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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoAcademia: Epistemological Graveyards We (Mostly) Whistle Past2026-06-26T11:56:35+00:00
https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/academia-epistemological-graveyards
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkN2jQRnHsY
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https://cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/the-libraries-that-werent-supposed
robertogrecolibraries underground resistance 2026 hanaleegolding history basharal-assad authoritarianism information georgeorwell surveillance stephencovey holocaust vilnaghetto poland warsaw slavery reconstruction tehran azarnafisi solidarity warsawghetto sovietunion ussr daraya syria dephineminoui mikethomson us russia afghanistan distortion restriction datahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e0b1f882fe13/The Landscapes Inside Us | Robert Macfarlane | The New York Review of Books2026-04-11T05:39:08+00:00
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/07/01/wayfinding-landscapes-inside-us/
robertogrecoNone of us is exempt from the ramifications of the device paradigm. We all seem to find it extraordinarily difficult to step outside the onslaught, to create the distance and perspective between us and our devices that might allow us to question what cultural or cognitive price is being paid in return for convenience.
In July 1841 the poet John Clare escaped from High Beach Asylum in Epping Forest, on the outskirts of London, and set out to walk to his home in Northborough, about eighty miles away. At the time, Clare was in his late forties and mentally unwell. He had been in High Beach for four years. Although his wife, Patty, was alive, he believed himself to be searching for an imaginary second wife, a version of his childhood sweetheart, Mary Joyce, who had died three years earlier. He suffered auditory hallucinations on the road. He ate grass for sustenance, finding it to “taste something like bread.” Footsore and confused, he continued on until he reached Northborough. The walk took him four days.
In “Journey Out of Essex”—a minor epic of English travel writing—Clare described how he slept by the edge of the road each night, taking care to lie with his head pointing north, so that he would know which way to walk when he woke. That image has stayed with me since I first read Clare’s account twenty years or so ago: a man lost in mind, nevertheless seized by a homing instinct, and with his body a quivering compass needle that settled on north each night. Five months after reaching Northborough, Clare was certified insane on the grounds of being “addicted to poetical prosings.” He was committed to Northampton General Lunatic Asylum, where he stayed until his death in 1864. His last words were “I want to go home.”
Mental illness can result in a loss of bearings so drastic that one’s footing in the given world slips and the moorings of the mind loosen. Yet within such bewilderment lucidities persist. Clare could remember his route home, though he did not recognize his wife when he met her on the outskirts of Northborough. My grandfather, lost in the mists of dementia in the final years of his life, found it hard to recall what he had had for breakfast but could reliably give the names, heights, and ranges of mountains he had climbed in his youth, and walk in memory back up Himalayan valleys he had not entered for half a century.
In the opening pages of From Here to There Bond describes how his grandmother, who also suffered from dementia, in the final weeks of her life “repeatedly used the phrase ‘Am I here?’” His book is both scientific and personal. Much of it is spent patiently explaining the neuroscience of wayfinding and spatial awareness for laypeople, with the calm tone of a seasoned science writer. But gradually, between and within the explanatory sections, Bond quietly and movingly discloses what I take to be his real preoccupation, which is Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. His book is an attempt to answer his grandmother’s question, which is also everyone’s question.
Alzheimer’s is a voracious type of dementia that consumes the place cells of the hippocampus. Once this begins, Bond writes, “patients have trouble creating cognitive maps of new places and recalling maps of familiar ones.” The disease’s ability to disrupt the brain’s navigation and orientation system is so acute that researchers are exploring whether spatial tests might be used to diagnose it earlier than any other forms of assessment. “The tragedy for Alzheimer’s patients,” as Bond puts it, “is that the compass they have always had is now fading, and their map is shrinking. Disorientation becomes their default state, leaving them lost in places they have always known.” This contributes to the distress—variously expressed as frustration, anxiety, anger, and violence—that sufferers feel: “They are incapable of finding their way anywhere and can be lost even in their own homes.”
Covid-19 has administered a global “nature shock,” leaving billions of us disoriented even in familiar surroundings. During full lockdown, we wandered our homes like the narrator in Xavier de Maistre’s mock-epic Voyage Around My Room (1794), who for forty-two days finds himself confined to his chamber, where he would “traverse the room up and down and across, without rule or plan.” Meanwhile, many countries—including China—have used the pandemic to ramp up their means of tracking and tracing citizens, making it even harder to get lost should one ever wish to. Invoking feichang shiqi, “extraordinary times,” the Chinese Communist Party is now using facial recognition technologies, “health coding,” and smartphone tracking to increase surveillance of its citizens: state security camera networks can segment facial-recognition data into dozens of sensitive subcategories, including eyebrow size, skin color, and ethnicity.
In Nature Shock, Coleman writes:
Thoreau urged his audience…to reconsider the settled spaces they inhabited…. “Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
Thoreau loved paradox, sometimes too much. It helps him find his mark here, though: one might expect our current lostness to test our self-reliance and glorify the individual, but in fact it proves our entanglement and reveals our codependence. When lost, we most of all need help.
Underlying all three of these books is a deep belief in the importance of collaboration and cooperation between humans and their environments, as well as between humans and other humans. Having read them, I’ve come to think that we might best imagine wayfinding not as a skill or art but as an ethic. The abilities that are cultivated in wayfinding—imagining things from different viewpoints, moving the mind backward and forward in time, seeing situations from other perspectives, weighing alternatives subtly against one another before making the best decisions, seeking information from others and giving it freely in return—might be the same abilities that contribute to a resilient, equitable community or polity. If this is wayfinding, then we need it now more than ever."]]>robettmacfarlane 2021 mro'connor wayfinding humanism senses sensing navigation joncoleman michaelbond multispecies morethanhuman science brain indigeneity indigenous art place storytelling agnèsvarda animals arctic greenland land-basededucation place-basededucation autonoeisis jonathandostrovsky gps janejacobs australia pacificislands micronesia nature colonialism knowledge colonization decolonization civilization gettinglost india china southamerica captialism timingold siannengai hippocampus eleanormaguire theknowledge london taxis life living johnclare thoreau covid-19 coronavirus pandemic collaboration cooperation environment information humans human lostness xavierdemaistre veroniquebohbot cartography wilderness johno'keefe place-basedlearning land-basedlearninghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c4419b518594/The Care Economy is the Everything Economy - with Emma Holten - YouTube2026-04-04T07:44:45+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yl6JpVZTdM
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https://kyla.substack.com/p/the-ozempicization-of-the-economy
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https://newrepublic.com/article/207659/non-fiction-publishing-threat-important-ever
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcCRmf_tHW8
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https://www.isaacgreene.com/2026/02/26/habitats-of-attention.html
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https://aeon.co/essays/what-we-think-is-a-decline-in-literacy-is-a-design-problem
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https://www.noemamag.com/the-ai-powered-web-is-eating-itself/
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https://om.co/2026/01/21/velocity-is-the-new-authority-heres-why/
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https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search
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https://cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/why-everyone-needs-to-think-like
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km2bn0HvUwg
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https://peterjoseph.substack.com/p/economic-inequality
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Yqz3h6RF_7I
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https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/the-news-fool-me-all-the-time-i-must
robertogreco2025 nytimes mainstreammedia media journalism reporting christopherwren accuracy trust globalsouth southafrica apartheid propaganda government coldwar uk us france trumpism cointelpro raymondbonner almaguillermoprieto 1982 wapo washingtonpost ronaldreagan elmozote elsalvador billkller patriotism aberosenthal liberalism politics somalia donaldtrump maga publicknowledge objectivity misconduct institutions disinformation conspiracytheories authoritarianism authority governance truth pundits 1980s 1990s petehegseth 9/11 watergate expertise civilsociety society public iraq afghanistan iraqwar ideology whistleblowers information anticommunismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3358ad1ee86c/Landslide; a ghost story2025-12-24T00:13:53+00:00
https://www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-ghost-story/
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https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/12/15/style-design/japan-internet-web-design/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUxf7Sfqxsk
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-people-actually-use-chatgpt-for-with-gerrit-de-vynck/id1730587238?i=1000737541296
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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/elon-musks-grokipedia-is-a-warning.html
robertogrecoChatGPT shouldn’t have political bias in any direction. People use ChatGPT as a tool to learn and explore ideas. That only works if they trust ChatGPT to be objective… We created a political bias evaluation that mirrors real-world usage and stress-tests our models’ ability to remain objective… Based on this evaluation, we find that our models stay near-objective on neutral or slightly slanted prompts, and exhibit moderate bias in response to challenging, emotionally charged prompts.
The company was announcing the development of “an automated evaluation setup to continually track and improve objectivity over time,” using “approximately 500 prompts spanning 100 topics and varying political slants,” across “five nuanced axes of bias.” If the goal of Grok is to express a specific bias against prevailing progressive narratives by reflecting right-wing views — or just to stay in line with the values and priorities of its creator — well, that’s achievable. (It’s also something LLMs are well suited for as a technology.) In contrast, the goal OpenAI has set for itself is “objectivity,” in practice or at least reputation, which, for a chatbot tasked with talking about everything to everyone, really isn’t.
As novel and versatile as LLM-based chatbots are, their relationship to the outside world is recognizably and deeply editorial, like a newspaper or, more recently, an algorithmically sorted-and-censored social network. (It’s helpful to think of OpenAI’s “bias evaluation” process, or Grokipedia’s top-down reactionary political correctness, as less of a systemic audit than a straightforward edit.) What ChatGPT says about politics — or anything — is ultimately what the people who created it say it should say, or allow it to say; more specifically, human beings at OpenAI are deciding what neutral answers to those 500 prompts might look like and instructing their model to follow their lead. OpenAI’s incoherent appeal to objective neutrality is an effort to avoid this perception and one that anyone who runs a major media outlet or social-media platform knows won’t fool people for long.
OpenAI would probably prefer not to be evaluated by these punishing and polarized standards, so, as many other organizations have tried before, it’s claiming to exist outside them. On that task, I suspect ChatGPT will fail.
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Luckily for OpenAI, ChatGPT’s future doesn’t hinge on creating a universal chatbot that everyone sees as unbiased — it’ll settle for being seen as useful, entertaining, or reasonable and trustworthy to enough people. Research papers and “bias evaluations” aside, the product and its users are veering away from shared experiences and into personalized, bespoke forms of interaction in which chatbots gradually profile their users and provide them with information that’s more relevant to their specific experiences or more sensitive to their personal preferences or both. Frequent chatbot users know that popular models can drift into sycophancy, which is a powerful and general sort of bias. They also know they can be commanded to inhabit different identities, political or otherwise (you can ask ChatGPT to talk to you like a dead French poststructuralist if you want or ask it to talk to you like Mr. Beast. Soon, reportedly, you’ll be able to ask it to pleasure you sexually). Still, for all their dazzling newness and versatility, AI chatbots are in many ways continuing the project started by late-stage social media, extending the logic of machine-learning recommendations into a familiar human voice. It’s not just that output neutrality is difficult to obtain for systems like this. It’s that they’re incompatible with the very concept.
In that sense, Grokipedia — like X and Grok — is also a warning. Sure, it’s part of an excruciatingly public example of one man’s gradual isolation from the world inside a conglomerate-scale system of affirming, adulatory, and ideologically safe feeds, chatbots, and synthetic media, a situation that would be funny if not for Musk’s desire and power to impose his vision on the world. (To calibrate this a bit, imagine predicting the “Wikipedia rewritten to be more conservative by Elon Musk’s anti-PC chatbot” scenario in the run-up to, say, his purchase of Twitter. It would have sounded insane, and you would have too.) But what Musk can build for himself now is something that consumer AI tools, including his, will soon allow regular people to build for themselves, or which will be constructed for them by default: A world mediated not just by publications or social networks but by omnipurpose AI products that assure us they’re “maximally truth-seeking” or “objective” as they simply tell us what we want to hear."]]>johnherrman 2025 elonmusk grokipedia wikipedia knowledge ai artificialintelligence openai xai chatgpt llms chatbots twitter isolation socialmedia mrbeast bias censorship socialnetowrks ideology markzuckerberg antiwoke freespeech freedomofspeech centralization internet web online farright rightwing information racism race media propaganda grievance wokeismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:456f5a9fffeb/Against Brainrot — how to read & write more online - YouTube2025-11-17T19:36:45+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LnHruJPPsY
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https://www.koozarch.com/columns/sonic-kinships-5-violeta-parra-por-la-maanita-1961
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https://www.noemamag.com/the-progress-paradox/
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https://placesjournal.org/article/extralibrary-loan-making-civic-infrastructure/
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https://www.afterbabel.com/p/reclaiming-conversation-age-of-ai
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https://daily.jstor.org/how-libraries-stand-the-test-of-time/
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https://medium.com/@mackinnon.jesse/no-one-left-to-talk-to-loneliness-in-the-age-of-algorithmic-capitalism-e33e10946bc2
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/01/im-not-ignoring-your-message-im-overwhelmed-by-the-tyranny-of-being-reachable
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https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my-second-brain
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https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/drdoom/
robertogrecoDave, my mind is going. I can feel it.
I want to write something about navigating the politics of book bans and cellphone bans. Me, I worry less that calls to take away kids' phones and social media access during the school day are "not supported by the science" and more that these initiatives are also efforts supported by some fairly conservative factions within education reform and are, at the end of the day, expressly aimed to curb students' access to information (particularly about LGBTQ topics). So, how does one make a progressive case for a classroom beyond the control of the tech industry and beyond the control of right-wing censors? More on that later..."]]>2025 audreywatters edtech ai artificialintelligence moocs sebastianthrun 2012 history udacity highered highereducation academia colleges universities education technology siliconvalley harvard columbia donaldtrump adamserwer knowledge peternorvig andrewng daphnekoller stanford politics policy solidarity pedagogy teaching howweteach learning howwlearn institutions infrastructure information destruction chat chatbots samaltman reading howweread monopolies intelligence effectivealtruism bookbans censorship lgbtq access rightwing farright tescreal nerdreich singularity singularitarianism extropianism rationalism cosmism longtermism transhumanism extroprianism capitalism fascism technofascism moochttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6052a59dc974/The Inca: Masters of the Textile Art – Centro de Textiles Tradicionales del Cusco2025-05-26T22:03:52+00:00
http://www.textilescusco.org/index.php/the-inca-masters-of-the-textile-art/
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http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/23/gschwandtner.php
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/opinion/ai-tech-innovation.html
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robertogrecoSTEVE WOZNIAK: It turns out that, there are cases though, problems with development of a product in a company — sometimes it gets developed and the company decides it doesn't want it, doesn’t fit a market, it won’t make a product, it won't sell. In a case like that the company should be very free to quickly give it to the engineer, legal release: "It's yours.” Take it out and start your own company, if it’s Apple, or start your own software product company. And sometimes the companies, internally, because they own it, will squash it and say, "You cannot have it, even though we're not going put it out,” and nobody else in the world's going to get it. That's a hiding of information, and that is wrong.
STEWART BRAND: It seems like there's a couple of interesting paradoxes that we're working here… On the one hand you have, a point you’re making Woz, that information sort of wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information almost wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out in many respects is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two things fighting against each other.
WOZNIAK: Information should be free but your time should not.
I want to give Wozniak the last word from the exchange this time, because his follow-up – rarely quoted, and just barely audible in the videotape – leads to another explanation for Brand’s contradiction. Information can – Wozniak even says “should” – be free (Wozniak famously clashed with Jobs over open source, which he championed). But your time – or to rephrase that in more strictly economic terms, your labor – should not.
In this snippet of dialogue, Wozniak – who cashed out of Apple a millionaire – seems to be advocating an anti-capital, pro-labor stance toward information. Brand, on the other hand – the one-time Merry Prankster who killed The Whole Earth Catalog at the height of its profitability, who moved to a houseboat in Sausalito for a lifestyle seemingly more beatnik than yuppie – frames the opposition of capital and labor as a “paradox,” rather than the conflict of material interest that it is.
This oddly benign view of capital may well lurk in The Whole Earth Catalog — peeking out for example in the entry for Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (“This preposterous novel has some unusual gold in it. – SB”) — but it’s difficult to see for all the ecological awareness and activism. However, Brand has proven in years since to be more than a little comfortable with the titans of capital. In the 1980s, Brand horrified many ecological activists who had been inspired by The Whole Earth Catalog when he became a consultant to Shell Oil, as well as an advocate for nuclear power (a stance he holds to this day, even in the wake of the Fukushima disaster). He has also loudly championed bio-engineering for both crops and animals. By 1995, an article in Fortune magazine dubbed him, “The Electric Kool-Aid Management Consultant.” And one of his recent endeavors, The Long Now Foundation, is tied to Jeff Bezos — who personally funded its most grandiose project, a “10,000-year clock,” and installed it on land he owns in west Texas.
[image: screenshot "from an FAQ by the designer of the 10,000-year clock, Danny Hillis"]
Is it too much to read this coziness with capital into the exchange at the Hackers Conference in 1984? Can we also read it into certain blithely entitled statements in the Last Whole Earth Catalog? Regardless, it is all too easy to find in the actions of the billionaires who came out of the Silicon Valley community that Brand helped establish. As Brand’s current associate Bezos takes a seat on the inauguration platform this month, alongside Zuckerberg and Musk, the politics of their tech-based corporations have become more obvious, and more poisonous, than ever. The legacy of The Whole Earth Catalog has given Silicon Valley philosophical cover, as it were, for decades – associating corporate strategies with the anti-establishment attitudes of 1960s youth culture. But that cover has not only worn thin, it’s in shreds as these “disruptors” claim their place in an anti-democratic oligarchy.
What’s worse, these corporations have only further entrenched the very problems that The Last Whole Earth Catalog identified as most crucial for society to solve fifty years ago. The book is closing on them - and us - fast."]]>damonkrukowski 2025 wholeearthcatalog stewartbrand siliconvalley californianideology longnowfoundation stevewozniak stevejobs billionaires buckminsterfuller capitalism libertarianism ecology environment freedom egalitarianism aynrand oligarchy corporations corporatism 1984 jeffbezos markzuckerberg elonmusk meta amazon facebook tesla spacex twitter 1995 activism fukushima shelloil dannyhillis jacquisafra nathanmyhrvold society wendellberry publicgood free information walledgardens extractivism publicgoodshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bbe4c1374ce0/What’s behind Big Tech’s embrace of Trump’s return? | The Take - YouTube2025-01-13T22:12:20+00:00
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