Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco Jerry's Map 2026-06-24T07:41:46+00:00 https://www.jerrysmap.com/ robertogreco maps mapping fiction jerrygretzinger obliquestrategies art brianeno henrydarger making imagination creativity rules systems systemsthinking games play gaming worldbuilding arts accretion persistence peoplemakegames lore change random randomness uncertainty unrest future disorder order cards carddecks productivity surpise mortality death collage diaries howwewrite writing memory generativeart generative https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9099a592d543/ He Won’t Stop Building a Map to an Imaginary Place - YouTube 2026-06-24T07:40:50+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N7B9b0GQ robertogreco jerrygretzinger maps mapping fiction obliquestrategies 2026 art brianeno henrydarger making imagination creativity rules systems systemsthinking games play gaming worldbuilding arts accretion persistence peoplemakegames lore change random randomness uncertainty unrest future disorder order cards carddecks productivity generativeart generative https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6ac8c23a8f07/ Tolstoy and the Illusion of Inevitability | THR Web Features | Web Features | The Hedgehog Review 2026-06-17T10:22:04+00:00 https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/tolstoy-and-the-illusion-of-inevitability robertogreco“Traveler, there is no road. The road is made by walking.” —Antonio Machado Machado’s famous line suggests that the future does not exist in advance, waiting to be discovered, but comes into being through a choice among possible actions. Many possibilities exist at any given moment. The one that becomes actual depends on coincidences and chances as well as choices, all producing events whose significance emerges only as they unfold. That, as it happens, is also Leo Tolstoy’s argument in War and Peace. In the book’s battle scenes, plans dissolve into confusion, causes multiply beyond reckoning, and outcomes hinge on fleeting, unrepeatable moments. On the eve of the Battle of Borodino, the novel’s hero, Prince Andrei, reflects that what lies ahead is not a determinate sequence but “a hundred million chances…decided on the instant.” What matters is less the perfection of a plan and more the ability to respond to what no plan could anticipate, by means of what Tolstoy calls “alertness.” For Tolstoy, this is a feature not of war alone but of reality in general. History, far from representing the execution of a grand design, is rather the result of countless interacting elements, each shaping and reshaping what can happen next. New possibilities are always emerging as earlier ones are left unrealized. Life more closely resembles an evolving system than a solved equation. Events are contingent in Aristotle’s sense of the term: They “can either be or not be.” After all, if things could only happen one way, human action would collapse into the mechanical execution of what was already implicit in the present. “If human life could be [entirely] governed by reason,” Tolstoy writes in the book’s epilogue, “the possibility of life is destroyed.” And yet again and again, in our aspiration to a hard science allowing for prediction, we are drawn to deny this. That is one reason War and Peace has never lost its relevance. The Recurring Dream of Certainty Since the scientific revolution, Western thought has repeatedly returned to the hope that contingency might be an illusion. As Newton explained the baffling complexities of planetary motion by four simple laws, perhaps, many imagined, the same could be done for human affairs. Thinkers as diverse as Marx, Skinner, and Malinowski have shared this dream, with each promising, in his own way, to reveal necessity beneath apparent disorder. Complexity, for such men, is conceived of as a surface phenomenon, concealing an underlying simplicity that, once uncovered, will render the future knowable. Pierre-Simon Laplace insisted that events are certain, not probable: In speaking of their probability, we are really speaking of the chances our guesses may be accurate, but the events themselves are certain. Time and again, the apparent contingency of events is presented as evidence of our own ignorance. If we knew enough, we would see that events could not have happened otherwise. But there is another possibility: that contingency is real—that the world is not merely complicated but fundamentally generative, that new possibilities are not simply revealed over time but produced within it, through the interaction of elements that cannot be fully anticipated in advance. This is the world Tolstoy describes, one where knowledge cannot precede action, only emerge through it. Time and the Limits of Foresight Tolstoy’s deepest insight concerns time itself. In a deterministic view, time is a neutral space where events unfold according to fixed laws and the future lies already implicit in the present, waiting to be revealed. But in Tolstoy’s world, time is generative. Each moment reshapes what can happen next. Possibilities interact, combine, and disappear, their significance becoming visible only as events unfold. One might say that the system is constantly generating variation—new configurations, new alignments, new opportunities—but without any overarching mechanism that selects among them in advance. Selection happens locally, in real time, through action. The closer one looks, the more things fail to simplify, as in the Newtonian model, and ramify instead. What happens to be taken up is what persists. This is why most Austrian and Russian generals in War and Peace are consistently wrong. They believe they possess a science of warfare—a system capable of anticipating outcomes. Before Austerlitz, they insist that “every contingency has been foreseen.” The result is Napoleon’s greatest victory—yet their confidence remains intact, attributing failure to imperfect execution, never to the limits of prediction itself. As so often happens, the conviction that events must conform to a science makes the supposed science unfalsifiable. The wisest general, Kutuzov, appreciates that people conceive only of a few possibilities while there are thousands. Famously, in the Council of War before Austerlitz, he advises not more planning but “a good night’s sleep.” What matters most is the alertness to seize opportunities that cannot be anticipated in advance. This distinction—between a world that can be mapped and one that must be navigated—extends beyond warfare. Wherever outcomes depend on unfolding interactions, local knowledge, and irreversible time, no complete science is possible. One can orient oneself, but one cannot blaze the path in advance. The Illusion of Inevitability If the future is open, why does the past so often appear inevitable? Tolstoy offers several answers, including what he calls “the law of retrospection.” Once events have occurred, we can reconstruct the paths that led to them. We identify signs that seem to foreshadow the outcome we now know. Alternatives fade from view—not because they were not real, but because they left no trace. The result is a powerful illusion: What happened begins to seem as if it had to happen. Tolstoy asks us to imagine a group of men hauling a log, all pulling in different directions. Wherever they happen to wind up, someone will say they planned to do so. This retrospective projection—which one of us has called backshadowing—reshapes our understanding of history. We look at earlier moments and conclude that the outcome was implicit all along. The more coherent the explanation, the easier it is to forget that things might have turned out otherwise. To avoid backshadowing, we must practice sideshadowing—recognizing that other outcomes, some of which we can imagine, were genuinely possible. That is just the insight that those who believe they have discovered a hard science allowing for prediction in the social world forget or deny. And yet they cannot foresee their own future. Tolstoy’s narrative resists this illusion by preserving the density of lived experience—the sense that at each moment multiple futures were genuinely possible. History, in this view, is not a line but a branching structure, most of whose branches vanish without record. AI and Narrative Certainty In the age of AI, this dream of certainty has taken a new and more persuasive form. Artificial intelligence can process vast datasets, identify patterns invisible to human perception, and generate explanations with remarkable coherence. Faced with such capabilities, it is tempting to believe that uncertainty can finally be overcome—that the future can be rendered legible in advance. But the deeper effect of AI lies in its ability to reorganize the past. Given sufficient data, AI systems can produce narratives that make outcomes appear coherent, even inevitable. They can identify correlations, reconstruct causal chains, and highlight what they regard as signs foreshadowing what followed. The result is not necessarily false, but it is selective. In this way, AI functions less as a predictor than as a powerful engine of narrative compression, reducing the apparent space of possibilities by presenting a single path as the path. What was once understood as a field of possible alternatives becomes retrospectively legible as an inevitable sequence, reducing many “futuribles” to one. The danger here lies in premature coherence, the sense that complexity has been resolved when it has only been reorganized into a persuasive form. A Compass Rather Than a Map Tools do more than extend thought; they reshape the environment in which thought occurs. AI, for instance, introduces a distinctive bias by generating what is statistically coherent, what resembles patterns derived from accumulated data. In an evolutionary system, what persists is not necessarily what is best in any absolute sense but what is most easily selected under prevailing conditions. AI changes those conditions in the intellectual world, lowering the cost of generating variations while subtly guiding selection toward what is already legible within its patterns. Over time, this can narrow the space of perceived possibilities by making them less visible, less accessible, less likely to be pursued. Certain forms of thought—those that resist simplification, that depend on sustained attention, or that emerge from direct engagement with the world—become comparatively fragile. What follows from Tolstoy’s ideas, on the other hand, is not that prediction is useless or that analysis should be abandoned, but rather that we must think in terms of a compass rather than a map. A map assumes a fixed terrain and a determinate path, while a compass provides direction without specifying the route. In a world of genuine contingency, only the latter is available. One can choose a bearing, but the path itself is discovered through movement. Orientation is not foresight. This is the force of Machado’s insight: The road is made by walking not because we lack information but because the path does not exist until it is created. To accept this is to adopt a different understanding of knowledge, not as a complete representation of what will happen, but as a capacity to respond intelligently to what does happen. It is inseparable from time, from attention, from the ability to recognize significance as it emerges. The impulse to eliminate contingency is understandable. Uncertainty is uncomfortable: It resists control and frustrates planning. But it is also what makes agency possible. A world in which everything could be predicted would be a world in which nothing could be otherwise. Action would lose its meaning, since outcomes would already be fixed. The openness of the future is not a defect in our knowledge, but a condition of human life. Artificial intelligence does not change this condition—but it can make us forget it. By rendering the past as if it had been inevitable, it invites us to imagine that the future is already written. Against this, one must insist on what Tolstoy and Machado understood in saying that the future remains unwritten, not because we have failed to compute it but because it does not yet exist."]]> tolstoy garysaulmorson julioottino antoniomachado fleeting alertness certainty uncertainty foresight prediction predictions contingency time variation selection local localism slow small complexity simplicity inevitability retrospection localknowledge knowledge irreverability science 2026 backshadowing sideshadowing coherence cohesion control human humanism planning plans narrativecompression future data ai artificialintelligence conditions possibility possibilities simplification orientation compass direction maps mapping liveexperience experience history action reason technocracy futuribles compasses canon humanness life living warandpeace bfskinner bronisławmalinowski karlmarx https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9d990d00b4a4/ Wang Hui | What is equality? - YouTube 2026-06-11T23:00:08+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXqOev4m3vc robertogreco wanghui 2026 china equality religion language civilization tianzia justice interdependence nature beliefs ethnicity culture traditions sociallife social history pluralism interconnected interconnectedness nationstates future hierarchy division dependence coexistence https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:862a8e0f5922/ Trauma is a Time Machine: A Cinematic Primer with Kwasu D. Tembo - YouTube 2026-06-08T05:32:55+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1-hhZUcGJY robertogrecoKwasu D. Tembo unites approaches from disciplines as wide-ranging as physics, mathematics, cinema, philosophy, and media theory to pose critical questions concerning time, change, and (un)becoming in contemporary time-travel cinema. In his analyses of 21st-century cinematic time-travel narratives, Tembo situates human life in time as a palimpsest, with time acting as scriptor and stylus. A time machine, then, functions as a fantasy that allows for this pace to be slowed or accelerated so as to appear entirely suspended, with the potentials of the “Now” (re)opened to the traveler. As the manipulation of time lends the traveler increased agency-and perhaps the conditions to see themselves more clearly amid a claustrophobic sea of information and content-Tembo contends that we must carefully consider the psycho-emotional affectivity of both the motivations and the potentially traumatic consequences of such a jarring shift in perspective. The results lend critical insight into human understandings of how we experience time and, ultimately, what these understandings permit and disallow in terms of how (it is) to be in time. Phasmid Press: https://phasmidpress.org/ "]]> timetravel film fiction sciencefiction scifi trauma acidhorizon 2026 kwasutembo philosophy death temporality therapy experience healing lajetée chrismarker agency freewill determinism nihilism physics filmtheory value chronomics responsibility capitalism longnow accelerationism charlesdickens now present labor work nostalgia backtothefuture gillesdeleuze deleuze robertasparrow donnydarko enternalsunsetofthespotlessmind twelevemonkeys coherence inception interstellar primer runlolarun upstreamcolor horsegirl looper minorityreport mrnobody thejacket momento anotherearth predestination meetcute everythingeverywhereallatonce thebeast projectalmanac timecrimes timelapse safetynotguaranteed darkcity tenet sourcecode itfollows chronologicaltime continuities continuity discretion memory change individualism choice improvisation contingency disruption looping quantumphysics stephenwolfram loops repetion complexity luddism neoluddism evolution henribergson andreasmalm wimcarton future entropy computing computation g https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:98ea222f781e/ SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide – Ayin Press 2026-06-02T05:17:07+00:00 https://shop.ayinpress.org/products/surviva-a-future-ancestral-field-guide robertogreco cannupahanskaluger 2025 survival form indigeneity indigenous rednation futurism indigenousfuturism decolonization relationality care caring land cyclical time kinship morethanhuman multispecies knowledge present future presentfuture motion movement nomadism nomads standingrock survivance colonialism colonization decolonialism ancestralknowledge scifi sciencefiction place relations relation boundaries dreampower ruins dystopia fantasy spacetime history past alinear redactions speculativefiction identity timemachines timetravel earth ancestors postcolonialism memory archives travel traveling contamination corruption dominion capitalism space spaceexplortation speculative transformation demilitarization humanity borders disciplines transdisciplinary polyvocality planetaryconsciousness transcendence conquest liminality betweenness inbetweenness inbetween between nature life revolution destruction obsolescence restoration interconnected interconnectedness mutualaid water landdefenders waterdefenders action activis https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2b4be62af802/ Red Power Hour - Learning what we already know - YouTube 2026-06-02T05:16:37+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9LiED_5Rj8 robertogreco elenaortiz melanieyazzie cannupahanskaluger survival form indigeneity indigenous rednation futurism indigenousfuturism decolonization relationality care caring land cyclical time kinship morethanhuman multispecies knowledge 2026 2025 present future presentfuture motion movement nomadism nomads standingrock survivance colonialism colonization decolonialism ancestralknowledge scifi sciencefiction place relations relation boundaries dreampower ruins dystopia fantasy spacetime history past alinear redactions speculativefiction identity timemachines timetravel earth ancestors postcolonialism memory archives travel traveling contamination corruption dominion capitalism space spaceexplortation speculative transformation demilitarization humanity borders disciplines transdisciplinary polyvocality planetaryconsciousness transcendence conquest liminality betweenness inbetweenness inbetween between nature life revolution destruction obsolescence restoration interconnected interconnectedness mutualaid water landdefenders https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:05337a68b9ea/ We Are Living in Pinocchio’s World – On my Om 2026-05-26T06:52:34+00:00 https://om.co/2026/05/25/we-are-living-in-pinocchios-world/ robertogreco ommalik carlocollodi pinocchio 2026 ai artificialintelligence montblanc objects pens fountainpens autonomy stimulation grifters hucksters grift influencers certainty doubt politics governance truth industrialization velocity authority jensenhuang samaltman elonmusk capitalism reputation prestige future exploitation impatience greed skepticism deception labor parables https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:97919fb2048b/ Could Claude Mythos Actually Destroy the Internet? - The Ringer 2026-05-07T20:24:25+00:00 https://www.theringer.com/2026/05/06/tech/claude-mythos-anthropic-project-glasswing-cybersecurity-threat-ai robertogreco brianphillips anthropic mythos claude ai artificialintelligence 2025 darioamodei claudemythos cybersecurity projectglasswing edzitron openai chatgpt technology safety society bigtech siliconvalley mozilla firefox llms ipos garymarcus money humanity future cybercrime palantir policestate technofascism pentagon motivation google https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:acea1a6c8cf9/ Palantir CEO says AI ‘will destroy’ humanities jobs | Fortune 2026-04-18T05:34:53+00:00 https://fortune.com/article/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-ai-humanities-jobs-vocational-training/ robertogreco alexkarp humanities humanism dehumanizaiton education future ai artificialintelligence 2026 llms https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7e08ed5f3222/ Whatever Happens to Music Will Happen to AI (2026) | by Bruce Sterling | Mar, 2026 | Medium 2026-04-08T06:55:53+00:00 https://bruces.medium.com/whatever-happens-to-music-will-happen-to-ai-2026-9a4482a2a012 robertogrecobrucesterling 2026 ai artificialintelligence future music art technology trends jazzage aiethics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8e676b177bfb/ Why Big Tech Capitalism Puts Freedom in Danger | The Futurology Podcast - YouTube 2026-03-28T09:37:54+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEI2UiE19ow robertogreco leaypi albania bigtech surveillance capitalism technofeudalism technofascism communism democracy liberaldemocracy governance government economics politics policy carloginzburg shoshanazuboff surveillancecapitalism data technology marcelmauss scarcity solidarity civilization autonomy crisis nostalgia future agency alexeiyurchak https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9b005a1f4725/ Let Cities Build Utopia | Metalabel 2026-03-24T08:21:10+00:00 https://elysian.metalabel.com/utopiancities?variantId=4 robertogreco utopia 2026 ellegriffin próspera californiaforever hongkong shenzhen dubai autocracy cities future sezs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:595de1732ab1/ The Scottish island that bought itself - by Elle Griffin 2026-03-23T04:39:08+00:00 https://www.elysian.press/p/the-scottish-island-that-bought-itself robertogreco scotland collectivism islands 2026 ellegriffin eigg 1997 land governance government trusts democracy rural 2003 landreformact scottishlandfund isleoflewis isleofeigg utopia cities próspera californiaforever hongkong shenzhen dubai autocracy future sezs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:27dc1c21ad20/ Gas Town and Bullet Hell – Petafloptimism 2026-03-23T04:36:27+00:00 https://petafloptimism.com/2026/03/14/gas-town-and-bullet-hell/ robertogreco 2026 mattjones time azeemazhar ai artificialintelligence technology programming work screens chatbots steveyegge colinrobinson ux epthompson jamescarey capitalism timezones clocks timekeeping davidrooney synchronization railways rail history schools factories modernity carolynmarvin félixguattari hartmutrosa paulvirilio dromology present future velocity speed perception infrastructure trains brainfry bullethell gastown danmaku touhou dodonpachi ikaruga mihalycsikszentmihalyi flow play legibility reversibility niconicodouga georgemiller furyroad sarahsharma temporalsovereignty braid benmathes madmax claude claudecode anthropic guattari https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:719aba8473b5/ Why modern life is designed to keep you anxious — and what to do about it | The Gray Area - YouTube 2026-03-03T06:43:41+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRxBCd4q9Lc robertogreco seanilling thegrayarea 2026 samirchopra anxiety philosophy buddhism acceptance stress worry dread fear life living interdependence interconnected interconnectedness existentialism freud resignation consciousness psychology finance panic vibes time presence future human humanism curiosity control change everythingchanges modernity humans parenting thinking howwethink wonder awe terror freedom activism problemsolving uncertainty complextity inquiry emotions society affect crueloptimism affecttheory mind signalanxiety power loss relationships love hope security suffering outdoors prescribingnature death dying social embodiement boides mindfulness culture sublime present mysticism beauty selflessness objects https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4e106522c021/ An AI-Maxi New Year - by afra - Concurrent 2026-02-18T16:34:33+00:00 https://afraw.substack.com/p/an-ai-maxi-new-year robertogreco china ai artificialintelligence future jiazhangke society technology seedance 2026 afrazhaowang afrawang unitree bytedance robots automation film filmmaking benfleck mattdamon creativity siliconvalley claude anthropic ip intellectualproperty copyright openclaw technooptimism palmerluckey fredgao llms generativeai xiaokai liangzhu alibaba dongbeirenaissance rustbelt genai https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:68f846b97be9/ Conveniencing Ourselves to Irrelevance – On my Om 2026-02-16T01:09:42+00:00 https://om.co/2026/02/09/conveniencing-ourselves-to-irrelevance/ robertogrecoconvenience efficiency optimization ommalik 2026 human humanism life living purpose meaning meaningmaking noamchomsky technology dystopia hindswaraj maharmagandhi history automation work labor effort progress lifeexpectancy robertlouisstevenson internet web online amusement twitter tiktok socialmedia instagram communication pssivity gmail ai artificialintelligence generativeai choice choosing future responsibility humans irrelevance comfort ozempic compulsion uber genai https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3c38fcaf958b/ Tech Billionaires Want Us Dead - YouTube 2026-01-19T22:29:17+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1dIC287Zz0 robertogreco taylorlevy 2026 2025 elonmusk samaltman peterthiel markzuckerberg ideology tescreal transhumanism rationalism extropianism singularitarianism singularity cosmism effectivealtruism longtermism humans agi artificialgeneralintelligence billionaires oligarchy vc venturecapital dehumanization dossdoubthout openai tesla bunkers posthumanism collapse humanextinction siliconvalley technology culture society deathcults history future labor work workers automation robots jonyive airbnb próspera netwrokstate bryanjohnson immortality kosa inequality power escape grimes cults marcandreessen technofascism technosolutionism technooptimism larrypage stevewozniak stevejobs hackerculture seassteading dystopia accellerationism eattherich datacenters ai artificialintelligence humanity kanyewest kimkardashian californianideology bayarea counterculture stewartbrand mindchildren computers computing personalcomputers personalcomputing design life living émiletorres sanhillroad startups hansmoravec charlesplatt raykurzweil kevi https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fa49dd72711f/ 25 years of Wikipedia 2026-01-17T03:51:34+00:00 https://wikipedia25.org/en/twenty-five-years-of-wikipedia robertogrecowikipedia history internet web online 2026 2001 future encyclopedias collaboration publicgood knowledge access accessibility https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e8a6f72be9e0/ We are living in a time of polycrisis. If you feel trapped – you’re not alone | Well actually | The Guardian 2026-01-15T20:52:16+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2026/jan/14/new-year-polycrisis-psychology-feeling-trapped robertogreco future psychology theresamacphail progress 2026 polycrisis stevehimmelstein overstimulation news economics instability politics creativity hardship thinking howwethink meaning meaningmaking viktorfrankl crisis halherschfield emotions behavior imagination geopolitics environment climate climatechange globalwarming socialscience predictability danielgilbert danielknight greece 2010 community timeframe time greatplague compassion https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f3058b9084bc/ Everything Was Already AI - YouTube 2026-01-09T19:34:30+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km2bn0HvUwg robertogreco ai artificialintelligence unlearningeconomics llms evolution context language naturalselection economics capitalism economy culture slop aislop marketing film filmmaking music freemarkets friedrichhayek markets behavior circulareconomy adaptation morality generativeai privateequity technology information arvindnarayanan sayashkapoor dandavies graceblakeley timo'reilly elonmusk openai chatgpt stockmarket herbertsimon jamescscott seeinglikeastate data stevekeen markschatzker decisionmaking prediction nathantankus accounting benjaminkuipers institutions culturaltechnologies states edzitron geoffreyhinton alexanderavila commodification timcook markzuckerberg peterthiel satisficing satisfaction loxalmaxima culturaltechnology simplicity massproduction familiarity complexity exploitation finance conventionalwisdom experimentation trevornoah jeromepowell communication interpretation languages conformity bubbles aibubble lossiness idiosyncrasy art humanity enshittification chatbots bots media corporations corporatism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f6f026e3046d/ Alexis Madrigal: "To Know A Place" - Social Science Matrix 2025-12-28T20:58:00+00:00 https://live-ssmatrix.pantheon.berkeley.edu/research-article/alexis-madrigal/ robertogreco alexismadrigal place urban urbanism bayarea 2025 technology culture socialscience cities landscape perspective memory narrative storytelling time watershed placemaking bighere longnnow bignow longhere biomes ecology temporality technophily online internet web bioredionalism garysnyder indigeneity indigenous life living flora fauna reallifemag meatspace nathanjorgenson bodies helenharrison newtonharrison saraamariwalker oakland eastbay peterberg planetdrum berkeley claremontcreek politics institutions robinwallkimmerer siliconvalley sanfrancisco waterfront south norcal mountdiablo mounttamalpais ecofeminism liberation robinsloan treasureisland spirituality strawberrycreek midlredhoward running physical adamwebb astrobiology margaretgordon eastpaloalto richmond marincity race racism russellcity bayview hunterspoint westoakland biology bart capitalism lakemerritt rondellums air water pacificcircuit claireleister sanjose solidarity geology history hydrology baybridge humanism human humans land california wilderne https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9c6915ef93c3/ What Is Fiction’s Role in Imagining Better Social Policies? - YouTube 2025-12-16T05:40:42+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WKD9_AYXPY robertogreco sciencefiction karenlord annaleenewitz malkaolder craigcalhoun edfinn 2025 scifi future socialscience values https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:81953d61357d/ Peter Thiel is the Real Antichrist with Gil Duran - Episodes - Tech Won’t Save Us 2025-11-23T16:32:56+00:00 https://techwontsave.us/episode/303_peter_thiel_is_the_real_antichrist_w_gil_duran robertogreco gilduran parismarx peterthiel 2025 nerdreich renégirard hyperstition siliconvalley antichrist technofascism technooptimism tescreal transhumanism extropianism singularitarianism singularity cosmism rationalism effectivealtruism longtermism marcandreessen billionaires techology politics policy deregulation scapegoating gretathunberg governance government balajisrinivasan elonmusk christianity religion apocalypse power influence donaldtrump future jaronlanier bryanjohnson carlschmitt nazism antischrist stevebannon doomsday crypto cryptocurrencies frenchrevolution capitalism via:javierarbona ideology us luddites luddism neoluddites neoluddism ethnics fascism democracy monarchism nazis alexkarp palantir immortality curtisyarvin menciusmoldbug democrats propaganda belief authoritarianism anduril acts17 michellestephens traestephens usaid acts17collective maga trumpism christ jesuschrist jesus dehumanization emptiness spirituality genocide whitesupremacy accountability eugenics catholicism jdvance popeleoxiv fou https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:43f873456011/ Silicon Valley Apocalypse Capitalism 2025-11-14T18:41:53+00:00 https://www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-valley-apocalypse-capitalism/ robertogreco gilduran nerdreich siliconvalley capitalism apocalypse accelerationism tescreal transhumanism extropianism singularitarianism singularity cosmism rationalism effectivealtruism longtermism 2025 paypal paypalmafia peterthiel joerogan southpark crypto cryptocurrencies billionaires oligarchy monarchism bitcoin elonmusk samaltman davidsacks governance government deregulation regulation jdvance policy politics power curtisyarvin menciusmoldbug hyperstition antichrist nickland future nazis nazism carlschmitt whitesupremacy doomsday religion christianity georgeorwell 1984 mars humanity efficiency technooptimism technology nihilism philosophy theology vc venturecapital existentialism immortality ai artificialintelligence networkstate surveillance labor work workers katherineboyle foundersfund americanenterpriseinstitute charliekirk acts17 acts17collective armageddon mikesolana democracy disruption marcbenioff sanfrancisco dictatorship ronconway society https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:072b221ec9bd/ Look at This Blue, by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (2022) – Coffee House Press 2025-11-13T05:00:24+00:00 https://coffeehousepress.org/products/look-at-this-blue robertogreco california history naturalhistory morethanhuman multispecies indigeneity indigenous climatechange climate globalwarming emergency poetry resistance plants animals humans human future climatecrisis genocide poems https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fed1974a304e/ The Future is Mundane - Farsight 2025-11-10T10:53:55+00:00 https://farsight.cifs.dk/the-future-is-mundane/ robertogreco sarahpink anthropology everyday slow 2025 tamirasnell senses sensory multisensory futurism climatechange climate globalwarming ethnography ai artificialintelligence robotics humanism slowcity slowcities design uncertainty possibility speculation speculative socialscience cities mobility energy foresight creativity trust care caring anxiety futures future embodiment bodies sustainability reality technology society diversity human humans https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bad7abaef898/ Do What You Believe In - by Hamilton Nolan 2025-11-08T04:12:25+00:00 https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/do-what-you-believe-in robertogreco 2025 hamiltonnolan politics imagination vision history belief beliefs us democracy zohranmamdani thirdway dickcheney mitchmcconnell nyc possibility future https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:349b8d23e806/ WEB WAR III | The Verge 2025-11-06T04:50:11+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/tech/813944/browser-wars-chatgpt-gemini-chrome robertogrecodavidpierce internet web online chatgpt openai chatgptatlas browsers dia thebrowsercompany perplexity microsoft gemini chrome google aibrowsers ai artificialintelligence android ios tabs history future chatbots sundarpichai firefox aravindsrinivas brendaneich brave hirshagrawal llms anthonyenzor-demeo parisatabriz mozilla https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:013843ec3dba/ 'Fentanyl Capitalism': How Tech Venture Capital Is Eating the World | Catherine Bracy x Gil Duran - YouTube 2025-11-05T20:00:21+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw_WdlTiOUk robertogreco gilduran catherinebracey innovation technology politics maga donaldtrump finance unicorns psychology antichrist spirituality hetericon siliconvalley techequity justice policy economics history whaling farright righwing nazism fascism monarchism power control inequality 2025 incentives capitalism negativeexternalities externalities markets banks banking regulation deregulation labor workers lawlessness law legal harm exploitation profit profits scale scaling blitzscaling reidhoffman imprecision thoughlessness movefastandbreakthings zerp marketshare entrepreneurship culture identity success sequoiacapital andreessenhorowitz idenitity openai chatgpt housing healthcare food marcandreessen barackobama neoliberalism billclinton hillaryclinton joebiden kamalaharris linakhan 2017 2020 2024 techresistance samaltman airbnb uber tescreal rationalism katherineboyle evil singularity singularitarianism cosmism democracy transhumanism extropianism markzuckerberg peterthiel billionaires effectivealtruism extroprianism blashp https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d3174627db58/ Machine Decision Is Not Final: China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence, edited by Benjamin H. Bratton, Anna Greenspan, Amy Ireland and Bogna Konior (2025) 2025-11-04T18:54:59+00:00 https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781913029999/machine-decision-is-not-final/ robertogreco machinelearning ai artificialintelligence china 2025 scifi sciencefiction future dengxiaoping blaiseaguerayarcas boan benjaminbratton shuangfrost vincegarton stevegoodman yvettegranata annagreenspan amyireland xiajia bognakonior vincentle lawrencelek lukaslikavcan suzannelivingston irislong bingchunmeng rezanegarestani chenquifan gabrieledeseta hongzhewang wangxin miyou sinfuturism futurism cybernetics vincentlê https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:248264d29221/ The Faith of Nick Land | Compact 2025-11-01T03:56:17+00:00 https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-faith-of-nick-land/ robertogrecogeoffshullenberger nickland 2025 accelerationism philosophy technology 1994 future williamgibson estherdyson howardrheingold davidbyrne billgates siliconvalley tildaswinton horizontality hierarchy hierarchies history conradflynn tuckercarlson innovation ai artificialintelligence numogram 1990s lemurs 1993 hyperstition williamsburroughs 1987 madameblavatsky capitalism kant hplovecraft heresy gillesdeleuz félixguattari sadieplant right left reactionaries neoreactionaries 1968 may1968 2010s menciusmoldbug curtisyarvin tescreal singularity transhumanism jennyturner 1995 1996 y2k 2000 disillusioment web2.0 barackobama governance government roddreher alberthirschman benedictoption markets machines neoractionaries donaldtrump maga trumpism techright politics aleksandrdugin satan goethe stevenpinker whigs satanism bernardmandeville adamsmith economics policy protestantism christianity neuromancer bladerunner terminator religion llms self-organization meltdown marshallberman freemarketfundamentalism laissez-faireec https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f96b64fb8040/ Why There Hasn't Been a ChatGPT Moment Yet in Manufacturing 2025-10-15T06:07:45+00:00 https://theshearforce.substack.com/p/why-there-hasnt-been-a-chatgpt-moment robertogreco ai artificialintelligence manufacturing us china lesleygao 2025 future chatgpt geometrykernel industrialai cad interoperability software boeing generalmotors gm autocad solidworks siemens microsoft onshape spectrallab atomicindustries diracinc buildos abcdataset production policy zwsoft opencascade welltec xjelectric huawei opensource research development vxcorporation nikolaycenter tsinghua standards format infrastructure https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0ae758a46be8/ 1. Tech Billionaires vs. Democracy: Elon Musk and the Rise of "Network States" - YouTube 2025-10-13T00:54:54+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iHlfLPDoS4 robertogreco gilduran nerdreich davekarpf 2025 billionaires governance government crypto cryptocurrencies networkstate elonmusk innovation power brookeharrington ideology andyrubin tescreal samaltman openai wealth inequality broligarchy balajisrinivasan raymondcraib miltonfriedman patrifriedman sovereignty law legal finance economics taxevasion taxavoidance oligarchy peterthiel politics influence regulation fda deregulation libertarianism humanrights markets freemarketfundamentalism galtsgulch blockchain aynrand deregualtion seasteading siliconvalley imperialism zedes privategovernance taxation seasteadinginstitute solanocounty johngalt sanfrancisco californiaforever quinnslobodian johnrobb alberthirschman taxes nationstates fiatcurrencies authoritarianism maga donaldtrump trumpism democracy goldstandard gold humanities eu treatyofversailles pumpanddump justinsun corruption scotus supremecourt citizensunited monopolies antitrust joebiden linakhan ftc ai artificialintelligence fraud sec garygensler a16z andreessenhorowitz https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bdb3a715773a/ CITY LIGHTS LIVE! Rasheedah Phillips with Fred Moten - YouTube 2025-10-06T20:56:15+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdR-ypBxY_U robertogreco rasheedahphillips fredmoten time clocks race space racialjustice quantumphysics quantummechanics futurism physics philosophy timekeeping past present future quantumtheory https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:80726f2f38bf/ The Radical Futurity of Dune - YouTube 2025-10-03T04:17:20+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHRB4Fia_ho robertogreco dune 2024 anarresproject javiersethnesscastro frankherbert pluralism futurity ruture futurism middleeast anarchism bedouins algeria jihad anarchy language erasure denisvilleneuve film adaptation politics davidpeterson future colonialism colonization palestine israel scifi sciencefiction islam muslims arabic culture languages middleast literature https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:edb0244f347b/ Ursula Le Guin's Anarchist Alternative - YouTube 2025-10-02T16:10:20+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r73s-YMcNTI robertogreco anarchism ursulaleguin 2025 alexisshotwell emmagoldman peterkropotkin anarresproject josephorosco futures philosophy thedispossesed utopia politics politicalphilosophy purity feminism gender race ethics angusmaguire jamesrowe sciencefiction scifi octaviabutler marionzimmerbradley robertheinlein activism buddhism omelas samueldelaney horizontality hierarchy hierarchies power williammorris erricomalatesta humannature mutualaid collectivity collectivism alexanderberjman taoism daoism imagination society exploitation misery horror odo nkjemisin relationships oppression critique speculativefiction anarres politcalphilosophy humans human property organizing anarcho-communism cooperation solidarity libertarianism nonownership capitalism anticapitalism sociability ammari comradeship kinship togetherness antoniogramsci vulnerability patriarchy humility charity difference deviance sameness individualism individuality kathrynnorlock stoicism murraybookchin unfinshed ongoingness staffordbeer lifestyle infrastructure inst https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fe77f9b848a5/ 🌻 statement of purpose - by Jasmine Sun - @jasmi.news 2025-09-26T05:30:06+00:00 https://jasmi.news/p/statement-of-purpose robertogreco sanfrancisco jasminesun 2025 culture future writing howwewrite ai artificialintelligence samkhan kenliu anthropology disruption cities urban urbanism singapore esmeralda californiaforever surveillance claude sousveillance china donaldtrump elonmusk politics progress williamgibson cliffordgeertz behavior context meaning meaningmaking llms chatgpt tiktok ericadams economics zedes jackkerouc otisredding bayarea joandidion sieeraclub gayrights counterculture us hippies computers computing startups technology siliconvalley taipei portfourchon idealism criticism un zede https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:88816af30660/ What does ‘luxury’ mean today? - The Washington Post 2025-09-24T16:47:02+00:00 https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/fashion/2025/09/11/luxury-designer-fashion/ robertogreco luzury fashion 2025 melottenberg slow chiomannadi freedom saramoonves business emiliapetrarca consumption consumerism cecilystrong michaelkors thombettridge lawroach rickowens thombrowne michèlelamy justinvivianbond future fiendship https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:66f259776e0e/ Revolución ferroviaria de México: ¿por qué los trenes son el futuro?| La BaseLatam 1x61 - YouTube 2025-09-24T02:56:03+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bchiNVcZkO8 robertogreco mexico trains rail railways 2025 history future innaafinogenova marcoteruggi estefaníaveloz centralamerica claudiasheinbaum mexicodf mexicocity pachuca querétaro nuevolaredo df guadalajara león nogales sonora veracruz puebla us ciudadjuárez transportation 1910 nationalization mobility mexicanrevolution privatization 1937 lázarocárdenas development ernestozedillo 1995 arentina enriquepeñanieto amlo andrésmanuellópezobrador trenmaya travel carlossalinasdegortari neoliberalism infrastructure monterrey saltillo china environment argentina javiermilei fernandopinosolanas planlarkin maintenance care society economics economy decentralization power imf colonialism colonization production control egalitarianism transport safety highways publicsafety roads roadways austria politics policy subsidies publicgood publicservices uk germany hamburg liverpool amtrak flights aviation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2ed466057bc7/ Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time book launch on Vimeo 2025-09-22T18:13:48+00:00 https://vimeo.com/1064446435 robertogreco rasheedahphillips 2025 race space time quantumphysics physics quantummechanics politics art futurism philosophy archives housing past present future thomasjefferson benjaminfranklin slavery labor work liberation money observation whitegaze freedom management clocks timekeeping economics socialcontrol psychology surveillance industry whitesupremacy culture us history watches pocketwatches industrialization punctuality timemanagement pjgibbs americana subversion surveilance solidarity spacetime disenfranchisement environmentalracism environment redlining presentism stereotypes quantumtheory https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cd7492adf46f/ The Tech Billionaire to Fascist Pipeline - YouTube 2025-09-21T04:28:33+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olhu9UhFGl4 robertogrecoalexanderavila peterthiel tescreal libertarianism politics economics capitalism authoritarianism fascism 2025 markfisher future oligarchy globalfinancialcrisis greatrecession dysopia endofhistory billionaires paypalmafia politicalconsciousness ai artificialintelligence technology technofascism nerdreich singularity singularitarianism extropianism rationalism cosmism longtermism transhumanism extroprianism effectivealtruism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a218e7969eae/ Public Transit Visions in Speculative Fiction - YouTube 2025-09-19T18:49:16+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__mhbuPvdZQ robertogreco transit transportation speculative speculativefiction annaleenewitz alissawalker vincentwoo alexismadrigal audreywilliams 2025 bayarea sanfrancisco bart scifi sciencefiction muni sfmta jeffreytumlin publictransit buses trains spikejonze her losangeles speculativedesign design mobility snowpiercer blackpanther wakanda hayaomiyazaki studioghibli catbus anime totoro access justice equity vision myneighbortotoro class crime perception fear race racism infrastructure behavior society agency control illusion safety driving cars danger collectivism community storytelling children future futures futurism government governance accessibility https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4e9aca628be3/ Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays 2025-09-12T03:15:07+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/why-longtermism-is-the-worlds-most-dangerous-secular-credo robertogreco émiletorres 2021 longtermism effectivealtruism anthropocene climate philosophy humanity future values beliefs extinctionrebellion covid-19 coronavirus pandemic apocalypticism climatology ecology epidemiology civilization martinrees noamchomsky maxtegmark doomsdayclock nanotechnology tescreal geoengineering earth xiyebastida nickbostrom nickbeckstead tobyord williammacaskill hilarygreaves forethoughtfoundation fhi karlmarx elconmusk donaldtrump peterthiel joebiden jasonmatheny siliconvalley frankramsey lyttonstrachey johnmaynardkeynes gemoore parthadasgupta ideology climatechange globalwarming disasters disaster machinelearning ai artificialintelligence globalsouth humankind thomasnagel surveillance policing predictivepolicing ollehäggström fanaticism posthumanism transhumanism susanlevin juliansavulescu immortality longevity expansionism spacecolonization colonization colonialism utilitarianism globalnorth technology supremacy langdonwinner francisbacon technosolutionism nra carlsagan nerdreich singu https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:06e7aa7cc897/ The cyberpunk dystopias inspiring Big Tech elites | The Listening Post - 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Rolex vs. Gen X - BEYOND THE DIAL 2025-07-24T23:14:55+00:00 https://www.beyondthedial.com/post/e63-rolex-vs-gen-x/ robertogreco tolisten 2021 rolex genx generationx 1980s 1990s vintage nationalism luxury economics watches allenfarmelo umbertoeco traditionalism conservatism technology past marinetti futurism italianfuturists modernity futurists antiestablishment fascism progressivism environmentalism directaction greenpeace luddism luddites neoluddites neoluddism waltwhitman thoreau resistance left society analog liberalism liberals corporations corporatism filippotommasomarinetti filippomarinetti counterculture 1960s backtotheland communalism progress stephengreenblatt philosophy future thomasaquinas christianity atheism time democracy ancientgreece epicureanism ethics silentgeneration generations boomers babyboomers paralysisofanalysis thinking howwethink rebellion communes hippies romanticism childhood ingenuity forums flamewars online internet digital digitization change web billclinton neoliberalism globalization plannedobsolescence quality repair maintenance deindustrialization jean-claudebiver switzerland blancpain vintagenation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fc3f9345a3e8/ The ‘New Georgia’ Points to America’s Future - 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Boycott the New York Times | Mona Chalabi | Real Talk - YouTube 2025-07-14T23:02:41+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mydu6gkO4Y robertogreco monachalabi mohamedhashem journalism nytimes iraq iraqwar zohranmamdani islamophobia islam gaza palestiene genocide ethniccleansing israel zionism arabs antiarab reporting objectivity bias passivity politics ethnicity fivethirtyeight zionsism antizionism natesilver ahmedchalabi muslimamericans policy 2025 visibility accents britishaccents unions unionbusting ethnonationalism nationalism workers workingclass us antisemitism smearcampaigns editorials opinions framing genocidewashing apartheidwashing apartheid power mainstreammedia press media subjectivity bothsidesism powerdynamics jeffreygoldberg claire shipman columbia thenewyorker theatlantic left birthright indoctrinaton data judithmiller iof idf neutrality injustice witness martyrs kurdistan kurds saddamhussein muammargaddafi gaddafi future muntadharal-zaidi datajournalism ramyyoussef codeswitching https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3adafb88a328/ It's Beginning to Feel a Bit Like The Future | 2517 - thejaymo 2025-07-05T16:51:57+00:00 https://thejaymo.net/2025/07/05/2517-its-beginning-to-feel-a-bit-like-the-future/ robertogreco jayspringett thejaymo y2k nostalgia modernity solarpunk vanessaandreotti dougladhine future julesverne brucesterling inequality 2025 1890s 2100 2000 victorians 1975 coletteshade 2008 greatrecession globalfinancialcrisis 2050 imagination ai artificialintelligence ar vr computing computers wireless housing homes climate climatechange environment globalwarming data dataprivacy privacy microplastics culture society living howwelive life being waysofbeing speculativefiction speculation speculativedesign starwars media fashion past present futurism scifi sciencefiction conversation mutualaid ethics possibility https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:20bd232ef67b/ Adam Curtis on the BBC, Politics & AI - YouTube 2025-06-23T04:30:34+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM9hRuy31JA robertogreco adamcurtis 2025 documentary history uk margaretthatcher politics society richardosman marinahyde culture shifty tv television archives entertainment economics liberals liberalism brexit workingclass pmc professionalmanagerialclass donaldtrump 1840s christopherclark inequality revolution politicians patronization academia highered highereducation bbc film realism imagination creativity lowbow hibrow highbrow rigidity music formula standardizedtesting mood feeling emotions connection pretentiousness cynicism class silos siloing perspective provocation didactivism experience 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s everyday change power rulingclass disconnect dread loneliness fear melancholy smartphones video cameras performance audience authenticity performativity ai artificialintelligence self-consciousness accents labourparty individualism tonyblair newlabour bankofengland anxiety anorexia bulimia retreat isolation psychology technology web online poverty socialsafetynet hr phones mobile socialmedia internet algorithms techno https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:acc8cd7cb56f/ A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally. - The New York Times 2025-06-20T16:34:50+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/magazine/ai-history-historians-scholarship.html robertogreco ai artificialintelligence 2025 billwasik text writing howwewrite history future culture academia storytelling scholarship https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c1e451b19782/ AI as Normal Technology | Knight First Amendment Institute 2025-06-12T17:11:59+00:00 https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-normal-technology robertogreco ai artificialintelligence technology 2025 arvindnarayanan sayashkapoor culture future daronacemoglu simonjohnson society inequality policy predictions nickbostom https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2cfe1743a538/ Interviewing LEFTIST ICON Yanis Varoufakis - YouTube 2025-06-04T18:16:13+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWc0yMkSB0Q robertogreco yanisvaroufakis 2024 hasanpiker economics left leftism class germany media cloudcapital capitalism valve gabenewell humanity humanism palestine gaza ethniccleansing genocide israel holocaust repression borders raoulmartinez jewishvoiceforpeace antisemitism irishefets colleges universities canarymission columbia usc suppression activism westbank apartheid settlements settlers arabstates uae jordan saudiarabia us edwardsaid democracy aipac adl antidefamationleague tiktok freespeech operationalaqsaflood hamas resistance concentrationcamps technofeudalism china finance banking wechat wallstreet digitalwallets ukraine russia indonesia swift iran goldmansachs bigtech google facebook amazon instagram meta twitter escapism commodification consumerism consumption enshittification staffordbeer cybersyn chile ai artificialintelligence jeffbezos markzuckerberg uber exploitation data javiermilei anarchocapitalism anarchosyndicalism imf argentina greece redscare propaganda neoliberalism classsolidarity labor work workers l https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cba6bf34ec09/ Youth Spies and Curious Elders - Austin Kleon 2025-05-09T19:04:17+00:00 https://austinkleon.com/2019/04/24/youth-spies-and-curious-elders/ robertogreco[A]s you get older, you’ll need youth spies that will keep you abreast of new music that nobody your age has heard of yet or body-piercing mutilations that are becoming all the rage—even budding sexually transmitted diseases you should go to any length to avoid. He’s made this joke in lots of places, but here he is underscoring the heart of the joke: his insistence on holding onto is his curiosity:
I have youth spies, people that report to me and I give them poppers for good information. But mostly I’m still interested in life. I don’t think it was better when I was young. I think the kids that are 15 and getting into trouble are having as much fun as I did. So I’m still curious. I don’t have fear of flying. I have fear of not flying. Always thinking that tomorrow is going to be better than yesterday.
Waters is what I call a Curious Elder — someone who manages to retain their curiosity as they age and stays interested in what young people are up to. The curious elder isn’t interested in judging youth, they’re interested in learning from them. For the Curious Elder, “The kids are alright” isn’t an observation, it’s an attitude. I do wonder sometimes if it’s easier to maintain this attitude if you aren’t a parent. Then again, there’s Brian Eno, a Curious Elder and parent, who I remember telling a lovely story about his daughter playing him Portishead’s “The Rip” in the car and becoming obsessed with it. Here is Eno on approaching the future with the attitude of a Curious Elder:
The revolutions of the future will appear in forms we don’t even recognise—in a language we can’t read. We will be looking out for twists on the old themes but not noticing that there are whole new conversations taking place. Just imagine if all the things about which we now get so heated meant nothing to those who follow us—as mysteriously irrelevant as the nuanced distinctions between anarcho-syndicalism and communist anarchism. At least we can hope for that. **As the cybernetician Stafford Beer once said to me: “If we can understand our children, we’re all screwed.” So revel in your mystification and read it as a sign of a healthy future.** Whatever happens next, it won’t be what you expected. If it is what you expected, it isn’t what’s happening next.
Emphasis mine. Revel in your mystification! And of course, the flip side is true for youth: Be curious about what came before you and spend time listening to and learning from your elders — there’s a lot of wisdom and experience they have to share…"]]> curiosity austinkleon age aging staffordbeer brianeno johnwaters elders learning culture future youth thinking wisdom curiouselders 2019 mystification howwelearn life living revolution change https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:708c313b7dd3/ The Future of Revolution: Jasper Bernes on Communism from the Paris Commune to George Floyd - YouTube 2025-05-06T04:15:01+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG4IpUfauE4 robertogreco acidhorizon 2025 communes pariscommune georgefloyd revolution jasperbernes karlmarx clrjames future workerscouncil organizing sovietunion ussr class 1871 communism insurrection marxism anarchism proletariat workers labor struggle revolutionarystruggle massstrike rosaluxemburg workplace soviets insurrections trotsky leontrotsky production craiglaubach georgefloydprotests georgefloyduprising https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9cfc8d581004/ A Strange Stain in the Sky: How Silicon Valley Is Preparing A Coup Against Democracy – albertlloreta.cat 2025-05-02T17:54:53+00:00 https://allr.cat/a-strange-stain-in-the-sky/ robertogreco albertlloreta technofeudalism technocracy siliconvalley californianideology technosolutionism technooptimism fascism authoritarianism hypernormality gabrielledrolet alexeiyurchak reality content confusion propaganda misinformation disinformation politics economics enshittification culture society consumerism consumption socialnetworks socialmedia democracy coup balajisrinivasan networkstate marcandreessen peterthiel paypalmafia elonmusk reidhoffman davidsacks chadhurley stevechen jawedkarim ai artificialintelligence crypto cryptocurrencies palantir darkenlightenment humnanity future libertarianism anarchocapitalism capitalism spacex privatization starlink seasteading bitcoin power control caralonia morocco montenegro drydenbrown obscurantism nazis nazism hierarchy hierarchies technology donaldtrump maga jdvance argentina germany italy italia unions resistance organization organzing labor work davidgraeber anarchism anarchy ows occupywallstreet thedawnofeverything adamcurtis democrats republicans corydoctorow https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:28cc98f457b6/ No Future in Our Dreaming 2025-04-04T16:53:23+00:00 https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/friday-2/ robertogreco audreywatters 2025 donaldtrump bigtech technology future philipbump politics policy thomaszimmer society us anarchocapitalism technofeudalism ai artificialintelligence marcandreessen siliconvalley technooptimism democracy education schools privatization jenniferberkshire museums libraries history dei inequality technosolutionism algorithms elonmusk rightwing farright fascism bigdata johnganz diversity work labor unions organizing highered highereducation colleges universities academia government governance teaching teachers howweteach eugenics heritagefoundation content edtech children childcare socialservices authoritarianism autocracy fossilfuels russia misinformation war https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:669de3762b27/ Digging for minerals in the Pacific's graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed | Grist 2025-04-04T03:04:29+00:00 https://grist.org/energy/deep-sea-mining-minerals-pacific-peoples/ robertogreco anitahofschneider 2025 ancestors indigeneity indigenous pacificocean mining minerals landback pacificislanders pasifika hawaii oceans deepseamining china us policy frenchpolynesia polynesia micronesia fiji palau cookislands tonga un guam papuanewguinea solomonislands newzealand australia history future https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8a799d36b98b/ Radical Books zine – Violet B. 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