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0:00 - About Capitalism
3:53 - Political Leverage
6:01 - The Gold Trap
8:00 - The Rug Pull
11:34 - The Bond Trap
15:23 - Classical Leverage
19:00 - Debts R' Us
20:32 - AI Circlejerk
22:45 - My Awesome Trip To Israel 
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35:01 - Siphoning Your 401K
39:02 - Time and the Smokescreen of Numbers"]]></description>
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    <title>Pope Leo XIV's 'Magnifica humanitas' (with Jack Hanson) - Know Your Enemy - Apple Podcasts</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-26T08:30:11+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[also here:
https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/know-your-enemy-pope-leo-xiv-magnifica-humanitas/ ]

"As promised, here is our episode about Pope Leo XIV's recent encyclical, Magnifica humanitas, in which he brings to bear Catholic social teaching on the perils of artificial intelligence and what they reveal about what it really means to be human being. It's a distinctly Augustinian reading of our nature and destiny, marked not just by Leo's attention to our limits as flawed and fallible creatures, but the joy and hope found by living into them—which, finally, becomes his plea to see life from the perspective of the lowly, the downcast, the abandoned. 

To help us explain such a rich document, we had on our friend Jack Hanson, one of the most perceptive American writers on the Catholic Church. We tease out the connections between this Leo's first and encyclical and that of his namesake Leo XIII's Rerum novarum, an intervention on behalf of working people during the industrial and considered the origin of Catholic social teaching; Leo's "Augustinianism"; the encyclical's critique of artificial intelligence and what that has to do with its account of what really makes us human; and more.

Sources:

Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica humanitas, May 15, 2026
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, May 15, 1891
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum.html

Jack Hanson, "A Serious Man: The Militant Mysticism of Charles Péguy," Commonweal, May 3, 2021
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/serious-man-0

– “The Heresy of Americanism,” The Drift, Jun 10, 2025. 
https://newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-heresy-of-americanism

Michael Oakeshott, "The Tower of Babel" in On History and Other Essays (1983)
https://about.libertyfund.org/books/on-history-and-other-essays/

Reinhold Niebuhr, "The Tower of Babel" in Beyond Tragedy: Essays on the Christian Interpretation of History (1937)
https://books.google.com/books/about/Beyond_Tragedy.html?id=-Y0WAQAAMAAJ

Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto,” (1985)
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduates/modules/fictionnownarrativemediaandtheoryinthe21stcentury/manifestly_haraway_----_a_cyborg_manifesto_science_technology_and_socialist-feminism_in_the_....pdf "]]></description>
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    <title>How The Deep State Is Plotting To Protect Corporate Power - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-26T04:58:37+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["You could end up on a watchlist for fighting back in the class war.

The feds now consider opposition to data centers, inequality, and Big Tech as potential domestic terrorism.

We uncovered how the FBI is colluding with corporate America to surveil ordinary Americans."]]></description>
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In Planet Israel, Gillian sets out to understand why 73% of Israelis support what is happening in Gaza. She explores how trauma, nationalism, moral disengagement and the forces that lead societies to lose their “moral compass”.

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What’s in this video:
—Why Labatut uses literary fiction to explore quantum physics, AI, and madness
—Humans as “continuous” beings vs. the digital, discrete abstractions behind AI
—John von Neumann as a human superintelligence—and what his blind spots reveal
—AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Lee Sedol as parables of abstraction vs. lived human life
—Critique of “super‑” narratives and the limits of intelligence‑centric thinking about AI

Labatut doesn’t offer a policy blueprint or a growth forecast. Instead, he invites us to look directly at the emotional, moral, and narrative realities of the AI age: our shame and enthusiasm, our abstractions and our bodies, our hunger for superintelligence and our refusal to stay merely human. 

If you’re building AI, or just trying to live with it, this conversation offers a bracing, poetic counterweight to techno‑optimist narratives.

Recorded live at Sana AI Summit 2026, New York, May 21st, 2026."

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"Jasmine Sun You cover deeply technical and scientific concepts in your novels, from quantum computing and physics to advanced AI innovations like AlphaGo. What is it about literary writing that you’re drawn to as a medium for exploring these technologies?

Benjamín Labatut I think that human phenomena is much more complex than can be captured with nonfiction. Participating in these talks, you get a sense of something that’s being left out, something fundamental. I think that just goes back to the way that at least this part of civilization has evolved. We have taken a definite direction towards the digital, and that leaves out the continuous, no? And I think we are really unlike these things that we’re creating. We are continuous beings, we are not digital, and there’s an enormous part that is left out.

Literature tries to weave the rainbow back together. It involves irrationality; it involves all of those things that science has, by its own method, left out. Literature tries to put it back in, so it presents a messier, darker, and perhaps more complete, if less powerful, perspective on the world.

Jasmine Sun What do you mean when you say we are “continuous beings,” exactly?

Benjamín Labatut I think that is an incredibly profound subject that I could not explain in sixteen minutes. Just listening to the talks and looking at the visuals of the event, I feel I’m back at a time when people were washing their teeth with radioactive products and smiling—beaming, no? It all feels sort of 50s, a nuclear enthusiasm.

Before I could even attempt to answer the difficulties posed by the fact that most of our being right now is digital and discrete, divided into things that can be easily accessed through rationality and logic—our computer systems all work like this. The equations behind them are sort of like that. It goes back to the foundation of this technology. The McCulloch-Pitts neuron, right? It’s an abstraction; it’s a mathematical model of a neuron. It’s basically Boolean logic applied to the idea, the abstraction, that a neuron either fires or it doesn’t, and that is the ground zero of AI.

You immediately understand what’s left out. After that neuron, neural nets arise from that. But the people who wrote that paper, McCulloch and Pitts—Pitts drank himself to death because he was accused of raping his mentor’s daughter. And McCulloch was a brilliant philosopher-scientist who ended up trying to find a new type of non-digital, non-two-valued logic, working in a tiny study, and he also drank himself to death. So what I do in literature is this: if you actually look at the people who make the fundamental discoveries, look into their lives, and try to look into their minds as well—their souls—you get past the advertising.

I was at the back looking at the beginning of the conference and I said, “Well, how about we add a little AI slop to the visuals?” Or some of the darker elements, because we all have visions of a really dark future, a very non-human future, but we don’t include it, at least not in the aesthetics. But I think that’s coming. I think this is a precious time to be here because we’re going to replace this enthusiasm with a little bit of shame and fear. I think it’s happening to the people who created these technologies. Their enormous enthusiasm is being replaced by something else.

Jasmine Sun Let’s talk about one of the people who was a forefather of the technology. In your novel ‘The MANIAC’, the middle section is this partly fictionalized but historically grounded biography of John von Neumann. He appears as this flesh-and-blood incarnation of superintelligence—somebody who is brilliant but also terrifying because he is brilliant. I’d love it if you could say more about what made his character so compelling.

Benjamín Labatut Not just because von Neumann was such an astounding scientist and mathematician. But listening to the people who used to talk about him, it’s like hearing someone talk about a superintelligent AI. The way that he affected those around him, the way that he would suddenly meet someone in a corridor and destroy their PhD thesis in 35 seconds. And the vistas that he had on humanity, no? It’s a cold and calculating, logic-driven perspective. I used von Neumann to show his blind spots as a person; as a thinker, I’m fascinated by him.

Luckily, we are not a species that reasons only. Our ways of being will always be more than our ways of knowing. Many of the problems that we face as individuals and as a species, of course, you can look at them with logic and reason, but then you get to scenarios like mutually assured destruction, because that’s where it leads. Because it is an either-or, if-not-this-then-that mentality. But we have other ways of going about things. The biggest problems, we don’t solve them with our minds. We just live through them, and we are changed by them.

I think that we’re at a moment where this is no longer science fiction, but it’s going to start to interact with the messiness of the world. If there is one thing that I could bet all my money on, it is that we will get the bad almost for sure, because the good is always harder. Not just from the point of view of science, but from the point of view of an individual. The terrible things are easily reachable, right? But to change yourself in a meaningful way—to be better, not faster or cheaper—is difficult. I think that optimism and realism at this point, we can even throw those perspectives away and just look around right now at what is happening, how we’re living our lives. I don’t see that bright 2.5% GDP increase. I don’t think we’re going to sleep soundly just because we’re going to grow 0.5% faster.

Jasmine Sun I remember when Claude Code came out and I started playing with it. You first feel this excitement at the technology and how much you can create. And then I started to wonder how many of my problems are solved by software. And the answer is less than you think.

One thing that I really love about your retelling of the AlphaGo story at the end of ‘The MANIAC’ is that it holds the light and the dark. It is both suffused with this clear marveling at the capabilities of the technology—you really understand and appreciate these systems—and it also has the emotional texture, the sadness, and the tragedy of the human players who lost to AlphaGo.

Then the very last sentence of ‘The MANIAC’ doesn’t end with Lee Sedol’s loss; it ends with the invention of AlphaZero, this successor system that didn’t even need any human data to train on. I’m curious why you chose to leave readers with that final image.

Benjamín Labatut I think it’s the trajectory that we’re on, and I think it’s a mistake. It’s more exciting to think about AlphaZero and then AlphaFold and Alpha whatever—Alpha, Beta, Gamma. But I’m sure that Lee Sedol’s life after that has been more interesting. We forget to ask the right questions. The questions are “How much?” and “How quick?”, and we forget “What for?”

I’m sure in this audience there’s a bunch of people who have met the people driving these technologies. They’re not very interesting people. I’ve been amazed by it. What they’re doing is fascinating, but we are living beings. I think about the trajectory that we’re on right now. I think about Lee Sedol, who quit playing Go. The thing that seduced me the most about him—of course, he was a genius, right? But he has this obsession with K-pop dramas. I imagine him singing in the shower in that really weird voice that he has. And I thought, “Well, yeah, that is the human phenomena.” The entire thing, that he has a family, that he has kids. We leave it aside because we’re caught in abstraction. We’re enamored of our abstraction. We’re enamored of the things that we can do, and we forget what for.

I don’t think things are getting any better. They might be getting flashier, but not even just that. The AI that we’re getting right now, I can’t get it to write a single good paragraph, and I’ve tried. I’m sure you all have. I’m like, “What do you mean? You can read every book.” Do I need to pay more?

Jasmine Sun I’ve tried the $200 a month version. They’re not writing poetry either.

Benjamín Labatut What did you get out of it?

Jasmine Sun Not a lot. In a way, it makes me feel better that it can’t write. Maybe just because I’m a writer and that’s cope, but it pushes people to write in more interesting ways, because you don’t want to just be remixing other ideas, since it can do that already. I’m interested to see where the systems will go. Maybe they will be able to write good poetry in a few years from now. I actually won’t be surprised if they do.

There are a lot of people in the audience who are scientists, technologists, and engineers—people who are excited about building some version of superintelligence, or maybe about superintelligence that accompanies or augments humans. I’m curious what message you would leave these folks with as they go on their journeys.

Benjamín Labatut We’re all drunk on these words, ‘super’, ‘ultra’, and they just obfuscate the fact that there are ways of knowing that are not intelligence-based. There are lived processes that affect everything about you. We are not this brain in a jar. It’s amazing that we’ve managed to prove this hypothesis that intelligence is not substrate-dependent. That’s fine. It doesn’t take anything away from the fact that we are more than that.

How about they start thinking about a super loving being or a super sexy being?

Jasmine Sun They’re building those AIs too.

Benjamín Labatut I want one of those robots as soon as it’s out, but I don’t think we’ll be able to take them out with us because people will shame us.

So, okay, superintelligence, right? Let’s say we have it tomorrow, and then let’s say we have the brilliant idea to put it inside one of these robots. You told me the impression that you got from spending time with them in China. What was it? What did you feel?

Jasmine Sun I was in China at Unitree, the leading humanoid robotics company. When you stand face-to-face with a humanoid robot, the first thought that you have, before anything else—it’s something precognitive—is “This thing could kill me.” It’s evolutionary. It’s psychological. In the same way that a chatbot talks back and you think you care about it, you stand face-to-face with a humanoid and you think, “This could kill me.”

Benjamín Labatut That is absolutely fundamental. That is your entire being telling you something profound about what it means to be alive and what it means to be a human being. Our first filter we pass anybody through is “Is this guy a psychopath? Is he going to kill me?”

The way that we talk about this technology, the way that CEOs talk about it, it is chickens coming home to roost. We’ve spoken about taking everybody’s jobs. We’ve spoken about the percentage at which we’re going to destroy the human race. Let’s take ourselves seriously. Let’s take what we’re doing seriously. There is a plan B and a plan C. There’s also a great plan, which is the no-fucking-clue plan. We don’t have a plan, and yes, we’re going through this and I don’t believe anybody’s plan. Nobody who is intellectually honest will tell you a plan.

I’ve spent time with Demis Hassabis, and I ask, “What do you think?” He replies, “I don’t know. What do you think?” People are fundamentally lost. What does that signal to me? If we navigate this space, it won’t be by thinking about it. We’re going to live through it, and I hope we listen to the part of our brain that says, “killer robot,” no? Trust that.

Jasmine Sun How do you think Demis feels when he encounters the enormity of what he’s doing?

Benjamín Labatut I love him. I’m a friend, so I’m not going to betray the truth of our conversations. But there is that level, right? Everybody has what they will say in private versus what they will say in public. I think Demis is a wonderful example of our culture’s Faustian pact, this thirst for knowledge. All our stories ask, “Should I pick this cup, drink it, live forever, and know everything? Or should I just be this human thing?”

Wisdom has always said to leave that to the gods. Leave it to the gods. You are not immortal and you are not all-knowing, and that is what makes you precious. You are precious because you’re weak; you’re limited. We disabused ourselves of the notion that we will live forever. We’re living in this scary time, so let’s be a little bit more human.

Jasmine Sun Even though Tyler is an optimist and you are not, you converge on some of the same ideas around the limits of intelligence and rationality, and everything else that humans are. Thank you for having this conversation.

Benjamín Labatut Thank you so much. Sorry for bumming everybody out."]]]></description>
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    <title>The better algorithms of our nature - by Tom Stafford</title>
    <dc:date>2026-05-26T22:26:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/the-better-algorithms-of-our-nature</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A lot happened in 2016. It would be easy to imagine that the entire reason for this change was the election of Donald Trump as president, and to stop looking for other causes, but something else also happened which I think we should at least consider, and that other thing says something important about how social media and human psychology interact.

In March 2016 Twitter completed their transition to the algorithmic feed, meaning that it was the default for all users to have their timeline populated by what Twitter thought they would want to see, rather than a chronological feed of posts from people they had decided to follow.

The algorithmic feed is now almost ubiquitous on social media. Exactly how these work for each platform is usually a guarded secret, but in general the major platforms use some form of engagement algorithm - meaning they try and predict what you will like, comment on, or even simply dwell on for longer than average. To do this they look at what you’ve liked, commented on, or dwelled on previously, as well as considering what people similar to you have engaged with.

Engagement algorithms have a nasty symbiosis with our human tendency to respond to threats. We’re already primed to pay attention to bad news, to pick up on other people’s emotions and respond in kind when people direct anger at us. Engagement algorithms give extra power to this negativity, since both hating something and loving it can equally look like strong engagement.

Crudely defined, engagement algorithms encourage expressing anger and the general polarisation of online discussion. Think of it this way. If there are posts along a spectrum of positions on an issue, say from left to right, posts all along the spectrum are likely to be liked by the different people who also align in their preferences from left to right.

All things being equal, you’d think this would mean the posts in the center had the most chance of attracting engagement, being able to recruit support from both sides. Sadly, we all know that modest takes are less fun to make, and extreme views are easier to articulate. Engagement algorithms which don’t distinguish a comment which says a post is completely right from a comment saying a post is completely wrong add to the advantage of the extreme ends of a spectrum. Viewed through the lens of an engagement metric, extreme contents get to count both its lovers and its haters towards their success."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2026-05-22T10:35:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://aeon.co/essays/the-power-imbalance-between-parent-and-child-leaves-a-trace</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Nobody quite recovers from being a child: the asymmetry of power between parents and children always leaves a trace"]]></description>
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    <title>Have you forgotten what it means to be afraid of nature? | Aeon Essays</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-24T03:34:09+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Ten years of &quot;Alaska&quot;: Maggie Rogers on going viral and singing for 200,000 protestors - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-18T04:31:04+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Ten years ago, Maggie Rogers was a senior at NYU, scrambling to finish a song for a music production class she was close to failing. The guest critic that week happened to be Pharrell Williams. She played him "Alaska," a track she'd written in about fifteen minutes. It is a bit of folk songwriting crossed with the electronic music she'd fallen for studying abroad. Pharrell told her he'd never heard anything that sounded like it. Someone was filming. The clip went viral, and it launched Maggie into pop stardom. 

Maggie Rogers has released three studio albums, earned a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist, and gone back to school to pick up a master's from Harvard Divinity School, where she studied the spirituality of public gatherings. And in the last few months she's been as visible offstage as on — advocating for free speech in DC, performing for 200,000 people at a protest in Minneapolis alongside Joan Baez, and delivering a haunting performance during the final run of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which CBS is ending in May.

This week host Charlie Harding got to sit down with Maggie live at Chelsea Studios, in front of a room of current NYU students. It’s the same school, ten years later, now with Charlie in the professor's chair and Maggie as the visiting artist.

VIDEO: Caleb Hinojosa https://www.calebhinojosa.com/

CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
01:14 Alaska Origin Story
03:50 Lyrics Then And Now
05:50 Can Viral Happen Again
06:30 Choosing Slow Growth
10:08 Advice For Sudden Fame
11:29 Writing After Pharrell
13:20 Colbert Finale Performance
15:55 Free Speech And Protest Era
17:31 Activism as Art
18:11 Protesting a Broken System
19:25 Fear into Music
22:07 What Makes a Protest Song
24:28 Starting the Foundation
25:23 Rest and Record Making
28:11 Creative Rest Time
30:24 Writing vs Collaboration

SONGS DISCUSSED
Maggie Rogers "Alaska"
Maggie Rogers "Better"
Maggie Rogers "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (cover of Fred Astaire original)
Maggie Rogers "Different Kind of World"
Marvin Gaye "What's Going On"
Bob Dylan "The Times They Are a-Changin'"
USA for Africa "We Are the World""]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The company that promised AI would do the job of 10 people, can't even do the job of ONE company.

Articles referenced in this video:

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/31/enterprises-prefer-anthropics-ai-models-over-anyone-elses-including-openais/

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-cutting-projects

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-codex-race-claude-code/

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/opinion/artificial-intelligence-anthropic-amodei.html

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/27/1126673/openai-new-atlas-browser/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/technology/sora-openai-video-disinformation.html

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-chatgpt-side-projects-16b3a825

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-code-ai-7a46460e

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

https://www.index.dev/blog/developer-productivity-statistics-with-ai-tools "]]></description>
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Today’s guest is philosopher Samir Chopra, author of Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide. Chopra argues that anxiety is a permanent feature of being human and the price of being a free, self-conscious creature in an uncertain world. Sean and Samir talk about the difference between fear and anxiety, why modern life seems engineered to keep us on edge, and what Buddhism, existentialism, and Freud can teach us about the anxious mind.

Host: Sean Illing (@SeanIlling)
Guest: Samir Chopra, author of Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide

1:22 What is anxiety?
9:30 Are we an anxious generation?
13:05 Buddhism and anxiety
18:55 Acceptance vs. resignation
22:05 The existentialist view on anxiety
26:50 Freud and the psychoanalytic view of anxiety
30:23 How can philosophy help you with anxiety?
31:56 Practical advice for dealing with anxiety"

[Lauren Berland, affect theory, and cruel optimism not mentioned within, but I was thinking of all that as I listened, so those tags are for that.]]]></description>
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    <title>Body Cameras Are a Scam and Democrats Love Them - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-21T05:45:55+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Before you call for more body cameras watch this!! 

Body cameras were supposed to hold police accountable. So why is police violence still rising? Why are cops almost never convicted using body cam footage? And why are Democrats (the same politicians who just tripled the ICE budget) now demanding that ICE agents wear body cameras?

In this episode of Free Speech Friday, I sit down with Alec Karakatsanis, lawyer and author of the fantastic book Copaganda, to uncover the hidden history of police body cameras. While body cams are presented as a technological fix to deeply rooted institutional problems, they actually have the opposite effect.

We talk about how the multi-billion dollar police surveillance industry originally struggled to get funding for these cameras, how Steven Spielberg donated money to put cameras on cops, how the narrative completely shifted, and how Big Tech is cashing in.

Big Tech interest groups and reactionary non-profits are spending millions to push mass surveillance and censorship laws. My work is 100% self-funded. This series is not backed by any advertisers or tech giants. 

We break down:
How the police surveillance industry lobbied for body cameras for years before Ferguson, and why they desperately wanted them
The brilliant marketing switch that rebranded body cams from a police surveillance tool into an "accountability and transparency" reform
Why body camera footage is used every single day to prosecute poor people in courtrooms across America, but almost never used against the police
How Barack Obama, Eric Holder, and the Democratic Party helped sell this surveillance expansion to liberals
Why the DOJ's own research shows body cameras do NOT reduce police misconduct or violence
How ICE agents who killed Alex Pretti and Renée Good were already filming themselves and were celebrated by their bosses
The AI, facial recognition, and predictive policing data being harvested from body cam footage right now
Why demanding body cams on ICE is a distraction from real accountability and actually gives ICE more money and power
How Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, and Kristi Noem all ended up on the same side of this debate
The parallel between body cam propaganda and Democrat-backed internet surveillance laws"]]></description>
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    <title>Academia: Rigor Mortis - by Timothy Burke - Eight by Seven</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-16T04:01:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/academia-rigor-mortis</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Work the problem from the other end. What do we know about the outcomes for the “A” students of yore, when the A allegedly really meant something? Well, there is some evidence, and it’s not really very comforting for the “we need accurate signals to sort meritocratic worth” camp. The famous Harvard Study of Adult Development, for example, shows both that meritocratic achievement isn’t well mapped to generally good life outcomes and that there have been a lot of B students who have done very well for themselves both in terms of being happy and healthy and in terms of leadership and contribution to society.

More anecdotally, I would point out that I’ve long kept my eye out in memoirs and biographies for a relationship between high academic achievement in college and general achievements in life (artistic, political, entrepreneurial, scholarly, and so on) and there doesn’t seem to be much of a correlation, let alone a clear line of causation, between doing an indifferent job as a college student and being a high-achieving person later on.

Except (perhaps) in one context: you are generally going to find that professors are people who excelled in school, received high grades, and overcame difficult academic challenges, in whatever era of rigor and intensity they personally passed through. Although you do meet astonishingly accomplished scholars and wonderfully gifted teachers who struggled in undergraduate or graduate work (personally, I sometimes think that’s why they are wonderful teachers and highly motivated scholars—they know how to teach and think their way to someone who isn’t a natural at it), broadly speaking academia is a place where high academic performance is the backdrop to becoming a professional and succeeding as one.

Since I think that the education I aspire to provide and the academic institutions I deeply admire are consequential for students and their futures, I believe that good outcomes follow from quality teaching. Since I think quality teaching involves strong feedback loops that include critical assessment of relative performance by individuals and expectations of improvement that can be described and measured, I agree there’s some relationship between what you set as expectations and about telling a student when they’ve fallen short of expectations. Since I agree that some of what I’d like to expect from students, like reading deeply and well or communicating with expressive distinctiveness, is changing at the moment and not for the better, I’m open to thinking about what to do about that change.

When I think about the difference between different students I’ve taught, I think both in terms of the cultivation of repertoires of skills and interests and the sharpening of a student’s ability to narrate their interests in relation to longer-term goals and ambitions. I think about the development of intrinsic motivations over four years and beyond. I see some students really improve in their relative performance within the skills and interests they’re narrowing towards and in how they explain what they know and want, and in the ways they work on their own motivations. I see some students actually get worse in these competencies, and sometimes it is because they’re not paying attention to what they’re doing. Sometimes they’re getting overwhelmed by contradictory guidance from family, professors, mentors, or poor-quality signals from the wider environment about the future that may await them. Sometimes I see a mismatch, that what a student is capable of is not what they’ve decided to do. Or I see a student who indulging some negative feedback loops in terms of clarity of thought, ambition and effort, for any number of reasons—poor mental health, self-pity, uncertainty, fear, anger at an institutional environment that is in fact not built for their presence or ambition. 

Sometimes I see students where I am absolutely confident that this is not the time for them to be in college, but that there will be a time. In many cases, the time to do it right will never come to pass if they don’t work through the time now. Sometimes it’s the lack of thriving now that makes an understanding of later thriving possible. I don’t know how to get that across to a student sometimes, and I’m really sure I don’t want to attempt to tell the world about it through one simple grade. Is that what a B- or a C means to people looking at a transcript? That shouldn’t mean “throw this person away”: it often means instead “put this in the wine cellar for a while and let it age, it’s going to be brilliant later on.”

I don’t think faculty anywhere should attach themselves easily to the maintenance of a past meritocratic ideology, nor assume that grades and standards once upon a time produced such a meritocracy via the maintenance of a clear signaling regime that was avidly consumed by several generations of employers and graduate institutions. If nothing else, that proposition crashes into a way of easy falsifiability by noting that political and economic leadership in the contemporary United States in 2026 is still very associated with past regimes of selective higher education and allegedly rigorous standards of achievement, despite the fact that numerous Ivy League graduates in the Republican Party have pronounced their unending disdain for the educations they rode into professional life and political power.

At the very least, the real actions and demonstrated skills of the people in power now may tell us that there is something far less directly causal about the standards and content of higher education and the professional comportment and ethics that follow from that training. I don’t see anywhere I look, in fact, a tight predictive relationship between how we have measured academic performance within a particular band of selective higher education in any era and any distribution of socioeconomic status or professional accomplishment later on. Let alone happiness, contribution to the world, love, joy, or wisdom. Whatever we do that matters, it matters in ways that are not so easily sorted and annotated. "]]></description>
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    <title>‘Israeli Society Has Become Completely Genocidal' - Human Rights Leader Yuli Novak - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-01T18:28:42+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this latest episode of Beyond Israelism, Simone Zimmerman sits down with Yuli Novak, Executive Director of the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, and one of the most uncompromising dissident voices within Israel. Yuli reflects on her journey from an upbringing shaped by patriotism and belief in Israeli democracy to a painful reckoning with what she now calls an apartheid regime — and with the conditions that enabled mass complicity with genocide.

Yuli revisits her years leading Breaking the Silence — a group of former Israeli soldiers that documented abuses under occupation — which became the target of an all-out smear campaign involving government officials, mainstream media, legal harassment, and infiltration by right-wing groups. Today, as head of B’Tselem, Yuli explains why the organization chose to name Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide in its report ‘Our Genocide’. 

Beyond Israelism with Simone Zimmerman is a provocative new video podcast series from Tikkun Olam Productions, the team behind the viral and award-winning 2023 film Israelism. In this series, Simone hosts bold and inspiring conversations that face, head on, the growing global reckoning with Zionism, the debates over Jewish identity, and the urgent struggle for Palestinian freedom.

CHAPTERS
00:00 - Opening montage
0:40 - Intro
4:04 - B’Tselem
7:23 - Yuli’s upbringing in Israel
16:00 - Breaking the Silence
21:23 - Acknowledging apartheid
26:46 - Being targeted for speaking out
34:22 - The journey of anti-Zionism
39:45 - Yuli’s experience in South Africa
47:42 - ‘Our Genocide’
1:03:27 - Israeli society
1:08:15 - Where do we go from here?"]]></description>
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    <title>From George Floyd to Alex Pretti: “Copaganda” Author on Myths About Immigration, Crime &amp; Policing | Democracy Now!</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-27T17:05:52+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As calls grow to defund and abolish ICE, author Alec Karakatsanis warns that activists should take care to not fall for “copaganda,” which “takes ordinary people who are outraged over what’s happening and converts them into supporting meaningless reforms that actually don’t reduce the size or power or budget of these bureaucracies.” Karakatsanis is the author of Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News. He breaks down many of the myths about crime and policing that arose in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests over the past decade, including the reformist myth of police body cameras and the so-called crime wave. Police-tracked crime, “contrary to what you have been told in the news every single day for the last several years, is actually down,” says Karakatsanis, but fearmongering mainstream media narratives are “designed to make people so afraid that they support repressive institutions that infringe on their own liberty, that don’t make them safer, but that give people in power in our society more ability to control and manipulate.”"

[video on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSGMmfuUfo8 ]]]></description>
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    <title>The New Satanic Panic Is Here - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-24T17:16:13+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[See also:
https://www.usermag.co/p/the-new-satanic-panic-is-here ]

"Are Smartphones & Social Media Really Causing a Teen Mental Health Crisis?

Are smartphones and social media actually destroying teen mental health, or is this just another moral panic? I critically examine the growing narrative that phones, apps, and screen time are responsible for rising anxiety, depression, and harm among teenagers. 
 
These claims, popularized by politicians, journalists, interest groups like the Heritage Foundation, and authors like Jonathan Haidt (The Anxious Generation), are being used to justify mass surveillance laws, deplatforming marginalized people, and implementing policies that actually harm kids and reward big tech. 
 
They allow lawmakers to scapegoat users, and institute draconian surveillance laws instead of enacting meaningful regulation. Haidt and others boosting this moral panic have pushed debunked claims about how social media can turn kids LGBTQ. Haidt has pushed false and misogynistic claims that young liberal women suffer from more "anxiety." He is on the board of Bari Weiss' unaccredited reactionary right wing University. 

Using peer-reviewed studies, media analysis, and real-world examples, this episode breaks down:

- Why smartphones became the default scapegoat for teen mental health
- How correlation is repeatedly confused with causation
- Ho weak and misleading data is driving major public policy decisions
- How moral panics spread through podcasts, news media, and social platforms
- Who is actually harmed by phone bans and social media crackdowns
- Why girls, LGBTQ youth, and marginalized teens are the most harmed

I also explore how internet scares like the Momo Challenge illustrate the dangers of fear-based policy making, and why banning technology doesn’t solve any of the root issues of kids' mental health issues like social isolation, economic stress, lack of mental health care, and inequality.

If you’re interested in:

- Teen mental health
- Social media & smartphones
- Internet culture and moral panics
- Education policy and school phone bans
- Digital rights and youth safety

this video will challenge what you’ve been told by the mainstream media, but please keep an open mind!"]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2026-01-06T05:09:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/discover-ichi-go-ichi-e-the-japanese-art-of-savoring-every-moment.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["[embed:

"The Japanese secret to being calmer and happier | BBC Global"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0G5mbbNdBM

"Ichigo Ichie has been translated as "for this time only", "one time, one meeting" and "once in a lifetime".
 
This 16th-Century concept originated in tea ceremonies and martial arts and is still engrained in Japanese life today.
 
In the beautifully preserved village of Magone, along the ancient Nakasendo trail between Tokyo and Kyoto, Nina Otsubo Cataldo leads us through the essential steps of this everyday discipline."]

Each cul­ture has its own say­ings about the unique­ness and tran­sience of the present moment. In recent years, the Eng­lish-speak­ers have often found them­selves remind­ed, through the expres­sion “YOLO,” that they only live once. (The ques­tion of whether that should real­ly be “YLOO,” or “You Live Only Once,” we put aside for the time being.) In Japan, unsur­pris­ing­ly, one some­times hears a much more ven­er­a­ble equiv­a­lent: “ichi-go ichi‑e,” which some read­ers acquaint­ed with the Japan­ese lan­guage should be assured has noth­ing to do with straw­ber­ries, ichi­go. Rather, the say­ing’s under­ly­ing Chi­nese char­ac­ters (一期一会) can be trans­lat­ed as “one time, one meet­ing.”

The Bud­dhis­ti­cal­ly inflect­ed “ichi-go ichi‑e” is just one in the vast library of yoji­juku­go, high­ly con­densed apho­ris­tic expres­sions writ­ten with just four char­ac­ters. (Oth­er coun­tries with Chi­nese-influ­enced lan­guages have their ver­sions, includ­ing sajaseon­geo in Korea and chéngyǔ in Chi­na itself.) It descends, as the sto­ry goes, from a slight­ly longer say­ing favored by the six­teenth-cen­tu­ry tea mas­ter Sen no Rikyū, “ichi-go ni ichi-do” (一期に一度).

One must pay respects to the host of a tea cer­e­mo­ny because the meet­ing would only ever occur once — which, of course, it would, even if the cer­e­mo­ny was a reg­u­lar­ly sched­uled event. For we nev­er, to bor­row an ancient Greek take on this whole sub­ject, step into the same riv­er twice; no two events, sep­a­rat­ed in time, can ever tru­ly be iden­ti­cal.

[embed:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn4nMvgH710

"The Japanese Zen Buddhists were aware of life’s fleeting nature; every moment is unique and can never be re-experienced. The Zen tradition gave birth to the term Ichigo Ichie, which could be roughly translated to “once in a lifetime” or “this time only.”"]

One implication, as noted in the explanatory videos above from the BBC and Einzelgänger, is that we should savor whatever moment we happen to find ourselves in, however imperfect, because we won’t get a second chance to do so. And if it offers little or nothing to enjoy, we can find solace in the fact that its particular displeasure, too, can never revisit us. With the past gone and the future never guaranteed, the present moment, in any case, is the only time that actually exists for us, so we’d better make ourselves comfortable within it. Though these ideas have perhaps found their most elegant and memorable expression in Japan, they’re hardly considered exclusive cultural property there. The Japanese title of Forrest Gump, after all, was Foresuto Ganpu: Ichi-go Ichi‑e."

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[Also here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/luxury-surveillance-with-chris-gilliard/id1703615331?i=1000738102953 
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0IZJWgSZPhsQmIsYujdNLa ]]]></description>
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    <link>https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/fear-is-the-heart-of-all-bad-things</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["when you choose to drive your kid to school instead of letting them walk or take the bus, you're endangering them"

...

"At the heart of all this is an American identity forged around the idea that danger is omnipresent and must be fought with constant vigilance and personal sacrifice. Safety becomes less about actual outcomes and more about performing the role of the good, ever-concerned parent. But when emotion and optics take precedence over evidence, we create exactly the harms we claim to be preventing. Luxuriating in fear that way feels responsible; the reality is anything but."

[See also (referenced within):

"Why Car Lines Shouldn't Exist: Why car line culture is terrible for kids and families, why mom-shaming is a real problem, and how to end this madness." (Shane Trotter)
https://shanetrotter.substack.com/p/why-car-lines-shouldnt-exist

"Our Panics, Ourselves:Richard Beck’s new book on the moral panic over child abuse in the 1980s." (Rebecca Onion)
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/rebecca-onion-richard-beck-we-believe-the-children/ ]]]></description>
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    <link>https://yungpueblo.substack.com/p/on-feeling-9ea</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Unpopular truth: 

What’s meant for you will sometimes 
feel scary, risky, and new 

Ease and calm don’t always mean 
you’re moving in the right direction

The biggest rewards usually come   
from having the guts and perseverance 
to create your own path"

...

"Heartache and happiness exist on different ends of the same spectrum of feeling. How you react to what you feel is often your greatest source of dissatisfaction and stress. More so, your past and present manifest themselves through your ability to feel. Your conditioning is not just something that is intellectual, it is also experienced through the sensations you feel on your body."]]></description>
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    <title>The Antichrist Playbook: Peter Thiel &amp; Silicon Valley Apocalypse Hype - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-13T05:28:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KegSMO9XcIY</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What’s behind Silicon Valley’s sudden obsession with the Antichrist, demons, and apocalypse? Why is Peter Thiel launching a secret four-part lecture series on the Antichrist—and why are figures like Nicole Shanahan calling Burning Man “demonic”?

We pull back the curtain with two heavyweight thinkers:

• Dr. Robert Fuller, author of "Naming the Antichrist: The History of an American Obsession," on how U.S. culture keeps resurrecting the Antichrist meme—and why it turns political debate into a zero-sum holy war.

• Dr. Matthew Fox, renowned theologian and creator of the creation spirituality movement, on how apocalyptic language is being weaponized—and what authentic spirituality asks of us today.

You’ll learn:

What the Bible actually says (and doesn’t) about the “Antichrist.”

How the Antichrist fused with the “Beast” of Revelation in popular imagination.

Why apocalyptic rhetoric moves crowds, fuels polarization, and excuses extremism.

How tech billionaires’ “religious” branding intersects with power, media, and regulation.

Practical ways to de-mystify doomsday talk and re-center ethics, empathy, and democracy."]]></description>
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    <title>2. David Sacks' Dark Vision: Tech Elites &amp; the Rise of Authoritarian Politics - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-13T00:53:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPLhr8Um8GQ</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In Episode 2 of The Nerd Reich podcast, Gil Duran (BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/gilduran.com ) talks to Jacob Silverman and Kate Willett about David Sacks, Trump's "Crypto and AI Czar."

This conversation examines the rise of David Sacks, a prominent figure in Silicon Valley, exploring his connections to the PayPal mafia and his reactionary political influence. The discussion highlights Sacks's early ideologies, the impact of the MeToo movement, and the broader implications of tech elites' control over politics, particularly in San Francisco as a testing ground for national strategies.

Duran, Silverman and Willett analyze the authoritarian tendencies of Sacks and his peers, questioning their motivations and the future of democracy in the face of their influence. This conversation explores into the intersection of technology, criminal justice reform, and the political landscape shaped by influential figures in Silicon Valley. Topics covered: The implications of crime rates on public perception, the role of cryptocurrency as a tool for power, and the rise of podcasting as a medium for political discourse. The discussion culminates in predictions about the future of tech and politics, highlighting the potential for societal upheaval and the shifting dynamics of power.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction to David Sacks and His Influence
02:28 The Origins of the PayPal Mafia
06:02 Sacks's Reactionary Politics and Early Ideologies
10:43 The Impact of the MeToo Movement
12:57 The PayPal Mafia's Political Control
18:52 San Francisco as a Testing Ground for National Politics
22:31 Authoritarianism and the Tech Elite's Agenda
27:15 The Intersection of Tech and Criminal Justice Reform
32:13 The Impact of Crime Rates on Public Perception
35:34 Crypto: A Tool for Power and Control
42:58 The Rise of Podcasting in Political Discourse
49:24 Predictions for the Future of Tech and Politics

Takeaways:
David Sacks is a key figure in Silicon Valley's reactionary politics.
The PayPal mafia has significant political influence in the U.S.
Sacks's early ideologies reflect a long-standing war on diversity.
San Francisco serves as a testing ground for national political strategies.
Sacks's agenda aligns with authoritarian and anti-democratic principles.
The tech elite's influence is reshaping political narratives.
Sacks's funding of political campaigns reflects self-interest.
The rise of reactionary politics is a response to progressive movements.
Understanding the ideology of tech leaders is crucial for political analysis. 
There is a pushback against criminal justice reform from tech elites.
The narrative around crime is manipulated for political gain.
Crypto serves as a tool for the wealthy to evade regulation.
The podcasting landscape is changing political discourse.
Silicon Valley figures are shaping public perception through media."]]></description>
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Collecting insights from powerful thinkers across multiple traditions—including Black radicals, Indigenous resurgence theorists, terror management theorists, and Buddhist feminists— Rowe argues for the political importance of seemingly apolitical practices such as meditation and ritual. On their own, these strategies are not enough, but integrated into social movements that are combating structural injustices, mind–body practices can begin transforming the embodied fears that feed endless fuel to supremacist ideologies and yet are not targeted by most political actors.

Radical Mindfulness is for academics, activists, and individuals who want to overcome supremacy of all kinds but are struggling to understand and develop methods for attacking it at the roots.

Table of Contents

An Opening: A Conversation with Dylan Thomas (Qwul’thilum)
1. Introduction: Fear of Death as a Driver of Injustice
2. The Will to Supremacy
3. White Supremacy: James Baldwin on Death Denial and Whiteness
4. Class and Colonial Supremacy: John Mohawk on Oppression in the Western World
5. Human Supremacy: Ernest Becker and Terror Management Theory
6. Male Supremacy: Rita Gross and Hsiao-Lan Hu’s Buddhist Feminism
7. Practice for a Just, Liveable Future
Coda: A Contemplation on Basic Goodness
Appendix: How Activists Are Using Mind– Body Practices"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["An anthropologist's quest to understand the deep social and political divides in American society, and the everyday strategies that can overcome them.

In 2016, Anand Pandian was alarmed by Donald Trump's harsh attacks on immigrants to the United States, the appeal of that politics of anger and fear. In the years that followed, he crisscrossed the country—from Fargo, North Dakota to Denton, Texas, from southern California to upstate New York—seeking out fellow Americans with markedly different social and political commitments, trying to understand the forces that have hardened our suspicions of others. The result is Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down, a groundbreaking and ultimately hopeful exploration of the ruptures in our social fabric, and courageous efforts to rebuild a collective life beyond them.

The stakes of disconnection have never been higher. From the plight of migrants and refugees to the climate crisis and the recent pandemic, so much turns on the care and concern we can muster for lives and circumstances beyond our own. But as Pandian discovers, such empathy is often thwarted by the infrastructure of everyday American life: fortified homes and neighborhoods, bulked-up cars and trucks, visions of the body as an armored fortress, and media that shut out contrary views. Home and road, body and mind: these interlocking walls sharpen the divide between insiders and outsiders, making it difficult to take unfamiliar people and perspectives seriously, to acknowledge the needs of others and relate to their struggles.

Through vivid encounters with Americans of many kinds—including salesmen, truck drivers, police officers, urban planners, and activists for women's rights and environmental justice—Pandian shares tools to think beyond the twists and turns of our bracing present. While our impasses draw from deep American histories of isolation and segregation, he reveals how strategies of mutual aid and communal caretaking can help to surface more radical visions for a life in common with others, ways of meeting strangers in this land as potential kin."

[See also:

https://events.berkeley.edu/geog/event/301902-the-everyday-walls-of-american-life-and-how-to-take-t 

"Anthropologist and UC Berkeley alum Anand Pandian (Sociocultural Anthropology, 2004) will speak from a new book about the United States called Something Between Us. The book is based on fieldwork in more than a dozen states, with everyone from homebuilders and truck drivers to activists for gender and environmental justice. The book seeks to show how our social and political impasses in the United States stem from the everyday walls that Americans have come to live with and take for granted: in their homes and on the road, for the body and the mind. It also tries to show how movements for mutual aid and solidarity can break through these barriers, making possible a different kind of collective life in the country.

Anand Pandian is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His previous books include A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times, and Ayya’s Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India. Anand serves as President of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, and as a curator of the Ecological Design Collective, a community for radical ecological imagination and collaboration. He lives with his family in Baltimore, where he is currently working on a new book project on decay, waste, and the crafting of ecological futures."]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Flying cars in the Jetsons, trains snaking around towers in Wakanda, or the sentient rail system on the newly terraformed Sask-E planet. In building future and alternative worlds, the way people get around can be used to reveal and ask questions about societies, technologies, and politics.

Watch this recording of the Public Transit Visions in Speculative Fiction panel discussion to learn how depictions of public transit in fiction shape the worlds of our imagination. This event took place on September 16, 2025 at the First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco as part of Bay Area Transit Month 2025.

​The panelists are Jeffery Tumlin, Annalee Newitz, Alissa Walker, Vincent Woo, and Alexis Madrigal. Discussion moderated by Audrey T. Williams.

Seamless Bay Area socials
Website: https://www.seamlessbayarea.org/

00:00 Introduction
07:23 Panelist Bios
10:52 Panel Discussion
55:24 Audience Q&A
01:18:00 Closing Remarks"

[See also:
https://luma.com/0olo6szj ]]]></description>
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...

"In June 2024, I was invited to speak about my research on the human effects of generative AI at my Harvard/Radcliffe College reunion. Just a few days before, OpenAI had released ChatGPT4-o, a conversational program that speaks out loud and has this beguiling feature: its voice suggests emotion, catching in a manner that sounds like concern or interest. It pauses for emphasis. This chatbot and its many cousins are designed to act as mentors, best friends, even lovers. They offer what I’ve called artificial intimacy, our new AI.

I begin my presentation with a demonstration of Chat to my undergraduate classmates. Most have never seen it before. I hold up my phone and tell the program that I’m at my college reunion and that it’s emotionally difficult. Many classmates have lost partners or are themselves struggling with illness. We have lost seventy-one members of our class since our last reunion five years ago. I’m stressed. I couldn’t sleep the night before. Can Chat help? A resonant male voice comes out of my smartphone: “Sherry, that is very hard. Be sure you are taking care of yourself. You are under a lot of stress.” Even I, who had been talking to Chat over the past several days and thought I had steeled myself against its charms, am taken aback. It’s just too good.

I spend the rest of my talk making my pitch that chatbots cannot know us, cannot hear us. But in the days that follow, my classmates don’t engage with my concerns on the ethical issues posed by generative AI. They ask me to help them put ChatGPT4-o on their phones. Rather than a psychologist warning about the effects of pretend empathy, I am most useful as their IT support.

I wrote Reclaiming Conversation after a decade of studying what I call “relational artifacts,” computational objects that declare their caring intentions. I began with studies of Tamagotchis, digital creatures in tiny plastic eggs that ask to be tended to—to be fed and amused, to have their digital poop cleaned up. I graduated from Tamagotchis to Furbies, My Real Babies, Aibos, and finally Paros, social robots shaped like baby seals that are designed to be companions for the elderly. When people are drawn into the most primitive exchanges with a sociable object—avatar, robot, or chatbot—they believe it cares for them. And we are wired to care for it in return. My work with relational artifacts left me with this: We nurture what we love, but we love what we nurture. We love what we allow ourselves to relate to. It’s important to remember that this love is unrequited.

I was a young faculty member at MIT in the late 1970s when the psychoanalyst Erik Erikson visited to talk about engineering education. After his presentation, he asked me what I was doing as a humanist at an engineering school. I told him I was studying how computers change people’s ideas about themselves, and he made this comment: “Engineers, they’re not convinced that people have an interior. It’s not necessary for their purposes.” They see the complexity of inner life not as a feature but as a bug.

All that uncertainty, friction, ambivalence, pushback, all that drama. Who needs it?

Turns out, we need it.

When you reach out to make common cause with another person, accepting all the ways they are different from you, you increase your capacity for human understanding. That feeling of “friction” in human exchange is a good thing—it comes from bringing our whole selves to the encounter. When we communicate on screens, we distance ourselves from one another. We lose the ability to put ourselves in the place of others and negotiate differences. Intimacy and empathy are compromised, and civil society suffers as well.

This book is animated by my alarm about a flight from conversation—a retreat to social media and texting. But why would we do this to ourselves? Why would this seem so attractive? My fieldwork in homes, workplaces, classrooms, and schools demonstrates that what people most want is to avoid the “stress” of face-to-face interaction. To flee vulnerability, people in the 2010s mostly turned from talk to text. Today, in the flush of generative AI, we opt for even less risk and talk directly to machines. The urgency to reclaim conversation is even greater in the face of this seductive new threat.

It’s fall 2023, and I am talking about ChatGPT with Eric Schmidt, former CEO and chair of Google and now chair of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. The conversation turns to using chatbots as psychotherapists. Surely, I argue, this seems an area where a machine would have no standing. Schmidt disagrees. Information trumps experience. He insists that a chatbot will have every paper on anxiety at its disposal; it will know everything that all the greatest therapists have ever said about depression. In the future, he expands, there will be little need for person-to-person conversation. How could the accumulated knowledge of billions not be superior to the knowledge of one? The AI composite will always be better than any individual person. I found this viewpoint stunning.

In Erikson’s terms, are we all engineers now? Chatbots know how to deliver pleasing conversations, but they work, in fact, by predicting the appropriate next words in a sentence. All they can deliver is a performance of empathy. Pretend empathy. When you tell your troubles to a machine, it has no stake in the conversation. It can’t feel pain. It has no life in which you play a part. It takes no risk; it has no commitment. When you turn away from an exchange, the chatbot doesn’t care if you cook dinner or commit suicide. Without a body or a human life cycle, it has no standing to talk about loss, love, passion, or joy.

The idea that individual people, with their specificity and history, are less than an AI composite is a central dogma of generative AI. It’s the embodiment of Erikson’s warning. It does more than make human conversation transactional; it declares a lack of interest in what lies beneath.

It’s a new form of behaviorism that devalues the richness and complexity of the human.

Conversation is about more than information. In conversation, we reveal ourselves to each other in our conflicts, contradictions, and fears. There, we nurture our capacity for empathy by connecting to other humans who have experienced the attachments and losses of human life. What was a flight from conversation becomes the death of conversation itself.

These days, social media’s problems are in the news. It’s addictive and divisive, and it undermines the emotional growth of children. But just as we contemplate the first steps away from Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram, we fall in love with generative AI chatbots. Social media was our gateway drug to conversations with machines. And now, we live as addicts poised to substitute one drug for another, using chatbot “relationships’’ where we once used social media. Our criticism of technology lags behind its seductive power.

It’s an old story, actually—one where technology creates a problem and then offers a new technology as its solution. Silicon Valley began with the fairy dust of 1960s dreams sprinkled on it. The revolution had failed, but engineers and computer scientists claimed they would carry that dream into the early personal computer industry. Apple was countercultural, Google would do no evil, and Facebook would connect the world into a peaceful network of friends.

But all of this was an illusion. When I first encountered social media, which replaced friendship with friending, I saw us in the cold, hard center of a perfect storm. We came to expect more from technology and less from each other. And now, with the intimate machines of generative AI, we are so much further along this path of being satisfied with less.

Silicon Valley is there to make money—by keeping people at their screens. Now the industry has a new claim: the conversations of artificial intimacy will finally “cure” loneliness by offering more gratifying and supportive conversations than people ever could.

At our new point of inflection, we should see ourselves not as victims but as empowered consumers. If we don’t want to talk to machines, we must learn to avoid the hype.

In the wave of enthusiasm about generative AI, there has been renewed talk of technological determinism and “inevitable” next steps to integrate algorithms into our intimate lives. But nothing is inevitable— conversation is something we can forget, but also something we can remember. We can come back to each other and to ourselves.

I argued for this assertion of agency in 2015, and now I argue ever more fervently. There is more than a threat to empathy at stake; there is a threat to our sense of what it means to be human. The performance of pretend emotion does not make machines more human. But it challenges what we think makes people special. Our human identity is something we need to reclaim for ourselves.

That means making face-to-face conversation a priority because it is truly the most human and humanizing thing we do. It’s what has always allowed us to have common cause with other people. This preface is not only a warning against a new assault on conversation; it’s a reminder that our old tool works.

The philosopher Emmanuel Levinas wrote about the power of our embodied presence. The human face initiates an ethical compact. It signals the presence of a self that can recognize another. It calls us to compassion, to deep knowing. When we are present to each other in conversation, our mirror neurons cause our facial muscles to be in tune with those of our interlocutor. We experience the emotion of conversation from within our bodies. When I talk to engineers and computer scientists about this, as an argument for why chatbots should “stay in their lane,” my colleagues get my point but usually follow up with a shrug. They have already defined conversation as a transfer of information. They admit there is more, but it is, at least for the moment, superfluous. Superfluous because it cannot be implemented on a machine. When we make chatbots into our friends, we take up residency in that world where human relations are seen through the prism of what machines can do.

Chatbots, we are told, can now provide health, relationship, and financial advice. They can also create business plans and write love letters. But the conversations we need most are the ones that encourage human thriving. When you write a love letter, you want it to be effective (you want the recipient to love you back), but it is also an opportunity for self-summoning, a chance to reflect on one’s deepest feelings. Editing a love letter composed by an AI is another thing altogether. We alienate ourselves, needlessly, from ourselves.

So, reclaiming our sense of the human means increasing our respect for our own capacity for intimacy and introspection. It also means a new respect for the importance of conversations in multiple communities. It means dinner with our families and friends and the social life of parks, libraries, and teen centers. It means less time on social media. It means respecting sacred spaces where you don’t bring your phone: the kitchen, the dining room, the bedroom, the car, and the classroom.

I continue to believe in human resilience and resistance—and in our capacity to turn to conversation. When faced with worsening conditions, it’s time to double down on what we think will help.

Here is where I hope you, reader, will double down: take this moment to question our common practice of using the “marvels” of machine behavior to redefine human capacities that are as old as life. When Alan Turing defined artificial intelligence as the successful performance of human intelligence, he left out so much of what we rely on when we meet human intelligence. Human intelligence takes the social world into account. It is situated in the life of the body. Intelligent people relate to one another on a playing field of shared social experience. Nevertheless, the Turing behavioral definition of intelligence—a machine that fools you into thinking it is a person—became a gold standard. It was concrete and measurable.

Now that chatbots might be said to pass the Turing test, we pay the price for years of nodding our assent to its narrow behaviorism. And if we say that generative AI chatbots are empathic, our thinking about empathy is similarly downgraded. Empathy is putting yourself in someone’s place, caring you are there, and committing to stay the course. You have a stake in helping your neighbor make things better. You can’t get bored or turn away. Empathy enlarges those who offer it and binds them to others. It makes people feel part of something larger than themselves.

While the discourse around generative AI is hyperbolic (We’re leaving for the metaverse! AI will bring the end of human relevancy!), the language of reclaiming empathy and conversation is granular, humble, and concerned with the day-to-day. The family table. The garden club. These simple settings bring me back to where this book begins—with Thoreau’s image of chairs as spaces for conversation. The chairs connote the places—in the home and the public square—where individuals can find their inner voices and communities can gather. The chairs call us to places where we don’t consider our thoughts and feelings as commodities.

To me, the arguments in this book are more poignant because the pandemic stands between today and when I wrote them. Not surprisingly, it was in that time of isolation that a first generation of chatbots was proposed as a cure for loneliness. I tried them all but became ever more skeptical of the chair that machines can pull up to the conversation. When I cultivated solitude, I could hear my own voice. Chatbots led me to the pretend desires of beings that did not exist.

During the COVID years, we had all the time in the world to communicate through machines and to be alone with our machines, but more than anything, we missed each other and how we find ourselves in the presence of one another.

Can we summon ourselves to reclaim that longing and respect for the complexities of our communities and our inner lives? Right now, the culture may be smitten with the idea of pretend conversation with chatbots, but there is another choice: to turn our cultural resources to remaking the spaces in which the real thing can happen."]]></description>
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https://oaklandside.org/2025/08/18/teacher-deep-east-oakland-students-experts-how-power-works/ ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Unintentional Business Model is Fear

The stakes are so much greater than one boy, Liam, needing a chaperone to play with the other boys at my son’s birthday party. It’s about a generation of Liams, who aren’t exploring their independence, cultivating friendships, and building self-confidence in their own neighborhoods.

If you don’t know your neighbors, everyone on the block is a stranger and potential threat. Kids like Liam stay inside to play video games, and when they get older, scroll social media. They become the data points of our loneliness epidemic.

My friend Caitlin’s feeds are not at all unusual: Nextdoor’s best performing content is often the most incendiary content on the platform — the most violent and alarming incidents closest to you (which are often not even all that close, depending on how active your area is1).

If you’ve got an account, search your email for “Nextdoor” and you’re likely to see some of the worst things people are capable of and can experience: shootings, abandoned animals, car crashes, robberies. A small number of crime and safety posts are a huge source of engagement for Nextdoor, and engagement is vital to their stock price.

Nextdoor has just rolled out a redesign of their app, with a glossy new interface and some AI features. It’s too soon to say for sure, but at first glance, the fundamentals have remained the same: Nextdoor is in the business of fear.

And beyond Nextdoor, Facebook groups, WhatsApp groups, and email listservs are everywhere, in almost every community throughout the US. According to Pew, about half of US adults get local news and information from online forums and groups like these. Unfortunately, it’s not unusual for them to spill over into chaos, toxicity, and fearmongering.

I know, because I used to be on the inside: I was an exec at Facebook, working specifically on Groups. I saw firsthand how the incentives of these companies — to grow and drive engagement and sell ads — aren’t aligned with building the social cohesion and trust that parents and children need.

That’s — in part — why racist, terrified posts rack up views on Nextdoor, and Facebook group posts can inspire militia group activity in a rural community."]]></description>
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    <title>One Way Parents Can Fight the Phone-Based Childhood - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2025-08-08T18:28:13+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Children who were raised on screens need more freedom out in the real world."

...

"One common explanation for why children spend so much of their free time on screens goes like this: Smartphones and social-media platforms are addicting them. Kids stare at their devices and socialize online instead of in person because that’s what tech has trained them to want.

But this misses a key part of the story. The three of us collaborated with the Harris Poll to survey a group of Americans whose perspectives don’t often show up in national data: children. What they told us offers a comprehensive picture of how American childhood is changing—and, more important, how to make it better.

In March, the Harris Poll surveyed more than 500 children ages 8 to 12 across the United States, who were assured that their answers would remain private. They offered unmistakable evidence that the phone-based childhood is in full force. A majority reported having smartphones, and about half of the 10-to-12-year-olds said that most or all of their friends use social media.

This digital technology has given kids access to virtual worlds, where they’re allowed to roam far more freely than in the real one. About 75 percent of kids ages 9 to 12 regularly play the online game Roblox, where they can interact with friends and even strangers. But most of the children in our survey said that they aren’t allowed to be out in public at all without an adult. Fewer than half of the 8- and 9-year-olds have gone down a grocery-store aisle alone; more than a quarter aren’t allowed to play unsupervised even in their own front yard.

Yet these are exactly the kinds of freedoms that kids told us they long for. We asked them to pick their favorite way to spend time with friends: unstructured play, such as shooting hoops and exploring their neighborhood; participating in activities organized by adults, such as playing Little League and doing ballet; or socializing online. There was a clear winner.

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Children want to meet up in person, no screens or supervision. But because so many parents restrict their ability to socialize in the real world on their own, kids resort to the one thing that allows them to hang out with no adults hovering: their phones.

Since the 1980s, parents have grown more and more afraid that unsupervised time will expose their kids to physical or emotional harm. In another recent Harris Poll, we asked parents what they thought would happen if two 10-year-olds played in a local park without adults around. Sixty percent thought the children would likely get injured. Half thought they would likely get abducted.

These intuitions don’t even begin to resemble reality. According to Warwick Cairns, the author of How to Live Dangerously, kidnapping in the United States is so rare that a child would have to be outside unsupervised for, on average, 750,000 years before being snatched by a stranger. Parents know their neighborhoods best, of course, and should assess them carefully. But the tendency to overestimate risk comes with its own danger. Without real-world freedom, children don’t get the chance to develop competence, confidence, and the ability to solve everyday problems. Indeed, independence and unsupervised play are associated with positive mental-health outcomes.

Still, parents spend more time supervising their kids than parents did in the 1960s, even though they now work more and have fewer children. Across all income levels, families have come to believe that organized activities are the key to kids’ safety and success. So sandlot games gave way to travel baseball. Cartwheels at the park gave way to competitive cheer teams. Kids have been strapped into the back seat of their lives—dropped off, picked up, and overhelped. As their independence has dwindled, their anxiety and depression have spiked. And they aren’t the only ones suffering. In 2023, the surgeon general cited intensive caregiving as one reason today’s parents are more stressed than ever.

Kids will always have more spare hours than adults can supervise—a gap that devices now fill. “Go outside” has been quietly replaced with “Go online.” The internet is one of the only escape hatches from childhoods grown anxious, small, and sad. We certainly don’t blame parents for this. The social norms, communities, infrastructure, and institutions that once facilitated free play have eroded. Telling children to go outside doesn’t work so well when no one else’s kids are there.

That’s why we’re so glad that groups around the country are experimenting with ways to rebuild American childhood, rooting it in freedom, responsibility, and friendship. In Piedmont, California, a network of parents started dropping their kids off at the park every Friday to play unsupervised. Sometimes the kids argue or get bored—which is good. Learning to handle boredom and conflict is an essential part of child development. Elsewhere, churches, libraries, and schools are creating screen-free “play clubs.” To ease the transition away from screens and supervision, the Outside Play Lab at the University of British Columbia developed a free online tool that helps parents figure out how to give their kids more outdoor time, and why they should.

More than a thousand schools nationwide have begun using a free program from Let Grow, a nonprofit that two of us—Lenore and Jon—helped found to foster children’s independence. K–12 students in the program get a monthly homework assignment: Do something new on your own, with your parents’ permission but without their help. Kids use the prompt to run errands, climb trees, cook meals. Some finally learn how to tie their own shoes. Here’s what one fourth grader with intellectual disabilities wrote—in her own words and spelling:

<blockquote>This is my fist let it gow project. I went shoping by myself. I handle it wheel but the ceckout was a lit hard but it was fun to do. I leand that I am brave and can go shop by myself. I loved my porject.</blockquote>

Other hopeful signs are emerging. The New Jersey–based Balance Project is helping 50 communities reduce screen time and restore free play for kids, employing the “four new norms” that Jon lays out in The Anxious Generation. This summer, Newburyport, Massachusetts, is handing out prizes each week to kids who try something new on their own. (Let Grow has a tool kit for other communities that want to do the same.) The Boy Scouts—now rebranded as Scouting America, and open to all young people—is finally growing again. We could go on.

What we see in the data and from the stories parents send us is both simple and poignant: Kids being raised on screens long for real freedom. It’s like they’re homesick for a world they’ve never known.

Granting them more freedom may feel uncomfortable at first. But if parents want their kids to put down their phones, they need to open the front door. Nearly three-quarters of the children in our survey agreed with the statement “I would spend less time online if there were more friends in my neighborhood to play with in person.”

If nothing changes, Silicon Valley will keep supplying kids with ever more sophisticated AI “friends” that are always available and will cater to a child’s every whim. But AI will never fulfill children’s deepest desires. Even this generation of digital natives still longs for what most of their parents had: time with friends, in person, without adults.

Today’s kids want to spend their childhood in the real world. Let’s give it back to them."]]></description>
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    <title>Nietzsche’s startling provocation: you’re edible and delicious | Aeon Essays</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-26T04:28:46+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["OK, so the first one is: Don’t be afraid of anyone. If you can imagine: living your life, you’re not afraid of anyone. That’s number one.

Number two is you get a really good bullshit detector, and you learn how to use it. You know, just: “Is that really happening or not?”

Third is to be really, really tender. And with those, you’re covered."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In recent years, an irresistibly intuitive hypothesis has both salved and fuelled parental anxieties: it’s the phones."

...

"Fear is a note rarely absent from generational analysis of teens. “Always emphasize that you want to help them, that you’re on their side, and that the feedback you’re offering is to help them succeed,” Twenge counsels the managers of iGen employees, sounding a bit like she’s giving advice to novice zookeepers on entering a big-cat enclosure. Haidt’s book, meanwhile, begins with an extended analogy in which kids are pestering their parents to let them move to Mars, possibly never to return. The dominant strain of anxiety at present focusses less on the outright monstrous (as with nineties fantasies of teen-age “superpredators”) than on the brainwashed or body-snatched. “I’m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me” read the headline of a widely circulated Vox article from 2015, amid the period of campus culture wars that Haidt took on in “Coddling.” Technology is a vector; it transmits whatever ills and ideologies a parent imagines might lure a child beyond reach. Like the ongoing debate over kids and gender, the teens-and-phones discourse taps into a dread that your kid might stumble onto new ideas, very likely online, and be irreversibly transformed."

[archived:
https://archive.ph/oZUZR ]]]></description>
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Andor doesn’t just entertain—it reveals. It shows us how fascism functions, how rebellion breaks down, and how media is used to justify violence. This is a deep dive into the most mature story Star Wars has ever told—and why it matters in the real world.

In this video, we explore the parallels between Andor and modern-day systems of empire, resistance, and propaganda—from Ghorman to Gaza, Mon Mothma to Rashida Tlaib, Luthen Rael to revolutionary ethics.

This isn’t just fiction. It’s a mirror.
And it’s a warning."]]></description>
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    <title>Can You Believe Your Own Eyes? Not With A.I. | Op-Docs - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-25T02:14:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Film and text by Maximilien Van Aertryck and Axel Danielson:
The camera is a tool — but to do what? Images shape our daily life, yet we rarely question how they’re made or why.

As filmmakers, we’re fascinated by how humans use cameras and by the immense influence images have. For 15 years, we’ve investigated the history of the camera, and we’ve turned the material we gathered into a feature documentary, chronicling how people behind the camera went from capturing the image of a backyard to today’s multibillion-dollar content industry.

The video above, “Death of a Fantastic Machine,” is a shorter version of that documentary, and here we focus on something that emerged as the key factor: how economic forces have shaped what we see, from the earliest photography to the algorithms and A.I. of today.

Some say there are an estimated 45 billion cameras on earth today, giving humankind access to perspectives far beyond our own reach. But the very tool that could help us understand the world is increasingly used to distort it. With A.I., this distortion has reached a new level. When any photo or video can be manufactured, what happens to the camera’s credibility? Can we still trust what we see?"

[via:
https://kottke.org/25/06/death-of-a-fantastic-machine

"Death of a Fantastic Machine (aka the camera) is a short documentary on “what happens when humanity’s infatuation with itself and an untethered free market meet 45 billion cameras”…and now AI. It’s about how — since nearly the invention of the camera — photos, films, and videos have been used to lie & mislead, a trend that AI is poised to turbo-charge. Not gonna sugar-coat it: this video made me want to throw my phone in the ocean, destroy my TV, and log off the internet never to return. Oof.

The short is adapted from a feature-length documentary directed by Maximilien Van Aertryck and Axel Danielson called And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine [https://www.bullittfilm.dk/fantastic-machine ] (trailer [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7TcmTeuCCo ]). Van Aertryck & Danielson made one of my all-time favorite short films ever, Ten Meter Tower [https://kottke.org/17/02/ten-meter-tower ] (seriously, you should watch this, it’s fantastic…then you can throw your phone in the ocean).

P.S. I hate the title the NY Times gave this video: “Can You Believe Your Own Eyes? Not With A.I.” That is not even what 99% of the video is about and captures none of what’s interesting or thought-provoking about it. However, it is a great illustration of one of the filmmakers’ main points: how the media uses simplifying fear (in this case, the AI bogeyman 🤖👻) to capture eyeballs instead of trying to engage with complexities. “Death of a Fantastic Machine” arouses curiosity just fine by itself."]]]></description>
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Richard Osman and Marina Hyde interview the BBC journalist about his disappointment at modern television, unique approach to archival material and his thoughts on modern culture at large."]]></description>
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    <title>No-Go London - YouTube</title>
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"If life already feels precarious on your own high street, then a city like London must be ten times worse? 

Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/06/21/2515-no-go-london/ "

"Over the last few months I’ve been having a conversation with someone about why, exactly, “London is over/a bleak woke dystopia” has become the big talking point on the right. For many, London in their imaginary is some kind of end-times mash-up of: Blade Runner, stabbings, TikTok teens in ramen restaurants and roads blocked permanently by Just Stop Oil.

A view that when interrogated I think, tells us far more about life outside the capital than about the city itself.

First, The biggest burst of dislocation I have felt about the decline of this country wast not on a night bus through central, but back home in Thanet. 

With it’s seaside towns full of boarded shops, chain coffee shops and disappearing bus routes.

Over Easter a family friend, retired,  muttered over a mug tea that the town had tipped into violence; no police, no manners.

Later, walking in the Old Town, two cars locked bumpers. Drivers were out, shouting, slapping bonnets; passers by spilling out and joining in. The next day through a restaurant window, I watched a BMW cut off a young couple crossing the road. One pedestrian shouted, and the driver hit the brakes and got out, forehead to forehead with a guy shouting “you want some?” 

A lorry-driver, stuck, ended up getting out and playing referee until the driver moved on. 

My parents say these flare-ups are now routine. Maybe the pandemic fried everyone’s fuse. There’s anomie in the air. 

Right now, at home, there’s a dispersal order in place after a brawl in the same street. Thrown bottles, and smashed windows. Yet flip on the news and this sort of mayhem is always somewhere else; a stabbing in Hackney followed by a clip of Sadiq Khan looking concerned. An age based dispersal curfew aimed at young people is almost unimaginable in London, but they have been normal outside the M25 for decades.

If life already feels precarious on your own high street, then London must seem ten times worse. 

“London is Over” is a narrative fault-line.  

English culture has never quite trusted the capital. Blame Hogarth; blame the Victorian penny dreadfuls; blame Dickens if you like. The metropolis plays the villain because stories need a face; and London, unlike a declining business park in Essex, is a ready-made psychic landmark. Add in its diverse population and the scene is set. A convenient Other to shoulder the nations anxieties.

Yes, London has some grim statistics; but so do Glasgow, Manchester, Nottingham. Yet overall, crime is down. 

Meanwhile, rural crime costs farmers millions, emergency response times in the sticks are way up, and deaths of despair peak in coastal towns. Plus you don’t get regular mass brawls on the beach in London.

The countryside and suburbs in my opinion just fails to film well. Distance matters, but cameras matter more. I made an episode 5 years ago about how the media and outside of London. It’s more urgent than ever. Camera crews can reach Soho in twenty minutes; but they need hours and a packed lunch to get to Eastbourne. So the capital always wins for airtime.

Older boomers, more rural with patchier broadband absorb a loop of London violence on TV. Whilst younger users in the city watch something else online.

Auntie May in the village watches the BBC at 6pm and scrolls Facebook between her soaps: and the algorithm serves her the same knife-attack clip twice.

Back in the 70s, Gerbner called this mean-world syndrome: the more TV you swallow, the nastier the world looks. In Britain 2025, the mean world is in our pockets with us all the time. The villains are migrants, eco-warriors, gender-neutral baristas. But strip those urban images away and the anxiety out in the shires, beyond the screen has nowhere obvious to land.

Projection does useful work. If your GP’s down to one doctor, the last bank replaced by a Costa, and there’s an hour’s wait for an ambulance, it’s neater to insist that things must be worse in London. 

So a loop forms: rural unease fuels anti-city talk; national media pumps London footage; Facebook pages ad YouTubers monetise the churn. The capital’s imperfections—and its migrants—become catch-all explanations.

Strangers sell stories. And London has a big cast. Racial characters are handed an old script: once it was the gin-soaked mother; today it’s second-gen teens with Caribbean or Somali roots. Same scaffold; same role.

London isn’t paradise; it’s expensive, noisy, and very unequal. But the portrayal of the capital collapsing under the weight of rainbow flags, vegan burgers is theatre. 

Meanwhile the real rot nibbles away in places where buses stop at 8pm and the mobile signal dies on the high street.

Politicians also know this. And “Take back our streets” polls well with the over-55s, but the problem is, they only ever visit the shopping centre out of town. 

If we insist on villains, let us at least try to choose systemic ones; under-funded services, hollowed out local economies, first past the post in local government. Blaming London (or the people who give it its colour) is as empty as shouting at the sea. 

It fills airtime, gets clicks, but changes nothing on the ground.

I’m not sure what to do about it, I have no advice. But I do know that if you start looking around at your own high street, instead of across at the city’s dark and ominous skyline, the fear will fade. Because the real work, as ever, lies at home."]]></description>
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    <title>The Subway Is Not Scary - by Hamilton Nolan</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-20T02:52:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway-is-not-scary</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Fear of the subway is a mark of low moral character."

...

"In 2014, New York Times reporter Michael Barbaro (who would go on to become one of the paper’s superstars as host of its podcast “The Daily”) posted this tweet:

[image: "Situation at 123 underpass at 41st and 7th Ave has become dangerous and unacceptable @MTA"

After receiving a good deal of ridicule, Barbaro deleted the tweet. The nervous sentiment he expressed, however, lives on. Just this week, in its anti-endorsement of Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayor’s race, the Times editorial board explained why it preferred Andrew Cuomo, a famously corrupt former governor and sexual harasser who resigned in disgrace, over a progressive like Mamdani.

“Many longtime New Yorkers… have worried that their city was heading back to the bad old days of the 1970s and ’80s,” the paper warned. “Subway trips can have a chaotic or even menacing quality.”

In this vague but pervasive fear of the subway system, the good liberals at the Times are not alone. Their reactionary colleagues at the New York Post scream endlessly about every crime on the subway—the tabloid has an entire “Subway Shoves” tag page on its website. Fox News carries this torch on a national scale, using subway crime as a club with which to beat allegedly “delusional” Democratic city leaders, who have allowed the transit system to become a den of iniquity. This is a regular talking point for Republican politicians as well, who spin tales of dangerous trains as a justification for defunding mass transit. "The truth is, transit across America is dangerous," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said this spring. "And these liberals, liberal mayors, they want everybody out of cars and into trains — but they made the trains unsafe so nobody really wants to ride them."

All of these sweaty warnings harden into accepted precepts deep in the American heartland. I recall chatting with some women from Texas a couple of years ago, who were visiting Manhattan to demonstrate at the courthouse in support of their hero, Donald Trump, who was being indicted at the time. I asked them what else they planned to do on that lovely, sunny day in the city. “Probably nothing!” they answered. They were taking a cab back to their hotel and hunkering down, for safety, lest they be subjected to the robberies and murders that plague the city and its blood-drenched transit system.

This, you see, is an issue where the conventional wisdom of Fox News-watching middle American Republican yokels and Times-reading upper-class Manhattanites coalesces into one shared belief: The subway is scary. It is dangerous. And any aspiring leader who does not propose to flood the subway system even further with armed officers is just not being serious.

Here is my counterpoint: No it’s not."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Since the film’s release, sharks have experienced the worst declines in their 450-million-year history. Can we trace that decline to their villainous portrayal in this influential movie?"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try."]]></description>
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    <title>How the Media Makes You More AFRAID of Crime - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-08T18:54:46+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["“It was really clear that societies that had more equality and more access to housing and health care and education had lower levels of violence… I was seeing every single day in jail cell after jail cell with people sleeping on top of each other and feces and blood and mucus and mold and urine and being beaten and being deprived of medical care, other people making huge amounts of money off of all of that.”

Civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis speaks with Zeteo’s political correspondent, Prem Thakker on the relationship between mainstream media and mass incarceration — diving into how the news inflates crime more than necessary. He also discusses what copaganda is and how inequality in society leads to police violence.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:42 What is copaganda?
04:02 ‘The Bad Apple’ in cops and community
09:45 How the media inflates crime
16:51 Societies with more equality have lower levels of violence
19:55 No context in mainstream news"]]></description>
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    <title>Hasan Piker: Online Politics and the Left | Doomscroll - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-08T00:02:52+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["My guest is Hasan Piker ‪@HasanAbi‬, a live streamer and political commentator. We discuss the state of the online left and the massive rightward shift of young men toward Donald Trump and the Republican party.

I sat down with Hasan during his suspension from Twitch. He reads a misleading headline published in the New York Post. Later, we discuss the strategic possibilities of a two party system and explore the paths to socialism in the 21st century.

0:00 Intro
0:48 Twitch 24 hour ban
5:30 Young men & right-wing podcasts
10:00 Media & the online left
19:29 Edgelords & counter-culture
29:11 Lifting weights & fascism
35:19 Socialism in the 21st century
44:25 Insurgents vs institutions
50:58 Multipolarity & reindustrialization
58:39 Bernie & AOC
1:02:15 War"]]></description>
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In the report, they make it clear that this freak out about the impact of social media and smartphones on kids is a classic moral panic, not even remotely backed up by the data that they and other top researchers have collected for decades. Alice debunks common misconceptions about kids and technology use, calls out bad actors like Jonathan Haidt who use this moral panic to push anti-LGBTQ and censorship laws, and she details the harms of cutting young kids off from the media and technology of their time.  

You can read the full report produced by Alice and other top academics studying this topic here: https://assets.pubpub.org/bujb2qf1/COSL-06.04-11717506843758.pdf 

More about Alice Marwick: https://tiara.org "]]></description>
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    <title>How Microsoft powers Israel’s genocide in Gaza - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-18T01:38:19+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["While Israel is perpetrating the genocide, it cannot carry it out alone.

“Microsoft powers this genocide. Microsoft provides the technical backbone and infrastructure for the Israeli occupation forces,” current and former employees of the US software giant stated recently.

“Without Microsoft providing its Azure Cloud and AI services, the Israeli occupation forces would not have been able to commit these atrocities against Palestinians at this scale.”

We speak to former Microsoft employees Vaniya Agrawal and Hossam Nasr, both of whom have paid for their principles by losing their jobs, and a current employee of the company, June (a pseudonym). 

This is a segment from The Electronic Intifada's livestream on day 587 of the Gaza genocide. Ali Abunimah, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Jon Elmer and Asa Winstanley were joined by Asem Alnabih live from the Gaza Strip, as well as former and current employees of tech giant Microsoft. You can watch the full show here: https://youtube.com/live/atF2UwUPbuo "]]></description>
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    <title>The Roots of Elon Musk’s War On Empathy with Julia Carrie Wong - Episodes - Tech Won’t Save Us</title>
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[See also:

"Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy
Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/08/empathy-sin-christian-right-musk-trump ]]]></description>
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Nguyen says while the Vietnam War was deeply divisive in the United States during the 1960s and '70s, American interference in Southeast Asia goes back to President Woodrow Wilson in 1919, when he rejected Vietnamese demands for independence from France. “And from that mistake, we've had a series of mistakes over the past century, mostly revolving around the fact that the United States did not recognize Vietnamese self-determination,” says Nguyen."

[transcript:
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/30/viet_thanh_nguyen_save_and_destroy ]]]></description>
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    <title>Trump’s Power Feeds on White Demographic Fears</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-30T06:15:51+00:00</dc:date>
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"Paranoid about losing their majority status and the power it confers, white Americans keep backing Trump’s racist anti-immigrant policies."

...

" This is the most American of towns. It is where Robert E. Lee tried to destroy the nation, where Abraham Lincoln tried to heal it, and where William Faulkner revealed a century later that the country was still irretrievably racist and broken.

Even though much of its bloody Civil War past is hidden behind McDonald’s and Burger King and Dairy Queen and Walmart, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, today is still the symbolic capital of the endless American fight over the nation’s history.

Inevitably, that fight always comes down to race.  

And so that means that this is the town that best explains Donald Trump.

Once you understand that Trump’s rise is all about white fears and white power — the same motivations that triggered the Civil War — the Trump agenda begins to make sense.

Gettysburg is where the Confederates invaded the North to make their ultimate bid to protect slavery and white supremacy. Pickett’s Charge, on July 3, 1863, the final day of the Battle of Gettysburg, lives on in Southern mythology as the so-called “high tide of the Confederacy,” the closest that Southerners believe they came to winning the Civil War.

But it really wasn’t that close. Pickett’s Charge was a disaster for the Confederates, a bloody massacre of thousands of rebel troops. After Gettysburg, it was just a matter of time before the Confederacy’s ultimate defeat.

Lincoln recognized Gettysburg’s real significance as the beginning of the end and so came here to give his most iconic speech to explain what the war was about. When he said in his Gettysburg Address that “this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth,” Americans at the time understood what he meant: an oligarchic slavocracy could not be allowed to run the nation.

But after Lee surrendered at Appomattox and the war ended in 1865, there were still millions of white people in the South who refused to accept the death of the slavocracy, while many more of their descendants have never accepted that white people and Black people can truly live as equals.

In his Yoknapatawpha County masterpiece, “Intruder in the Dust,” Faulkner revealed in 1948 what Southern white people really thought about race and American history. If only they could try Pickett’s Charge again:

<blockquote>“For every Southern boy fourteen years old … there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods … it’s all in the balance … we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn’t need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think this time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory.”</blockquote>

What even Faulkner couldn’t imagine was that white people all across the nation would eventually come to sympathize with and perhaps even share that Confederate fantasy.

It is white hysteria, the same phenomenon that gripped the antebellum South and led to the Civil War, that has fueled the rise of Donald Trump.

The Trump phenomenon and the surge of right-wing extremism in America has never really been about economic anxiety, as so many pundits have claimed. True, many swing voters, including some minorities, have supported Trump by wrongly thinking that he would be good for the economy. But for Trump’s MAGA base, it has always been about race and racism.

The fact that MAGA voters aren’t motivated by the economy has become clear as Trump has tanked the stock market and threatened a global financial crisis with his crippling tariffs. Trump’s voters, who loudly complained about inflation under the Biden administration, now say they don’t care about the higher prices and financial panic generated by Trump’s tariffs. 

Instead of economic angst, MAGA is gripped by a demographic paranoia of the same kind that surged throughout the South in the years just before the Civil War. The antebellum South feared what was to come in 20 years: America’s western expansion would lead to the creation of so many free states that the South would eventually be outnumbered in Congress and lose its power to defend slavery. The Civil War was about the future.

Today, MAGA also fears the future: It fears that America will soon become so diverse that white people will lose their power over politics and society.

Here is the figure that freaks out MAGA the most: In 2025, only about 47 percent of American children under five years old are white.

That one statistic explains MAGA hysteria — and explains much of Trump’s agenda. It explains his draconian anti-immigration and deportation policies and his attempts to end birthright citizenship. It also explains the anti-abortion movement and the right-wing pro-natal movement, both of which represent flailing attempts to increase the white percentage of the population. The racist truth about the right-wing pro-natal movement becomes clear by examining its contradictory positions; many of its leaders are virulently anti-immigration at the same time they say they fear population decline. They only fear white population decline.

As long as Trump demagogues about race and identity and takes actions that his base thinks are designed to curb minority population growth and enhance white power, MAGA will go along with anything else that he wants to do.

Right now, that racial bond between Trump and his base manifests itself through Trump’s draconian anti-immigration policies. Trump and his MAGA base are obsessed with immigrants. Trump has pushed out a frenzied series of anti-immigration orders, including, among many others, the freezing of funding for refugee resettlement and the scrapping of temporary protected status for refugees from Venezuela, the banning of migrant legal aid, detaining and deporting students simply because they were involved in pro-Palestinian protests, and the withdrawal of hundreds of other international student visas with no explanation. Many of his orders, including his attempt to end birthright citizenship, are facing ongoing legal challenges. The only point of Trump’s crude anti-immigration orders is to try to reduce the number of nonwhite people entering the country. That became clear when Trump extended refugee status to white South Africans, who he falsely claimed were being persecuted by the majority-Black South African government.

The consequences of MAGA’s demographic hysteria are similar to what happened in the antebellum South, when Southerners gave up on the idea of being part of the United States.

A sense of existential dread has led to the rise of radical right-wing politics in MAGA, combined with a surge in conspiracy theories that revolve around race and identity. Conspiracy theories once confined to the margins of the internet now flourish, most infamously one that claims that a leftist deep state secretly unleashed a surge in immigration in order to replace America’s white population. There is a parallel with the antebellum South, which was also immersed in conspiracy theories about race and identity: then, conspiracy theories were stoked by Southern fears of slave revolts, of the abolitionist movement, and of Abraham Lincoln.

Today, MAGA’s beliefs have spread so far that even more traditional Republicans have embraced the notion that liberals are seeking to sabotage traditional America. William Barr, who turned against Trump after serving as his attorney general in his first term, still insisted in 2024 that he couldn’t support a Democratic presidential candidate because he believed that a “continuation of the Biden administration is national suicide.”

Trump’s rise has been stoked by his unrelenting use of racist conspiracy theories, beginning with his false claims that Barack Obama was not born in the United States and highlighted during the 2024 campaign by his lie that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were eating people’s pets. His one great political skill has been his shameless willingness to lie to appeal to white people fearful of a diverse future and convert them into his MAGA disciples. While Trump’s MAGA base is not a majority of the country, it is large enough to dominate the Republican Party’s base, which explains why Republican politicians have been so reluctant to speak up against any of Trump’s chaotic actions.

What is most ominous today is that MAGA is now so immersed in conspiracy theories that it has developed a deep hatred of the federal government, much as the South did in the 1850s.

Trump’s followers not only believe that the federal government has been instrumental in their demographic decline, but they also seem convinced that Western-style liberal democracy is no longer the right political system for them. They appear willing to give up on democracy in exchange for a white nationalist autocrat — someone like Donald Trump."]]></description>
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    <title>Steven Salaita's Reflections on the Downward Spiral of US Empire &amp; the Fate of the Western Academy - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-30T00:20:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWC9GlznUhk</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this episode Steven Salaita will return for a conversation about two of his recent lectures/essays which touch on US imperial decline, the western academy, and the genocidal war on the Palestinian people and children of Gaza. We will also discuss the challenges of behaving ethically in a society that rewards subservience to power, and that power is based on unmitigated violence against the oppressed and dispossessed. 

One piece The Meaning of Honesty in Academe was delivered as the 2025 James Baldwin Memorial Lecture at UMass Amherst on April 16th: 
transcript: https://stevesalaita.com/the-meaning-of-honesty-in-academe/
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQVUiZq7r5Y 

and the other "No Resurrection: The Life and Death of the Modern University" was delivered at Villanova on April 14th: https://stevesalaita.com/no-resurrection-the-life-and-death-of-the-modern-university/

This is our 5th conversation with Dr. Steven Salaita since Tufan Al-Aqsa. To check out the others, view our playlist:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBj8KHKHvws6Yh9i95yz4s-Alu4UltG7F "]]></description>
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—C.S. Lewis, “On Living in an Atomic Age,” 1948]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In Trump’s America, immigration enforcement isn’t just policy - it’s a spectacle. With ICE raids increasingly staged for the cameras, and journalists given front-row access to capture dramatic arrests, is it law and order or a made-for-TV performance?

The Listening Post’s Tariq Nafi explores the media’s role in shaping the immigration debate.

Featuring:
Patrick Bet-David – Host, PBD podcast
Michelle Garcia – Journalist and author
Abraham Paulos – Deputy director, Black Alliance for Just Immigration"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A Columbia University graduate who led protests last year has been detained by I.C.E. Even though he is a green card holder. On this week’s On the Media, hear why the case has conjured comparisons to the Red Scare of the forties and fifties. Plus, a look at the years-long campaign to dismantle press freedoms in the United States.

[01:00] Host Brooke Gladstone speaks with Corey Robin, distinguished professor of political science at Brooklyn College, on the arrest of Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, and the parallels between now and the Red Scare of the forties and fifties. 

[16:49] Brooke continues her conversation with Corey Robin, author of Fear: The History of a Political Idea. Robin explains how free speech crackdowns can change our political culture and tear at the fabric of the soul. Plus, how Humphrey Bogart betrayed the ideals of his most celebrated film.

[27:00] Host Micah Loewinger speaks with David Enrich, business investigations editor for The New York Times and author of the new book, Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful, on why a Supreme Court case that’s protected press freedoms for over half a century may now be in danger.

Further reading:

“Two Paths for Jewish Politics,” by Corey Robin
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/two-paths-for-jewish-politics

“Muskism and McCarthyism,” by Alan Dean, Charles Petersen, and Corey Robin
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/muskism-and-mccarthyism/

“There Are No Good Reasons Not to Fight,” by Corey Robin
https://newrepublic.com/article/140527/no-good-reasons-not-fight

“Can the Media’s Right to Pursue the Powerful Survive Trump’s Second Term?” by David Enrich"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/magazine/nyt-sullivan-defamation-press-freedom-ruling.html ]]]></description>
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    <title>Disaster Nationalism: The Collapse of Liberalism and Why the Far Right is Winning with Richard Seymour - YouTub</title>
    <dc:date>2025-02-09T21:51:59+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["'Disaster Nationalism' from Verso Books: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3147-disaster-nationalism

The rise of the new far right has left the world grappling with a profound misunderstanding. While the spotlight often shines on the actions of charismatic leaders such as Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, the true peril lies elsewhere. Defeating these people will not stem the tide driving them forward. They are merely the embodiment of profound forces that are rarely understood. Propelled through the vast networks of social media and fueled by far-right influencers, enthralled by images of disaster and fantasies of doom, they have emerged from a reservoir of societal despair, fear, and isolation. Within this seething cauldron, we witness not only the surge of far-right political movements but also the sparks of individual and collective violence against perceived enemies, from ‘lone wolf’ killers to terrifying pogroms. Should a new fascism emerge, it will coalesce from these very elements. This is disaster nationalism.

Richard Seymour delves deep into this alarming development in world politics, dissecting its roots, its influencers, and the threats it poses. With meticulous analysis and compelling storytelling, Seymour offers a stark warning. The battle against disaster nationalism is not just political; it is a struggle for our collective soul and the future of civilization itself. Unless we understand the deeper forces propelling the far-right resurgence, we have little chance of stopping it."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["* Note: we recorded this before the appalling AHA leadership veto on Jan. 17 of the democratic vote of its membership to condemn Israeli scholasticide*

The brothers welcome Professor Sherene Seikaly, historian of University of California at Santa Barbara and editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies and Anthony Alessandrini, Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College and of Middle Eastern Studies at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, to discuss the American Historical Association (AHA) and the Modern Language Association (MLA) engagement with the question of Palestine. We discuss the historic vote by the AHA membership on January 5, 2025 to condemn Israel’s scholasticide in Gaza despite the deeply anti-Palestinian stance of the leadership of the AHA. 

We discuss how this leadership mobilized fear, anticipatory obedience to avoid taking an ethical position against the obliteration of every Palestinian university in Gaza, despite explicitly condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. We also discuss how the MLA leadership has systematically undermined discussions and resolutions about Palestinian liberation. They also discussed how ethical scholars have confronted the extraordinary silence and complicity of the two major scholarly associations about the Gaza genocide.

Date of recording: January 13, 2025."

[also here:
https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/34923935
https://sites.libsyn.com/495388/you-cant-hide-the-smoking-gun-of-this-genocide-w-sherene-seikaly-and-tony-alessandrini ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson went Piers Morgan Uncensored and debunked Elon Musk.

Tyson brought his insight and scientific knowledge to Piers Morgan and pointed out how much of what Elon Musk says is nothing but talk.

The conversation between Piers Morgan and Neil deGrasse Tyson focused on Mars and the fallacy of thinking we need to flee to Mars rather than trying to fix things here on Earth.

It's a vital discussion to question just exactly what Elon Musk's goals are when he is now so intertwined with our government and the levers of power. Let me know in the comments what you think of this debate between Neil deGrasse Tyson and Piers Morgan about the ambitions of the richest man on Earth."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Our culture is routinely diagnosed with an excessive fear of mortality. A calm look at the evidence tells a different story"
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    <title>The Boudin recall is entirely based on local media mythology. They should own it. - 48 hills</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The "crime wave." The "unsafe city." There's no reality here—but it's creating a dangerous political narrative, with the SF cops the big winners."]]></description>
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    <title>10 ways to be prepared and grounded it Trump wins | Waging Nonviolence</title>
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    <link>https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-things-to-do-if-trump-wins/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The key to taking effective action in a Trump world is to avoid perpetuating the autocrat’s goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.

...
1. Trust yourself
...
2. Find others who you trust
...
3. Grieve
...
4. Release that which you cannot change
...
5. Find your path
...
6. Do not obey in advance, do not self-censor
...
7. Reorient your political map
...
8. Get real about power
...
9. Handle fear, make violence rebound
...
10. Envision a positive future"

[via:
https://philipchristman.substack.com/p/some-ground-rules-for-your-vocational

[see also:
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/a-practical-program-for-resisting-a-trump-second-term/ ]]]></description>
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    <title>Ursula K. Le Guin — A Left-Handed Commencement Address</title>
    <dc:date>2024-11-10T20:20:05+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["speech by Ursula K. Le Guin
delivered at Mills College, 1983

I want to thank the Mills College Class of ’83 for offering me a rare chance: to speak aloud in public in the language of women.

I know there are men graduating, and I don’t mean to exclude them, far from it. There is a Greek tragedy where the Greek says to the foreigner, “If you don’t understand Greek, please signify by nodding.” Anyhow, commencements are usually operated under the unspoken agreement that everybody graduating is either male or ought to be. That’s why we are all wearing these twelfth-century dresses that look so great on men and make women look either like a mushroom or a pregnant stork. Intellectual tradition is male. Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men’s language. Of course women learn it. We’re not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man’s world, so it talks a man’s language. The words are all words of power. You’ve come a long way, baby, but no way is long enough. You can’t even get there by selling yourself out: because there is theirs, not yours.

Maybe we’ve had enough words of power and talk about the battle of life. Maybe we need some words of weakness. Instead of saying now that I hope you will all go forth from this ivory tower of college into the Real World and forge a triumphant career or at least help your husband to and keep our country strong and be a success in everything - instead of talking about power, what if I talked like a woman right here in public? It won’t sound right. It’s going to sound terrible. What if I said what I hope for you is first, if — only if — you want kids, I hope you have them. Not hordes of them. A couple, enough. I hope they’re beautiful. I hope you and they have enough to eat, and a place to be warm and clean in, and friends, and work you like doing. Well, is that what you went to college for? Is that all? What about success?

Success is somebody else’s failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty. No, I do not wish you success. I don’t even want to talk about it. I want to talk about failure.

Because you are human beings you are going to meet failure. You are going to meet disappointment, injustice, betrayal, and irreparable loss. You will find you’re weak where you thought yourself strong. You’ll work for possessions and then find they possess you. You will find yourself — as I know you already have — in dark places, alone, and afraid.

What I hope for you, for all my sisters and daughters, brothers and sons, is that you will be able to live there, in the dark place. To live in the place that our rationalizing culture of success denies, calling it a place of exile, uninhabitable, foreign.

Well, we’re already foreigners. Women as women are largely excluded from, alien to, the self-declared male norms of this society, where human beings are called Man, the only respectable god is male, the only direction is up. So that’s their country; let’s explore our own. I’m not talking about sex; that’s a whole other universe, where every man and woman is on their own. I’m talking about society, the so-called man’s world of institutionalized competition, aggression, violence, authority, and power. If we want to live as women, some separatism is forced upon us: Mills College is a wise embodiment of that separatism. The war-games world wasn’t made by us or for us; we can’t even breathe the air there without masks. And if you put the mask on you’ll have a hard time getting it off. So how about going on doing things our own way, as to some extent you did here at Mills? Not for men and the male power hierarchy — that’s their game. Not against men, either — that’s still playing by their rules. But with any men who are with us: that’s our game. Why should a free woman with a college education either fight Machoman or serve him? Why should she live her life on his terms?

Machoman is afraid of our terms, which are not all rational, positive, competitive, etc. And so he has taught us to despise and deny them. In our society, women have lived, and have been despised for living, the whole side of life that includes and takes responsibility for helplessness, weakness, and illness, for the irrational and the irreparable, for all that is obscure, passive, uncontrolled, animal, unclean — the valley of the shadow, the deep, the depths of life. All that the Warrior denies and refuses is left to us and the men who share it with us and therefore, like us, can’t play doctor, only nurse, can’t be warriors, only civilians, can’t be chiefs, only indians. Well so that is our country. The night side of our country. If there is a day side to it, high sierras, prairies of bright grass, we only know pioneers’ tales about it, we haven’t got there yet. We’re never going to get there by imitating Machoman. We are only going to get there by going our own way, by living there, by living through the night in our own country.

So what I hope for you is that you live there not as prisoners, ashamed of being women, consenting captives of a psychopathic social system, but as natives. That you will be at home there, keep house there, be your own mistress, with a room of your own. That you will do your work there, whatever you’re good at, art or science or tech or running a company or sweeping under the beds, and when they tell you that it’s second-class work because a woman is doing it, I hope you tell them to go to hell and while they’re going to give you equal pay for equal time. I hope you live without the need to dominate, and without the need to be dominated. I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people. And when you fail, and are defeated, and in pain, and in the dark, then I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing — instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.

---------

Notice: this talk is not under copyright, and may be quoted or reprinted as a whole without obtaining permission, though I would appreciate being notified of reprintings.

My warm and cordial thanks to all who have written me to tell me they are using this talk in classrooms, sharing it on social media, or otherwise, and to thank me for it. I wish I could write each of you back, but I can only do it this way. Thank you!

— Ursula
undated note"]]></description>
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