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    <title>Citations Needed: News Brief: Despite 9-Figure Infusion from Silicon Valley, Abundance Still Seeks Popular Support</title>
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20:32 - AI Circlejerk
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29:09 - Authoritarian Leverage
35:01 - Siphoning Your 401K
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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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Cory's new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, is out TODAY"]]></description>
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    <title>AI Was Never About Helping You | Cory Doctorow - YouTube</title>
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This episode of "Galaxy Brain" was produced by Renee Klahr and engineered by Miguel Carrascal. Our theme is by Rob Smierciak. Hadley Robinson is our senior supervising producer. Claudine Ebeid is the executive producer of Atlantic audio, and Andrea Valdez is our managing editor.

Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Atlantic subscribers also get access to exclusive subscriber audio in Apple Podcasts. Subscribe today at https://accounts.theatlantic.com/prod...

00:00 Intro
03:21 Interview with Cory Doctorow
06:03 What Is a Reverse Centaur?
09:21 Why the AI Bubble Is Bigger
13:49 Boss Psychology and Power
18:10 Is AI Actually Profitable?
22:14 Air Canada and the AI Accountability Sink
29:29 Puncturing the AI Bubble
35:46 Material Limits to AI Hype
39:54 AI, Oligarchy, and Democracy
43:20 Closing Thoughts and Credits"]]></description>
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    <title>Understanding Late-Stage Capitalism</title>
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    <title>Donella Meadows vs. the Market - Peter Joseph: Substack</title>
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Social media gave us tools to edit our lives into a highlight reel. Photos of coffee, food, selfies from places you couldn’t afford last year, some pithy comment. It was all one directional. A movie about me, by me, for me to broadcast and you to watch. This is what led to the rise of influencer culture, where anything and everything was for sale. The self first became a gallery, then a reel. It was all passive, beautiful, controlled and fake.

We shared bumper sticker wisdom on Twitter. LinkedIn became a public square to hawk faux expertise. This popsci compression of complex thinking into shareable nuggets, designed for distribution and optimized for engagement, was the next step in the self becoming a product.

The pseudo-conversation twin is the crescendo. The self’s full immersion into illusion is now interactive. It answers questions. It gives the impression of encounter, of dialogue, of relationship. But it is still the same curated self with a conversational interface bolted on. It is as authentic as a Potemkin village. And with every step we have moved further from the actual person. The twin is not a rehearsal. It is the first act of abstraction of ourselves. Reid AI can do the job from a bunker in New Zealand.

<blockquote>“All that was once directly lived has become mere representation,” Guy Debord wrote in The Society of the Spectacle. “The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.”</blockquote>

The twin doesn’t just represent you. It restructures how others relate to you. The copy becomes the relationship. Send out the twin, and you have not freed yourself for deeper thinking. You have replaced the possibility of being surprised by another person with the certainty of your own archive.

None of this should really surprise us. As a society we have abstracted everything. Work itself is abstracted. We don’t make anything concrete around these parts. We find ways to make and remake money, which has itself been abstracted into the tap of a phone and a signature on a screen.

Look around and all you can see are gurus under their proverbial banyan trees, who make nothing but impart wisdom. They listen to the same podcast, and then regurgitate. They marvel at humanist manifestos. Some even read the Stoics. This is found wisdom, not earned wisdom. The twin is only possible once you have stopped being accountable to reality. The code either runs or it doesn’t. The piece either lands or it doesn’t. That accountability is what keeps thinking honest. Once you move from doing to narrating, you can be archived. Once archived, you can be distributed to the rest of the planet.

The question is not about AI and its tools. It is about the culture that created a market for this. What does it mean that we built enough of these people, finished, distributable, no longer becoming anything, to make the digital twin a product category?

It is a monument to a self that stopped growing."]]></description>
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    <title>We Are (Still) Living in the Long Boring</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-24T03:38:52+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I have really been trying to avoid talking about LLMs, or if you must, AI. But things have gotten kind of weird lately. There’s an unsettled quality to the discourse right now; we were briefly in “It’s cringe to believe in AI,” now we’ve swung back to “It’s cringe not to believe in AI,” but no one seems to share the same conception of what believing in AI entails. The influence of programming looms large, as it has over the culture writ large for some time. We were in another lull of disappointment in what LLMs can do, and then Claude Code came out, and suddenly everyone’s promising us asteroid mines and radical life extension and abundant clean energy again. But this is a category error: none of those things can be achieved with code.

The most telling thing about the LLM moment is what this technology is actually good at. LLMs write code, generate images, produce music, summarize documents, draft prose… which is to say, they have achieved mastery over the exact domains that were already, by any sane measure, overprovisioned. Was anyone saying that we didn’t have enough digital writing, images, videos, music, video games, or applications, a few years ago? The core triumph of technological growth is taking scarcity and creating abundance. Well, LLMs create an abundance, that’s for sure. But there was already an abundance of text, online, and an abundance of images, and there’s some insane stat like 24 hours of video gets uploaded to YouTube every second or whatever, and yes, there has been an abundance of code, of programs, of apps. And before we got these fancy new tools to produce more code, there wasn’t a lot of people saying “Gee, what we need is more apps, the app store is too empty.”

The internet in 2022, before the ChatGPT wave broke, already contained more text than any human being could read in ten thousand lifetimes, more images than any eye could see, more music than any ear could hear. When I was a younger man, the get-rich-quick scheme du jour was to create the next great iPhone app, which led to a world of smartphone apps so wildly overserved that we all got tired of apps and no one has sincerely gotten excited about a new one in like ten years. And now… we get more. The scarcity that these tools have abolished, in other words, was not a scarcity anyone was actually suffering from. We did not need more “content”; we did not need to produce digital entertainments at a faster pace. We needed (and still need) cheaper energy, more housing, better cancer treatments, functional mass transit, and a replacement for the internal combustion engine people actually want to use. What we received instead was a machine that can write a cover letter in four seconds and generate a photorealistic image of SpongeBob jackin it. The question of whether this constitutes civilizational transformation should answer itself. Right?

This is the “bits are easy, atoms are hard” problem in its starkest form. Every task LLMs perform (some of which they do pretty well, like help write code) happens on screens, in files, in the virtual world that computation has always occupied. And the lesson of the last fifty years of digital technology is that software’s limits are the limits of the screen itself. Code cannot insulate your house; no algorithm has ever laid a water pipe; the internet has not built a single mile of high-speed rail. What our current stagnation shows, collectively, is that the improvements in material human life that matter the most - abundance in warmth, in calories, in clean water, in physical safety, in hours of freedom from labor - were all achieved by technologies that operated on atoms: steel, concrete, copper wire, chlorine, penicillin. The digital revolution produced real and genuine gains within its own domain, but it never breached that membrane between the virtual and the physical, and LLMs show no signs of doing so either.

Claude Code has genuinely transformed how programmers write software, which is great, but also largely beside the point: the biggest technological lessons of the 21st century are about the limits of code.

You have not heard any of the many, many excitable AI maximalists in the media address this reality, the bits vs atoms barrier, because they have no response that can preserve their intense attachment to the idea that the world is about to change forever. So they resolutely ignore this basic reality: most of the world is not computers. Most of your life is dependent on technologies other than computers. Inconveniently, we also have few arenas of human endeavor that are seeing rapid development other than in computing.

And so the grander promises (curing cancer, cracking fusion, colonizing Mars, achieving material abundance through AI-directed science) function less as predictions than as a kind of promissory theology, perpetually redeemable in a future that recedes as you approach it. The actual connection between a model that autocompletes code and a cure for pancreatic cancer is speculative in the most precise sense: the sense of having no demonstrated mechanism. AI has produced real if modest contributions to protein folding and drug candidate screening. These are genuinely good things. But the leap from “AlphaFold is sometimes useful to structural biologists” to “we are on the threshold of defeating disease” is not an inference supported by evidence but rather a narrative that a certain kind of mind finds emotionally necessary. And when you look at the pattern of these promises historically - fusion has been twenty years away for seventy years, the paperless office was supposed to arrive with the PC, every home will soon have a large 3D printer that will provide them with the plastic goods they once bought at Walmart - the most responsible explanation is not that the breakthrough is imminent but that each generation of technologists, confronting the gap between what their tools can do and what they wish they could do, fills that gap with imagination and calls it the future.

Dee mentions Ray Kurzweil and calls him prescient.

<blockquote>Ray Kurzweil was prescient about many things, and one of them is this: the merger has started. He predicted the outer layers of our neocortex would be wired to the cloud by the 2030s, extending human thought the way the last round of neocortical expansion produced us. But think carefully about what consumer technology alone already does. (And that’s just CONSUMER technology.) We have built ourselves a second nervous system.</blockquote>

“We have built ourselves a second nervous system”! This is the kind of sentence that sounds like revelation and means, on inspection, that you can look things up very quickly on your phone. We have indeed built ourselves a very fast library. That library has caused a lot of unhappiness, but certainly it’s a remarkable technological achievement. That achievement did not, however, eliminate tuberculosis.

And while we’re talking about Kurzweil and nervous systems, we should take time to point out his fundamental misapprehension of that system. Kurzweil has always had one goal, above all others: to avoid death. As a means to achieve this ambitious project, he has repeatedly invoked the desire to “upload” his consciousness to a computer. But this is folly: there is no consciousness that is distinct from the brain that houses it. Consciousness is brain, is tissue, is cells, is wetware. There is no discrete program that is the self that can be extracted from the brain and deposited into a conveniently durable chassis. To imagine a consciousness that can be housed on a floppy disc is to participate in a dualist fantasy of the kind that should have died out hundreds of years ago. Kurzweil has had this pointed out to him many times, but his desire to live forever apparently overwhelms his more rational faculties. The fantasy wins.

Dee dismisses “techno-pessimists” as people trying to stop something that has already happened. (Jasmine Sun goes with “AI populists,” a term I find a little inscrutable.) Perhaps I am a techno-pessimist, but if so, it’s only because I’ve been alive for most of the dispiriting past 50 years. “We were promised flying cars,” goes the cliche. But flying cars are at least possible; it’s just that they’re hideously inefficient and offer no advantage over our current boring-but-effective combination of cars and airplanes. We also were told to dream of time travel and faster-than-light travel, both of which are forever forbidden by elementary physics, and of colonizing distant worlds, which is forever forbidden by more factors than I can list. As Kim Stanley Robinson and others have pointed out, that last bit is essential, because if we recognize that we only have one world to live in, we might become better stewards of it. And that’s why I’m a techno-pessimist in general. Though I’m frequently accused of hoeing this particular row because I like disillusioning other people, I am instead trying to make this reality clear: we cannot sit back and wait for technological progress to save us. The only solutions to our problems - the problems of hunger, of poverty, of injustice, of disillusionment, of alienation - are political solutions. I understand feeling totally defeated by that idea, given what politics is like on this planet. But it’s all we have. We start to build the political structures that can enable humanity to take care of all of us or we drown. There is no fate but what we make.

Whatever you think of my motives, I will not stop pointing out that we are still here, still in this boring muck, still circling the parking lot at Target looking for a space. And until and unless the usual suspects can produce actual evidence of something happening right now, the skeptic’s work is not over. They promise AI will cure all disease; AI has not cured a single disease. Ezra Klein routinely throws around 20% economic growth as a baseline for the AI age; these few years with LLMs have produced the same anemic ~2% growth as we’ve been used to in this, the digital century. And I still say, wake me up when that changes. My techno-pessimism is a pessimism grounded in a fact derived from the historical record: that civilizational-scale technological transformation is extraordinarily rare, that it happened once in a rapidly-receding extraordinary century, and that we have been living in its long shadow ever since. And now some mistake that shadow for the sun."]]></description>
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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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    <title>Prophetic Possibilities: A Few Words on David W. Orr and a Healing Vision for America - Front Porch Republic</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-11T03:11:31+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A healing vision for America, Orr suggests in his writings, is one faithful to the great nearby, to the gospel of the local."

...

“How do we reimagine and remake the human presence on earth in ways that work over the long haul?” —David W. Orr

“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.” —David W. Orr

...

"And what is Orr’s vision?

In light of the variety of topics he’s written about (love, gratitude, water, oil, speed, scale, diversity, language, education, climate change, technology, science, scientism, spirituality, politics, leadership, citizenship, agriculture, conservation, localism, architecture, ecological design, the industrial economy, and others) and in light of the richness of his expression, attempting a summary of his vision seems a fool’s errand. But let me run that fool’s errand roundaboutly (and uncomprehensively) by sharing a list from his book Hope Is an Imperative, a list of things Orr believes every healthy community needs, a plainly worded but provocative list that I’ve been sharing with friends and students for years:

• front porches
• public parks
• local businesses
• windmills and solar collectors
• local farms and better food
• better woodlots and forests
• local employment
• more bike trails
• summer baseball leagues
• community theaters
• better poetry
• neighborhood book clubs
• bowling leagues
• better schools
• vibrant and robust downtowns with sidewalk cafes
• great pubs serving microbrews
• more kids playing outdoors
• fewer freeways, shopping malls, sprawl, television
• no more wars for oil or anything else"]]></description>
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    <title>AI Is Really Weird</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-09T20:25:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-really-weird/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Table of Contents

We Are Not In The Early Days of AI, And It’s Weird To Say That We Are

Why Is Everybody Lying About What AI and “Agents” Can Actually Do?

Let’s Talk About The Actual Consequences of Coding LLMs

The Economics Of AI Are Weird And Bad, And It’s Even Weirder That People Try And Normalize Them

It’s Very Weird That The Media Ignored My Reporting on OpenAI’s Revenues, and Anthropic’s Statement That It Made $5 Billion In Revenue Through March 9, 2026

It’s Weird That The Media Continues To Normalize OpenAI And Anthropic Losing Billions of Dollars

Does Anthropic Measure Its Gross Margins Based On How Much Revenue A Model Made Rather Than Revenue Minus COGS?

OpenAI and Anthropic Lose Billions of Dollars, But The Media Normalizes It In Any Way It Can, Acting As If Model Training Is Capex When It’s Actually A Cost of Goods Sold

Anthropic’s Revenue Growth Is Weird and Suspicious — How Did It Go From $700 million in monthly revenue in December 2025 to $2.3 to $2.5 billion in April 2026?

Anthropic’s Sonnet and Opus 4.6 Models Burn More Tokens Than Previous Models, and enable a 500% Larger 1 Million Token Context Window By Default, Artificially Inflating Costs For Similar Gains

Does Meta’s “TokenMaxxing” Account For A Quarter of Anthropic’s Revenue?

Measuring Worker Output In Token Consumption Is Incredibly Weird, and TokenMaxxing Is Not A Sustainable Business Model

TokenMaxxing Is A Valley-Wide Problem, Raising The Costs of Running Any Software Team Based On How AI-Crazed Your CEO Has Become — And When Cost Cuts Begin, API Revenue Will Collapse

The AI Bubble Is Weird, Irrational and Wasteful, And It’s Even Weirder That It’s A Fringe Opinion To Say So"

...

"I can’t get over how weird the AI bubble has become.

Hyperscalers are planning to spend over $600 billion on data center construction and GPUs predominantly bought from NVIDIA, the largest company on the stock market, all to power generative AI, a technology that’s so powerful that none of them will discuss how much it’s making them, or what it is we’re all meant to be so excited. 

To make matters weirder, Microsoft, a company that spent $37.5 billion in capital expenditures in its last quarter on AI, recently updated the terms and conditions of its LLM-powered “Copilot” service to say that it was “for entertainment purposes only,” discussing a product that apparently has 15 million users as part of enterprise Microsoft 365 subscriptions, and is sold to both local and national governments overseas, including the US federal government.

That’s so weird! What’re you doing Microsoft? What do you mean it’s for entertainment purposes? You’re building massive data centers to drive this! 

Well, okay, you’re building them at some point. As I discussed a few weeks ago, despite everybody talking about the hundreds of gigawatts of data centers being built “to power AI,” only 5GW are actually “under construction,” with “under construction” meaning anything from “we’ve got some scaffolding up” to “we’re about to hand over the keys to the customer.” 

But isn’t it weird we’re even building those data centers to begin with? Why? What is it that AI does that makes it so essential — or, rather, entertaining — that we keep funding and building these things? Every day we hear about “the power of AI,” we’re beaten over the head with scary propaganda saying “AI will take our jobs,” but nobody can really explain — outside of outright falsehoods about “AI replacing all software engineers” — what it is that makes any of this worthy of taking up any oxygen let alone essential or a justification for so many billions of dollars of investment."

...

"And with that incredibly easy access, only 3% of households pay for AI. Boosters will again use this talking point to say that “we’re in the early days,” but that’s only true if you think that “early days” means “people aren’t really using it yet.” 

Yet the “early days” argument is inherently deceptive.

While the Large Language Model hype cycle might have only begun in 2022, the entirety of the media and markets have focused their attention on AI, along with hundreds of billions of dollars of venture capital and nearly a trillion dollars of hyperscale capex investment. AI progress isn’t hampered by a lack of access, talent, resources, novel approaches, or industry buy-in, but by a single-minded focus on Large Language Models, a technology that has been so obviously-limited from the very beginning that Gary Marcus was able to call it in 2022. 

Saying it’s “the early days” also doesn’t really make sense when faced with the rotten and incredibly unprofitable economics of AI. The early days of the internet were not unprofitable due to the underlying technology of serving websites, but the incredibly shitty businesses that people were building. Pets.com spent $400 per customer in customer acquisition costs, millions of dollars on advertising, and had hundreds of employees for a business with a little over $600,000 in quarterly revenue — and as a result, nothing about its failure was about “the early days of the internet” at all, as was the case with Kozmo, or any number of other dot com flameouts. 

Similarly, internet infrastructure companies like Winstar collapsed because they tried to grow too fast and signed stupid deals rather than anything about the underlying technology’s flaws."

...

"I think it’s also worth asking at this point what is is we’re actually fucking doing. 

We’re building — theoretically — hundreds of gigawatts of data centers, feeding hundreds of billions of dollars to NVIDIA to buy GPUs, all to build capacity for demand that doesn’t appear to exist, with only around $65 billion of revenue (not profit) for the entire generative AI industry in 2025, with much of that flowing from two companies (Anthropic and OpenAI) making money by offering their models to unprofitable AI startups that cannot survive without endless venture capital, which is also the case for both AI labs.

Said data centers make up 90% of NVIDIA’s revenue, which means that 8% or so of the S&P 500’s value comes from a company that makes money selling hardware to people that immediately lose money on installing it. That’s very weird! Even if you’re an AI booster, surely you want to know the truth, right? 

The most-prominent companies in the AI industry — Anthropic and OpenAI — burn billions of dollars a year, have margins that get worse over time, and absolutely no path to profitability, yet the majority of the media act as if this is a problem that they will fix, even going as far as to make up rationalizations as to how they’ll fix it, focusing on big revenue numbers that wilt under scrutiny.

That’s extremely weird, and only made weirder by members of the media who seem to think it’s their job to defend AI companies’ bizarre and brittle businesses. It’s weird that the media’s default approach to AI has, for the most part, been to accept everything that the companies say, no matter how nonsensical it might be.

I mean, come on! It’s fucking weird that OpenAI plans to burn $121 billion in the next two years on compute for training its models, and that the media’s response is to say that somehow it will break even in 2030, even though there’s no actual explanation anywhere as to how that might happen other than vague statements about “efficiency.”

That’s weird! It’s really, really weird!

It’s also weird that we’re still having a debate about “the power of AI” and “what agents might do in the future” based on fantastical thoughts about “agents on the internet” that do not exist, cannot exist, and will never exist, and it’s fucking weird that executives and members of the media keep acting as if that’s the case. It’s also weird that people discussing agents don’t seem to want to discuss that OpenAI’s Operator Agent does not work, that AI browsers are fundamentally broken, or that agentic AI does not do anything that people discuss.

In fact, that’s one of the weirdest parts of the whole AI bubble: the possibility of something existing is enough for the media to cover it as if it exists, and a product saying that it will do something is enough for the media to believe it does it. It’s weird that somebody saying they will spend money is enough to make the media believe that something is actually happening, even if the company in question — say, Anthropic — literally can’t afford to pay for it.

It’s also weird how many outright lies are taking place, and how little the media seems to want to talk about them. Stargate was a lie! The whole time it was a lie! That time that Sam Altman and Masayoshi Son and Larry Ellison stood up at the white house and talked about a $500 billion infrastructure project was a lie! They never formed the entity! That’s so weird!

Hey, while I have you, isn’t it weird that OpenAI spent hundreds of millions of dollars to buy tech podcast TBPN “to help with comms and marketing”? It’s even weirder considering that TBPN was already a booster for OpenAI! 

It’s also weird that a lot of AI data center projects don’t seem to actually exist, such as Nscale’s project to make “one of the most powerful AI computing centres ever” that is literally a pile of scaffolding, and that despite that announcement the company was able to raise $2 billion in funding.

It’s also weird that we’re all having to pretend that any of this matters. The revenues are terrible, Large Language Models are yet to provide any meaningful productivity improvements, and the only reason that they’ve been able to get as far as they have is a compliant media and a venture capital environment borne of a lack of anything else to invest in. 

Coding LLMs are popular only because of their massive subsidies and corporate encouragement, and in the end will be seen as a useful-yet-incremental and way too expensive way to make the easy things easier and the harder things harder, all while filling codebases full of masses of unintentional, bloated code. If everybody was forced to pay their actual costs for LLM coding, I do not believe for a second that we’d have anywhere near the amount of mewling, submissive and desperate press around these models. 

The AI bubble has every big, flashing warning sign you could ask for. Every company loses money. Seemingly every AI data center is behind schedule, and the vast majority of them aren’t even under construction. OpenAI’s CFO does not believe that it’s ready to go public in 2026, and Sam Altman’s reaction has been to have her report to somebody else other than him, the CEO. Both OpenAI and Anthropic’s margins are worse than they projected. Every AI startup has to raise hundreds of millions of dollars, and their products are so weak that they can only make millions of dollars of revenue after subsidizing the underlying cost of goods to the point of mass unprofitability. 

And it’s really weird that the mainstream media has a diametric view — that all of this is totally permissible under the auspices of hypergrowth, that these companies will simply grow larger, that they will somehow become profitable in a way that nobody can actually describe, that demand for AI data centers will exist despite there being no signs of that happening.

I get it. Living in my world is weird in and of itself. If you think like I do, you have to see every announcement by Anthropic or OpenAI as suspicious — which should be the default position of every journalist, but I digress — and any promise of spending billions of dollars as impossible without infinite resources.

At the end of this era, I think we’re all going to have to have a conversation about the innate credulity of the business and tech media, and how often that was co-opted to help the rich get richer.

Until then, can we at least admit how weird this all is?"]]></description>
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    <title>How data centers are reshaping Idaho’s farm country – Deseret News</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As tech giants flock to Idaho to build data centers, competing visions for the West could reshape the country"

[via:
https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/03/meatpackers-barnes-noble-and-wittgenstein/

"Mark Dee reports on the tensions in Idaho farmland as big capital seeks to build data centers here: “To some, southern Idaho’s future isn’t sprouting beneath rolling sprinklers, but pulsing through those wires. The same characteristics that make this land ideal for agriculture make it appealing for developing data centers. Open land, approachable climate, cheap power and sufficient water drew cattlemen from Southern California to southern Idaho in the 20th century. In the 21st century, it’s tech giants and investors eyeing ready returns. Technology, data and power are staking claims on land that has never seen a building larger than a milking barn. The result is competing visions for the West: industrial or agrarian, data centers or center-pivots.” (Recommended by Bill Kauffman.)"]]]></description>
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    <title>Starbucks with Chinese Characteristics - Front Porch Republic</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-13T23:25:44+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["China has gone through staggering economic growth and urbanization in the past few decades, and Starbucks has been along for the ride."

...

"Around 700 million Chinese citizens—a number twice the entire US population—have risen into the middle class since the year 2000. With new wealth has come new tastes and aspirations: organic food, SUVs, yoga and bodybuilding, vacations overseas—and sending children to Western colleges. Historically, studying abroad was only for a small elite and the exceptionally bright; but it has surged since the 2010s, and today more than 400,000 Chinese students are attending colleges in the West. English proficiency is a key to overseas admissions, so education in which English is the language of instruction—from beginner ESL to TOEFL, AP, IB, A-Level, and college courses—has become a multi-billion-dollar industry in China. In fact, there are now over half a million foreign teachers working in Chinese schools. Imagine for a moment that you are one of them."]]></description>
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    <title>Scott Wiener: The Astroturf Network’s OG - The Phoenix Project</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-05T22:49:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In a few short months, state Senator Scott Wiener may come one step closer to his long-stated goal of replacing Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and attaining a measure of the power that comes with succeeding a Democratic Party icon.

Recent polling has Wiener leading what is expected to be a close race against Saikat Chakrabarti, a former tech executive who once worked for Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan. A recent entrant, former Trump appointee Marie Hurabiell, is expected to garner little support.

In the race for money, the distance is far greater: Wiener has raised roughly $2.8 million compared to $1.8 million for Chakrabarti (most of it in the form of a personal loan from the candidate himself), and $300,000 for Chan. 

What explains the fundraising gap? Wiener is neither wealthy, like Chakrabarti, nor does he have the passionate support of organized labor, like Chan. And unlike his opponents, he is charisma-challenged. 

What Wiener has is the staunch support of well-funded YIMBY organizations. YIMBY— short for Yes In My Backyard — is the clever name that disguises a lucrative partnership between the real estate and tech industries.

Most of the $1.5 million raised by Wiener in his first race for state Senate back in 2016 came through independent expenditure committees and were funded by the building trade unions, real estate industry and the police union. Billionaire tech investor Ron Conway was behind an independent expenditure committee that spent more than $173,000 on ads attacking Wiener opponent Jane Kim.

Once elected, he amply rewarded his generous supporters: No one has done more to further the YIMBY cause than Scott Wiener.

In fact, Wiener should be considered the OG of YIMBYism and the Astroturf Network on which it is based. His legislative staffers have gone on to populate lavishly funded YIMBY groups like the Abundant SF, started by tech executive Zack Rosen. Before creating the Abundance Network, Rosen cofounded California YIMBY, composed of wealthy tech executives like himself, in 2017. It is considered one of the first groups formed to push the pro-growth agenda.

Todd David, the architect of Wiener’s first state Senate campaign, is the Abundance Network’s political director; Andres Power, his former land-use policy advisor works alongside David as does Jeff Cretan, his former spokesman. Annie Fryman, his former legislative aide at San Francisco City Hall, works a position at SPUR (a pro-growth think tank) that is directly funded by the Abundance Network, while moonlighting as Abundance’s Senior Policy Advisor. 

YIMBY's claim, against compelling evidence to the contrary, is that removing impediments to residential development will solve the state’s housing crisis. They apply Reagan era trickle-down economics to the complex problem of housing. The results are equally dubious: In instance after instance, unfettered development has failed to produce the kind of affordable housing San Francisco — and other California cities — so desperately needs.

Instead, it results in gentrification and displacement, particularly of working-class residents living in rent-controlled housing. Another unfortunate outcome of YIMBYism is environmental degradation since they look upon environmental laws as simply another impediment to building.

A week after being elected to the state Senate, Wiener introduced SB 35, a bill that called for cities that failed to meet state requirements for new housing to hand over the approval processes for new developments to the state. Since 1980, California’s Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) office has assigned housing goals for each jurisdiction in the state. Wiener wrote a companion bill that changed the RHNA calculation ensuring that no jurisdiction could meet state mandates.

That guaranteed that a state-run approval process would be triggered so that housing approvals would be expedited. It eliminated reviews required by the California Environmental Quality Act. A year later, Wiener’s bill was signed into law by then-Governor Jerry Brown. 

It was the first of a series of Wiener bills that wrested planning decisions from cities to the state. We frequently hear YIMBYs tell us that we have to build whatever they want or else the state will take even more control from San Francisco. It is important to understand that did not happen by accident but because his wealthy backers made that happen.

A year later, Wiener authored SB 827, a bill said to have been written by California YIMBY Chief Brian Hanlon. Hanlon is a long-time Wiener association believed to have authored most of the state senator’s housing legislation. SB 827 called for removing height and density restrictions on development sites near transit. It received full-throated support from 150 tech executives, many of whom had donated to Wiener’s campaign for state Senate. It died in committee. Wiener would come back with two similar bills before SB 79 passed and was signed into law.

He was equally relentless in obtaining passage of a statewide upzoning measure, trying five times before ultimately failing. Instead, Wiener settled for passage of SB 9 in 2020, a more reasonable law that allows owners of some single-family homes to create duplexes on their property. However, another successful Wiener bill, SB 478, prevented cities from restricting lot size for upzoning projects.

The indefatigable Wiener has turned his attention to weakening California’s long-standing environmental laws. In 2024, he introduced SB 951, to remove portions of San Francisco from the protection of the state’s Coastal Commission. Despite vocal opposition from environmental groups, the law passed, allowing housing development on land along the city’s coastline. He followed up with SB 607, an overhaul of the California Environmental Quality Act, commonly known as CEQA, to limit environmental review for development projects. For now, CEQA reviews remain largely intact after the bill was significantly amended due to vigorous opposition from environmentalists.

All these measures were on the wishlist of Wiener’s YIMBY supporters. On its website, California YIMBY lists its legislative victories. Most of them are thanks to Scott Wiener, its main man in Sacramento. Now the tech and real estate industries are showing their appreciation by generously funding his long-cherished dream of a seat at the nation’s capitol."]]></description>
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    <title>Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn – POLITICO</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-01T23:22:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.politico.eu/article/obsession-with-growth-destroying-nature-150-countries-warn/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["China, India and EU countries were among the signatories of a report that criticized the prevailing measures of economic success."

...

"BRUSSELS — More than 150 countries including China, India and European Union members have signed off on a report that warns focusing on unchecked economic growth is contributing to the destruction of global biodiversity.

"Unsustainable economic activity and a focus on growth as measured by the gross domestic product, has been a driver of the decline of biodiversity ... and stands in the way of transformative change," warns a report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) published Monday.

IPBES is the leading intergovernmental body for assessing the state of biodiversity. Monday's report follows three years of work, and was approved by government representatives at the IPBES summit that wrapped up in Manchester, U.K. on Sunday.

One eighth of the world’s estimated 8 million species of plants and animals are threatened with extinction, according to IPBES. Some 75 percent of the Earth’s land surface has already been significantly altered by human actions.

If that course doesn't shift, the report warns, future prosperity is at risk. Markets are failing to adequately price or value biodiversity, such as filtration of pollutants, climate regulation and pollination.

“Businesses and other key actors can either lead the way towards a more sustainable global economy or ultimately risk extinction … both of species in nature, but potentially also their own,” said Matt Jones, one of three co-chairs of the assessment, in a statement.
'Perverse incentives'

The authors slam "inadequate or perverse" business incentives, an "institutional environment with insufficient support, enforcement and compliance," and business models that result in "ever-increasing material consumption" as key contributors to the global degradation of nature.

While the report highlights actions businesses can take, it acknowledges that industry can't halt and reverse biodiversity loss alone and points to the importance of policy, legal and regulatory frameworks, along with capacity and knowledge.

The report lands as the European Union forges ahead with a deregulatory agenda focused on boosting the bloc's competitiveness by relaxing environmental standards. The U.S. was not among the signatories of the report, having announced its intention to withdraw from IPBES and other international organizations it considers “wasteful, ineffective and harmful.”

Ahead of the report's publication, IPBES chair David Obura told POLITICO that while “very vocal communities with a right-wing voice … pull away from the sort of joint solutions that we need,” science shows “that’s the wrong way to go and to resolve coming crises we will need better decisions that are evidence-based.”

“It’s an incredibly, incredibly worrying and in some ways frustrating time to see what is happening,” he said. All Obura can do, he added, is to “really promote the evidence coming through in our assessments and [ensure] that it’s in front of the policymakers for them to use, and I hope they will.”"]]></description>
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    <title>[Essay] A Country of Geniuses - by Nate Hagens</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-01T23:09:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://natehagens.substack.com/p/essay-a-country-of-geniuses</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Where does that leave me after reading Amodei’s essay? I think his framing is useful. The “country of geniuses” metaphor communicates scale while the adolescence framing communicates the stakes. His refusal to go fully utopian or fully apocalyptic is good, I think. We need to have a grown-up conversation about power.

But widening the boundary changes the texture of this problem. I’m a peak oil, biodiversity, systems guy – but now AI is here, like it or not, and is changing the calculus of all the other things.

Here are a few questions to hold:

1. Who gets to decide where this goes? A handful of companies? National security agencies? Markets? Or some form of public rulemaking that can actually enforce limits?

2. Even if we can imagine good uses, do we currently have the incentive structure to get them? Or does the system mostly reward speed, power, and control?

3. If intelligence becomes super cheap and we have a country of 50 million “geniuses,” what happens to meaning, dignity, and status? What fills the hole where work used to be for millions of people?

4. If the danger is speed more than evil, how do we buy time? What are the specific levers that might actually slow deployment without pretending we can freeze the world while we figure it out?

Personally, just like Frodo, I wish AI had never happened in my time. But we have now definitely left “the Shire.” AI is here to stay or we’ll hit the Great Simplification trying to build it.

What I’m suggesting you do with this information is to just hold it. Update your mental models and start talking about AI through a biophysical lens (because almost no one else is). Start emphasizing the need to develop agreements to constrain the AI industry – something like nuclear treaties – because right now we’re in an arms race with no framework at all for restraint. This is a conversation that needs to get a lot louder and a lot wider-boundary, very soon.

The bottom line will depend on whether Homo sapiens can grow up fast enough to live with what we are building and have already built. If that sounds like a tall order it’s because it is. But it’s also very high stakes for both our species and the biosphere.

In my heart of hearts I don’t dream of a “country of geniuses.” I actually dream of a country of ecologists – not necessarily the best in their fields, but those who operate from an understanding of humanity’s place within the Earth and what it means to live and pass on that knowledge.

I’d like to close with an oft-used quote from the late ecological giant E.O. Wilson, who I regret never being able to have on the podcast: “The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”"

[via:
https://sentiers.media/a-country-of-geniuses-collapse-a-framework-no-392/

"The deeper challenge Hagens poses to Amodei’s framework is that it assumes surviving technological adolescence leads somewhere worth arriving. Amodei imagines a managed abundance on the other side: AI-accelerated scientific progress, sustained GDP growth, a kind of settled stability. Hagens questions whether that destination is physically possible. A “country of geniuses” doesn’t float above the biosphere, it plugs directly into it, competing for energy, water, and materials that are already strained. The “goal function” question, then, isn’t just philosophical. As Hagens puts it, a system that optimises the wrong objective can perform brilliantly while destroying the things you actually value, ”Think King Midas meets the Terminator.” The real issue isn’t whether AI can make us richer, but what kind of richness we’re aiming for in the first place."]]]></description>
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    <title>Sinophobic Sinophilia | Issue 52 | n+1 | The Editors</title>
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    <title>The Billionaire Plan to Escape Democracy: Quinn Slobodian on 'Crack-Up Capitalism' - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-08T21:15:08+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Will tech billionaires get rid of democracy by getting rid of people?

In this episode of The Nerd Reich, Gil Duran sits down with renowned historian Quinn Slobodian (Globalists, Crack-Up Capitalism) to dissect the "ideology of exit." 

While the media focuses on failed "Freedom City" experiments like Prospera, Slobodian reveals a darker endgame: a shift toward automated, "post-human" infrastructure where voters are no longer part of the equation.

In this episode, we explore:

The Hong Kong Blueprint: How a colonial relic became the template for 21st-century capitalism.

Authoritarian Capitalism: Why Silicon Valley elites are obsessed with models of control.

The Post-Human Zone: Why the future of "sovereignty" belongs to Manhattan-sized data centers, not citizens.

The Octavia Butler Reality: What if future isn't about escaping the "company town," but fighting to get inside one?

Connect with Quinn Slobodian: https://bsky.app/profile/quinnslobodian.com

New Book: Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed (Releasing April 21, 2026): https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530

Must Read: Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250753892/crackupcapitalism/ "

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    <title>Gabriel Zucman, economist: 'The idea of a sclerotic Europe facing a American El Dorado has little basis in fact'</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-10T22:05:32+00:00</dc:date>
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"More leisure time, better health outcomes, greater equality and lower carbon emissions, all with broadly comparable productivity: Europeans can be proud of their model, argues Gabriel Zucman, director of the EU Tax Observatory."

...

"It is the prevailing idea in both Brussels and Washington: America is soaring, while Europe is falling behind. This refrain even appears in the White House's now-famous National Security Strategy. "Continental Europe has been losing share of global GDP – down from 25% in 1990 to 14% today – partly owing to national and transnational regulations that undermine creativity and industriousness."

European conservative parties have echoed this argument in order to call for deregulation and lower taxes: an end to the Green Deal, challenges to a corporate due diligence rule and scrapping the minimum tax rate on multinational companies. The US envoy to the European Union spoke with the same tone last week, claiming that even the poorest US states, such as Mississippi or West Virginia, now enjoyed a higher standard of living than Germany.

Yet all of this has rather little basis in fact. The idea of a sclerotic Europe facing a supposed American El Dorado, which serves as the foundation for the deregulatory offensive that currently prevails in Brussels, rests on three myths.

The first is that of skyrocketing US growth. At first glance, the statistics seem to support this hypothesis: The US gross domestic product – that is, the value produced on American soil – appears to have increased faster than that of the EU over the past 15 years. In reality, this is mainly because the US population has grown more rapidly. More importantly, however, this growth has been wiped out by the soaring cost of living in the United States, which has been a key phenomenon in contemporary American economic and political life. During his 2024 campaign, Donald Trump managed to exploit the anger this surge had provoked. Now, having failed to bring prices down as he had promised, that anger has turned against him, sending his popularity plummeting.

Once price levels are taken into account, there is no American miracle, nor is there stagnation in Europe. When adjusted for cost-of-living differences, GDP per capita has risen by 70% in the US since 1990, compared to 62% in the European Union. This corresponds to an average annual growth of 1.6% in the US, compared with 1.5% in the EU.

Myth of European unproductivity

The American National Security Strategy laments the decline of Europe's share of global GDP. But, once differences in cost of living between countries are factored in, we can observe exactly the same drop in the US. Both the EU and the US have seen their shares of global GDP fall from 20% in 1995 to 15% today.

The second myth is that Europe is unproductive. The US, with its 340 million inhabitants, has a smaller population than the EU (450 million inhabitants), but accounts for an equal share of global GDP. US GDP per capita is, therefore, about 35% higher than that of the EU.

Yet, contrary to a persistent belief, this gap is not mainly due to a lack of productivity in Europe. The reason is quite different: Europeans enjoy more free time, more vacations and shorter work weeks. In terms of productivity per hour worked, the EU almost matches the US. Productivity in the six "core" EU countries (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium), which account for a combined population of 290 million, is virtually identical to that in the US, according to the latest data from the World Inequality Lab.

If the analysis is broadened to include the entire EU (450 million inhabitants, so a significantly larger economy than the US), productivity is slightly lower than in the US, due to lower productivity levels in Eastern European countries. Still, the gap remains modest. According to statistics from the International Labour Organization, GDP per hour worked, the standard measure of productivity, is $81.80 in the US, $83 in Western Europe and $71.10 across the EU. And there is little sign of European "sclerosis": Over the past 30 years, productivity has increased at roughly the same pace in Europe as it has in North America.

The third myth, finally, is that of productivism. GDP, which only measures the production of material goods and services, is a far too narrow indicator. Europeans benefit from more leisure time than Americans, higher life expectancy and lower inequality levels, all with comparable productivity rates. However one looks at it, this is a considerably better economic performance.

Even when taking a narrowly productivist perspective, the EU likely outperforms the US for a simple reason: its greater environmental sustainability. The US produces $81 in gross value per hour worked, but at a particularly high environmental cost. The EU produces $71 per hour, yet with far lower carbon emissions. More leisure time, better health outcomes, greater equality and lower carbon emissions, all with broadly comparable productivity: Europeans can be proud of their development model, which is, on the whole, far more compelling.

This obviously does not mean that the EU does not need reform. But the battle lines should not be drawn in the wrong place. The urgent need is not for deregulation, but for investments in education, research, public infrastructure and the energy transition, areas which, as in the past, will be key to our future collective prosperity."]]></description>
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    <title>Everything Was Already AI - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-09T19:34:30+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Feedback welcome, hope you enjoy this video which was a lot of fun to make (albeit late)

References (in rough order of appearance)

How to Make Realistic Predictions About AI, Tantham
https://curveshift.net/p/how-to-make-realistic-predictions

Silicon Valley Insider EXPOSES Cult-Like AI Companies | Aaron Bastani Meets Karen Hao 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enXRDlWguU

‘Large AI models are cultural and social technologies’, Farrell et al.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt9819

Artificial Intelligences, Herbert Simon

Debunking Economics, Keen 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debunking_Economics

Scientists Just Discovered Why All Pop Music Sounds Exactly the Same
https://www.mic.com/articles/107896/scientists-finally-prove-why-pop-music-all-sounds-the-same

The Dorito Effect, Shatzker
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Dorito-Effect/Mark-Schatzker/9781476724232

How Corporations Hijacked Anti-AI Backlash 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRq0pESKJgg

The Stock Market is a Conventional Wisdom Processor: Why Trump’s Tariffs Crashed the Stock Market While the Trump Musk Payments Crisis Hasn’t (Yet), Tankus
https://www.crisesnotes.com/content/files/2025/04/The-Stock-Market-is-a-Conventional-Wisdom-Processor-Why-Trump-s-Tariffs-Crashed-the-Stock-Market-While-the-Trump-Musk-Payments-Crisis-Hasn-t--Yet-.pdf

Elon Musk’s Billionaire Games - Between the Scenes | The Daily Show 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqlbn2nPO-A

The Job Market Is Hell: Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired. By Annie Lowrey
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/job-market-hell/684133/

What's Wrong with Capitalism (Part 1) | ContraPoints 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJW4-cOZt8A

Disney is Perfectly Happy With Their Catastrophic Downfall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW2Zr8Q6Xqw  

Mr. Plinkett's What Happened To Star Wars?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xeMak4RqJA

AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN9wnPvU0

Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Economy - with Dr Stuart Mills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E6p3J9dko8

An Existing, Ecologically-Successful Genus Of Collectively Intelligent Artificial Creatures, Kuipers
https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4116
https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~kuipers/papers/Kuipers-ci-12.pdf

AI Integration Is the New Moat, Tim O’Reilly
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/integration-is-the-new-moat/

Dirty Little Marketing Secrets That Always Work - Rory Sutherland (4K)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvpw4_O25eU

The Time for Cybernetics Has Come - with Daniel Davies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3HpdNGvJDc

notes on the industrialisation of decision making, Davies
https://backofmind.substack.com/p/notes-on-the-industrialisation-of

the only message the channel can carry is a scream, Davies
https://backofmind.substack.com/p/the-only-message-the-channel-can

The AI Circular Economy, Blakeley
https://graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ai-circular-economy

The Case Against Generative AI, Zitron
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-against-generative-ai/

The Map is Eating the Territory: The Political Economy of AI, Farrell
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-political-economy-of-ai

the ending of every 7 hour video essay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8reiauyQCM 

Further reading

AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton - The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Podcast on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4pWuwQq8M8Gzf9F9U0AYZW

Transformers, the tech behind LLMs | Deep Learning Chapter 5 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M

You're Being Lied To About Private Equity | Truth Complex 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pzLhWCxH_g 

AI As a Normal Technology, Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-normal-technology "]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One way that Silicon Valley and the Communist Party resemble each other is that both are serious, self-serious, and indeed, completely humorless.

If the Bay Area once had an impish side, it has gone the way of most hardware tinkerers and hippie communes. Which of the tech titans are funny? In public, they tend to speak in one of two registers. The first is the blandly corporate tone we’ve come to expect when we see them dragged before Congressional hearings or fireside chats. The second leans philosophical, as they compose their features into the sort of reverie appropriate for issuing apocalyptic prophecies on AI. Sam Altman once combined both registers at a tech conference when he said: “I think that AI will probably, most likely, sort of lead to the end of the world. But in the meantime, there will be great companies created with serious machine learning.” Actually that was pretty funny.

It wouldn’t be news to the Central Committee that only the paranoid survive. The Communist Party speaks in the same two registers as the tech titans. The po-faced men on the Politburo tend to make extraordinarily bland speeches, laced occasionally with a murderous warning against those who cross the party’s interests. How funny is the big guy? We can take a look at an official list of Xi Jinping’s jokes, helpfully published by party propagandists. These wisecracks include the following: “On an inspection tour to Jiangsu, Xi quipped that the true measure of water cleanliness is whether the mayor would dare to swim in the water.” Or try this reminiscence that Xi offered on bad air quality: “The PM2.5 back then was even worse than it is now; I used to joke that it was PM250.” Yes, such a humorous fellow is the general secretary.

It’s nearly as dangerous to tweet a joke about a top VC as it is to make a joke about a member of the Central Committee. People who are dead serious tend not to embody sparkling irony. Yet the Communist Party and Silicon Valley are two of the most powerful forces shaping our world today. Their initiatives increase their own centrality while weakening the agency of whole nation states. Perhaps they are successful because they are remorseless.

Earlier this year, I moved from Yale to Stanford. The sun and the dynamism of the west coast have drawn me back. I found a Bay Area that has grown a lot weirder since I lived there a decade ago. In 2015, people were mostly working on consumer apps, cryptocurrencies, and some business software. Though it felt exciting, it looks in retrospect like a more innocent, even a more sedate, time. Today, AI dictates everything in San Francisco while the tech scene plays a much larger political role in the United States. I can’t get over how strange it all feels. In the midst of California’s natural beauty, nerds are trying to build God in a Box; meanwhile, Peter Thiel hovers in the background presenting lectures on the nature of the Antichrist. This eldritch setting feels more appropriate for a Gothic horror novel than for real life.

Before anyone gets the wrong idea, I want to say that I am rooting for San Francisco. It’s tempting to gawk at the craziness of the culture, as much of the east coast media tends to do. Yes, one can quickly find people who speak with the conviction of a cultist; no, I will not inject the peptides proffered by strangers. But there’s more to the Bay Area than unusual health practices. It is, after all, a place that creates not only new products, but also new modes of living. I’m struck that some east coast folks insist to me that driverless cars can’t work and won’t be accepted, even as these vehicles populate the streets of the Bay Area. Coverage of Silicon Valley increasingly reminds me of coverage of China, where a legacy media reporter might parachute in, write a dispatch on something that looks deranged, and leave without moving past caricature.

I enjoy San Francisco more than when I was younger because I now better appreciate what makes it work. I believe that Silicon Valley possesses plenty of virtues. To start, it is the most meritocratic part of America. Tech is so open towards immigrants that it has driven populists into a froth of rage. It remains male-heavy and practices plenty of gatekeeping. But San Francisco better embodies an ethos of openness relative to the rest of the country. Industries on the east coast — finance, media, universities, policy — tend to more carefully weigh name and pedigree. Young scientists aren’t told they ought to keep their innovations incremental and their attitude to hierarchy duly deferential, as they might hear in Boston. A smart young person could achieve much more over a few years in SF than in DC. People aren’t reminiscing over some lost golden age that took place decades ago, as New Yorkers in media might do. 

San Francisco is forward looking and eager to try new ideas. Without this curiosity, it wouldn’t be able to create whole new product categories: iPhones, social media, large language models, and all sorts of digital services. For the most part, it’s positive that tech values speed: quick product cycles, quick replies to email. Past success creates an expectation that the next technological wave will be even more exciting. It’s good to keep building the future, though it’s sometimes absurd to hear someone pivot, mid-breath, from declaring that salvation lies in the blockchain to announcing that AI will solve everything.

People like to make fun of San Francisco for not drinking; well, that works pretty well for me. I enjoy board games and appreciate that it’s easier to find other players. I like SF house parties, where people take off their shoes at the entrance and enter a space in which speech can be heard over music, which feels so much more civilized than descending into a loud bar in New York. It’s easy to fall into a nerdy conversation almost immediately with someone young and earnest. The Bay Area has converged on Asian-American modes of socializing (though it lacks the emphasis on food). I find it charming that a San Francisco home that is poorly furnished and strewn with pizza boxes could be owned by a billionaire who can’t get around to setting up a bed for his mattress. 

There’s still no better place for a smart, young person to go in the world than Silicon Valley. It adores the youth, especially those with technical skill and the ability to grind. Venture capitalists are chasing younger and younger founders: the median age of the latest Y Combinator cohort is only 24, down from 30 just three years ago. My favorite part of Silicon Valley is the cultivation of community. Tech founders are a close-knit group, always offering help to each other, but they circulate actively amidst the broader community too. (The finance industry in New York by contrast practices far greater secrecy.) Tech has organizations I think of as internal civic institutions that try to build community. They bring people together in San Francisco or retreats north of the city, bringing together young people to learn from older folks.

Silicon Valley also embodies a cultural tension. It is playing with new ideas while being open to newcomers; at the same time, it is a self-absorbed place that doesn’t think so much about the broader world. Young people who move to San Francisco already tend to be very online. They know what they’re signing up for. If they don’t fit in after a few years, they probably won’t stick around. San Francisco is a city that absorbs a lot of people with similar ethics, which reinforces its existing strengths and weaknesses.

Narrowness of mind is something that makes me uneasy about the tech world. Effective altruists, for example, began with sound ideas like concern for animal welfare as well as cost-benefit analyses for charitable giving. But these solid premises have launched some of its members towards intellectual worlds very distant from moral intuitions that most people hold; they’ve also sent a few into jail. The well-rounded type might struggle to stand out relative to people who are exceptionally talented in a technical domain. Hedge fund managers have views about the price of oil, interest rates, a reliably obscure historical episode, and a thousand other things. Tech titans more obsessively pursue a few ideas — as Elon Musk has on electric vehicles and space launches — rather than developing a robust model of the world.

So the 20-year-olds who accompanied Mr. Musk into the Department of Government Efficiency did not, I would say, distinguish themselves with their judiciousness. The Bay Area has all sorts of autistic tendencies. Though Silicon Valley values the ability to move fast, the rest of society has paid more attention to instances in which tech wants to break things. It is not surprising that hardcore contingents on both the left and the right have developed hostility to most everything that emerges from Silicon Valley. 

There’s a general lack of cultural awareness in the Bay Area. It’s easy to hear at these parties that a person’s favorite nonfiction book is Seeing Like a State while their aspirationally favorite novel is Middlemarch. Silicon Valley often speaks in strange tongues, starting podcasts and shows that are popular within the tech world but do not travel far beyond the Bay Area. Though San Francisco has produced so much wealth, it is a relative underperformer in the national culture. Indie movie theaters keep closing down while all sorts of retail and art institutions suffer from the crumminess of downtown. The symphony and the opera keep cutting back on performances — after Esa-Pekka Salonen quit the directorship of the symphony, it hasn’t been able to name a successor. Wealthy folks in New York and LA have, for generations, pumped money into civic institutions. Tech elites mostly scorn traditional cultural venues and prefer to fund the next wave of technology instead.

One of the things I like about the finance industry is that it might be better at encouraging diverse opinions. Portfolio managers want to be right on average, but everyone is wrong three times a day before breakfast. So they relentlessly seek new information sources; consensus is rare, since there are always contrarians betting against the rest of the market. Tech cares less for dissent. Its movements are more herdlike, in which companies and startups chase one big technology at a time. Startups don’t need dissent; they want workers who can grind until the network effects kick in. VCs don’t like dissent, showing again and again that many have thin skins. That contributes to a culture I think of as Silicon Valley’s soft Leninism. When political winds shift, most people fall in line, most prominently this year as many tech voices embraced the right. 

The two most insular cities I’ve lived in are San Francisco and Beijing. They are places where people are willing to risk apocalypse every day in order to reach utopia. Though Beijing is open only to a narrow slice of newcomers — the young, smart, and Han — its elites must think about the rest of the country and the rest of the world. San Francisco is more open, but when people move there, they stop thinking about the world at large. Tech folks may be the worst-traveled segment of American elites. People stop themselves from leaving in part because they can correctly claim to live in one of the most naturally beautiful corners of the world, in part because they feel they should not tear themselves away from inventing the future. More than any other topic, I’m bewildered by the way that Silicon Valley talks about AI."]]></description>
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    <title>Dangerous Pseudoscience: - Peter Joseph: Substack</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-28T20:42:08+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Why Market Economics Is Not Economics"

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"Of all the distorted realities produced by the irrational thought and behavior that now define so-called “modern” culture, nothing is more disturbing than the realization that our dominant mode of survival—economic survival—is rooted in what may be the most dangerous pseudoscience ever created: markets.

The delirium is astonishing. The disorder is obvious. And frankly, it is embarrassing. One can only hope that if extraterrestrial observers exist, they keep their distance—not out of fear, but out of disbelief at how absurd, self-destructive, and fragile humanity’s economic operating system has become.

We have organized the provisioning of life itself around a framework that dismisses the physical conditions of survival, ignores ecological limits, sidelines basic natural science, and replaces common-sense resource management with a layered mess of abstractions.

At its root, this system concerns itself with one thing and one thing only: the movement of money and the dynamics of exchange. That is the core concern. Nothing else is structurally prioritized. To call what is, in essence, an abstracted accounting ideology “economics” is not only misleading—it is intellectually indefensible.

Market economics does not begin with the Earth. It does not begin with materials, energy, design constraints, waste, or long-term viability. It begins with prices—symbols detached from physical reality—and then attempts to retrofit the world to justify them. In doing so, it systematically excludes the very variables that actually determine whether a society can survive.

Do this:

Find a group of elementary school children—children who have not yet been polluted by market-rooted economic theory, business-school mythology, or the belligerent sloganeering in favor of “capitalism”—and ask them a few basic questions:

Where do resources come from?
What happens when they run out?
How should we use them so everyone has enough?
What should we do with waste?
Should we design things to last, or to be thrown away?
Etc.

You will find, almost without exception, that these children respond with answers rooted in intuition, balance, and physical reality. They understand instinctively that resources come from the Earth, that they are finite, that they serve particular purposes, and that waste is a problem. They recognize that cooperation and efficiency matter. They grasp—without formal training—that using things wisely, with stewardship and scientific awareness, is preferable to using more things for the sake of “growth.” They intuitively understand that destroying the conditions of survival itself makes no sense.

In other words, they reason economically in a way that is more grounded, more rational, and more aligned with reality than many PhD-credentialed market economists.

The unspoken, taboo fact is this: true economics deals with ecology, design, recycling, energy systems, technical labor organization, and the material constraints of the physical world. It is a discipline rooted in engineering logic and systems thinking. It asks how finite resources can be intelligently allocated to meet human needs over time without undermining the ecological foundations that make production possible in the first place.

What we instead call “economics” today—market economics—is a pseudoscience devoted almost entirely to abstractions layered upon abstractions, concerned not with real provisioning, but with the movement of money inside artificial market structures.

***

What Economics Actually Means

The word economy comes from the Greek oikonomia, meaning the management of the household. This is not a metaphor; it is a functional definition. A household has limited resources, limited labor capacity, and ongoing needs. Good management means balancing inputs and outputs, minimizing waste, and ensuring sustainability over time.

No rational household incentivizes its members to consume endlessly simply to justify continued production. No household measures success by how fast money circulates between family members. No household celebrates growth for its own sake while ignoring depletion, exhaustion, or collapse.

And yet this is precisely what modern market economics celebrates at the societal scale.

True economics must grapple with the actual physical realities of production. It must ask where materials come from, how they are transformed, what energy inputs are required, what waste is generated, and what long-term consequences result from these processes. It must deal with ecology, because all production occurs within ecological systems. That is the foundation of any honest economic calculation. It must deal with design, because efficiency, durability, and reuse matter far more than sales volume. And it must deal with labor, because human effort is finite—and increasingly replaceable through automation.

In other words, economics is inseparable from engineering and systems science. It can only exist as a legitimate discipline when grounded in the properties of the real, material world, accounting for systemic interactions, feedback effects, and long-term outcomes rather than short-term monetary flows.

Now pick up any standard economics textbook assigned to college students.

Do you see a section on the natural regeneration rates of rainforests in the context of timber extraction? Do you see a systems-level analysis of how removing trees alters soil chemistry, water cycles, regional climate stability, and species interdependence? Do you see an examination of how biodiversity loss feeds back into human food security, disease vulnerability, or long-term survival?

No—you don’t.

And the reason is simple: if you did, you would be reading a genuine work of economics.

Instead, what you will find in Economics 101 is noise—layered abstractions about supply and demand curves, imaginary equilibria, rational actors, price signals, and efficiency myths, all detached from physical reality. You will read equations that never mention energy, models that ignore waste, and graphs that pretend ecosystems are optional variables. You will be taught to believe that prices somehow encode all relevant information, even as the real world degrades beneath the math.

This is not the study of an economy. It is the study of market behavior under artificial constraints, presented as universal truth. And the more one internalizes this abstraction, the less capable one becomes of understanding how real economies actually function—or fail.

That is why market economics can be taught for decades while remaining blind to collapse. It does not look at the world. It looks at its own symbols—and calls that science.

No.

***

The Fatal Narrowing of the Discipline

It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when everything became so absurd, but somewhere along the way economics underwent a profound intellectual narrowing. Political economy—the study of production, distribution, and social organization—was gradually replaced by market theory, which redefined the economy as nothing more than a set of price-mediated exchanges between abstract actors.

This narrowing hid behind one of the most delusional attributes ever assigned to markets: “freedom.”

Ah yes—freedom. Freedom from material limits. Freedom from ecological accountability. Freedom from understanding how the real world actually works.

In this reframing, biophysical limits were excluded from economic calculation except in the abstracted form of “scarcity,” embedded within the infamous supply-and-demand equation. In practice, this equation operates blindly. “Supply” is reduced to what exists after production, regardless of ecological cost. “Demand” is reduced to purchasing power rather than actual human need.

Nearly one billion people today suffer from inadequate nutrition, yet they exert no influence on demand curves because they lack money. Their needs are economically invisible. This alone exposes the moral and analytical bankruptcy of the framework.

Likewise, energy came to be treated as an external input rather than a core constraint. Environmental damage was labeled an “externality”—a term that itself reveals the problem. Design quality, durability, and waste reduction became irrelevant so long as goods could be sold. Human needs were flattened into “preferences.” Social stability was reduced to employment statistics.

The market itself was elevated to a near-mystical status, portrayed as a self-correcting, information-processing entity capable of optimizing outcomes through price signals alone. This belief persists despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Prices do not reflect ecological cost. They do not account for long-term damage. They do not signal systemic risk. They do not optimize for human well-being. They reflect only what can be paid for under existing power structures.
Dangerous Pseudoscience

A science must meet certain criteria. It must be empirically grounded. Its assumptions must be testable. Its models must be falsifiable. Its predictions must meaningfully correspond to reality. Market economics fails on all counts.

Its foundational assumptions—rational actors, efficient markets, equilibrium tendencies—are demonstrably false, yet they persist because the models built upon them are internally consistent. This is the hallmark of pseudoscience: coherence within a closed system, divorced from empirical reality.

When market models fail to predict crises, recessions, environmental collapse, or inequality, the failure is never attributed to the model itself. Instead, blame is shifted to “exogenous shocks,” poor policy, or insufficient market freedom. The theory is never wrong; reality simply failed to cooperate.

Worse still, market economics routinely treats its own abstractions as natural laws. Supply-and-demand curves are presented as immutable features of human behavior rather than artifacts of a specific institutional framework. This conflation of constructed systems with natural phenomena is profoundly unscientific.

What market economics actually studies is not the economy, but the behavior of money within a particular rule set. That may be useful for traders, investors, and financiers—but it tells us almost nothing about how to intelligently organize production in a finite world.

***

The Cult of Growth

As I have talked about before at length, perhaps the most dangerous confusion in modern thought is the equation of money with economic health. Gross Domestic Product, for instance, measures the total monetary value of transactions within a country. It does not distinguish between constructive and destructive activity. A forest fire that destroys homes and infrastructure, followed by reconstruction, increases GDP. A medical crisis caused by pollution increases GDP. Planned obsolescence increases GDP.

By this logic, failure is success so long as it generates spending.

Money moving faster is treated as prosperity. But money is not food. It is not housing. It is not clean water or breathable air. It is an accounting system—a symbolic medium of exchange that tells us nothing about whether real human needs are being met efficiently or sustainably.

An economy can be growing financially while collapsing materially. Market economics has no mechanism to meaningfully address this contradiction because it does not measure what matters.

Market systems are structurally addicted to growth. This is not a cultural preference; it is a mathematical necessity. Debt-based money creation, profit requirements, and employment dependence all demand continuous expansion. Without growth, the system contracts—and contraction is treated as failure regardless of whether material needs are already met. This growth imperative directly contradicts ecological reality.

No physical system grows indefinitely. Every ecosystem operates within limits, seeking dynamic balance rather than endless expansion. Yet market ideology treats balance as stagnation and sustainability as inefficiency.

At the household level, this logic would be considered insane. No one believes a successful family is one that doubles its consumption every year, depletes its resources, and produces endless waste simply to keep everyone “employed.”

But at the macro level, this insanity is normalized, institutionalized, and defended by economists who rarely confront its ecological impossibility.

In systems-science terms, this is a conflict of recursion. The rules governing the macro system directly violate the constraints that apply at every lower level of organization. The household, the community, the ecosystem—all require balance, feedback, and restraint to remain viable. Yet the larger economic system is designed to override those same constraints, demanding perpetual expansion regardless of material limits.

A system that cannot apply its own survival logic across scales is not adaptive—it is pathological. When the macro layer forces behavior that would destroy the micro layers, collapse is not an accident; it is the expected outcome. Growth, under such conditions, is not a sign of health, but of systemic instability—a positive feedback loop accelerating toward failure.

What markets call “success” is, in ecological terms, overshoot. And overshoot does not end in equilibrium. It ends in correction.

***

Expertise Without Substance

Because market economics is focused almost entirely on financial abstraction, its practitioners are uniquely unqualified to solve real-world problems.

Climate change? The response is carbon markets and pricing mechanisms that commodify destruction rather than eliminate it. Automation and labor displacement? Create new jobs, regardless of whether they are necessary or meaningful. Resource depletion? Raise prices and let scarcity “signal” adjustments after damage is done.

Every problem is filtered through the same lens: how can this be monetized?

True expertise in economics would require understanding material flows, energy constraints, design optimization, systems feedback, and ecological thresholds. It would require collaboration with engineers, ecologists, and systems scientists. Market economists are rarely trained in any of these domains.

They may be experts in “markets”—but not in economies.

***

Economics as Engineering

If we strip away ideology and return to first principles, economics becomes something far more practical—and far more honest.

The real questions are simple:

What do people need to live well?
What resources are available?
What are the most efficient ways to transform those resources into usable goods and services?
What are the ecological costs of those processes?
How can waste be minimized or eliminated?
How can labor be reduced through intelligent design and automation?

These are engineering questions. They do not require price signals. They require data, design, feedback, and coordination. They require systems that optimize for outcomes rather than profits.

An economy designed this way would prioritize durability over sales, access over ownership, and balance over growth. It would treat technology as a means of reducing labor rather than creating artificial employment. It would measure success by quality of life and ecological stability, not by transaction volume.

***

Why the Illusion Persists

Market economics persists not because it works, but because it legitimizes existing power structures. It provides intellectual cover for inequality, environmental destruction, and inefficiency by framing them as unavoidable outcomes of “natural” market forces. Abstract models protect real interests. They deflect responsibility. They allow systemic failure to be treated as unfortunate rather than designed.

In truth, the power system markets create is arguably even worse than the so called “command” economies of the former USSR and beyond by which markets are supposed to be antithetical. Markets produce rigid, constant power hierarchies.

Real economics—grounded in physical reality—would demand systemic change. It would force us to confront the irrationality of profit-driven production, the redundancy of much labor, and the incompatibility of endless growth with a finite planet. It would also end the power structure that is not only tyrannical against human society itself, but tyrannical against the entire ecosystem by which we survived as a species.

That is why it is resisted. The winners of the market game are the ones in power and they are almost invariably sociopathic, as an aside.

***

Naming the Problem

So, again: Market economics is not economics. It is a belief system about money movement masquerading as science. It manages symbols instead of systems. It debates prices while ignoring physics. It treats abstraction as reality and reality as an externality.

Until we reclaim the meaning of economics, we will continue to mismanage the very foundations of human survival to our demise.

If your “economics” cannot explain ecology, waste, energy, and design efficiency, it is not a science.

It is a power-rooted ideology and religion.

And the longer we pretend otherwise, the higher the cost will be. I encourage people to learn about Integral in this regard as we have to start somewhere by building a method for true economic calculation and organization."]]></description>
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    <title>Why I Left Substack • Buttondown</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The intervening years have given me a chance to watch Substack continue to do its thing, and, wow, even setting aside the political, it sure has been a VC-backed internet business in the ‘20s, hasn’t it. I logged into the main website one day to tweak a dashboard setting, and found that someone had grafted a microblogging platform over the newsletter hosting apparatus. Then the microblogging platform grew a group chat function. Now it has short-form video. This is definitely me being a bit Pa Ingalls over here but: when you're standing in the field of your long-form text-based platform and you see short form video over the horizon, it's time to pack up the wagon.

The other day I logged in and could not find the button for posting a newsletter.

Now, I have nothing against short-form video. I've spent enough time on an editing board to appreciate the constraints and artistry of the medium. I've done some short form video, and I keep meaning to do more, because I find it fun to practice, while text-based microblogging... well, its constraints lead to good writing, funny jokes, and poignant aphorisms, but my "that would make a good tweet" mental pathway feels more parasitic with every passing month. I know Chance didn't sing "Don't tweet bro, it's never sweet, oh" but my brain sure thinks he did.

Anyway, I'm troubled by the determination that it's not enough to be one thing: your project has to be everything, rather than be good at being the thing it is. Or, at being anything at all. Why do companies work this way? Is it grandiosity? A complete inability to say no to VC? An absence of inner principles, either of morality or experience design? A desperate sublimated desire for all that is solid to melt into air? Or does this sort of activity really make number go up?

I don't like everything apps, anyway, and I'm suspicious of everything devices. I like things with a bit of heft and care to them, things that seem to have been considered, weighed, shaped, chosen for a purpose. I like my cast iron skillet, my knives, my board games. I like a good pen, a clean piece of paper. I like my first sip of coffee in the morning. I like writing books.

So I've moved my newsletter to a place where it can be a newsletter."]]></description>
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    <title>San Francisco Bay Area Booms: From the Gold Rush to Today in Just 217 Seconds | KQED News - YouTube</title>
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A big part of that story, of course, is how quickly a landscape we can scarcely imagine today was remade into the metropolis. Here, we attempt to give a glimpse of that process, from the earliest days of the Gold Rush to this morning’s stop-and-go traffic on the 101."

[See also:

"We’ve been here before"
https://www.sf.gov/information--weve-been-here

"San Francisco is resilient. From devastating earthquakes to economic crises to radical shifts in growth and development patterns, we've always responded to adversity by adapting and rebuilding stronger than ever. The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic aftershocks present yet another moment for us to reshape our future."

"Boom and Bombshell: New Economy Bubble and the Bay Area" (Richard Walker, 2005)
https://www.foundsf.org/Boom_and_Bombshell:_New_Economy_Bubble_and_the_Bay_Area 

"How San Francisco Chronicled Its Own Tech Boom: A look back at Silicon Valley’s adolescence." (2017)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/old-silicon-valley-photos-chronicle ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["AI’s infinite memory could endanger how we think, grow, and imagine. And we can do something about it."]]></description>
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    <title>Sacrificio Chileno - Puchuncaví y La Industria Inmobiliaria - YouTube</title>
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    <title>Capitalism’s Addiction To Growth Means Civilisational COLLAPSE | Aaron Bastani Meets Jason Hickel - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-08T05:41:10+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Our politicians don’t agree on much, but one thing most of them agree on is that growth is universally good. Grow the pie, they assure us, and there will be more to go around. 

Our guest on Downstream this week could not disagree more. Professor Jason Hickel argues that the mindless pursuit of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth isn’t just a bad thing, but is leading humanity to catastrophe. He is an expert on what climate collapse actually means, as well as the solutions available to us that could mitigate the crisis.

In conversation with Aaron Bastani, they discuss where the current growth forecasts will lead humanity, and the planet we live on. How does Palestine fit into the broader geo-political picture? Is green growth a plausible economic strategy, or just a greenwashed version of capitalism? And does degrowth need a re-brand? 

00:00   Intro
02:50  What Will Earth Be Like in 2100? 
07:57  The Colonial Dimensions of Climate Change 
21:35  The Global North is Way off Target
32:07  Why We Can’t Solve Our Crises Under Capitalism
37:11  China’s Capacity to Act
50:17  The History of Socialist States
57:46  The Cold War: World War Three
1:03:36   The Geopolitics of the Genocide in Palestine
1:12:25   American Empire
1:20:35  The Future of Europe
1:25:19  What Is Degrowth? 
1:31:44  The Limits of GDP: France vs America
1:33:27  Bourgeois Individualist Green Politics
1:39:39  How Would Eco-Socialists Balance the Books?"]]></description>
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    <title>'Fentanyl Capitalism': How Tech Venture Capital Is Eating the World | Catherine Bracy x Gil Duran - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-05T20:00:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw_WdlTiOUk</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Silicon Valley sold us the dream of saving the world—but what if the system funding that dream is the real problem?

In this explosive episode of the Nerd Reich Podcast, host Gil Duran sits down with Catherine Bracey, founder of Tech Equity Collaborative and author of "World Eaters: How Venture Capital Is Cannibalizing the Economy."

Together they unpack “fentanyl capitalism”—the idea that if capitalism is heroin, venture capital is its far more potent and dangerous form. 

From the whaling origins of VC to blitzscaling, MAGA politics, and Silicon Valley’s god complex, Bracy explains how tech’s obsession with unicorns, power laws, and exits is warping innovation, democracy, and faith itself.


00:00 Intro – Why VC is Fentanyl Capitalism
04:20 The Whaling Origins of Venture Capital
09:40 Blitzscaling & the Psychology of Unicorns
17:30 VC Meets MAGA Politics
26:00 Hereticon, Antichrist & Tech’s Spiritual Crisis
28:40 Can We Fix It or Let It Burn?
33:00 Lightning Round & Final Words of Wisdom"

[See also:
https://www.thenerdreich.com/techs-psychotic-break-fentanyl-capitalism-bets-on-trump/
https://www.thenerdreich.com/i-warned-canada-about-silicon-valleys-nerd-reich/ ]]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | Big Tech’s Predatory Platform Model Doesn’t Have to Be Our Future - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-26T03:59:47+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There was a time, back in the early 2000s, when everyone seemed to think that the internet would make everybody rich.

The vision was compelling, if a little naïve. The internet, optimists argued, would allow individuals and small sellers to reach a global market of customers at low cost and without the need for big retailers. Increased connectivity would also make it easier for people to find work, invest money and learn new skills. Thanks to platforms like eBay, the future belonged to the Davids, not the Goliaths. “Small is the new big” was a popular slogan during those heady years.

The prediction turned out to be wrong. Yes, platforms like Amazon and Google have generated immense wealth and transformed society. But the money and power have not been broadly distributed. Instead, the platforms have captured the lion’s share for themselves, leading to concentrations of wealth that hark back to the Gilded Age. The Davids of the world ended up working hard to make a new set of Goliaths rich.

But we can still recover that early optimism and promise of opportunity. While we can’t start over from scratch, we can — with the right laws and policies — begin to reclaim the potential of the internet-based economy, shifting its center of gravity to encourage and reward the activities and innovations of the many instead of the few. This is a prescription for an economy that is fairer — and more dynamic, too.

No one can deny that the big tech platforms have become essential, the default infrastructure of much economic activity. But being essential should not entail an unfettered power to extract wealth from everyone else.

This is hardly a new lesson. To operate smoothly, economies have long depended on essential platforms, be they city markets, Main Streets or infrastructure like railroads and bridges. In the early 19th century, the Charles River Bridge, a private toll bridge in Boston, was so critical to local commerce that it was among the most profitable businesses in the United States. In a similar fashion, American farmers later became completely dependent on the railroads.

Historically, the government has imposed limits on how much money the platforms could take from the people and businesses that relied on them — and on how readily they could leverage their indispensability to their advantage. These limits were imposed not to constrain economic growth but to foster it: They protected the incentives for other economic actors to invest and build on the platforms. Such policies also ended up distributing wealth more equitably across social classes and geographic regions.

If left unchecked, a platform’s “take” impedes growth, as we are seeing today. Last year, Amazon charged private sellers, on average, between 50 and 60 percent of their sales in fees, according to the research firm Marketplace Pulse. You don’t need a degree in economics to see how that can discourage investment and innovation. Nearly every business in nearly every sector of the economy must now confront how much of its returns it will have to share with one platform or another. It’s effectively a system of private taxation.

Congress, despite endless hearings and plenty of big talk, has failed to enact even basic protections for small and medium-size businesses in their dealings with the internet platforms. Such protections, which have ample precedent in the law, should include requiring neutrality (so that platforms can’t favor certain sellers), forbidding special treatment for one’s own products (so that Amazon can’t prioritize its line of bath towels or HDMI cables when you search for those items) and allowing for certain forms of collective bargaining (so that news organizations, for example, can band together to pressure Google to pay more for news content).

Would these kinds of laws stifle economic growth or hurt the internet economy? According to industry lobbyists, libertarian think tanks and even some progressives concerned about the left’s penchant for overregulation, the answer is yes. They argue that regulation necessarily diminishes incentives to build. But that argument overlooks a key point: Limiting the platforms’ take also creates incentives to build and can effectively subsidize innovation.

History supports this conclusion. The golden ages of American building — the canal age, the railroad age, the electricity age — all featured flourishing economies that ran on neutral network infrastructure. No one in midcentury America denied the usefulness of electricity or the need to invest in electrification. But the assumption was not that an electric utility like ConEd should therefore be able to charge whatever it liked, in exchange for our trust that it would invent the future. Instead, electric utilities were regulated and innovation was left to the countless smaller inventors that used electricity in their products — such as the creators of the microwave oven, the laser and the personal computer.

It is simply too risky to count on just a few platforms to invent our future. Yet that is the bet we are making by sitting back and letting Google, Amazon and Facebook dominate.

Making matters worse, the platform-extraction model is now spreading from tech to other economic sectors. In health care, private equity firms have sought to reorganize the industry into what they openly call a platform model. What that means in practice is squeezing more work from doctors and nurses while raising prices. Likewise, rental housing has suffered from the rise of a corporate-housing platform: the centralizing of rental homeownership along with steady increases in rents.

The result is not just bad policy but also a cultural blindness: An entire generation has grown up thinking that extraction, as opposed to building, is the path to riches. That is a prospect at once uninspiring and, for most people, almost by definition, out of reach. To recover the sense of optimism and opportunity that once characterized American commerce, Americans need to be confident that — even if they don’t work for a platform — they can reap what they sow.

Restoring market balance is the key: an economy with many centers of power, not just a few. We need to return to an older and truer vision of prosperity, one in which many companies in many industries and in many regions are important sources of wealth. That would give us a fairer and more dynamic economy — and give a new generation some hope."]]></description>
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    <title>Inventing habitats - High Country News</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Reconciliation means meeting a landscape on its own terms."

[in Spanish:
https://www.hcn.org/issues/57-10/inventando-habitats/ ]]]></description>
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    <title>Investing In The Ecosystems That Sustain Us - NOEMA</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-24T05:12:59+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Making the economic case for nature is an essential task for securing development in our planetary age."

...

"As both cause and telltale symptom, gross domestic product encapsulates why modern economics has been so anesthetized to planetary peril.   

GDP, an approximation of the value of goods and services produced within a country’s borders, emerged in the U.S. during its 20th century crucible of war planning and welfare state construction. It was adopted by the government to measure the aggregate value of economic production at a time when such information was unavailable to policy and business leaders.

Today, decimal-level fluctuations in GDP’s growth can unnerve ministries and shift billions on financial markets. The ubiquity and influence of the metric have endowed it with an aura of unshakeable authority over economic affairs; it is often treated as if it were an objective feature of the world rather than a human artifact that is freighted with the biases of its creators and marked by the circumstances of its creation. 

In reality, GDP includes much that is detrimental and excludes much that is essential. Only a few decades after national economic accounting was institutionalized in the U.S., Robert Kennedy highlighted the problems with using it to measure a nation’s true prosperity. Criticizing gross national product, a GDP-related indicator, he lamented in 1968 that it counted as positive economic output things like air pollution, cigarette advertising and “the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl.” 

Nearly six decades later, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated the sentiment in even starker terms: “Absurdly, GDP rises when there is overfishing, cutting of forests or burning of fossil fuels,” he wrote in 2021. “We are destroying nature, but we count it as an increase in wealth.” 

How we measure the economy is more discretion than discovery. Simon Kuznets, who has been credited with formalizing the concept of GDP, initially opposed the inclusion of government spending and expenditures on armaments and advertising. The emphasis on private transactions and the exclusion of activities deemed socially harmful was a conceptual, perhaps even ideological, preference rather than an appeal to objective reality. 

Even today, and despite the best efforts of the UN System of National Accounts (SNA) to standardize methodology, there are international divergences in GDP accounting. China is still deeply influenced by the System of Material Balances (an inheritance from its central planning period), which associates “value-added” with physical products and underweights services including healthcare, housing and education. In the other direction, the 2008 revisions to the SNA permitted the inclusion of illicit transactions such as narcotics sales. 

These inconsistencies not only reflect the discretionary basis of much official accounting; they have direct bearing on the identification — or misidentification — of policy priorities. For instance, perspectives from feminist economics have long pointed out that GDP omits most of the unpaid house- and care-work that are primarily done by women, despite such services being critical to individual well-being and social welfare. That they lack formal markets should not condemn them to policy irrelevance and deprive them of financial support. 

Similarly, much of nature lies outside the narrow frame of GDP and the “valuable” activities it seeks to measure. Addressing these conceptual, methodological and institutional lacunae requires a new understanding of the essential contributions ecosystems make to people. We need to recognize and cultivate this ecological production rather than mourn its loss and count the costs after industrialism has made a wasteland where nature once thrived."

...

"Whatever the particular politics of the moment and country, it has nonetheless become a piety across much of the world that digital services are services, that artificial intelligence is intelligence, that automated labor is labor, and that all of the above should be promoted as a matter of policy. In this light, and given the urgency of the Anthropocene’s challenges, it is hard to imagine a principled reason for denying that ecosystem services are economic services and should also be promoted as a matter of policy. 

The future is clouded with risk, whether from the uncertain blessings of AI or the certain curses of climate change. But it is nonetheless encouraging that, however belatedly, growing numbers of people are beginning to view nature as our most precious asset. While not without pitfalls, recognizing the economic value of ecosystems is a major advance in how societies conceive and coordinate their development.  

GEP may never achieve the ubiquity and influence of GDP. But should the simple premise that the development of trees is integral to the development of people be accepted within economics, then this flawed but indispensable discipline will have undergone a much-needed transformation — one that is critical to ensuring the possibility of civilization."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Now, I want to preface this by saying that Klein and Thompson — disclosure, both are friends of mine, Thompson is also a columnist at The Argument and Klein has been of great help as I began this project — are clearly proponents of expanding the welfare state. On health care, the child tax credit, and various other important policy areas, both have been vocal and consistent proponents of redistribution.

But despite all that, they very much did write down in a book that they view the project of Abundance to be — at least in part — shifting focus away from redistribution and toward economic growth. At its core, Abundance is a framework that refuses to accept scarcity as a fact of life. But perhaps confusingly, it is also a framework that demands policymakers be hypervigilant about cause prioritization and trade-offs. There are things — like time — that none of us can make more of (again, until someone invents Ozempic for sleep).

But while I strongly believe that American liberalism needs to focus more on economic growth and innovation, I don’t believe that comes at the expense of redistribution. The whole point of expanding housing, energy, and transportation, the whole point of increasing innovation and productivity, is to make people’s lives better.

Abundance makes redistribution effective. We can and should max out rental vouchers right now. But if you do so while affordable housing is scarce and concentrated in low-opportunity neighborhoods, you risk spiking rent for low-income people and entrenching existing segregation.

The impact of expanding the welfare state is blunted by class-based zoning laws that restrict people from moving near good jobs and good schools and away from long commutes and bad air quality. It is also blunted by our nation’s inability to build public transportation that actually helps people get where they need to go on time.

Growth and redistribution cannot be a two-step process. As our Nobel Prize laureates know well, once the pie has grown, dividing it up means taking it from those who believe they have a claim to it.

You have to redistribute as you grow. You have to make sure that people have a stake in the growth of their community, so that when they notice the irritations of construction on their commute or bristle at different languages being spoken at the coffee shop they frequent, they see that as part of an economic project that sustains their lives.

I don’t think this is easy, and anti-growth and pro-growth moods are at best cyclical (at worst, anti-growthers drag us into economic and political stagnation). But I do think it’s conceptually, morally, and politically better to think of growth and innovation as part of a broader project of human flourishing that necessarily includes the distributional concerns of those who do not have a stake in OpenAI or Google.

They have become a punchline, but the Luddites did very much get crushed under the wheel of progress. We should be prepared: The changes that rocked the world during and after the Industrial Revolution may be dwarfed by the world-changing innovations that may be coming in the next century. If we want to revitalize our culture of growth, we’ll have to do more than point to some averages."]]></description>
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    <title>MB&amp;F - Tales from the Tribe Podcast - S2 EP3 - Jonathan Ferrer - YouTube</title>
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Tech billionaires have decided that they should determine our futures for us. According to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, and more, the only good future for humanity is one powered by technology: trillions of humans living in space, functionally immortal, served by superintelligent AIs.  
 
In More Everything Forever, science journalist Adam Becker investigates these wildly implausible and often profoundly immoral visions of tomorrow—and shows why, in reality, there is no good evidence that they will, or should, come to pass. Nevertheless, these obsessions fuel fears that overwhelm reason—for example, that a rogue AI will exterminate humanity—at the expense of essential work on solving crucial problems like climate change. What’s more, these futuristic visions cloak a hunger for power under dreams of space colonies and digital immortality. The giants of Silicon Valley claim that their ideas are based on science, but the reality is darker: they come from a jumbled mix of shallow futurism and racist pseudoscience.  
 
More Everything Forever exposes the powerful and sinister ideas that dominate Silicon Valley, challenging us to see how foolish, and dangerous, these visions of the future are."]]></description>
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    <title>AI Is A Money Trap</title>
    <dc:date>2025-08-07T06:09:36+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["You can’t bail this out, because there is nothing to bail out. Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Google have plenty of money and have proven they can spend it. NVIDIA is already doing everything it can to justify people spending more on its GPUs. There’s little more it can do here other than soak up the growth before the party ends. 

That capex reduction will bring with it a reduction in expenditures on NVIDIA GPUs, which will take a chunk out of the US stock market. Although the stock market isn’t the economy, the two things are inherently linked, and the popping of the AI bubble will have downstream ramifications, just like the dot com bubble did on the wider economy.

Expect to see an acceleration in layoffs and offshoring, in part driven by a need for tech companies to show — for the first time in living memory — fiscal restraint. For cities where tech is a major sector of the economy — think Seattle and San Francisco — there’ll be knock-on effects to those companies and individuals that support the tech sector (like restaurants, construction companies building apartments, Uber drivers, and so on). We’ll see a drying-up of VC funding. Pension funds will take a hit — which will affect how much people have to spend in retirement. It’ll be grim. 

Worse than that is the fact that these data centers will be, by definition, non-performing assets, and one that inflicted an opportunity cost that’ll be almost impossible to calculate. While a house, once built and sold, technically falls into that category (it doesn’t add to any economic productivity), people at least need somewhere to live. Shelter is an essential component of life. You can live without a data center the size of Manhattan. 

What would have happened if companies like Microsoft and Meta instead spent the money on things that actually drove productivity, or created a valuable competitive business that drove economic activity? Hell, even if they just gave everyone a 10% raise, it would have likely been better for the economy than this, if we’re factoring in things like consumer spending. 

It’s just waste. Profligate, pointless waste. 

In summary, we’re already facing the prospect of a recession, and though I am not an economist, I can imagine it being a particularly nasty one given that the Magnificent Seven accounted for 47.87% of the Russell 1000 Index’s returns in 2024. Even if big tech somehow makes this crap profitable, it’s hard to imagine that they’ll counterbalance any capex reduction with revenue, because there doesn’t seem to be that much revenue in generative AI to begin with.

This is what happens when you allow the Rot Economy to run wild, building the stock market and tech industry on growth over everything else. This is what happens when the tech media repeatedly fails to hold the powerful to account, catering to their narratives and making excuses for their abominable, billion-dollar losses and mediocre, questionably-useful products. 

Waffle on all you want about the so-called “agentic era” or “annualized revenues” that make you hot under the collar — I see no reason for celebration about an industry with no exit plans and needless capital expenditures that appear to be one of the few things keeping the American economy growing. 

I have been writing about the tech industry’s obsession with generative AI for two years, and never have I felt more grim. Before this was an economic uncertainty — a way that our markets might contract, that big tech might take a big haircut, that a bunch of money might be wasted but otherwise the world would keep turning. 

It feels as if everything is aligning for disaster, and I fear there’s nothing that can be done to avert it."]]></description>
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    <title>Economic Nihilism</title>
    <dc:date>2025-08-04T21:41:07+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The ideology of those who believe that economic activity is meaningless is then quite understandable. At least, the type of economic activity expected of the elite class, seeing itself as too smart and productive to dirty their hands with machinery. 

Economic nihilism is then the ideology of the young, aspirant class, willing to put in two years—but only two years—at whatever firm is prestigious upon graduation. Economic nihilism is the ideology that celebrates taking shortcuts. The economy itself is abstracted away, what’s left is a salary or its equivalent in crypto payouts. 

Roy Lee told me that he thinks the future of work will be more intellectual and creative. “Standards of living will just grow and people will just spend their time fighting in the marketplace of ideas,” he said. He suggested that AI, eclipsing human productivity, may bring about a universal basic income. I thought this to be an overly-optimistic response coming from someone who made the defining product of economic nihilism. This same lackluster dole future remains the default answer given by even the most prominent tech executives such as Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk, when asked about humanity’s economic prospects. 

When laptop jobs join stable single-earner households and good customer service in the pantheon of distant, pleasant memories of the economic past, I doubt most will celebrate their newfound ability to think rather than work. After all, the educational system that gave rise to—and then punished—Cluely is the same educational system that teaches students not how to think but how to check boxes.

Over the last few months, I’ve argued with friends about which jobs AI will automate away first. I argue that it’s the jobs of the elite aspirant class: consultants, software engineers, and big law associates. The reason is that these jobs are knowledge work, meaning that they just require intelligence—not ingenuity, creativity, or a great amount of urgency—to successfully do. Rather than worrying about Uber drivers, waiters, and telemarketers, perhaps elites are worrying about themselves. Perhaps the existential risk is one of facing the end of their work rather than the end of work as such.

And perhaps the elite class is on some level reaping what it has been sowing. While the current new generation has not created these conditions, few from it have sought to change the dismal economic and political landscape. With AI ready to replace the bulk of Ivy League knowledge work, perhaps we will finally exit the paper belt and enter what was the real economy all along. This is, however, a dangerous circumstance for society given that the history of revolution can be read as the history of frustrated aspirant elites leveraging their collective power for their own rather than general benefit. Economic nihilism, being a form of nihilism, ultimately seeks to abolish itself. What remains to be seen is what approach, if any, this elite class will use to adapt."]]></description>
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[Also here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/actual-abundance-w-isabella-weber-malcolm-harris-paul/id1043245989?i=1000718510277
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3NtyySysDLXxXveZilPwma ]]]></description>
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    <title>The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-21T21:32:16+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[Follow-up here:

"Premium: The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble Vol. 2"
https://www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-haters-guide-to-the-ai-bubble-vol-2/ ]

"We are in a bubble. Generative AI does not do the things that it's being sold as doing, and the things it can actually do aren't the kind of things that create business returns, automate labor, or really do much more than one extension of a cloud software platform. The money isn't there, the users aren't there, every company seems to lose money and some companies lose so much money that it's impossible to tell how they'll survive.

Worse still, this bubble is entirely symbolic. The bailouts of the Great Financial Crisis were focused on banks and funds that had failed because they ran out of money, and the TARP initiative existed to plug the holes with low-interest loans.

There are few holes to plug here, because even if OpenAI and Anthropic somehow became eternal money-burners, the AI trade exists based on the continued and continually-increasing sale and use of GPUs. There are limited amounts of capital, but also limited amounts of data centers to actually put GPUs, and on top of that, at some point growth will slow at one of the Magnificent 7, at which point costs will have to come down from things that lose them tons of money, such as generative AI."

...

"I am worried because despite all of these obvious, brutal and near-unfixable problems, everybody is walking around acting like things are going great with AI. The New York Times claims everybody is using AI for everything — a blatant lie, one that exists to prop up an industry that has categorically failed to deliver the innovations or returns that it promised, yet still receives glowing press from a tech and business media that refuses to look outside and see that the sky is red and frogs are landing everywhere.

Other than the frog thing, I'm not even being dramatic. Everywhere you look in the AI trade, things get worse — no revenue, billions being burned, no moat, no infrastructure play, no comparables in history other than the dot com bubble and WeWork, and a series of flagrant lies spouted by the powerful and members of the press that are afraid of moving against market consensus.

Worse still, despite NVIDIA's strength, NVIDIA is the market's weakness, through no fault of its own, really. Jensen Huang sells GPUs, people want to buy GPUs, and now the rest of the market is leaning aggressively on one company, feeding it billions of dollars in the hopes that the things they're buying start making them a profit.

And that really is the most ridiculous thing. At the center of the AI trade sits GPUs that, on installation, immediately start losing the company in question money. Large Language Models burn cash for negative returns to build products that all kind of work the same way.

If you're going to say I'm wrong, sit and think carefully about why. Is it because you don't want me to be right? Is it because you think "these companies will work it out"? This isn't anything like Uber, AWS, or any other situation. It is its own monstrosity, a creature of hubris and ignorance caused by a tech industry that's run out of ideas, built on top of one company.

You can plead with me all you want about how there are actual people using AI. You've probably read the "My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts" blog, and if you're gonna send it to me, read the response from Nik Suresh first. If you're going to say that I "don't speak to people who actually use these products," you are categorically wrong and in denial.

I am only writing with this aggressive tone because, for the best part of two years, I have been made to repeatedly explain myself in a way that no AI "optimist" is made, and I admit I resent it. I have written hundreds of thousands of words with hundreds of citations, and still, to this day, there are people who claim I am somehow flawed in my analysis, that I'm missing something, that I am somehow failing to make my case.

The only people failing to make their case are the AI optimists still claiming that these companies are making "powerful AI." And once this bubble pops, I will be asking for an apology.
I Don't Like What's Happening

I love ending pieces with personal thoughts about stuff because I am an emotional and overly honest person, and I enjoy writing a lot.

I do not, however, enjoy telling you at length how brittle everything is. An ideal tech industry would be one built on innovation, revenue, real growth based on actual business returns that helped humans be better, not outright lie about replacing them. All that generative AI has done is show how much lust there is in both the markets and the media for replacing human labor — and yes, it is in the media too. I truly believe there are multiple reporters who feel genuine excitement when they write scary stories about how Dario Amodei says white collar workers will be fired in the next few years in favour of "agents" that will never exist.

Everything I’m discussing is the result of the Rot Economy thesis I wrote back in 2023 — the growth-at-all-costs mindset that has driven every tech company to focus on increasing quarterly revenue numbers, even if the products suck, or are deeply unprofitable, or, in the case of generative AI, both.

Nowhere has there been a more pungent version of the Rot Economy than in Large Language Models, or more specifically GPUs. By making everything about growth, you inevitably reach a point where the only thing you know how to do is spend money, and both LLMs and GPUs allowed big tech to do the thing that worked before — building a bunch of data centers and buying a bunch of chips — without making sure they’d done the crucial work of “making sure this would create products people like.” As a result, we’re now sitting on top of one of the most brittle situations in economic history — our markets held up by whether four or five companies will continue to buy chips that start losing them money the second they’re installed.

I am disgusted by how many people are unwilling or unable to engage with the truth, favouring instead a scornful, contemptuous tone toward anybody who doesn't believe that generative AI is the future. If you are a writer that writes about AI smarmily insulting people who "don't understand AI," you are a shitty fucking writer, because either AI isn't that good or you're not good at explaining why it's good. Perhaps it's both.

If you want to know my true agenda, it's that I see something in generative AI and its boosters something I truly dislike. Large Language Models authoritatively state things that are incorrect because they have no concept of right or wrong. I believe that the writers, managers and executives that find it exciting do so because it gives them the ability to pretend to be intelligent without actually learning anything, to do everything they can to avoid actual work or responsibility for themselves or others.

There is an overwhelming condescension that comes from fans of generative AI — the sense that they know something you don't, something they double down on. We are being forced to use it by bosses, or services we like that now insist it's part of our documents or our search engines, not because it does something, but because those pushing it need us to use it to prove that they know what's going on.

To quote my editor Matt Hughes: "...generative AI...is an expression of contempt towards people, one that considers them to be a commodity at best, and a rapidly-depreciating asset at worst."

I haven't quite cracked why, but generative AI also brings out the worst in some people. By giving the illusion of labor, it excites those who are desperate to replace or commoditize it. By giving the illusion of education, it excites those who are too idle to actually learn things by convincing them that in a few minutes they can learn quantum physics. By giving the illusion of activity, it allows the gluttony of Business Idiots that control everything to pretend that they do something. By giving the illusion of futurity, it gives reporters that have long-since disconnected from actual software and hardware the ability to pretend that they know what's happening in the tech industry.

And, fundamentally, its biggest illusion is economic activity, because despite being questionably-useful and burning billions of dollars, its need to do so creates a justification for spending billions of dollars on GPUs and data center sprawl, which allows big tech to sink money into something and give the illusion of growth.

I love writing, but I don't love writing this. I think I'm right, and it’s not something I’m necessarily happy about.  If I'm wrong, I'll explain how I'm wrong in great detail, and not shy away from taking accountability, but I really do not think I am, and that's why I'm so alarmed.

What I am describing is a bubble, and one with an obvious weakness: one company's ability to sell hardware to four or five other companies, all to run services that lose billions of dollars.

At some point the momentum behind NVIDIA slows. Maybe it won't even be sales slowing — maybe it'll just be the suggestion that one of its largest customers won't be buying as many GPUs. Perception matters just as much as actual numbers, and sometimes more, and a shift in sentiment could start a chain of events that knocks down the entire house of cards. 

I don't know when, I don't know how, but I really, really don't know how I'm wrong.

I hate that so many people will see their retirements wrecked, and that so many people intentionally or accidentally helped steer the economy in this reckless, needless and wasteful direction, all because big tech didn’t have a new way to show quarterly growth. I hate that so many people have lost their jobs because companies are spending the equivalent of the entire GDP of some European countries on data centers and GPUs that won’t actually deliver any value. 

But my purpose here is to explain to you, no matter your background or interests or creed or whatever way you found my work, why it happened. As you watch this collapse, I want you to tell your friends about why — the people responsible and the decisions they made — and make sure it’s clear that there are people responsible.

Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Andy Jassy have overseen a needless, wasteful and destructive economic force that will harm our economy and the tech industry writ large, and when this is over, they must be held accountable.

And remember that you, as a regular person, can understand all of this. These people want you to believe this is black magic, that you are wrong to worry about the billions wasted or question the usefulness of these tools. You are smarter than they reckon and stronger than they know, and a better future is one where you recognize this, and realize that power and money doesn’t make a man righteous, right, or smart."]]></description>
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04:00 Housing is an asset like shares, bonds, commodities
07:40 Economists are missing this
08:40 Why house prices are going up
11:55 How rich people push up house prices
14:15 House prices vs. wages
16:33 Should we just build more housing?
18:33 Inequality is reshaping our cities and creating slums
21:27 Why we can't get growth
24:13 The problem is inequality
25:09 Cutting red tape and Grenfell Tower
26:06 The rich always decide"]]></description>
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    <title>‘The Red and the Green’ | Casey A. Williams | The New York Review of Books</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito’s proposal for “degrowth communism” as a solution to the climate crisis has inspired fierce debate, including among other Marxists."

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"Saito never cites Huber in his most recent book, Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism, but he spends the bulk of it making a case against any Marxism that treats growth as the basis for collective prosperity. Drawing on the earlier work of the Japanese Marxist Sadao Ohno, among others, he warns against acting as if “the productive forces developed under capitalism” are “neutral forces that can be taken over by the proletariat and utilized for establishing a socialist society.” As anyone who has read about concentrated animal feeding operations or Amazon warehouses knows, capitalism hardly organizes production in neutral ways: the profit imperative encourages the development of “productive forces” that cannot necessarily satisfy social needs in an ecologically rational fashion. For instance, using colossal amounts of insecticides to produce ever-increasing quantities of genetically identical bananas may be good business, but today’s banana plantations could not simply be seized by workers and made to serve an ecologically conscious socialism. What’s needed is a totally different way of producing bananas—and probably far fewer of them.

What did Marx himself have to say on the subject? In The Communist Manifesto he and Engels sound not unlike Huber when they argue that the task—and perhaps the fate—of the revolutionary working class is to release capitalism’s productive forces from the “fetters” of private property relations and enable their full, humane potential. This strikes Saito as a naive and “hopelessly outdated” theory of social development, but he also wants to show that it is not what Marx ultimately believed. By the end of his life, Saito argues, Marx had realized “that the availability of natural wealth is inevitably limited” and come to understand communism as a matter of collectively managing finite resources.

Marx recognized capitalism’s tendency to cannibalize itself early in his career, Saito observes. “Capitalist production,” Marx wrote in volume 1 of Capital, “only develops…by simultaneously undermining the original sources of all wealth: the soil and the worker.” Marx increasingly came to see such “robbery” of society’s sustaining conditions as intrinsic to capitalist production. Starting in the 1860s he studied precapitalist societies in Germany and Russia, as well as the work of natural scientists who were observing declines in soil productivity caused by concentrated farming to feed booming factory towns. Saito points to Marx’s notes on overgrazing in Ireland, collected in the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe, as an example: “It will not be long before the Irish farmer experiences that this system will end in the total exhaustion of the land.”

During the same period, Saito suggests, Marx revised his view of premodern agrarian communes. He no longer saw them as feudal remnants that would have to be replaced, first by bourgeois private property and then by a communist state, but as models of healthy relations between people and nature. In his late notebooks and in draft letters to the Russian revolutionary Vera Zasulich, Marx suggested that communism might look not like capitalist technology plus a dictatorship of the proletariat but like a scaled-up version of the traditional Russian mir, which seemed capable of supporting a sustainable relationship between people and their environments.

“If the revolution…concentrates all its forces to ensure the unfettered rise of the rural commune, the latter will soon develop as a regenerating element of Russian society and an element of superiority over the countries enslaved by the capitalist regime,” he wrote. This would mean advancing toward what, in the first draft of an 1881 letter to Zasulich, Marx called a “higher form of an ‘archaic type’ of collective ownership and production.” For Saito, all this makes Marx, in effect, a degrowth communist.

Degrowth hardly stands or falls on Marx’s proleptic endorsement, but returning to Marx gives Saito a chance to underscore perhaps his most important claim: It is possible to devise systems of small-scale, collective resource management that expand social wealth and personal freedom while lessening our demands on the earth. This will be a difficult position for even the most sympathetic readers to fully endorse. Our world is so urbanized, globalized, and developed—the vast majority of people in the US and Japan live in cities and depend on transoceanic supply chains for basic necessities—that it is difficult to picture the transformations Saito proposes without some apocalyptic event.

Indeed, Slow Down’s principal weakness, shared with many degrowth proposals, is that it spends too little time spelling out what such a radically different system would look like, how it would work, and what it would take to move from today’s deeply entrenched global capitalism to something like its opposite. Where he does offer specifics, Saito suggests a range of more modest reforms: policies to rein in polluting industries, such as banning short-haul flights, as France has done, and to decommodify basic goods, such as making low-emission public transit free for all residents, as Boston has proposed as part of its municipal Green New Deal. He praises workers’ coops in Spain’s Basque region and Jackson, Mississippi, and points to La Via Campesina—a global network of peasant movements defending locally controlled, nonindustrial agriculture—as evidence that treating farmland as a “commons” is not only ecologically sustainable but feasible.

Saito’s poster child, though, is Barcelona’s “solidarity economy.” Cooperatively owned businesses from restaurants to tech companies employ 8 percent of Barcelona’s residents, and dozens of collectively owned enterprises, credit unions, and cooperative schools allow people to share resources and labor. The idea is to unlink the provision of goods and services from profit: for instance, Barcelona’s housing coops guarantee members a “use right” to their homes that they can bequeath but not sell, preventing the speculation that plagues housing markets.

Partly due to the political strength of these cooperatives, residents have pushed the city to “decarbonize and decommodify” a range of municipal services, including by establishing a public energy company that provides renewable energy to residents as a “basic right.” Expanded public services have come with restrictions on private property: to ease its tourism-fueled housing crisis, Barcelona will prohibit Airbnb starting in 2028, and at the national level Spain’s socialist government recently levied an unprecedented wealth tax on the superrich.

Scaling up the Barcelona model would require redistribution on a global scale as well as a dramatic reduction in economic output. This would demand abstemiousness from the global middle classes. They may need to sacrifice such luxuries as frequent air travel, next-day delivery, out-of-season produce, and F-150s, as well as shoulder some of the work of building houses, growing food, and caring for the elderly. Like almost all degrowth proponents, Saito insists that such sacrifices would, under conditions of greater social equality, open more avenues for self-fulfillment. The hollow pleasures of private consumption would be traded for greater “public affluence” in the form of mass transit, efficient urban neighborhoods, and common parks, theaters, and gyms.

Here Saito envisions a profound cultural shift. Degrowth, he suggests, would require redefining what it means to live well—valuing sufficiency, generosity, and care over quantity, convenience, and speed. “The only way to realize happiness for all in a just and sustainable way is through the exercise of voluntary ‘self-limitation,’” he writes. Only such sacrifice “will allow the realm of freedom to expand.”

Certainly some aspects of the present seem conducive to this kind of collective slowing down—not least the mounting recognition that fossil fuel combustion cannot continue if we wish to live on a habitable planet. As Saito points out, in cities like Barcelona many people have already managed to achieve more communal, ecologically rational ways of life. But the political barriers to achieving anything like degrowth communism on a global scale are formidable, to say the least—and Saito’s proposal for social transformation would be more persuasive if he explained what forces could challenge a political and economic system defended by some of the richest people in the history of the world.

In Slow Down, Saito encourages readers to start small: launch “a workers’ co-op, a school strike, an organic farm—it doesn’t matter the form it takes.” These all seem like worthwhile projects that might improve the lives of participants and build support for more sweeping reforms. But for now degrowth communism is a destination without a map. You won’t leave Saito’s books with a clear sense of how to revolutionize an alienating and destructive society. What he offers instead is a challenge. “We cannot solve a problem triggered by capitalism while still preserving capitalism,” he writes. Readers who buy this claim will have to decide what to do with it."]]></description>
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    <title>Resisting the Techno-Fascist Takeover: Are We Ready for Decomputing? · BG · berlinergazette.de · EN|DE</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-11T18:26:29+00:00</dc:date>
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"Because they are based on centralization and abstraction, our current sociopolitical structures are susceptible to being replaced by AI. This is not only exemplified by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which was initiated by the second Trump administration; there are many less heavily publicized equivalents all over the world, including in Europe. Recognizing that our societies are on the verge of a techno-fascist takeover, Dan McQuillan evaluates the risks and offers practical strategies for resistance.

*

In the actions of DOGE in the USA, we’re seeing the kind of technopolitical turn to fascistic solutionism which is described in “Resisting AI.” That book was an attempt to preempt the further convergence of far right politics and the tech sector, but the emergence of so-called generative AI and the rising wave of fascist politics has actually speeded things up. Nevertheless, resistance is both possible and more urgent than ever. In this article I’ll outline the mechanisms by which DOGE has been able to hack the state and what that means for technopolitical resistance in the UK and Europe.
Acceleration

While the specifics of what tech, such as AI, can and cannot do are important, the broader transformation we are experiencing isn’t driven by tech itself – as disruptive as it may be – but by the ongoing collapse of existing systems, particularly the neoliberal world order. While the rhetoric around DOGE claims it’s addressing such a crisis, one it blames on state institutions being both bloated and woke, this doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. While sacking people and cancelling contracts might seem to save cash in the short term, DOGE’s recklessness is accelerating chaos rather than efficiency.

Instead of optimizing the state, technological accelerationism and reactionary politics have fused in an attempt to rollback of all forms of progressive change and social inclusion. Gains in civil rights in the USA were imperfect but hard fought for, and the theory of constitutional order is that substantial change should be hedged about with democratic and legal checks and balances. Instead, a gaggle of young men with six laptops per backpack seems to have been able to smash this social contract more-or-less overnight.

‘Privilege escalation’

It turns out that the centralization, bureaucratization and digitization of state institutions has rendered them vulnerable to what is essentially a form of ‘cyberattack from within.’ Relying on order-following and secure passwords doesn’t hold up when the orders are to hand root access to an intern from Tesla with moderate tech skills and limitless libertarian hubris. In hacking, this kind of takeover is called ‘privilege escalation’. Once the nerds have read/write access to HR and payment systems, the accumulated experience of even careful and conscientious public servants counts for very little.

It’s at this point that the techno-fascist commitment to AI really kicks in. Whether it’s assessing from 5-point emails which employees are surplus to requirements, or tackling empirically impossible tasks like reviewing all 76,000 contracts held by the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) within 30 days, Elon Musk’s acolytes turned to AI, and in particular to Large Language models (LLMs). In the VA, the tool to do this was ready by the second day. Rather than a triumph of coding, this was a common-or-garden LLM instructed via the system prompt (the invisible pre-instruction prompt) that “infrastructure directly supporting patient care should be classified as NOT munchable. Contracts related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives or services… should be classified as MUNCHABLE” (where ‘munchable’ means listed for cancellation).

Of course, understanding the complex interdependencies of these services requires insights into medical care, institutional management and resource allocation. An LLM is not right for this job for many reasons, not least of which is that it literally understands nothing and actively erases context and relationality. It’s hard to know from the outside how much the DOGE boys buy into the ‘AI is nearly AGI’ line and it doesn’t really matter. They already know that the woke leviathan must be destroyed and that AI is the best way to go in hard, while at the same time throwing up a smokescreen that systems are being upgraded rather than simply trashed.

What their cyberattack has done, and what court orders seem unable to undo, is pool vast amounts of data that were previously siloed to prevent the abuse of power. Of course, as anyone on the wrong end of the neoliberal status quo knows, this data had already been thoroughly weaponized by bureaucratic cruelty to track immigrants or cut off welfare payments long before DOGE or even Donald Trump appeared on the scene. What’s different in today’s USA is that the mask is off and even the performance of democratic accountability has been thrown into the bin. Instead, companies like Palantir are happy to suck up all the data and ‘build to dominate’ (their words not mine).

Technopolitics

It’s important to understand that DOGE was just one way to achieve this and, like the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s far from over and it’s spreading fast. In the UK, for example, the Labour government is enacting much of this itself, from the data sharing to subcontracting important aspects of the National Health Service to Palantir. The populists shout for raw DOGE while supposedly left-leaning think tanks argue for ‘progressive efficiency’ and ‘DOGE done better’. Political parties everywhere are genuflecting to AI and appeasing the far right, and none of them seem willing to do what it takes to prevent a techno-fascist takeover. Pushing back is going to be down to the rest of us.

Fans of ‘sovereign AI,’ the current favorite move of European states freaked out by the thought of Trump’s finger on an AI kill switch but as hooked as the UK on AI for growth and geopolitical leadership, should note that it doesn’t escape any of the problems described here. Like everywhere else, Europe is caught up in a collapsing neoliberal order and is facing multiple social crises that it is unwilling to address except by staggering rapidly to the far right. The EU is as AI-pilled as the UK, to the extent that it now has a plan for Europe to become an ‘AI Continent’. The mechanisms of social ordering within the EU embrace the kinds of centralization, bureaucratization and digitization which make them vulnerable to techno-fascist takeover. What’s unclear at this stage is whether that will come from a more obviously destructive push, like DOGE, or whether the far right are now so powerful that they will simply take over the EU from the inside. Certainly, the far right bloc are happy to back plans for ‘European technological sovereignty and digital infrastructure’ because they know it resonates with their ultranationalism rather than disrupting it.

What we’re looking at here is a technopolitical struggle; one that sees technology not as a neutral tool but as an apparatus that condenses the politics of the past and shapes the politics to come. While it’s still hard to persuade some people that all politics is technopolitics, there are sectors where this argument doesn’t have to be made. The disability movement, for example, has a very refined understanding of the way tools make concrete the social model of disability and of what’s needed to retool for autonomy. The climate movement understands that our technologies embed the toxic ideology of infinite growth that threatens to burn up the planet, and can articulate sustainable alternatives. In my own field of higher education, some are developing a sharpened understanding of the way technologies like generative AI are undermining pedagogy, institutions, and the possibility of critical thought. All these fields are ripe for technopolitical resistance.

In “Resisting AI” I argued that one starting point is the formation of workers’ and people’s councils on AI, and I think that still holds. These structures collectivize the refusal of AI, and do so in ways that elevate the relationality, context, and care that AI itself abstracts and erases. I’m suggesting that people’s councils on AI, whether formed from union branches, parent-teacher associations or activist groups, are a way to seed an effective resistance to future attempts at techno-fascist system hacking. What I’d like to add here are two linked concepts for the ways people’s councils can interrupt the apparent inevitability of AI-driven fascization and push things in a different direction. Those concepts are ‘scale’ and ‘conviviality’.

Decomputing

AI demands scale and depends on it – in terms of the data required, the scale of the computing resources needed and the energy demands of the data centers. The industry itself accepts that scaling is its only way forward (an insight known to some as ‘the bitter lesson’). At the same time, our current sociopolitical structures – being based on centralization and abstraction and thus embodying the logic of scale – are deeply susceptible to replacement by AI.

An example of pushing back on both fronts at the same time is resistance to the development of new hyperscale data centers. The multiplication and expansion of data centers is the material basis for AI’s techno-fascist operations. Their demand for electricity and water is so huge that, when it comes to future power cuts or water shortages, it’s going to be a contest between data centers and the rest of us. Such is the power of Big Tech that they can rely on regulatory and state capture to enact their plans. Pushing back against data center development through forms of collective and directly democratic assembly, rather than by fruitlessly appealing to existing authorities to follow the rules, tackles the scaling of the material infrastructures and the distancing of decision-making at the same time.

The problematization of scale raises the question of how we should proceed instead. I think this is where the resistance to AI intersects with the movements for degrowth. Like the idea of abolishing AI, degrowth doesn’t stop with refusal but switches the focus to other ways of organizing and doing. The idea of degrowth is also a demand for alternative visions of society. A technopolitics that opposes both AI and the obsession with growth that consumes its political and financial backers is one that can provide a framework for moving forward, and this is where the concept of conviviality comes in.

The concept of conviviality, created by thinkers such as Ivan Illich, provides criteria for developing an alternative technopolitics. Illich advocated for ‘counterfoil research,’ which “has two major tasks: to provide guidelines for detecting the incipient stages of murderous logic in a tool; and to devise tools and tool-systems that optimize the balance of life, thereby maximizing liberty for all.” Subsequent work, Andrea Vetter’s “Matrix of Convivial Technologies,” has turned this into questions we can ask of any technological innovation at any level, such as ‘how does it affect relations between people?’ and ‘how does it interact with living organisms and ecologies?’.

A rigorous and militant application of these criteria by the aforementioned people’s councils, in workplace or community settings and as as part of existing social movements, is a way to develop technopolitical counter-power. Most importantly, demanding the social determination of technology is a way to dispel the loss of collective agency which has resulted from decades of neoliberalism. This combination of degrowth and critical technopolitics is what I call ‘decomputing’.
Remaking

In current times, we must all be anti-fascists. But anti-fascism, like all forms of resistance, only makes sense as the precursor to something better. The Italian partisans who fought fascism with such determination weren’t motivated by a return to a bourgeois status quo but by the hope for a better, fairer and more ‘solidaristic’ society. Similarly, the small pockets of transformative technopolitics in the present moment, like the GKN factory occupation which has socialized the switch from making lorry axles to producing cargo bikes and solar panels, explicitly does so as part of a grassroots movement for a just transition (and also does so under the partisan slogan ‘Insorgiamo!’ or ‘Rise Up!’).

Resisting AI means rejecting its consequences, such as the resurgence of eugenics through welfare and healthcare systems. It also means rejecting the conditions that allow AI to become so important and influential, like our growth-obsessed, centralized political economies. Currently, the far right has the momentum. They are successfully projecting their nihilistic vision through technologies that are innately anti-worker, anti-democratic, and racially supremacist. Part of ‘building the new world in the shell of the old’, as the IWW put it, is developing forms of tech infrastructure that resonate with remaking society along convivial, confederal, and mutualist lines."]]></description>
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPGvXhicF2M ]]]></description>
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    <title>Citations Needed: Ep 222 - The Empire Strikes First Part I: Party Elites Who Lost to Trump (Twice) Blame Everyone But Themselves</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-08T01:57:40+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In Ep. 222, "The Empire Strikes First Part I: Party Elites Who Lost to Trump (Twice) Blame Everyone But Themselves," we detail how our media allows the same party flacks who got the Dems into this mess, control over the narrative of how to get them out. With guest UC-Berkeley professor Jake Grumbach."

[See also (tags here also reflect content within):

"Ep. 223: The Empire Strikes First, Part II — ‘Abundance’ Pablum as Counter to Left Populism"
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/ep-223-the-empire-strikes-first-part-ii-abundance-pablum-as-counter-to-left-populism


"“Can Democrats Learn to Dream Big Again?,” wonders Samuel Moyn in the New York Times. “The Democrats Are Finally Landing on a New Buzzword. It’s Actually Compelling,” argues Slate staff writer Henry Grabar. “Do Democrats Need to Learn How to Build?,” asks Benjamin Wallace-Wells in The New Yorker. 

For the past few months, news and editorial rooms have been abuzz with talk about a new, grand vision for the Democratic Party: abundance. Abundance, according to its media promoters—chiefly NYT’s Ezra Klein and The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson—is a political agenda that espouses the creation of more of everything we need: housing, education, jobs, and energy, to name a few examples. To accomplish this, we are told, we must aim to eliminate bureaucratic red tape that has for so long bogged down production, innovation, and capital’s innate capacity and desire to provide a better, more abundant life.

It’s an alluring promise—if suspiciously vague and devoid of class politics: obviously, doing more good things is better than doing fewer good things, right? Who can argue with this generic premise? Who wouldn’t want to support an agenda that’s effectively the Do Good Things Agenda?

Scratch the surface, however, and what one finds it isn’t just a folky, common sense treatise against red tape, but something more sinister and dishonest, something more slick and shallow. What one gets is a standard entryist strategy that begins with a so-vague-it’s-incontestable hook—illogical or corrupt regulations are bad—the quickly pivots into a Silicon Valley flattering, and often Silicon Valley funded, political agenda, a narrative designed to blame inequality and our objectively broken political system on too much regulation and “bureaucracy” rather than there being too much power in the hands of an elite few.

What one gets, in other words, is a counter to left populism. What one gets is the latest attempt to reheat neoliberalism as something fresh, innovative and able to excite the voting base.

Last week, in Part I of a two-part series we’re calling “The Empire Strikes First,” we discussed the Democrats’ post-2024 apologia, propped up by scapegoats ranging from trans people to “economic headwinds” to Harris actually being too far left.

On this episode, Part II of the series, we explore what comes next: the 2028 Democratic strategy and the so-called abundance agenda that is increasingly shaping it. We’ll examine how Democratic media influencers and policymakers use lofty, seemingly progressive rhetoric to rehabilitate and re-sell the same old neoliberal deregulation, privatization, and austerity narrative that got us here in the first place, and ensure that no left-wing movement—that could, god forbid, require a meaningful change in the party—get in their way.

Our guests are the Revolving Door Project's Kenny Stancil and Henry Burke."]]]></description>
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    <title>The Problem with My City Is That It’s a City - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-23T22:16:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-problem-with-my-city-is-that-its-a-city</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I’ve lived in this city for decades, but I’m noticing more and more problems. There’s crowding, congestion, changing people, tall buildings, and the biggest problem: This city is a literal city.

I love living in a city, but I hate dealing with other people. I shouldn’t be subject to the whims of my neighbors, something I constantly scream at them during city council meetings.
Dave Eggers silkscreen prints to benefit the new International Library of Youth Writing! Purchase your own unique piece of art and check back regularly for more.

You can’t walk down the street without seeing some new expensive building going up. It’s all I can think about until I’m safely ensconced in my million-dollar apartment, scornfully looking down at the construction.

I don’t recognize anyone in my neighborhood anymore! Why do the kids I used to know seem to grow taller, look older, and move away? I need every political candidate to clarify their position on the passage of linear time.

It wasn’t always like this. I moved to this city as a wide-eyed twenty-year-old, ready to take on the world with energetic abandon. Now, I’m no longer twenty years old. Something really has changed with this city.

A city used to mean something. These days, it seems the only thing that defines a city is a large concentration of people in a denser urban environment.
Ever-changing, always surprising. Subscribe to our National Magazine Award-winning McSweeney’s Quarterly today.

But a city doesn’t have to be made of skyscrapers and full of people. A city could be smaller, more intimate. A city could be a single two-story ranch with a detached garage and a suspicious homeowner glaring contemptuously from the living room blinds at children playing in the street. A city could be that paradise.

I’m no ideologue; I’m open to discussion on the right size of a city. Maybe it’s eight people, maybe nine, and if we annex a neighboring state or turn the Atlantic Ocean into a subdivision, then we can surely fit ten people… at most.

Growth is inevitable, and growth can be good! Let’s focus on consistent growth all the way up to two stories. We can even expand the idea of a city, and by expand, I mean twist and choke the idea of a city until it’s a suburb.

We can’t do it alone. We need bold leadership that courageously pushes our city to remain trapped in historical amber.
The greatest graduation gift is this gorgeous deluxe boxed set of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. Shockingly affordable!

Don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty I still love about living in a city, like having a single bagel delivered silently to my apartment door so I don’t have to interact with any of the millions of rich stories unfolding around me. But sometimes the delivery driver makes me meet him at my front door, and I have to, gulp, make eye contact. I didn’t realize I signed a lease in Gomorrah.

There are plenty of people who agree with me; my Nextdoor posts are blowing up with anonymous, rage- and typo-filled screeds of approval.

With hard work, imagination, and the immediate exodus of millions of people, this city can become the best thing I can imagine: not a city."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2025-05-15T23:06:55+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[direct link to video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCnSCB19l7A ]

"One of the concepts I introduce in this talk is the idea of 'decomputing', as a 50:50 hybrid of decolonial and degrowth approaches.

"Decomputing challenges the expansionism of scale that AI brings to its technical form, to its environmental demands and to its social impacts. This expansionism is AI's version of 'growth', and it's empty metrics echo GDP in the ways they conceal the underlying destructiveness. Decomputing takes the idea of ‘computing within limits’ to refer not only to the scale of computational machinery but to limits of extractive and colonial logics, limits to a biosphere’s ability to recover, limits to our Western knowledge systems and limits to tech solutionism.

Decomputing is the reassertion of relationality over abstraction, and of the vernacular, as Ivan Illich would put it, over scale; that is, of vernacular forms-of-living that presuppose limits to property, limits to technology, and limits to scarcity. It's a logic for resisting datacentres, a way of cutting through the climate-washing and a way of extending those struggles. It's a rationale for more collective action to constrain computing which is out of balance with social & environmental justice.""]]></description>
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"Unredacted Tonight: The Reason For EVERY U.S. War!" (Lee Camp for Democracy at Work)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMfVztpmcWw

"In this eye-opening episode of Undredacted Tonight, Lee Camp delivers his most important segment yet — a deep dive into the real reason behind U.S. foreign policy decisions. From the creation of the petrodollar system to its links with endless war, climate breakdown, and global economic exploitation, this episode connects the dots that mainstream media won’t touch. Discover why countries like Iraq, Libya, Venezuela, and Iran faced U.S. aggression, and how a secret 1970s deal with Saudi Arabia still shapes geopolitics today.

PLUS: A hilarious yet sobering look at how U.S. empire, debt-based growth, and fossil fuels are driving us toward ecological collapse. Also featuring segments on shocking NIH funding restrictions, AI-controlled parole decisions, and special guest John F. O’Donnell in “Based in the Basement.” If you want the truth behind America’s wars, alliances, and economic power — and you can handle some sharp comedy — this is the episode you can’t miss."]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["US Democrats face record low approval ratings. That’s why prominent liberal journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson wrote ‘Abundance’ — a new book arguing that liberals need to innovate more by deregulating the government and developing a pro-business mindset.

The bestselling book garnered buzz and controversy — and Thompson joins Mehdi Hasan on ‘Mehdi Unfiltered’ to unpack it all.

They discuss the abundance agenda, and Mehdi presses Thompson on the book’s criticism from progressives, including its lack of focus on Republicans and oligarchy.

The author tells Mehdi that liberals are getting in their own way when it comes to building homes and green energy infrastructure, saying, “when you're trying to explain why some states like Texas are building ample housing and some states like California simply aren't, I don't think you can say that the problem is oligarchy.”

Thompson and Mehdi discuss the future of the Democratic Party, challenging Donald Trump and MAGA, Bernie Sanders and AOC, and the “orphaned center-right.” Watch the FULL interview to see Thompson admit that he and Klein got some things wrong."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The release of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s new book Abundance has set off a policy debate between what is generally called the center and the left, but from an economic perspective is better understood as between the left and the right.

Much has been written [https://newrepublic.com/article/193346/economic-inequality-keynes-abundance-agenda ] critiquing the problems [https://jacobin.com/2025/03/abundance-klein-thompson-book-review ] of the book and the abundance approach to governance. Essentially, the movement sees removing government regulations and encouraging the private sector to build as the answer to the Democrats’ problems. Former San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston has summarized the abundance agenda succinctly [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s36dMnYj7Y ], calling it a rebranding of “trickle down economics.”

The abundance idea also fails to lay a substantial amount of blame on American federalism for the failure of Democratic-led states and cities to build infrastructure and affordable housing. American federalism creates little incentive for the national government to work with solidly Democratic cities in solidly Democratic states like San Francisco, New York, Chicago or Los Angeles. Refusing to address this is a key oversight at the heart of the abundance argument.

I am less interested in the abundance agenda itself, which strikes me as the kind of policy that a conservative economic party that had not been captured by MAGA fascism would be supporting, than I am in how this idea will likely begin to dominate political discourse in the coming months. 

It is, in some respects, appalling that at a moment when the country is threatened by an angry white Christian nationalist movement seeking to shift wealth upwards to the already super-rich, a sizable proportion of the Democratic Party is now prioritizing undoing government regulations, as opposed to, for example, defending programs like Social Security and Medicare or pursuing meaningfully redistributive economic policies. However, the process of this idea moving to the center of the Democratic Party is revealing in its own right.

Abundance is a good word with excellent connotations. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s36dMnYj7Y ] After all, who doesn’t want more things and enough things for everybody. However, the abundance agenda itself is not particularly new and is yet another effort to turn the Democratic Party, particularly in big cities, into essentially a Republican Party with a handful of liberal positions on social issues. San Franciscans should be relatively familiar with that dynamic.

The effort to rebrand unbridled deregulation as abundance is possible because of an opening that the Trump MAGA movement has created in American political life. 

The price of entry to being considered a progressive in many circles today is simply vehement opposition to Trump himself and to the greatest excesses of the Trump-Musk regime. Klein certainly qualifies on that level and has facilitated some excellent discussions about Trump over the years. However, opposition to Trump is not particularly progressive, but simply a necessary position for anybody who believes in democracy or in the US. 

Therefore, as long as one’s anti-Trump credentials are solid, there is ample room to pursue what are, at their core, conservative solutions to policy problems.

Over the last decade no media platform has captured this paradox better than the New York Times where Klein is a columnist and podcast host. Despite the big picture problems facing legacy media, the Times is still extremely influential, particularly with the donor class liberals who flock to Klein’s writing and podcast. 

A central reason why the Times continues to be so influential is because it consistently offers succor to those affluent elements among its readership who want their hatred for Trump reinforced while never having to consider the need to address some of the underlying economic problems that are immiserating so many millions of Americans, many of whom have found their way to the MAGA cult.

The elder statesman of that project is David Brooks who, despite some of his clownish foibles in recent years [https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/23/david-brooks-apologizes-tweet-00117794 ], has spent much of this century making the most extraordinary Republican mistakes and political venom more palatable to Democratic readers of the New York Times. Brooks is a symbol of the kind of never (but in reality sometimes) Trump Republicans that so much of the legacy media continues to celebrate.

In recent years, Klein has picked up a bit of this mantle. Klein is more liberal than Brooks, and frequently engages in conversations with his guests that have more depth than anything Brooks writes, but Klein’s latest book and political pet project underscore his own unwillingness to confront the need for redistributive politics that would directly address the yawning wealth gap.

The central challenge facing the US at the moment is not how to build housing for wealthy people more quickly, but to defeat a MAGA fascist movement that is working to destroy democracy and the American state with almost no regards to the rule of law or even the US Constitution. 

The only way to defeat that movement and begin to (re)build American democracy is to create a broad omnibus coalition. We do that by working together on the things on which the potential anti-Trump coalition, which spans from far left to center-right, agrees, not by highlighting issues that are divisive. However, the abundance agenda, is located on the center-right – a kind of Rockefeller Republicanism for the twenty-first century, and therefore the right-wing, rather than the center, of the anti-Trump coalition.

At a time when US democracy is under an unprecedented attack from the White House, joining the GOP chorus for getting rid of regulations, ignoring any real discussion of inequality and spinning a story about how Democrats have failed our cities while failing to focus on the now decades long war on cities from the GOP is absolutely not the way forward."]]></description>
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    <title>9 Rules for New Technology - by Ted Gioia</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Wendell Berry's list from 1987 is more relevant than ever before

What do you want from new technology?

A flying car? An AI girlfriend (or boyfriend)? A bottomless cup of coffee?

You need to think bigger.

Forget about that AI lover and cup of joe—instead ask youself what a healthy society should expect from new tech. Or a healthy family. Or just a small town girl living in a lonely world….

Wendell Berry provided a list of nine reasonable requirements for new tech back in 1987, and they’re still appropriate today.

Berry’s list is actually more relevant than ever before. And the failure of tech companies to meet his modest demands is now painfully evident to everybody.

It wasn’t always this bad.

A few years ago, most new technology lived up to many of Berry’s requirements. But not anymore. And the pace of decline gives us a useful way of measuring how poorly we are served by the current generation of technocrats.

Let’s go back to 1987.

Wendell Berry was living on a farm in Kentucky, and did his writing with pen and paper. His wife Tanya would create typewritten drafts of his manuscripts on a Royal standard typewriter purchased in 1956—which was, he insisted, “as good now as it was then.”

But friends told him he needed a computer. It would make it easier to write, they insisted.

In response, Berry came up with his list of nine reasons to embrace new technology. Let’s revisit them, one by one.

**************

Nine Standards for Technological Innovation

**************

(1) The new tool should be cheaper than the one it replaces.

This is a very persuasive selling point for new technology. And for most of my life, tech companies worked hard to lower prices.

I still recall my parents scrimping and saving in order to buy a color television when I was seven years old. It cost almost $500—a huge amount in those days.

They probably should have waited. A few months later, RCA dropped prices to $399.

Prices continued to drop in later years. You can buy a high tech TV today at Best Buy for less than what my parents paid in the 1960s.

Computers also got more affordable—at least until recently.

I got my first computer (an Apple IIE) when I was in graduate school—it was an expensive gift from the Boston Consulting Group in exchange for accepting their job offer.

The list price back then was $1,400. I could never have afforded to buy it on my tight student budget.

But, over a period of many years, each subsequent computer I acquired was better and cheaper than my previous model. Alas, that happy trend has now ended.

When I buy a new computer now, I pay more. And the performance is not always better. I recently had to scrap a new desktop after only a few months, and go back to my previous model.

The new computer didn’t work as well as my five-year-old one.

When did new tech stop getting cheaper?

It happened the day Steve Jobs died. Maybe not exactly on that date—but shortly afterwards.

Look at this chart of iPhone prices, adjusted for inflation, and you can see what I mean.

[image: chart]

Now let’s go to the second reason to adopt new tech from Wendell Berry’s list.

**************

(2) It should be at least as small in scale as the one it replaces.

This is another good reason to upgrade your setup. And tech did get smaller for many decades.

Guess who played a key role in that? Yes, Steve Jobs again. Because of his obsession with product design, we now carry a huge amount of advanced tech in our pocket.

Just consider this remarkable fact: Every device featured in this Radio Shack advertisement from 1991 has been replaced by your tiny phone.

[image: "Your smartphone has replaced every one of these devices."]

But this, too, changed soon after Jobs died. (Are you noticing a pattern here?)

The thinnest iPhone ever was the iPhone 6 (2014)—at a slim 6.9mm. The company continued to launch ‘mini’ models for a few years, but stopped after iPhone 13.

Tech is now bulking up. It’s not just the devices—wait until you see those AI data centers. A single facility can spread over two kilometers.

[image: screenshot of title and subtitle " AI data centers are becoming 'mind-blowingly large': Clusters of GPU chips in coming years will have to connect over distances longer than a mile, says the CEO of this fiber-optics firm." from https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-data-centers-are-becoming-mind-blowingly-large/ ]

**************

(3) It should do work that is clearly and demonstrably better than the one it replaces.

This is the most obvious requirement for new tech. It needs to work better than old tech.

But Silicon Valley has totally abandoned this ideal. Every web interface I use has gotten worse over time—from search engines to social media to software to shopping apps.

Google is worse than ever. Twitter is worse than ever. Amazon is worse than ever. Facebook is worse than ever. Everything I get from Microsoft is worse than ever.

So here, too, we see that new tech previously fulfilled Berry’s requirement—but stopped doing so around the time Steve Jobs died.

**************

(4) It should use less energy than the one it replaces.

Here, again, we see an ominous reversal. With the rise of AI, tech companies now use up more energy than ever before. They are sucking the power grid dry in many places.

And it’s going to get worse—much worse.

[image: chart "Summary of GenAI demand forecast"]

What makes this especially revealing is the fact the public intensely dislikes AI—surveys make this absolutely clear. So tech companies are destroying the environment solely to increase their dominance and control—not to please you and me.

**************

(5) If possible, it should use some form of solar energy, such as that of the body.

Now Berry is asking for something our technocracy has never delivered.

And here we encounter the exact opposite of the AI situation described above.

We saw that AI depends on huge investment from corporations, while consumers are mostly indifferent. Solar energy is the opposite: It’s supported by investment from consumers—who use it to heat their homes, water, etc.—while corporations are mostly indifferent.

What a sad state of affairs. Private citizens have more prudent approaches to tech than the tech companies themselves (or their billionaire owners).

**************

(6) It should be repairable by a person of ordinary intelligence, provided that he or she has the necessary tools.

This, too, has changed during my lifetime. I once saw my father unscrew the back of our home TV set, and fix a malfunctioning part. Nowadays you can’t even open up those bad boys.

Tech providers create all sorts of obstacles to prevent repairs—unusual screws, arcane software, special tools, etc.

Consider the case of John Deere tractors, which wouldn’t start until a company-trained technician cleared out the error code. The company also refused to sell spare parts. Their practices got so abusive that politicians passed right-to-repair bills to protect farmers.

But the worst example happened during the COVID pandemic, when companies tried to prevent hospitals from fixing their malfunctioning ventilators. Manufacturers put software locks on this life-saving equipment to prevent repairs.

This represents a total failure on the part of the technocracy—and actual malfeasance by the executives who run these companies.

**************

(7) It should be purchasable and repairable as near to home as possible.

Finally I can give some tiny credit to our tech titans. They do offer home delivery—even if the product is made in a sweatshop far, far away.

**************

(8) It should come from a small, privately owned shop or store that will take it back for maintenance and repair.

This is a pipe dream. The tech product lifecycle is built on planned obsolescence, not simple repairs.

When your device or software stops working, you replace or upgrade—whether you want to or not.

In some instances, you aren’t even allowed to own, let alone fix, your tech—you just license or lease or subscribe. It’s like communism. You own nothing, and will love it.

**************

(9) It should not replace or disrupt anything good that already exists, and this includes family and community relationships.

This may be the biggest tech failure of them all.

The leading tech companies have deliberately promoted dysfunctional apps that destroy lives. And they know it.

- Leaked internal documents from TikTok show that they were aware that teens get addicted to their app in just 35 minutes. They built it that way. https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/g-s1-27676/tiktok-redacted-documents-in-teen-safety-lawsuit-revealed

- Facebook knew that Instagram use leads to depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and other problems. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-instagram-dangerous-content-60-minutes-2022-12-11/

- Spotify insiders have confirmed the company’s systematic plan to reduce royalties to musicians by manipulating passive listeners. https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-truth-about-spotify-is-finally

- For more examples, see my list of 52 indicators that technological progress is reversing. https://www.honest-broker.com/p/52-reasons-to-fear-that-technological

This is the new normal for tech: It deliberately makes things worse, not better.

Here’s the entire list of Wendell Berry’s criteria. If this were a report card, your tech leaders would all get failing grades.
Wendell Berry's list of criteria for new tech.

The curious fact is that the most up-to-date and forward-looking thing is this whole article is Berry’s list from 1987. Nothing on it is obsolescent or inappropriate or dysfunctional or harmful.

I wish our tech companies could say the same for their work."

[via:
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/ai-is-carceral-ed-tech/ ]]]></description>
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'What's Left' 
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/malcolm-harris/whats-left/9781668646861/

"What's the Matter with Abundance?" The Baffler
https://thebaffler.com/latest/whats-the-matter-with-abundance-harris "]]></description>
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    <title>Meeting Gary's favourite economist: Ha-Joon Chang - YouTube</title>
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Timestamps

00:00 Introduction to the Guest and the Channel's Focus
02:11 Ha-Joon Chang's Background and Inspiration
07:19 Parallels Between South Korea's Growth and Modern Urban Challenges
08:32 Reflections on Housing and Early Education in Korea
10:07 Economic Upheaval and the Search for Alternatives
14:38 Exploring Diverse Economic Theories at Cambridge
17:46 The Dominance of Neoclassical Economics
19:14 Advice for Aspiring Economists
20:33 The Disconnect Between Economics Education and Real-World Issues
24:12 Challenges in Economics Education
25:55 Disconnect Between Economics Training and Real-World Application
30:33 Economics as a Modern Theology
31:40 Historical Justifications and Economic Narratives
32:37 Wealth Inequality and Exclusion of the Poor
36:21 Taxation, Financial Markets, and Political Reluctance
38:30 Historical Taxation and Economic Growth
39:40 COVID-19 Economic Response and Distribution Inequality
41:12 Taxing the Wealthy: Historical and Modern Perspectives
42:25 Challenges in Addressing Economic Inequality
44:15 Strategies for Economic Change
46:14 Hope for Economic and Social Progress"]]></description>
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