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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoTheory 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
robertogrecogabrielrockhill 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:javierarbonahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5fdb7462e9f5/No, Western Marxism Wasn’t a CIA Plot2026-06-29T06:03:22+00:00
https://jacobin.com/2026/04/review-rockhill-western-marxism-cold-war/
robertogrecogabrielrockhill westernmarxism criticism javierarbona 2026 marxism russelljacoby herbertmarcuse politics frankfurtschool newlefthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e00189d4aa4b/Western Marxism Through the Looking Glass2026-06-29T05:58:27+00:00
https://www.damagemag.com/p/western-marxism-through-the-looking
robertogrecogabrielrockhill westernmarxism criticism marxism mattmcmanus 2026 via:javierarbona theodoradorno herbertmarcuse jürgenhabermas heidegger ctiticaltheory walterbedellsmith allendulles frankwisne jacobmcnulty ajawoods frankfurtschool lyndonlarouche cia michelfoucault foucault karlmarx jacquesderrida hannaharendt coldwar habermashttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:74b618a9a220/‘Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?’ by Gabriel Rockhill reviewed by Richard Gilman-Opalsky – Marx & Philosophy Society2026-06-29T05:55:35+00:00
https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/22624_who-paid-the-pipers-of-western-marxism-by-gabriel-rockhill-reviewed-by-richard-gilman-opalsky/
robertogrecogabrielrockhill westernmarxism marxism 2025 2026 criticism richardgilman-opalsky via:javierarbonahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3f3f829b653c/Report on the State of Reports About The Humanities2026-06-17T09:57:25+00:00
https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/report-on-the-state-of-reports-about
robertogrecotimothyburke vanderbilt 2025 academia highereducation highered critique criticism ethics daviddeirmeier eowilson niallferguson ai artificialintelligence franzfanon kwameanthonyappiah seanwilentz trumpismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bae3e0645db1/McMansion Hell, Fandoms, Retinol and Modern Opera | Middlebrow Podcast - YouTube2026-05-13T06:55:58+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt15iNgvNsw
robertogrecomiddlebrowpodcast katewagner mcmansionhell 2026 architecture mcmansions criticism us 1980s 1990s postmodernism charlesjencks autodidactism autodidacts taste edgarwright politics inequality economics policy suburbia suburbs conspicuousconsumption fandoms fandom buildings fascism fascistarchitecture fascistaesthetics donaldtrump latefascistaesthetics opera runningman society vernaculararchitecture danrosen brianpark oil wealthinequality oman serbia construction realestate wealth luxury dubai dubaichocolate labubus power ideology magaface castledoctrine utah florida environment bjarkeingels thomasheatherwick autocad frankgehry technology robotics smartcities design adaptivereuse materials shippingcontainers césarpelli adaptation domination architects housing aoscott fans reading howweread writing film movies music tuckercarlson italianfuturists italianfuturism nazis ai artificialintelligence llms educationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1f03111ec4f6/Luddite Camp 2026 | Perfect Lives2026-05-11T00:27:07+00:00
https://camp.perfectlives.eu/
robertogrecoluddites luddism resistance technology criticism neoluddism neiludditeshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:48f3e050b12b/Sara Hendren: Who Is the Built World Actually Built For? - Art of Inquiry | Podcast on Spotify2026-05-05T14:11:09+00:00
https://open.spotify.com/episode/11zlpahmklfgr8YOUrtLnY
robertogrecosarahendren 2026 architecture design disabilities disability accessibility art bodies prosthetics sofiaodeh mayaeinhorn engineering making socialpracticeart science inquiry history conflictkitchen edibleestates socialpractice online internet covid-19 pandemic coronavirus offline social slow small audiencesofone socialjustice ai artificialintelligence technology time perception politics genai generativeai activism poetry human humanism humans howwewrite writing teaching pedagogy highered highereducation culturemaking culture life living howwelive socialmedia being waysofbeing modernity method patternrecognition krzysztofwodiczko downsyndrome interrogativedesign careers purpose meaning meaningmaking children parenting arts humanities friendship relationships leisure artleisure leisurearts identity passion expression objects affect emotions embodiment awe wonder buildings senses spirituality sacredness codeswitching artifacts translation language communication howwemake fabrication ramps risd olincollege builtwohttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0a421ccc8594/Alienated Leisure - by Damage Magazine and Adam Smith2026-04-26T00:46:42+00:00
https://www.damagemag.com/p/alienated-leisure
robertogrecoleisure alienation freetime labor karlmarx artleisure leisurearts 2026 capitalism humannature ai artificialintelligence attentioneconomy psychology production productivity relationships connection coherence depth marcandreessen davidgraeber bullshitjobs hunting fishing criticismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1259f9d840df/The attacks on Sam Altman are a warning for the AI world | The Verge2026-04-15T06:51:57+00:00
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/911778/ai-violence-sam-altman-home
robertogrecolaurenfeiner ai artificialintelligence revolt samaltman openai chatgpt violence resistance sanfrancisco datacenters eliezeryidkowsky natesoares sriramkrishnan criticism technofeudalism elonmusk xai twitter civilization society policy politics labor work danielschiff chatbots technology pauseaihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d3c4c1f3a9a8/An Open Letter to LaRussell2026-04-06T19:51:15+00:00
https://www.coyotemedia.org/an-open-letter-to-larussell/
robertogrecorockrivera larussell 2026 hiphop music donaldtrump jeffreyepstein martinlutherkingjr mlk behavior christianity performance rocnation vallejo bayarea accountability reckoning feedback community adolfhitler culture mistakes jay-z blackcapitalism capitalism criticism hitlerhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d4cd745f1f6a/Epstein, Israel, Russia: who gets scrutinised? | MEE Explains - YouTube2026-02-14T23:03:13+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgm8L9t0s2M
robertogrecojeffreyespstein israel palestine gaza 2026 ehudbarak iof idf russia media journalism ukraine warcrimes nytimes bias genocide ethniccleansing scrutiny benjaminnetanyahu propaganda disinformation misinformation us hasbara influence lobbying aipac violence westbank settlercolonialism colonialism colonization zionism politics policy eu europe criticism framing mainstreammediahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5e817c7c72f2/Consensus Aesthetics: The Political Economy of Agreement in Contemporary Art | Ibraaz2026-01-21T07:36:58+00:00
https://ibraaz.org/ibraaz-publishing/read/consensus-aesthetics-the-political-economy-of-agreement-in-contemporary-art
robertogrecocema politicaleconomy 2026 institutions morality politics empathy worldorder ecology economics genocide art artworld radicalism benignradicalism internationalism liberals liberalism precarity care solidarity decolonization crisis superficiality resistance rosannamclaughlin eddyfrankel trauma criticism criticalengagement moralism rahelaima vaporwave curation curating gaza biennials ambiguity politieness quietness civility agreeability performance smoothness stuarthall collectivememory collectiveamnesia stability legibility continuity consensus aesthetics environment neutrality design elitecapture olúfẹ́mitáíwò complicity contradiction alixrule davidlevine walterrobinson toddrose damiancarrington edwardherman noamchomsky manufacturingconsent tension manufacturedconsenthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:437fe8115f77/It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons @ tonsky.me2026-01-06T04:53:01+00:00
https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
robertogreconikitaprokopov macos icons ui usability comparison ux interface mac criticism 2026https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:836f63d1c9d4/The Only Good Shows Ever On Television2026-01-05T22:40:53+00:00
https://kalebhorton.ghost.io/the-only-good-shows-ever-on-television/
robertogreco2025 kalebhorton tv television criticism thesopranos kidsinthehall andygriffithshow benstein timetravel battlebots vhs truedetective sitcoms serialexperimentslain arresteddevelopment bobnewhartshow snl saturdaynightlive nbc johnnycarson getsmart dickcavett newsradio regisphilbin eastbound&down kingofthehill jeopardy alextrebek davidletterman sanford&son thetwilightzone columbo therockfordfiles looneytunes sopranoshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e08988809a10/Apple design’s luxury bubble – Six Colors2025-12-30T20:30:20+00:00
https://sixcolors.com/link/2025/12/apple-designs-luxury-bubble/
robertogrecoI sometimes think about what we lost along the way as Apple chased ultra-simplicity and luxury. Jony Ive spent a decade slowly removing any trace of personality from every product Apple released. Apple went from the original translucent-colored plastic aesthetic of the “Bondi blue” iMac G3 and the Power Mac G3 “Blue & White” to the more refined and unique design of the iMac G4 to… a bunch of aluminum rounded rectangles for decades. Chasing thinness, removing ports, simplifying everything down to metal and glass with no differentiation.
As Mantia wrote:
[Ive] and his team designed great products during the first half of his tenure at Apple. But as he became wealthier, he started to conflate good taste with luxury. Jony often described Apple products with words about craft, material, and precision, all things that appeal to a luxury market. Apple shifted away from making products “for the rest of us” and started making products that appealed specifically to rich people.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but they started making products that appealed to themselves. Because since Steve Jobs died, Apple, its executives, and its corporate employees got significantly wealthier. It wasn’t just Jony who took an interest in luxury. The whole company did. Anyone with even a little bit of power in the company started to dress more expensively. They all look like they could walk right out of a fashion advertisement.
Part of Apple’s appeal is “affordable luxury”. There’s no super-luxe iPhone for the billionaire class. But there is something about what Murray and Mantia write that strikes me as being absolutely right.
In the wake of Steve Jobs’s death, Apple elevated Jony Ive to a position of total design authority as a way of signaling to the wider world that the company was going to be okay after losing its co-founder and leader. In that era, there was a genuine fear that a company led by an operations guy was not going to be able to keep the magic going. (Certainly, that’s a narrative that current and former Apple designers have been happy to push ever since.)
The more I think about it, the more this (perfectly reasonable!) tactical decision has come to feel like the original sin of the Tim Cook era. An unchained and elevated Ive sent the right message to the world, and Ive really is a talented designer who built beautiful things. But without Steve Jobs to rein things in, Apple’s design sense got more insular, more obscure, more minimal.
It’s one reason I’m so critical about Ive, his overlong tenure at Apple when he was obviously burned out, and the fatal mistake of placing software design in the clutches of him and his lieutenants: I just get the sense that those designers became untethered from the rest of us, chasing idealized product dreams based on the expensive luxury brands they wore, drove, and otherwise used every day. Not that Apple designs ugly stuff, but there is undoubtedly an antiseptic sameness to a lot of it that smacks of a design team that has disappeared up its own white void."]]>jasonsnell apple design luxury jonyive materials 2025 tools garrettmurray louiemantia alandye stevejobs inequality sameness criticism wealthhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f673d580a5ce/motion and machine – The Homebound Symphony2025-12-27T21:01:29+00:00
https://blog.ayjay.org/motion-and-machine/
robertogrecoalanjacobs 2025 film form motion hughkenner guydavenport filmmaking degas johnpairmanbrown siegfriedgiedion photography history johnruskin charlesbabbage herbertspencer williamholmanhunt harrylevin velocipede bodies criticism giorgiodechirico eadweardmuybridge edgardegas ernestmessonierhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:415578c5d557/Is the Internet Making Culture Worse?—Asterisk2025-12-24T06:28:54+00:00
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/12-books/is-the-internet-making-culture-worse
robertogrecocelinenguyen 2025 criticism culture decline wdavidmarx creativity art alexkitnick chaimgingold seeinglikeastate adammorgan christinesmallwood françoistruffaut emiliebickerton claudechabrol jean-lucgodard jacquesrivette éricrohmer frenchnewwave film aoscott edfancher triciaromano peterschjeldahl viviangornick lynnyaeger belllabs kitrachlis maryperotnichols danwolf robertcaro richardgoldstein janejacobs robertchristgau gregtate jazz music susanbrownmiller davidschneiderman luciantruscottiv anildash internet web onlibe jeffbezos laurenepowelljobs hiltonals ai artificialintelligence lauriestone siamichel adlanjackson richardbrody thurstonmoore lukeottenhof charolotteklein cthinguyen vc venturecapital merveemre ryanruby bendavies reubenson theoellinballew franlebowitz davidantin johanafateman online artcriticism siliconvalley jamescscotthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6b2db304813f/W. David Marx — Blank Space: A Cultural History of the 21st Century — W. David Marx — On Margins — s02e042025-12-16T06:52:33+00:00
https://craigmod.com/onmargins/s02e04/
robertogrecowdavidmarx craigmod 2025 culture japan analog internet web online media film television tv music josephkony 2012 bootsriley davidsolomon jordanpeterson blankspace history publishing distribution tastemakers criticism critics editing djs gatekeepinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e84fa639c54f/The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review2025-12-01T04:52:41+00:00
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-claims-of-close-reading/
robertogrecojohannawinant 2025 teaching howweteach reading howweread closereading literature education criticism austerity colleges universities highered highereducation academia pedagogy literarystudies wvu johnguillory jonathankramnick yaelsegalovitz dansinykin ai artificialintelligence newciticism learning howwelearn donalddavidson text texts chatgpt attention powerhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:861bed3b2a2b/Blank Spaces, Radicalized Offlineness, Curious Protagonists — Roden Newsletter Archive2025-11-29T00:18:11+00:00
https://craigmod.com/roden/109/
robertogrecoThe first step in reversing cultural stagnation is to accept that artistic invention is a social good. And like so many other social goods, it isn’t necessarily going to have its production prioritized by the market. We — creators and audiences alike — have to make an effort to encourage bold new forms of culture. Even failures and half steps will be more interesting than overly market-tested products.
Reading Blank Space didn’t necessarily “radicalize” me, but it made me overtly grateful for the work I’m doing: work grounded in the world, physicality, relying on social media as little as possible, operating at “human scale” and creating as many “durable” and “deep” connections as possible, attempting to elevate everyone who’s involved. I’ve been lucky. I’m able to walk, to write, to photograph, and then collate all that into printed books. It’s easier than ever to sell printed books online thanks to companies like Shopify. And it’s easier than ever to form a relationship with a fulfillment warehouse, set up a DHL account, and ship the things around the earth. Global shipping is the 10th wonder of the world. I love that I work with talented printers and binders, paying their employees well. I love that I have readers who are OK with paying what my books cost. I like that the arc of the work is slow and loping, that daily updates might happen in spurts, but they are 2,000-5,000 words spurts, amidst an outsized walk, more like an ascetic ritual, calming, fullness-giving, the opposite of whatever it is you have to access to upload daily TikToks.
Work like mine has almost no representation in David’s book. There’s a ruthlessness that’s taken hold across all strata of cultural making (and life itself). Everything turned into a casino, “traps” galore. Billions as the only goal. Achieved celebrity? Start a coffee brand (or gin brand, or tequila brand; I’m shocked nobody is selling their own cigarettes). Leave “nothing on the table.” Epicurean maximizing. That sort of thing. The whole world in a swivet about every dumb breath by some dumdum. AI now turning the future protean. Models upending models within days. Solid ground made liquid for the next decade.
David’s book is funny. I mean, it’s heartbreaking, mainly. But you’ll laugh as your soul is pummeled. David quotes all the fools of the last twenty-five years. They are happy to shoot themselves in their own feet, again and again. The book is most tragic when it dips into politics. In our On Margins chat, we mention Obama, how his ascension symbolized some “completion” — “it was love triumphing over hate, and peace over war, and all sorts of things of the way we were told how things were going to play out because of the natural order of the world, that there would be some sort of correction and this was the correction.” It’s surreal now to think of that world in 2010. The iPhone basically still new. Obama in the White House. The full conversion of everything online to brain traps, to teleportation heroin, still years away. Back when you actually had to “follow” folks to see their content. 2010, just fifteen years ago, but about seven generations of mental life. Back when a trillion-dollar company was a pipe dream (Apple being the first to hit that number, in 2018; now it feels like a monthly announcement, Nvidia hitting $5T a month ago), back when you didn’t nab a $100B valuation as a startup before you even launched a product. Back when Apple’s own apps weren’t loaded with ads. Back when not everything was “recurring revenue” driven. Back when even non-institutional investors had a chance to get in on a company like Facebook or Google while they were still in ascendancy.
Still, around that (now seemingly Brigadoonish) time, I already had a growing sense of doom / skepticism around how much tech money was being bandied about:
Craig: Early 2008, 2009, 2010, I was very negative on Facebook. Very early because I remember explicitly that Facebook was eating up all the designers, uh, from Brooklyn who were doing genuinely interesting work. I remember being really depressed about that. But if Facebook offers you a million dollar salary — especially in 2008, 2009, 2010, it’s hard to turn down. But it felt like there was this incredible compromise that had started to happen.
And David, expanding on this point:
David: This is a really important point of the 21st century, which is I graduated in 2001, and I don’t think anyone around me, even the money hungry people were like, I’m going to be a billionaire. No, it was just on zero people’s minds. And the best was like, dude, did you know you could go work for an investment bank and within five years you could be making $1 million?
Anyway, you should absolutely read David’s book. It deals with all of this and more. His ability to synthesize vast swaths of history and criticism into sane, compressed chapters is inspiring. It’s a fun read, and may radicalize you, too, in better directions. Or just reaffirm the path you’re already on. Or just get you to step offline for a few moments."]]>craigmod wdavidmarx culture 2025 scale scaling human humanism society creativity internet web online shipping nvidia siliconvalley facebook meta capitalism google hipsters design history criticism art media film tv television writing howwewrite humanscale slow small making makers culturalproduction attentionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2c122488761b/The Woman Who Predicted Tech Fascism — Paulina Borsook Was Right - YouTube2025-11-27T16:55:34+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-kwZdkiOA
robertogrecopaulinaborsook gilduran 2025 siliconvalley fascism nerdreich technofascism libertarianism criticism cyberselfish journalism techcriticism elonmusk farright rightwing toxicmasculinity democracy donaldtrump ai artificialintelligence surveillance billionaires power propaganda media peterthiel politics policyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0afa2cc5c2d0/Stereogum soldiers on in the era of streaming and AI | The Verge2025-11-16T19:49:46+00:00
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/821767/stereogum-scott-lapatine-independent-music-media-streaming-ai
robertogrecomusic discovery online internet 2025 terrenceo'brien media criticism scottlapatine web streaming algorithms slop aislop stereogumhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d7392bec588c/Outrage by Ian Nairn - Travis Elborough - Notting Hill Editions2025-11-14T06:24:11+00:00
https://www.nottinghilleditions.com/product/outrage-ian-nairn/
robertogrecoiannairn 2025 architecture criticism outrage subtopia sprawl greenwashing ecology suburbs suburbia doom caterinafakehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:53b58cb839df/The Return of the Luddites | Los Angeles Review of Books2025-11-01T06:35:22+00:00
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-return-of-the-luddites/
robertogrecoluddites luddism neoluddites neoludism emilybender alexhanna 2025 eriklarson science technology resistance bigtech lordbyron samuletaylorcoleridge romanticism thomascarlyle johnruskin williamwordsworth ai artificialintelligence anthropic claude chatgpt openai gemini google llama meta automation stochasticparrots llms criticism siliconvalley eliza elizadoolittle jospheweizenbaum historyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ef183346fab5/no. 81—After Words2025-10-31T21:43:04+00:00
https://thebaffler.com/issues/no-81
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https://olivia.science/ai
robertogrecoan umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims (see our project website). For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism. Such kinds of realisations are possible only when one is educated on the principles behind AI that stem from the intersection of computer and cognitive science, but cannot be learned if interference from the technology industry is unimpeded. Unarguably, rejection of this nonsense is also possible through other means, but in our context our AI students and colleagues are often already ensnared by uncritical computationalist ideology. We have the expertise to fix that, but not always the institutional support.
CAIL also has the goal to repatriate university technological infrastructure and protect our students and selves from deskilling — as we explain here [https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-news/opposing-the-inevitability-of-ai-at-universities-is-possible-and-necessary ]:
Within just a few years, AI has turbocharged the spread of bullshit and falsehoods. It is not able to produce actual, qualitative academic work, despite the claims of some in the AI industry. As researchers, as universities, we should be clearer about pushing back against these false claims by the AI industry. We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.
See more at — and please cite — the preprint here:
Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17065099
Here is a wonderfully done interview by Kent Anderson and Joy Moore [https://www.the-geyser.com/pod-interview-with-olivia-guest-and-iris-van-rooij/ ], where we got to speak at length on these topics: Safeguarding Science from AI: An Interview with Olivia Guest and Iris van Rooij [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9w0FiHo1RU ]. In general, have a look at the various resources here, such as the blog posts [https://olivia.science/ai#blogs ] and preprints and published papers [https://olivia.science/ai#research ] to understand our various perspectives."]]>ai artificialintelligence ailiteracy criticism oliviaguest science publishing 2025 kentanderson joymoore edtechhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:caf61641e74c/Ed Zitron Gets Paid to Love AI. He Also Gets Paid to Hate AI | WIRED2025-10-27T19:11:52+00:00
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-ed-zitron-profile/
robertogrecoedzitron ai artificialintelligence hype aihype media attention 2025 via:javierarbona tommycraggs aiboom aibubble bigtech journalism criticism technology samaltman openai chatgpt google adwords web internet online davidnoble meta facebook anthropic markzuckerberg ezpr flacks darioamodei pr caseynewton kevinroose corydoctorow enshittification generativeai fulcradynamics llms chatbots nomi genaihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c57eb86d452c/A Castle Made of Legos – On Jacobin and AI Propaganda – Verdigris2025-10-15T06:43:16+00:00
https://vdgasjournal.com/2025/07/24/a-castle-made-of-legos-on-jacobin-and-ai-propaganda/
robertogrecodwayenmonroe 2025 ai artificialintelligence history politics technology hollybuck matthuber degrowth 2023 marxism johnbellamyfoster ivankatrump jdvance llms chatgpt computing computation labor staffordbeer cybersyn chile salvadorallende 1970 1973 karlmarx doublespeak propaganda criticism salesforth davidgerard marcbenioffhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7addbbfb6c90/A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal2025-10-09T03:56:28+00:00
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
robertogrecotheoatmeal ai artificialintelligence generativeai criticism technology humans humanism cgi craft emotions joy creation creativity culture pretending effort friction talent art artmaking business skill drawing practice cartoons cartooning comics labor work process toil human slop aislop genaihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bcf4517ebbca/Dune movie: Is HBO’s 2021 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s book a white savior narrative?2025-10-05T02:26:47+00:00
https://slate.com/culture/2021/10/dune-2021-movie-vs-book-white-savior-islam.html
robertogreco2021 dune alikarjoo-ravary islam culturalappropriation whiteness film frankherbert denisvilleneuve scifi sciencefiction middleast muslims culture literature colonization colonialism criticismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d4f9ae8849b4/Ursula Le Guin's Anarchist Alternative - YouTube2025-10-02T16:10:20+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r73s-YMcNTI
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https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/what-lies-beyond-capitalism
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https://jasmi.news/p/statement-of-purpose
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https://jasmi.news/p/32-notes-on-ai-and-writing
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https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the-intellectual-situation/large-language-muddle/
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https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/against-stocking-frames/
robertogrecoRecently, we shared our AI adoption playbook, which showed that 89% of the Zapier team is already using AI in their daily work. But to make AI transformation truly sustainable, we have to start at the beginning: how we hire and onboard people into Zapier to build this future with us.
I’ve written before about the problems with “adoption” as a success metric: that “usage of a thing” doesn’t communicate anything about the quality of that usage, or about the health of the system overall. But despite that, Zapier’s moved beyond mandated adoption, and has begun changing its hiring and onboarding practices — including how it evaluates employee performance. How does an “AI” mandate show up in a performance review? I’m so glad you asked:"
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"But this Zapier post is the first example I’ve seen of a company making that implicit expectation into an explicit one. Here, the official policy is that attitude toward a technology should be used as a quantifiable measurement of how well a person aligns with the company’s goals: what the industry has historically (and euphemistically) referred to as culture fit. At this company, you could receive a negative performance review for being perceived as “resistant” or “skeptical” of LLMs. You’d be labeled as unacceptable.
I mean, look: on the face of it, that’s absurd. That is absurd behavior. Imagine screening prospective hires by asking their opinions about your company’s hosting provider, or evaluating employees for how they feel about Microsoft Teams. Just to be clear, I fully believe evaluations like these have happened in the industry — hiring and performance reviews are both riddled with bias, especially in tech. But this is the first time I’ve seen a company policy explicitly state that acceptance of “AI” is a matter of cultural compliance. That you’re either on board with “artificial intelligence,” or you’re not one of us.
This is where I think approaching “AI” as a failure becomes useful, even vital. it underscores that the technology’s real value isn’t improving productivity, or even in improving products. Rather, it’s a social mechanism employed to ensure compliance in the workplace, and to weaken worker power. Stories like the one at Zapier are becoming more common, where executive fiat is being used to force employees to use a technology that could deskill them, and make them more replaceable. Arguably, this is the one use case where “artificial intelligence” has delivered some measure of consistent, provable results.
But here’s the thing: this is a success only if tech workers allow it to be. I’m convinced we can turn this into a failure, too. And we do that by getting organized.
— okay, yes, I know. I am the person who thinks you deserve a union. But it’s not just me: from game studios to newsrooms, many workers are unionizing specifically because they want contractual protections from “artificial intelligence.” Heck, the twin strikes in Hollywood weren’t about banning “AI,” but giving workers control over how and when the technology was employed. I think at minimum, we deserve that level of control over our work.
With all that said, you don’t have to be unionized to start organizing: to have conversations with your coworkers, to share how you’re feeling about these changes at work, and start talking about what you’d like to do about those changes, together. It really is that simple.
That isn’t to say organizing is easy, mind: it involves having many, many conversations with your coworkers, and looking for shared concerns about issues in the workplace. And, look: I’m writing this post at a time where the labor market’s tight, when there’s so much pressure to not just adopt LLMs but to accept them unquestioningly. In that context, I realize that inviting coworkers to share some thoughts about automation can feel difficult, if not dangerous. But it’s only by organizing — by talking and listening to each other, and acting together in solidarity — do we have a chance at building a better, safer version of the tech industry.
“Artificial intelligence” is a failure. Let’s you and I make sure it stays that way."]]>ethanmarcotte ai artificialintelligence business coercion 2025 llms karenhao alexhanna emilybender technology criticism zapier shopify duolingo tacobell andybellbrianmerchant aimandates microsoftteams compliance labor organizing resistance unions policyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:788936cd3f37/the eminem sized hole in white america - YouTube2025-08-31T21:10:24+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKevy6Bzkng
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https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOI3P6Ybon4
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https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/contra-ptaceks-terrible-article-on-ai/
robertogreco“I don’t recommend reading it, but you can if you want. It is full of half-baked ideas and shoddy reasoning.”1
I have tried hard, so very hard, not to just be the guy that hates AI, even though the only thing that people want to talk to me about is the one time I ranted about AI at length. I contain multitudes, meaning that I am capable of delivering widely varied payloads of vitriol to a vast array of topics.
However, the piece is now being circulated in communities that I respect, and I was near my breaking point when someone suggested that Ptacek's piece is being perceived as a “glass half full” counterpoint to my own perspective. There is a glass half full piece. It's what I already wrote. The glass has a specific level of water in it. Then finally, I saw that it was in my YouTube feed, and I reached my limit.
Let me be extremely clear2 — I think this essay sucks and it's wild to me that it achieved any level of popularity, and anyone that thinks that it does not predominantly consist of shoddy thinking and trash-tier ethics has been bamboozled by the false air of mature even-handedness, or by the fact that Ptacek is a good writer.
Anyway, here I go killin’ again."]]>ai ethics productivity blogs software criticism skepticism critique programming artificialintelligence thomasptacek nikhilsuresh llms attention samaltman openai chatgpt niksureshhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2456a5e41ace/Criticism in Crisis!! Part 1 - by Elvia Wilk2025-06-25T05:27:52+00:00
https://elviawilk.substack.com/p/criticism-in-crisis-part-1
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https://elviawilk.substack.com/p/criticism-in-crisis-part-2
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https://defector.com/toward-a-theory-of-kevin-roose
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44uC12g9ZVk&t=3501s
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https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/toolmen
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22eh9bHVeTc
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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/podcast-episode-love-internet-you-hate-it
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https://psyche.co/ideas/why-our-flawed-flexible-memories-come-with-social-benefits
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https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-28/mafalda-english-translation
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https://annehelen.substack.com/p/what-do-we-do-with-all-this-consumer
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https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/baumann-bishops-francis-critics-wills-chaput-reno
robertogrecoThe papalists of today must be shaken at times when they consider the difference between ‘the church’ in their sense (Pope and Curia) and in [John Henry] Newman’s or Augustine’s sense. These people [are mistaken] in their attempt to maintain a spurious consistency in recent papal documents, rather than a unity of impulse through the whole Christian body.
Wills went on to point out that before promulgating the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, Pius IX “requested the bishops to consult local clergy and laity on the state of the church’s belief.” That sounds an awful lot like Francis’s hopes for synodality, an initiative his critics never tire of mocking. Let’s hope Francis’s successor has a similar faith in the whole Church, for that really is the tradition."]]>2025 popefrancis catholicism catholicchurch paulbaumann popejohnpaulii papacy tehology politics orhtodoxy rrreno criticism georgeweigel maryeberstadt peggynoonan charlestaylor argument popebenedictxvi jorgemariobergoglio jorgebergogliohttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fe4656a86769/“The Gang has a Mid-Life Crisis”2025-05-09T19:20:47+00:00
https://chris-martin.org/2025/the-gang-has-a-mid-life-crisis
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https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/on-the-golden-age-of-blogging/
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https://www.are.na/editorial/on-contamination
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9SJc5sRq80
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https://www.theclinic.cl/2014/09/06/especial-parra-el-anarquista-quebrantahuesos/
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https://www.basketballfeelings.com/p/empathys-expiry-date
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/the-new-literalism-plaguing-todays-biggest-movies
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https://joshbrake.substack.com/p/mens-sine-manus
robertogrecoReplacing all tedious software engineering tasks with AI is a problem. Just because a task is tedious doesn’t mean it’s bad. In software engineering, the tedious tasks are often the ones we learn the most from. The tedium can be a struggle, but it’s the effort required on these tasks that helps us improve.
Lastly, one of my own from the archives. This one is from October of 2023, thinking out loud about how I’d respond to Marc Andreessen’s Techno-optimist manifesto. Lots of the same threads I pull on in this piece about the questions we should be asking."]]>ai artificialintelligence agi joshbrake artificialgeneralintelligence 2025 lmsacasas human humanism zvimowshowitz loganthorneloe marcandreessen technooptimism life purpose living knowledge punyamishra christianity judaism morality responsibility meaning meaningmaking humility benbuchanan ezraklein samaltman chatgpt openai claude manus humanity technology criticism ethics avimowshowitz softbank masayoshison cheguevara marxism truth abusehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:34acb04567d1/We Are The Media Now - And They Fear Us - YouTube2025-02-15T22:19:50+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80wIbGUc43E
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https://helenbeetham.substack.com/p/second-breakfast-x-imperfect-offering
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https://helenbeetham.substack.com/p/the-dan-macquillan-episode
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https://thepointmag.com/dialogue/violent-antagonisms/?
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https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo81816851.html
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https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2024/12/causing-a-stink-reflections-on-my-viral-phd
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https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/elizabeth-goodspeed-column-design-critique-creative-industry-060624
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https://audreywatters.com/2024/12/28/the-year-in-writing
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