Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco Fourth of July Listening Diary - by Harmony Holiday 2026-07-06T01:21:23+00:00 https://harmonyholiday.substack.com/p/fourth-of-july-listening-diary robertogreco harmonyholiday music meterialism culture 2026 internet online web consumerism psyops songs earworms love https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:17891c809c1b/ Surveillance Valley by Yasha Levine | Hachette Book Group | Hachette Book Group 2026-07-04T10:29:22+00:00 https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/yasha-levine/surveillance-valley/9781610398039/?lens=publicaffairs robertogreco yashalevine 2018 surveillance siliconvalley technofascism internet web online pentagon counterinsurgency us williamgodel vietnamwar arpa 1960s technology google amazon facebook military privacy edwardsnowden news media nsa https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:39277cd35c4a/ In Which I Make a Mighty Vow — ayjay 2026-07-04T05:05:25+00:00 https://buymeacoffee.com/ayjay/in-which-i-make-mighty-vow robertogrecoThe open web is something extraordinary: anybody can use whatever tools they have, to create content following publicly documented specifications, published using completely free and open platforms, and then share that work with anyone, anywhere in the world, without asking for permission from anyone. Think about how radical that is. Now, from content to code, communities to culture, we can see example after example of that open web under attack. Every single aspect of the radical architecture I just described is threatened, by those who have profited most from that exact system. Today, the good people who act as thoughtful stewards of the web infrastructure are still showing the same generosity of spirit that has created opportunity for billions of people and connected society in ways too vast to count while — not incidentally — also creating trillions of dollars of value and countless jobs around the world. But the increasingly-extremist tycoons of Big Tech have decided that that's not good enough. Now, the hectobillionaires have begun their final assault on the last, best parts of what's still open, and likely won't rest until they've either brought all of the independent and noncommercial parts of the Internet under their control, or destroyed them. There’s a lot of bad news in that post, but I recommend the whole thing. I’ve written a good deal over the years about my love for and commitment to the open web, so I won’t re-hash all that here. I’ll just make two points. The first is that my affection for the open web has grown more passionate as I have become more interested in anarchism, that is, in bottom-up collaborative social practices, negotiated among equals — Acts 2 kinda stuff, for those who are into the whole Bible thing. Like Anil Dash, I think the open web is a miracle of unstructured collaboration; it’s a treasure we should work desperately to preserve. The second point is a more uncomfortable one. Look: I really hate Substack. I especially loathe the way it has turned itself into a social network that essentially replicates the web within a paywalled platform. (Have you noticed that Substackers almost always just “restack” other writers on the platform and rarely show any awareness of what’s being published outside their Sub-walls? The platform’s architecture really promotes that, to the degree that I wonder if, like Elon’s X, they shadowban outbound links.) In short: Hate hate hate. And yet … … I have never quite brought myself to the point of saying I will never move to Substack. The reason? Because I know I could make a lot more money on Substack than I make by using Buy Me a Coffee. Indeed, people remind me of this! My friend Freddie deBoer wrote to me recently to say that a post of mine would have done gangbusters on Substack — which would have meant a lot of people impulse-buying subscriptions. That’s the thing about being in that platform ecosystem: thanks to network effects, you get the impulse buyers. That does not happen on Buy Me a Coffee. You all have had to be really intentional about supporting me, which is a great thing. Why is it a great thing? Because by writing on the open web and merely asking for support, I have wholly escaped the pressures that come when people have paid money to see your writing and therefore have certain expectations for what you say and how you say it. Also escaped: that other kind of pressure that comes when people really like one particular post and show their liking with money — which plants the idea in the back of your head that you need to write more posts like that … whether you really want to or not. By contrast, y’all have supported me because you see what the whole package is, and know what you’re getting and are likely to continue to get. That’s really wonderful. So I have every reason to keep writing for the open web and merely requesting/hoping for your contributions. Well, every reason but one, anyway. Why haven’t I forsworn Substack? Simple: I’m afraid that when I retire next year and take a big financial hit, I’ll be poor, or significantly poorer anyway, unless I hawk my wares on that platform. Which is pathetic. That attitude is unworthy of a mature Christian man. So — taking a deep breath here — I solemnly affirm before God and my fellow humans that I will never write on Substack. There, I said it. If no one supports my writing I’ll work as a greeter at Walmart — but as for my personal online writing, I pledge my troth to the open web! You heard it here first."]]> alanjacobs substack anildash decentralization openweb newsletters subscriptions anarchism web internet online bigtech freddiedeboer buymeacoffee writing howwewrite independence christianity 2026 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:407a303ed790/ BitTorrent’s disastrous, legendary, and controversial story | The Verge 2026-07-03T09:40:08+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/tech/959848/bittorrent-story-25-years-piracy robertogreco bitttorrent 2026 history internet web online p2p filesharing freeculture piracy software film music decentralization hollywood jankoroettgers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a15f4a9f79de/ Daring Fireball: 'Why Is Meta Destroying Its Engineering Organization?' 2026-07-03T05:36:05+00:00 https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/07/02/orosz-meta-engineering-culture robertogrecoThe biggest problem: people stop caring about real work and focus on performative work. Let’s check the four ingredients that Meta’s leadership has decided to introduce to their workplace: 1. Tracking the keyboards and mouse clicks of all engineers, where legally possible 2. Reassign a good chunk of engineers to full-time data labeling 3. Let staff know that 10% of them will be laid off 4. Have a culture where devs optimize for any and all metrics measured during PSC 5. Measure token usage as part of PSC Shake this mix up well, and what do you get? Two things: 1. Everyone overuses AI to boost their personal stats. An engineering workforce that pretends to work with as much AI, and as little human input, as possible. It’s a strange incentive where an outage caused by a failure to review code properly is not grounds for dismissal, but writing code by hand — instead of having an AI agent write it — could cost you your job. 2. Every longer-tenured engineer is seeking a new job, or at least considering it. Those who have been around at Meta longer term have seen enough. PSC is “Performance Summary Cycle”, Meta’s stringent cut-throat performance review system. Orosz’s report is extraordinarily well-sourced by current and recently former Meta engineers. Towards the end of the piece, Orosz addresses the “just ask Meta AI to give you the account” Instagram account hijackings [https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/07/02/meta-ai-ask-for-instagram-accounts ], which he describes, without hyperbole, as “the most embarrassing outage in Meta’s history”. Orosz’s sources report, unsurprisingly, that the breach was the result of AI — AI writing the code, AI reviewing the code, and AI taking over for human technical support. As for who is responsible, it’s Zuckerberg and AI “genius” Alexandr Wang:
In June that year, Meta acquired a 49% stake in Scale AI to reboot its AI efforts for a whopping $14.8B, and brought in Scale AI’s CEO, Alexandr Wang to take over Meta’s AI strategy. [...] Based on the investment made into Scale AI and Wang, it’s pretty clear that Meta — and Zuckerberg — is determined to build a state-of-the-art LLM that can be competitive with the latest versions of Claude and ChatGPT. But Meta has to start pretty much from scratch, and it’s up to Alexandr Wang to deliver. [...] Zuckerberg has full control over the business, and has made the decisions to reallocate a good part of engineering folks to data labeling, to roll out tracking software, and to lay off 10% of staff when Meta achieved record revenue and profits. As the CEO, the buck clearly stops with him. But it’s hard to unsee that — outside of layoffs — everything that Meta is doing is taken from the Scale AI playbook, and that surely comes from Wang.
It sounds like in addition to running Meta’s “AI strategy”, Zuckerberg has effectively put Wang in charge of engineering at Meta, and Wang is trying to replace human engineers with AI. During the transition, the job of engineers at Meta has changed from writing code to training AI systems that Zuckerberg and Wang aren’t even trying to hide are intended to replace the people. What the Oompa Loompas were to Willy Wonka, Zuckerberg wants AI to be for him. I’m not sure it’s any more realistic. Meta has always been a bad company. Now it seems like a bad company that’s lost its fucking mind."]]> johngruber markzuckerberg meta ai artificialintelligence facebook alexandrwang 2026 gergelyorosz substack management web internet online coding culture morale work labor scaleai llms chatgpt claude https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ea8a86b4f275/ The Richest Country Is Pretty Mid Now - YouTube 2026-06-28T22:50:35+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZy1lBNykA robertogreco bennjordan leveragism capitalism internet online google gemini ai artificialintelligence aibubble journalism rugpulls authoritarianism elonmusk donaldtrump spacex israel gaza anarchism economics economy integrity finance ip intellectualproperty well-being wellbeing precarity gold debt politics us bigtech spotify suno streaming law legal happiness fuckyoumoney inequality money labor wealth laborreflexivity growth borders border privateequity libertarianism tescreal nerdreich peterthiel billackman rulingclass transhumanism extropianism singularitarianism singularity xenophobia inflation extraction rationalism oligarchy larryellison markzuckerberg jeffbezos effectivealtruism longtermism governance government democracy poverty work police policing iranwar austerity retirement maga trumpism muskism wallstreet stockmarket nasdaq indexfunds 401k leverage power policy autonomy obesity surveillance survival fear ice bronnieware life living courage death guatemala coca-cola unions wisdom pollution environment humanrigh https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e8e53f65ef4f/ Om Malik taught Silicon Valley to read itself - RuntimeWire 2026-06-27T07:09:28+00:00 https://runtimewire.com/article/om-malik-taught-silicon-valley-to-read-itself robertogreco ommalik ryanmerket 2026 technology siliconvalley sanfrancisco journalism blogging media vc venturecapital internet web online telecommunication pace priorities hype feeds techcrunch gigaom trueventures investment writing howwewrite https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d583e209ff65/ AI's Social Scene Is Shifting to Curated Offline Events, Dinner Parties - Business Insider 2026-06-26T01:15:39+00:00 https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-social-scene-curated-offline-events-dinner-parties-2026-6 robertogrecoHosting an intimate dinner in sf for lore builders. Founders, narrative architects, writers, world builders. Humans at the intersection of storytelling x culture x craft x storytelling x philosophy x design. Keeping it to <10. Who should be in the room? 🫶 — Joumana (@JoumanaElomar) June 23, 2026 [https://x.com/JoumanaElomar/status/2069509402437222482 ] Many of these curated events follow a similar blueprint: a promo that looks like an A24 film poster and grainy, film-like photos that make it feel more like a 90s-era house party than a tech founders' event. "I think trusted (human) curation is so important now, even more than ever," said Michelle Fang, who leads Stripe Startups, a program offering financial support and resources to early-stage, venture-backed companies, and has a weekly newsletter that rounds up in-person tech events in San Francisco. Fang said that when she first started the newsletter in 2023, she posted an average of 20 to 30 in-person events a week. That number has now risen to 70 to 80 a week. "There's been a noticeable shift in both the frequency and types of events happening in SF, especially over the past year," she said. AI has accelerated this trend dramatically, she said, as the AI boom brings an influx of talent who want to establish their community in the city. While some of the events Fang has listed are traditional building workshops and hackathons, others include Pilates classes, peptide tasting parties — the latest self-optimization craze — and "intentionally curated" dinners. It's a vibe shift from the large happy hours and networking events that defined post-pandemic tech socializing, said Fang. These smaller events don't require a big budget or venue, and with the speed of AI growth, people want to make sense of new concepts and the changes happening in real time, she said. [image: "Dinner table with bowls of sushi and edamame at an event hosted by coworking and tech events startup Verci's / Verci, a coworking space and events startup, hosts monthly dinners and workshops for members. Ami Yoshimura/Verci"] 'Taste is a new core skill' The taste conversation kicked off earlier this year when Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham wrote in a post on X that, as AI democratizes building, "taste will become even more important." Two days later, OpenAI President Greg Brockman cemented the catchphrase on X, writing that "Taste is a new core skill." Since then, it's led the tech world to hyperfocus on AI companies and founders who are winning the taste battle. Alongside the taste discourse, being offline has become a status symbol. Having the ability to de-digitalize is seen as a luxury and a way to connect with people more authentically, with in-person events being a means to achieve this, especially for those whose working lives already revolve around AI.
peak bengaluru and bangerlore pic.twitter.com/1imEhjhCBX — prerna (@Prerrrrna_) June 7, 2026 [https://x.com/Prerrrrna_/status/2063545613632037129 ]
An event "only for hot people and nerds" in Bangalore, which appeared to be in collaboration with the early-stage Bangalore-based consumer tech company Faff, made the rounds on X earlier this month. The vibe is artfully arranged cheese boards, trendy cocktail menus (with AI puns), and grainy photos. Ami Yoshimura, the 23-year-old cofounder of Verci, a members club and coworking space in New York, hosts events such as rooftop parties and multi-day retreats for founders and creatives. "Relationships, aesthetics, and telling a story" have become crucial ways to stand out in the hyper-competitive AI industry, he said. Small parties, big bucks It's not just San Francisco that is seeing this event boom.
new york tech week highlights:1. went blind into an event hosted by @join_ef and successfully met a group of really cool people with 0 degrees of mutual connection2. met/made some really good friends from url ➡️ irl shoutout fonzi and corgi team3. ended off the week with a… pic.twitter.com/CA3h0mwmLe — sara kong (@saraknggg) June 8, 2026 [https://x.com/saraknggg/status/2064047927702782454 *]
Katia Ameri, a partner at A16z who spearheads Tech Week in San Francisco, LA, and New York City, wrote on X last month that New York was so far the largest Tech Week in history by events and attendees. The LA and San Francisco equivalents are coming up later this year. Eliza Wu, cofounder of Corner, a social mapping app that describes itself as "Google but social," wrote in a post on X that there were over 600 RSVPs for a panel she was hosting at New York Tech Week. Leading AI companies are also taking note. In April, Anthropic posted a brand events lead role in San Francisco, with a salary of up to $400,000. There are four open marketing events positions at Anthropic, while OpenAI has two open positions for events, commanding over $200,000 salaries with options to gain equity too.
Anthropic is paying up to $400,000 a year for an events role.They're looking for someone to own the execution of brand experiences that translate Anthropic's values into physical moments.This person will produce everything from intimate thought-leadership gatherings to… pic.twitter.com/SWvmSarclY — Andrew Yeung (@andruyeung) April 26, 2026 [https://x.com/andruyeung/status/2048545188608364593 ** (archived: https://www.are.na/block/47316282 )]
Andrew Yeung, an ex-Google and Meta product lead turned event host and angel investor, wrote on X in response to the job advert that it shows Anthropic understands that "they need to create visceral, unforgettable IRL experiences that make complex technology feel accessible and human." "The massive opportunity now is offline, analog, in-person," he said. But while the taste that goes into hosting a party is human, we are living in an AI world — and as with your job applications, an AI screener might still be standing between you and an invitation. Wu, the cofounder who hosted a New York Tech Week event with 600 RSVPs, said she turned to Claude to winnow down her guest list. She said she prompted the chatbot to scan through potential attendees' social posts to identify "markers of excellence" and to suss out the "quality of their thoughts." With the help of Claude, only 300 people made the cut." [* full text of https://x.com/saraknggg/status/2064047927702782454:
new york tech week highlights: 1. went blind into an event hosted by @join_ef and successfully met a group of really cool people with 0 degrees of mutual connection 2. met/made some really good friends from url ➡️ irl shoutout fonzi and corgi team 3. ended off the week with a bang at vega (shoutout ben & maddie) i think when it boils down to WHAT constitutes a good event, it varies based off what your specific persona is trying to get out of it. for me, events with well-catered hospitality that are more intimate (without just randomly throwing people together sloppily) call out more to me because you make more solidified relationships. likewise, it’s good to put an online face to a name because that alone can unlock so much trust and future opportunities. see you soon nyc!
** full text of https://x.com/andruyeung/status/2048545188608364593
Anthropic is paying up to $400,000 a year for an events role. They're looking for someone to own the execution of brand experiences that translate Anthropic's values into physical moments. This person will produce everything from intimate thought-leadership gatherings to large-scale industry activations. The top AI research lab in the world recognizes that to cross the chasm and reach everyday consumers, they need to lean into hospitality. They need to create visceral, unforgettable IRL experiences that make complex technology feel accessible and human. They understand that digital channels are getting increasingly saturated. Every feed is flooded with AI content... every inbox is overflowing. The massive opportunity now is offline, analog, in-person. The companies that win in the next decade won't just have the best product but the most emotional in-person presence and the most compelling storytelling. If you're in events, experiential marketing, or brand activations, this is your moment. The biggest tech companies in the world are betting on you. [two images of the job posting]
]]]> ai artificialintelligence siliconvalley technology 2026 royashahidi small humanities liberalarts culture taste anthropic claude aislop paulgraham elizawu corner saraking amiyoshimura joumanaelomar michellefang stripestartups social events community aibubble gregbrockman openai status offline online socialmedia internet katiaameri a16z andreessenhorowitz andrewyeung google meta nytechweek sanfrancisco society analog https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7c5d13ca6f52/ Democrats Don't Know what "Affordability" Actually Means, with Dino Guastella - YouTube 2026-06-25T09:45:35+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNEKJNOHiOk robertogreco dinoguastella 2025 adamconover politics policy democrats republicans labor workers workingclass nafta billclinton barackobama ronaldreagan unions organizing dinguastella affordability industrialization industry deindustrializaiton fairtrade freedtrade mexico border borders immigration donaldtrump ezraklein zohranmamdani wages government infrastructure newdeal history class society robertputnam bowlingalone islolation socialmedia internet digital online web loneliness isolation advocacy nonprofit nonprofits atomization howarddean 2004 afl-cio uaw elections teamsters https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4a16a13fb6f8/ The Retweeting Class 2026-06-23T09:58:59+00:00 https://berjon.com/rt/ robertogreco howwewrite twitter thinking howwethink robinberjon criticalthinking timothymorton conversation llms automation friction debate seriousness nicolashénin elonmusk retweeting socialmedia internet web online substance blocklists tedunderwood bluesky https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f36105a0af1c/ De-datafication 2026-06-20T09:19:20+00:00 https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/de-datafication/ robertogreco robinsloan data de-datafication 2026 internet web online infrastructure corporations centralization datafication https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1aacad302c7f/ EXPOSED: Israel's DARKEST TikTok SECRET - YouTube 2026-06-18T10:55:54+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sd3O-b-oPw robertogrecoisrael zionism tiktok us palestine genocide ethniccleansing 2026 internet socialmedia propaganda oracle larryellison adampresser marcorubio mittromney benjaminnetanyahu hasbara donaldtrump media iof idf suppression safracatz technology bigtech 2015 ehudbarak 2024 2025 finance privateequity occupation gaza settlercolonialism colonialism colonization westbank yurimilner michaeldell https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dea56b5d3273/ A Resurgence of Educational Localism? A Review of Skipping School - Front Porch Republic 2026-06-17T10:52:45+00:00 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/06/a-resurgence-of-educational-localism-a-review-of-skipping-school/ robertogreco emilywenneborg homeschool unschooling education schooling schools dixiedillonlane history us children parenting miltongaither robertkunzman shawnpeters jamesdwyer dorothymoore raymondmoore johnholt hslda internet web online covid-19 coronavirus pandemic local localism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:326404b46995/ Twenty Five Years After Imagined Worlds, What World Are We Living In? | THR Web Features | Web Features | The Hedgehog Review 2026-06-07T00:41:06+00:00 https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/twenty-five-years-after-imagined-worlds-what-world-are-we-living-in robertogreco eriklarson freemandyson 1995 2022 web internet online computers computing centralization decentralization bigtech thomaskuhn siliconvalley neuroscience bigdata napoleon google facebook instagram twitter freedom creativity liberty carlotaperez tolstoy anarchism openweb anarchy innovation society liberation kevinkelly 1998 coldwar rand maxplank alberteinstein ai artificialintelligence henryford quantummechanics quantumtheory quantumphysics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:567a8595579a/ “The open web and the world of hobbyist and small-scale devices (often built on the Raspberry Pi) are our remaining refuges of Tolstoyan computing.” - Alan Jacobs 2026-06-07T00:34:17+00:00 https://social.ayjay.org/2026/06/06/freeman-dyson-it-often-happens.html robertogrecoIt often happens that a scientific revolution is accompanied by a change in style. I like to use the names of Napoleon and Tolstoy to symbolize two contrasting styles: rigid organization and discipline represented by Napoleon, creative chaos and freedom represented by Tolstoy. In the world of computers, Napoleon is the massive IBM main-frame; Tolstoy is the humble Macintosh. The computer revolution was an escape from the Napoleonic ambitions of von Neumann to the Tolstoyan anarchy of the Internet. Future revolutions will bring more such escapes. The big AI companies are the apotheosis — literally, in the view of many who work for them — of Napoleonic science. The open web and the world of hobbyist and small-scale devices (often built on the Raspberry Pi) are our remaining refuges of Tolstoyan computing. See also: Erik Larson reflecting on Dyson in 2022 [https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/twenty-five-years-after-imagined-worlds-what-world-are-we-living-in ]."]]> alanjacobs freemandyson 1997 computers computing centralization decentralization anarchism tolstoy raspberrypi internet web online ai artificialintelligence llms eriklarson 2022 mac apple ibm openweb hobbyists hobbies tinkering https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8434ae3425ab/ A Defense of Humanity in the Age of AI - The Atlantic 2026-06-06T10:57:50+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/07/generative-ai-human-culture-philosophy/674165/ robertogreco adriennelafrance 2026 humanism humanity 1833 ralphwaldoemerson philosophy naturalhistory industrialrevolution industrialization google tiktok facebook instagram ai artificialintelligence microsoft meta openweb web online internet self-actualization gena generativeai siliconvalley truth nature individualism technology human humans transparency relationships friendship dostoyevsky rodserling josésaramago intellect aesthetics tools enlightenment values privacy resistance isaacnewton knowledge art beauty uncannyvalley https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:24d95d931b4d/ Clothes Are Nice. Fashion Biz, Not As Much! – On my Om 2026-06-02T00:13:01+00:00 https://om.co/2026/06/01/clothes-are-nice-fashion-biz-not-as-much/ robertogreco“The clothes are inoffensive, but there’s no point of view. The downside isn’t bad taste, but the erosion of individuality.” – Turner Allen, personal stylist, New York Menswear today is neutral tones, muted basics, everything well-cut and normal. Or as they say, nice. The Business of Fashion recently called this an epidemic. Everyone in the industry has an opinion about it. What almost nobody has is an explanation for why. The fashion media is smart enough to spot the symptom but fails at the diagnosis. The BOF at least attempts an answer, channeling the music critic Simon Reynolds, who argued in his book Retromania that pop music had collapsed into endless pastiche – referencing references, with nothing original left to say. The same, the BOF writer suggests, has happened to fashion. The epidemic of nice clothes is what you get when an industry runs out of ideas. Maybe. But that framing is still entirely about the industry. It leaves out the person standing in front of the mirror. Me. The writers’ complaints are simply the arrogance of insiders, something common across media. Just look at how self-referential the Atlantic and the New Yorker have become. Same when it comes to technology, sports, and everything else. They all treat the paying customer as a rube. What if we stopped wanting the opinions of fashion insiders and sports reporters who are not nearly as honest as they pretend to be? Everyone is talking their own book, all the time, everywhere. Everyone is looking to get paid. We the rubes have learned a thing or two. For years we have been swimming in images. Instagram, street style blogs, TikTok, Pinterest, the endless scroll. Whatever you think of that flood of images, it has done something to our eyes. It has trained us. We have looked at more clothing combinations, more visual context than any generation before us. We have developed taste not from magazines but from sheer accumulated exposure. The assumption buried in the insider complaint is that the point of view should come from the garment. That the designer is the author and we are the readers. That clothes arrive with meaning already assigned, and our job is to receive it correctly. This is how the whole enterprise of fashion writing has always worked – and it is, not incidentally, how affiliate link revenue works. You spot the trend and explain why it matters. You link to where they can buy it. That model made sense when images were scarce and editors were gatekeepers. It makes far less sense now. Look at my own closet. It is a capsule collection of about a hundred pieces. Plain, nice, comfortable, well-made garments. French-made bespoke blue shirts. Muji T-shirts. Japanese workwear. I arrived at each of them because they are precisely what they are not: a line item in LVMH’s annual profit report. They work with my body. When I combine them, the result is mine. Not defined by a runway, a trend, or any external verdict. Alexander McQueen famously said: “I want you to come out either repulsed or exhilarated, as long as it’s an emotion. If you don’t feel an emotion, I’m not doing my job.” It is a great quote. It is also a completely designer-centric view of the world. The designer produces the feeling. You experience it. You are the audience. That model is over. Today’s designers are mostly hired hands executing the commercial agenda of conglomerates whose job is to sell expensive product on installment plans to people who want to feel rich. The clothes that result are rarely worth the allegiance. A perfectly cut neutral trouser means almost nothing by itself. But that trouser with a specific shoe, a worn jacket, a watch with some history, a shirt you found somewhere unexpected – now there is something. The clothes are the vocabulary. I write the sentence. Compare this to what came before. The hypebeast era, the logomania, the streetwear machine – that was actually the most passive way to dress in living memory. The brand told everyone what you were about. The logo spoke. You just put the thing on. It was expensive ventriloquism. The epidemic of nice clothes is not a failure of imagination in the industry. It might be the industry finally catching up to what people actually want: room to think for themselves. A canvas, not a lecture. The question was never whether the clothes have a point of view. The question is whether you do. Lawrence Lessig in 2008 argued that the 20th century had been a Read-Only culture. You consumed what the professionals produced, passively, with no mechanism to talk back. The phonograph, the radio, the CD: the machines made you an audience. The internet broke that. Suddenly culture was Read-Write. You could take what existed, layer it, reinterpret it, make something yours. That shift has expanded with every generational turn – Web 1.0, Web 2.0, social, mobile, and now AI. Fashion just got there later. The hypebeast era was the last gasp of Read-Only dressing. What is happening now looks like an epidemic of nice clothes. It is actually the beginning of something else. The read-write metaphor has since become read-write-read. And the data backs it up. Hundreds of millions of people are not just consuming culture – they are recreating it. Layering it, putting it back out. The fashion industry’s complaint that people lack a point of view doesn’t hold against what the numbers actually show. These are the same people uploading 14 million tracks a month to SoundCloud and posting 272 TikToks a second. They have plenty of points of view. They just stopped waiting for permission to express themselves. Now give me the raw energy of Diya Joukani – a self-taught designer from Mumbai who just filmed a cameo with Rihanna. Wintour is good for hosting the Met Gala, not for finding the new thing. She can’t. Because there isn’t one new thing anymore. And the fashion-industrial complex doesn’t understand that. The upside of the connected world means now I can find a talent like Diya without any editor telling me that I must pay attention to her. And in her I see what I have always imagined, a world where we tell the story of us. Diya and I are about 35 years apart, but she captures how I see my clothes. A palette to be put together. Simple, nice, and authentic. Embellishing is what I do. Sure, I learned from Anna and her ilk. But now I know myself much better, and hence nice is not just nice. It is me."]]> ommalik clothing fashion apparel self self-expression identity luxury branding readwriteweb web online internet socialmedia gatekeeping influencers elitism diyajoukani consumption consumerism influence 2026 media simonreynolds business industry technology sports thenewtorker theatlantic insiders journalism tiktok pinterest exposure garments design clothes hype hypebeast expression logos lawrencelessig 2008 readonly readwrite readwriteread nice soundcloud personalexpression https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9b2d0a15618b/ Daring Fireball: What Is a Dickover? 2026-05-30T06:01:58+00:00 https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover robertogreco daringfireball enshittification johngruber 2026 webdesign web internet online ui ux https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6dc92fa7595d/ The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech - The Ringer 2026-05-28T22:52:26+00:00 https://www.theringer.com/2026/05/28/tech/pope-leo-xiv-ai-encyclical-tech-industry-problems robertogreco popeleoxiv 2026 encyclicals magnificahumanitas technology chatbots ai artificialintelligence brianphillips qrcodes capcha youtube customerservice elonmusk internet web online ux ui touchscreens cars experience streaming streamingservices peterthiel antichrist humanity human humans humanism search google googledocs jeffbezos pop-ups sonos surveys email aibubble autocorrect twitter subscriptions newsletters autoupdates privacy data bluetooth markzuckerberg commotification consumerism consumption latecapitalism capitalism internetofthings automation work workers labor society https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:905b81cc8f54/ The Useful Narcissist - Journal #163 2026-05-27T08:28:06+00:00 https://www.e-flux.com/journal/163/6776887/the-useful-narcissist robertogrecomattseybold 2026 publicintellectuals usefulidiots clebrity russelljacoby googlengram jeffreyepstein sambankman-fried elonmusk donaldtrump coldwar broadcast televison dickcavett alanburke pbs npr williamfbuckley media williamsafire chuchcommittee kurtanderson susanlindauer elites elitism richardposner overtonwindow consensus anncoulter thomasfriedman ralphnader gorevidal jamesbaldwin oligarchy tedgioia attention attentioneconomy online internet intellectualism neoliberalism latecapitalism capitalism huntersthompson politics washingtonconsensus https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d97707c1ee57/ What Has Happened to Taste? 2026-05-27T07:57:56+00:00 https://www.esquire.com/style/a71276009/what-has-happened-to-taste/ robertogreco tiffanyng taste 2026 socialmedia online internet web blackbirdspyplane susansontag montesquieu algorithms kylechayka culture pinterest spotify johanweiner erinwylie tastemakers trends perception reality jeanbaudrillard simulacra simulation mainstream exclusivity compliance consensus connoisseurs connoisseurship baudrillard franlebowitz signaling subjectivity aesthetics introspection thinking howwethink deadinternettheory guydebord dérive derive situationist being having instagram objects membership society engagement are.na internetwalks visibility https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:288eae64d312/ The better algorithms of our nature - by Tom Stafford 2026-05-26T22:26:03+00:00 https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/the-better-algorithms-of-our-nature robertogreco tomstafford timhartford algorithms 2016 socialmedia twitter internet online socialinteraction socialnetworks ai artificialintelligence politics society donaldtrump psychology fear anger negativity policy climatechange guns guncontrol democracy climate globalwarming engagement mastodon fediverse https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e7e23fca60b0/ From Californian to Texan Ideology: Conservatism, Religion and Extractivism in the Tech Sector | médialab Sciences Po 2026-05-23T22:57:21+00:00 https://medialab.sciencespo.fr/en/news/de-lideologie-californienne-a-lideologie-texane-conservatisme-religion-et-extractivisme-au-sein-du-secteur-des/ robertogreco fredturner 2025 siliconvalley californianideology texanideology california texas billionaires fortresses tescreal libertarianism elonmusk gigafactory tesla capitlaism latecapitalism technology billionaites oligarchy climate climatechange environment globalwarming richardbarbrook andycameron sanfrancisco 1960s couunterculture 1990s extraction extractivism bunkers christianity billygraham religion politics race racism neoliberalism economics misogyny christiannationalism policy web internet online dotcomboom dotcombust johnperrybarlow newtgingrich newright rightwing farright right freemarkets freemarketfundamentalism conservatism idealism poverty austin markzuckerberg facebook meta us tiktok google joelonsdale tennessee memphis fbi fairbanks alaska louisiana covid-19 pandemic coronavirus gregabbott rickperry hooverinstitution labor energy water electricity regulation deregulation housing taxes taxation antiwoke newdeal universities colleges academia highered highereducation margaretatwood petrobaptists fossilfu https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f847a9963ddd/ Fred Turner on Countercultures, Cybercultures, and Californian and Texan Ideologies - New Books Network 2026-05-23T22:56:29+00:00 https://newbooksnetwork.com/fred-turner-on-countercultures-cybercultures-and-californian-and-texan-ideologies robertogreco fredturner 2026 siliconvalley californianideology texanideology california texas billionaires fortresses tescreal libertarianism elonmusk gigafactory tesla capitlaism latecapitalism technology billionaites oligarchy climate climatechange environment globalwarming richardbarbrook andycameron sanfrancisco 1960s couunterculture 1990s extraction extractivism bunkers christianity billygraham religion politics race racism neoliberalism economics misogyny christiannationalism policy web internet online dotcomboom dotcombust johnperrybarlow newtgingrich newright rightwing farright right freemarkets freemarketfundamentalism conservatism idealism poverty austin markzuckerberg facebook meta us tiktok google joelonsdale tennessee memphis fbi fairbanks alaska louisiana covid-19 pandemic coronavirus gregabbott rickperry hooverinstitution labor energy water electricity regulation deregulation housing taxes taxation antiwoke newdeal universities colleges academia highered highereducation margaretatwood petrobaptists fossilfu https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9448443666c4/ There’s No Earthly Way of Knowing Which Direction We Are Going… 2026-05-20T06:33:36+00:00 https://kottke.org/26/05/theres-no-earthly-way-of-knowing-which-direction-we-are-going robertogrecoai artificialintelligence jasonkottke 2026 writing howwewrite google search internet online gemini resistance olgatokarczuk stevenrosenbaum https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c5bcf3d7e513/ bowling alone but not scrolling alone - YouTube 2026-05-20T05:50:13+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAIzA5qCqtU robertogreco aidanwalker democrats joebiden gaza palestine israel 2026 2024 elections politics socialmedia engagement government us policy robflaherty activism civiclife governance electoralpolitics elissaslotikin genocide ethniccleansing democracy timeline gerontogracy actions results audiences interaction messaging zionism antizionism blacklivesmatter ows occupywallstreet internet web online mutualaid systemicfailure humanitarianism networks institutions intitutionalrot https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a6b7372c3093/ Whither the Nerd-Bully? | Ben Tarnoff | The New York Review of Books 2026-05-14T15:49:09+00:00 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/28/whither-the-nerd-bully-bill-gates/ robertogreco bentaroff 2026 billgates siliconvalley microsoft software monopolies 1999 anupreetadas stevejobs megalomania influence gatesfoundation 1990s personality bigtech wealth ruthlessness sociopathy internet web online arpanet history paulallen paulgilbert computers computing 1980s law legal ronaldreagan google melindagates competition competitiveness philanthropy philanthropicindustrialcomplex charitableindustrialcomplex andrewcarnegie johndrockefeller donaldtrump elonmusk samaltman sergeybrin markzuckerberg jeffreyepstein https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e23fe854114d/ Gazing through a lens, I invent as much as I reveal | Psyche Turning Points 2026-05-12T06:35:12+00:00 https://psyche.co/turning-points/gazing-through-a-lens-i-invent-as-much-as-i-reveal robertogreco tylerthier 2026 cameras photography video camcorders film technology mediation media memoir imagination movingimages interaction perception caricatures grégoirechamayou difference differences view relationships cctv love stalking internet web online socialmedia https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9e28ccd28760/ 'If you go to china you'll never see the world the same way again' | Martin Jacques | UNAPOLOGETIC - YouTube 2026-05-11T01:45:28+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0wKS7flwzw robertogreco martinjacques ashfaaqcarim china history economics society asia softpower power manufacturing dominance international globalsouth culture humanrights xinjiang uyghurs donaldtrump us uk west taiwan governance government pandemic covid-19 coronavirus hongkong singapore modernity 21stcentury eastasia colonialism colonization imperialism westernization globalization 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s ezravogel collectivism individualism confucius confucianism humiliation postcolonialism japan empire gdp guangdong malaysia borders civilization education nationstate civilizationstates states opiumwars culturalrevolution maotsetung maozedong ccp 1949 dengxiaoping industrialization 1972 richardnixon law legal politics lawyers engineering technology innovation science howwthingswork communism xijinping leadership 1978 ai artificialintelligence beltandroad beltandroadinitiative maga middlekingdom regimechange productivity tarde africa latinamerica infrastructure ports highways leverage rail railways hsr highspeedrail softimperial https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5fec684549db/ Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax | The Verge 2026-05-11T01:14:29+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/tech/927294/substack-tax-ghost-beehiiv robertogreco emmaroth 2026 substack platforms internet web online newsletters ghost beehiiv substacktax mattbrown seanhighkin richardrushfield janiemin benthompson oliverdarcy annehelenpetersen patreon mehdihasan emilysundberg zeteo tylerdenk shopify amazon hamishmckenzie glenngreenwald joeposnasnski charlixcx jamieoliver keirstarmer hannewinarsky https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a7d6c48ceedf/ Have online worlds become the last free places for children? | Psyche Ideas 2026-05-05T14:22:52+00:00 https://psyche.co/ideas/have-online-worlds-become-the-last-free-places-for-children robertogreco elistark-elster children freedom internet web online landscape independence 2026 play margaretmead anthropology ionaopie peteropie carltheodorsørensen bronisławmalinowski minecraft exploration socialmedia roblox technology media petergray https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:64077d686c50/ Sara Hendren: Who Is the Built World Actually Built For? - Art of Inquiry | Podcast on Spotify 2026-05-05T14:11:09+00:00 https://open.spotify.com/episode/11zlpahmklfgr8YOUrtLnY robertogreco sarahendren 2026 architecture design disabilities disability accessibility art bodies prosthetics sofiaodeh mayaeinhorn engineering making socialpracticeart science inquiry history conflictkitchen edibleestates socialpractice online internet covid-19 pandemic coronavirus offline social slow small audiencesofone socialjustice ai artificialintelligence technology time perception politics genai generativeai activism poetry human humanism humans howwewrite writing teaching pedagogy highered highereducation culturemaking culture life living howwelive socialmedia being waysofbeing modernity method patternrecognition krzysztofwodiczko downsyndrome interrogativedesign careers purpose meaning meaningmaking children parenting arts humanities friendship relationships leisure artleisure leisurearts identity passion expression objects affect emotions embodiment awe wonder buildings senses spirituality sacredness codeswitching artifacts translation language communication howwemake fabrication ramps risd olincollege builtwo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0a421ccc8594/ Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want | The Verge 2026-04-26T07:34:26+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/nft-metaverse-ai-weirdos robertogreco 2026 elizabethlopatto siliconvalley thoughtleaders billionaires crypto chatbots innovation ai artificialintelligence grifters bigtech metaverse nfts cryptocurrencies generativeai genai llms olpc elonmusk huicero openai samaltman google web internet online search inefficiency efficiency optimization spotify amazon markzuckerberg marcandreessen andrewhuberman https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0d36fed5b125/ BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN | The Verge 2026-04-24T05:54:42+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/podcast/917029/software-brain-ai-backlash-databases-automation robertogrecoYou can give it access to everything that’s there: your files, your email, your calendar, your messages. It operates continuously in the background, building a persistent memory of your preferences and patterns so it can better act on your behalf. The cybersecurity risks are glaring, but there’s a reason millions of people are using it: The more of your life you open to A.I., the more valuable the A.I. becomes. I’ve reviewed a lot of tech products over the past decade and a half, and all I can tell you is that it is a failure when you ask people to adapt to computers. Computers should adapt to people. Asking people to make themselves more legible to software —to turn themselves into a database — is a doomed idea. It’s an ask so big that I can’t imagine a reward that would make it worth it for anyone, even if the tech industry wasn’t constantly talking about how AI will eliminate all the jobs, require a wholesale rethinking of the social contract and — oops — also the latest models might cause catastrophic cybersecurity problems that might lead to the end of the world. Does this sound like a good deal to you? Can you market your way out of this? This only makes sense if you have software brain — if your operative framework is to flatten everything into databases that you can control with structured language. The people paying thousands of dollars a month to set up swarms of OpenClaw agents and write thousands of lines of code are people who look at the world and see opportunities for automation, to repeat tasks, to collect data. To build software. AI is great for them. It’s even exciting in ways that I think are important and will probably change our relationship to computers forever."]]> nilaypatel ai artificialintelligence software databases data publicopinion technology internet web online genz generationz zoomers darioamodei anthropic samaltman openai chatgpy claude satyanadella microsoft markzuckerberg facebook google amazon apple ezraklein openclaw society https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:78bcef362282/ We Are (Still) Living in the Long Boring 2026-04-24T03:38:52+00:00 https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/we-are-still-living-in-the-long-boring robertogrecoRay Kurzweil was prescient about many things, and one of them is this: the merger has started. He predicted the outer layers of our neocortex would be wired to the cloud by the 2030s, extending human thought the way the last round of neocortical expansion produced us. But think carefully about what consumer technology alone already does. (And that’s just CONSUMER technology.) We have built ourselves a second nervous system. “We have built ourselves a second nervous system”! This is the kind of sentence that sounds like revelation and means, on inspection, that you can look things up very quickly on your phone. We have indeed built ourselves a very fast library. That library has caused a lot of unhappiness, but certainly it’s a remarkable technological achievement. That achievement did not, however, eliminate tuberculosis. And while we’re talking about Kurzweil and nervous systems, we should take time to point out his fundamental misapprehension of that system. Kurzweil has always had one goal, above all others: to avoid death. As a means to achieve this ambitious project, he has repeatedly invoked the desire to “upload” his consciousness to a computer. But this is folly: there is no consciousness that is distinct from the brain that houses it. Consciousness is brain, is tissue, is cells, is wetware. There is no discrete program that is the self that can be extracted from the brain and deposited into a conveniently durable chassis. To imagine a consciousness that can be housed on a floppy disc is to participate in a dualist fantasy of the kind that should have died out hundreds of years ago. Kurzweil has had this pointed out to him many times, but his desire to live forever apparently overwhelms his more rational faculties. The fantasy wins. Dee dismisses “techno-pessimists” as people trying to stop something that has already happened. (Jasmine Sun goes with “AI populists,” a term I find a little inscrutable.) Perhaps I am a techno-pessimist, but if so, it’s only because I’ve been alive for most of the dispiriting past 50 years. “We were promised flying cars,” goes the cliche. But flying cars are at least possible; it’s just that they’re hideously inefficient and offer no advantage over our current boring-but-effective combination of cars and airplanes. We also were told to dream of time travel and faster-than-light travel, both of which are forever forbidden by elementary physics, and of colonizing distant worlds, which is forever forbidden by more factors than I can list. As Kim Stanley Robinson and others have pointed out, that last bit is essential, because if we recognize that we only have one world to live in, we might become better stewards of it. And that’s why I’m a techno-pessimist in general. Though I’m frequently accused of hoeing this particular row because I like disillusioning other people, I am instead trying to make this reality clear: we cannot sit back and wait for technological progress to save us. The only solutions to our problems - the problems of hunger, of poverty, of injustice, of disillusionment, of alienation - are political solutions. I understand feeling totally defeated by that idea, given what politics is like on this planet. But it’s all we have. We start to build the political structures that can enable humanity to take care of all of us or we drown. There is no fate but what we make. Whatever you think of my motives, I will not stop pointing out that we are still here, still in this boring muck, still circling the parking lot at Target looking for a space. And until and unless the usual suspects can produce actual evidence of something happening right now, the skeptic’s work is not over. They promise AI will cure all disease; AI has not cured a single disease. Ezra Klein routinely throws around 20% economic growth as a baseline for the AI age; these few years with LLMs have produced the same anemic ~2% growth as we’ve been used to in this, the digital century. And I still say, wake me up when that changes. My techno-pessimism is a pessimism grounded in a fact derived from the historical record: that civilizational-scale technological transformation is extraordinarily rare, that it happened once in a rapidly-receding extraordinary century, and that we have been living in its long shadow ever since. And now some mistake that shadow for the sun."]]> freddiedeboer ai aislop artificialintelligence llms chatgpt openai cluade anthropic 2026 howwewrite generativeai genai slop photography images code coding music technology scarcity abundance videogames applications video film writing imagery 2022 internet web online energy housing cnacer medicine masstransit transportation society civilization siliconvalley socialmedia raykurzweil consciousness singularitarianism singularity jasminesun aipopulists technooptionism technopessimism kimstanleyrobinson humanity ezraklein economy economics growth katherinedee history health healthcare aibubble aihype lifeexpectancy us aviation progress labor work gdp maintenance innovation culture samaltman darioamodei maryharrington industrialrevolution communication https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ba413984e58c/ Defending Our Consciousness Against the Algorithms 2026-04-19T05:06:48+00:00 https://nautil.us/defending-our-consciousness-against-the-algorithms-1279260 robertogreco michaelpollan boredom internet socialmedia online web instagram attention 2026 algorithms consciousness novelty chatbots ai artificialintelligence aipsychosis kalinachristofhadjiilieva thinking howwethink reading howweread christofhadjiilieva resistancemeditation slow chatgpt sycophancy technology politics policy uncertainty freedom interiority https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:28d164b24a70/ vertical video in the democratic process - by Aidan Walker 2026-04-19T05:01:16+00:00 https://howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com/p/vertical-video-in-the-democratic robertogrecoaidanwalker video verticalvideo democrats politics messaging bird-dogging 2026 socialmedia web online internet elissaslotkin antonyblinken joebiden gaza palestine israel jonathanshainin jakesullivan us kamalaharris 2024 democracy media reddit wikipedia zohranmamdani richardholbrooke brettmcgurk joshwolfe jaredkushner mohammedbinsalman truth wendybrown mbs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:69541172dcbe/ The Music Video Is Dead, Long Live The Music Video (Season Premiere) - YouTube 2026-04-18T22:46:27+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQB2mvUvROw robertogrecopatrickwillems film filmmaking 2026 1990s mikemills spikejonze michelgondry musicvideos music mtv jamiroquai jonathanglazer heelys biggiesmalls smashingpumpkins backstreetboys georgesméliès moby davidfincher michaelbay antoinefuqua jonathandayton valeriefaris markromanek francislawrence zacksnyder simonwest conair rickrolling memes russellmulcahy sightonsound buggles hanszimmer stevebarron direstraights marylambert jean-baptistemondino tobehooper bobrafelson briandepalma johnlandis martinscorsese johnsingleton 1980s lassehallström hollywood goreverbinski ridleyscott tonyscott alanparker adrianlyne propagandafilms creativity dominicsena davidlynch maximililianpotter stevegolin alexproyas fgarygray charlesstoneiii paulhunter josephkahn hypewilliams internet web online okgo napster markwebb markfischbach palmpictures chriscunningham davemeyers gusvansant trishsie sarahboardman ads advertising promotion cinema video audio imagery art shortfilm productplacement samuelbayer melinamatsoukas daniels danielkw https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:85a1d400bf47/ We May Be Living Through the Most Consequential Hundred Days in Cyber History, and Almost Nobody Has Noticed 2026-04-15T07:11:15+00:00 https://ringmast4r.substack.com/p/we-may-be-living-through-the-most robertogreco ethics governance war security 2026 patrickquirk china computers computing internet web online cybersecurity oracle github saas lockheedmartin salesforce iran handala northkorea russia ai artificialintelligence claude anthropic vishing voicephishing microsoft stryker kashpatel fbi axios intelligence cisco llms mercor meta cloud cloudcomputing rockstargames aviation honda https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6b5f93da50a8/ I Will Never Respect A Website 2026-04-14T22:14:43+00:00 https://www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never-respect-a-website/ robertogreco openai ai artificialintelligence anthropic enshittification internet web online llms edzitron 2026 conjobs fraud computers computing ethics abuse writing howwewrite linkedin davemccann ibm chatbots stephenfry alexheath claude claudecowork agenticai openclaw finance claudecode oracle coreweave microsoft amazon aes cerebras ronanfarrow andrewmarantz samaltman darioamodei miramurati danielkokotajlo chatgpt technofeudalism billionaires luddism neoluddism luddites neoluddites resistance revolt oligarchy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:92e7b1e7f3e5/ Resonant Computing Manifesto 2026-04-14T22:07:09+00:00 https://resonantcomputing.org/ robertogreco manifestos computing computers software ethics technology christopheralexander privacy ai artificialintelligence ecosystems adaptability society social connection coordination collaboration sharedspaces online internet web data power https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0cb58c6d5513/ China’s Parallel Web Behind the Wall | Vale.Rocks 2026-04-14T22:02:59+00:00 https://vale.rocks/posts/chinas-web robertogreco china internet online web greatfirewall 2026 policy censorship regulation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:283e7a31f919/ AI broke the one thing we can't fix - YouTube 2026-04-12T21:16:45+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_2YN1MungI robertogreco 2026 mobitar ai artificialintelligence openclaw internet web online aislop nikitabier xai twitter chatbots jensenhuang scams scamming spam spamming china censorship ccp replyspam bitcoin crypto cryptocurrencies llms rlhf attention economics algorithms ads advertising monetization youtube slop language https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:734799ad6668/ Reading is magic - by Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge 2026-04-12T20:08:19+00:00 https://samkriss.substack.com/p/reading-is-magic robertogreco samkriss reading howweread secondary orality walterong media internet web online socialmedia 2026 alexanderluria society literacy us chatgpt charlesdickens bleakhouse ai artificialintelligence siliconvalley aipsychosis nickfuentes hasanpiker lewismumford culture nationalism uzbekistan marshallmcluhan gutenbergparenthesis illiteracy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8cb439550631/ Mea 2026-04-10T04:44:33+00:00 https://mea.media/ robertogreco onlinetoolkit blogs blogging socialmedia internet online web platforms microblogging https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:eb22415479d8/ Miseducative Experiences 2026-04-05T05:38:11+00:00 https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/miseducative-experiences/ robertogreco audreywatters 2026 maryoliver life living online internet taylorlorenz screentime socialmedia ai artificialintelligence jonathanhaidt christopherferguson videogames games gaming regulation siliconvalley power media moralpanic moralpanics influence newmedia addiction johndewey children teens youth education experience attention teaching learning howweteach howwelearn policy edtech chromebooks computers computing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:de9495051bd0/ Taylor Lorenz’s Screen Time Is Almost 17 Hours a Day | WIRED 2026-04-05T05:21:19+00:00 https://www.wired.com/story/user-behavior-taylor-lorenz/ robertogreco taylorlorenz 2026 screentime internet web online socialmedia https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:850201b5a008/ Everything is iPhone now | The Verge 2026-04-02T00:52:37+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/tech/905398/apple-iphone-anniversary-jobs-release robertogreco nilaypatel 2026 iphone 2007 computers computing smartphones stevejobs steveballmer microsoft blackberry mikelazaridis jimbalsillie internet web online rim communication https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b6e9e122baab/ Endgame for the Open Web - Anil Dash 2026-04-01T04:05:09+00:00 https://www.anildash.com/2026/03/27/endgame-open-web/ robertogreco anildash samaltman timberners-lee web online internet openweb capitalism ai artificialintelligence data communication bullshit technology commons 2026 walledgardens aislop slop wikipedia vc venturecapital bigtech finance power culture publishing llms aibots chatbots internetarchive openapis apis apple podcasts grokipedia elonmusk openstandards creativecommons uber mozilla mozillafoundation stackoverflow mikemasnick https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ebb98eb9a110/ Low-Tech Parenting Must Be a Big Tent - Christianity Today 2026-03-29T02:37:42+00:00 https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/03/low-tech-parenting-big-tent-judgmentalism-tech-grace/ robertogreco bradeast technology 2026 children neoluddites neoluddism luddites luddism claremorell grace digital screens screentime smartphone media attention distraction ipad andycrouch condemnation balance internet online web reading howweread slow judgement judgmentalism literacy self-righteousness christianity matthewwalther charity warmth mercy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cb6a6c6087ac/ ‘I study at an exclusive US college. We can’t drink, use wi-fi or leave during term’ 2026-03-28T22:46:07+00:00 https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/deep-springs-college-california-hzhx5bfc0 robertogreco deepspringscollege 2026 rubylarocca education colleges universities highereducation highered meaning meaningmaking howweread internet web online offline attention books reading constraints socialmedia distraction ai artificialintelligence microcolleges https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e7bdaa4e4764/ Being in the World (full, award winning, Heidegger/Hubert Dreyfus documentary) - YouTube 2026-03-26T03:11:45+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcCRmf_tHW8 robertogreco hubertdreyfus heidegger documentary philosophy taoruspoli being time thinking waysofbeing risk human humans humanism technology jazz flamenco music 2010 film experience interaction art education skills risktaking mastery leahchase markwrathall austinperalta hiroshisakaguchi bobteague jumanesmith ryancross tonyaustin manuelmolina isaacsprintis christophergallo paulforte giancarlocanavieso christophredlich musicalinstruments johnhaugeland taylorcarman iainthomson seandkelly seankelly senses beginnersmind unschooling perception ai artificialintelligence darpa mit descartes plato charlestaylor certainty engagement tradition disengagement embodiment reason rationalism spinoza leibniz doing annesakaguchi tools stuartdreyfus movement knowhow activity objects waysofknowing knowing edgarchase dookychase food theoryofmind abstraction theory intelligence humanities howwethink relevance metaphor care caring mattering whatmatters consciousness aesthetics moods emotions waysofseeing waysofsensing bodies rules patterns joy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:15ad9e269803/ Remembering Some Guys - by Drew Austin - Kneeling Bus 2026-03-25T06:39:47+00:00 https://kneelingbus.substack.com/p/remembering-some-guys robertogreco human humans humanism computers computing pointlessness drewaustin 2026 humanity automation media analong internet obsessions https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ff11e538c339/ The Internet Has Not Killed Reading—or Attention Spans 2026-03-25T05:46:19+00:00 https://nautil.us/the-internet-has-not-killed-reading-or-attention-spans-1279171 robertogreco kevinashton attention internet web online howweread reading kristenfrench 2026 smarthphones internetofthings technology print printing human humans stories marshallmcluhan democratization novels fictions writing howwewrite essays ai artificialintelligence thinking howwethink class longform socialmedia youtube tiktok memory vocabulary cognition twitter communication persuasion narrative narrativeconstruction amyorben andrewprzbylski well-being wellbeing bedtime lannguyen video children criticalliteracy cognitivebiases community transrevolution photography radio television tv computing personalcomputers paulofreire bankingmodelofeducation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6d3eced0f0f9/ Cosma Shalizi Is Aware of All Internet Traditions 2026-03-24T21:08:02+00:00 https://www.argmin.net/p/cosma-shalizi-is-aware-of-all-internet robertogreco cosmashalizi ai artificialintelligence tradition 2026 ben recht culturalai internet llms generativeai genai https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:aa3dc25516fb/ The Marketing Tricks of "Artificial Intelligence" - YouTube 2026-03-24T06:56:40+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwBZiuH-1QY robertogreco alexhanna emilybender ai artificialintelligence 2026 ridicule resistance chatgpt surveillance technology luddism neoluddism luddites neoluddites privacy automation computers computing computation aihype marketing dehumanization capitalism siliconvalley markzuckerberg samaltman humans criticalthinking howwethink thinking howwewrite writing fascism technofascism human humanrights dignity parismarx antihumanism tescreal transhumanism extropianism humanity humanism singularitarianism singularity machinelearning cosmism rationalism effectivealtruism longtermism latecapitalism stochasticparrots openai education analog slop aislop socialmedia instagram tiktok collectiveaction datacenters bigtech internet web online aicon power nature environment work labor organizing hope https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2d288edac37b/ Daring Fireball: ‘Your Frustration Is the Product’ 2026-03-19T04:21:20+00:00 https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/your_frustration_is_the_product robertogrecoI went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. And then you wonder why every sane tech person has an adblocker installed on systems of all their loved ones. It is the same story across top publishers today. This is an absolutely devastating deconstruction of the current web landscape. I implore you to pause here, and read Bose’s entire amply illustrated essay. I’ll wait. Even websites from publishers who care about quality are doing things on the web that they would never do with their print editions. Bose starts with The New York Times, but also mentions The Guardian, whose web pages are so laden with ads and modals that their default layout, on a mobile device, sometimes leaves just 11 percent of the screen for article content. That’s four lines of article text. Bose writes:
Viewability and time-on-page are very important metrics these days. Every hostile UX decision originates from this single fact. The longer you’re trapped on the page, the higher the CPM the publisher can charge. Your frustration is the product. No wonder engineers and designers make every UX decision that optimizes for that. And you, the reader, are forced to interact, wait, click, scroll multiple times because of this optimization. Not only is it a step in the wrong direction, it is adversarial by design. The reader is not respected enough by the software. The publisher is held hostage by incentives from an auction system that not only encourages but also rewards dark patterns.
I disagree only insofar as the reader isn’t respected at all. Part of my ongoing testing of the MacBook Neo is that I’ve been using it in as default a state as possible, only changing default settings, and only adding third-party software, as necessary. So I’ve been browsing the web without content-blocking extensions on the Neo. It’s been a while since I’ve done that for an extended period of time. Most of the advertising-bearing websites I read have gotten so bad that it’s almost beyond parody. And even with content blockers installed (of late, I’ve been using and enjoying uBlock Origin Lite in Safari), many of these news websites intersperse bullshit like requests to subscribe to their newsletters, or links to other articles on their site — often totally unrelated to the one you’re trying to read — every few paragraphs. And the fucking autoplay videos, jesus. You read two paragraphs and there’s a box that interrupts you. You read another two paragraphs and there’s another interruption. All the way until the end of the article. We’re visiting their website to read a fucking article. If we wanted to watch videos, we’d be on YouTube. It’s like going to a restaurant, ordering a cheeseburger, and they send a marching band to your table to play trumpets right in your ear and squirt you with a water pistol while trying to sell you towels. No print publication on the planet does this. The print editions of the very same publications — The New York Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New Yorker — don’t do anything like this. The print edition of The New Yorker could not possibly be more respectful of both the reader’s attention and the sanctity of the prose they publish. But read an article on their website and you get autoplaying videos interspersed between random paragraphs. And the videos have nothing to do with the article you’re reading. I mean, we should be so lucky if every website were as respectfully designed as The New Yorker’s, but even their website — comparatively speaking, one of the “good ones” — shows only a fraction of the respect for the reader that their print edition does. Without an ad-blocking content blocker running, one of the most crazy-making design patterns today is repeating the exact same ad within the same article, every few paragraphs. It’s hard to find a single article on Apple News — a sort of ersatz pidgin version of the web — that does not do this. The exact same ad — 6, 7, 8 times within the same article. How many 30-something blonde white women need hearing aids? It’s insane. People are spending less and less time on the web because websites are becoming worse and worse experiences, but the publishers of websites are almost literally trying to dig their way out of that hole by adding more and more of the reader-hostile shit that is driving people away. The Guardian screenshot Bose captured, where only 11 percent of the entire screen shows text from the article, is the equivalent of a broadcast TV channel that only showed 7 minutes of actual TV content per hour, devoting the other 53 minutes to paid commercials and promotions for other shows on the same channel. Almost no one would watch such a channel. But somehow this strategy is deemed sustainable for websites. The web is the only medium the world has ever seen where its highest-profile decision makers are people who despise the medium and are trying to drive people away from it. As Bose notes, “A lot of websites actively interfere the reader from accessing them by pestering them with their ‘apps’ these days. I don’t know where this fascination with getting everyone to download your app comes from.” It comes from people who literally do not understand, and do not enjoy, the web, but yet find themselves running large websites. The people making these decisions for these websites are like ocean liner captains who are trying to hit icebergs."]]> internet web online reading bloat 2026 ads advertising ux johngruber shubhambose enshittification nytimes theguardian applenews autoplay theatlantic rsj thenewyorker ublockorigin adblockers attention webdesign https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0b17df6cba14/ Fatiguing fascism 2026-03-13T23:19:15+00:00 https://sf.gazetteer.co/fatiguing-fascism robertogreco latefascistaesthetics attention clothing online internet web algorithms 2026 carlosdengler fascism fascistaesthetics ice borderpatrol police policing performance socialmedia gregbovino elonmusk nazis dickhebdige fashion susansontag guydebord spectacle cameras photography clickbait subculture subcultures mods music punk society societyofthespectacle politics theater sadomasochism provocation keithmoon siouxiesioux resistance https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c89dfe358a0b/ The Left Doesn’t Hate Technology with Gita Jackson - YouTube 2026-03-13T05:21:19+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcf5syA1MlE robertogreco gitjackson parismarx technology left 2026 luddism neoluddism luddites neoluddites ai artificialintelligence llms technooptimism technocynicism exploitation generativeai openai anthropic claude chatgpt consolidation samaltman society hsr highsspeedrail publicgood mrna vaccines vaccinations medicine siliconvalley aibubble aihype capitalism corporations corporatism qanon ereaders eink boox chrisperson automation speculation infrastructure datacenters chatbots labor work seamusblackley business games gaming videogames xbox microsoft google uber lyft nfts crypto cryptocurrencies evil policy power bigtech oracle gemini gmail linux music spotify streaming china netflix piracy airbnb taxis jeffbezos billionaires gigeconomy billgates edwardsnowden peterthiel scale scaling slow small benshapiro cryptofascism donaldtrump slavery humans human humanity humanism government liberals liberalism grantmorrison agi butlerianjihad smarthphones walledgardens howweread reading books resistance search attention algorithms libraries https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8932ac767f53/ Brewster Kahle’s Memory Palace 2026-03-11T21:22:28+00:00 https://sf.gazetteer.co/brewster-kahles-memory-palace robertogreco brewsterkahle 2026 sanfrancisco internetarchive soficisneros internet web online waybackmachine archives archiving law legal copyright libraries alexpadilla 2025 sfpl barbaracameron michaellambert lisagitelman media trumpism publicmedia annierauwerda katherinemaher wikipedia https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1985f1981a0c/ 3,000 languages are dying, but more are being invented 2026-03-09T23:12:20+00:00 https://asteriskmag.substack.com/p/3000-languages-are-dying-but-more robertogreco karsonelmgrenn 2026 language languages diversity culture communication grammar jargon slang esperanto jamesflynn russian chinese mandarin english hindi civilization society hermanmelville eskimo oldirish change humanities psycholinguistics online internet web spanish español tevfikesenç caucasuses ubykh johncolarusso memes communities welsh finnish suzetteelgin johnquijada ithkuil ethnolingusitics cicero linguistics community french conlangs margaretransdell-green invention creativity orkish elvish adamaleksic tokipona hopi kinyarwanda quenya tuyuca turkish sonjalang culturaldiversity metaculus guuguyimithirr tzeltal romanjakobson https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:593024dc6f3b/ The Depravity Economy - YouTube 2026-03-09T19:27:30+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paHMe9kFf0w robertogreco kalshi polymarket wikipedia internet web online depravity economics economy iran war predictionmarkets death dubai jasonkoebler gambling https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d8a921a7cc67/ Jottit 2026-03-06T19:33:34+00:00 https://jottit.org/ robertogreco onlinetoolkit simoncarstensen 2026 aaronswartz jotttit web online internet publishing webdev microblogs microblogging paulgraham https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c4a28e305416/ Why Apple’s move to video could endanger podcasting's greatest power - Anil Dash 2026-03-03T23:27:51+00:00 https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/28/apple-video-podcast-power/ robertogreco anildash podcasts podcasting video 2026 internet web online enshittifcation media privateequity videopodcasts algorithms ads advertising surveillance data donaldtrump trumpism platforms socialmedia mainstreammedia brendancarr broadcasting elonmusk twitter netflix tiktok spotify apple youtube ecosystems open free https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:654521d5a044/ Dealing with the myth of Sun Ra and his enduring influence | American Masters | PBS 2026-03-01T08:37:02+00:00 https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/dealing-with-the-myth-of-sun-ra/37488/ robertogreco harmonyholidat sunra 2026 jazz music influence jamesbaldwin amiribaraka context georgeclinton leeperry stockhausen flyinglotus georgiaannemuldrow culture internet web online https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4a366dd8a6cf/ Depresión Sonora - Los Perros no Entienden Internet (...Y Yo no Entiendo de Sentimientos) Lyrics and Tracklist | Genius 2026-02-27T23:14:50+00:00 https://genius.com/albums/Depresion-sonora/Los-perros-no-entienden-internet-y-yo-no-entiendo-de-sentimientos robertogrecoIntroducción a los perros Hace años que ronda por mi cabeza la frase “Los Perros no Entienden Internet”. La apunté en la pizarra que tenía en mi cuarto cuando todavía vivía con mi madre. No ha sido hasta ahora, dando forma al disco, que he conseguido descifrar lo que realmente significaba. Estas canciones han estado atascadas tres años. No tengo claro si echarle la culpa a esta vida frenética o a que tiendo a olvidar para seguir adelante. Hace cuatro meses comencé a entender cuando decidí enfrentarme a la tan evitada terapia. Desde que tengo memoria hay voz aguda y en otro idioma que anida en mi cabeza. Siempre encuentro una excusa o el mundo la encuentra por mí para que la ignore y siga preocupándome por lo que sucede a mi alrededor (muuuuy muy lejos) y nunca dentro. Pero incluso en los momentos más fríos y racionales, siempre ha estado susurrándome al oído. Depresión Sonora surgió en un intento de escupirla, lanzarla hacia afuera. Una maraña de palabras e ideas que pensaba que entendía, pero con el tiempo me he dado cuenta que estaba equivocado. Qué difícil es aceptar que en el fondo nunca me atreví a ser honesto, ni en mi día a día, ni en mis letras. Que no hablé de forma sincera. ¿Por qué me sentía incomprendido? Me alegraba ver cómo esa enredadera os abrazaba a vosotros, pero no era capaz de paliar esa sensación constante de querer escapar, de que faltaba una pieza. Una cosa que poca gente sabe es que soy daltónico. También que de pequeño fui a una escuela de música y me hicieron repetir varias veces hasta que lo dejé. Siempre he pensado que mi falta de oído hace que todo lo que me sucede ahora sea una farsa. Aunque supongo que algo bueno tiene que haber en mí si he conseguido todo esto, ¿no? Internet y la tecnología siempre han sido mi refugio, un lugar donde sentirme seguro y que me ha enseñado gran parte de lo que sé. Con el tiempo, todo el aprendizaje y el entretenimiento que encontraba en internet desaparecieron para dar paso a la disociación, a descuidarme. Pasaba las horas encapsulando todo lo importante para lanzarlo bien lejos con un simple desliz de dedos. Al final del día, el único recuerdo que me quedaba era un collage absurdo de imágenes y sonidos de gente que no conocía. Y aunque el mensaje nunca fuera del todo nítido, el resultado siempre era el mismo: pérdida de memoria y ansiedad ante el fracaso. El miedo a que otra persona más lo estuviera haciendo mejor ahí fuera. Percibirme feo, tonto e inutil. Nunca he soportado sentirme insuficiente. Pero he tomado una decisión. No quiero que me roben la memoria, quiero construir recuerdos en base a lo bueno y lo malo. Me gusta pensar que empiezo a hacer caso a esa vocecita. Estoy yendo a clases para entender ese idioma que me había sido negado. Y así, despacito, voy deshaciendo los nudos para guardarlos uno a uno con cariño. Ya no quiero huir ni refugiarme, hay muchas cosas buenas que hacen que merezca la pena. Así que entre todo este caos y descubrimiento, a mis 27 años, miro hacia abajo y veo a mi perro Lucas, que lleva más de 13 años conmigo. Tiene artritis y algo de ceguera, pero en sus ojos negro café todavía veo esa inocencia que tenía cuando cabía en la palma de mi mano. Si se lo propone, todo le es ajeno y no parece tener preocupaciones, pero si algo le pasa por la cabeza es capaz de expresarlo sin complejos. Todo es sencillo. Si está feliz disfruta al máximo y si está triste llora un rato. Sueña, come y juega, pero también ladra enfadado y se queda inquieto al lado de la puerta. Tengo que aprender de mi perro, que no entiende inglés ni español, ni internet ni nada, pero que lo tiene claro y pasa sus días tranquilo. Ojalá ser como él. Ojalá poder derrumbar esos muros de mi propio castillo de cartón. Y es que no hace demasiado pensaba que no había nada más allá. Que la vida se sostenía tras las normas del come y calla, siéntate y trabaja, no llames demasiado la atención y no molestes. Pienso tanto en cómo nos condicionamos por nuestra educación… Ha llegado el momento de dejar de sobrevivir, pero como cualquier materia nueva que uno empieza a estudiar en profundidad, lleva tiempo. Necesito ser paciente, desprenderme de todo aquello que me desvíe del camino. Vencer la velocidad, aprender a escuchar. Hacer caso a mi cabezonería y a esos momentos de lucidez cuando creo que las cosas pueden ser de verdad. Está ahí, en el centro, se mueve como un mar de tormenta desde el estómago hacia los pies y la cabeza. Si consigo ser como Lucas, algún día podré sacar y entender todos estos sentimientos. Marcos. Viernes, 1 de Noviembre de 2024. 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