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    <title>Descolonización del patrimonio en Puerto Rico con Rafael Capó García y Javier Arbona-Homar • Sur-Urbano</title>
    <dc:date>2026-07-03T22:56:24+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Puerto Rico: Un archipiélago que, cada año, recibe a millones de turistas. Muchos de estos visitantes llegan a un lugar que, por décadas, se ha posicionado en una ruta de consumo caribeño – un lugar famoso por fantasías tropicales de ron, cigarros, café y, más recientemente, reggaetón. Si queremos ser más específicos, el Viejo San Juan, el sector colonial de la capital de Puerto Rico, está organizado en torno a satisfacer al visitante con sus restaurantes de comida criolla, coctelerías, tiendas y una proliferación de alquileres a corto plazo. Pero este modelo termina volviéndose insostenible para quienes la habitan. Detrás de las campañas publicitarias cuidadosamente diseñadas para atraer a turistas a un destino familiar y convenientemente situado “dentro” de los Estados Unidos, se oculta una historia incómoda de guerra, racismo y represión violenta.

Hay muchas personas en Puerto Rico cuestionando el espacio público y excavando las historias que existen debajo de cada monumento, de cada estatua, de cada ciudad y su infraestructura. Una de esas personas es Rafael Capó García, el fundador de Memoria (De)Colonial – un proyecto en Puerto Rico que ofrece recorridos históricos en San Juan. Los guías interrogan los legados coloniales de la herencia y el patrimonio puertorriqueño. Esto lo hacen a través de un lente decolonial y antirracista, y el proyecto tiene como misión promover perspectivas críticas en el momento de acercarnos a un monumento histórico. Pueden conocer más de su proyecto aquí:

https://memoriadecolonial.com/

Para pensar más en este acercamiento hacia los monumentos, nos sentamos también con Javier Arbona-Homar, un profesor puertorriqueño en UC Davis quien se enfoca en el diseño y en los estudios explosivos, es decir, cómo las explosiones transformaron la política espacial de los paisajes. Pueden encontrar su libro más reciente, “Explosivity Following What Remains”, aquí:

https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517918842/explosivity/ "]]></description>
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    <title>The Richest Country Is Pretty Mid Now - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-28T22:50:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZy1lBNykA</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[""Leveragism" is a term I made up, and it describes what the American economy is increasingly heading towards. As you will see, this is really bad news. 

0:00 - About Capitalism
3:53 - Political Leverage
6:01 - The Gold Trap
8:00 - The Rug Pull
11:34 - The Bond Trap
15:23 - Classical Leverage
19:00 - Debts R' Us
20:32 - AI Circlejerk
22:45 - My Awesome Trip To Israel 
29:09 - Authoritarian Leverage
35:01 - Siphoning Your 401K
39:02 - Time and the Smokescreen of Numbers"]]></description>
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    <title>Israel's dream of ruling the region is over, its decline has begun | Mustafa Barghouti |UNAPOLOGETIC - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-28T00:32:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQDPXgB00pw</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[""Now Netanyahu has failed. Iran was not broken. Arab countries now realise that relying on Israel is a death sentence."

In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, we sat down in studio with Mustafa Barghouti, Palestinian physician, leader of the Palestinian National Initiative and co-founder of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society. Barghouti argues that Israel's two strategic goals, imperial domination of the Middle East and normalisation with Arab states, have both collapsed, and that this marks the beginning of its decline.

Across the conversation he sets out the scale of the atrocity in Gaza, the slow strangulation of life in the West Bank, and the transformation of Israeli society towards what he describes as fascism. He explains why the regional war with Iran ended in strategic failure for Netanyahu, why Oslo and the 2005 Gaza disengagement were traps rather than concessions, and why he refuses to accept any framing that places oppressor and oppressed on equal footing.

Barghouti also turns to the question of survival and resistance, from the 90 midwives employed in the first weeks of the war to the clinics rebuilt multiple times under bombardment, and makes the case that Palestine has become the global measure of commitment to justice. Despite everything, he ends on a note of defiance and hope.

UNAPOLOGETIC is hosted by Ashfaaq Carim.

00:00 Intro highlights
01:37 Welcome to the show
03:09 Did you expect this enemy
04:55 Fascism inside Israeli society
06:05 What two years brought
08:30 The scale of atrocity
10:36 How Oslo deceived everyone
13:48 What you do not see
15:25 Strangling the West Bank
20:38 The two state hypocrisy
22:30 Did the Iran war backfire
24:01 Netanyahu's two imperial goals
27:17 Netanyahu has failed
28:47 Steadfastness as resistance
32:30 Sumud with resistance
33:54 The demographic battle
34:47 Why Palestinians must stay
37:12 Disarming Palestinian leadership
38:24 Authority without authority
42:18 The Beijing declaration
44:38 Do not blame victims
46:06 Shifting opinion in the West
48:45 Refusing the false equivalence debate
52:42 The 2005 Gaza disengagement trap
57:32 The miracle Israel cannot kill
1:03:03 Final thoughts
1:03:48 Palestine, the global justice issue"]]></description>
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    <title>Democrats Don't Know what &quot;Affordability&quot; Actually Means, with Dino Guastella - YouTube</title>
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    <title>De-datafication</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-20T09:19:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/de-datafication/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I absolutely LOVE the premise of this upcoming conference at Georgetown Law: Life After Data [https://www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-technology-center/education/life-after-data-the-conference-on-de-datafication/ ], the conference on “de-datafication”.

I predict you’re going to be hearing a lot more about this theme in the years ahead; the exhaustion is real. Here are a few tasty selections from the list of provocations on the conference page:

• What would it take to build a movement to abandon the current internet and start anew?

• What’s something good that currently requires the production and storage of digital data, that could be rebuilt without it? How?

• What aspects of our current political situation are obscured or concealed by conflating all communication with information exchange, and how does datafication contribute to that obfuscation?

• Outline one or more aspects of the risk environment that is created when a small number of large corporations control the infrastructures upon which people depend in their daily lives.

Whoever rattled these off is thinking in exactly the right direction — they are bold and wonky and radical and inspiring.

(Of course, I’ll note that these themes “rhyme” with the arguments in my recent zine productions.)"]]></description>
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    <title>Can the Unseen Speak? Maria Putri and Ali Napier on plantation ecologies and colonial afterlives – KoozArch</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-12T21:54:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.koozarch.com/interviews/can-the-unseen-speak-maria-putri-and-ali-napier-on-plantation-ecologies-and-colonial-afterlives</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What traces do colonial infrastructures leave behind? In this conversation, architectural researcher and filmmaker Maria Putri joins architect, writer and editor Ali Napier to discuss Can the Unseen Speak? — a film that follows the intertwined histories of plantation economies, environmental violence and land conflict in Sumatra, while exploring how architecture, performance and storytelling might render visible their enduring aftermaths."]]></description>
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    <title>&quot;Tech-Driven Prosperity &amp; Right-Wing Racist Politics&quot;: Quinn Slobodian on Elon Musk and SpaceX IPO - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-09T21:55:54+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Ahead of the initial public offering for SpaceX, we speak with historian Quinn Slobodian, author of Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. He says Elon Musk is “creating a situation where he becomes deeply reliant on state contracts” as the U.S. government then becomes reliant on Musk. “It’s not about demolishing the government,” Slobodian says of his work with DOGE, the so-called Department of Government Efficiency that Musk led for the Trump administration. “It’s about making the government more compatible, ready for the kind of products that Musk offers, and to make him then an indispensable part of the infrastructure.” Slobodian goes on to warn that Musk’s wealth is helping to fuel his anti-immigrant, racist political ideology. “We really should be worried about the possibility of those things to live together: tech-driven prosperity and right-wing racist politics.”"

[transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/6/9/quinn_slobodian_spacex_ipo_muskism ]

[See also: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/04/elon-musk-starlink-satellites/686877/ (archived: https://archive.is/zixum )]]]></description>
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    <title>Françoise Vergès: The world is made through struggle - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-05-31T00:36:05+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this episode, I sit down with the incredible Françoise Vergès. We had a beautiful conversation about how the politics of Réunion has animated her life's work,  how she was brought up in the struggle alongside the revolutionaries in her family, about her time in Algeria and Paris, decolonial feminisms (of course!), and the centrality of psychic life to our ongoing fight against fascism and oppressive systems. We honestly talked about so so much more, so I am excited for you to hear it! It was such an honor to sit down with a sister-comrade who has shaped so much of my thinking and political orientation to scholarship.

Françoise Vergès is a political theorist, curator and writer. She writes on the racist fabrication of premature death, decolonial feminism, the impossible decolonization of the western museum, climate disaster and antiracist, anticapitalist politics of vital needs. She works with artists and curates, since 2015, public performances with artists and activists. She is currently working on a film about anti colonial struggles in Reunion Island through her parents’ personal archives and her own.

For more information and on and links to Françoise's powerful work, see her website: https://francoiseverges.com/

This is the passage I read from Françoise's landmark A Decolonial Feminism (Pluto, 2019):

"I used a familiar fruit, the banana, to shed light on a number of analogies and elective affinities: the banana's dispersion from New Guinea to the rest of the world, the banana and slavery, the banana and US imperialism (banana republics), the banana and agribusiness (pesticides, insecticides--the chlordecone scandal in the Antilles), the banana and working conditions (the plantation regimes, sexual violence, repression), the banana and the environment (monocultures, pilluted water and land), the banana and sexuality (Josephine Baker), the banana and branding (Banana Republic), the banana and racism (when did the association of bananas and Negrophobia begin?), the banana and science (researching the 'perfect' banana), the banana and consumption (bringing bananas into the home, suggesting recipes), the banana and rituals for ancestors, and the banana and contemporary art. The method is simple: starting from one element to uncover a political, economic, cultural, and social ecosystem in order to avoid segmentation that the Western social-sciece method has imposed." p. 21-22"

[via:

"Palestine, Playing Fields; Perfidy! The False Capitalist Narrative Running (Puns😎) Throughout!" (this is the part that references college football (plays a clip from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHDhdavY-u8 ) and is part of full show: https://www.youtube.com/live/2rHMi1MXILs )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaUkUZ-X-_o

which points to

"🍌The Banana Method as Psychic Militancy!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGNrqiLdKfQ

which points to

"Revolution Is Mental Health! ft Lara Sheehi"
https://www.youtube.com/live/PGnGalaE4Go ]
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<item rdf:about="https://quintinmecke.substack.com/p/housing-is-the-test">
    <title>Housing Is the Test - by Quintin Mecke, SF CCHO</title>
    <dc:date>2026-05-29T03:09:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://quintinmecke.substack.com/p/housing-is-the-test</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We are not poor. We are unequal. And the people who benefit from that confusion are spending tens of millions to keep it that way."]]></description>
<dc:subject>quintinmecke housing sanfrancisco inequality 2026 yimby yimbys yimbyism abundance abundancenetwork abundancemovement propositiond billionaires wealth scarcity california medicaid donaldtrump onebigbeautifulbil taxes taxation sergeybrin billionairetaxact billionairetax daniellurie mlk martinlutherkingjr ezraklein derekthompson policy economics housingcrisis wealthconcentration wealthtax healthcare affordability rents rent evictions displacement wealthtx citizensunited democracy oligarchy labor work workers infrastructure education highered highereducation colleges universities housingtrustfund society abundanceagenda</dc:subject>
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    <title>'If you go to china you'll never see the world the same way again' | Martin Jacques | UNAPOLOGETIC - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-05-11T01:45:28+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[""If you go to China, you'll never ever see the world in the same way again. Never."

In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, Martin Jacques, author of the million-copy bestseller When China Rules the World, makes the case that China has already eclipsed the United States as the world's leading power, and that the West still fundamentally doesn't understand why.

This episode explores China's identity as a civilisation-state, the century of humiliation, the Belt and Road Initiative, the Xinjiang question, the decline of American hegemony, Trump's failing strategy against China, and why Jacques believes the future global order will be built around China and the Global South.

UNAPOLOGETIC is hosted by Ashfaaq Carim.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:13 China is already No. 1
4:27 Economic dominance, explained
7:36 China's soft power lag
12:22 How Martin found China
19:05 Love and East Asia
26:00 What the West misunderstands
28:31 Civilisation, not a nation
35:31 The century of humiliation
44:34 The economic miracle
47:08 China's leadership model
52:04 Human rights in China
57:22 Belt and Road, explained
1:10:39 Xinjiang and the Uyghurs
1:38:17 Trump and US decline
1:54:10 Taiwan's fate"]]></description>
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...

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    <title>Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: The Revolt Eclipses Whatever The World Has to Offer with Idris Robinson</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this episode, we are joined by Idris Robinson to unpack his book, The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer [https://massivebookshop.com/products/9781635902433?_pos=1&_sid=db620e222&_ss=r ], a searing meditation on race, revolt, civil war, and the psychic wreckage of American life.

Reflecting on the 2020 uprisings, Robinson challenges the myth of Black leadership, reframes racial violence through the lens of a “morbid libidinal economy,” and argues that revolution is as much a transformation of the human spirit as it is a political event. Drawing on the legacies of Black insurgency, Robinson interrogates liberalism, identity politics, and the hollowing out of American cities—while pondering on what it would take to make life human again in a society built to dehumanize. He argues that racial violence, especially spectacular acts of white supremacist brutality. cannot be adequately explained by frameworks like identity politics, intersectionality, or privilege theory. Instead, these acts emerge from repressed desires and psychic forces intrinsic to white supremacy. The 2020 uprisings, in this sense, exposed both emancipatory and repressive violence rooted in these deeper libidinal dynamics.

Robinson also reflects on his personal trajectory, from Occupy Wall Street through development as a theorist, where he grounds his meditation on revolt as humanizing forces. He argues that American capitalism produces profound isolation, psychic damage, and undead social beings, hollowed out by commodification. Uprisings momentarily restore humanity by breaking atomization and re‑creating collective meaning.
 
On strategy, Robinson challenges traditional socialist models of seizing the “means of production,” arguing instead that modern revolt must focus on logistics and infrastructure: transport hubs, electrical grids, supply chains, and urban circulation. He emphasizes blockades, control of space, and understanding the built environment as key to sustaining insurrection in a post‑industrial economy. We devote substantial attention to Robinson’s provocative argument that civil war is not a future possibility but a current condition in the United States. Drawing on classical theory, Black radical thought, and historical analogy, he frames civil war as the collision of public (political) and private (libidinal, racial, familial) spheres. While acknowledging its violence and trauma, Robinson argues that fracture and decentralization may paradoxically make revolutionary transformation more achievable, pointing to Reconstruction after the U.S. Civil War as the most emancipatory period in American history.

Idris Robinson is a philosopher from the New York hinterlands. For over a decade, he has written extensively on crisis and revolt. He is the author of The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer (MIT Press / Semiotext(e)) and Escritos desde la tierra baldía (Irrupción Ediciones). He is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University, where he is completing a monograph-length study on the progression of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy. He is currently undergoing a legal battle with TSU after the school violated his constitutional rights by ending his contract after he gave an off-campus Pro-Palestine talk [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/25/professor-texas-state-university-israel-palestine ]. 
 
If you like what we do and want to support our ability to have more conversations like this. Please consider becoming a Patron at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism. You can do so for as little as a 1 Dollar a month. 
 
Links:

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https://idrisrobinson.me/

About Idris Robinson's case against Texas State University
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/25/professor-texas-state-university-israel-palestine

Support Idris Robinson's Legal Fund
https://www.givesendgo.com/GKRFR "]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The tech mogul has declared himself an enemy of introspection, and that conveniently erases considerations of conscience from his amoral investment empire."

[via:
https://kottke.org/26/04/andreessen-inability-sit-quietly

"Tech investor and billionaire Marc Andreessen has many bad opinions (as evidenced by his investment portfolio). On a recent podcast, he shared a real boner: that he isn’t introspective, that people 400 years ago weren’t at all introspective, and that introspection was a construct invented by Freud in the early 1900s.

If you’ve read one (1) book, it’s not difficult to see what is wrong with Andreessen’s assertion and The Nation’s David Futrelle does a good job of rebutting it (archive link). But importantly, he also talks about why Andreessen might say such a thing (either because he honestly believes it or he’s performing the belief):

<blockquote>When you examine your own motivations, desires, and inner life, neuroscientists have discovered, you are using the same parts of the brain that allow you to understand the motivations, desires, and inner lives of others. This means in turn that when you wall off access to your own inner life you also impair your capacity to imaginatively inhabit the experience of other people. Zero introspection is not just a personal quirk or a supposed productivity hack. It’s a permission slip for zero accountability. And Andreessen, it turns out, has good reasons for wanting to avoid accountability.

His firm has bet big on war and the companies that provide the technology behind it…</blockquote>

Futrelle goes on to add:

<blockquote>A man with enormous influence over the technologies of war and surveillance, over the political direction of the country, over the infrastructure of violence that his firm has spent a decade funding, has, in effect, announced that he has no interest in examining his conscience.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Andreessen has built the perfect ideology for Silicon Valley in the Trump age: Move fast, break people, and don’t devote even a moment to self-examination.</blockquote>

As a commenter said on the video snippet I linked to above: “He’s just describing psychopathy. Zero introspection, zero remorse, 100% actions that benefit you.”"]

[archived:
https://archive.is/Vzi0w
https://clearthis.page/?u=https://www.thenation.com/article/society/marc-andreessen-silicon-valley-military-tech/ ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["America’s neighborhoods were once beautiful, unique, dense, and scaled for a communal life on foot. But obscure federal rules piling up over a century have made it nearly impossible for banks to finance new ones." 

[See also:

"The Bills That Destroyed Urban America"
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-bills-that-destroyed-urban-america

"The planners dreamed of gleaming cities. Instead they brought three generations of hollowed-out downtowns and flight to the suburbs."]]]></description>
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    <title>The Ozempicization of Everything - by kyla scanlon</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-30T05:02:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://kyla.substack.com/p/the-ozempicization-of-the-economy</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Biohacking, gambling, and war"]]></description>
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    <title>Zohran Mamdani and the Sorcery of Soft Rebellion – Scalawag</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Limits of Left Power Inside the Democratic Machine"

...

"The Rupture That Was Possible—and the Decision to Become Legible Instead

Here lies the wound.

Zohran Mamdani could have run as an independent. Not as fantasy, not as symbolism, but as a credible realignment candidate. New York remains one of the few American cities where a socialist candidacy, backed by unions, diasporic networks, and youth movements, could have cracked the bipartisan monopoly of legitimacy. A once-in-a-generation candidate, as Mamdani is heralded to be, does not ask the machine for permission; he forces history to respond to his refusal.

Had he chosen independence, three transformations might have followed:

1. A break in the monopoly of dissent: The line between Left and liberal would have been made visible, pushing the Democratic Party question from How do we reform the Party? to Why must emancipation seek permission from its captor?

2. The invention of a new political grammar: Even a loss could have inaugurated another political subject position within civic imagination and forged a space for Left politics untethered from The Party.

3. Immunity from institutional humiliation: To lose through a true political rupture is to preserve integrity over a compromised win that memorializes containment.

Instead, we were served the respectable primary, polite coronation, and calculated silence on genocide. The socialist enters the political arena not as a threat but as an ornament. The movement effectively traded confrontation for adjacency—the space where insurgency goes to die.

A socialist does not enter the machine to behave.
A socialist enters to terrify.
If you cannot terrify power, you become its décor.

What Is to Be Done? 

DSA Member Kelsea Bond's recent victory in Atlanta's City Council race mirrors Mamdani's ascent. Different geographies, same architecture. Both campaigns were endorsed by the DSA and Working Families Party,  and invoked affordability, equity, and safety as their moral lexicon. Bond's website ends with the line, "Paid for by Kelsea Bond for Atlanta (not the billionaires)." The slogan is charming, even sincere. But the omission is telling: no mention of (anti)capitalism.

Whether believer or cynic, every progressive or socialist who enters the Democratic Party eventually collides with its gravitational pull. The institution is not a vehicle for transformation, but a mechanism of translation. It turns rage into rhetoric, urgency into policy briefs, and concedes revolution for reform. From Bond to Mamdani, there is a recurring lesson: those who walk into the machine are consumed by it.

The American Left must therefore abandon its fascination with proximity. The seat at the table is not liberation; it is domestication. What is required is not representation within the architecture but the slow, patient construction of parallel power—unions, cooperatives, media infrastructures, and social movements that operate outside the coordinates of electoral permission.

The instruction is clear:
Do not mistake entry for transformation.
Do not mistake visibility for victory.
Do not mistake representation for redistribution.

A once-in-a-generation candidate is not the one who wins politely, but the one who redraws the map through refusal.

For our generation—exhausted by moral choreography, managerial benevolence, and the endless compromise that trades justice for civility—the Mamdani moment should not register as disappointment, but as revelation. The Democratic Party does not liberate, it launders. Municipal socialism cannot survive bureaucratic capture without counter-power. Palestine remains the litmus, optics being the enemy of clarity; "electability" is the euphemism for compliance.

The future will not be built by those who wait for permission. We do not need progressive mayors; we need new political possibilities, and this possibility is not born in primaries but in ruptures.

History, ever patient, remembers those who refused the velvet rope, not those who smiled as they walked beneath it."]]></description>
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    <title>The Left Doesn’t Hate Technology with Gita Jackson - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Paris Marx is joined by Gita Jackson to discuss why the left’s hatred of AI is justified, why a different approach to technology is necessary, and how they’re reassessing their own relationships with digital tech.

Gita Jackson is a co-founder of Aftermath (https://aftermath.site ).

Also mentioned in this episode:
     
• Gita wrote about why the left doesn’t hate technology (https://aftermath.site/anthropic-claude-ai-leftist-technology/ ).

• Gita also wrote about downloading digital music (https://aftermath.site/digita-audio-player-snowsky-echo-mini-fiio-hyby/ ) onto a Snowksy Fiio Echo Mini.

• Chris Person wrote about the  Boox Palma eReader (https://aftermath.site/i-love-my-weird-little-phone-shaped-ereader/ )  as an alternative to Kindle.

• Learn more about Mike Pondsmith (https://blackgirlnerds.com/from-cyberpsychos-to-netrunners-here-is-the-story-of-mike-pondsmith-the-true-mastermind-behind-cyberpunk/ ) and his Cyberpunk TTRPG.

• Gita will one day get Paris to watch Frieren (https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GG5H5XQX4/frieren-beyond-journeys-end ) ."

[references:

"The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited
Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists."
https://aftermath.site/anthropic-claude-ai-leftist-technology/ ]]]></description>
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    <title>They Built Stepford AI and Called It “Agentic”</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-04T03:37:34+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Women’s “ick” for AI isn’t technophobia or a gap to close. It’s wisdom to act on."]]></description>
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    <title>Port of SF is budgeting $61M to demolish its massive drydocks.</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Nobody wanted to buy the Port of San Francisco’s dilapidated, derelict drydocks. So it’s budgeting $61M to demolish them — lest they sink and triple the cost."

...

"If you’re wondering why the drydocks can’t simply be floated to the Farallons to be scuttled amid the veritable “graveyard of ships,” including some packed with radioactive waste, Moreno notes that “we don’t sink ships in the ocean anymore.” Also: it would be a challenge to tow the drydocks that far without a significant risk of first sinking in a navigation channel. Even if we did do that anymore.

Despite their status as an environmental and financial sword of Damocles hanging over the port, Moreno describes the pending loss of the drydocks as “bittersweet.” Right up until the shipyard’s closure in 2017, the place hosted hundreds of union jobs. Moreno’s own uncle used to work around here. 

But things change, and the decline and fall of the port as the economic engine of San Francisco was nothing short of transformational. It was, perhaps, the most significant factor in the metamorphosis of the city from what it was to what it is — and what it will be. 

The drydocks’ journey from asset to menace is a coup de grâce for the working-class city that was already underway when the Hawaiian Merchant sailed into the Bay and “Vertigo” sailed into theaters. And it’s a continued inversion of San Francisco: The city once served the economic needs of its all-important waterfront. But, now, the waterfront’s economic role is circumscribed — and it serves the needs of its city."]]></description>
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    <title>Resistance101: Forging a New Movement for Palestine in Italy DOCUMENTARY - YouTube</title>
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    <title>The Billionaire Plan to Escape Democracy: Quinn Slobodian on 'Crack-Up Capitalism' - YouTube</title>
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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/ "

[transcript:
https://www.thenerdreich.com/you-dont-need-democracy-if-you-dont-have-people/ ]]]></description>
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...

"The exit is not outside the institution but part of its everyday infrastructure. The provocation was to treat this work not as background or support, but as a starting point." — Bianca Schick

...

"Rather than positioning critique as something external or oppositional, we were interested in what happens when you remain inside the institution and work with its constraints."
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...

"Reconfiguring class relations by recognising cultural institutions as sites of class struggle, rather than marketplaces of cultural capital, is therefore the first step in the work of “rethinking.”
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"At a fundamental level, it is an experiment in challenging the dominant disciplinary thinking that is often taken for granted within cultural institutions."

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"Having to imagine the structures behind the mechanisms and dynamics of an institution can be fertile, and it can be fraught."
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...

"Before we can ask what cultural organisations could do for the commons, first we need to reflect upon whose commons and for whom."
— Pete Fung

...

"Central to this attempt was the intentional blurring of boundaries between curator, artist, designer, institution and audience. Can a “curatorial commons” exist?"
— Cecilia Casabona

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"'Instituting,' in my understanding, is a mirror we inhabit that renders itself visible."
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BART quickly picked up on the nickname of the machine, “the Mole”—which was how these machines were affectionately referred to in tunnel digs around the world—when it commissioned this film about the machine titled "We Call It the Mole," according to "BART: the Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System" written by retired BART spokesman Michael C. Healy.

A Roy Nolan Production, Presented by the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District."]]></description>
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Incredibly honoured to partner with @SightlineOrg  on this video! I've been a fan of their research and policy work for several years, so collaborating with them on this video was pretty surreal. They advocate on a number of important issues besides elevators, and you can find out more about them at sightline.org.

I also heavily relied on a report by the Centre for Building in North America for this video. There were many issues I didn't have the chance to get to so I highly recommend reading it if you want to dive deeper into the issue. For a topic so complex, they made it surprisingly easy (and fun!) to read. You can read it here: https://www.centerforbuilding.org/publication/elevators "]]></description>
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...

"[image: "My Sofia Subway. I love the colors!"]

Thursday morning I woke in downtown Sofia, leisurely drank my coffee, and jumped on the metro that took me directly to the airport. In less than an hour I was at the gate for my flight to Germany, where I transferred to the JFK-bound Lufthansa.

If all went well, I’d land at 8:30 p.m., clear passport control, and be in Port Authority1 in time to get the last bus (11 p.m.) upstate, so I could be in my own bed a little after midnight2.

All I needed to do that was for the flight to land on time, and passport control to take under an hour and a half.

The first happened, the second didn’t even come close. To describe Terminal One passport control Thursday night as a shitshow is unfair to shitshows, which are at least darkly entertaining. This was instead bureaucratic hell: lines of exhausted travelers snaking out into dreary linoleum hallways, festooned with disconcerting and anachronistic cheery posters welcoming us to NY, all managed by TSA employees, who, while trying their best, were in over their heads.

It took close to an hour to even reach the main hall, and then another hour shuffling slowly like a broken army to the ten or so border security agents. It wasn’t until well after ten p.m. that I was done, so I went with my fallback plan of crashing at a friend’s house in the Rockaways, via the AirTrain and the A train3.

After a few hours of sleep, I got up to take the 4:39 a.m. A train to Port Authority, to catch the first bus home (7 a.m.).

The train, to its credit, since it was near the terminus, was on time.

But it was filthy and mostly empty, except for three or four homeless guys per car sleeping/passed-out, so the dozen of us waiting chose our seats carefully, positioning ourselves as close to each other (for safety) and as far away from the sprawled out guys and their piles of trash, puddles of urine, and other liquids spotting the floor.

At each subsequent stop the train slowly filled, until it was standing room only, with everyone crowded together trying not to deal with the guys sprawled out taking up five plus seats.

I was seemingly the only person on the train who didn’t have to take the early train, the only person “slumming it.” All the other riders were coming from late shifts or going to early shifts, carrying their tool bags, hard hats, work lanyards, gym bags of work clothes, but all of us were united in fatigue and quiet frustration with the squalor and passed out guys taking up so much space.

Including lots of women loaded down with bags of Christmas gifts and groceries, who clustered in the rare spots that weren't too gross, where they didn't feel too threatened.

After about ten stops another guy, coated in old vomit, and carrying a cane, his pants down to near his knees, came on, and went up to each sleeping/passed-out guy and hit them on the legs, and yelled at them to "move on, give rest of us some space," or something like that.

Everyone pretended it wasn't happening, hoping it wouldn’t go south, focusing instead on the floor or their phones.

And nothing “bad” did happen (this time), beyond a few raised voices and shouts, and some pantomime air punches. By a little after six I was standing in Port Authority (there are no seats in Port Authority, which is another story) waiting for my bus home.

This wasn’t a big deal for me, especially the long passport control line. While I really wish the US, and JFK in particular, would smooth out their system and bring it up to global standards, flying internationally is still a luxury, and complaining about it can be a bit elitist.4

[image: "Every subway station in Korea has clean bathrooms"]

This particular subway ride also wasn’t a big deal, at least for me, since nothing really bad happened, and once again, I don’t have to take the subway. I have the cash to opt out of the whole AirTrain to subway to bus home thing. I also have the cash, and resources to get TSA global entry.

I don’t do either because the reason I travel as I do, besides being a lazy cheapskate, is I’m not trying to remove myself from the average experience. I’m trying to see, and understand a little, the world as most people see and understand the world.

And the lesson from my last travel day home is, the US, and especially NYC5, is broken. Especially compared to the rest of the world, especially considering our wealth.

Having garbage-strewn subways that effectively serve as mobile homeless shelters and mental intuitions, is no way to run a subway system, or a city. It isn’t fair to anyone, especially the riders, who don't have the money to not take the subway.

It also isn’t fair to the homeless, who are being encouraged (or at least not discouraged) to sleep and hang on crowded trains, maximizing the chances that really bad stuff happens, both from them and to them. The Daniel Penny Jordan Neely case is a perfect example of this.

It is like we are creating the perfect conditions for a nasty backlash against addiction, mental illness, and homelessness.

[image: "Istanbul’s system is also fantastic"]

I’ve written many times over about how jarring it is to come home from trips overseas, often from much poorer places, like in this case Bulgaria, where the subways and buses, and other public spaces and resources, are cleaner, safer, and nicer. Where workers simply wanting to get to their jobs don’t have to deal with navigating the mentally ill, addicted, and desperate.

I don’t know what the long term solution is. For the passport control, there are policy changes that can be made to “fix” it. Yet, as I’ve written before about why the US can’t have nice things, we have much bigger cultural problems.

A functional public transit system that’s safe, clean, and effective, is a fundamental and essential nice thing. Especially for the US, where our larger cities are basically two tiered, with a wealthy downtown professional class that relies on inexpensive labor with long commutes (without the resources to drive) who work early/late shifts.

Ride a NYC subway from the outer boroughs at 4 a.m., and you’ll see it’s jammed with overnight construction workers, office custodial crews, nannies, restaurant staff, hotel employees, etc. The “help” coming into and out of the city.

The recent decline in the subway system hits them the hardest, as almost everything bad that happens in the city does. They can’t pay money to hide from the changes.

We are now firmly a low-trust society, and that’s especially dangerous because social trust impacts everything. Every facet of life, and it can’t simply be legislated back. You can’t “fix” culture through a few house bills, because it isn’t just a top down problem, but a pervasive all encompassing thing.

Social trust is also extraordinary important to maintain, because like a ratchet wheel, once it comes undone, it spins quickly out of control, and getting it wound back is a long, arduous, and complex process, that requires moving it tighter one painful ratchet at a time.

Right now in the US, the social trust ratchet wheel has come completely undone.

Let’s hope we can stop it from spinning too much further out of control, but given all I’ve seen in my travels both here and overseas, I’m not particularly hopeful of that, because the first step is realizing something is wrong, and right now a lot of the US seems determined to deny we have a problem, one Uber at a time and one “that’s someone else’s issue” at a time.

[Footnotes]

1 - It takes a little over an hour to get to Port Authority from JFK via AirTrain, and then the A or E.

2 - I don’t check bags, because I never check bags, because I travel light. Like everyone should, if they can.

3 - The AirTrain at Terminal one is under construction, so I had to ride it to another terminal, to then change to the Howard Beach bound train, where I could catch an A train.

4 - That’s less and less true, especially in NYC, where a lot of travelers are middle-class families coming and going to visit relatives overseas.

5 - There's been a lot of exaggeration of the problems in NYC, but it has gotten a lot worse over last few years, especially for those who have the least, who rely on buses and subways, and are trying their best to be decent citizens."]]></description>
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    <title>Four Years of Walking the World</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-10T20:03:26+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If you want to extend the metaphor of culture as the result of elites playing SimCulture, then you also need a model for your Sims. What are they? What is a person? I believe humans have an inherent purpose or telos, which provides (at least in my view) a clear definition of what makes life fulfilling. I can’t give you a precise answer, because I don’t believe I’m smart enough, but I do think that it’s about the spiritual. That is, material wealth alone will never be fulfilling. There needs to be something transcendent. Something beyond the here and now.

When I was doing the press rounds for Dignity, I realized I needed one take-home lesson, one platitude, that summarized what I’d learned from ten years talking to people all over the US, and my answer was, “Everyone wants to be a valued member of something larger than themselves,” and I still believe that, but I would now amend it to end with “something larger than themselves that transcends this material world.” Or, something that lives on for eternity.

To pontificate for a little bit more, I’m leaving in two days for China, and I believe no matter what else I think about the CCP, they do understand all of this. Maybe not the Catholic part, but the idea that there is an elite who build culture and that elite should have a goal in mind. The CCP of course sees themselves as that elite, and as I’ve written before, that self-recognition is, in my opinion, better than pretending, like the West does, that elites don’t shape culture, and consequently they don’t take their “jobs” seriously, so they don’t really know, or understand, what they want. What I believe Western elites want, judging from their policies and rhetoric, is maximum individual freedom for everyone. Which I believe is an incoherent telos. People are social creatures, and are only understandable within the context of a community, and so maximum individual freedom is a misguided goal. It feels good for most of the ride, but you’re going in the wrong direction, towards isolation, and away from the meaningful. It’s like driving in a really snazzy convertible deeper and deeper into the desert; the ride feels great until at some point you realize you’re utterly alone, which is immensely depressing."]]></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>The Trillion Dollar War Machine (with William D. Hartung) | The Chris Hedges Report</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-02T07:31:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-trillion-dollar-war-machine-w</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The military-industrial-complex has grown into a monster so powerful that even its earliest critics likely never foresaw its evolution. In the age of Big Tech's rising power, can anything stop it?"

...

"The military-industrial-complex (MIC) is unique in its ability to pull untold flows of tax revenue into “defensive” infrastructure that benefits no one other than the private sector manufacturing and investing in it. The machine, which perpetuates itself through an incestuous milieu that lobbies for war and defense spending, wages psychological warfare on citizens and engages in corrupt backroom deals, has risen to once unthinkable heights of influence and power since Dwight D. Eisenhower first warned Americans of its growing presence in 1961.

Political scientist William D. Hartung joins this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to discuss his and Ben Freeman’s new book, The Trillion Dollar War Machine, which contextualizes the growth of the MIC behind the backdrop of Silicon Valley’s increasing radicalism and integration into American military infrastructure, as well as the Trump administration’s chaotic and unabashed foreign policy.

These tech elites push for automated warfare, domestic surveillance, and the full diffusion of any line still separating the corporate and public sectors. In essence, they symbolize how significantly Western capital has grown since Eisenhower’s warning — bolstering a corporate state bent on maximizing profit through warfare and manufacturing reliance on its often faulty products both in the public and private sector.

Empowered by the Trump administration, the trillion dollar war machine only looks to grow — and Hartung says that it will harm the entire nation in its endless quest for domination."

[direct link to video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mxti7sPPD0 ]]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2025-12-13T04:31:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://kyla.substack.com/p/everyone-is-gambling-and-no-one-is</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[via:
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    <title>How to Argue with Pro-Capitalist Cultists</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-08T03:19:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://peterjoseph.substack.com/p/how-to-argue-with-pro-capitalist</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["1. Market Economics as Structural Failure, Not Moral Failure

2. Why Debate Fails: The Cult of Market Belief

3. System Incentives vs. Human Intentions

4. How Market Mythology Protects the System

5. The Apocalyptic Trajectory of Market Incentives

6. Why People Defend a System That Is Killing Them

7. How to Argue Effectively

8. The Cult Structure of Market Fundamentalism

9. A New Framework: Systems Literacy as Liberation

10. Conclusion: The End of Debate

...

Addendum: 25 Common Market Myths

Below is a list of 25 of the most common myths continually propagated by believers in the orthodox market religion. These are provided as a reference for when you inevitably encounter such nonsense.

In the following order:

1. “Capitalism creates wealth.”
2.“Capitalism lifted billions out of poverty.”
3. “Free markets allocate resources efficiently.”
4. “Competition drives innovation.”
5. “The market knows best.”
6. “Capitalism rewards hard work.”
7. “Socialism always fails.”
8. “The invisible hand creates order.”
9. “Capitalism is natural to human behavior.”
10. “Inequality is natural and necessary.”
11. “People are inherently selfish, so capitalism works.”
12. “Without markets, nothing would get done.”
13. “Capitalism promotes freedom.”
14. “Regulation destroys innovation.”
15. “Government is inefficient; the market is efficient.”
16. “Capitalism is the best system we’ve tried.”
17. “The poor are poor because of bad choices.”
18. “If you tax the rich, they’ll stop investing.”
19. “The market is democratic—people vote with dollars.”
20. “Capitalism produces meritocracy.”
21. “Capitalism protects against tyranny.”
22. “Price signals contain wisdom.”
23. “Entrepreneurs are the engine of progress.”
24. “Environmental issues can be solved by market incentives.”
25. “There is no alternative to capitalism.”"

[See also:

"Understanding Capitalist Cultists, Part Two: The Nature of Indoctrination
Markets economists are not economists at all - they are cult recruiters."
https://peterjoseph.substack.com/p/understanding-capitalist-cultists ]

[via:

"Unredacted Tonight: Debunking Every Pro-Capitalism Argument!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO5iWeO0-f8 

"In this special episode of Unredacted Tonight, Lee Camp takes on capitalism, market economics, and the myths of the “free market” using comedy, data, and real-world examples. From “capitalism creates wealth” to “free markets allocate resources efficiently” and “the poor are poor because of bad choices,” Lee walks through the most common talking points you’ve heard a thousand times – and shows why they don’t hold up when you actually look at how the system works. All of that, plus a very serious discussion of pecan pie and whiskey.

We dive into how systems, not individual intentions, drive outcomes like environmental destruction, extreme inequality, and global poverty. Lee challenges the idea that money is the only form of wealth, and explains how things like health, community, social cohesion, knowledge, and a livable planet are left out of standard economic metrics. The episode also looks at how technology and scientific progress actually generate abundance, while the market mainly decides who gets access and on what terms.

Lee also tackles the myths that “capitalism rewards hard work” and “capitalism promotes freedom.” If hard work automatically led to prosperity, night-shift sanitation workers and caregivers would be billionaires, while unproductive executives would be broke. Instead, the system tends to reward ownership, prior wealth, positional advantage, and sometimes ruthless behavior, while most people are stuck trading their time for basic survival. And that so-called “freedom to choose” often boils down to choosing among different brands, while offering no real freedom to refuse harmful or meaningless work without risking food, housing, and healthcare.

Finally, the episode breaks the spell of “There Is No Alternative” (TINA) by highlighting real-world examples of cooperatives, commons-based systems, and community projects (like tool libraries) that already operate outside pure market logic – and could be scaled up if we wanted them to be. Many of the ideas and quotes in this episode draw on the brilliant work of Peter Joseph (Peter Joseph Substack), whose analysis of market systems, technological capacity, and ecological limits helps frame this whole discussion. If you’re curious about systemic change, alternatives to our current economic model, and how we might actually design a saner world, this one’s for you."

See also:

"A film-maker looks at religion, the 9/11 terror attacks, and possible plans by international leaders to create a single world bank." (Jeff Adams)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_ylCs-xm54 ]]]></description>
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    <title>Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-08T01:03:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.ft.com/content/b127ee7a-5ac4-4730-a395-c9f9619615c7</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?"

[archived:
https://archive.ph/uVbU7

via:
https://www.thenerdreich.com/financial-times-wr/

"The story whitewashes some aspects of the Network State cult. It makes no mention of Balaji Srinivasan’s fascist vision for a tech “Gray Tribe” that teams up with police to purge the Democratic “Blue Tribe” from San Francisco, or the fact that Srinivasan predicts the USA is headed toward civil war.

It describes the Praxis network state—funded by Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, and Sam Altman—as “whimsical and rebellious.” (Ignoring the fact that the Praxis website predicts the decline of nation-states and is coded with fascist messaging about restoring Western values.) It describes Praxis CEO Dryden Brown as “a homeschooled professional surfer with a penchant for Austrian economics,” ignoring his vicious anti-LGBTQ pride rant over the summer and his current role in spreading a debunked “white genocide” conspiracy theory about South Africa.

“Próspera shuns the ‘network state’ label,” writes Murphy.

Yet the project is listed on Srinivasan’s official Network State dashboard.

However, the story also has some gems. Murphy explains that the idea of the Network State can be traced back to Curtis Yarvin and his idea for corporate-ruled “patchworks.” (Many people miss this key point.)

...

It’s good to see major outlets like the venerable FT taking notice of this important story. This is progress, despite the soft focus. But the plan for these corporate dystopia cities is just the tip of the Network State iceberg. This is a full-stack fascist ideology with plans to scrap democracy and remake the world."]

"Balaji Srinivasan, former chief technology officer of Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange, turns to address the hundreds of tech workers and investors filling a darkened arena in Singapore — all there to learn how to build empires.

“I think it’s fair to say,” he pronounces from the stage, palms outstretched, “in 2025, we have a movement.”

It is early October and Srinivasan is hosting what he’s called the Network State Conference, an event targeting “those interested in founding, funding and finding new communities”.

For years, the entrepreneur has preached to clubby tech gatherings that they should gather their online comrades and set up a physical homeland — a network state, be that a city or a country — by joining together to buy land. He has hailed this as the “ultimate exit” by Silicon Valley from “failing” US institutions and democracy.

But what was a fringe concept a matter of years ago is now attracting more interest as scrappy start-up chief executives and aggrieved billionaires contemplate the allure of tech-friendly havens unbound by legacy rules and regulation. While some are aspirational, reliant on their founders securing hard-to-come-by special economic zone status, there are now about 120 “start-up societies” in the works, according to an open-source database shared by Srinivasan. A few have received hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital from funds backed by the likes of investors Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen, OpenAI founder Sam Altman and Brian Armstrong, Coinbase chief executive.

Srinivasan himself has started a “Network School” on an artificial island near Singapore, where techno-optimists can work their day jobs remotely while living in a hotel together and learning how to “bootstrap”, or build, a new society. Membership and accommodation, which he dubs “society-as-a-service”, starts at $1,500 a month.

For proponents, the initiatives offer the opportunity to address all that they believe has caused a decline in American dynamism, from monetary policy to taxation. San Francisco, in particular, has for years been affected by high levels of homelessness and crime, prompting an exodus of tech workers during Covid.

“It’s young people being dissatisfied with stagnation, corruption and isolation,” says Amjad Masad, chief executive of AI coding company Replit, who has observed the rise of the network state movement. Last year, he moved Replit to Foster City — a master-planned city built in the 1960s on marshlands near Silicon Valley — to escape what he described as the “suffering on the streets” of San Francisco. “Young people are clearly yearning to discover new ways of living and building through technology,” he adds.

But the movement’s toughest critics — of whom there is no short supply — cast it as either a bid to play god or an attempt to avoid red tape, more opportunistic than idealistic. Others argue it is part of a broader rise in techno-fascism, or a form of authoritarian rule by technocrats. Either way, they assert, the movement is born from an elite victim complex.

Thiel, who has a net worth of $27bn and is one of the biggest funders of the space, gave a series of Manichaean lectures in recent weeks about the “Antichrist”. In between arguing that AI sceptics and Greta Thunberg were Satan, he complained that wealth gives the “illusion of power and autonomy but you have this sense it could be taken away at any moment”.

“Can you imagine being that rich and that miserable?” says Olivier Jutel, a lecturer at the University of Otago in New Zealand and an expert in cyberlibertarianism. “They think they are the grand solutionists that can fix all the problems, but it’s so insular. But just because it’s stupid doesn’t mean it won’t inherit the Earth.”

***

Patri Friedman leans back on his sofa, head propped up by a red cushion, and steals a quick puff on his vape. “This whole movement is about reinventing governance for the 21st century, inspired by start-ups and the internet,” says Friedman, grandson of free-market economist Milton Friedman and founder of Pronomos Capital, a venture firm that invests in experimental cities.

Over Zoom, he explains that, as a committed libertarian, he came into the space in the hope of building a state that mirrored his politics. In a democracy, he says, “power is so diluted” that the people cannot stop laws being passed that “help special interests and harm the masses”. Now, he says, he wants “a home for my tribe”. To that end, he is attempting to create cities that are run like a for-profit company, rather than by democratically elected officials. “A private venture-backed company is the city operator and [its directors] design the laws and they earn revenue through some combination of rents, taxes, service fees,” he says of his proposed model.

For this to work, however, he needs targeted countries to pass legislation that will delegate to his projects the “right to write some subset of the regulations”. Recently, he has been exploring opportunities in eight countries in Africa, proposing initiatives that will develop around their existing economic engine, whether that is agriculture or cheap renewable power.

The hard sell from Friedman and those like him is that the right projects will also boost the local community, bringing in foreign direct investment, talent and jobs. Friedman is confident that some legislation will be passed next year: “The product market fit today, for what I do, I strongly believe is helping the global south to become first-world.”

Friedman is cheerfully contrarian and wants to unlock what those in the space dub “radical governance optionality” so that even those who don’t share his politics can experiment. “It’s kind of like an oligopoly, right? There’s 193 firms and it’s super, super hard to start a new one. And it’s super hard to switch [between] them,” Friedman says, meaning the 193 UN-recognised nations that exist globally.

“My work over the last 25 years has been, How do we lower the barrier to entry, make it so that people can start new jurisdictions so that we can innovate? Maybe somebody makes a communist city state that works incredibly well, more power to them. I just want people to be able to try new things.”

***

Friedman’s ideas are by no means new. In Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged, a libertarian bible, the author imagined a free-market enclave called Galt’s Gulch. During Barack Obama’s presidency, far-right blogger Curtis Yarvin called for the global order to be substituted with thousands of “sovereign and independent mini-countries, each governed by its own joint-stock corporation without regard to the residents’ opinions”.

In a less consequential governance experiment, every summer hundreds of San Francisco software engineers make the pilgrimage to Nevada to set up Black Rock City — also known as Burning Man festival — for a fortnight of “radical self-expression”, per its principles, and debauchery, before dismantling their tents and returning to their computer monitors.

Some of the earliest investment into tech-aligned nation-building came from Thiel, who in 2008 donated $500,000 to the Seasteading Institute, a non-profit founded by Friedman dedicated to setting up autonomous “floating societies” atop platforms in international waters.

While enthusiasm for seasteading has since waned for practical reasons (“I think the ocean is just too difficult and expensive,” Friedman tells me), the crypto boom has breathed new life into the broader space. If decentralised currencies could be created outside of government oversight, could a new type of society be built on top of these currencies?

Emboldened, in 2022 Srinivasan published his book The Network State, laying out a bold vision, including that the states should be undergirded by a crypto economy. “You can found a tribe just like you can found a start-up. That’s what Joseph Smith of the Mormons did. That’s what Abraham did. That’s what Jesus did,” he said on a 2023 podcast. “What I’m really calling for is something like tech Zionism.”

Srinivasan’s bid to set up societies that are a law unto themselves has inspired a host of projects that are more modest in their ambition: experimental cities that achieve some — but not full — autonomy from the local government, particularly in the civil and commercial realm. Soon venture capital and crypto money started flowing into these city initiatives, despite being a high-risk investment with no expectation of quick — or perhaps any — returns. “They are ideological — if you’re in crypto, you’re libertarian,” says Replit’s Masad. He argues that venture capital investment in these projects rose as returns on software investment have plateaued and investors sought “the next big thing”. 

Jutel offers a more sceptical explanation. Some venture capitalists have invested deeply in crypto projects that are worthless unless future economies run on their crypto tokens, he says. They are therefore incentivised to promote network states, with their large crypto component, to keep the dream alive, he says, and have “assumed this big role in not simply funding this but being the key figureheads of this”.

***

In Mountainhead, the 2025 satirical film by Succession creator Jesse Armstrong, four tech moguls stranded in a Utah lodge plot how they might set up a new world order. Perhaps, one of the characters suggests, they should take over El Salvador as a test run? Or just head straight for the US?

The reality may be just as wild. Arguably the most evolved experiment in alternative governance is Próspera, a gated private community on a Honduran island run by a Delaware-based company, where close to 1,000 residents can enjoy co-working spaces, a beach resort and a golf course. As a for-profit semi-autonomous zone, Próspera has low taxes, its own labour rules and an arbitration system run by retired Arizona judges who hear its cases online. Bitcoin is one of the currencies of choice.

Its founder, Venezuelan-born wealth fund manager Erick Brimen, describes his work as “an evolved way to drive socio-economic development” through public-private partnerships. As evidence that the initiative is “very much focused on lifting people up”, including Honduran locals, he highlights that Próspera has created more than 4,000 jobs and brought more than $150mn in foreign direct investment to the area. “The vibes that you feel here are really positive [against] a backdrop where people are fleeing a country out of desperation to try to find a way to make a living,” he says. “We are succeeding beyond expectation.”

Already it has raised tens of millions of dollars from Friedman’s Pronomos and venture capital funds backed by Altman and Andreessen, among others. In January, Brian Armstrong announced that Coinbase’s venture arm would invest in Próspera as it was “in line” with its “mission of creating economic freedom”. 

Despite this, Jutel notes that Próspera still “hasn’t attracted the best talent, founders, funders — you still need to be in the midst of San Francisco where all the deal flow is happening and all the labour you need.” But Próspera’s hands-off approach to medical regulation has made it a mecca for people seeking experimental treatments as the field of longevity — or trying to live forever — becomes more popular in Silicon Valley circles. Former tech founder turned biohacker-influencer Bryan Johnson went there for otherwise-unapproved follistatin gene therapy treatment.

Próspera shuns the “network state” label, saying it follows Honduran sovereignty. Critics argue that the special economic zones legislation that allowed for Próspera to be established was championed by a corrupt former government whose leader, Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado, has just been released from prison, where he was serving a sentence for narco-trafficking and weapons crimes, following a pardon from Trump. The government at time of writing (an election took place on November 30) since tried to repeal its charter on the grounds that, as ruled by the country’s supreme court, self-governing special economic zones are unconstitutional. Próspera is now suing the government for $11bn — just under a third of the country’s GDP — for lost future profits, through an international arbitration process.

Guillaume Long, Ecuador’s former minister of foreign affairs and a research fellow with the Center for Economic Policy and Research, describes it to me as “a predatory project in a weak state”, adding: “If you’re a weak state and you’re giving over large portions of land to a private state, there’s a really dystopian, really futuristic and really feudal aspect to this.”

Cornell University historian Raymond Craib, author of Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age, says it offers a warning to elected politicians about the dangers of carving out semi-autonomous zones: “Precisely what Próspera is doing [suing Honduras] is precisely the argument governments are going to make about why you should not be editing your constitution to allow for this.”

Brimen waves off much of the criticism as “lazy”, standing by his decision to sue the Honduran government. “What they need to do is follow the law,” he says. “That is the way it should be and I’m proud of it, and Honduras will be better for it.”

***

Not all models are as bold. Some will flirt with self-governance while baulking at Srinivasan’s full network state “exit” push. One area gathering traction is extended “pop-up cities” — where tech workers and creatives descend on one location for what is essentially a weeks-long conference-meets-co-working session.

“We want to create what [Ethereum founder] Vitalik Buterin called a ‘micro exit’ — a temporary exit to experiment, then go back and spread those learnings around the world,” says Timour Kosters, co-founder of Edge City, a non-profit that bills itself as a “society incubator”. From mid-October, it hosted a month-long pop-up in Patagonia for 500 residents, with events held on topics such as artificial intelligence and longevity. “There’s a lot of builder energy,” he says.

Others focus on improving governance in existing cities without pursuing exclusive sovereignty, inspired by regulation-lite so-called “charter cities” such as Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai, which have more legal autonomy. Donald Trump promised during his 2024 presidential campaign that he would develop 10 charter cities in the US, dubbed “freedom cities” in order to boost American innovation in light of the US-China tech race, sending ripples of excitement through the space and prompting some projects to now lobby for their own initiatives to be taken up.

Mark Lutter, founder of the non-profit Charter Cities Institute, admits that he “poked the hornets’ nest” by publicly arguing San Francisco’s idyllic Presidio district should gain that status, prompting a backlash from liberal locals. Among his other proposals, earlier this year, he released a white paper about turning Guantánamo Bay into a “freedom city” with the tagline “From Detention To Development”.

Meanwhile, Silicon Valley billionaires including Andreessen, Reid Hoffman and Michael Moritz have put money into California Forever, a group that has quietly bought up $1bn worth of land in Solano county in its bid to build a walkable mega-development with affordable housing and a shipping complex — without extra autonomy.

One of the more whimsical and rebellious attempts at setting up a new city has been led by 29-year-old Dryden Brown, a homeschooled professional surfer with a penchant for Austrian economics. Over the past few years, he has gathered libertarian friends, influencers and Silicon Valley edgelords — first over group chat then at opulent dinners in New York and elsewhere — to brainstorm what a techno-utopian city-state should look like, dubbing the movement Praxis.

“The key word in the scene would be ‘based’,” says Richard Craib, founder and chief executive of AI hedge fund group Numerai and a seed investor in the initiative, referring to the internet slang for being unapologetically politically incorrect. (Richard Craib is no relation of Raymond Craib.) The vibe among enthusiasts, he said, was: “Are you based? How based are your views?”

Another Praxis diner, who spoke on condition of anonymity, is less generous. “It felt like everyone was pontificating with the intellectual calibre of a state college seminar,” the person says. Still, Craib was drawn to the project as a “moonshot investment in something divergent” with a distinct “neo-Promethean” aesthetic, he explains. He is not alone — Brown explains he has assembled 150,000 prospective citizens, among them key members of Elon Musk’s controversial so-called Department of Government Efficiency initiative, and he has raised early funds from investors such as Friedman’s Pronomos Capital, Sam Altman’s Apollo Projects and the Winklevoss twins, followed by half a billion dollars from a crypto investment company.

Praxis recently announced plans to start a “defence-focused spaceport city” called Atlas at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, already home to companies including Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin. This, experts note, could become a hub for defence tech companies and workers at a moment when US venture capital is readily flowing into the space.

But Brown is also looking to establish a non-US city that can “accelerate western traditional progress” next year, citing the potential future need for a techie escape from America. “There has been deep integration with the tech elites in the Valley and DC in the White House in this Trump administration,” Brown says. “But if we get a populist Democrat in [2028] — a [Zohran] Mamdani or an AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] — the fear is that the friendliness might not persist towards technology.”

***

For most, there is a long road ahead with multiple hurdles. “A lot are speculative and don’t end up materialising,” says Erin McElroy, author of the book Silicon Valley Imperialism, noting that the designers and funders often believe they can bypass laws that they are ultimately unable to.

Many “are not anti-state but [are] efforts to rework what the relationship with the state is”, says Cornell’s Craib. He notes that Próspera has caught the interest of some US politicians, with a small group of Republican officials from Florida visiting the site in November. In a blog post, Próspera said this underscores the “growing US interest in Próspera Honduras as a platform for investment, innovation, and economic growth”.

“It’s not just another version of Burning Man. It’s wedged into the new round of people who have begun to occupy the corridors of government. There’s a convergence that is troubling,” Craib says. 

There is also the lingering question of the impact of these projects on the local communities where they are built, with critics casting them as likely to displace or harm citizens. Próspera has been publicly castigated by some residents of the neighbouring African Caribbean fishing village of Crawfish Rock for disrupting the local community. (Brimen claims that these critics “are being paid by political parties and opposition groups to act as if there are tensions” where there are not.)

Patri Friedman initially pushes back on the notion of these projects as neocolonialist, declaring “most of our projects are greenfield”. He pauses. “Although, in Africa, we are looking at land parcels large enough that there will be people living there, in which case we will offer relocation bonuses to pay for anybody who wants to move out of the zone.”

And what about fears that this marks the rise of techno-fascism? “I mean, we are funding companies that will operate non-democratic cities,” he says, shrugging. “And if you’re not into that you shouldn’t move there.”"]]></description>
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Tech billionaires have made an enormous bet on AI, the biggest bet that tech has made on anything in a very long time. Reporter Sruthi Pinnamaneni goes on a journey – from Data Center Alley to the shadow of Colossus – to see what the money’s being spent on, and to learn what happens if things go wrong."

[Part 2:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/colossus-2/id1614253637?i=1000737849340

"In part two of our story about Elon Musk’s growing data center empire, we visit the battle between people in Memphis and xAI. And we try to understand a strange, untested assumption at the heart of the AI financing boom."

also here:

part 1
https://open.spotify.com/episode/06HYk7QD52Kju7ME9HeCAt

part 2:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0rW2fNRTVsS36GevhrBj6B

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https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/827532/shadow-of-colossus

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...

"Below, this book club covered (the bolded are my favorites):

• Why Breakneck Is Striking a Nerve in America

• America’s Competitive Logic and the Dark Side of Efficiency

• Knowledge Transmission and the Price of Competition

• **Questioning the Framework: Culture, History, and Belief**

• China: Crony Engineering or True Technocracy?

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    <title>Sonic Kinships #5. Violeta Parra, Por la mañanita (1961) – KoozArch</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-16T21:34:44+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Violeta Parra’s recording of the Chilean folk song ‘Por la mañanita,’ was not released during her lifetime, yet since its posthumous release, hers has swelled to become the definitive version. In the penultimate column of Ivan L Munuera’s series Sonic Kinships, he pays tribute to the political resonance of Parra’s voice, its emotion raw against Allende’s vision of technocratic socialism that followed her death."

...

"You can listen to ‘Por La Mañanita’ and the rest of the Sonic Kinships soundtrack here https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1VN82IJHfhN52qBdJbDGXW

Track 05, Violeta Parra, Por la mañanita (1961)

Violeta Parra was never just a singer. She built structures. Songs where people could gather, where solidarity could live. Through her Peña de los Parra, she created a community arts center where students, workers, and Indigenous musicians gathered to reclaim Chile’s folk traditions. This was an insurgent pedagogy. By placing Mapuche and other Indigenous voices at the heart of Chile’s identity, Parra confronted the silences of colonial erasure and neoliberal destruction. Her verses braided grief, activism, and love, ensuring that song could be a practice of collective survival. “Por la mañanita” is an everyday hymn — of mornings and awakenings, but also of vigilance and endurance.

The Chile that Parra sang into being was also the Chile of Salvador Allende that came after her death: socialism by transparency. One of its most daring projects was Cybersyn, or Proyecto Synco, a cybernetic network of telex machines, predictive software, and the Opsroom — a futuristic control centre designed by Stafford Beer, Jorge Barrientos, Gui Bonsiepe, Pepa Foncea, and Lucia Wormald among an extensive team of architects, engineers, and designers. Its aim was audacious: to make socialism efficient, adaptive, and accountable. Open to the whole population of Chile. Architecture here was political science. As Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Hugo Palmarola, and Eden Medina have shown, Cybersyn was not simply technology but scenography: hexagonal chairs arranged in a circle, information screens surrounding their users, a stage where knowledge was shared rather than hoarded. Accountability was performed spatially. To sit in the Opsroom was to inhabit an architecture that refused secrecy; one where flows of production, shortages, and worker reports became visible and actionable. Cybersyn, like the lives of Allende and thousands of Chileans, was cut short by the brutal regime of the dictator Augusto Pinochet, under neocolonial extractive powers that wanted to maintain and even accelerate the dispossession of the country.

But Parra’s song and Cybersyn’s design still pulsates, drawing one to the same challenge: how to dismantle opacity. The song illuminated what the previous and later governments tried to repress — memory, grief, dispossession. Cybernetics illuminated what capitalism would hide — data, flows, the collective pulse of production. Both enacted forms of accountability, through melody and through coding. Yet, as Marina Otero has argued, infrastructures of data are never innocent. Today’s data centres mourn not only the information they guard but also the bodies, ecologies, and energies consumed in their upkeep. Technology is extractive, fed by cobalt mines, rare earth minerals, and precarious labour. Cybersyn’s optimism, read against this horizon, reveals the double edge of data: its emancipatory promise and its material violence. To build a nervous system for society is also to expose the fragility and exploitation on which it depends.

This reckoning with technological infrastructures continued in Inteligencias Reflexivas, curated by Serena Dambrosio, Nicolás Díaz Bejarano, and Linda Schilling Cuéllar. Their project reframed artificial intelligence not as disembodied or immaterial, but as rooted in ecologies of extraction, cultural memory, and social struggle. It argues that intelligence — whether folk, cybernetic, or artificial — is always situated, collective, and entangled with relations of care and exploitation. In dialogue with Parra’s insurgent pedagogy and Cybersyn’s scenography, Inteligencias Reflexivas insists that to speak of intelligence is also to speak of accountability and mourning.

As in Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild, intimacy can be symbiosis, even to the point of parasitism: to survive, bodies must surrender autonomy and share vulnerability. Parra’s music, Cybersyn’s architecture, Otero’s reflections on data mourning, and the Inteligencias Reflexivas pavilion: all of these resonate in a similar key. They suggest that survival depends on porosity, on opening to others, on acknowledging dependence rather than denying it. “Por la mañanita” reminds us that mornings begin with exposure, with light falling across bodies. Cybersyn made Chile’s industrial body porous, visible, accountable; Otero reminds us that the infrastructures we inherit today are entangled with mourning, their very functioning haunted by the exhaustion of the earth; and Inteligencias Reflexivas reframes intelligence itself as a situated, fragile practice. They insist that accountability means not just making flows visible but reckoning with the cost of keeping them alive. To design is always to decide what becomes visible, what remains opaque, and what is sacrificed along the way.

[images: Albumn cover of Toda Violeta Parra: El folklore de Chile vol. VIII by Violeta Parra]

Tracklist: You can listen to the songs accompanying this column below and the complete Sonic Kinships soundtrack here https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1VN82IJHfhN52qBdJbDGXW

Por la mañanita, Violeta Parra
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Dq77dkp5HGVkscqbTQciq

El apagón, Bad Bunny
https://open.spotify.com/track/0UvZcEfpzVyx47QsRbjyBz

Puro Teatro, La Lupe
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Ov5KuLiPEqYMluzZTmS2M

Bio

Ivan L. Munuera is a New York-based scholar, critic, and curator working at the intersection of culture, technology, politics, and bodily practices in the modern period and on the global stage. He is an Assistant Professor at Bard College; his research has been generously sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and the Canadian Centre for Architecture. In 2020, Munuera was awarded the Harold W. Dodds Fellowship at Princeton University. Munuera has presented his work at various conferences and academic forums, from the Society of Architectural Historians and the European Architectural History Network to Columbia GSAPP, Princeton University, Het Nieuwe Instituut, CIVA Brussels and ETSAM, among many others. He has also published widely, from the Journal for Architectural Education (JAE), The Architect’s Newspaper to Log and e-flux."]]></description>
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[via:
https://www.thenerdreich.com/techs-authoritarian-stack/ ]]]></description>
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This is a story about more than just technology; it's about who gets to control the resources and who pays the price."]]></description>
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...

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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In light of the potential surge of feds in the Bay Area this week, I've been thinking a lot about the body. Not The Body. But the truth of our flesh and blood experience (Squelch, stench, crackle, thud, sting, and pop.) The animal needs and fears of it. How those are turned into weapons and pointed back toward us to try and force compliance. How the low wage, the high rent, and the hostile infrastructure all exact a toll on our bodies, and instrumentalize them for the sake of someone's share prices.

But also, the human needs that animate us. That make us want to find each other in the streets. We fight for the dignity and freedom of our bodies. "]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2025-10-22T17:37:39+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>The Freedom of Enough</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-17T04:07:52+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I just reread this 2023 post [https://kottke.org/23/10/what-a-japanese-neighborhood-izakaya-is-like ] about a neighborhood Tokyo izakaya (and my related thoughts), spurred by a conversation w/ my friend Andrew [https://andrewhearst.com/ ] about what makes for good work, a good life, and a good society. It dovetails with this podcast conversation between Rich Roll and Craig Mod [https://www.richroll.com/podcast/craig-mod-913/ ], which I listened to on the plane to Japan and which tore me into about 1000 pieces. Craig talks about what it means to have “enough” and the Japanese term yoyū phttps://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/07/16/books/craig-mod-things-become-other-things/ ]:
<blockquote>Pondering the shrinking communities and advanced decay he saw during the trip (documented in photos of shuttered main streets and nature vigorously reclaiming the landscape), Mod thought back to his childhood home: a blue-collar American town where the factories had closed, replaced by poverty, drugs and violence.

“The inspiration I’ve always drawn from Japan is that the lowest you can fall is not that low,” he says. “Whereas I grew up watching people fall really, really low — frequently, and kind of hopelessly.”

His explanation for why similar levels of economic decline produce such different outcomes hinges on the Japanese term yoyū, which conveys a sense of sufficiency: enough time, enough money, enough energy. As Mod puts it, yoyū is “the space in your heart to accept another person… another situation, another context.”

“As the economy changes in those rural areas, I think you see a kind of grace because the foundations of support are still there, right?” he continues. “They’re not losing health care. They’re not losing social infrastructure… And that gives them the yoyū to be able to accept the fact that their towns are disappearing, without degrading into substance abuse or violence or whatever. The contrast being in America, there’s none of that sort of protection enabled, so you have none of that excess space.”</blockquote>
As an American, it’s tough sometimes even to conceive of having that excess space (except what you’ve been able to cobble together on your own, a jury-rigged safety net one medical crisis away from collapse). I always notice its presence when I’m traveling — like, oh, this society takes care of its people. Huh."]]></description>
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    <title>Why There Hasn't Been a ChatGPT Moment Yet in Manufacturing</title>
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    <title>Fighting San Francisco's Manhattanization with Tim Redmond - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-08T20:56:00+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Welcome to another episode of the Doomloop Dispatch, the news show covering the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. In this episode, Kevin and D Scott talk to Tim Redmond, editor of the 48 Hills and former executive editor of the Bay Guardian. We get into Tim’s reporting on the recall of San Francisco supervisor Joel Engardio and his thoughts on Engardio’s replacement. We also talk about how real estate speculation destroyed the city and the state of local legacy media. Really good stuff!

Sources

All of Tim’s stories in 48Hills
https://48hills.org/author/tim/

Here’s what Scott Wiener has done
https://48hills.org/2025/09/heres-what-scott-wiener-has-done/

The Engardio recall, Yimby urbanist elitism, and the next step in SF politics
https://48hills.org/2025/09/the-engardio-recall-yimby-urbanist-elitism-and-the-next-step-in-sf-politics/

The Engardio recall and the failure of conservative politics in SF
https://48hills.org/2025/09/the-engardio-recall-and-the-failure-of-conservative-politics-in-sf/

Strange (and maybe inappropriate) actions at the Planning Commission …
https://48hills.org/2025/09/strange-and-maybe-inappropriate-actions-at-the-planning-commission/

Bullshit opinion piece on Family Zoning plan
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/09/21/small-business-lurie-upzoning-sharky-laguana-ben-bleiman/ "]]></description>
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Topics: 
01:16 the death of China journalism
13:02 Tian as "poster child of the Arab Spring"
20:47 the "China model" (large language)
34:00 Manhattan Projects for everything
42:44 the "China model" (political system)
50:50 Falun Gong internet

Transcript:
https://jasmi.news/p/tianyu-fang ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["El Plan Larkin, publicado en tres tomos como Transportes argentinos: plan de largo alcance,[1]​[2]​ fue el plan y estudio integral de racionalización y modernización de los medios de transporte terrestre y fluvial de Argentina más importante jamás realizado en el país -excepto el aéreo- elaborado por el general e ingeniero estadounidense Thomas B. Larkin con apoyo del Banco Mundial entre 1959 y 1962. El estudio comenzó a realizarse en 1959 durante la presidencia de Arturo Frondizi y tuvo una duración de tres años. El reporte incluía el análisis del estado de ferrocarriles, vías fluviales, puertos y caminos, indicando las inversiones necesarias para ponerlos en buen estado operativo y recomendando la clausura de 15.000 kilómetros de ramales marginales o improductivos, a implementarse por etapas y construyendo caminos alternativos. El informe resaltaba el pésimo estado de la infraestructura ferroviaria, tanto de locomotoras y vagones como de rieles. El plan fue presentado pocos días antes del derrocamiento de Arturo Frondizi el 29 de marzo de 1962. Tanto las huelgas ferroviarias en contra del plan, como el golpe militar terminaron con el plan propuesto siendo archivado. Las medidas aplicadas posteriormente sobre el sistema ferroviario poco tuvieron que ver con la propuesta original.[3]​

El Plan Larkin fue elaborado dentro de un proceso de transformación generalizado del sistema de transporte en Argentina, que también se produjo en Brasil y Estados Unidos, que buscaba reducir el déficit estatal, dentro del cual el gasto ferroviario era mayoritario, para promover el uso de automotores. La construcción de rutas y autopistas, así como la instalación de multinacionales automotrices, fue parte del mismo proceso.[4]​[5]​"]]></description>
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    <title>Why Nevada has so many ghost towns - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Nevada is home to over 600 ghost towns, many of which are the remnants of the gold rush era of the 1800s and 1900s. Some of these ghost towns are well-known, like Rhyolite, but others are just coordinates on a map — hidden like secrets to the true history of Nevada.

Vox video producer Dolly Li road tripped through northern Nevada to try and find some of these hidden ghost towns and learn about the real history behind the boom and bust cycles of mining in the state. Along the way, she stops by a town that many call a ghost town, but is still partially occupied by a dozen residents.

Through visiting a few abandoned mining towns and speaking to historians about the technology and infrastructure that made mining a key industry of the state, we piece together a rich and fascinating story of Nevada’s development.

We had a chance to speak to a lot of great experts and historians for this video. Here are some links to their work:

Tami Force’s website, Nevada Ghost Towns & Beyond, where she’s documented hundreds of ghost towns in the state:
https://nvtami.com/

The archives of the W.M. Keck Earth Science and Mineral Engineering Museum (The Keck Museum), curated by Garrett J. Barmore, where we also conducted one of our interviews:
https://www.unr.edu/keck-museum

The Friends of Midas, a nonprofit organization currently run by Dana Bennett, that has a great collection of photos and history about the town of Midas:
https://friendsofmidas.com/

#ghosttowns #nevada #travel #roadtrip

This video is presented by Travel Nevada. Travel Nevada doesn’t have a say in our editorial decisions, but they make videos (and adventures!) like this one possible."]]></description>
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    <title>I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong | WIRED</title>
    <dc:date>2025-09-26T15:51:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-politics-shift/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact."

...

"Bradley Tusk is a political consultant for tech companies. Uber and FanDuel have enjoyed his services as they rewrote the rules of their industries, and he’s used to political rough and tumble. As he sees it, Trump’s tactics are the government moving fast and breaking things.

When we talk, Tusk rattles off what he views as the components of US tech exceptionalism—independent markets and institutions, freedom of speech, intellectual property protections, strong educational institutions, decent immigration policy. Then his voice gets hard. “Trump is doing the opposite of every single one of those things,” he says. “There is definitely potential that he will destroy everything that makes the US economy unique and successful.”

Trump’s tariffs, of course, present big problems for business. But it turns out that you can run pretty well on a bended knee.

Start with immigration. Perhaps no group of techies has ridden Trump’s coattails more than the four chatty investor-bros who host the All In podcast. Three of the “besties,” as they call themselves, were born overseas. During the election season, two besties, venture capitalists Chamath Palihapitiya and David Sacks, threw a fundraiser at Sacks’ house with tickets as high as $300,000. Soon after, Trump rewarded them by going on their podcast. (Sacks is now Trump’s AI and crypto czar.) Some of the questions were big fat softballs like, “I never understood why the [border] wall was controversial.” But even they couldn’t get behind his immigration policy. Didn’t Trump recognize that the tech world thrives on foreign-born wizards?

To their astonishment, he not only agreed but promised that in his administration, any foreign student who completes a degree would get a green card. The besties were giddy.

It was too good to be true. Hours later, the MAGA base aflame, the Trump campaign issued a statement negating what he’d said. Now that he’s back in the White House, he and his vice president have remained two-faced—assuring tech audiences that they want the best foreign students while making it harder for companies to hire and retain that talent. At one point Trump moved to block any foreigner from enrolling in America’s oldest university. That hasn’t happened yet, but this summer the Department of Homeland Security proposed a new regulation that limits foreign student visas to four years—not enough to get a PhD or, for many, even an undergraduate degree. The number of students coming from overseas has tanked.

“We’re definitely seeing the chilling effect,” says Harj Taggar, a managing partner at Y Combinator. While YC’s international founders have so far managed to enter the country, applicants with student visas are more reluctant to leave school to join the program. He’s seeing foreign students consider going to London to work or start companies. “They feel it’s maybe not as safe to be here,” he says. “That makes me really sad.”

I’ve got a few more reasons for Taggar to feel really sad: the mass cancellation of science and research funding, for one. Goodbye, next generation of engineers and computer scientists. “In the name of punishing woke-ism, we’re going to absolutely hobble the innovation engine that has created the economic gains of the last 50 years,” says Hornik, the venture capitalist.

Then there’s the mounting effect of Trump’s favor-collecting and favoritism—buying that chunk of Intel, claiming that slice of Nvidia’s sales. In corruption-riddled countries, winners aren’t chosen by merit but by apparatchiks and strongmen. Those nations are doomed to second- or third-tier status. In his preelection appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast, Zuckerberg said as much himself. “At least the US has the rule of law,” he remarked. “If other governments decide that they’re going to go after you, you don’t always get a clear shake at defending yourself on the rules.” Guess what—now we’re like those other governments! Zuckerberg, no dummy, has probably figured this out, but now he’s locked into Trumpland, outplayed in a real-life game of Risk.

Many of the people I spoke with for this story are centrist liberals. They are a disheartened bunch, and talking to them was hazardous to my own heart. In interview after interview, I asked them what, if anything, might force the industry to confront its dim longer-term prospects. Their answers were vague. The midterm election? An economic collapse? One Silicon Valley figure suggested, “It could be as simple as 10 Republican senators discovering they actually have backbones.”

Or 10 big-time CEOs, I might add. They can unbend their knees and perhaps revive some of the Valley’s soul. Or at least stop ripping it apart. And while they’re at it, stop making it so easy for the government to usher in an AI-powered surveillance state.

Maybe that’s the thing I got most wrong about Silicon Valley. Those Davids I wrote about seemed fearless and full of verve as they challenged what was possible and rode the power of the chip and the net. I mistook this for character. They may believe, as Moritz told me, that submitting to Trump’s protection racket protects their shareholders. But tech giants are certainly capable of standing up for the long-term viability of their industry. And for democracy. So far they are doing the opposite. “I think they have made a bad deal,” says Tim Wu. “Everyone who thought they could work some deal with Trump ends up getting burned, if not imprisoned.”

There will probably be no reckoning. Tech leaders, like all rich people, always have alternatives to life in a declining country. Reid Hoffman has his, as he put it, “contingency plans.” Another source for this story let drop that he’s getting Portuguese citizenship. Lovely country. But it’s hard to imagine myself as a young reporter, roaming the streets of Lisbon and finding the excitement and promise I discovered in California. It’s even harder to imagine a young reporter finding that spirit in the industry as it stands today. The way I now feel in Silicon Valley is how Sam Altman described himself politically: homeless."]]></description>
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    <title>Electric cargo bikes are rewiring people for the better - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-09-22T17:00:58+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The best type of e-bike for replacing car trips is the cargo bike. Sturdy, capable, and often able to haul lots of cargo or even multiple humans, electric cargo bikes are rewiring cities to adapt their infrastructure for more human-centric transportation. Parents are using them to take their kids to school, businesses are using them for last-mile delivery, seniors are using them to improve their mobility, and cities are using them to replace traditional car- and truck-based services, like snow plows and garbage pickup. #Transporation  #Technology #Bikes 

0:00 Intro
0:25 The cargo e-bike revolution
2:47 Visiting Propel bike shop in Brooklyn
3:57 Bike infrastructure challenges
5:51 Interview with Arleigh Greenwald, Electric bike specialist 
6:37 Bike bus 
7:35 Conclusion"

[See also:

"Why your next car should be an electric cargo bike
Cargo bikes are rewiring cities to adapt their infrastructure for more human-centric transportation. And they’re also really fun to ride. Plus: bike bus!"
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/781908/electric-cargo-bike-car-replace-bike-bus

"A couple of years ago, I helped start a bike bus in my suburban town in North Jersey. The pandemic was still raging, and we were all looking for ways to get our kids out of the house and on to their bikes so they could get a little physical activity before school.

One of the things that helped me get the bike bus started was an electric cargo bike. At the time, my kids were too small to ride the two-and-a-half miles to our school by themselves, so the cargo bike — a first-gen Flyer L885 with a rear-hub motor and a plethora of fun accessories (now renamed the Flyer Via Pro) — was an elegant solution to this problem. Now, three years later, they can ride their own bikes, but I still find myself using my cargo bike to lead our growing bike bus pack every Friday. And it’s replaced my car anytime I need to run a local errand. It’s my “daily driver.”

Ever since the pandemic, electric bike sales in the US have been on a rocket ship trajectory. They are the fastest growing bike category for the past several years, according to recent statistics. And while there was some concern that the e-bike boom would fade post pandemic, or that tariffs and trade wars would put a dent in them, sales have held strong. It looks increasingly likely that electric bikes are here to stay.

E-bikes tend to stir up a lot of passion — They’re too fast! Teens are riding them unsafely! Bike lanes are already too crowded! What about faulty batteries? — but their utility is unquestionable. Owners talk a lot about using their e-bikes in unique and creative ways. But the best use for an e-bike is to replace a car trip. And the data suggests that e-bike owners are doing exactly that.

The best type of e-bike for replacing car trips is the cargo bike. Sturdy, capable, and often able to haul lots of cargo or even multiple humans, electric cargo bikes are rewiring cities to adapt their infrastructure for more human-centric transportation. Parents are using them to take their kids to school, businesses for last-mile delivery, seniors to improve their mobility, and cities to replace traditional car- and truck-based services, like snow plows and garbage pickup. We’re even starting to see electric cargo bike share programs emerge as a solution for anyone who can’t afford one of their own.

And perhaps the most joyful application, cargo bikes are playing a central role in the global movement to encourage more kids to ride their bikes to school. These bike buses that are springing up in cities and towns across the world are exposing more people to the joys of electric cargo bikes as well as the need for better infrastructure, slower speed limits, and communities that are oriented around the smallest and most vulnerable among us.

There’s still a long way to go before electric bikes, and cargo bikes in particular, are seen as legitimate forms of transportation in the US. Europe has made a lot more progress in that regard. Cities need to build safer systems, like protected bike lanes and convenient bike parking, to encourage more people to ride. And that requires taking space away from cars, which is a politically fraught proposal. Governments need to ensure their citizens are protected from faulty batteries that have been known to catch fire. And drivers and cyclists alike need to give each other a little bit of grace and make room for new people in the community — especially children — so everyone feels welcome, included, and valued.

Cargo bikes won’t solve every problem we have. But they can certainly help make our communities more livable."]]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2025-09-20T20:29:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.sup.org/books/anthropology/something-between-us</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["An anthropologist's quest to understand the deep social and political divides in American society, and the everyday strategies that can overcome them.

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

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

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

[See also:

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

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

Anand Pandian is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His previous books include A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times, and Ayya’s Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India. Anand serves as President of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, and as a curator of the Ecological Design Collective, a community for radical ecological imagination and collaboration. He lives with his family in Baltimore, where he is currently working on a new book project on decay, waste, and the crafting of ecological futures."]]]></description>
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    <title>Public Transit Visions in Speculative Fiction - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-09-19T18:49:16+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Flying cars in the Jetsons, trains snaking around towers in Wakanda, or the sentient rail system on the newly terraformed Sask-E planet. In building future and alternative worlds, the way people get around can be used to reveal and ask questions about societies, technologies, and politics.

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

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

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

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

[See also:
https://luma.com/0olo6szj ]]]></description>
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    <title>&quot;This is the moment of accountability&quot; with Michael Fakhri - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The brothers welcome back to the show Michael Fakhri (@michaelfakhri), United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, to discuss the open war of starvation on Gaza, how international institutions have abjectly failed their moral and legal duties, the role of the media, and what individuals can do to hold the responsible actors to account.

Check his episode from April 2024, "Famine is never a natural occurrence"

Date of recording: Aug 26, 2025."

[also here:
https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/38206870
https://sites.libsyn.com/495388/this-is-the-moment-of-accountability-w-michael-fakhri ]]]></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>Did Trump just inadvertently help California save its high-speed rail?</title>
    <dc:date>2025-08-05T18:59:14+00:00</dc:date>
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https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/by-trying-to-kill-high-speed-rail-trump-is-saving-it/ ]

"President Donald Trump just gave Californians a chance to save high-speed rail.

Will we take it?

Of course, Trump offered this opportunity in a nasty way. He had the Federal Railroad Administration claw back $4 billion for construction, and declared that he had killed a “train to nowhere.”

Yes, I realize that removing billions from a famously underfunded project wouldn’t normally be good news. But we don’t live in normal times or a normal country. These days, many us are motivated to act just because our enemies hate the idea.

So, when Trump declares he is killing something, he is really offering a neo-fascist version of the biblical mark of Cain — a punishment that also confers a superpower. In Genesis, God banishes Cain for murdering his brother Abel, but also places a “mark” of protection on Cain so that no one will kill him.

Getting attacked by Trump delivers a similar protective mark — even a new lease on life. After the president cut Medicaid, the health program for the poor surged in popularity. When Trump blasted Europe’s progressive policies, more Americans sought to move there. And Trump’s lawless immigration raids inspired dramatic changes in public support for immigrants. A record-high 79% of Americans now call immigration a “good thing” for the country.

Now Trump’s mark is working its magic on high-speed rail.

After nearly two decades of indifferent pursuit of the project, the state’s leaders are rallying to defend it. After Trump’s claw-back, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit demanding all $4 billion returned. Gov. Gavin Newsom, long a skeptic on high-speed rail, now rallies behind it. The High-Speed Rail Authority, usually cautious politically, is blasting the Trump administration.

Such shows of support are, put simply, unprecedented. While California Republicans have been most outspoken in criticizing high-speed rail, the state’s Democratic establishment has been its real opposition.

That’s because high-speed rail wasn’t a Democratic idea or a priority. Future-minded governor Jerry Brown championed high-speed rail in the 1970s, but got nowhere. Approval for the project came instead from California voters in 2008, thanks to a ballot initiative campaign led by the independent state lawmaker Quentin Kopp.

Since then, California Democrats have often quietly registered support for the project in public while seeking to undermine it in private. Democratic legislators don’t like building things, especially expensive infrastructure. They prefer to spend on labor interests that fund campaigns, and on social programs that benefit California voters.

In recent years, legislative leaders have sought to repurpose high-speed rail funds for regional projects, especially in Southern California. Then, in 2019, Newsom used his state of the state speech to criticize the program and shrink its starting construction footprint to a 171-mile stretch connecting Merced and Bakersfield.

The speech made it sound like Newsom was abandoning high-speed rail, and the first Trump administration followed up by withholding hundreds of millions for the project. Subsequent headlines (and even columnists) suggested the project was dead.

But facing death, high-speed rail has made real progress in the current decade.

Construction on the first phase, in the Central Valley, has produced more than 50 new structures for the rail project. Officials completed environmental reviews on the 463 miles from L.A. to San Jose. Caltrain electrified its Bay Area corridor, a prerequisite for expanding high-speed rail service there. Earlier this year, crews began the process of laying track, with the railhead groundbreaking at Bakersfield.

Trump’s current attack only highlights this progress. As the president lies, California responds with photos of all that has been built. The state also stands a good chance of winning back the $4 billion in court — the money is already obligated under legally binding agreements.

Politically, Trump’s attack is an enormous gift. Backers of the project, long a punching bag for populists, now have their own populist target: the dictatorial president who seeks to cancel America’s only public high-speed rail.

Already, state officials are putting Trump on the defensive. They say Trump is providing a gift to China, which has built the world’s most robust high-speed rail network. They note that he’s hurting his own voters, by canceling a construction project in the conservative Central Valley. They remind Californians that he’s pulling billions from high-speed rail based on personal animus toward a state that doesn’t like him.

“Trump’s termination of federal grants for California high-speed rail reeks of politics,” Newsom said after the cancellation. “It’s yet another political stunt to punish California.”"]]></description>
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    <title>This Silicon Valley Stuff'll Get You Killed</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-21T21:48:42+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["some notes on ritual sacrifice in the 21st century"

...

"Most of my thinking on Silicon Valley—on its firms, its products, its financiers, its ideologues, its boosters, and its projects—rests on a relatively simple understanding: these people will sacrifice us.

My first experience witnessing this came when helping organize ride-hail drivers working for Uber and Lyft as well as talking with taxi drivers struggling to survive the ascent of these firms. These companies, in a desperate scramble for their first profits, brazenly ignored the law, misclassified and immiserated countless workers, pushed drivers into predatory leasing agreements, paid out starvation wages while dodging taxes and ensuring drivers were blocked from dignified working conditions, and countless more abhorrent practices.

Who cared if a few taxi drivers committed suicide because UberLyft’s predations degraded pay and labor conditions across the entire ride-hail sector, or if drivers were forced to sleep in their cars to meet aggressive quotas crafted to effectively lockout and fire workers (minimizing labor costs), or if they were attacked or robbed or killed on the job. So what? Were you going to complain on behalf of people who couldn’t adapt to the future, who made a bad choice in betting their livelihood on a line of work that should be Flexible and Temporary, who are lucky enough to get in early on “the operating system for your everyday life.”

Have things improved? Uber’s global lobbying and law breaking campaign was a resounding success—they’ve successfully degraded working conditions worldwide, convinced regulators that their specific model and structure is inevitable, integrated themselves into policy planning visions and decisions, and burned enough capital to create their desired markets and consumers and behaviors where they did not exist before.

All it took along the way was the physical and mental health of countless workers, some air pollution and traffic congestion in its major markets, tens of billions of dollars of investor capital wasted on failed behavioral psychology experiments and science fiction projects, a few public transit systems, backroom deals, and an incredulous corp of commentators.

Imagine how much more could be achieved with an even greater sacrifice.

Things have only gotten worse as Silicon Valley’s business model has metastasized, with oligarch-intellectuals poised to reorganize wider and wider swaths of our economy, culture, social relations, and politics. To maximize profits and efficiency and productivity, to purge capitalism of its last vestiges of democracy and liberalism, to transform speculative gains into real wealth then into political power that makes this alchemy easier, to discipline consumers and workers and regulators, to foster paranoia (whether by states or communities) and preserve order, to pursue geo-strategic primacy, to summon some artificial superintelligence that will either end history or realize historic profits, anything and everything will be offered up. Something has to give—the situation demands a blood sacrifice.

Some believe the sacrifices will give birth to a stillborn god that will save the world. They insist, as Google’s former chief executive Eric Schmidt does, that “we are never going to meet our climate goals anyway” so now is the time to double down on overbuilding AI infrastructure. Climate change will be staved off only by accelerating the very developments bringing about the collapse of our ecological niche—so consume the water, foul the air, enrich fossil fuel firms, do whatever you must and do it with quick if there is going to be any hope of creating an “infinitely patient, infinitely compassionate, infinitely knowledgeable, infinitely helpful” entity capable of saving the world.

Some believe that humanity will be liberated by subjecting vast swaths to undignified drudgery—we need ghost workers, potemkins, and sin-eaters to power the Great Work. The global AI value chain features critical processes—data collection and annotation, analysis and model development, and data verification—performed by "invisible workers" tucked away in digital sweatshops defined by piece-rate work, low pay, and undignified working conditions. As my TMK co-host Jathan Sadowski has made clear for years now, Potemkin AI (AKA “services that purport to be powered by sophisticated software, but actually rely on humans acting like robots—services that purport to be powered by sophisticated software, but actually rely on humans acting like robots”) can be best understood as a few things, such as:

* Disciplinary power, or the power of "coaxing and cajoling, of implanting beliefs and inducing action” by, for example, convincing people you've built a panopticon that is "tirelessly processing feeds from the ubiquitous cameras, rather than groups of human analysts who take time, get fatigued, and make mistakes.."

* Choosing “certain interests over others and reasserting the value of certain people over others” like prioritizing artificial intelligence infrastructure over human needs. Or, as Jathan writes, a "placeholder" for "attempts to use AI as a tool for replacing human decisions, exploiting human labor, and administering human life" so long as you don't look behind the curtain.

On the question of sin-eaters, it is increasingly clear that firms will offer various configurations of man-machine systems to obfuscate culpability. A human will serve as a legal guarantor or as "the final stop in the responsibility chain.” AI will be used externalize moral agency, rationalizing solutionist approaches that preserve the status quo while doing nothing to address root causes (e.g. robust carbon offset and credit markets that do not undermine fossil fuel extraction, content moderation that does not actually undermine hate speech, generated precision kill lists that justify genocide, predictive (over)policing that justifies ongoing overpolicing, and so on.

In its bid to become a central AI platform, Meta will spend $15 billion to acquire AI data labelling company Scale AI—an acquisition that will bring together two firms with longstanding commitments to exploiting workers across the world that are central to their respective platforms. Scale sacrifices those workers in pursuit of outsized funding and valuations, access to a pig trough of military contracts, and now an acquisition by a much larger firm. Meta has, for a long while now, sacrificed its workers in pursuit of persistent growth that sustains its core surveillance advertising revenue stream while buying time to cultivate others (e.g. the metaverse, its own financial system, and AI tools for federal agencies and military contractors).

On that note, some believe the sacrifices will ensure a renewed Pax Americana that brings together the private tech sector and the armed forces to cultivate nationalist fervor at home alongside a strategy that steers global development towards our national interest. As an added benefit, deploying the next generation of weaponry at home will surveil and denaturalize and deport dissidents, terrorize and dispossess migrants, that introduce dysfunction to the body politic.

In a desperate bid to beat back China's ascent, America is building a reactionary political coalition that links fossil capital with tech oligarchs, warmongers with China hawks. The great white hope here is that China's predominance in various tech stacks can be beaten back to secure control over the future of our global energy system, the course of technological development and deployment, and what gets produced where/how/why across our planet. Why should the United States—or more precisely, why should this reactionary coalition—control who gets access to various technologies? Because we say so.

Some believe sacrifices will restore some semblance of a natural order we’ve lost sight of. The future of human flourishing, they insist, isn’t going to be found in the past few centuries of flirtations with democracy and liberalism, but in a recommitment to Biological Hierarchies that reimpose caste, eugenics, apartheid, terror, and the like. We must administer a harsh treatment for a harsher disease that will cause a great deal of pain and misery in the short-term, but leave us better off in the long-run. That these reactionary ideologies are proving increasingly fundamental to the worldview of the most powerful people in the world and their sycophants, at the same time as this desperate search for capitalist (re)legitimacy, does not bode well for any of us.

These and more horrific exterminist forces are firmly in the driver’s seat, enjoying victory after victory, accumulating greater and greater resources to remake the world into a form more hospitable to their political project(s), and in the course of this self-annihilation they are likely closing the doors on various futures forever—though it will be a long time before we learn which options are lost to us forever.

This unholy alliance—far-right oligarch-ideologues who think democracy and capitalism are incompatible, tech firms with laboratories innovating the armament of fascism, financiers eager to transform speculation into wealth into power, and a host of other demoniacs—is relatively insulated from the public, its concerns, its pressures, its frustrations, and the few levers connected to those that could effect a change. And as a result, it enjoys relatively unimpeded power in building, expanding and legitimizing a police state in this country—a country that has, for a long time now, committed itself to surveillance, social control, force, projection, arbitrary violence, and terror.

It is increasingly unclear to me what, if anything, can be done about this. Though I suppose we’re all struggling with that problem right now. I’ll leave you with the end of Thanatos Triumphant, one of Mike Davis’ last essays and one of my favorites:

<blockquote>    As an objection to my pessimism, one might claim that China is clear-sighted where everyone else is blind. Certainly, its vast vision of a unified Eurasia, the Belt and Road project, is a grand design for the future, unequalled since the sun of the ‘American Century’ rose over a war-shattered world. But China’s genius, 1949-59 and 1979-2013, has been its neo-mandarin practice of collective leadership, centralized but plurivocal. Xi Jinping, in his ascent to Mao’s throne, is the worm in the apple. Although he has economically and militarily enhanced China’s clout, his reckless unleashing of ultra-nationalism could yet open a nuclear Pandora’s Box.

    We are living through the nightmare edition of ‘Great Men Make History’. Unlike the high Cold War when politburos, parliaments, presidential cabinets and general staffs to some extent countervailed megalomania at the top, there are few safety switches between today’s maximum leaders and Armageddon. Never has so much fused economic, mediatic and military power been put into so few hands. It should make us pay homage at the hero graves of Aleksandr Ilyich Ulyanov, Alexander Berkman and the incomparable Sholem Schwarzbard.</blockquote>"]]></description>
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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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Próximamente más entrevistas sobre el caso Uruguay."]]></description>
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