltova nisrinerahal barrytrachtenberg jeffbills-solomon deanfrnaco amandagengler 2026 emilybender timnitgebru tressiemcmillancottom micheldecerteau virginiadignum ronanfarrow andrewmarantz karenhao andyhines edhirsch tylerjohnston matthewkirschenbaum ritaraely christophernewfield brittparis annpettifor danielroher charlietyrell erichayot johnwarner jacobsilverman nichsrnicek bentarnoff mckenziewark media journalism reporting ipos opeanai samaltman spacex xai grok agiu artificialintelligence artificialgeneralintelligence suchirbalaji bigtech darioamodei microsoft alphabet oracle meta blackrock google liquidity finance wallstreet aibubble aihype speculation llms singularitarianism singularity humanextinction larryellison alexkarp china writing howwewrite text literature environment humanrights armsrace datacenters palantir us resources institutions anxiety anger futility nihilism highered highereducation colleges and universities reading howweread literac https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:69c20805dd99/ 'If you go to china you'll never see the world the same way again' | Martin Jacques | UNAPOLOGETIC - YouTube 2026-05-11T01:45:28+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0wKS7flwzw robertogreco martinjacques ashfaaqcarim china history economics society asia softpower power manufacturing dominance international globalsouth culture humanrights xinjiang uyghurs donaldtrump us uk west taiwan governance government pandemic covid-19 coronavirus hongkong singapore modernity 21stcentury eastasia colonialism colonization imperialism westernization globalization 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s ezravogel collectivism individualism confucius confucianism humiliation postcolonialism japan empire gdp guangdong malaysia borders civilization education nationstate civilizationstates states opiumwars culturalrevolution maotsetung maozedong ccp 1949 dengxiaoping industrialization 1972 richardnixon law legal politics lawyers engineering technology innovation science howwthingswork communism xijinping leadership 1978 ai artificialintelligence beltandroad beltandroadinitiative maga middlekingdom regimechange productivity tarde africa latinamerica infrastructure ports highways leverage rail railways hsr highspeedrail softimperial https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5fec684549db/ Robot Dogs Are A Security Nightmare - YouTube 2026-05-10T22:42:21+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8WuXDXfcI robertogreco unitree robots robotdogs bennjordan security flock police policing data 2026 military us surveillance safety technology livestock chickens atlanta portland kansas florida secuity undaunted outsourcing crime homelessness society hacking cybersecurity malware china ukraine https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5b1e20b46548/ The Long Transition to Socialism & Unequal Exchange with Torkil Lauesen - YouTube 2026-05-08T05:09:00+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ldCgfCaZrs robertogreco makc haredware torkillauesen 2026 capitalism socialism sweden dialecticalmaterialism karlmarx friedrichengels maotsetung maozedong china history europe colonialism colonization arghiriemmanuel comomunism japan politics economics change imperialism millennialsarekillingcapitalism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a93fee6cd69e/ What They Don't Tell You About Venezuela - YouTube 2026-05-08T03:32:32+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI0JYw0DcKQ robertogrecoSimón Rodríguez Porras, político y periodista venezolano, miembro del Partido Socialismo y Libertad de Venezuela, traza una mirada crítica sobre el proceso de la revolución bolivariana. Lee el trabajo de Simón en: https://venezuelanvoices.org/ Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P0jrlGRzxe13DGgK1ikkYVRrSVGcp9WxlS59WDuUblA/ "]]> biancagraulau 2026 venezuela history hugochávez chavismo nicolásmaduro simónrodríguezporras oil petroleum israel iraq georgewbush iraqwar oppression nationalization barackobama donaldtrump delcyrodríguez imperialism carlosandréspérez coups economics politics un benjaminnetanyahu zionism opec cuba antiimperialism anti-imperialism corruption maríacorinamachado juanguaidó government goverance sanctions vladimirputin russia iran china foreignpolicy rafaelcaldera health healthcare poverty inequality latinamerica imf pedrocarmona diosdadocabello class education 1973 1980s 1990s 1989 1998 1999 2002 2012 2013 2003 2011 1992 bolivarianrevolution repression socialism communism capitalism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:20adc426bd9d/ How car-loving American cities fell so far behind their global peers on public transit | US news | The Guardian 2026-05-07T20:04:49+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/06/american-cities-cars-public-transportation robertogreco us cars transportation transit publictransit buses trains subways lightrail olivermilman history 2026 cities urban mobility urbanism houston nyc chicago losangeles austin washingtondc paris buenosaires moscow berlin london hongkong asia europe africa latinamerica detroit oklahomacity indianapolis vienna montreal taipei taiwan china lagos nigeria johannesburg budapest kariwatkins cardependence copenhagen amsterdam thenetherlands holland corrigansalerno policy zoning florida oregon parking urbsaplanning safety pedestrians bikelanes bikes biking commuting happiness covid-19 coronavirus pandemic philadelphia funding donaldtrump seanduffy california texas hsr highspeedrail rail railways sanantonio dallas germany hungary https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:48eb2f846247/ Vicky Osterweil on Disney, Intellectual Property and Storytelling - YouTube 2026-05-03T19:43:34+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StrpSp8anQM robertogreco vickyosterweil ip intellectualproperty culture film disney 2026 entertainment technology medicine popularculture imagination howwewrite writing howweread reading anarchism storytelling looting law legal policestate police policing filmmaking characters marvel monopolies music books covid-19 coronavirus pandemic vaccines pharmaceuticals consolidation markets capitalism innovation constitution us pirating literature copyright productivity creativity suppression francises nintendo matel videogames sequels hegemony ideology nuclearfamily individualism politics propaganda china homogenization finance financialization franchises merchandising ows occupywallstreet fandom freddiegray 2000s 2018 2012 thailand 2014 censorship hungergames guyfawkes resistance revolution davidgraeber stuarthall art artworld commodification gamegate starwars fans fanculture johnboyega daisyridley labor work workers power control socialfabric fanfiction communities community mutualaid 2020 philadelphia losangeles waltdisney mccarthyism son https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5393b930b1ac/ Lessons from the fairness of African fractal societies | Aeon Essays 2026-04-22T03:41:24+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/lessons-from-the-fairness-of-african-fractal-societies robertogreco likamkyanzaire 2026 africa decentralization centralization society fractals circulation reciprocity return roneglash cameroon architecture zambia cities urban urbanplanning place logone-birni geometry design. complexity economics economy europe governance government benoîtmandelbrot benoitmandelbrot recursion self-similarity scale scaling nathancohen china shenzhen gps yanguangchen xiomingman michaelediagbonya yemiebenezeraluko duyilewilliamabiodun nigeria religion art numeracy patterns fractalpatterns socialorder culture lineage mutualaid mutualsupport communities community bonaventurechigozieuzoh iheanyivalentineekechikwu nnamdiazikiwe form kinship flexibility linaeage egalitarianism class hierarchy hierarvhies simonroberts hpgulliver ethnography anthropology solidarity support globalsouth globalnorth value values hoarding extraction equality arusha igbo chokwe ubuntuai openai cooperatives deeplyrooted liberation design institutions concentration diffusion fairness equity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9d6b23b6237c/ More Americans are changing their minds about China 2026-04-22T03:27:19+00:00 https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/21/world/video/americans-change-minds-about-china-jessie-yeung-hnk-vrtc-digvid robertogrecochina us publicopinion canada 2026 donaldtrump foreignpolicy chinamaxxing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:92303211b0f3/ We May Be Living Through the Most Consequential Hundred Days in Cyber History, and Almost Nobody Has Noticed 2026-04-15T07:11:15+00:00 https://ringmast4r.substack.com/p/we-may-be-living-through-the-most robertogreco ethics governance war security 2026 patrickquirk china computers computing internet web online cybersecurity oracle github saas lockheedmartin salesforce iran handala northkorea russia ai artificialintelligence claude anthropic vishing voicephishing microsoft stryker kashpatel fbi axios intelligence cisco llms mercor meta cloud cloudcomputing rockstargames aviation honda https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6b5f93da50a8/ China’s Parallel Web Behind the Wall | Vale.Rocks 2026-04-14T22:02:59+00:00 https://vale.rocks/posts/chinas-web robertogreco china internet online web greatfirewall 2026 policy censorship regulation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:283e7a31f919/ AI broke the one thing we can't fix - YouTube 2026-04-12T21:16:45+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_2YN1MungI robertogreco 2026 mobitar ai artificialintelligence openclaw internet web online aislop nikitabier xai twitter chatbots jensenhuang scams scamming spam spamming china censorship ccp replyspam bitcoin crypto cryptocurrencies llms rlhf attention economics algorithms ads advertising monetization youtube slop language https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:734799ad6668/ The AI Great Leap Forward 2026-04-11T06:25:56+00:00 https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/ robertogreco ai artificialintelligence aibubble technology development 2026 china business history aihype https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e1fa14229309/ The Landscapes Inside Us | Robert Macfarlane | The New York Review of Books 2026-04-11T05:39:08+00:00 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/07/01/wayfinding-landscapes-inside-us/ robertogrecoNone of us is exempt from the ramifications of the device paradigm. We all seem to find it extraordinarily difficult to step outside the onslaught, to create the distance and perspective between us and our devices that might allow us to question what cultural or cognitive price is being paid in return for convenience. In July 1841 the poet John Clare escaped from High Beach Asylum in Epping Forest, on the outskirts of London, and set out to walk to his home in Northborough, about eighty miles away. At the time, Clare was in his late forties and mentally unwell. He had been in High Beach for four years. Although his wife, Patty, was alive, he believed himself to be searching for an imaginary second wife, a version of his childhood sweetheart, Mary Joyce, who had died three years earlier. He suffered auditory hallucinations on the road. He ate grass for sustenance, finding it to “taste something like bread.” Footsore and confused, he continued on until he reached Northborough. The walk took him four days. In “Journey Out of Essex”—a minor epic of English travel writing—Clare described how he slept by the edge of the road each night, taking care to lie with his head pointing north, so that he would know which way to walk when he woke. That image has stayed with me since I first read Clare’s account twenty years or so ago: a man lost in mind, nevertheless seized by a homing instinct, and with his body a quivering compass needle that settled on north each night. Five months after reaching Northborough, Clare was certified insane on the grounds of being “addicted to poetical prosings.” He was committed to Northampton General Lunatic Asylum, where he stayed until his death in 1864. His last words were “I want to go home.” Mental illness can result in a loss of bearings so drastic that one’s footing in the given world slips and the moorings of the mind loosen. Yet within such bewilderment lucidities persist. Clare could remember his route home, though he did not recognize his wife when he met her on the outskirts of Northborough. My grandfather, lost in the mists of dementia in the final years of his life, found it hard to recall what he had had for breakfast but could reliably give the names, heights, and ranges of mountains he had climbed in his youth, and walk in memory back up Himalayan valleys he had not entered for half a century. In the opening pages of From Here to There Bond describes how his grandmother, who also suffered from dementia, in the final weeks of her life “repeatedly used the phrase ‘Am I here?’” His book is both scientific and personal. Much of it is spent patiently explaining the neuroscience of wayfinding and spatial awareness for laypeople, with the calm tone of a seasoned science writer. But gradually, between and within the explanatory sections, Bond quietly and movingly discloses what I take to be his real preoccupation, which is Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. His book is an attempt to answer his grandmother’s question, which is also everyone’s question. Alzheimer’s is a voracious type of dementia that consumes the place cells of the hippocampus. Once this begins, Bond writes, “patients have trouble creating cognitive maps of new places and recalling maps of familiar ones.” The disease’s ability to disrupt the brain’s navigation and orientation system is so acute that researchers are exploring whether spatial tests might be used to diagnose it earlier than any other forms of assessment. “The tragedy for Alzheimer’s patients,” as Bond puts it, “is that the compass they have always had is now fading, and their map is shrinking. Disorientation becomes their default state, leaving them lost in places they have always known.” This contributes to the distress—variously expressed as frustration, anxiety, anger, and violence—that sufferers feel: “They are incapable of finding their way anywhere and can be lost even in their own homes.” Covid-19 has administered a global “nature shock,” leaving billions of us disoriented even in familiar surroundings. During full lockdown, we wandered our homes like the narrator in Xavier de Maistre’s mock-epic Voyage Around My Room (1794), who for forty-two days finds himself confined to his chamber, where he would “traverse the room up and down and across, without rule or plan.” Meanwhile, many countries—including China—have used the pandemic to ramp up their means of tracking and tracing citizens, making it even harder to get lost should one ever wish to. Invoking feichang shiqi, “extraordinary times,” the Chinese Communist Party is now using facial recognition technologies, “health coding,” and smartphone tracking to increase surveillance of its citizens: state security camera networks can segment facial-recognition data into dozens of sensitive subcategories, including eyebrow size, skin color, and ethnicity. In Nature Shock, Coleman writes:
Thoreau urged his audience…to reconsider the settled spaces they inhabited…. “Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
Thoreau loved paradox, sometimes too much. It helps him find his mark here, though: one might expect our current lostness to test our self-reliance and glorify the individual, but in fact it proves our entanglement and reveals our codependence. When lost, we most of all need help. Underlying all three of these books is a deep belief in the importance of collaboration and cooperation between humans and their environments, as well as between humans and other humans. Having read them, I’ve come to think that we might best imagine wayfinding not as a skill or art but as an ethic. The abilities that are cultivated in wayfinding—imagining things from different viewpoints, moving the mind backward and forward in time, seeing situations from other perspectives, weighing alternatives subtly against one another before making the best decisions, seeking information from others and giving it freely in return—might be the same abilities that contribute to a resilient, equitable community or polity. If this is wayfinding, then we need it now more than ever."]]> robettmacfarlane 2021 mro'connor wayfinding humanism senses sensing navigation joncoleman michaelbond multispecies morethanhuman science brain indigeneity indigenous art place storytelling agnèsvarda animals arctic greenland land-basededucation place-basededucation autonoeisis jonathandostrovsky gps janejacobs australia pacificislands micronesia nature colonialism knowledge colonization decolonization civilization gettinglost india china southamerica captialism timingold siannengai hippocampus eleanormaguire theknowledge london taxis life living johnclare thoreau covid-19 coronavirus pandemic collaboration cooperation environment information humans human lostness xavierdemaistre veroniquebohbot cartography wilderness johno'keefe place-basedlearning land-basedlearning https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c4419b518594/ The Center and The Periphery - The Ideas Letter 2026-04-09T20:49:27+00:00 https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-center-and-the-periphery/ robertogreco afrawang 2026 ipodtouch jailbreaking 2010s technology china apple 2011 shenzhen computers computing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d43b4dca8182/ Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? | The New Yorker 2026-04-06T19:08:46+00:00 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted robertogreco samaltman openai ronanfarrow andrewmarantz business psychology ai artificialintelligence technofeudalism technofascism nerdreich misinformation lies truth siliconvalley power ilyasutskever gregbrockman elonmusk helentoner tashamccauley satyanadella reidhoffman microsoft ronconway nancypelosi joshkushner jaredjushner rickrubin brianchesky chrislehane airbnb miramurati brettaylor facebook meta lawrencesummers deception personality uber traviskalanick chatgpt turingtest alanturing agi artificialgeneralintelligence conniegibstine jerryaltman paulgraham ycombinator loopt keachhagey markjacobstein theranos elizabethholmes fraud sequoiacapital jessicalivingston darioamodei google dictatorship billgates anthropic janleike jacobhilton carrollwainwright jasonkwon singularitarianism singularity tescreal transhumanism rationalism extropianism cosmism effectivealtruism longtermism ilyamemos sambankman-fried berniemadoff ponzischemes persuasion wallstreet jeffreyespstein enron worldcon integrity holdenkarnofsky anniealtman https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a5c1b63dc616/ ‘This feels fragile’: how a satellite-smashing chain reaction could spiral out of control | Space | The Guardian 2026-04-05T06:54:34+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/science/ng-interactive/2026/mar/31/this-feels-fragile-how-a-satellite-smashing-chain-reaction-could-spiral-out-of-control robertogreco space fredericko'brien ashleykicrk oliverholmes earth satellites visualization orbit 2026 dataviz us china un jonathanmcdowell astronomy spacex https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:957da552b274/ Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: The Revolt Eclipses Whatever The World Has to Offer with Idris Robinson 2026-04-04T18:20:59+00:00 https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/the-revolt-eclipses-all-the-world-has-to-offer-by-idris-robinson robertogreco idrisrobinson 2026 2020 georgefloyd makc revolution civilwar situationists spanishcivilwar us imperialism fragmentation hinterlands cities abolition abolitionism johnbrown reconstruction class culturalproduction humanity humanism deathsofdespair loneliness spirituality guydebord situationist love community ows occupywallstreet greece georgefloydprotests georgefloyduprising malcolmx leaders leadership anarchism communism marxism communes blackavantgarde palestine middleclass workingclass rulingclass proletariat bourgeoisie urban urbanism periphery blackmiddleclass economics politics millennialsarekillingcapitalism counterinsurgency joshbriond wittgenstein privilege intersectionality emancipation liberation suppression ahmaudarbery racism police policing policebrutality hortensespillers jamesbaldwin blackness whitesupremacy harrietjacobs meansofproduction infrastructure decentralization history logistics privilegetheory society production pain transformation jasperbernes edwardluttwak scale scaling violence non https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bd564efe99da/ The Care Economy is the Everything Economy - with Emma Holten - YouTube 2026-04-04T07:44:45+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yl6JpVZTdM robertogreco emmaholten unlearningeconomics feminism economics 2025 economy society gdp austerity care caring carework careeconomy health healthcare childcare gender hobbes adamsmith johnlocke illness thomashobbes reality humanism relationships social bodies embodiment politicaleconomy sickness unemployment labor work workers culture culturalhistory history quantification numbers statistics data information neoliberalism markets capital capitalism power lobbying influence socialscience socialsciences ideology sexism truth women understanding exclusion aging prices pricing efficiency simnplification methods method inequality diversity externalities coherence disabilities disability predicitons conservatism stabilization predictability equilibrium equilibriumtheory climate climatechange globalwarming change climatecrisis nurses nursing publicsector healthworkers rachelreeves essentialworkers values pandemic covid-19 coronavirus marketvalues qualitative purpose profit profits carecrisis nature environment sustainability uk e https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:55bf219e4032/ what would Whitman do? - by Aidan Walker 2026-04-02T06:48:39+00:00 https://howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com/p/what-would-whitman-do robertogrecobe me,” and “Song of Myself” begins: “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, / And what I assume you shall assume, / For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” The original edition of “Leaves of Grass” features only a picture of Whitman in a jaunty pose, dressed as a regular guy, without his name as an author — he is an anon. [image] Whitman’s poetry is highly personal, but not in the sense of confession or autobiography. He talks most often about solitary, embodied experiences — being a commuter, looking at the sky, breathing. These are things people do alone, but with the knowledge that everybody else does them. Titling a poem “Song of Myself” is not narcissistic because the subject is not Walt Whitman, but the experience of selfhood in the first place — Walt is just the most accessible self for Walt to write about. The self, in Song of Myself, breathes, bathes, fucks, wonders, eats, smells, and exercises — but most of all, he yaps. There are, according to a quick cmd+F search of the poem, 489 instances of “I” and 235 instances of “you.” The cardinal activity of the Whitmanian self is the act of address — communion with other selves. It is a communion premised on equality, a word which Lincoln (and I’d say Whitman) understood in a mathematical way, grounded in Euclid. [image] Before all other facts about the world, Whitman cares that people are equal. This is not a precept of morality, but a principle of physics for him, an undeniable truth about the universe which society may construct elaborate contraptions to suspend — in the way airplanes defy gravity — but ultimately must obey. Black or white, male or female, poor or rich, young or old, “I give and receive the same,” Whitman writes. But there are also other equalities: the past, future, and present are the same; writer and reader are the same; death and life, victim and perpetrator, are all the same. The Union cause was always spiritual, and grew increasingly more so as the war went on. It promised a just emancipation of slaves, described in Biblical terms (“jubilee,” “grapes of wrath,” and so on) but it also rested on a radical interpretation of the words “union” and “equality.” I think the Union transplanted the Christian conception of the Trinity onto the American project. [image] Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom’d” interests me in part because it makes this connection clear. It centers on a “trinity” defined by Whitman: the blooming lilac, the song of a “gray-brown bird,” and the “thought of him I love.” The last of these is proximately the dead Lincoln, but more profoundly all of Whitman’s countrymen. Instead of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we have lilac, bird, and guy you love. The components of this trinity can be interpreted more abstractly: nature, the creative/expressive act, and the thought of your fellow men that you love. In this, we find the three-personed God, the three-faced American nation, which Whitman worships. Nature worship, creative self-assertion, and loving solidarity. This mystic trinity is the foundation of American democracy, which was really founded by Lincoln and not Washington. Liberalism is something they invented in Europe. Originally, I wanted to study Whitman, the mid 19th-century newspaper business which he worked in for much of his life, and the transatlantic connections between Europe and the United States in the Civil War era. One reason I gave up on this was that this kind of academic career is hopeless in 2026, given how the life of the mind has been so thoroughly fucked over. Another reason is that I figured this was not really spiritually true to Whitman’s vision, which — I idolize the poetry, not the poet here — is really the thing I believe in above all else. He’d want me, who he talked to so directly across his poems, to speak from and to my own modernity, about the affairs of regular people and the things that matter in the heart. Whitman wrote in the language of his day, without fuss. He inflected it with archaisms like reversed word orders (“when lilacs last”), random “thou”s and so on, which are carried over from the King James Bible. The KJV was for many Americans at his time one of the only books they owned. It was their liturgical language — not quite as extreme as the Catholic Church’s use of Latin, but certainly not the way people really talked. Whitman’s fusion of that language with the rhythm of everyday speech and the straightforwardness of his “>be me” kind of address creates an interesting juxtaposition, but also relatability. I see his outlook as very contemporary. He wants to overshare, he wants to be relatable, and it feels weird to call him “Whitman” as you would another author rather than “Walt,” as you would call a dude you know. And so I wonder too, if there is something very contemporary in his mystic conception of union, that might salvage. Faced on the one hand with the complicity-rationalizing managerialism that motivated the Biden years, and on the other with the Ahab-striving of our cruelest to win (whether against China, modernity, ourselves, God, etc.), I think we should see Whitman as a resource that can inform us of another way, and offer a language in which words like “democracy” and “equality” can actually matter and actually be the tough, existentially crucial things they are, rather than pablum sputtered out by people who have never failed to dodge an uncomfortable truth."]]> aidanwalker 2026 waltwhitman songofmyself leavesofgrass history memes nature solidarity us writing howwewrite managerialism joebiden cruelty democracy equality china modernity poetry euclid https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4745fa079fb2/ China OS vs. America OS (2026 version) - by afra 2026-04-01T01:46:00+00:00 https://afraw.substack.com/p/china-os-vs-america-os-2026-version robertogreco afrawang 2026 china us siliconvalley technology oepnclaw ai artificialintelligence anthropic ycombinator sanfrancisco bayarea government governance vc venturecapital opensource alibaba minimax qwen shanghai z.ai beijing shenzhen didi kuaidi uber danwang evs power economics competition liqiang zhipu uk australia indonesia singapore london linux opencompute kubernetes hongkong nvidia openai google jensenhuang gtc2026 meta claude claudecode productivity codexxpro humancapital manus huahan dulei science bambulab 3dprinting https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ba140758f32d/ Dossier: Playable Cities – Mediapolis 2026-03-30T20:07:51+00:00 https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/dossier-playable-cities/ robertogreco cities play urban urbanism carolynbirdsall lindakopitz alexgekker 2025 anthonyalbright franswillemkorsten alisonstenning aylinkartal aliaelkattan paulo'connor julianmcallistergroves yingxindu tinaszengaho hongkong cairo nyc istanbul squatters okupa lauravermeeren children conormoloney photinivrikki giotaalevizou london photography vernacular hsinhsieh china housing radmilaradojevic simeonapetkova núriaarbonésaran affect christophborbach maxkanderske resistance counterpractice connorcook athens samhind machinelearning ai artificialintelligence https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:151d5f26cb90/ 'Iran and Gaza are Only the Beginning' (Chris Hedges at Princeton) 2026-03-29T00:47:23+00:00 https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/iran-and-gaza-are-only-the-beginning robertogrecoIt is intensely private, not to be diluted, but simultaneously public so that gentile society will confirm the crimes. A very peculiar suffering must be enshrined in public sites: Holocaust museums, memory gardens, deportation sites, dedicated not as Jewish but civic memorials. But what is the role of a museum in a country, such as the United States, far from the site of the Holocaust? Is it to rally the people who suffered or to instruct non-Jews? Is it supposed to serve as a reminder that “it can happen here?” Or is it a statement that some special consideration is deserved? Under what circumstances can a private sorrow serve simultaneously as a public grief? And if genocide is certified as a public sorrow, then must we not accept the credentials of other particular sorrows too? An American historian of Polish ancestry argues that, with the German invasion of 1939, the Poles became the first people in Europe to experience the Holocaust and that historians have so far “chosen to interpret the tragedy in exclusivistic terms — namely as the most tragic period in the history of the Jewish Diaspora.” If Polish Americans claim their own “forgotten Holocaust,” what recognition should they enjoy? Do Armenians and Cambodians also have a right to publicly funded holocaust museums? And do we need memorials to Seventh-Day Adventists and homosexuals for their persecution at the hands of the Third Reich? Unique suffering confers unique entitlement. Any crime Israel carries out in the name of its survival — its “right to exist” — is justified in the name of this uniqueness. There are no limits. The world is black and white, a never-ending battle against Nazism, which is protean, depending on who Israel targets. To challenge this bloodlust is to be an antisemite, facilitating another genocide of Jews. This simplistic formula not only serves the interests of Israel, but also the interests of colonial powers that carried out their own genocides, ones they also seek to obscure. The sacralization of the Nazi Holocaust offers a bizarre quid pro quo. Arming and funding the state of Israel, blocking U.N. resolutions and sanctions that would condemn its crimes and demonizing Palestinians, and their supporters becomes proof of atonement and support for Jews. Israel, in return, absolves the West of its indifference to the plight of Jews during the Holocaust, and Germany for perpetrating it. Germany uses this unholy alliance to separate Nazism from the rest of German history, including the genocide German colonists carried out against the Nama and Herero in German South-West Africa, now Namibia. “[S]uch magic,” Israeli historian and genocide scholar, Raz Segal, writes, “legitimizes racism against Palestinians at the very moment that Israel perpetrates genocide against them. The idea of Holocaust uniqueness thus reproduces rather than challenges the exclusionary nationalism and settler colonialism that led to the Holocaust.” Professor Segal, the director of the program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University in New Jersey, wrote an article about the war on Gaza on October 13, 2023, titled: “A Textbook Case of Genocide.” This denunciation from an Israeli Holocaust scholar, whose family members perished in the Holocaust, was a very lonely stance. Professor Segal saw in the Israeli government’s immediate demand that Palestinians evacuate the north of Gaza and the blood-curdling demonization of the Palestinians by Israeli officials — the defense minister said Israel was “fighting human animals” — the stench of genocide. “The whole idea about prevention and ‘never again’ is that — as we teach our students — there are red flags, that once we notice them, we’re supposed to work in order to stop the process that could escalate to genocide,” Professor Segal told me, “even if it’s not genocidal yet.” Professor Segal paid for his honesty. The offer to lead the University of Minnesota’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, which has issued no condemnation of the genocide, was revoked. When professor Segal and I testified at the state capital in Trenton in opposition to the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) bill, which equates criticism of the state of Israel with antisemitism, we were jeered by Zionists and our microphones were cut by the committee chairman. There we were, arguing that this bill would curtail free speech while we were in real time being denied free speech. Genocide is the next stage in what the anthropologist, Arjun Appadurai, calls “a vast worldwide Malthusian correction” that is “geared to preparing the world for the winners of globalization, minus the inconvenient noise of its losers.” The funding and arming of Israel by the United States and European nations, as it carries out genocide, has effectively imploded the post-World War II international legal order. It no longer has credibility. The West can no longer lecture anyone about democracy, human rights or the supposed virtues of Western civilization. The ruse, that somehow we as a nation promote democracy, equality and human rights, is finished. “At the same time that Gaza induces vertigo, a feeling of chaos and emptiness, it becomes for countless powerless people the essential condition of political and ethical consciousness in the twenty-first century — just as the First World War was for a generation in the West,” Pankaj Mishra writes. None of us who reported from Israel and Palestine, where I worked as a reporter for seven years, predicted this genocide. And yet, we were acutely aware of the genocidal impulse that lay at the heart of the Zionist project — the desire by large segments of Israeli society to eradicate and expel all Palestinians. This genocidal impulse was there from the inception of Zionism. Victor Klemperer, a professor of linguistics and the son of a Berlin rabbi living under Nazi rule, noted in his diary, “To me the Zionists, who want to go back to the Jewish state of A.D. 70 (destruction of Jerusalem by Titus), are just as offensive as the Nazis. With their nosing after blood, their ancient ‘cultural roots,’ their partly canting, partly obtuse winding back of the world they are altogether a match for the National Socialists.” I covered the extremist rabbi, Meir Kahane, who claimed that violence was a Jewish virtue and revenge, a divine commandment. He was, when I was based in Israel, barred by the Israeli government from running for office. Kahane was assassinated on November 5, 1990, in New York City. His Kach Party in Israel was outlawed four years later after Baruch Goldstein, a Brooklyn-born doctor and Kach member, entered Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque and opened fire on worshippers, killing 29 Palestinians. Goldstein, dressed in his army captain’s uniform, was overpowered by worshippers and beaten to death. I was sent by my editors in New York to interview the survivors. When they received the copy, they insisted I do more interviews with Jewish colonists who justified Goldstein’s grievances with Palestinians, part of the game of balance, but really part of the effort to obscure the truth. Kach, following its statements of support for the massacre, was declared a terrorist organization by the United States. But Kahanism did not die. It was nurtured by Jewish extremists and colonists. Kach’s racial intolerance and calls for mass violence against Palestinians infected larger and larger segments of Israeli society. It found near universal acceptance after the attacks of October 7. I saw this intolerance at political rallies held by Netanyahu, who received lavish funding from right-wing Americans associated with AIPAC, when he ran against Yitzhak Rabin, who was negotiating a peace settlement with the Palestinians. Netanyahu’s supporters chanted Kahane-inspired slogans such as “Death to Arabs” and “Death to Rabin.” They burned an effigy of Rabin dressed in a Nazi uniform. Netanyahu marched in front of a mock funeral for Rabin. Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish fanatic on November 4, 1995. Netanyahu, who first became prime minister in 1996, has spent his political career nurturing these Jewish extremists, including Itamar Ben-Gvir, who hung a portrait of Goldstein on the wall of his living room, Bezalel Smotrich, Avigdor Lieberman, Gideon Sa’ar and Naftali Bennett. Netanyahu’s father, Benzion, who worked as an assistant to the founder of Revisionist Zionism, Vladimir Jabotinsky, and was referred to by Benito Mussolini as “a good fascist,” was a leader in the Herut Party that called on Israel to seize all the land of historic Palestine. Many of those who formed the Herut Party carried out terrorist attacks during the 1948 war that established the state of Israel. Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Sidney Hook and other Jewish intellectuals, described the Herut Party in a statement published in The New York Times as a party “closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to Nazi and Fascist parties.” There has always been a virulent strain of Jewish fascism within the Zionist project, mirroring the strain of fascism in American society. Unfortunately, for us and the Palestinians, these fascistic strains are ascendant. The decision to obliterate Gaza has long been the dream of far-right Zionists, heirs of Kahane’s movement. Jewish identity and Jewish nationalism are the Zionist versions of the Nazis’ blood-and-soil ideology. Jewish supremacy is sanctified by God, as is the slaughter of the Palestinians, who Netanyahu compared to the Biblical Amalekites who were massacred by the Israelites. Europeans and Euro-Americans in the American colonies used the same Biblical passage to justify their genocide against Native Americans. Enemies — usually Muslims — who are slated for extinction are subhumans who embody evil. Violence and the threat of violence are the only forms of communication those outside the magical circle of Jewish nationalism understand. Messianic redemption will take place once the Palestinians are expelled. Jewish extremists call for the Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of three of the most sacred sites for Muslims, supposedly built on the ruins of the Jewish Second Temple which was destroyed in A.D. 70 by the Roman army, to be demolished. These extremists call for it to be replaced by a “Third” Jewish temple, a move that would set the Muslim world alight. The West Bank, which zealots refer to as “Judea and Samaria,” is being annexed by Israel. Israel, governed by religious laws imposed by the ultra-Orthodox Shas and United Torah Judaism parties, will soon mirror the despotic theocracy in Iran. James Baldwin presciently saw this regression to our innate barbarism. He warned that there was a “terrible probability” that “Western populations, struggling to hold on to what they have stolen from their captives, and unable to look into their mirror, will precipitate a chaos throughout the world which, if it does not bring life on this planet to an end, will bring about a racial war such as the world has never seen, and for which generations yet unborn will curse our names forever.” The savagery in Iran, Lebanon and Gaza is the same savagery we face at home. Those carrying out the genocide, mass slaughter and unprovoked war on Iran are the same people dismantling our democratic institutions. The Iranians, Lebanese and Palestinians know there is no appeasing these monsters. The global elites believe nothing. They feel nothing. They cannot be trusted. They exhibit the core traits of all psychopaths — superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance, a need for constant stimulation, a penchant for lying, deception, manipulation and the inability to feel remorse or guilt. They disdain as weakness the virtues of empathy, honesty, compassion and self-sacrifice. They live by the creed of Me. Me. Me. “The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane,” Erich Fromm writes in “The Sane Society.” We have witnessed evil for nearly three years in Gaza. We watch it now in Iran. We watch it in Lebanon. We see this evil excused or masked by political leaders and the media. The New York Times, in a page out of Orwell, sent an internal memo telling reporters and editors to eschew the terms “refugee camps, “occupied territory,” “ethnic cleansing” and, of course, “genocide” when writing about Gaza. Those who name and denounce this evil, including the heroic students who set up encampments on campuses here and abroad, are smeared, blacklisted and purged. They are arrested and deported. A deadening silence is descending upon us, the silence of all authoritarian states. We know where this ends. Fail to do your duty, fail to cheerlead the war on Iran, speak out against the crime of genocide, and see your broadcasting license revoked, as Trump’s Chair of the F.C.C. Brendan Carr has proposed. We have enemies. They are not in Palestine. They are not in Lebanon. They are not in Iran. They are here. Among us. They dictate our lives. They are traitors to our ideals. They are traitors to our country. They envision a world of slaves and masters. Gaza is only the start. There are no internal mechanisms for reform. We can obstruct or surrender. Those are the only choices left."]]> israel palestine gaza westbank zionism chrishedges history 2026 holocaust genocide ethniccleansing un internationallaw us policy fascism benitomussolini mussolini terrorism ethnonationalism supremacy benjaminnetanyahu donaldtrump jaredkushner nazis antizionism antisemitism jewishsupremacy stevewitkoff jonathanpowell josephkent marcorubio lobbying aipac west racism race iran settlercolonialism colonialism colonization settlers violence lebanon globalsouth aimécésaire australia aborigines indigeneity indigenous winstonchurchill apartheid langstonhughes jamesbaldwin hiroshima nagasaki herero namibia namaqua armenia bengal economics poland mexico india china congo vietnam humanitarianism auschwitz primolevi ww2 wwii wwi ww1 mordechaichaimrumkowski deception lying manipulation empathy honesty compassion self-sacrifice eastjerusalem jerusalem golanheights syria egypt sinaipeninsula nathanglazer evil 2023 2024 2025 charlesmaier holocausstudies refugeecamps occupation cambodia encampments zionistmccarthyism fre https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:355213bbbd5a/ Why Revolutionaries Love Spicy Food - Nautilus 2026-03-25T23:54:12+00:00 https://nautil.us/why-revolutionaries-love-spicy-food-235885 robertogreco 2016 chilipeppers food spices spiciness china andrewleonard ottobraun communism chianhkai-shek maozedong maotsetung ussr sovietunion hunan sichuan revolution revolutionaries wedan paulrozin capsicum capasaicin nahuatl aztecs centralamerica southamerica latinamerica indigeneity indigenous caribbean columbus spain portugal españa deigochanca plants westafrica india newworld korea hungary paprika macao tibet middlekingdom canton robertentenmann paulsherman jenniferbilling temperature climate cuisine spice fuchsiadunlop geraldzhang-schmidt songzuying mexico oaxaca supertasters nadiabyrnes johnhayes hongjiewang chongqing chengdu globalization peppers chili christophercolumbus https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:70082ae79cac/ Good trains 2026-03-25T06:04:15+00:00 https://www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/good-trains/ robertogrecorobinsloan trains japan travel hsr highspeedrail california shinkansen johnmaynardkeynes sayakamurata ginnytapleytakemori michicoaoyama alisonwatts taiyomatsumoto michalearias bananayoshimoto meganbackus richardlloydparry kyoto craigmod florentynaleow society johndower 2026 culture jimrion jrkyushu eikimitooka robinrendle poojasaxena spencerchang china jacobastor healthcare food astrideichhorn dwarkeshpatel adapalmer alanjacobs robertmacfarlane language local taiyōmatsumoto https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d0e288daae85/ When your culture becomes a meme: the ‘jarring’ effect of Chinamaxxing | Life and style | The Guardian 2026-03-23T22:22:33+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/23/chinamaxxing-chinese-culture-becomes-a-meme robertogreco chinamaxxing tiktok culture china 2026 isabellalee us socialmedia https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:368f4f1fae5a/ ‘We need messier maps’ | Chatham House – International Affairs Think Tank 2026-03-23T04:19:59+00:00 https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/the-world-today/2026-03/we-need-messier-maps robertogreco maps mapping cartography borders williamrankin mikehiggins 2026 geopolitics greenland southchinasea china us https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a33ddf78a243/ The End of the Petrodollar? How Iran War Is Reshaping the Global Economy: Author Laleh Khalili - YouTube 2026-03-22T02:45:36+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GSqJ1Ey9Rc robertogreco lalegkhalili 2026 petrodollar straitofhormuz us china economics money finance oil petroleum iran persiangulf currency https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:32b585e6ea93/ The kill line v Chinamaxxing: a window into how China and the US see each other | China | The Guardian 2026-03-21T05:10:47+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/mar/13/chinamaxxing-social-media-trend-gen-z-china-us robertogreco china us chinamaxxing genz generationz 2026 socialmedia media perception society psychology politics economics propaganda rednote tiktok lifestyle poverty https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8c408bc64f6f/ American TikTok Users Are Fantasizing About ‘Being Chinese’ - The New York Times 2026-03-21T05:05:27+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/magazine/chinese-sinophilia-chinamaxxing-tiktok.html robertogreco china chinamaxxing tiktok memes us emire decline kimhew-low sinophilia sherryzhu hasanpiker culture socialmedia rednote xiaohongshu technology west https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d585d73530b8/ Bring Back the Rails! | Tony Judt | The New York Review of Books 2026-03-19T07:00:21+00:00 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/01/13/bring-back-rails/ robertogreco tonyjudt trains rail railways collectivism publicgood 2011 modernity travel europe cars richardbeeching pennstation nyc northamerica us canada brussels london china malaysia russia india stlouis paris france latinamerica asia africa santiagocalatrava remkoolhaus trainsstations lyon sevilla kowloon bike biking cras buses motorcylces airplanes zurich bombay shinkasen highspeedrail hsr tgv margaretthatcher civilsociety https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1064ef50fde4/ You’ve Never Heard of China’s Greatest Sci-Fi Novel | WIRED 2026-03-18T00:44:58+00:00 https://www.wired.com/story/china-sci-fi-morning-star-lingao/ robertogreco china culture sciencefiction scifi afrawang afrazhaowang writing howwewrite literature themorningstaroflingao lingao modernization timetravel https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:52358df5db2f/ Stop Building Now! | Reinier de Graaf 2026-03-17T16:32:08+00:00 https://thebaffler.com/latest/stop-building-now-de-graaf robertogreco reinierdegraaf housing markets economics scarcity yimbyism yimbys yimby china europe us evergrande housingcrisis speculation mongolia ordoskangbashi heking xijinping melissachan 2002 2008 1993 2012 2009 2023 2018 2020 2005 2024 kenya ghana accra pandemic covid-19 coronavirus angola novacidadedokilamba socialhousing southafrica africa morocco egypt portugal greece france italy italia germany uk ireland buenosaires brazil brasil nyc london paris davidharvey hamburg berlin vacancies vacancyrate netherlands switzerland spain españa politics policy affordability construction investment realestate abundancenetwork abundance abundancemovement abundanceagenda https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:369b82ca51e4/ Starbucks with Chinese Characteristics - Front Porch Republic 2026-03-13T23:25:44+00:00 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/03/starbucks-with-chinese-characteristics/ robertogreco china starbucks robertthornett 2026 economics studyabroad wechat alipay shanghai beijing fastfood english language growth middleclass consumption consumerism thirdplaces rayoldenburg sociology 1989 us automats cities urban urbanism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e5ad47b72d18/ The Left Doesn’t Hate Technology with Gita Jackson - YouTube 2026-03-13T05:21:19+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcf5syA1MlE robertogreco gitjackson parismarx technology left 2026 luddism neoluddism luddites neoluddites ai artificialintelligence llms technooptimism technocynicism exploitation generativeai openai anthropic claude chatgpt consolidation samaltman society hsr highsspeedrail publicgood mrna vaccines vaccinations medicine siliconvalley aibubble aihype capitalism corporations corporatism qanon ereaders eink boox chrisperson automation speculation infrastructure datacenters chatbots labor work seamusblackley business games gaming videogames xbox microsoft google uber lyft nfts crypto cryptocurrencies evil policy power bigtech oracle gemini gmail linux music spotify streaming china netflix piracy airbnb taxis jeffbezos billionaires gigeconomy billgates edwardsnowden peterthiel scale scaling slow small benshapiro cryptofascism donaldtrump slavery humans human humanity humanism government liberals liberalism grantmorrison agi butlerianjihad smarthphones walledgardens howweread reading books resistance search attention algorithms libraries https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8932ac767f53/ What People Want From Our Schools Has Never Been Accomplished, Anywhere, Ever 2026-03-13T05:14:57+00:00 https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/what-people-want-from-our-schools robertogreco education schools schooling society 2026 history germany france netherlands finland us china equality inequality economics plato europe oecd children chidlhood horacemann johndewey curriculum pedagogy howweteach teaching learning howwelearn hierarchy civilrightsmovement anationatrisk nclb selectiviy charterschools charters sat testing standardizedtesting southkorea israel academics conscription aptitude compulsory labor work unionization unions brucespringsteen nafta gatt vrettonwoods mexico vietnam ronaldreagan barackobama lobbyists lobbying policy politics corporations corporatism democrats republicans thinktanks socialmobility freddiedeboer https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d7136e98b930/ Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn – POLITICO 2026-03-01T23:22:15+00:00 https://www.politico.eu/article/obsession-with-growth-destroying-nature-150-countries-warn/ robertogreco economics growth gdp china india eu nature environment capitalism economy sustainability leoniecater biodiversity competition regulation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:916171f6bd6b/ 'AWS for Everything' VS. 'Shein for Everything' 2026-02-27T23:41:54+00:00 https://theshearforce.substack.com/p/aws-for-everything-vs-shein-for-everything robertogreco networks specialization manufacturing 206 lesleygao china us shein aws austinvernon brianpotter distributed machining ncn allocation dynamism flexibility decentralization speed blackscholl xometry regulation distribution efficiency industry guangdong automation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ea6a720a4f2a/ The Longest Line of Sight 2026-02-27T07:19:34+00:00 https://tombh.co.uk/longest-line-of-sight robertogreco visibility linofsight maps mapping india china kyrgyzstan himalayas ryanberger https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:da886608879c/ An AI-Maxi New Year - by afra - Concurrent 2026-02-18T16:34:33+00:00 https://afraw.substack.com/p/an-ai-maxi-new-year robertogreco china ai artificialintelligence future jiazhangke society technology seedance 2026 afrazhaowang afrawang unitree bytedance robots automation film filmmaking benfleck mattdamon creativity siliconvalley claude anthropic ip intellectualproperty copyright openclaw technooptimism palmerluckey fredgao llms generativeai xiaokai liangzhu alibaba dongbeirenaissance rustbelt genai https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:68f846b97be9/ Lessons for U.S. Netizens from Behind China’s Great Firewall | KQED 2026-02-18T16:33:30+00:00 https://www.kqed.org/news/12073645/lessons-for-u-s-netizens-from-behind-chinas-great-firewall robertogreco china greatfirewall 2026 internet web online yi-lingliu walledgardens us platforms chinamaxxing west surveillance censorship morgansung https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ea5772557e82/ Haymarket Presents: Thea Riofrancos on Extraction - YouTube 2026-02-18T06:56:22+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mw5gu4LOas robertogreco theariofrancos gabrielwinant extraction extractivism green chile atacamadesert capitalism copper decorbonization fossilfuels environment sacrficialzones transportation batteries greentransition gabrielboric joséantoniokast wind solar atacama argentina bolivia evs history us españa spain uk mining saltflats minerals resources colonialism colonization elonmusk australia climatechange ecology regulation nationalization nitrates saltpetre water nature indigenous indigeneity landscape latinamerica zonesofextraciton geopolitics joebiden donaldtrump industry politics economics economy globalnorth globalsouth devleopment china forestry depolarization policy foreignpolicy criticalminerals supplychains nevada thackerpass tradewar land portugal publicland ownership law legal work workers labor ethics rights democracy salvadorallende appropriation consumption production greenextractivism emissions zeroemissions globalwarming buses transit publictransit climatecrisis astrataylor conflict consenus congo sierraleone a https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:17e61ff6046c/ No, That's Not What "the Research" Says About Exam Schools 2026-02-18T02:00:16+00:00 https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/no-thats-not-what-the-research-says robertogrecofreddiedeboer schools schooling education testing pedagogy teaching howweteach 2026 jessicawinter inequality giftedandtalented publicschools atilaabdulkadiroğlu joshuaangrist paragpathak meritocracy nyc examschools china selectivity standardizedtesting douglasdetterman edunihilism sociaslmobility intelligence elitism patronage data egalitarianism charterschools sat enrollment admissions us achievement gpa nepotism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:39a977b186f3/ Sinophobic Sinophilia | Issue 52 | n+1 | The Editors 2026-02-16T07:11:07+00:00 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/the-intellectual-situation/sinophobic-sinophilia/ robertogrecochina us left hillaryclinton barackobama policy governance government mittromney donaldtrump jakewerner technology stem growth antonyblinken kurtcampbell davidbrooks politics gdp economics economy engineering diplomacy development siliconvalley ezraklein marcandreessen vc venturecapital xijinping maga trumpism tiktok sinophilia sinophobia orientalism journalism media tomcotton andrewliu danwang breakneck competition lionelhutz redguard searchlightinstitute derekthompson abundance abundancenetwork scottbessent germany evs japan jonathanczin ccp reindustrialization manufacturing jensenhuang ai artificialintelligence finance lawyers law legal regulation deregulation construction housing nvidia abundancemovement jedesty hegemony military shenzhen guizhou chongqing sez dengxiaoping 1979 capitalism boxilai acftu collectivebargaining labor workers repression dissent unions guangzhou isabellaweber petrusliu taiwan wanghui workingclass reform statepower power marxism institutions welfarestate unemployment pensions pov https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:52f17d79a9fe/ Eternal Recurrences - The Ideas Letter 2026-02-16T01:17:17+00:00 https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/eternal-recurrences/ robertogreco evgenymorozov aaronbenanav leifweatherby 2026 socialism history values ai artificialintelligence technology math mathematics computing computation capitalism adamshatz izading meritocracy china us economics inequality mauriceravel leonardobernardo fairness race racialviolence policy innovation gaokao elitism marthaargerich optimization idology rationality technorationalism marxism energytransition energy worldmaking green generativeai dwaynemonroe genai https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f7e91a627bdd/ 👁️The Techno-Fascist Starter Pack - by David Z. Morris 2026-02-16T01:02:03+00:00 https://davidzmorris.substack.com/p/the-techno-fascist-starter-pack robertogreco davidmorris 2026 2024 2025 tescreal transhumanism extropianism singularitarianism singularity cosmism rationalism effectivealtruism longtermism darkmarkets coindesk crypto cryptocurrencies peterthiel jeffreyepstein mashaprusakova mashadrokova technofascism fascism timnitgebru eliezeryudkowsky deepseek ai artificialintelligence zizians eugenics elonmusk nickbostrom richardhanania ftx power siliconvalley technology technooptimism antichrist education media ezraklein politics us policy regulation deregulation phrenology whitesupremacy canon luigimangioni petersinger alicecrary consciousness grift fraud aibubble racism race propaganda chatgpt apple llms agi mediocrity intelligence michaellewis cia economics trevormilton astroturfing china justinsun tron bitcoin safemoon johnkarony finance binance javiermilei haydendavis argentina rugpulls donaldtrump trumpism maga sambankman-fried samaltman émiletorres mashabucher mariadrokova mariyaprusakova mashaprusso artificialgeneralintelligence https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6a27a73d73bf/ How China is eating everyone's lunch - CF MOTO IBEX 450 Review - YouTube 2026-02-14T22:06:37+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcEWTFjMgNw robertogreco2026 motorcycles china categories fortnine klm kawasaki honda versatility cfmoto https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8a5345622fd3/