Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco Academia: The Answers We Don't Offer - by Timothy Burke 2026-07-04T12:22:27+00:00 https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/academia-the-answers-we-dont-offer robertogreco timothyburke covid-19 pandemic coronavirus isolation alienation remotework labor work workfromhome affordability us policy bosses precarity psychology whitecollar robertputnam bowlingalone 2020 2021 2022 2023 2025 2026 offices economics socialscience socialsciences institutions government governance maha workplace workplaces social autonomy surveillance billbishop division diversity mixing sociality interpersonal friction pluralism otherpeople others neoliberalism civics belonging rfkjr robertkennedyjr emmaharrington enataliaemanuel partisanship anomie espair adamgrant marissashandell middlemanagement management administration narcissism ego supervision power control employment direction exploration tolerance community communities https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:aa3287c1ee14/ 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 quiet grief of adult friendship 2026-05-20T06:31:14+00:00 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/civil-irony/the-quiet-grief-of-adult-friendship/ robertogreco friendship pranavjain 2026 relationships care acring grief proximity intimacy isolation adulthood society life living kinship economics time https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:87d7a78671a3/ 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/ Limiting Not Just Screen Time, But Screen Space - NOEMA 2026-04-06T02:54:40+00:00 https://www.noemamag.com/limiting-not-just-screen-time-but-screen-space/ robertogreco“What would it mean to limit not only screen time, but screen space?” Those dreaming of a nascent cognitive revolution are imagining that Borges’ one-to-one map will be finally useful — that if we just feed enough text, enough human knowledge, into the machine, it will comprehend the world in a way we never can. Even if we had the time, labor and energy to attempt this, why would we? Why not put that effort into talking to each other? The alternative is an increasingly familiar solipsism. A solipsistic person believes the self is the only reality. Other minds, other bodies, may as well be an illusion. Today’s internet bends us toward solipsism. We no longer imagine ourselves to be placing our images and our voices into the internet. We imagine ourselves — our physical beings — to be living within it. We imagine the internet to be our environment. In “Trick Mirror,” journalist Jia Tolentino warned that the internet, once imagined as a space of freedom, had become a mechanism for surveillance, performance and commodification. Online life encourages self-optimization and branding at the expense of connection. “In physical spaces, there’s a limited audience and time span for every performance,” Tolentino writes. “Online, your audience can hypothetically keep expanding forever, and the performance never has to end.” Tolentino focused on time, but this internet is an endless stage, too, one with no wings, no exit, no place to step off and be alone again. “brb” once acknowledged departure and faith in return. It reminded us of the body behind the screen. Now, we are infinitely available, and AI is sold to us as the tireless and needless assistant. But our bodies continue to live in the world with stubborn persistence, despite Silicon Valley’s dream of the immortal avatar, the ability to upload our essence into a durable machine, which is a dream of escaping death and environment alike. Most of the questions worth asking are not about how to transcend the environment, but how to inhabit it. How to live together in shared space. Many social, historical and economic forces led me to check my work email in the bathroom. Among them is the way we have come to imagine the internet not as a place we go, but as a space we inhabit. We make sense of abstract experience through bodily metaphors grounded in orientation and sensation: Up is good, down is bad, warmth is affection, weight is importance. These metaphors shape how we act and what we value. Window, weather: Change the metaphor and you change the possibilities for thought and action. If the internet once taught us to say “brb,” perhaps the work ahead is to recover that ethic of interruption, to remember the body in a room, waiting to return."]]> 2026 lauramartin interner web online ai artificialintelligence intelligence bodies embodiment physical environment senses wireless wifi mobile attention privacy space sharedspace smartphones place chatgpt samaltman openai connectivity gps jiatolentino spikejonze her llms joecruz socialspaces emotions cognition cognitivescience borges connection audience time performance freedom boredom surveillance commodification solipsism data representation sensory decisionmaking isolation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:afe49fb94827/ Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: The Revolt Eclipses Whatever The World Has to Offer with Idris Robinson 2026-04-04T18:20:59+00:00 https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/the-revolt-eclipses-all-the-world-has-to-offer-by-idris-robinson robertogreco idrisrobinson 2026 2020 georgefloyd makc revolution civilwar situationists spanishcivilwar us imperialism fragmentation hinterlands cities abolition abolitionism johnbrown reconstruction class culturalproduction humanity humanism deathsofdespair loneliness spirituality guydebord situationist love community ows occupywallstreet greece georgefloydprotests georgefloyduprising malcolmx leaders leadership anarchism communism marxism communes blackavantgarde palestine middleclass workingclass rulingclass proletariat bourgeoisie urban urbanism periphery blackmiddleclass economics politics millennialsarekillingcapitalism counterinsurgency joshbriond wittgenstein privilege intersectionality emancipation liberation suppression ahmaudarbery racism police policing policebrutality hortensespillers jamesbaldwin blackness whitesupremacy harrietjacobs meansofproduction infrastructure decentralization history logistics privilegetheory society production pain transformation jasperbernes edwardluttwak scale scaling violence non https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bd564efe99da/ The Care Economy is the Everything Economy - with Emma Holten - YouTube 2026-04-04T07:44:45+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yl6JpVZTdM robertogreco emmaholten unlearningeconomics feminism economics 2025 economy society gdp austerity care caring carework careeconomy health healthcare childcare gender hobbes adamsmith johnlocke illness thomashobbes reality humanism relationships social bodies embodiment politicaleconomy sickness unemployment labor work workers culture culturalhistory history quantification numbers statistics data information neoliberalism markets capital capitalism power lobbying influence socialscience socialsciences ideology sexism truth women understanding exclusion aging prices pricing efficiency simnplification methods method inequality diversity externalities coherence disabilities disability predicitons conservatism stabilization predictability equilibrium equilibriumtheory climate climatechange globalwarming change climatecrisis nurses nursing publicsector healthworkers rachelreeves essentialworkers values pandemic covid-19 coronavirus marketvalues qualitative purpose profit profits carecrisis nature environment sustainability uk e https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:55bf219e4032/ The Road Less Travelled: L.L. Nunn and the Birth of the Nunnian Microcollege | Studying the History of Higher Education Journal 2026-03-30T18:48:05+00:00 https://openjournals.utoledo.edu/index.php/shhe/article/view/hazelton robertogreco deepspringscollege llnunn matthewhazelton education highereducation highered colleges universities microcolleges tellurideinstitute tellurideassociation self-governance academia workprograms isolation democracy via:lukas 2025 alternative progressive progressivism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7e6af62c13ec/ Every Reason to Hate Cars - YouTube 2026-03-29T20:17:40+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umgi-CbaSRU robertogreco cars notjustbikes 2026 cities urban urbanism violence safety propaganda advertising children disabilities motornormativity parking housing disability lifestyle isolation climate climatechange globalwarming pollution noise lightpollution noisepollution airpollution bikes biking pedestrians walking suburbia suburbs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5475e18f3387/ You've Been Lied to About Addiction | The Gray Area - YouTube 2026-03-10T00:14:01+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUyQyfz_gtE robertogreco hannapickard seanilling addiction 2026 agency responsibility blame accountability supportstructures society trauma isolation identity socialconditions psychology self-harm recovery moralism science medicine health suicide healthcare freewill treatment publichealth us punishment choice judgement care concern respect answerability condemnation hostility stories storytelling institutions drugs narrative alcoholism change self-improvement grouptherapy therapy relationships compassion empathy philosophy presdisposition brain https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:33e48b833428/ Raymond Saunders - YouTube 2026-02-26T06:18:30+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QQUnMlvzTI robertogreco art 1994 artists sfmoma raymondsaunders collage assemblage oakland pittsburgh consciousness identity artmaking process painting unlearning howwewrite nonlinear unfinished howwework serendipity dedication focus isolation lustforlife brilliance https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b3e66726af87/ Gaming the System - Comment Magazine 2026-02-16T00:22:17+00:00 https://comment.org/gaming-the-system/ robertogreco us society loneliness boredom despair scottpell youth socialisolation isolation economics rustbelt hannaharendt socialcapital economy gentrification professionalclass class mentalhealth socialengagement gerontocracy agesegregation children adolescence videogames games gaming men gender saraheekhoffzylstra agency matthewloftus genz generationz opportunity jonathanhaidt keantwenge claremorell withdrawal jdvance policy birthrate addiction chrisopherlasch patrickdeneen elites elitism midwest behavior dystopia production productivity rural socialization https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:477d55651344/ Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future - YouTube 2026-02-09T16:51:18+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk robertogreco adamneely suno ai artificialintelligence art artmaking music musicmaking slow friction chatgpt howwethink thinking loneliness narcissism work labor effort isolation friendship influences copyright deskilling learning howwelearn humanism human humans tecnhooptimism movefastandmakethings futurism technology songwriting culture relationships community movefastandbreakthings efficiency impatience patience optimization dystopia craft mikeyshulman howwemake making howwewrite writing rickrubin taste skill skills rolemodels inspiration lineage influence improvisation alanjacobs evil techmooptimism siliconvalley arthurcclarke ip intellectualproperty streaming internet web online creativity sharedexperience experience disruption fun humanity chess play craftsmanship turingtest jamming sychophancy capitalism technodeterminism technologicaldeterminism tressiemcmillancottom control power marketing mohinidey education vc venturecapital artseducation musiceducation italianfuturism filippomarinetti marcandreessen nickland pr https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:33c7ccb6fe11/ The New Satanic Panic Is Here - YouTube 2026-01-24T17:16:13+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yVJffNplJc robertogreco taylorlorenz 2026 socialmedia jonathanhait web internet online mentalhealth conservatism censorship inequality momochallenge smartphones moralpanic mashablackburn lgbtq policy bariweiss heritagefoundation anxiety reactionaries screentime depression teens youth research media technology change history novels comicbooks comics telephones phones television tv radio fredricwertham children childhood adolescence addiction beepers columbine videogames games gaming bans tiktok isolation fear danahboyd mobility walkability suburbia freetime leisure homework play parenting panic surveillance economics wealthdisparity work labor pandemic covid-19 coronavirus misogyny rightwing right recession economy unemployment instability capitalism publicpolicy poverty precarity guns stress mainstreammedia social connection https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:082a3d9fbf89/ The yearnings that take young Europeans into the far Right | Aeon Essays 2026-01-23T05:36:46+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/the-yearnings-that-take-young-europeans-into-the-far-right robertogreco belief bleonging europe farright politics 2026 agnieskapasieka sociology gender identity anthropology subcultures climatecrisis climate climatechange community nationalism ideology religion christianity catholicism conservatism italy italia poland hungary 1968 1976 raymondwilliams ferdinandtönnies émiledurkheim society youth hierarchy alienation individualism kristenghodsee akhilgupta jamesferguson 1997 culture egalitarianism patriotism backlash liberalism liberals socialisolation isolation health publichealth robertnisbet fellowship belonging membership militancy volunteerism idology heritage tradition roots christianorthodoxy discrimination https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:02e678690f3f/ ‘Train Dreams’ is an ode to the lonely labor of forestry - High Country News 2026-01-23T05:20:50+00:00 https://www.hcn.org/articles/train-dreams-is-an-ode-to-the-lonely-labor-of-forestry/ robertogreco denisjohnson traindreams 2026 clairethompson forests forestry labor work isolation loneliness film literature johnmuir forestservice us https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:16fa2000f736/ Soft Eugenics in the Age of Self-Improvement: On Looksmaxxing and the Fear of Being Human 2026-01-21T20:51:35+00:00 https://deerisnice.substack.com/p/soft-eugenics-in-the-age-of-self robertogreco eugenics looksmaxxing aesthetics 2026 self-improvement human dehumanization humans humanity deerisnice isolation insecurity loneliness beauty capitalism softeugenics humanism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2135df3d07c0/ Europe is Healthier than US - Chris Arnade Walks the World 2026-01-10T20:33:07+00:00 https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/europe-is-healthier-than-us robertogrecoI’ve engaged in this debate before, but anyone who doesn’t see that Europe is so much culturally richer, and healthier, than the US is missing that culture is fundamentally about communities, and the social. When most people talk about Europe’s culture legacy, and superiority, they point to cathedrals, museums, and such. But it’s not about the physical (although it makes the stage more dramatic), it’s about the work/life balance. About third spaces that encourage being around people, in a way that’s deeper than a brutal transactionalism. US is about the individual, to a hyper degree. Everyone is so focused on being emancipated from everything, freed from any “outdated” obligations, that they end up in an empty loneliness. It’s depressing to come back, after traveling. To see so many communities of one, all trying to figure out why their life feels so empty. Yes. There is still the social and communal in the US. That’s human nature to build it. But we make it harder to do. Our culture just isn’t conducive to communities. My first amendment is to recognize that saying Europe versus the US is far too simplified since each contains multitudes. Especially Europe, where Germany is different from France, and within France, Paris different from Valence, and within Paris, Le Marais different from Aubervilliers. For what I’m discussing though, the most important European difference is between Paris and Valence. Or in Germany, between Frankfurt and Bochum, and in Belgium, between Brussels and Mechelen. The most common way Americans see Europe is through its biggest cities, and yet that’s the least representative way to understand it. Especially the neighborhoods in those big cities they spend time in. Big city Europe is in the process of being conformed, changed, and ultimately smoothed into a generic boring singular entity. A soulless Americanization that’s accelerated dramatically over the last few decades. It’s a process driven by globalization, tourism, and secular capitalism.2 What has resulted is a McEurope — a chain of big cities where chunks of each are the same. The branding of the franchises might be a tad different, the scenery a little altered, but these chunks serve up the same bland and drab experience. The downtowns of cobble stone streets lined with the same stores selling runners, sex toys, raw paninis under glow lamps, absurdly caloric sweets, and whatever else tourists splurge on to feel special. There is the one dirty plaza of check the box cafes which feels like EPCOT center cosplaying, with signs in English, and almost no regulars, beyond that one stubborn and ancient local, who through the force of time, has crafted their singular island of special. There isn’t much dignity left in these “historic downtowns” most of it lost by the rush to monetize the mobs. The Hen and Stag parties flown in on Ryan Air. The pub crawls. The line of well scrubbed Americans and Asians scurrying behind a hatted scold yelling into a megaphone and holding a tiny red flag. Some of the historic buildings, especially the Cathedrals, still have a dignity and heft, cultural buttes in a desert eroded by pagan winds, which can only last so much longer, since many have given over to being museums more than houses of worship. A check mark on tourist lists to justify a day of binge drinking. Attending mass in these churches means pushing your way through these packs of heathens who, if they stick around, watch the service with the bemused glee of a 19th-century anthropologist in Papua New Guinea. It wasn’t good then, and it’s not any better now.3 What McEurope is lacking the most, or what is hardest to see, is the communal-ism that’s central to European culture. Thankfully though, McEurope is confined to a few neighborhoods, although they are by far the most visited ones. It’s very easy to get away from them, and once away, you will find that a healthy European culture is almost everywhere else, especially the smaller towns. In spades. That’s why my single suggestion for visiting Europe is to get out of the most visited big cities, which contain the largest number of most visited neighborhoods, and go to some random mid-sized town. Some place like Valence in France4, that also, like Paris, has a long history, an ancient and sublime Cathedral, yet hasn’t entirely succumbed to the global forces trying to flatten the world. There you see the care Europeans still give to living. The care given to being a valued member of something larger than themselves. To being part of a group. To eating well, to relaxing well, to working with a purpose beyond making mint. The flattening forces sloshing around the world are mostly viewed in economic terms. It’s mostly talked about as big global brands and franchises sweeping across the globe, knocking everything down around it. There’s a truth to that, although they are symptom of a larger illness, which is ideological and also very American5. It’s the idea of individual liberation. The idea that everyone needs to be emancipated from everything. Everyone needs to find and fly their freak flag. They need to find their true self and be it. Even if that means severing ties with family, friends, church, Nation, anything and everything that came before. Those are provincial, backwards, and holding you back. That is the purpose of life. To be free. Yet it’s a perverse goal, a broken Telos, that can only be seen as positive if you have a abnormal sense of what it means to be human. To be human is to be social. The ancient Greeks knew it, the Medievalist knew it, and even the early Liberals knew it, but it’s us moderns who’ve somehow forgotten it. Once you understand that, then you further understand that the American definition of freedom ends in a state of despair, and nobody should seek that. Much less entire cultures. True freedom isn’t being so emancipated that you are isolated, it’s the opposite — being part of a group and knowing where you fit in and are valued. Be that a church, a cafe, a family, a club, or a Nation. In that sense, Europe, outside of the overly visited but insignificant McEurope parts, is freer, and healthier than the US. Most of the rest of the world is. The second amendment I’d make to my Note is a better explanation of the last paragraph,
Yes. There is still the social and communal in the US. That’s human nature to build it. But we make it harder to do. Our culture just isn’t conducive to communities.
Before I stared walking around the world I spent over a decade focusing on poverty, addiction, and despair in the US. My book Dignity was a result of that work. During those years I got called the “McDonald’s guy” because I highlighted how much community exisited in them. The salient point wasn’t that there’s something unique about McDonald’s, or America, but that humans are social animals. We need community so much that we will even build it in environments not intended for it. Or to put it another way, if you provide humans with a landscape of banal franchises, they will form communities, and construct meaningful relationships, in them. Think again about McDonald’s. The designed purpose was as a ruthlessly efficient way to get food, whittled down to its most transactional basic. You go in, you get calories, you leave, in as short a time as possible. Yet, McDonald’s has evolved into community centers, where people even meet to pray, because people require and need that. To their credit, the corporation has recognized this, and changed how they approach their customers, although the higher driving goal is still efficiency. Fast food franchises are not unique. I’ve seen that need for community in every space I’ve been. From trap houses in the Bronx, to homeless camps under bridges, to donut stores in LA. People form social groups wherever there’s more than one person. It’s one of the quarks of human existence. A cardinal building block6. Yet in the US, and in McEurope, we view it as something to move beyond. Especially the intellectual class, who have an outsized role in policy and business decisions.7 That doesn’t mean the public doesn’t stop being social, rather it means they have to go out of their way to build connections. America might have a broken culture, one ideologically committed to individual freedom, but we are still social, but not necessarily in the healthiest ways. Without functional communities to be members of, many, out of desperation, end up gravitating to dysfunctional ones. Without church, they go to the drug traps; without cafes, bars; without families, politics; without sports clubs, gangs; without friends, angry online forums. Some, a sadly growing minority, fail completely to find anything to be part of and end up in a state of complete antisocial perversion. A state of depression, confusion, emptiness, and then violence, against others and themselves. A state that for too many ends in suicide, either quickly, or slowly one needle at a time. That is a freedom turned into a tyranny of emptiness. *** [Footnotes] 1 - Given that headline clashes with this essay (so far) I ask that you read it. It’s both a tongue in cheek headline, but also a different way of looking at how people see the two places. 2 - I know that reeks of buzzword thinness, but it’s true, although in less cartoonish of a way than usually thought about. It’s about an ideological mindset that sees materialism, and individual liberty, as key to human flourishing. I don’t believe that, as I hope to explain further below in the essay. 3 - I’ll never forget excitedly heading to the Cologne Cathedral, only to find a party of 20 or so British women on a Hen party weekend twerking in front of it for a Instagram post 4 - I could suggest many many others. I chose Valence only because it was where I ended my last trip. Avignon for instance, despite having one small McEurope neighborhood, is still a great place. 5 - Most of the things a lot of American tourists, especially on the left, like about Europe — health care, good public transport, walkable cities, less focus on cars, etc — are downstream of the European communal-ism. They are a result of the US focus on rugged individualism. 6 - That is also true in what I call McEurope. There is still community there, in those “soulless” downtowns, it’s just harder to find, and harder to form. 7 - I’m not suggesting the public, or normies, are also not responsible for a lot of our problems. This isn’t an elite only problem. Individualism isn’t only a belief of the intellectuals, although that’s where it originated, and that’s who is most responsible for the propagation of it. But ideas, unlike Economics, do trickle down, and at this point, a rugged, destructive, individualism is central to what the US is. At it’s best, when tempered with organic community, it’s the American Dream. At worst, it’s constant fighting, constant blame, constant depression."]]> chrisarnade 2024 us europe comparison worklifebalance life living health loneliness france isolation social happiness community cafeculture cafes communalism individualism work food culture superiority wealth transactionalism thirdspaces thirdplaces paris valence germany frankfurt bochum belgium brussels mechelen aubervilliers lemarais dignity mceurope liberation liberalism liberals purpose existence depression confusion emptiness violence freedom tyranny https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b3090faaf5a5/ Man of The Cave on Vimeo 2025-12-15T05:59:01+00:00 https://vimeo.com/1124335979 robertogreco yemen solitude isolation socotraisland ivanolita caves 2025 socotra abdullahal-salimellai https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d201ce4dbf7f/ Trump, Venezuela and the new cold war with China | Pinch Point - YouTube 2025-11-29T00:27:53+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uze6hL3c-kE robertogreco us venezuela china donaldtrump newcoldwar 2025 warondrugs mohamedhassan chile brazil brasil trade economics geopolitics mexico perú argentina southamerica bolivia jamesmonroe monroedoctrine 1905 teddyroosevelt 1923 theodoreroosevelt haiti cuba panamá elsalvador honduras guatemala nicaragua dominicanrepublic costarica oil pertroleum fossilfuels hugochávez iran russia georgewbush iraq iraqwar nicolásmaduro chavismo 1999 2006 2002 2005 usaid intervention 2013 sanctions blockade carteldelossoles un drugs europe cocaine colombia roxannavigil 2023 chevron coups johnbolton isolation latinamerica beltandroad beltandroadinitiative lithium lithiumtriangle freetrade ecuador brics joebiden mining 2024 lima xijinping marcorubio blackrock petehegseth panamacanal panamácanal jairbolsonaro javiermilei caribbean currency dollar currencies waronterror maríacorinamachado gold socialism danielortega rosariomurillo war military migration immigration https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4100a5530fe6/ Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Is a Warning 2025-11-22T00:35:28+00:00 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/elon-musks-grokipedia-is-a-warning.html robertogrecoChatGPT shouldn’t have political bias in any direction. People use ChatGPT as a tool to learn and explore ideas. That only works if they trust ChatGPT to be objective… We created a political bias evaluation that mirrors real-world usage and stress-tests our models’ ability to remain objective… Based on this evaluation, we find that our models stay near-objective on neutral or slightly slanted prompts, and exhibit moderate bias in response to challenging, emotionally charged prompts. The company was announcing the development of “an automated evaluation setup to continually track and improve objectivity over time,” using “approximately 500 prompts spanning 100 topics and varying political slants,” across “five nuanced axes of bias.” If the goal of Grok is to express a specific bias against prevailing progressive narratives by reflecting right-wing views — or just to stay in line with the values and priorities of its creator — well, that’s achievable. (It’s also something LLMs are well suited for as a technology.) In contrast, the goal OpenAI has set for itself is “objectivity,” in practice or at least reputation, which, for a chatbot tasked with talking about everything to everyone, really isn’t. As novel and versatile as LLM-based chatbots are, their relationship to the outside world is recognizably and deeply editorial, like a newspaper or, more recently, an algorithmically sorted-and-censored social network. (It’s helpful to think of OpenAI’s “bias evaluation” process, or Grokipedia’s top-down reactionary political correctness, as less of a systemic audit than a straightforward edit.) What ChatGPT says about politics — or anything — is ultimately what the people who created it say it should say, or allow it to say; more specifically, human beings at OpenAI are deciding what neutral answers to those 500 prompts might look like and instructing their model to follow their lead. OpenAI’s incoherent appeal to objective neutrality is an effort to avoid this perception and one that anyone who runs a major media outlet or social-media platform knows won’t fool people for long. OpenAI would probably prefer not to be evaluated by these punishing and polarized standards, so, as many other organizations have tried before, it’s claiming to exist outside them. On that task, I suspect ChatGPT will fail. [embed] Luckily for OpenAI, ChatGPT’s future doesn’t hinge on creating a universal chatbot that everyone sees as unbiased — it’ll settle for being seen as useful, entertaining, or reasonable and trustworthy to enough people. Research papers and “bias evaluations” aside, the product and its users are veering away from shared experiences and into personalized, bespoke forms of interaction in which chatbots gradually profile their users and provide them with information that’s more relevant to their specific experiences or more sensitive to their personal preferences or both. Frequent chatbot users know that popular models can drift into sycophancy, which is a powerful and general sort of bias. They also know they can be commanded to inhabit different identities, political or otherwise (you can ask ChatGPT to talk to you like a dead French poststructuralist if you want or ask it to talk to you like Mr. Beast. Soon, reportedly, you’ll be able to ask it to pleasure you sexually). Still, for all their dazzling newness and versatility, AI chatbots are in many ways continuing the project started by late-stage social media, extending the logic of machine-learning recommendations into a familiar human voice. It’s not just that output neutrality is difficult to obtain for systems like this. It’s that they’re incompatible with the very concept. In that sense, Grokipedia — like X and Grok — is also a warning. Sure, it’s part of an excruciatingly public example of one man’s gradual isolation from the world inside a conglomerate-scale system of affirming, adulatory, and ideologically safe feeds, chatbots, and synthetic media, a situation that would be funny if not for Musk’s desire and power to impose his vision on the world. (To calibrate this a bit, imagine predicting the “Wikipedia rewritten to be more conservative by Elon Musk’s anti-PC chatbot” scenario in the run-up to, say, his purchase of Twitter. It would have sounded insane, and you would have too.) But what Musk can build for himself now is something that consumer AI tools, including his, will soon allow regular people to build for themselves, or which will be constructed for them by default: A world mediated not just by publications or social networks but by omnipurpose AI products that assure us they’re “maximally truth-seeking” or “objective” as they simply tell us what we want to hear."]]> johnherrman 2025 elonmusk grokipedia wikipedia knowledge ai artificialintelligence openai xai chatgpt llms chatbots twitter isolation socialmedia mrbeast bias censorship socialnetowrks ideology markzuckerberg antiwoke freespeech freedomofspeech centralization internet web online farright rightwing information racism race media propaganda grievance wokeism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:456f5a9fffeb/ Americans Are Abandoning the Communal Meal 2025-10-30T19:49:57+00:00 https://jacobin.com/2025/10/solo-dining-communal-meals-us robertogreco 2025 meaganday meals social tradition civilization society isolation us conviviality davidriesman bowlingalone robertputnam bryceevans uk breakingbread silviorodríguez antonemartinho-truswell https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d5d3573a64f0/ He earns $200K at Microsoft. 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media indian hungary israel oligarchy wealth inequality jeffbezos elonmusk corporatism corporations corporaterulingclass jordanpeterson masculinity rage aggression deathsofdespair agency paralysis apathy misogyny violence suffering genocide palestine gaza richardseym https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9bcf8c075e97/ The Future Is Too Easy | Defector 2025-01-30T00:34:41+00:00 https://defector.com/the-future-is-too-easy robertogreco 2025 davidroth surveillance optimization ces technology ai artificialintelligence multiverse caseynewton openai marcandreessen stevejobs consumption capitalism consumerism self-determination convenience efficiency deepseek energy growth greed passivity commoncause collectivism isolation othering economics politics robots siliconvalley selfdetermination https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ddc05347f6c3/ Acid Fascism in: Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities Volume 5 Issue 1 (2024) 2025-01-13T01:35:15+00:00 https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/jbsm/5/1/jbsm050106.xml robertogreco masculinity jaclewis sexuality fascism rightwing 2024 online internet socialmedia radicalright markfisher acidfascism digital rolandbarthes félixguattari jonathanbowden modernity gender richardspencer rationalism rationality paranoia antifascism atomization restraint elonmusk peterthiel curtisyarvin marcandreeessen ideology nostalgia francoberardi intelligence counterculture insurgency politics richardseymour solipsism isolation walterbenjamin 1960s emancipation liberation freedom everyday everydaylife 1970s psychedelics consciousness power jamangan anxiety baudrillard misogyny patriarchy antifeminism capitalism appropriation guillaumefaye psychoanalysis hippies enlightenment hyperrationalism science eliezeryudkowsky cultofaction melancholia society cynthiacruz release finance speculation politicaleconomy donaldtrump jdvance guattari menciusmoldbug neoreactionaries darkenlightenment nerdreich femininity jeanbaudrillard https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:992a29fbe6dc/ TLS: Live | Cracks in the image 2025-01-03T00:09:14+00:00 https://app.the-tls.co.uk/tls_article/cracks-in-the-image/pugpig_index.html robertogreco simoneweil madoccairns 2024 susansontag karlmarx christianity judaism antisemitism jewishness anniedillard marygordon cynthiawallace adriennerich aristotle catholicism ethics individualism isolation loneliness https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:645fd53bc033/ Gen Z and situationships: The new type of relationship everyone’s doing, but no one wants. 2025-01-03T00:05:03+00:00 https://slate.com/life/2024/11/gen-z-situationship-relationship-dating-risk-ghosting-chappell-roan.html robertogreco relationships situationships 2024 emmacamp genx generationz intimacy chappellroan romance charlixcx sabrinacarpenter risk risktaking isolation screentime parenting gabrielrubin ghosting bradwilcox zoom covid-19 coronavirus pandemic loneliness 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