Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco Citations Needed: Ep 240: How the Media's "Burden," the "Straining Resources" Framing Manufactures the Expendable Other 2026-07-09T06:24:11+00:00 https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/ep-240-how-the-medias-burden-the-straining-resources-framing-manufactures-the-expendable-other robertogreco beatriceadler-bolton deathpanelpodcast citationsneeded eugenics funding governance government healthcare medicine education disabilities disability aging elderly poverty taxes taxation us history media journalism framing resources military police policing budgets cities states homeless homlessness pentagon nimashirazi adamjohnson austerity specialeducation schools schooling inequality socialsecurity 2026 nafta operationgatekeeper race racism ageism welfare health immigrants immigration lawenforcement copaganda manufacturedausterity society collectivecapacity scarcity artificialscarcity landlords corporations corporatism publiclibraries pensions publitransit transportation othering others dehumanization politicaleconomy rhetoric politics economics economy wealthdistribution collectivism freeriders sorting moralmajority deservingness hsr highspeedrail medicare generations thinktanks elonmusk wealthinequality wealth neoliberalism hoarding competition unschooling zerosumgame narrative dependence dependency burden https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:137f612a1eb0/ We Already Have Everything We Need to Regulate AI 2026-07-09T03:03:16+00:00 https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-already-have-everything-we-need robertogrecohamilton ai artificialintelligence regulation taxes law legal unions labor work workers organizing 2025 opeanai anthropic wallstreet oversight corporations corporatism governance government markzuckerberg meta metaverse https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4ded65297946/ Italy's Radical Solution to Extreme Inequality - YouTube 2026-07-05T05:51:03+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQMZR64G_eM robertogreco economics cooperatives emilia-romagna emiliaromagna reggioemilia labor work hierarchy 2025 moreperfect union inequality workers ownership power equality production italia italy verazamagni business consolidation billionaires socialism mussolini benitomussolini fascism control grassroots governance resistance corporations corporatism legcoop law legal profits history coops wealth social socialcoops socialcooperatives decisionmaking finance snupotapinassi privateequity firenze florence marcora marcoralaw francescoborgomeo struggle solidarity globalization johnrussell democracy ilariabertinelli rural farming farmers agriculture stefanocacchioli paolobarbieri cplconcordia sharing cooperation community society danielemontroni wealthhoarding manufacturing collaboration https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4f8fbdffb840/ We Uncovered The Master Plan That Peter Thiel Doesn't Want You To See - 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Front Porch Republic 2026-06-26T08:35:43+00:00 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/06/llms-as-the-worst-of-both-worlds-a-review-of-cory-doctorows-the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai/ robertogreco corydoctorow joshuapauling 2026 ai artificialintelligence llms chatbots technology wendellberry neilpostman aihype aibubble economics automation garymarcus avs aihallucinations trucking labor work workers corporations corporatism government accountability eliza https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d2d7f42fac5d/ How The Deep State Is Plotting To Protect Corporate Power - YouTube 2026-06-26T04:58:37+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RafuYcUolY4 robertogreco us donaldtrump maga trumpism lawenforcement fbi police policing surveillance moreperfectunion brianthompson luigimangione wealthy wealth inequality terrorism corporations corporatism workingclass workers robinhood danielboguslaw mccarthyism kenklippenstein socialfabric nsa politics occupywallstreet ows spencerreynolds dhs counterterrorism class classwar departmentofjustice security safety law legal data datacollection datacenters ai artificialintelligence repression supression technology bigtech deepstate conspiracy government nationalsecurity dea secretservice prices economics authoritarianism classgrievances domesticterrorism civilrights nspm-7 pambondi unitedhealthcare fear charliekirk assassinations revolutionn uprisings biggovernment healthinsurance health politicalprisoners anticapitalism luddism neoluddism neoluddites luddites dissent freespeech freedomofspeech 2026 josephmccarthy redscare economy protest protests fusioncenters dsac domesticsecurityalliancecouncil banks banking billionaires alienation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2c8681c518aa/ 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/ The Same Stream Twice | Online Only | n+1 | Rob Arcand 2026-06-12T01:48:51+00:00 https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-same-stream-twice/ robertogreco robarcand culture commodification vibes affect mood spotify streaming speculation media music 2026 lizpelly andrewdewaard wallstreet jenaswad jankoroetgers danielek uber airbnb surveillance applemusic amazonmusic napster history platformcapitalism capitalism digster topsify sony universal warnermusic eriksatie brianeno frictionlessness clickbait streambait subcultures joecoscarelli joncaramanica chillbeats derivatives finance carlylegroup blackrock vanguard statestreet maxhorkheimer theodoradorno corporations corporatism commercialization film tv television giovanniarrighi fernandbraudel securitization covid-19 pandemic coronavirus livenation concerts ticketmaster iheartmedia cumulus lisaadkins melindacooper martijnkonings amazon meta andrewferguson donaldtrump ftc privateequity penskemediagroup eldridgeindustries guggenheimpartners danielkatz neon mubi sequoiacapital comericabank umaw economics fredricjameson aesthetics art artmaking culturalproduction cultureproduction culturemaking https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9b6630f18753/ Pluralistic: Refining humanity (05 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 2026-06-07T00:57:07+00:00 https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/05/defining-humanity/ robertogrecoBlackadder: Let's start at the beginning, shall we? First: 'A.' How would you define 'A'? Prince George: Ohh…'A' (continues this in background). Oh, I love this! I love this! Quizzies! Erm, hang on, it’s coming. Ooh, crikey, erm, oh yes, I’ve got it! B: What? PG: Well, it doesn’t really mean anything, does it? B: Good. So we're well on the way, then. "'A'; impersonal pronoun; doesn't really mean anything." I mean, what does "A" mean? The Oxford English Dictionary has more than a dozen definitions, and just the first one runs to more than 1,500 words: https://archive.org/details/the-oxford-english-dictionary-all-volumes_202208/The%20Oxford%20English%20Dictionary%20Volume%201%20-%20A%20to%20B/page/n25/mode/2up Now, normal life involves a lot of explaining things to other people. You have to explain your problems to customer service reps, who have to explain why they can't solve those problems to you. You need to explain to your loved ones why you want to leave your toothbrush in the shower, and they have to explain why they hate having your toothbrush in the shower. These explanation-exchanges teach you as much as they teach the person you're locked in dialog with. The reasons for leaving your toothbrush in the shower may seem totally obvious to you, and your partner's inability to understand this reveals the assumptions you've never even considered. For the past four decades, an increasing proportion of the population have spent an increasing proportion of their lives explaining things to machines that have no assumptions or shared context: computers. What we call "programming a computer" is really "breaking down a thing that seems obvious to you into increasingly simple instructions that will be followed to the letter." Computers are like the genies of legend, bloody-minded literalists who will do exactly what you say, in the way that is perversely furthest from what you mean. To get a computer to do anything, you must first understand it to a degree that far exceeds the understanding needed to explain something to any other human, even a small child. To take just one example: yesterday, I was on a plane, and the seatback video started cycling through its video-on-demand offerings. All of the movie titles that began with "the" were rewritten to put "the" at the end of the title (for example, "The Sting" was written as "Sting, The"). It's obvious why the system's designer had done this: we expect to find movies whose titles begin with "The" alphabetized under their second word ("The Sting" should appear between "Star Wars" and "Story of a Love Affair"; not between "The Godfather" and "The Untouchables"). I remember when I learned this from my elementary school's teacher-librarian, when I was seven and my class got a tutorial on the school library's card catalog. The librarian explained this principle to us in a matter of minutes, as part of a longer set of instructions, and still, it stuck with me forever. But here we are, 48 years later, and we still haven't standardized a way to get computers to grasp this foundational principle of alphabetization. Many different databases handle this, to be sure, but it's so inconsistent across so many platforms that someone at the head-end of the video distribution system that feeds American Airlines' VOD system decided, "Fuck it, I'm just gonna put the 'The' at the end of these titles." Computers are stupid, in other words, which means that the people who program them have to have smarts enough for both of them. Unfortunately for our entire species and civilization, the software industry has historically valued skill at writing efficient and reliable software over writing software that adequately reflects reality. There is an entire genre of lists that illustrate the problem with this; the "falsehoods programmers believe" lists: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood From "names of people" and "street addresses"; from "prices" to "time"; from "email addresses" to "phone numbers"; the "awesome falsehoods" lists are awesome because they reveal how much subtlety and complexity is lurking in these seemingly simple and intuitive concepts. This subtlety and complexity might never emerge through the process of trying to teach a person about them, but when you try to teach a computer about them, you have to confront them in all their awesome fuggliness. That's because humans have context, agency and flexibility. Sure, the person who designs a form with a blank for "name" might never have met a Malagasy person whose first name is Randriamananjararadofabesata, but in the pre-digital world, when Madagascar Slim met a public official who had to transcribe his name onto a paper form, that official could simply draw an arrow in the margin next to the "name" blank, turn the form over, and write out all 28 characters on the reverse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Slim Computers can't do this. If the programmer doesn't know about Malagasy first names, the computer doesn't know about them either, and the only person who can "teach" the computer about these names is a programmer with access to the code for the database, who has to manually alter the code, compile it, and distribute it to everyone who uses it. This is partly why digitization has been accompanied by a rise in people asserting that they exist on spectrums rather than in binaries. There were always people whose names, genders, races, and other biographic "immutables" changed, or failed to fit within the blanks on the forms. When those people's realities ran up against failures in the system's abstractions, they could petition a bureaucrat to turn the paper over and write an explanatory note, or to write really small to fill in a blank: https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/02/nonbinary-families/#red-envelopes Getting a human official to turn the paper over and write something that didn't fit in the blank is a personal challenge. It requires that a subject convince the person who controls the form to make an exception. This isn't always easy, but officials on the front lines necessarily deal with reality, and they can't get their jobs done unless they're capable of interpreting the necessarily incomplete procedures they operate under to fit things as they really are. But a computer doesn't have any agency or context or flexibility. If the computer says your name isn't valid, you can't argue the computer into accepting it. The only way to get a digital world to acknowledge your existence is to campaign for systemic change. A trans person might (with great difficulty, to be sure) convince the regional registrar to white-out an old X on one "gender" box and mark a new X in the other box. But the only way to make that change in a software system that has been programmed to treat the "gender" field as immutable is to change society itself. In this way, computers are machines for teaching us what we don't know about ourselves. They require that we interrogate and faithfully recreate our personal tacit knowledge, and they require that our societies interrogate their tacit presumptions as well. When you are forced to turn your tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge, you're also forced to confront how many broken assumptions lurk inside your reasoning. At best, it's a clarifying process. Computers don't just clarify what we know and how we organize our society: they also clarify what we are. There are lots of things that we have supposed that a computer would never do, because we believed that these things required something that only humans could do. Take chess: there are more possible chess games than there are hydrogen atoms in the universe, so brute-forcing chess by running all possible games is a technological impossibility. The best human chess players do something we don't quite understand, mixing their recollections of previous games with rules-of-thumb about the best strategies, with "creativity" (whatever that is) that lets them spontaneously develop new strategies. We can easily get a computer to memorize all the known-good chess sequences and all the rules of thumb, but we don't know what "creativity" is, so we can't encode it as a series of instructions. But thanks to breakthroughs in machine learning and its successor, "deep learning," we have created chess-playing software that can beat every human, partly by assaying gambits that we would term "creative" if they originated with a human player. What we make of this new fact is controversial. For many people (myself included), this is a refinement: it tells me that behaviors that are indistinguishable from "creativity" can, at least some of the time, be created by mechanical processes, and the mere fact that a machine does something that appears "creative" doesn't mean that machines are human. For others, the fact that a mechanical system can evince a behavior that we would call "creative" in a human doesn't mean that we defined "creativity" too broadly, it means that we defined "human" too narrowly, and now we have made a machine that is, at least partially, a person. I think this is the wrong conclusion to draw, for reasons that Ted Chiang sets out with luminous brilliance in a recent Atlantic article entitled "No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious": https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/ (If you're hitting the paywall on that one and you're on Firefox, you can try my favorite trick: switch to "Reader Mode" and hit "reload" – your mileage may vary.) For all the reasons Chiang articulates, I think that drawing the "personhood" line to include machines is a technical mistake, but it's worse than that. Admitting machines to the "personhood" club is a tactical mistake, on par with the mistake we made when we admitted corporations to the personhood club. We should absolutely consider expanding personhood to incorporate living things, including animals and ecosystems, but at the same time, we must purge these dead, artificial constructs from the club: https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/15/artificial-lifeforms/#moral-consideration There is a way in which the recognition of new capabilities in machines parallels the recognition of new capabilities in animals other than ourselves. When those animals manage to do things that we once thought were the exclusive province of humans, we (should) take that as an opportunity to refine our conception of humanity. We're not "the animals that use tools" or "the animals that make plans" or "the animals that recognize themselves in mirrors," because there are other animals that do those things. We are an "animal that uses tools"; not the animal that does so. Likewise, if we thought that some activity was unique to humans, or to living beings, and we manage to get a machine to replicate that activity, we should revise our view of the activity – not our view of the machine. Creative breakthroughs in chess are not "a thing that requires a human mind," they're "things that can be done by human minds and by machines." Edsger Dijkstra once famously asked "can a submarine swim?" https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD898.html Submarines and fish and humans and dolphins all propel themselves through water by different means. But when an animal swims, it does something that is different from what a submarine does. The submarine has no intention, while (complex multicellular) animals swim to pursue goals. Building machines that propel themselves through water is very useful, but it's not the same thing as creating life. In some ways, it's better than creating life: for one thing, we owe other living things moral consideration that is not due to machines. Harnessing a machine to accomplish our own goals is more morally clear than controlling living things to achieve those goals. By the same token, creating machines that can do some of the tasks that we ask of other humans can be the superior moral course. I'd rather have a machine remove mines from a minefield than getting humans to do it. But beyond this moral relief, creating machines is a fantastic way to learn more about ourselves – making explicit our tacit knowledge, our implicit social assumptions, and the limitations of our conception of what sets us apart from the rest of the universe. One way in which AI is exceptional is in how it undermines this principle. Conventional software techniques struggled to produce a program that could identify objects in photographs. It turns out that defining all the visual correlates of "cat" is even harder than defining the letter "A." Deep learning techniques solved this previous insoluble problem by relieving us of the job of making explicit all the implicit factors that we deploy when distinguishing an image of a "cat" from an image of a "dog" or a "tiger" (or a "tractor"). Instead of forcing humans to engage in introspection until we'd made a list of every factor we use to identify cat pictures, we simply identified pictures of cats and fed them to a program that tried to find the commonalities among them. The more pictures we fed to that program, the better it got at identifying cats. Today, we have programs that can reliably distinguish an image of a cat from an image of a tiger cub! This represents a major breakthrough in the power of computers to perform useful work for us, but it's also a huge regression in computers' role in forcing us to make our tacit thought processes explicit through systematic introspection. That's probably fine: we didn't create computers to make us introspect, we created them to do useful work for us. All things considered, it might be better to have genies who grant our wishes according to the spirit of our words, not their letter. AI may not force us to render our implicit thoughts as explicit instructions, but it absolutely forces us to reconsider and narrow the realm of the numinous. Our own creativity is still delightful and important, but the fact that this squishy, amazing process can (sometimes) be replicated by procedural machines changes the definition of living things. We're "a thing that can produce creative outcomes" but not "the things that can produce creative outcomes." The machines aren't being creative (any more than a submarine is swimming) but they're outputting things that we used to only achieve by means of creativity. An AI that does something that used to require creativity is fulfilling my favorite of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies: "Be the first person to not do something that no one else has not done before": https://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html Just as bosses fantasize about AI bringing about a worksite without workers, and Zuckerberg is trying to build social media without socializing, and politicians want a bureaucracy without bureaucrats, we can sometimes use AI to produce creative outcomes without creativity: https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/27/unnecessariat/#rubbuts-stole-my-jerb That isn't to say that AI art is any good. AI may produce things that are aesthetically interesting, but it can't produce things that mean anything: https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/02/must-we-pretend/ But art isn't the only realm that we apply creativity to. There are plenty of outcomes that we've always believed we couldn't bring about without applying creativity. AI – like all software – is making us realize that an ingredient we once deemed uniquely essential turns out to have substitutes. AI can sometimes accomplish things without us explaining how we do them. That relieves us of a useful but difficult chore – but in so doing, it forces us (yet again!) to revisit what sorts of things are needed to do the things that matter to us, and therefore, what makes us special."]]> corydoctorow 2026 humanity rowanatkinson blackladder samueljohnson explanation computers computing literalism alphabetization databases civilization software digitization systems systemsthinking binaries spectrums agency context flexibility society societies chess creativity deeplearning ai artificialintelligence consciousness redchiang personhood corporations corporatism animals tools. submarines language morality introspection brianeno peterschmidt obliquestrategeies markzuckerberg social socializing socialization art generativeai genai https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:81331b45a7d7/ Françoise Vergès: The world is made through struggle - YouTube 2026-05-31T00:36:05+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc4s1qu8IP8 robertogreco françoisevergès 2026 larasheehi jaredball bananas collegefootball atlanta palestine mississippi louisiana lsu alabama economics society slavery enslavement bananarepublics newguinea imperialism empire colonialism colonization agribusiness pesticides insecticides chlordecone cloredecone antilles plantations sexualviolence repression environment monoctultures water land sexuality josephinebaker braning gap thegap race racism science consumption consumerism art politics swest socialscience socialsciences mentalhealth universityofgeorgia georgia corporatism capital bomanijones stevengodfrey culture decentering algeria réuniuon elsalvador feminism antiracism gaza anticapitalism activism decolonization decolonialism france museums decolonialfeminism segmentation anticolonialism anticolonialstruggle state police policing power domination stuggle coercion resistance settlers frantzfanon spatiality temporality globalsouth militarism patriarchy liberalism bodies gender flesh masculinity femininity consent poll https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3857278d02e2/ A Discussion on the New Novel 'Palaces of the Crow' (with Ray Nayler) | The Chris Hedges Report 2026-05-23T05:19:01+00:00 https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/a-discussion-on-the-new-novel-palaces robertogreco raynayler chrishedges war poland wwii ww2 crows corvids humannature humans human caring community fiction literature togetherness interconnected interconnectedness ussr nazigermany germany cooperation nonviolence mutualaid survival peterkropotkin totalitarianism williamgolding rootlessness evil trauma childhood human-animalrelations human-animalrelationships 2026 lordoftheflies danielberrigan faith birds siberia morethanhuman multispecies krasnovodsk resurrection manchuria turkmenistan leesandlin hitler adolfhitler society civilization children communication interspecies relationships thomasnagel experience perception pathology donaltrump hannaharendt karma poverty nourishment scarcity abundance socialism equality writing howwewrite reading howweread legacy death generations culture learning howwelearn inscription individualism extraction extractiveindividualism environment corporations corporatism disconnection history interdependence sesnes sensory waysofknowing blindness sound sensing senses modernity huma https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:476a028d3fb1/ The Death of the Art School 2026-05-06T02:25:27+00:00 https://hyperallergic.com/the-death-of-the-art-school/ robertogreco us education highered highereducation arteducation art arts administrativebloat administration corporatism corporatization consumerism colleges universities hakantopal https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8a8ffc77e403/ How Behavioural Science was Hijacked - with Nick Chater - YouTube 2026-03-24T07:02:54+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxANpQiRoQk robertogreco nickchater unlearningeconomics 2026 behavioralscience society rationality equilibrium behavior government corporations corporatism economics behavioraleconomics regulation deregulation taxes taxation individualism responsibility georgeloewenstein systems systemicfailure commongood cahalmoran https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:de21062638d9/ How America Learned to Love Barnes & Noble Again - The Atlantic 2026-03-22T01:54:45+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/barnes-noble-popularity/686369/ robertogreco henrygrabar retail bookseller chains 2026 us brickandmortar online amazon barnesandnoble politics corporations corporatism place https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:89bd85e5a0f3/ Persons of Interest: Sean Vanatta on the Unchecked Rise of the Credit Industry | The Sun Magazine 2026-03-20T07:25:39+00:00 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/603-persons-of-interest robertogreco credit debt seanvanatta 2026 policy economics capitalism us society history newdeal miltonfriedman neoliberalism pauldouglas banking lending marrinereccles federalreserve finance economy citibank visa jimmycarter laborunions creditcards donaldtrump individualism dwightdeisenhower eisenhower consumption consumerism airlines globalization politics governance government culture corporations corporatism employment https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f8ccb135ae65/ 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/ Hyperreal Fascism | Plastic Pills - YouTube 2026-02-19T20:51:51+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9fpm-lorIU robertogreco fascism latefascistaesthetics fascistaesthetics 2026 plasticpills aesthetics walterbenjamin jeanbaudrillard wilhelmreich algirdasjuliengreimas semiotics trumpism donaldtrump us media socialmedia hyperrealism power threat violence kristinoem guns dhs ice police policing militarism baudrillard reality stephenmiller jdvance meaning messaging policy dickcheney tv television performance transparency theater pallywood marketing corruption canon carlschmitt advertising propaganda italy nazis nazigermany germany italia mussolini benitomussoilini luxurybrands hugboss politics rolex capitalism fendi chanel bimbocore louisvuitton christiandior balenciaga emergency strategygroup fascists aesthetization flags symbolism symbols ivylee hyperreality dior hypernormalization ussr conspiracy conspiracies publicreleations inequality elites fashion democracy ford ibm truenation purification rebirth nationalism scapegoating business 1920s 2020s standardoil profits profit corporations corporatism immigration elonmusk peterthiel ser https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:24c3081d3bfc/ A Tale Of Two First Thursdays — Roborant Review 2026-02-16T04:08:22+00:00 https://www.roborantreview.com/reviews/a-tale-of-two-first-thursdays robertogreco johnvochatzer 2026 art arts sanfrancisco via:subtopes theater museums culture housing ellisact tenderloin galleries firstthursdays tenderloinartwalk lowerpolk sffirstthursday civicjoyfund intothestreets mannyyekutiel katybirnbaum mothbellygallery mothbelly sfmoma financialdistrict abraallan marketstreet artwalk chrislarsen tlcbd artwashing billionaires waymo gentrification urban urbandevelopment development asgerjorn situationist situationistinternational 1964 2020 daniellurie money power conviction compassion homelessness lowerpolkartwalk doordash corporations corporatism diy corporatization commerce capitalism creativity artmaking sros technology lowernobhill nobhill westernaddition property realestate raimondoforlin government governance streetart hobbies 2021 nepotism moralbankruptcy castro 2022 bayarea storefronts harveymilkdemocraticclub lowkeyskateshop tiltedbrim fleetwood rosebudgallery richmonddistrict vacanttovibrant oewd bobfisher mariekerothschild 2023 downtown 2024 2025 bushwick brooklyn losangel https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:29198ed9f000/ The Silicon Valley Money Machine Hijacking Democrats - YouTube 2026-02-12T18:50:02+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQsbaDevHzQ robertogreco wajahatali davidsirota siliconvalley billionaires 2026 democrats politics california taxes taxation palantir corporations corporatism alexkarp elections https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:81b02d79bcd8/ The Billionaire Plan to Escape Democracy: Quinn Slobodian on 'Crack-Up Capitalism' - YouTube 2026-02-08T21:15:08+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1ombPdaRd0 robertogreco quinnslobodian gilduran 2026 nerdreich tescreal transhumanism extropianism singularitarianism singularity cosmism rationalism effectivealtruism longtermism billionaires capitalism democracy authoritarianism globalism próspera guantanamo ideology libertarianism jeffbezos elonmusk joelonsdale globalization siliconvalley octaviabutler seasteading economics economy freetrade sovereignty corporatism neoliberalism corporations feudalism ai artificialintelligence labor work workers posthumanism freedomcities maga trumpism donaldtrump peterthiel sezs guantánamo accelerationism law legal governance government privatization oligarchy broligarchs datacenters infrastructure darkfactories rightwing farright palmerluckey networkstate dystopia africa greenland hongkong freezones deregulation regulation dengxiaoping nationstates cheguevara frantzfanon kwamenkrumah singapore london miltonfriedman margaretthatcher decolonization accountability 1960s 1970s 1980 nations geopolitics postcolonialism canarywharf atlanta wealt https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5a81fb562505/ What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian 2026-02-08T07:56:42+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/29/what-technology-takes-from-us-and-how-to-take-it-back robertogreco 2026 rebeccasolnit technology society externalities privacy attention communication ai artificialintelligence mentalhealth luddism neoluddism luddites neoluddites gathering connection disconnecting socialmedia internet web online efficiency productivity profits convenience friction slow democracy withdrawal discord human humanism karenhao love sherryturkle sociology psychology well-being wellbeing cluely meta google googleglass chatgpt openai edmondrostand cyranodebergerac relationships conviviality siliconvalley corporations corporatism tyranny embodiment social mollycrockett dalailama activism spirituality humans humanity capitalism togetherness carissavéliz ethics therapy maytaleyal loneliness consciousness deeptime scale nature dehumanization resistance eveyday https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f76dae03ff20/ Charlie Kirk: The Man Who Broke Politics - YouTube 2026-02-05T22:02:36+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9etjAosHGzA robertogreco alexanderavila charliekirk politics us schoolshootings donaldtrump government democracy tpusa turningpointusa politcalviolence violence assassinations history conservatism fascism farright rightwing jdvance maga trumpism oligarchy christiannationalism nationalism constitution ronaldreagan joebiden kamalaharris whitesupremacy heritage teaparty libertarianism fredkoch nazis johnbirchsociety racism davidkoch charliekoch economics policy medicare socialsecurity governance trust vietnamwar watergate johnolin bradelybrothers kichbrothers richardscaife catoinstitute manhattaninstitute nonprofit nonprofits philanthropicindustrialcomplex charitableindustrialcomplex neoliberalism republicans darkmoney 2008 greatrecession globalfinancialcrisis barackobama capitalism welfare welfarestate wokeness socialjustice justice democrats 2016 2020 popularism anger freespeech freedomofspeech rhetoric liberalism liberals diversity equity inclusion inclusivity dei identity debate colleges universities elections harassment freemarkets https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:89e0f1c36a71/ You are being misled about renewable energy technology. - YouTube 2026-02-03T21:30:52+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM robertogreco solar energy electricity lies 2026 2025 tyranny donaldtrump fascism constitution ice police policing militarism batteries republicans jimmycarter ronaldreagan joebiden democrats congress wind windpower corporations corporatism landuse photovoltaics evs cars oil fossilfuels petroleum solarpanels elections trumpism maga liars truth technologyconnctions technology jerryrigeverything voterfraud foxnews propaganda democracy us governance government tariffs trade policy journalism media maddmedia mainstreammedia reality accountability renewables minnesota minneapolics care solidarity mutualaid emissions immigration racism race nazis fascists borders border statueofliberty history ethanol cornathanol dhs law legal ethniccleansing fraud twitter socialmedia authoritarianism totalitarianism 9/11 homelandsecurity patriotact borderpatrol fourthamendment firstamendment freedomofspeech freespeech secondamendment alexpretti solarfarms powergrid fuel backupgenerators reneegood misinformation toxicity materials https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5803806da687/ Monopoly Round-Up: Why ICE Polices in Minnesota, and Not the Corporate Board Room 2026-01-27T17:21:18+00:00 https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-what-the-ice-raids robertogreco mattstoller lawenforcement corporatelaw corporations danawhite 2026 us policy police polcing ice worldeconomicforum davos kengriffith joebiden mergers economics economy power corporatism immigration labor work workers dhs funding antistrust monopolies irs taxes taxation taxeveasion ftc donaldtrump jedgarhoover fbi jeffconnaughton law legal hud policing congress benjaminfranklin uspis https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:59e19b41dc27/ Decolonizing The World (with Amin Husain) | The Chris Hedges Report 2026-01-22T06:45:08+00:00 https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/decolonizing-the-world-w-amin-husain robertogreco chrishedges aminhusain 2026 2020 2023 2024 2025 palestine gaza resistance columbia nyu harvard academia encampments freespeech freedomofspeech highered highereducation institutions moma ows occupywallstreet violence oppression us history fredhampton art activism ice antoniogramsci class organizing universities colleges zionism westbank settlercolonialism colonization colonialism decolonization capitalism imperialism ericadams police policing movementforblacklives criminalization zionistmccarthyism antizionism israel money power influence stopcopcity rico neoliberalism administration managament occupysandy zohranmamdani nyc firstamendment larryfink ihra antisemitism elonmusk mahmoodmamdani brainwashing militarism surveillance liberalarts corporations corporatism rolandlauder jeffreyepstein newschool leonblack dei diversity equity inclusion inclusivity citizensunited democracy academicfreedom peterthiel blackrock standingrock debt idelnomore blacklivesmatter jamesbaldwin graceleeboggs ariellaazoulay americanmus https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:83862c4c9285/ Everything Was Already AI - YouTube 2026-01-09T19:34:30+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km2bn0HvUwg robertogreco ai artificialintelligence unlearningeconomics llms evolution context language naturalselection economics capitalism economy culture slop aislop marketing film filmmaking music freemarkets friedrichhayek markets behavior circulareconomy adaptation morality generativeai privateequity technology information arvindnarayanan sayashkapoor dandavies graceblakeley timo'reilly elonmusk openai chatgpt stockmarket herbertsimon jamescscott seeinglikeastate data stevekeen markschatzker decisionmaking prediction nathantankus accounting benjaminkuipers institutions culturaltechnologies states edzitron geoffreyhinton alexanderavila commodification timcook markzuckerberg peterthiel satisficing satisfaction loxalmaxima culturaltechnology simplicity massproduction familiarity complexity exploitation finance conventionalwisdom experimentation trevornoah jeromepowell communication interpretation languages conformity bubbles aibubble lossiness idiosyncrasy art humanity enshittification chatbots bots media corporations corporatism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f6f026e3046d/ Peter Thiel’s Dark Plan to Replace Democracy - YouTube 2026-01-06T21:25:35+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlNGpY-uL1Q robertogreco 2026 us peterthiel curtisyarvin gilduran jacobsilverman oil venezuela china russia multipolarity networkstates menciusmoldbug siliconvalley democracy transhumanism tescreal extropianism singularitarianism singularity whitesupremacy eugencis stephenmiller cosmism rationalism effectivealtruism longtermism imperialism colonization crypto cryptocurrencies ai artificialintelligence nerdreich surveillancestate freedomcities technofascism samaltman networkstate broligarchy oligarchy technology drydenbrown balajisrinivasan technooptimism techofascism nationstates joelonsdale resources deregulation regulation fascism openai donaldtrump greenland marcandreessen government governance colonialism corporations corporatism guatemala history mariacorinamachado capitalism nicolásmaduro jdvance dictatorship authoritarianism elonmusk politics policy power control billionaires davidsacks naryacapital vc venturecapital paypalmafia binance worldlibertyfinancial gavinnewsom datacenters statesrights ericschmidt aislop slop autom https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4cc055b30d18/ Revelados - Cecilia Vicuña - YouTube 2026-01-06T04:47:04+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jepS4jWX0II robertogreco ceciliavicuña chile art 2025 sofíatupper artmaking sculpture performance performanceart impermance coup salvadorallende 1973 history time quantumphysics quantummechanics physics nature pinochet politics joséantoniokast memory existence capitalism extractivism corporatism corporations us international government governance rareearth right farright violence film filmmaking artists life living quipu khipu textiles knots ephemerality khipus indigenous indigeneity inca culture feminism inka rope quantumtheory https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6d86f38a00e9/ Francesca Albanese and the Lonely Road of Defiance 2025-12-31T08:36:00+00:00 https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/francesca-albanese-and-the-lonely robertogreco francescaalbanese chrishedges defiance israel zionism antizionism palestine gaza genocide ethniccleansing italy italia media fascism us financialtimes journalism press censorship un blacklisting zionistmccarthyism mccarthyism humanrights military occupation internationallaw law legal settlercolonialism diplomaticimmunity ofac finance banks banking alphabet google palantir profiteering war warprofiteering ibm caterpillar lockheedmartin amazon microsoft blackrock realestate nonprofit nonprofits charitableindustrialcomplex philanthropicindustrialcomplex insurance insurers warcrimes bigtech technology siliconvalley corporations corporatism lastampa propaganda giorfiameloni marcorubio statedepartment antisemitism benjaminnetanyahu yoavgallant icc sovereignty karimkhan sanctions nyc ngos institutions highered highereducation academia nytimes colleges universities oppression suppression dictatorship argentina dirtywar guerrasucia newspapers resistance europe eu germany france civildisobedience commerce disruption da https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6e4c4e901ab9/ Year in Review 2025: Diedrich Diederichsen on the War on Bohemia 2025-12-16T06:25:14+00:00 https://www.artforum.com/features/year-in-review-2025-diedrich-diederichsen-war-on-bohemia-1234738079/ robertogrecodiedrichdiedertichsen 2025 bohemia art berlin sanfrancisco tokyo madrid prague yc paris borisgroys 2009 mgessen judithbirtler achillembembe postcolonialism germany francescaalbanese palestine gaza genocide ethniccleansing israel bonaventuresohbejengndikung 1990 rightwing farright fascism identitypolitics wokeness politcalcorrectness marxism 1990s antisemitism arts covid-19 pandemic coronavirus government blacklivesmatter actup racism homophobia coldwar dissidence utopianism socialdarwinism patriarchy inequality bohemians exploitation ideology growth culturewar culturewars capitalism islamophobia transphobia culture politics 1989 conformity karlmarx performance mainstreammedia documenta culturalmarxism us left worldliness alternative progressive progressivism economics corporations corporatism herero nama namibia laurieanderson nancyfraser evaillouz 1920s https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:75163d605c67/ Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV - The New York Times 2025-12-16T04:15:48+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/opinion/billionaires-politics-money.html robertogreco nerdreich billionaires inequality frenchrevolution michaelhirschorn policy politics darkmoney economics economy wealth donaldtrump maga trumpism citizensunited 2025 2010 elections jamemayer republicans marcandreessen zohranmamdani jeffbezos billackman alexandriaocasio-cortez aoc catoinstitute peterthiel sociopathy gildedage palantir alexkarp balajisrinivasan thomaschattertonwilliams ai artificialintelligence coproprations corporatism alexbores superpacs marjorietaylorgreene louisxv robertdarnton history revolution media technology oligarchy voltaire tiktok virginiaheffernan nyc authoritarianism wealthtax chuckcollins tescreal transhumanism extropianism singularitarianism singularity cosmism rationalism effectivealtruism longtermism apocalypse jdvance networkstate libertarianism technofascism berniesanders society influence power taxes taxation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9f62a4f86cf8/ Capitalism as the Emergent Attractor of Market Societies: A Systems Science Perspective 2025-12-08T19:20:35+00:00 https://peterjoseph.substack.com/p/capitalism-as-the-emergent-attractor robertogreco peterjoseph 2025 economics capitalism markets jasonhickel kateraworth georgemonbiot yanisvaroufakis noamchomsky chrishedges socialjustice equality environment sustainability states institutions propertyrights property systems systemsscience society scarcity exchange competition accumulation wealth institutionalization karlpolyani money credit corporations corporatism stabilization mashallsahlins affluence hunter-gatherers reciprocity mutualaid mesopotamia songdynasty china trade enclosure commodification finance wagelabot labor work vietnam cuba capitalflows socialism intervention suppression constraint collapse ideology inequality systemsdynamics feedbackloops wealthconcentration https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ed54d9e860be/ I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency 2025-11-22T01:33:14+00:00 https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-work-for-an-evil-company-but-outside-work-im-actually-a-really-good-person robertogreco satire ethics work technology ai artificialintelligence capitalism hypocrisy corporations corporatism morality jobs working sociopathy emilybressler 2025 justification datacenters environment water socialmedia absolution https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9390424bd5e5/ What US Tech Did to Ireland — The Dial 2025-11-22T00:26:31+00:00 https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/ireland-us-tech-meta-google-apple robertogreco ireland economics meta facebook google apple inequality jessicatraynor society labor work survival workforce bigtech taxavoidance taxevasion taxes taxation banking finance housing rent dublin technology corporations corporatism eu policy politics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f91c851b6dd7/ How the Web Was Lost | James Gleick | The New York Review of Books 2025-11-20T19:48:14+00:00 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/12/04/how-the-web-was-lost-internet-this-is-for-everyone/ robertogrecoThe internet is getting worse, fast. The services we rely on, that we once loved? They’re all turning into piles of shit, all at once. Worse, the digital is merging with the physical, which means that the same forces that are wrecking our platforms are also wrecking our homes and our cars, the places where we work and shop. The world is increasingly made up of computers we put our bodies into, and computers we put into our bodies. And these computers suck. What Doctorow means is that the bright, shiny objects of the Internet have become spy tools, surreptitiously collecting information about us—our habits, our desires, our health, our political inclinations—and using it to manipulate our behavior. The platforms that appear to serve users hungry for information—and did serve them, at first—now go to extreme lengths to seize attention. Algorithms designed to maximize “engagement” amplify anger and sensationalism at the expense of truth. Novel platforms emerged and swelled in overlapping sequence: the browser, the search engine (Google), the social network (Facebook, Twitter), the megastore (Amazon). Before all of these, before any dream of the Internet, the proto-platform was the Bell System—the American telephone network, a monopoly operated by the world’s most powerful corporation. The Bell System left nothing to chance and nothing to the user. It owned the wires and the telephones. Customers were captive, and so were the ostensible regulators, for most of a century. After the breakup of the telephone monopoly, the new platforms could not lock in users so absolutely. They had to resort to cunning. Case number one: Facebook, which Doctorow calls “a service that Mark Zuckerberg started in his dorm room so that he and his creepy pals could nonconsensually rate the fuckability of their fellow Harvard undergrads.” He’s not wrong. But users loved it. They exchanged personal news and relationship statuses and music preferences and pictures. Zuckerberg’s was not the first social media service; oldsters may vaguely recall Friendster and then MySpace, which by 2006 had been snapped up by Rupert Murdoch. As Facebook put it in a marketing pitch:
Has it occurred to you that MySpace is owned by an evil, crapulent, senescent Australian billionaire named Rupert Murdoch, and he spies on you with every hour that God sends? Come to Facebook, where we will never spy on you.
Now, of course, spying on users is the essence of Zuckerberg’s business model. This is what the Harvard business professor Shoshana Zuboff has called surveillance capitalism, a project of behavior control, commodifying individuals’ personal experience and private information to target them with advertising and propaganda. In Walsh’s terms, creativity has been replaced by extraction. “Creators are back in the age of the patron,” she writes. Customers become unwitting captives: they have friends and followers, but only by sufferance of the platform; if they want to switch to a different service, they can’t take their network with them. The ironies are abundant, and chief among them is that the early Internet thrived on cutting out the middleman. If people complained about the markup charged by their brick-and-mortar bookstore, the upstart Amazon promised to eliminate the overhead of shelf space, store rents, and clerk salaries and deliver the merchandise straight to their front door. Or straight to the eyeballs—cut out the printers and paper mills, too. The buzzword was disintermediation. Another master of disintermediation was eBay, connecting buyers and sellers directly, cutting out the antique dealers and flea markets. Napster did the same for music lovers, cutting out the record stores; it began enabling song downloads in 1999, operated for a year and a half, claimed 80 million users, and devastated the recording industry. And now? The platforms are middlemen par excellence. They squeeze buyers and sellers alike. Music streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music say they aim to connect artists with their fans, helping music lovers find the music they love and helping creators find a livelihood; instead they use their centralized control to pay artists less than ever. Google and Facebook, dominating the global advertising market, have colluded to raise prices for advertisers while minimizing the revenue to websites that publish the ads." ... "Enshittification represents the fulfillment of a vision laid out by Andreessen in a famous 2011 Wall Street Journal essay, still featured on his company website. “Software is eating the world,” he declared proudly. By then he was a major investor in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Skype, and many others. What he meant by “eating the world” was that Amazon had destroyed Borders, Netflix had destroyed Blockbuster, music-streaming giants were destroying record labels, and Google was “using software to eat the retail marketing industry.” He considered this to be good news. But software doesn’t eat anything. Tech companies do, when they gain the power to use the levers of the information economy to consolidate and dominate." ... "Reality has surely disappointed Doctorow yet again. Trump replaced Khan with a commissioner who is reversing her agenda. The antitrust case against Google ended in September with a whimper: the Biden administration had asked for a forced separation of the company’s browser business from its search business, but Judge Amit P. Mehta, having already declared Google a monopolist, backed down. “Here the court is asked to gaze into a crystal ball and look to the future,” he wrote. “Not exactly a judge’s forte.” And Trump has made his own kind of peace with the tech oligarchs: demanding personal obeisance and dispensing favors. Musk and Andreessen became full-throated and deep-pocketed supporters; Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos donated to his inaugural festivities; Google and Apple executives have come to the White House as supplicants, bearing flattery and gifts. Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Meta all joined the list of donors to Trump’s vanity ballroom project in the now-demolished East Wing of the White House. We amateurs are going to need a work-around."]]> jamesgleick interner web online history enshittification joannawalsh timeberners-lee corydoctorow policy stephenwitt idealism egalitarianism platforms billionaires power control centralization decentralization johnmarkoff corporations corporatism ip intellectualproperty 2025 petersteiner google meta facebook amazon consolidation monopolies marcandreessen siliconvalley freedom democracy technocracy browsers twitter markzuckerberg myspace rupertmurdoch data privacy disintermediation spotify applemusic music streaming apple via:javierarbona economics economy marketing ads advertising netflix fediverse mastodon jdvance donaldtrump linakhan amateurs amateurism algorithms propaganda napster friednster https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:72c9eef1b7b1/ The Ad Campaign for Capitalism - The American Prospect 2025-11-18T03:34:53+00:00 https://prospect.org/2025/10/13/lewis-powell-memo-nader-chamber-commerce-master-plan/ robertogreco 2025 davidsirota jaredjacangmaher 1971 lewispowell ralphnader ads advertising capitalism powellmemo scotus corporations corporatism marketing pr 1974 genesydnor bartoncummings williambaroody generalmotors cbs amway buiness economics propaganda charlesschulz mobil procter&gamble deloresgould 1970s jaredball freemarkets media publicopinion freemarketfundamentalism business williamkunstler counterinsurgency politics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:60293ada4154/ Trump’s Pro-Hunger Agenda and the Cruel Logic of Capitalism | The MIT Press Reader 2025-11-14T18:45:28+00:00 https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/trumps-pro-hunger-agenda-and-the-cruel-logic-of-capitalism/ robertogreco cruelty capitalism hunger donaldtrump republicans 2025 andrewfisher policy politics economics foodinsecurity bobdole georgemcgovern greatdepression 1970s corporations corporatism grocerystores foodstamps ronaldreagan calvinism billclinton welfare government foodbanks power unions unionization nutrition maga trumpism usda usaid nlrb capital civilrightsmovement suffering neoliberalism georgewbush medicaid wages inequality democats charitableindustrialcomplex charities philanthropy philanthropicindustrialcomplex ngos nonprofit nonprofits nonprofitindustrialcomplex https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7c8e56a5b150/ The Progress Paradox 2025-11-13T19:43:37+00:00 https://www.noemamag.com/the-progress-paradox/ robertogreco neoliberalism mattprewitt markets technology 2024 2025 innovation johnkennethglabraith us sovietunion ussr siliconvalley kennetharrow consumers marketcompetition competition antoninscalia antitrust trusts monopolies scotus law legal policy poltiics keanbirch dtcochrane regulation enforcement rentseeking jpmorgan telecommunication at&t belllabs stewartbrand information corporations corporatism 1990s airbus boeing barackobama ftc acquisitions consolidation mergers instagram whatsapp meta facebook bigtech opensource knowledge 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opensource powergrid bigtech larryellison capitalism competition oracle xai coreweave microsoft aihype fossilfuels dotcomboom https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0a303002fff0/ The Ideology Behind the Lurie Administration - The Phoenix Project 2025-11-08T03:48:16+00:00 https://www.phoenixprojectnow.com/phoenix-review/blog/the-ideology-behind-the-lurie-administration robertogreco phoenixproject daniellurie 2025 sanfrancisco marcbenioff marcandreessen technooptimism andreessenhorowitz filippomarinetti darkenlightenment neoreactionaries michaelmoritz benhorowitz networkstate balajisrinivasan curtisyarvin tescreal rationalism transhumanism peterthiel a16z foundersfund hierarchy blueprintforabettersanfrancisco neighborsforabettersanfrancisco billionaires sequoiacapital vc venturecapital davidsacks democracy governance government theology philosophy ideology sandhillroad exaviermorrisonwells authoritarianism monarchism exproprianism singularity singularitarianism 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Wolff & Ware DESTROY Gavin Newsom on AIPAC/Housing/Economy (with Richard Wolff & Butch Ware) - YouTube 2025-10-23T23:14:21+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRmsacWQn-g robertogreco richardwolff gavinnewsom briahnajoygray 2025 politics economics inequality socialism capitalism housing medicareforall vanlathan rachellindsay billclinton california policy aipac israel palestine zionism ethniccleansing genocide zohranmamdani china kamalaharris joebiden mahmoodmamdani democrats republicans cooption abundance abundancemovement abundancenetwork corporations corporatism lobbying elections left organizing classconsciousness history ronaldreagan walterrodney malcolmx fascism authoritarianism barackobama greatrecession globalfinancialcrisis ows occupywallstreet materialneeds society crisis austria vienna socialhousing reform imperialism whitesupremacy dnc karlmarx ralphnader berniesanders losangeles bourgeoisie economy class workers work labor productivity profits charliekirk trickledowneconomics reaganomics katieporter corybooker politicians jpac antizionism gaza abundanceagenda cooptation trickledown https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:82481613a798/ The Irish Love Palestine – But Does Their Government? - YouTube 2025-10-14T18:54:43+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC79UnT6-kA robertogreco denatakruri ireland palestine israel protest protests 2025 bds boycott sanctions trade settlements occupation armssales warbonds abubakerabed zoelawlor francesblack genocide ethniccleansing colonialism colonization starvation marymanning apartheid government governance sudocrem zionism antizionism southafrica westbank gaza 2018 ukraine crimea airbnb intel multinationals corporations corporatism taxes taxation us geopolitics politics military waronterror afhganistan iraq demilitarization activism activists palestineactionéire weapons shannonairport uk palestineaction terrorism imperialism belfast dublin resistance https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5ecb98f09d6d/ Everything Is Becoming a Bank 2025-10-08T02:52:45+00:00 https://jacobin.com/2025/10/bankification-financialization-debt-interest-credit/ robertogreco us banks banking bankification finance financialization economics money business 2025 extraction productivity lukegoldstein regulation debt commerce financing creditcards credit profits profit capitalism latecapitalism financialservices monopolies apgiannini transamerica johnpierpontmorgan jaygould corporations corporatism deregulation 1980s neoliberalism wallstreet privateequit manufacturing society bradlipton fdic risk joebiden generalmotors generalelectric loopholes law legal doff-frankact andreessemhorowitz fintech siliconvalley ai crypto cryptocurrencies artificialintelligence insurance data datacollection google amazon meta facebook openai payment applepay paypal venmo cashapp digitalwallets markets consumers amandafischer bettermarkets sec rohitchopra costco disney netflix nascar chase capitalone americanexpress airlines delta starbucks dunkin healthcare exploitation elirushbanks dollarfor medicaid predation uber lyft ridesharing debitcards affirm klarna afterpay twitter square jackdorsey juno synapse https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c713815fb8b6/ CITY LIGHTS LIVE! 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Now He Wants to Save It | The New Yorker 2025-09-30T22:38:19+00:00 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/06/tim-berners-lee-invented-the-world-wide-web-now-he-wants-to-save-it robertogreco timberners-lee internet web online algorithms extraction capitalism 1989 2025 julianlucas timwu platforms 2012 2013 society blogging media corporations corporatism enshittification small decentralization commercialization data provacy socialmedia https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7bb7563f7470/ It's Time to Fight Back Against Trump's Fascist Regime (w/ Ralph Nader) | The Chris Hedges Report 2025-09-30T17:19:54+00:00 https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/its-time-to-fight-back-against-trumps robertogreco ralphnader chrishedges 2025 capitalism democrats republicans fascism policestate donaldtrump jamescomey chuckschumer berniesanders adamschiff zohranmamdani nyc hakeemjeffries corruption impeachment extortion politics economics us inequality popularism authoritarianism nytimes wallstreetjournal wapo washingtonpost maga jdvance nancypelosi consultants socialsecurance violence defamation concentrationcamps ice encarceration repression corporations corporatism socialism bailouts elonmusk unemployment employment medicare medicaid fdr 1938 military terrorism labor work workers dhs immigration robertreich billclinton harrytruman chicago washingtondc portland oregon lbj lyndonjohnson megalomania deportation israel policy corporatecapture oligarchy billionaires taxes taxation scotus supremecourt police policing ww2 wwii germany jamieraskin wallstreet adl antidefamationleague publicopinion watergate hermanngöring joachimvonribbentrop jimmattis johnkelly richardnixon nuremberg warcriminals katehanni flyersrights cons https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b82900170f36/ The Rise and Fall of Urbit | Compact 2025-09-24T17:35:48+00:00 https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-rise-and-fall-of-urbit/ robertogreco urbit tlon technofeudalism libertarianism politics curtisyarvin darkenlightenment 2025 adinaglickstein web3 crypto cryptocurrencies blockchain computing computers internet web online platforms decentralization networks rominamalta centralization hierarchy hierarchies vitalikbuterin johnperrybarlow cyberspace networkeffects galenwolfe-pauly ethereum peterthiel feudalism christopheralexander honorlevy speculation monetization ponzischemes 2020 2013 1996 2010s tescreal 2016 2021 2019 2022 reactionaries joshlehmann self-publishing nickland hypersition technology corydoctorow bigtech enshittification megacorp privacy security 2023 christophercolby conservatism delusion urbitfoundation transparency governance francistseng philosophy monarchism corporatism data sovereignty social nerdreich singularity singularitarianism extropianism rationalism cosmism longtermism transhumanism extroprianism effectivealtruism menciusmoldbug capitalism fascism technofascism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:65c8c618e20f/ Debunking the Abundance Agenda, by the Revolving Door Project [.pdf] 2025-09-24T16:26:35+00:00 https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/2025-08-26DebunkingtheAbundanceAgenda.pdf robertogreco abundance abundancenetwork 2025 abundancemovement ezraklein derekthompson economics trickledowneconomics regulation deregulation neoliberalism housing policy democrats liberals liberalism wealth inequality joebiden wages income 2024 elections corporations corporatism power democracy trickledown abundanceagenda https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:feac145ee93c/ Die Techie Scum!: The Battle for the Soul of the SF Art Scene - 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by Edward Ongweso Jr 2025-08-09T21:12:59+00:00 https://thetechbubble.substack.com/p/ride-sharing-apps-are-bad-actually robertogreco edwardongwesojr 2025 uber mattyglesias transportation business economics markets subsidies labor workers profits regulation us law legal policy politics accounting venturecapital lobbying corporations corporatism taxis andreessenhorowitz coinbase ripple fintech hilaryallen capitalism siliconvalley society innovation marcandreessen brianarmstrong democracy huberthoran 2017 economy exploitation publicinterest wages lensherman finance prices pricediscrimination ridehailing algorithms veenadubal wagediscrimination compensation vc a16z edwardongweso https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:27fc6bd8a89c/ ‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse | Environment | The Guardian 2025-08-09T20:16:23+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/self-termination-history-and-future-of-societal-collapse robertogreco damiancarrington 2025 civilization society inequality collapse democracy dictatorship future war history narcissism psychopathy machiavellianism lukekemp egalitarianism status elitism elites class violence romanempriee ancientrome cahokia mesopotamia organizedcrime territory population power control khosa maya handynasty china fallofrome health capitalism economics economy xijinping pandemics pandemic robots ai artificialintelligence corporations corporatism algorithms humanity humannature money eattherich competition wealth wealthcaps dominance corruption environment sustainability climate climatechange climatecrisis anthropology evolution https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:947467194a44/ Jerry Mander Was the Groundbreaking Activism-Adman | The Nation 2025-07-28T08:09:33+00:00 https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/globalization-trade-climate-progressivism/ robertogreco jerrymander globalization 2023 activism advertising ads howardgossage sanfrancisco earthislandinstitute naomiklein johncavanagh maudebarlow stephaniemills sixthextinction authoritarianism technology ifg internationalforumonglobalization media ralphnader wholeearthcalendar victornavasky indigeneity indigenous militarization corporations corporatism capitalism anti-globalization antiglobalization https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:be635589b975/