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Directionally, as a tech guy might put it, it’s not wrong. There is undoubtedly anger at out-of-touch billionaires helping companies execute mass layoffs, and many people don’t think ChatGPT is useful enough to warrant the social (or economic and environmental) burdens it imposes. The problem is that Sun’s coinage aims to position AI as a project that can be considered novel, or even apart, from the political economy from which it emerged. But I don’t think most people are formulating a new worldview in which AI is a boogeyman political project hatched by billionaires. I think they’re more likely to understand AI as an extension of an already inequitable system, and as an accelerant of that inequality. At a time when consumer sentiment is stuck at all-time lows, housing costs are sky-high, the price of basic goods is spiking, entry level jobs are disappearing, tech firms have concentrated enormous power and “broligarchy” was shortlisted for Dictionary.com’s 2025 word of the year, AI has become the avatar of the ills of unrestrained capitalism. “AI populism” is really just “21st century populism” or just, “populism.”

AI has after all been adopted and promoted as an instrument of efficiency, control, and leverage by just about every layer of management at every institution, from any given Fortune 500 company to a department in the federal government to your boss who makes you use Copilot, to which one might direct their populist anger. This is less the result of a specific political project, as much as it is how capitalism tends to function when there is a new instrument to discipline workers on offer. As writers and thinkers like Ted Chiang and Hagen Blix have pointed out, fear and anger at AI are often best understood as fear and anger at how AI will function within capitalism. Few are worried about the prospect of public research scientists using LLMs to discover new peptides; plenty are worried about how AI might be used as leverage against them in their workplaces, or to replace their labor, or to narrow their job opportunities. They’re worried that AI will exacerbate existing conditions in a precarious system.

Firms have used automation technologies to impose layoffs and surveillance regimes on their workforces to achieve improved efficiencies for as long as such technologies have existed; there’s nothing sinister, or at least unusually sinister, about this. But Silicon Valley has certainly raised the stakes, in pursuit of ever-greater profits and investment capital: AI has been developed, pitched, and sold by tech firms as the most powerful automation technology of all time. As OpenAI’s charter puts it, the company is building “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.” This declared aspiration to sell one-size-fits-all, mass deskilling-as-a-service in a destabilized, post-pandemic, post-J6 world feels in hindsight like a dependable formula for generating widespread anger. "]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This week, we’re featuring a recent, live interview that I did at Firestorm books with Vicky Osterweil, anarchist writer and worker, author of In Defense of Looting and more recently The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed The Movies and Took Over the World (Haymarket, 2026). Vicky is a member of the Collective of Anarchist Writers (CAW), and you can also find her on Bluesky and what she's thinking about what she's watching at Letterboxd.

During the chat Vicky talks about intellectual property and how it overlaps between entertainment and other elements like technology and medicine, the shaping and limiting effects IP has on popular culture and imagination, the film industry and more."

[See also:

"In Defense of Looting with Vicky Osterweil" (2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWxjrTRDbio

"In Defense of Looting with Vicky Osterweil This week we are getting the chance to air a conversation that I had with writer, anarchist, and agitator Vicky Osterweil about her recently published book  In Defense of Looting, a Riotous History of Uncivil Action published  (Bold Type Press, August 2020). We get to talk about a lot of different topics in this interview, how the book emerged from a zine written in the middle of the Ferguson Uprising of the summer of 2014, its reception by the far right and by comrades, her process in deciding what to include in this book, the etymology of the word “loot” and ensuing implications thereof, why you should totally transition if that’s the right thing for you to do, and many more topics!"

and 

"The Interregnum: Roundtable with Vicky Osterweil" (2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3MRLe0Gcno

"This week we are pleased to present something a little bit new for TFS listeners. This is a kind of informal round table discussion that co host Scott and I had alongside Vicky Osterweil, who has been on the show before to speak on her book In Defense of Looting; A Riotous History of Uncivil Action. We all sat down to talk about a short and thought provoking article which was published in January of 2022 called “The Interregnum: The George Floyd Uprising, the coronavirus pandemic, and the emerging social revolution” which was published on the Haters Cafe and we will link to it in the show notes for anyone interested in reading it.

An interregnum is defined as being a period of discontinuity in a government, organization, or social order, and it typically points to time frames at which there isn’t a clear monarch or reigning body in a given place. This article points to the many ways the George Floyd uprising, the covid 19 pandemic, the rise of anti-work, and what the article calls the Great Refusal (a pivot from the ‘Great Resignation’ nomenclature of some mass media) have all created the conditions for a possible broadscale social revolution. Also stay tuned to the end of this episode where we chat briefly about what books we’re reading right now. We hope you enjoy this chat!

((note to listeners, I’m now using the name I use in real life for this radio project, which is Amar. It’s become more and more important to me to be as fully acknowledging of my culture and ethnicity as possible, and this is one way I’m choosing to do that))"]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Feedback welcome, hope you enjoy this video which was a lot of fun to make (albeit late)

References (in rough order of appearance)

How to Make Realistic Predictions About AI, Tantham
https://curveshift.net/p/how-to-make-realistic-predictions

Silicon Valley Insider EXPOSES Cult-Like AI Companies | Aaron Bastani Meets Karen Hao 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enXRDlWguU

‘Large AI models are cultural and social technologies’, Farrell et al.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt9819

Artificial Intelligences, Herbert Simon

Debunking Economics, Keen 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debunking_Economics

Scientists Just Discovered Why All Pop Music Sounds Exactly the Same
https://www.mic.com/articles/107896/scientists-finally-prove-why-pop-music-all-sounds-the-same

The Dorito Effect, Shatzker
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Dorito-Effect/Mark-Schatzker/9781476724232

How Corporations Hijacked Anti-AI Backlash 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRq0pESKJgg

The Stock Market is a Conventional Wisdom Processor: Why Trump’s Tariffs Crashed the Stock Market While the Trump Musk Payments Crisis Hasn’t (Yet), Tankus
https://www.crisesnotes.com/content/files/2025/04/The-Stock-Market-is-a-Conventional-Wisdom-Processor-Why-Trump-s-Tariffs-Crashed-the-Stock-Market-While-the-Trump-Musk-Payments-Crisis-Hasn-t--Yet-.pdf

Elon Musk’s Billionaire Games - Between the Scenes | The Daily Show 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqlbn2nPO-A

The Job Market Is Hell: Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired. By Annie Lowrey
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/job-market-hell/684133/

What's Wrong with Capitalism (Part 1) | ContraPoints 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJW4-cOZt8A

Disney is Perfectly Happy With Their Catastrophic Downfall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW2Zr8Q6Xqw  

Mr. Plinkett's What Happened To Star Wars?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xeMak4RqJA

AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN9wnPvU0

Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Economy - with Dr Stuart Mills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E6p3J9dko8

An Existing, Ecologically-Successful Genus Of Collectively Intelligent Artificial Creatures, Kuipers
https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4116
https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~kuipers/papers/Kuipers-ci-12.pdf

AI Integration Is the New Moat, Tim O’Reilly
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/integration-is-the-new-moat/

Dirty Little Marketing Secrets That Always Work - Rory Sutherland (4K)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvpw4_O25eU

The Time for Cybernetics Has Come - with Daniel Davies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3HpdNGvJDc

notes on the industrialisation of decision making, Davies
https://backofmind.substack.com/p/notes-on-the-industrialisation-of

the only message the channel can carry is a scream, Davies
https://backofmind.substack.com/p/the-only-message-the-channel-can

The AI Circular Economy, Blakeley
https://graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ai-circular-economy

The Case Against Generative AI, Zitron
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-against-generative-ai/

The Map is Eating the Territory: The Political Economy of AI, Farrell
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-political-economy-of-ai

the ending of every 7 hour video essay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8reiauyQCM 

Further reading

AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton - The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Podcast on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4pWuwQq8M8Gzf9F9U0AYZW

Transformers, the tech behind LLMs | Deep Learning Chapter 5 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M

You're Being Lied To About Private Equity | Truth Complex 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pzLhWCxH_g 

AI As a Normal Technology, Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-normal-technology "]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2026-01-04T21:57:09+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Killing in the name of… nothing

Political violence has become illegible, and increasingly, politics and language have too."]]></description>
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In this episode of Futurology, musician and technologist Jaron Lanier joins Futurology Producer Grant Slater to explain why treating AI as a creature, rather than a tool, lets corporations own the work of millions and silence the humans behind the code. Lanier argues that every algorithm is built from borrowed human creativity — the songs, stories, and patterns we’ve already made. The way forward, he says, is to restore data dignity: valuing people for the music and meaning they create, instead of worshipping the machines that remix it.

Resources
Who Owns the Future — Jaron Lanier (2013)
The Dawn of the New Everything — Jaron Lanier (2017)
Vers la flamme — Alexander Scriabin 
“A Blueprint for a Better Digital Society”--Jaron Lanier and E. Glen Weyl (2018) 
Alan Turing’s “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” (Mind, 1950) — alluded to in the discussion of the Turing Test
Instruments of Change — Jaron Lanier (album, 1994, PolyGram)
Fantasia — Walt Disney (1940 film; Hewlett-Packard built its first synthesizer for it)
Clara Rockmore’s Theremin recordings 
Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson (1992 novel)"]]></description>
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    <title>The News: Reign of Error - by Timothy Burke</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-09T04:02:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/the-news-reign-of-error</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["All through 2024 and even more intensely since January, one of the greatest sources of anguish for many Americans (and sympathetic outsiders) has been organizations that seemingly ought to have leapt into some form of principled and highly coordinated opposition have either receded into silence or worse yet, given themselves over to enabling Trumpism in some fashion or another. You can be angry at big research universities for bending the knee in various ways, but the fact is that they had a massive hole ripped in their budgets in the middle of an existing budget cycle. You can ask why on earth the CEO of Intel agreed to pay a corporate tax just because Trump attacked him, but Intel’s market position is shaky. You can shake your head at law firms coughing up money, but the firms that did have business models that make them vulnerable. You can despair

But why is the New York Times, riding high economically, so visibly favoring Trumpism in its headlines and framing devices? Why are television networks and media companies paying off lawsuits they’d undoubtedly win in a way that exposes them to enormous future liabilities, or in the case of Disney, taking hasty actions which undoubtedly cost them a lot of subscription revenue? Why are some companies moving into sympathetic alignment with Trumpism’s “culture war” positions despite the fact that other previous commitments have been economically positive for them, while their new loyalties are costing them business? And of course, most infuriatingly of all, why have most national elected officials of the Democratic Party retreated into silence, evasion or failed reprisals of politics-as-usual in an environment where their careers and even lives are at risk if they can’t forcibly resist Trumpist power?

The answer, unfortunately, is that there are a fair number of older people higher up in the hierarchies of older civic and corporate organizations who privately feel that Trumpism is harsh but necessary correction, who are reasoning from an “enemy of my enemy” sort of logic. They’re not seeing Trumpism for what it is nor what it is set to become, but instead as a kind of brief, evanescent opportunity for settling scores and putting themselves back in charge as they were meant to be."

...

"Don’t make the same mistake that people made repeatedly in the last two centuries.

The old adage that you don’t have to be the fastest person running away from a monster, just faster than the slowest person? It doesn’t apply if what is chasing you is a tsunami. It doesn’t stop when it drowns its first victims. The only safety lies in climbing up together. Think like Kino Loy in Andor:

<blockquote>Wherever you are right now, get up, stop the work. Get out of your cells, take charge and start climbing. They don’t have enough guards and they know it. If we wait until they figure that out, it’ll be too late. We will never have a better chance than this.</blockquote>

You may think you have some scores to settle, some balances to even, some resentments to unload. But coordinate now to resist or you’ll end up another head in another basket, with your only source of satisfaction as the blade comes down that at least somebody else got it first. Revolutions swallow their own loyalists, fascists get out the long knives for each other any time somebody feels a bit twitchy. Nobody sleeps safely in autocracy, not even the autocrat. There is still time to save ourselves from an all-encompassing nightmare, so shake off memories of yesterday’s uneasy sleep, which is nothing by comparison."]]></description>
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    <title>Everything Is Becoming a Bank</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-08T02:52:45+00:00</dc:date>
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Photographs by Paola Chapdelaine

Mr. Currell, a management consultant, interviewed dozens of Disney enthusiasts, historians and experts and visited Walt Disney World, which he first experienced in 1977. Ms. Chapdelaine, a photographer, traveled to Disney World with the Cressel family and friends.

  Aug. 28, 2025

On Wednesday, July 23, at exactly 6:55 a.m., Scarlett Cressel, a 60-year-old school bus driver, opens her Disney app on her phone with nervous excitement. She is traveling with a group that includes her daughter, her grandchildren and her mother to Disney World the following week. In five minutes, Ms. Cressel will gain access to Disney’s ride reservations system, where she hopes to snag three bookings for their visit.

This moment was years in the making. Ms. Cressel requested Disney gift cards for several birthdays and Christmases, dug up discounts and paid for her park tickets in installments. Her mother arranged space in a time-share nearby, and a friend will take Amtrak’s Auto Train from Virginia to Florida with the group’s luggage to avoid airline baggage fees.

Yet for all her planning, Ms. Cressel enters the reservation system at a disadvantage. The system dispenses front-of-the-line spots and gives priority to travelers who book a guide, purchase expensive passes or stay at a Disney property. As a visitor on a budget, Ms. Cressel is near the bottom of a pecking order in which, on many days, thousands of spots for the park’s premier rides are reserved for the big spenders.

The recently renovated 1,863-square-foot King Kamehameha suite at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort, which offers a huge bi-level great room, views of Cinderella Castle and a soaking tub, can go for $3,000 a night. The sleek GEO-82 Bar and Lounge in EPCOT offers a package that includes a tower of small bites, champagne or cocktails and a table with views of the park’s fireworks show for $179 a person (entry to the park not included but required). A wine-paired prix fixe meal at the Michelin-starred Victoria & Albert’s at Disney’s Grand Floridian hotel starts at over $1,200 for two. And so on.

For most of the park’s history, Disney was priced to welcome people across the income spectrum, embracing the motto “Everyone is a V.I.P.” In doing so, it created a shared American culture by providing the same experience to every guest. The family that pulled up in a new Cadillac stood in the same lines, ate the same food and rode the same rides as the family that arrived in a used Chevy. Back then, America’s large and thriving middle class was the focus of most companies’ efforts and firmly in the driver’s seat.

That middle class has so eroded in size and in purchasing power — and the wealth of our top earners has so exploded — that America’s most important market today is its affluent. As more companies tailor their offerings to the top, the experiences we once shared are increasingly differentiated by how much we have.

Data is part of what’s driving this shift. The rise of the internet, the algorithm, the smartphone and now artificial intelligence are giving corporations the tools to target the fast-growing masses of high-net-worth Americans with increasing ease. As a management consultant, I’ve worked with dozens of companies making this very transition. Many of our biggest private institutions are now focused on selling the privileged a markedly better experience, leaving everyone else to either give up — or fight to keep up.

Disney’s ethos began to change in the 1990s as it increased its luxury offerings, but only after the economic shock of the pandemic did the company seem to more fully abandon any pretense of being a middle-class institution. A Disney vacation today is “for the top 20 percent of American households — really, if I’m honest, maybe the top 10 percent or 5 percent,” said Len Testa, a computer scientist whose “Unofficial Guide” books and website Touring Plans offer advice on how to manage crowds and minimize waiting in line. “Disney positions itself as the all-American vacation. The irony is that most Americans can’t afford it.”

In a statement, Disney said its goal is to make its experiences available “to as many families as possible.” “No two experiences are the same, which is why we provide a wide variety of ticket, dining and hotel options, enhanced throughout the year with promotional offers,” it said.

Ms. Cressel grew up watching “The Wonderful World of Disney” and reruns of “The Mickey Mouse Club.” Her first visit to Disney World was in 1993 with her grandmother. “You pass under that Walt Disney World sign, and all your worries and cares fade away,” she said.

On her previous trips as an adult, Ms. Cressel could use Disney’s free FastPass system, a program started in 1999 that allowed visitors to skip the line if they agreed to wait and return to the ride within a specific time window. Wielding those passes, she could hop on most any attraction she desired without having to wait forever. Those days are long gone. “I really, really miss that,” she said.

It is 7 a.m. when Ms. Cressel logs on to the Disney app. She and her daughter, a special-education classroom assistant, together earn nearly $80,000 a year, almost exactly America’s household median income. For this trip, they’ve already spent over $2,300 on Disney tickets — more than the average middle-class family spends on all travel for a year, according to Mr. Testa’s analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. So Ms. Cressel decided to book just one of what are sometimes called Tier 1 attractions, Tiana’s Bayou Adventure. That plus two lesser attractions will cost the group an additional $160.

Adding a new credit card number (so her daughter can take advantage of rewards points) takes a precious seven minutes. Ms. Cressel is able to secure skip-the-line access for Bayou Adventure only for 3:40 p.m. She concludes that her group may have to wait in the far longer standby lines for any of the park’s top rides for the rest of the day.

Regardless, Ms. Cressel says she cannot wait to take her grandchildren to Disney World for the first time and “see it through their eyes.”

Disney was never cheap. A family day at the original Disneyland in California, including tickets, some rides and food for four people, was about a $30 affair when the park opened in 1955, which was a lot of money when the median family income was $4,400. But $30 — roughly the cost of a week’s groceries — was still an attainable number for much of America’s rapidly growing middle class.

In the early years, Disney ticket prices rose so slowly that at times they got cheaper after inflation. An employee handbook from the 1950s quotes Walt Disney as saying, “We roll out the red carpet for the Jones family from Joliet just as we would (with a few embellishments) for the Eisenhowers from Palm Springs.” Versions of Walt’s “Everyone is a V.I.P.” credo were in Disney’s new-employee training materials long after his death in 1966. Fortunately for him and his shareholders, embracing everybody made good business sense. That began to change in the 1990s.

Michael Eisner, Disney’s chief executive at the time, created a bevy of products for the affluent — including fancier hotels, a cruise line and white-tablecloth restaurants. But he rejected the idea of allowing customers to pay to skip lines at the parks, according to a Disney historian, Aaron Goldberg. When a rival, Universal Studios, introduced paid line skipping in the early 2000s, Disney — perhaps fearing backlash from its large fan base — stood firm.

In the 2020s, however, the growing ranks of the affluent presented a profit source that could not be ignored. According to Datos Insights, in 1992 there were 88,000 households worth $20 million or more in 2022 dollars; by 2022, there were 644,000. Those who could pay almost anything for a vacation were becoming their own mass market.

At the same time, smartphone apps transformed how companies connected to their customers. In 2012 the My Disney Experience app gave guests an easy way to check wait times, show times, restaurant bookings and more. In return, Disney gained a trove of information on exactly where guests went, what they purchased and how much they spent in its complex. The app eventually became so integrated with a visit that much of a Disney park day can be dedicated to checking it; savvy guests bring an external battery.

More than ever before, Disney and companies like it have access to data showing them who is willing to spend what for which experiences. “Disney is an analytics company that happens to do movies and parks,” Mr. Testa said.

Over my three-decade-long consulting career, I saw industry after industry use this kind of information to shift their focus to the big spenders in its customer base. Banks, retailers, hotels, airlines, credit card issuers, manufacturers and universities all learned that their richest customers didn’t just spend more than the rest; they spent multiples more. Many companies found that if they didn’t focus on their richest customers, they couldn’t provide competitive salaries to staff members, increase returns to shareholders and attract capital to invest in new products. Whereas in the 1970s and before, the revenue driving corporate profits came from the middle class, by the 1990s it was clear that the big money was at the top.

The pandemic was the final blow. Covid shutdowns and the streaming wars delivered staggering financial losses. In October 2021, Disney killed its free FastPass system, upsetting many hard-core fans, and started offering ride reservations for $15 each at Disney World. Over the next three years, the line-skipping options multiplied in number and in price. Disney also offered perks for those staying in its properties — one of them being the ability to make ride reservations before those staying elsewhere.

The result is a complex, multitiered structure in which a large number of low-wait spots on the best rides are handed to those who pay dearly for a private guide, for a pricey pass or for a room in certain Disney-owned properties. (Mr. Testa notes that Disney’s hotels charge significantly more than those in the rest of the Orlando market.)

Pricing tiers have been healthy for Disney’s bottom line. Last year a hacker got access to the company’s internal Slack channels. The exposed data indicated that Disney made $724 million from skip-the-line products from late 2021 to June 2024. Since then, Disney has introduced a highly popular Lightning Lane Premier Pass; pricing varies but can easily be over $400 on a given day.

I returned to Disney World in April to see the new system in action. Much about the place feels middle class, sometimes refreshingly so, with everyone running around in shorts and T-shirts.

When you are at a Disney park, you will inevitably hear “When You Wish Upon a Star,” Disney’s unofficial anthem. Disney adopted that song in the 1940s; its second line, “makes no difference who you are,” encapsulated its egalitarian ethos. Now the song reads to me like nostalgic, middle-class cosplay that helps us relive the Disney that Walt created. The roughly $90 to get your family cut-the-line access to a premier ride (on top of what, for a family of four, could easily be over $700 dropped on tickets) is the real Disney, the one the market created.

Mr. Testa says he receives around 10 emails a day from customers seeking travel help, but a middle-class family like Ms. Cressel’s, one that crosses several state lines and spends multiple days at Disney World, is relatively rare: “The last time I helped someone like this plan a trip? I don’t know. It’s been at least 10 years.”

The vacation Ms. Cressel has been dreaming about for years is finally here. On Monday, July 28, she wakes at 6 a.m. at the time-share and drives to one of Disney’s cheaper hotels, where her daughter’s friends are staying in order to secure free parking in the park complex. Ms. Cressel, who has mobility problems, assembles her rented scooter. The group then boards a free resort bus headed to Hollywood Studios, arriving at the gates by 9 a.m. (This park, like the others, had already been open to those staying at Disney properties for half an hour.) It’s going to be a scorcher; the temperature has already hit 88 degrees. Ms. Cressel deliberately chose this time of year as the broiling weather slightly reduces both ticket costs and crowd levels.

Soon after they pass the gates, Ms. Cressel’s scooter breaks down, and the rental firm representative struggles to enter the park and find Ms. Cressel to replace it. With the heat and humidity making the temperature feel closer to 108 degrees, she takes refuge in a restaurant. Ultimately, it consumes three precious park hours to resolve the problem.

Because of the delay, Ms. Cressel is unable to ride any of the major “Star Wars”-themed rides. Missing Rise of the Resistance, a crown jewel, is particularly frustrating. Ms. Cressel considered trying to reserve the popular ride in advance but decided against it because of the price tag ($110 for five people when she checked the prices).

A perennially positive person, Ms. Cressel has very few downbeat moments. This is one of them. She warns me later that if visitors go to Disney’s parks with a rigid plan, they may be “extremely disappointed.” She vows to stay flexible.

On Thursday, her Magic Kingdom day, Ms. Cressel wakes at 5 a.m. in hopes of arriving at the park at 7:30 a.m. Delays stemming from the scooter and from lodging in a non-Disney property mean she and her party show up at 8 a.m. instead, which isn’t ideal in light of the looming crowds. They head to the Peter Pan ride and are able to do it after 15 minutes. By the time they emerge, the lines have already formed. They next head to the carousel, a less popular attraction, and she also checks out the Hall of Presidents.

Fourteen hours later, Ms. Cressel has experienced nine of the park’s attractions, three in the Tier 1 category, plus a parade and the fireworks show. She and her companions leave, exhausted, at 11 p.m., when the park closes.

It is a different kind of Disney day for Shawn Conahan, a California tech executive who takes his 13-year-old daughter to Orlando around New Year’s — one of the busiest times of the year to visit the parks, according to Mr. Testa.

Getting Disney’s Lightning Lane Premier Pass, which ushers its holders to the front of the line at each ride once, is a no-brainer, Mr. Conahan decides. Given he was already in for $7,000 for the four-day trip, “it’s not that crazy to spend another $900” to see the Magic Kingdom, he says. (The pass’s price varies based on the day and the park in question.) Pass holders don’t need to worry about booking reservations online in advance; the system holds all their seats for them.

The result is even better than Mr. Conahan imagined. Their spots assured, he and his daughter wake at their leisure and walk over to hop the monorail to Magic Kingdom. It may be a bit slower than the bus, but it is “a big part” of the Disney World experience, Mr. Conahan reasons. The weather is nearly perfect: about 70 degrees with a light breeze.

Arriving at the notoriously busy hour of 10 a.m., Mr. Conahan and his daughter sail through to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, waiting just nine minutes, despite a posted wait time of over an hour. They then hit Tiana’s, the ride Ms. Cressel prioritized, before heading to Haunted Mansion, waiting just seven minutes, while everybody else sees a standby wait estimate of 75. They stop for lunch at Skipper Canteen, a “Jungle Cruise”-themed restaurant known for waiters who tell corny jokes (like the ride’s operators) and one of his daughter’s favorite dishes — a $30 entree of fried chicken with a chili-soy glaze, jasmine rice and pickled vegetable slaw.

Post-lunch, they hop on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, in a line that takes four minutes instead of 65. Seven Dwarfs Mine Train takes 5 instead of 85. They finish off the day with the new Tron roller coaster, waiting eight minutes instead of 120. In all, Mr. Conahan and his daughter are able to visit 16 attractions, including all five of the park’s Tier 1 rides plus its two most coveted attractions — Seven Dwarfs and Tron — that charge separately for passes. They do all that, plus the lunch stop and a Dole Whip snack break, in just seven hours. His daughter declares it “the best day ever.”

One of the economic puzzles of the past five years has been the persistence of serious consumer negativity at a time when nearly everyone has a job, median household incomes are historically high, and we are spending more than we did before the pandemic. Yet all but the most affluent are seemingly not happy with the economy or their place in it.

We all judge our well-being against something, typically our past and our peers. Through either of those lenses, the Disney parks — and many similar institutions of American culture — may offer a piece of the puzzle. Compared with the past, a Disney trip is more expensive, to be sure, but perhaps more important, it feels much more expensive, because at every turn one is being invited to level up and spend more. Thanks to social media, we can now see the experiences that divide us. Go to Instagram and search for #Club33, the invitation-only clubs hidden within Disney properties. What you see there will not make you feel a kinship with your fellow man, unless you are one of the very few invited in.

America’s 20th century was a fortunate moment when we could rely on companies like Disney to deliver rich and unifying elements of our culture. Walt Disney hoped that his audience would have “no racial, national, political, religious or social differences”; he wanted to appeal to everyone, in no small part because appealing to everyone was profitable. It was a time when big institutions were trusted, and the culture they created was shared by nearly all Americans.

The economics of appealing to the middle class aren’t what they used to be. The market, and increasingly the culture, is dominated by the affluent. And technology is enabling companies to see these previously invisible class divides and act on them.

Based on what we earn, we see different ads, stand in different lines, eat different food, stay in different hotels, watch the parade from different sections and on and on. What’s profitable today is not unification. It’s segmentation.

Despite the setbacks she experienced, Ms. Cressel said she still had a good time. A few elements of the old Disney vision remain, like the opportunity to meet characters like Mickey Mouse, which is still offered first come first served. When one of her grandsons wanted an individual picture with the Elsa character from the movie “Frozen,” reminding her of her love of Disney characters when she was young, “it brought a tear to my eye.”

Ms. Cressel figured that her seven days in Orlando cost about $8,000 for two adults and three kids — around 15 percent of what she and her daughter earn each year after taxes. But she is already thinking about a return trip. And if she does return, she vows to bump up her budget to stay at a Disney-owned hotel. She’ll buy more reservations as well.

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The responses to this discovery were unsurprisingly gleeful: tariffs for thee but not for me! So much for a “trade war” with CHAYNAH etc. However, as we all know, hypocrisy does not work on Trump and his ilk; if anything, they bask in it like pigs in shit and leave the rest of us huffing the fumes. Beyond hypocrisy, for years the common interpretation of Trump’s longstanding romance with 18th century gilded kitsch has been that, Trump, like other practitioners of so-called “Dictator Chic” (most of whom, like Saddam Hussein, have since been deposed) wishes to fashion himself in the style of the late Bourbon kings who ruled tyrannically and absolutely over their immiserated French populaces. But this ressentiment towards democracy is only a psychological analysis, albeit with aesthetic undertones. For our purposes it is much more useful to consider what Trump is both communicating with this architectural hatchet job as well as its various precedents, most of which come later in history than one would think.

In my last McMansion Hell post, I deployed the phrase “Regional Car Dealership Rococo” (henceforth RCDR) as a joke, but I think it works well as a broader idea. We can define RCDR as the ad hoc revival of 18th century ornamentation that arose, perhaps inevitably, during a period of skyrocketing income inequality coupled with consolidated global supply chains that brought down the cost of architectural materials. Culturally, it is a weed in Postmodernism’s garden bed.

I use the term Rococo here as a catch-all, because that is how the practitioners of RCDR themselves see it, if they consider it in the first place. A victim of a long-standing anti-intellectualism, at some point, these details all just became one “classical” “ornament.” Technically speaking, RCDR is a hodgepodge of Late Baroque, Rocaille, and Rococo as well as their revivals. I choose to use Rococo instead of these other styles because, being associated with a pre-revolutionary opulence, it is more politicized.

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If we want to get educational about it, the foam piecework in Trump’s office is technically called a margent – which is a strip of leaf and/or flower forms hanging downwards, in this case from a shell motif. Last night, I spent hours with various tomes and anthologies of ornamentation and could not find this specific form, though I am not a scholar of 18th century architecture, and such granular details are outside my wheelhouse. It is very possible that it’s completely made up by the manufacturer. I can say, however, that these particular margents are more Late Baroque than Rococo. Although they are florid in nature, they lack the asymmetry that typically defines Rococo ornament.

That Trump rotates these margents 90 degrees to have them work more as, I don’t know, scrolls or festoons is indicative of the RCDR imperative that ornament does not exist in service to some historical or architectural fidelity, but as a simple commodity to be used as one sees fit. It communicates architectural meaning shallowly through pastiche and juxtaposition, rather like a sticker book. This does not mean, however, that it shouldn’t be taken seriously as an object of architectural study.

Rococo and its Discontents

[image: "Commode decoration by Charles Cressent (1745–1749), Metropolitan Museum. CC0."]

Let’s start at the beginning. Though it’s not my favorite style, the reputation of Rococo architecture suffers, I think, from its various afterlives. The use of the term in the 19th century, for example, is similar to how I’ve used it casually in the past: to denote something that is busy and overly ornamented. Originally devised by the French in the early 18th century, Rococo was a reaction to the heavy-handed classicism of the Louis XIV style, characterized by looming, imposing pediments and strict geometries. Bereft of mythical and antique motifs, Rococo was considered lighter and more frivolous than its predecessor. It is best remembered for its pastel colors, its introduction of the exotic, especially chinoiserie, and its use of scrolls on pediments and bandwork. The originator of the rockwork and fake grottos that would become even more popular in the 19th century (including in the castles of our King Ludwig II), Rococo expressed the beginning of what would emerge more fully in Romanticism: a longing for an idealized natural world that was becoming increasingly encroached upon by industry and urbanization.

The French Revolution swept away the original Rococo movement along with many of the despots who proliferated it. However Rococo’s death was short-lived, a premature conclusion. History has repeatedly shown that an architectural style is one of the hardest cultural life forms to kill off. As the Bourbon kings returned to power in the wake of Napoleonic rule, they brought their style with them as means of cementing soft political power. From then on, Rococo revivalism became a fixture of French nationalism. (Perhaps more important to our contemporary analysis is that the Bourbon Restoration was also a period of illiberal protectionism characterized by, you guessed it, high ariffs.)

Even after the July Revolution, this revival lingered for most of the 19th century, and sometimes even merged syncretically with the Romantic movement. Here it was inevitably a bourgeois reaction to not only the Revolution itself, but to emerging changes in society, technology and labor relations, all of which would result in major crises by the middle of the century. This ruling class nostalgia for times of absolute domination over the populace and its use as a conservative, if not nationalistic and imperialist signifier is a defining characteristic of Rococo Revivalism in all its forms, including RCDR.

In its Second Empire (1830-1848) iteration, the nouveau riche of the petit bourgeoisie gravitated in particular towards Rococo decorative arts as a way of legitimating their newly-obtained wealth and prestige, to say to the old aristocrats: we’re not so different, you and me. However, this bourgeois aesthetic pact with the Rococo was a Faustian one. The same techniques of mass production that made the bourgeoisie rich also made the style more accessible than ever, thereby diluting its power.

Early mass production techniques from Britain, such as the steam press, allowed Rococo motifs to be imprinted on thinner sheets of silver – no need for the hassle of silversmithing. Later, industrial mills churned out wooden balustrades and scrollwork at an unthinkable pace. Suddenly, the style of extreme ornamentation had fallen prey to mechanical reproduction. In the process, the original works of Rococo decorative arts, paradoxically, would only become more valuable, as they now retained what Walter Benjamin called “the aura” – i.e. the special, reified thingness imbued in an original work which has since been endlessly copied.

[image: "Photograph of a Rococo Revival parlor in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0."]

Architecture, however, retained its aureatic power for longer, at least if we understand mechanical reproduction as a function of labor. Mature capitalism resulted in the transformation of both architecture and its labor into commodities. This, however, was a gradual process. While replicas of Rococo architectural ornament were commonplace, these replicas still required a certain type of craft labor (shoehorned, of course, into its new capitalist strata.) This was the labor of the stonemason or the carpenter, and even though it would later be armed with tools that sped up production, this labor was still put to use for the creation of a new, albeit aesthetically derivative building. In other words, ornament was widely reproduced from an “original” (and always has been in architecture since at least the Renaissance) but, at this stage, only partially mechanized.

While revivals aspired to creative deviations from a pre-existing aesthetic whole, they soon gave way to something else: eclecticism. Owing in part to the expansion of architectural vocabularies through the parasitic twins of colonialism and archaeology, eclecticism – in which this newly liberated piecemeal ornament could be detached from its original historical contexts and used to create new forms – dominated the mid-late 19th century. The disconnection of ornament from its whole and accelerated advancements in architectural fabrication gradually blurred the line between details and their respective origins, especially for laypeople.  

While bourgeois architects like Charles Garnier explored this mixing of classical ornament through movements such as Beaux-Arts, capitalism didn’t sleep. By the 1890s, vernacular buildings – company housing, industrial sheds etc. -- were mass produced wholesale in factories and assembled by day laborers. This marked the beginning of rapid deskilling in architectural production. Even the term vernacular, once denoting the common buildings that sprung up in response to local material and environmental conditions, became permanently attached to the manufactured buildings that spread indiscriminately across the landscape.

The development of early modernism in the late 19th century finally put the nail in the Rococo coffin, though the style would continue to play a conservative role in France until the late 1930s. Neoclassical revivals regularly popped up contra modernism in the Greek Revival pediments and county courthouses of the world, but fully gilded Rococo would not emerge again for a good forty or fifty years, and when it did, it wasn’t in the realm of high architecture. For the first time in its existence, the locus of the Rococo shifted away from Europe in favor of that capital of kitsch, the United States.

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Hollywood Days

[image: "Scan from Daydream Houses of Los Angeles."]

Regional Car Dealership Rococo owes its primary loyalty not to King Louis but to Hollywood, where it found a home at midcentury. Hollywood, imbued with the artifice of set design and a very real glamour, was the dominant distributor of cheap spatial reproduction and ersatz images of the past. This was, you must remember, the era that spawned Disneyland, an institution that somehow managed to distill the kitsch of Neuschwanstein castle into something even more saccharine.

By the time Rococo hit the West Coast, the material processes of the 19th century were all but complete. Architecture, even in its most customized forms, became, at heart, an assemblage of commodities. Modernism employed stonemasons primarily in Carrera, for the purposes of making floors and wall panels, not columns, corbels, and pediments, and that’s only if said architects wanted to spend the money. Usually, they didn’t – or couldn’t. By the 1950s, concrete, millwork, stamped metal, and later polyurethane and other foams and plastics, would all be employed in the making and remaking of ornamentation.

The British architectural historian of Postmodernism, Charles Jencks, made several studies of California’s vernacular architecture in the 1970s. His small books for Rizzoli frequently explore the storybook cottages and New Formalist (in appearance only) entablatures that would later give rise to important McMansion elements like the oversized transom window above the front door. Jencks’ analytical penchant was for ever more granular taxonomies, a precedent for our internet-driven predilection for labeling everything an “aesthetic” – albeit with less and less intellectual rigor as the years go by.

In Bizarre Architecture Jencks called Hollywood’s panorama of cheap stylized castles, colonnades, and hobbit holes “fantasy eclecticism” – a mix of ticky-tacky make believe with the existing eclectic pantheon of architectural subjects --  all built with mass produced materials. His somewhat obscure book Daydream Houses of Los Angeles, provides more detail for the residential realm. It is also the original inspiration for this blog. In it, Jencks labels the most ridiculous examples with clever barbs like “topiary fascist” and “predatory mansard.” (I can only aspire to be this funny.)

Of these houses he writes more seriously: “As a type the Movie Star House displays two very definite aspects: power, as signified in a massive and conventionally bland front (like a provincial city hall) and a rambling, spread out informality (like a relaxed Texan with his boots off and his limbs spread akimbo over sofa, stool and coffee table.)” He continues: “Every star’s house has some equivalent to [a] screen rumpus room, where past triumphs are relived and the golden memories are kept alive. They bear some iconographic relation to the cemetery at Forest Lawn and the Movieland Wax Museum, being a quintessential attempt at earthly immortality.”

Trump, we must remember, was, in addition to being a developer, a product of this same showbusiness, for which he has seemingly endless nostalgia. This is, after all, the man who wished to replace the Kennedy Center’s programming with reruns of Cats. (He also has surprisingly developed takes on musical theater, a fact Adorno would have loved.) It’s not just Trump, though, who holds this sentiment. In the basements of many of the country’s McMansions, we will find this same movie room concept regurgitated by a population who did not make any movies but whose joyful memories are irrevocably linked with passive consumption, and who attempt to remake in situ the more contemporary sticky, exurban movieplexes they, as antisocial creatures, wish to petulantly control for themselves. In both cases, this is an architectural culture shaped entirely by mediation.

[image: "By Allan warren - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10976476"]

The primary text of midcentury Rococo was, of course, the Liberace mansion in Las Vegas. I don’t have time to get into the biography of Liberace, who was decidedly a 20th century phenomenon incomprehensible to my generation, a kind of grindset kitsch pianist whose offerings mostly clog up space in flea market record bins. It is worth mentioning, however, that he was staunchly pro-capitalism and had an extraordinary fascination with both theming as a concept (think a piano-shaped swimming pool, which he invented) and with anything that could communicate luxury, extravagance, wealth, and frivolity. His Vegas abode, built in 1962, is, like many famous people’s houses from the time, a closely guarded mansard on the outside – except this time peppered with filigree scrolls and goofy cherubs. The interior is a pearl within an architectural clam – and it is pearlescent. With its mirrored walls, sunken columned bathtub (the contemporary version of the Rococo grotto), fake Sistine chapel ceiling (there’s our Baroque), and crystal chandeliers, the Liberace mansion is a Rosetta Stone for not only RCDR but the worst McMansions of the early 80s.

Postmodern Malaise

Jencks makes an important point about houses like these, which is that many of them began their lives as more architectural (read: modernist) offerings that were later modified with cheap ornament to conform to changing tastes in the late 60s and early 70s – tastes that were on the vanguard of what would eventually be called Postmodernism. It’s no coincidence that they, as well as the city of Las Vegas as an institution, would be the primary source materials for Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s famous theory-manifesto, Learning From Las Vegas.

I’ve written about this elsewhere, but I’ll just paraphrase myself by saying that for better or for worse (and often both!) this important book was both spirited and populist in nature. It explored the increasingly dire contradictions between form and function in what is often called Late Modernism, while pointing out that architects, in their pursuit of perfection and control had long ignored the desires of everyday people. In this respect, the language of vernacular rather than academic architecture could thus serve as a new avenue for creativity. In their words: “Main Street was almost alright.”

By now, all the parts were in place for Regional Car Dealership Rococo to proliferate widely. Beyond architectural populism, Postmodernism saw the inevitable synthesis of, well, a lot of concurrent phenomena emerging in art and culture, such as excessive mediation (tv brain), juxtaposition as a compositional tool, and pastiche. It was backed by a rich and extensive theoretical literature, some of which is more readable than others. However, an undercurrent of anti-intellectualism also ran deep in Postmodernism, especially in its later years. And there is no world in which RCDR gives a shit about A Thousand Plateaus or what a “simulacrum” is (even though it is itself a simulacrum: a copy for which no original exists.)

What began with ironical, historically informed, and largely ludic explorations of mixing old architectural elements with new methods of fabrication (think giant, cartoonish columns; simplified but oversized pediments; those neon-besotted displays at the mall) Postmodernism eventually either lost the (formal) plot or transformed into a culture war that lives on to this day regarding the primacy of traditional architecture over modern. The Postmodern Classicism of Leon Krier and Robert AM Stern fame was architecture’s last revival movement and it has never truly left us.

These debates transpired at a time when making traditional architecture without the now-depleted natural materials or craft labor was and remains a largely farcical endeavor. Doing so is either extravagantly expensive or ends up somewhere squarely on the McMansion spectrum. RCDR circumvented this problem simply because it wasn’t thinking of architecture as any kind of meaningful cohesive cultural or even aesthetic program but as a casual expression of personal taste, a desire to communicate what are, if we’re being honest, pretty simple desires. Then, as now, it was traditionalism sold off-label.

[image: "Chair by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown for Knoll, Milwaukee Art Museum. By Sailko - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63469461"]

By the time of Late Postmodernism (the late 80s or early 90s), one could sense a kind of ideological desperation in projects like Prince Charles’ goofy yet sad pseudo-Georgian town of Poundbury or Celebration, Florida, a kind of Disney company town but for the consumer side that posed the question: what if a theme park resort were a model for urban planning? Such a concept could only come from an flailing movement so subsumed by corporations, culture warring and media consumption it forgot that cities existed at all before Le Corbusier, all while retaining the old master’s distaste for organic urban life and democratic planning. It lives on to this day in the unvanquishable meme of “people like Disney World because they want walkable urbanism.”

At any rate, an unintended side-effect of Postmodernism was the semantic saturation of architectural ornament writ large, the spamming of the same imagery until it lost its distinction and historical meaning. In this respect, it is an acceleration of the eclecticist project. Commodified and sold first in catalogs like its 19th century predecessors, then online, Baroque became Rocaille became Rococo became Liberace became Dictator Chic. Beyond semantics, RCDR would not materially exist without the innovations of the plastic age and its resultant escalation of both pollution and fossil fuel production, or without the cheap labor and global supply chains that grant both Trump’s margents and the McMansion itself their (temporal rather than stylistic) immediacy. Within three months, the Oval Office was transformed from its more routine Biden iteration into a cathedral of gilded junk, all for the low, low price of $1 to $5. But most importantly, more than anything else, RCDR would not exist without the explosion of income inequality spanning from the 1970s to our current oligarchal predicament. It was this minting of new millionaires and billionaires that stimulated the old bourgeois demand for such imagery of wealth, albeit desiccated, at scales not seen since the dawn of capitalism itself.

It is a common misconception that the goal of Trump and other McMansion peddlers is to replicate in any way an architectural style from the past with any kind of fidelity, or that the true comedy lies in how badly this fails. In fact, there’s nothing funny about any of this, though the juxtaposition of extremely cheap commodities with the intention to communicate having lots of money is decidedly ironic. Trump’s margents are an architectural representation of the world he inherited in the 20th and 21st century, as much as the world he wishes to make: a world of paternalism and rule by mob, kingly, sure, but also a world of cheap artifice fabricated in miserable conditions soon to be imported from neoliberalism’s imperialist proving grounds into the domicile, with us footing the tariffs. In short, and to our detriment, Regional Car Dealership Rococo is underwritten by a politics as impoverishing as its imagery.

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*(The comments, however, dispute this comparison, offering instead a different posting from a Vietnamese wholesaler. I find this proposal somewhat unconvincing on a logistical rather than architectural basis, as a site such as Alibaba would be much easier and seamless to order from. The truth is probably in the middle – a similar listing we haven’t yet uncovered.)"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["“Don’t waste this. Keep everyone guessing. Make me proud.” When Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser spoke at our second festival in 2013, the Mac software company had just started venturing into games by funding the studio behind Firewatch, an indie blockbuster that launched Panic’s games publishing business and, eventually, the Playdate handheld console.

See the artwork in this talk, and more, at Cabel’s new Wes Cook Archive:
https://wescook.art/

Cabel's XOXO 2013 talk: https://xoxofest.com/2013/videos/cabel-sasser/ [and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZXWdR7RzV8 ]
His excellent blog: https://cabel.com/
Panic: https://panic.com/
Playdate: https://play.date/
Follow Cabel on Mastodon: https://social.panic.com/@cabel"

[UPDATE 12 FEB 2026

See also:
https://cabel.com/wes-cook-and-the-mcdonalds-mural/

and 
https://wescook.art/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Cook ]]]></description>
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    <title>A Nightmare Dressed Like a Daydream - by Nate Marshall</title>
    <dc:date>2024-05-09T18:38:46+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Apple's new ad and the limits of disembodied creativity"

...

"The title of this newsletter is from Taylor Swift’s hit song “Blank Space”. What for her was a reference to the toxic behavior of a jealous and vindictive lover has apparently become Apple’s goal.

If you’ve been on the internet in the last 24 hours, there’s a good chance you have had the new Apple iPad ad roll across your screen whether you stopped to watch it or not. Apple CEO Tim Cook shared it to his X and it’s…well, if you have not seen it, here you go:

[embed]

If it’s not immediately obvious to you that this is disturbing or why it should be, take a gander. A sampling of the comments left under Tim’s post on X:

[screenshots]

And a particularly poignant response,

[screenshot]

The comments are overwhelmingly negative. Comment sections rarely elicit this level of uniform response. And perhaps this uniting-in-disgust is more miraculous than the newest piece of glittering technology Apple has churned out. Silver linings and all that.

“Your predecessors showed us their dreams”
Apple’s founders had a dream of taking computational power and putting it in the hands of the everyman, not to make them dependent on a technocratic bureaucracy but to maximize their agency. It was a good dream. Human flourishing. Technology as a tool of decentralization and autonomy-granting competence.

As Ivan Illich would have said it, the dream of a convivial tool.

By “convivial” he meant that which “enlarges the range of each person’s competence, control, and initiative.” “People need new tools to work with rather than tools that ‘work’ for them,” said Illich. “They need technology to make the most of the energy and imagination each has, rather than more well-programmed energy slaves.” He wanted anyone involved in designing the next generation of tools to keep the good of the tool users in mind, to invite, through their design, particular human use. Namely, use that would habituate and bolster virtue, that would put them in healthier contact with the environment and people around them, that would “make the most use of the energy and imagination each has.”

It would appear that Mr. Cook and his team have not considered Illich.

“You showed us our nightmares”
The nightmare of, as Illich put it, becoming “accessories of bureaucracies” now seems to be Apple’s dream. Or at least this kind of deskilled, anti-matter, techno-bound dystopia, the kind that produces citizens dependent on bureaucracy, is what many are reading into the ad. I don’t know that I can accuse Tim Cook or anyone of Apple’s executive team of this intention, but, regardless of intention, I think it’s fair to say that the ad they have produced has unwittingly announced the end — the telos — of their technology.

And the end — the limit — of disembodied creativity.

One thinks of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Sweeny Todd, when he was finally reunited after many long years with the tool of his trade, the straight razor. He opened the box in which it was laid, raised his old friend into the sky, and exclaimed, “At last! My arm is complete again!” I have a hard time envisioning Sweeny Todd, or anyone at all for that matter, being disburdened of their tool and instead raising a tablet into the air and saying anything close to the same.

Matthew B. Crawford in his The World Beyond Your Head gives the example of early Mickey Mouse shorts versus the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episodes of recent years. In the former, the material world is constantly threatening to overtake a bamboozled Mickey & Friends. No object in their vicinity was ever safe; nothing could be taken for granted. Each item was rich with opportunity for foibles, for frustrations, and they regularly resulted in fisticuffs. And boxing is just the right response: the various foils that the world’s favorite rodent protagonist concocted were physical. Mickey was forced to engage with the world, muster up what competence he was able, and with his own mixture of spunk and ingenuity overcome his material issues.

Not so with Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. As the frustrations and dangers of the material world threaten to rain on the Disney parade, you will not find any of the gang muscling their way through the difficulty. The 1930s shorts which were brimming with comedic moxie are no longer. In the new millennium, all one needs to do is call out with full voice, “Oh, Toodles!” And from the sky drops a cutely designed Deus ex machina packed with perfectly crafted, ready-made solutions. The Handy Dandy Toodles, a floating robot that comes to the Fab Five’s rescue in each episode, offers one of four possible solutions to the various problems the crew will face. It is entirely unnecessary for them to put up their mitts, roll up their sleeves, or otherwise engage with the problem in any thoughtful way that recruits their skills (assuming they have any at all). Pain averted, frustration avoided, no intelligence needed. Oh, the ease and convenience of frictionless existence!

My point is not so much to attribute malicious intent to Disney, but to say along with Crawford that baked into the way these characters are depicted dealing with their environment are assumptions about how the writers think about life. Their presuppositions are seen through the cartoons’ actions.

Apple, it seems, has done something very similar with their advertisement.

So then, how do Toodles or the new iPad (or at least the way it’s advertised) differ from Illich’s convivial tools? Rather than enhancing human competence and cultivating a person’s faculties, these tools put further layers of mediation between the individual and their environment and other people around them. In the ad, paints and busts and instruments and models and books, games and lamps and speakers and televisions and metronomes and chessboards, each of these symbolizing entire worlds of craft and creativity, are being crunched together and in their place is left a simple, sleek device.

The message is clear: this new tablet contains creative multitudes. It purports to grant unprecedented access to the brilliance of all these disciplines. There’s a Tower of Babel comparison to be made here somewhere but I haven’t quite worked it out yet. Perhaps that’s a future newsletter. The question is: can Apple deliver on their promise? If Babel is any indication, the answer will be a resounding “no!”

“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.” Professing themselves to promote competence, they became masters. And we the slaves.

We are on a trajectory quite like that seen in the animated Mickey cartoons, from attentive mastery to atrophied and mastered, reduced only to our ability to choose from a selection of digitally represented, pre-packaged options rather than to shape the environment around us, which is characteristic not only of humans but also of certain animals. By further separating us from the material universe in and around us, the values habituated in us by our consumeristic culture threaten to, and, indeed, are already doing the work of, somehow making us even lower than the beasts of the field.

Truly a nightmare dressed like a daydream.

Just how far can disembodied creativity take us? Can creativity that is disembodied, accessible only through a glass screen and its precise manipulation, truly be called “creative” in its fullest sense? Is our definition of creativity too small? Can it become capacious enough to bring into its meaning whatever Apple is advertising that it can do? Where is the line at which this sophisticated piece of hardware ceases to be a tool for creative endeavors and instead crushes human capacity? There are no easy answers. The conversation, started many years ago by much smarter men, does not appear to be ending soon. In fact, it may just be getting started in earnest as more people feel their agency slipping from their fingers. I certainly don’t have an answer, but the majority of those commenting feel — and I with them — that wherever the line was, this ad has crossed it.

[screenshot]

As someone who does a good deal of thinking around issues of human work in the world, this ad was very interesting to me. As we approach summer, my plan is to further clarify my stance on technology, tools, and their relationship to human flourishing. I’ll be reading (or re-reading as the case may be) Matthew B. Crawford, Paul Kingsnorth, Ivan Illich, Marshall McLuhan, L. M. Sacasas, Jacques Ellul, Albert Borgmann, Michael Polanyi, Ian McGilchrist, Neil Postman, Hartmut Rosa, and others. I’ll also read from certain e/acc (“efficient accelerationism”) writers.

None of them exhaustively, most likely. I don’t have that kind of time. But these seem to be some of the major voices that will shape a phronema calibrated to human flourishing, that can engage with our modern technological quandaries in a way that prioritizes people over products. In the coming months, look for my newsletter to engage with these thinkers as I work through my own thoughts and perspectives."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["My goal was to preserve some never-before-heard recordings of an incredible Dixieland jazz band made up of mostly Disney employees, the Firehouse Five Plus Two.

But along the way, I accidentally discovered an incredible lost song that was cut from Walt Disney’s Cinderella.

And you’re about to hear it too. Let’s go."]]></description>
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    <title>Why Disney World is in Florida - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2023-06-11T19:02:00+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Have you ever wondered why Disney World is located where it is? Or how it came to be such a massive, self-contained universe? It’s a story that involves secret land deals, special districts, and, now, a corporation and a government locked in a feud.

The story of why Disney World is in Florida marries business and governmental concerns about the creation of the massive property. The engineering ranges from unique physical construction (like the creation of a lake) to unique legal construction (like the creation of a self-running government that could even build its own sewer system).

Further Reading:
Buying Disney’s World (https://www.amazon.com/Buying-Disneys-World-Florida-Swampland/dp/1733642056 ) by Aaron H. Goldberg is an authoritative work about the purchase of Disney. Drawing from corporate records, internal histories, and more, it’s a comprehensive narrative about Disney World’s creation and early years.

There are a lot of great Disney fan websites out there that are obsessive in their Disney coverage. I found Jim Hill’s history of Reedy Creek to be a good intro to the topic. (https://jimhillmedia.com/history-reedy-creek-improvement-district-part-1/ )"]]></description>
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For some reason so many people hate cats because they’ve never had a cat and I blame Disney movies. Cats are like chill roommates. If you want a warm friend to watch tv with: cat! If you want one step below a human child: dog!"]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | The Rich Kid Revolutionaries - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-01T17:34:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/27/opinion/sunday/rich-social-inequality.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Rather than repeat family myths about the individual effort and smarts of their forebears, those from wealthy backgrounds tell “money stories” that highlight the more complicated origins of their families’ assets. If their fortunes came from the direct dispossession of indigenous peoples, enslavement of African-Americans, production of fossil fuels or obvious exploitation of workers, they often express especially acute guilt. As a woman in her early 20s told me of the wealth generated by her family’s global business: “It’s not just that I get money without working. It’s that other people work to make me money and don’t get nearly as much themselves. I find it to be morally repugnant.”

Even those I have talked with whose family wealth was accumulated through less transparently exploitative means, such as tech or finance, or who have high-paying jobs themselves, question what they really deserve. They see that their access to such jobs, through elite schools and social networks, comes from their class (and usually race) advantages.

They also know that many others work just as hard but reap fewer rewards. One 27-year-old white woman, who stands to inherit several million dollars, told me: “My dad has always been a C.E.O., and it was clear to me that he spent a lot of time at work, but it has never been clear to me that he worked a lot harder than a domestic worker, for example. I will never believe that.” She and others challenge the description of wealth garnered through work as “earned.” In an effort to break the link between money and moral value, they refer to rich people as “high net wealth” rather than “high net worth.”

Immigrants who “make it” are often seen to exemplify the American dream of upward mobility. The children of immigrants I spoke with, though, don’t want their families’ “success stories” to legitimate an unfair system. Andrea Pien, 32, is a Resource Generation member and a daughter of Taiwanese immigrants who accumulated significant wealth in the United States. She spoke of refusing to be “the token that then affirms the capitalist meritocracy myth, the idea that ‘Oh, if Andrea’s family made it, we don’t need affirmative action, or we don’t need reparations.’”

In general, these young people don’t believe they are entitled to so much when others have so little. Many describe feeling guilt or shame about their privilege, which often leads them to hide it. One college student, a woman of color, told me that she worried what other campus activists might think of her. “What a fraud, right?” she said. “To be in those spaces and be acting like these are my struggles, when they’re not.” A white woman who lives on her inheritance of more than $15 million spoke of “deflecting” questions about her occupation, so that others would not know she did not do work for pay.

These progressive children of privilege told me they study the history of racial capitalism in the United States and discuss the ways traditional philanthropy tends to keep powerful people at the top. They also spend a fair amount of time talking about their money. Should they give it all away? Should they get a job, even if they don’t need the income? How much is it ethical to spend on themselves or others? How does money shape friendships and relationships? Resource Generation and its members facilitate these conversations, including one local chapter’s “feelings caucus.”

If you’re thinking, “Cry me a river,” you’re not alone. I have faced skepticism from other sociologists when discussing this research. One colleague asserted that rich young people struggling with their privilege do not have a “legitimate problem.” Others ask: How much do they really give, and what do they really give up? Aren’t these simply self-absorbed millennials taking another opportunity to talk endlessly about themselves?

I understand this view. There is certainly a risk — of which many of them are aware — that all this conversation will just devolve into navel-gazing, an expression of privilege rather than a challenge to it. It is hard for individual action to make a dent in an ironclad social structure. And it is impossible, as they know, to shed the class privilege rooted in education and family socialization, even if they give away every penny.

But like Abigail Disney, these young people are challenging fundamental cultural understandings of who deserves what. And they are breaking the social taboo against talking about money — a taboo that allows radical inequality to fade into the background. This work is critical at a moment when the top 1 percent of families in the United States owns 40 percent of the country’s wealth, and Jeff Bezos takes home more money per minute than the median American worker makes in a year.

As Holly Fetter, a Resource Generation member and Harvard Business School student, told me, “It’s essential that those of us who have access to wealth and want to use it to support progressive social movements speak up, to challenge the narrative that the 1 percent are only interested in accumulation, and invite others to join us.”

Wealthy people are more likely to convince other wealthy people that the system is unfair. And they are the only ones who can describe intimately the ways that wealth may be emotionally corrosive, producing fear, shame and isolation.

Class privilege is like white privilege, in that its beneficiaries receive advantages that are, in fact, unearned. So for them to conclude that their own wealth is undeserved, and therefore immoral, constitutes a powerful critique of the idea of meritocracy.

The fact that the system is immoral, of course, does not make individuals immoral. One person I spoke with, a white 30-year-old who inherited money, said: “It’s not that we’re bad people. It’s just, nobody needs that much money.” But judgments of systems are often taken as judgments of individuals, which leads white people to deny racism and rich people to deny class privilege.

So even the less-public work of talking through emotions, needs and relationships, which can seem self-indulgent, is meaningful. As Ms. Pien put it, “Our feelings are related to the bigger structure.”

One huge cultural support of that structure is secrecy around money, which even rich people don’t talk about.

Wealthy parents fear that if they tell their kids how much they will inherit, the kids won’t develop a strong work ethic. Yahya Alazrak, of Resource Generation, has heard people say, “My dad won’t tell me how much money we have because he’s worried that I’ll become lazy.” One man in his early 30s recounted that his parents had always told him they would pay for his education, but not support him afterward until they revealed that he had a trust worth over $10 million. Parents also have a “scarcity mentality,” Resource Generation members said, which leads them to “hoard” assets to protect against calamity.

Secrecy also often goes hand in hand with limited financial literacy. Women, especially, may not learn about money management growing up, thanks to gendered ideas about financial planning and male control of family assets. Some people I met who will inherit significant amounts of money didn’t know the difference between a stock and a bond.

When wealthy parents do talk about money, they tend to put forth conventional ideas about merit: They or their ancestors worked hard for what they have, scrimped and saved to keep and increase it, and gave some of it away. When their children reject these metrics, parents’ sense of being “good people” is challenged.

When one woman told her immigrant parents she wanted to give their millions away, it was like “a slap in the face” for them, she said, because they felt they had “sacrificed a lot for this money.”

Parents — and the financial professionals who manage family wealth — also tend to follow conventional wisdom about money: Never give away principal. Charitable donations should be offset by tax breaks. And the goal of investing is always to make as much money as possible. As one 33-year-old inheritor said, “No financial adviser ever says, ‘I made less money for the client, but I got them to build affordable housing.’”

Talking about how it feels to be rich can help build affordable housing, though. Once the feeling of being a “bad person” is replaced by “good person in a bad structure,” these young people move into redistributive action. Many talked about asserting control over their money, pursuing socially responsible investments (sometimes for much lower returns) and increasing their own or their families’ giving, especially to social-justice organizations. And eventually — like the people I have quoted by name here — they take a public stand.

Finally, they imagine an alternative future, based on a different idea of what people deserve. Ms. Pien, for example, wants to be “invested in collective good, so we can all have the basics that we need and a little more.” In her vision, this “actually makes everyone more secure and fulfilled and joyful, rather than us hiding behind our mountains of money.”"]]></description>
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    <title>The CalArts Story on Vimeo</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This is a historical video about the founding of The California Institute of the Arts."

[via: https://eastofborneo.org/archives/the-calarts-story/

"Disney produced this amazing video in the 1960s as a promo for the yet-to-be-built CalArts. The squeaky clean, utopian vision of tomorrow’s art school doesn’t disappoint."]]]></description>
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    <title>Fangirl Jeanne on Twitter: &quot;Let's talk about my complicated feelings about calling Moana's box office success a win for representation of People of color in media. https://t.co/efgAGqMBou&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2016-11-28T06:17:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://twitter.com/fangirlJeanne/status/802934748200845312</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Let's talk about my complicated feelings about calling Moana's box office success a win for representation of People of color in media.

Western media likes to see indigenous people in a particular way. Usually in fantasy past of their imagining, that distances us from them.

So of course white people, and many world wide audiences heavily influenced by white supremacy and colonialism influence on storytelling are

going to find a grass skirt wearing indigenous girl of color lead story set in a white man's imagined version of Pasifika history.

Especially if the brown girl is a child/has no romantic relationships. She's the perfect avatar for white folks to dress up in, like Lilo.

Note: Desexualizing women of color by coding them as strong or as a child is still controlling our sexuality. It's not feminist, it's racist

Moana not having romantic relationships extends her appeal to white women who, don't look like her & won't be threatened by her sexuality.

Again, making a woman of color non-sexual is neither feminist nor is it subversive. It's how you make her acceptable to racist white women.

Is Moana an important representation? Or is it Disney doing what it's always done, repackaged POC to make us acceptable to white folks?

Here's the completed part. Moana does put Polynesia on a global stage in a way no other movie ever could because this is Disney.

It goes a long way to normalize us in western media, especially because of all the Pasifika performers involved with the production.

The fact that a multiracial Samoan man is People magazine's sexiest man alive is nothing to sneeze at, but it's also not that surprising. [image: The Rock]

If we please and are pleasing to white folks we always get to play, but is that true representation? Or is it the same old tether dressed up

in faux "tribal" patterns like a hipster white boy's shitty bicep tattoo he got in Waikiki on Spring Break?

While Disney got Pasifika people, even anthropologists, to advise on Moana, two white man wrote the story and controlled the production.

Disney bought an island in the Pacific (capitalist colonial consumption) and has opened a resort on it, Moana is part of its marketing.

Moana mashed up the cultures of multiple very different islands/nations. Twisting folklore & stories of our ancestors to make us marketable.

Yes, a brown girl sits at the top of the box office, but in many ways it's white supremacy & colonialism that got her there. We're complicit

Should you see Moana? That's a choice I can't and won't make for others. But you should educate yourself and support Pasifika people.

Support Pasifika performers, support and promote media created by Pasifika creators. Use the momentum of Moana to signal boost our voices.

I'm going to see Moana. I've bought merch for myself and my nieces. We are American, raised in Disney and feel the hunger to see ourselves.

I won't shame myself or any other Pasifika people for a natural reaction to our oppression. Our joy is always wrapped in pain and sorrow.

But we need what little joy we can find. I need to see a (Moana) doll with my body and hair, since I began hating myself as a young child.

If you're non-Pasifika person of color Moana provides you an opportunity to see how racism affects us, and how it may work inside of you.

People of color are not immune to consuming each other's culture. It's part of how white supremacy works on us, wears us down and harms us.

If you visited Hawai'i you were on occupied indigenous land that was stolen from its people by America and capitalist interest.

You were taught to consume us since you were a little kid BY DISNEY! [images]

Your were to taught to mock our language and culture by Finding Nemo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDnz360m28Q

You are complicit in our erasure, dehumanizations, and commodification. We all are. This is what Western media does to all of us.

If you have the privilege to look away, to not see you MUST force yourself to look, to acknowledge and do something to help us.

We don't get to walk away from Moana. White men graffitied our home. There is no escaping it. We will make the best of it as we always do."

[via: https://twitter.com/edyong209/status/803000729816494080 ]]]></description>
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    <title>Lemming Suicide Is a Myth That Was Perpetuated by Disney</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-29T05:31:27+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We've all heard that lemmings jump into the sea every year, drowning themselves because they are just following the herd. Except they don't. That's actually a myth invented for a Disney wildlife documentary, and it has blinded us to the truth about the weird lives of lemmings for decades.

Lemmings are small, fluffy rodents that live mostly in the Arctic, thriving on the snowy tundra in places like Norway, northern Alaska, and Siberia. One of the great mysteries of lemmings is their odd population cycle. Like many rodents, their population expands every few years. But among lemmings, this explosion is dramatic — every few years, their population grows 100 to 1000 times larger in just one winter season.

These events are often called lemming outbreaks because the rodents will migrate all over the place looking for food, even swimming across rivers and lakes to find plants and mosses to eat. Occasionally, they fall off rocks or cliffs as they scramble to find sustenance. Then, just as abruptly, their population crashes into near-extinction.

For centuries, legends have formed around this odd cycle. Where do the lemming outbreaks come from? And what happens to all of the rodents afterwards? One popular myth was that they all just jumped into the ocean and died. Back in 1958, Disney was making a documentary about Arctic wildlife, White Wilderness, and decided that legends were as good as facts. So they brought in a truck full of lemmings to throw into the Arctic ocean. First, they put a bunch of the lemmings on a big, snowy turntable to film them "running" toward some cliffs. Then they shoved hundreds of these poor little guys over the cliff, into the ocean, where they (not surprisingly) drowned after trying to swim.

Here is the original clip from White Wilderness, below. Knowing that these lemmings were deliberately shoved over the cliff and drowned makes this pretty upsetting, so be warned before watching.

This film is what gave rise to many sayings about how lemmings follow the herd no matter what. And of course it's misled many people into thinking that lemmings commit mass suicide on a regular basis.

The reality is actually just as mysterious as the legends. Lemmings are one of the only true Arctic rodents, and they prefer to reproduce in winter. During especially cold winters, or at chilly high altitudes, they will have far more offspring. Lemming population booms, according to researchers' observations, are dependent on icy cold weather. There are likely a few reasons for this, but most important would be that they've adapted to cold weather systems — when there's a long, intense winter, these little guys breed like crazy under the snow.

As for what causes the lemmings' massive population crash — we still aren't completely sure. We know for certain that it's not mass suicide, but we also know that more adult lemmings die during outbreak years. So the population is huge, but a lot more of the animals are dying than during a typical year.

This high lemming death rate could be because the expanded population suffers food shortages, or it could be caused by predators chowing down on these tasty creatures that are suddenly everywhere underfoot. Another possibility is that there is a lot more infanticide because so many males want to mate with females — and killing a female's brood will make her ready to mate again.

Because the most intriguing part of the lemmings' lifecycle takes place under the Arctic ice, it's been hard to observe them and find out what's driving their population flux. But one thing is for certain. With the Arctic warming, there are likely to be fewer and fewer lemming outbreaks. And nobody is really sure what that will do to the typical lemming population.

For now, lemmings remain a strange and adorable mystery of the tundra."

[I never bookmarked this when I used it in January: "In 1958, Disney made a film about big data. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMZlr5Gf9yY More info: http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.asp + http://factually.gizmodo.com/lemmings-dont-commit-mass-suicide-disney-pushed-them-o-1614038696 "
https://twitter.com/rogre/status/556196381258293248 ]]]></description>
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    <title>Ai Weiwei is Living in Our Future — Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2015-01-02T18:11:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/@hansdezwart/ai-weiwei-is-living-in-our-future-474e5dd15e4f</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['Living under permanent surveillance and what that means for our freedom'

…

"Put a collar with a GPS chip around your dog’s neck and from that moment onwards you will be able to follow your dog on an online map and get a notification on your phone whenever your dog is outside a certain area. You want to take good care of your dog, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that the collar also functions as a fitness tracker. Now you can set your dog goals and check out graphs with trend lines. It is as Bruce Sterling says: “You are Fluffy’s Zuckerberg”.

What we are doing to our pets, we are also doing to our children.

The ‘Amber Alert’, for example, is incredibly similar to the Pet Tracker. Its users are very happy: “It’s comforting to look at the app and know everyone is where they are supposed to be!” and “The ability to pull out my phone and instantly monitor my son’s location, takes child safety to a whole new level.” In case you were wondering, it is ‘School Ready’ with a silent mode for educational settings.

Then there is ‘The Canary Project’ which focuses on American teens with a driver’s license. If your child is calling somebody, texting or tweeting behind the wheel, you will be instantly notified. You will also get a notification if your child is speeding or is outside the agreed-on territory.

If your child is ignoring your calls and doesn’t reply to your texts, you can use the ‘Ignore no more’ app. It will lock your child’s phone until they call you back. This clearly shows that most surveillance is about control. Control is the reason why we take pleasure in surveilling ourselves more and more.

I won’t go into the ‘Quantified Self’ movement and our tendency to put an endless amount of sensors on our body attempting to get “self knowlegde through numbers”. As we have already taken the next step towards control: algorithmic punishment if we don’t stick to our promises or reach our own goals."

…

"Normally his self-measured productivity would average around 40%, but with Kara next to him, his productiviy shot upward to 98%. So what do you do with that lesson? You create a wristband that shocks you whenever you fail to keep to your own plan. The wristband integrates well, of course, with other apps in your “productivity ecosystem”."

…

"On Kickstarter the makers of the ‘Blink’ camera tried to crowdfund 200.000 dollars for their invention. They received over one millions dollars instead. The camera is completely wireless, has a battery that lasts a year and streams HD video straight to your phone."

…

"I would love to speak about the problems of gentrification in San Francisco, or about a culture where nobody thinks you are crazy when you utter the sentence “Don’t touch me, I’ll fucking sue you” or about the fact this Google Glass user apparently wasn’t ashamed enough about this interaction to not post this video online. But I am going to talk about two other things: the first-person perspective and the illusionary symmetry of the Google Glass.

First the perspective from which this video was filmed. When I saw the video for the first time I was completely fascinated by her own hand which can be seen a few times and at some point flips the bird."

…

"The American Civil Liberties Union (also known as the ACLU) released a report late last year listing the advantages and disadvantages of bodycams. The privacy concerns of the people who will be filmed voluntarily or involuntarily and of the police officers themselves (remember Ai Weiwei’s guards who were continually watched) are weighed against the impact bodycams might have in combatting arbitrary police violence."

…

"A short while ago I noticed that you didn’t have to type in book texts anymore when filling in a reCAPTCHA. Nowadays you type in house numbers helping Google, without them asking you, to further digitize the physical world."

…

"This is the implicit view on humanity that the the big tech monopolies have: an extremely cheap source of labour which can be brought to a high level of productivity through the smart use of machines. To really understand how this works we need to take a short detour to the gambling machines in Las Vegas."

…

"Taleb has written one of the most important books of this century. It is called ‘Anti-fragile: Things That Gain from Disorder’ and it explores how you should act in a world that is becoming increasingly volatile. According to him, we have allowed efficiency thinking to optimize our world to such an extent that we have lost the flexibility and slack that is necessary for dealing with failure. This is why we can no longer handle any form of risk.

Paradoxically this leads to more repression and a less safe environment. Taleb illustrates this with an analogy about a child which is raised by its parents in a completely sterile environment having a perfect life without any hard times. That child will likely grow up with many allergies and will not be able to navigate the real world.

We need failure to be able to learn, we need inefficiency to be able to recover from mistakes, we have to take risks to make progress and so it is imperative to find a way to celebrate imperfection.

We can only keep some form of true freedom if we manage to do that. If we don’t, we will become cogs in the machines. I want to finish with a quote from Ai Weiwei:

<blockquote>“Freedom is a pretty strange thing. Once you’ve experienced it, it remains in your heart, and no one can take it away. Then, as an individual, you can be more powerful than a whole country.”</blockquote>"]]></description>
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    <title>Reaching My Autistic Son Through Disney - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2014-03-10T00:12:01+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[Don't read this here, go read the entire article.]
[Update (20 Sept 2014): Now Radio Lab has done a story. http://www.radiolab.org/story/juicervose/ ]

"Owen’s chosen affinity clearly opened a window to myth, fable and legend that Disney lifted and retooled, just as the Grimm Brothers did, from a vast repository of folklore. Countless cultures have told versions of “Beauty and the Beast,” which dates back 2,000 years to the Latin “Cupid and Psyche” and certainly beyond that. These are stories human beings have always told themselves to make their way in the world.

But what draws kids like Owen to these movies is something even more elemental. Walt Disney told his early animators that the characters and the scenes should be so vivid and clear that they could be understood with the sound turned off. Inadvertently, this creates a dream portal for those who struggle with auditory processing, especially, in recent decades, when the films can be rewound and replayed many times.

The latest research that Cornelia and I came across seems to show that a feature of autism is a lack of traditional habituation, or the way we become used to things. Typically, people sort various inputs, keep or discard them and then store those they keep. Our brains thus become accustomed to the familiar. After the third viewing of a good movie, or a 10th viewing of a real favorite, you’ve had your fill. Many autistic people, though, can watch that favorite a hundred times and seemingly feel the same sensations as the first time. While they are soothed by the repetition, they may also be looking for new details and patterns in each viewing, so-called hypersystemizing, a theory that asserts that the repetitive urge underlies special abilities for some of those on the spectrum.

Disney provided raw material, publicly available and ubiquitous, that Owen, with our help, built into a language and a tool kit. I’m sure, with enough creativity and energy, this can be done with any number of interests and disciplines. For some kids, their affinity is for train schedules; for others, it’s maps. While our household may not be typical, with a pair of writerly parents and a fixation on stories — all of which may have accentuated and amplified Owen’s native inclinations — we have no doubt that he shares a basic neurological architecture with people on the autism spectrum everywhere.

The challenge is how to make our example useful to other families and other kids, whatever their burning interest. That’s what Team Owen seems to be talking about. How does this work? Is there a methodology? Can it be translated from anecdote to analysis and be helpful to others in need?"

…

"The room gets quiet. It’s clear that many of these students have rarely, if ever, had their passion for Disney treated as something serious and meaningful.

One young woman talks about how her gentle nature, something that leaves her vulnerable, is a great strength in how she handles rescue dogs. Another mentions “my brain, because it can take me on adventures of imagination.”

A young man, speaking in a very routinized way with speech patterns that closely match the “Rain Man” characterization of autism, asks me the date of my birth. I tell him, and his eyes flicker. “That was a Friday.”

When I ask the group which Disney character they most identify with, the same student, now enlivened, says Pinocchio and eventually explains, “I feel like a wooden boy, and I’ve always dreamed of feeling what real boys feel.” The dorm counselor, who told me ahead of time that this student has disciplinary issues and an unreachable emotional core, then compliments him — “That was beautiful,” she says — and looks at me with astonishment. I shrug. He’d already bonded in a soul-searching way with his character. I just asked him which one.

It goes on this way for an hour. Like a broken dam. The students, many of whom have very modest expressive speech, summon subtle and deeply moving truths.

There’s a reason — a good-enough reason — that each autistic person has embraced a particular interest. Find that reason, and you will find them, hiding in there, and maybe get a glimpse of their underlying capacities. In our experience, we found that showing authentic interest will help them feel dignity and impel them to show you more, complete with maps and navigational tools that may help to guide their development, their growth. Revealed capability, in turn, may lead to a better understanding of what’s possible in the lives of many people who are challenged."

…

"For nearly a decade, Owen has been coming to see Griffin in this basement office, trying to decipher the subtle patterns of how people grow close to one another. That desire to connect has always been there as, the latest research indicates, it may be in all autistic people; their neurological barriers don’t kill the desire, even if it’s deeply submerged. And this is the way he still is — autism isn’t a spell that has been broken; it’s a way of being. That means the world will continue to be inhospitable to him, walking about, as he does, uncertain, missing cues, his heart exposed. But he has desperately wanted to connect, to feel his life, fully, and — using his movies and the improvised tool kit we helped him build — he’s finding his footing. For so many years, it was about us finding him, a search joined by Griffin and others. Now it was about him finding himself.

“Owen, my good friend,” Griffin says, his eyes glistening, “it’s fair to say, you’re on your way.”

Owen stands up, that little curly-haired boy now a man, almost Griffin’s height, and smiles, a knowing smile of self-awareness.

“Thank you, Rafiki,” Owen says to Griffin. “For everything.”

“Is friendship forever?” Owen asks me.

“Yes, Owen, it often is.”

“But not always.”

“No, not always.”

It’s later that night, and we’re driving down Connecticut Avenue after seeing the latest from Disney (and Pixar), “Brave.” I think I understand now, from a deeper place, how Owen, and some of his Disney Club friends, use the movies and why it feels so improbable. Most of us grow from a different direction, starting as utterly experiential, sorting through the blooming and buzzing confusion to learn this feels good, that not so much, this works, that doesn’t, as we gradually form a set of rules that we live by, with moral judgments at the peak.

Owen, with his reliance from an early age on myth and fable, each carrying the clarity of black and white, good and evil, inverts this pyramid. He starts with the moral — beauty lies within, be true to yourself, love conquers all — and tests them in a world colored by shades of gray. It’s the sidekicks who help him navigate that eternal debate, as they often do for the heroes in their movies.

“I know love lasts forever!” Owen says after a few minutes.

We’re approaching Chevy Chase Circle, five minutes from where we live. I know I need to touch, gently, upon the notion that making friends or finding love entails risk. There’s no guarantee of forever. There may be heartbreak. But we do it anyway. I drop this bitter morsel into the mix, folding around it an affirmation that he took a risk when he went to an unfamiliar place on Cape Cod, far from his friends and home, and found love. The lesson, I begin, is “to never be afraid to reach out.”

He cuts me off. “I know, I know,” he says, and then summons a voice for support. It’s Laverne, the gargoyle from “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”

“Quasi,” he says. “Take it from an old spectator. Life’s not a spectator sport. If watchin’s all you’re gonna do, then you’re gonna watch your life go by without you.”

He giggles under his breath, then does a little shoulder roll, something he does when a jolt of emotion runs through him. “You know, they’re not like the other sidekicks.”

He has jumped ahead of me again. I scramble. “No? How?”

“All the other sidekicks live within their movies as characters, walk around, do things. The gargoyles only live when Quasimodo is alone with them.”

“And why’s that?”

“Because he breathes life into them. They only live in his imagination.”

Everything goes still. “What’s that mean, buddy?”

He purses his lips and smiles, chin out, as if he got caught in a game of chess. But maybe he wanted to. “It means the answers are inside of him,” he says.

“Then why did he need the gargoyles?”

“He needed to breathe life into them so he could talk to himself. It’s the only way he could find out who he was.”

“You know anyone else like that?”

“Me.” He laughs a sweet, little laugh, soft and deep. And then there’s a long pause.

“But it can get so lonely, talking to yourself,” my son Owen finally says. “You have to live in the world.”"]]></description>
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    <title>Now serving Los Angeles</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Nanna mobile app was created privately for a high profile family in Los Angeles. The app was tailored for 4 nannies, 7 kids and 5 parents to communicate and exchange alerts and updates. The parents can track categories such as pickup/dropoff, calendar, medication and finding playmates. At the end of the day, nannies can summarize all the entries and send to the parents in a formatted email. As part of my research, I spent 3 days with the family to observe in their natural environment rather than in a formal research setting."

[via: http://storkbitesman.blogspot.com/2012/01/nanna.html ]
[See also: http://daddytypes.com/2012/01/12/nanna_bespoke_kid_management_app_by_jackie_ki.php ]]]></description>
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