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In this conversation, Musa discusses the role of symbolic capitalists in perpetuating societal inequalities and how their influence extends to academia and media. His latest book, "We Have Never Been Woke," provides a radical yet introspective take on these themes. Drawing from his experiences at elite institutions like Columbia University, he highlights the paradoxes and internal contradictions of symbolic capitalism. Join us as Musa al-Gharbi articulates the complicity of the professional-managerial class in societal injustices and reflects on the role of identity and networks in shaping academic and professional paths.

In This Episode:
• Definition and impact of symbolic capitalists
• Collaboration between symbolic and traditional capitalists
• Moral and ethical implications of symbolic professions
• The interplay between academia and elite credentialing
• Disparities within symbolic professions
• Exploitation of adjunct professors in higher education
• Historical context of social justice movements among symbolic capitalists
• The symbolic performance of advocacy vs. direct action
• Revisiting the relationship between personal success and systemic inequality

About Musa:
Musa al-Gharbi, Ph.D., is the Daniel Bell Research Fellow at Heterodox Academy, and an assistant professor of journalism, communication and sociology at Stony Brook University. Musa is the Author of We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite, published by Princeton University Press. He is a columnist for The Guardian and his writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic, among other publications."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Meet the new AI model with its own therapist. 

Sources: 

https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing 

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/17/openai-text-generator-dangerous/ "]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The company that promised AI would do the job of 10 people, can't even do the job of ONE company.

Articles referenced in this video:

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/31/enterprises-prefer-anthropics-ai-models-over-anyone-elses-including-openais/

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-cutting-projects

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-codex-race-claude-code/

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/opinion/artificial-intelligence-anthropic-amodei.html

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/27/1126673/openai-new-atlas-browser/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/technology/sora-openai-video-disinformation.html

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-chatgpt-side-projects-16b3a825

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-code-ai-7a46460e

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

https://www.index.dev/blog/developer-productivity-statistics-with-ai-tools "]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This week, Sam talks to Emily Bender and Alex Hanna about the marketing ploys of “artificial intelligence,” why ridicule works to keep big tech’s claims in check, and what makes them hopeful for the future. They’re the authors of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want.

Dr. Alex Hanna is a writer and sociologist of technology, labor, and politics. She’s the Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) and a Lecturer in the School of Information at the University of California Berkeley. Dr. Emily M. Bender is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington where she is also the Faculty Director of the Computational Linguistics Master of Science program and affiliate faculty in the School of Computer Science and Engineering and the Information School.

They also host the The Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast which “deflates AI hype and draws attention to the real harms of the automation technologies we call ‘artificial intelligence’.” 

- The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want: https://thecon.ai/

- The Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast: https://www.dair-institute.org/maiht3k/

- Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher: https://www.404media.co/bards-and-sages-closing-ai-generated-writing/

- Emily’s cartoon: https://bsky.app/profile/emilymbender.bsky.social/post/3mgmx232j2u2k

- Questioning the Normalization of Surveillance by the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown:  https://medium.com/center-on-privacy-technology/questioning-the-normalization-of-surveillance-6a9c2f58c017 

- You Are Not a Parrot at NY Mag: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

[See also:

"Ridicule as Praxis (with Emily Bender and Alex Hanna)
Why ridicule works to keep big tech’s claims in check, and what makes us hopeful for the future."
https://www.404media.co/ridicule-as-praxis-with-emily-bender-and-alex-hanna/ ]"]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2026-03-20T04:24:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYUI67ioIR0</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Peaches are one of America’s most recognizable fruits. In the US, hundreds of thousands of tons are produced each year, and the fruit is closely tied to one place in particular: Georgia.

The Georgia peach is on license plates, road signs, and even county names. But today, the state doesn’t grow the most peaches. Not even close.

This video explores how peaches became a state symbol, how that reputation spread through active mythmaking, and why the Georgia peach identity has lasted even as the industry changed.

Read more about the history of the Georgia peach:

The Georgia Peach Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South, William Thomas Okie https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/georgia-peach/714FA4E59376F142CD71F9E2742E6C61

“The Georgia Peach: A Labor History,” JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org/the-georgia-peach-a-labor-history/

“The Un-Pretty History Of Georgia's Iconic Peach,” NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/07/21/537926947/the-un-pretty-history-of-georgias-iconic-peach

The Fuzzy History of the Georgia Peach,”Smithsonian Magazine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fuzzy-history-georgia-peach-180964490/

This video is presented by Stonyfield Organics. Stonyfield Organics doesn’t have a say in our editorial decisions, but they make videos like this one possible."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[in response to Paul Graham:
https://www.paulgraham.com/brandage.html ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[Jack Forster responds:
https://jackforster.substack.com/p/tech-guru-paul-graham-says-the-watch ]]]></description>
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    <title>Hyperreal Fascism | Plastic Pills - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-19T20:51:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9fpm-lorIU</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["check https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills or join the channel for my other theory/philosophy content, including an explanation of the "semiotic square".

See the ProPublica story:
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-ad-campaign-strategy-group

Other refs:
Walter Benjamin "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" https://amzn.to/4s5svwR
Algirdas Julien Greimas "Semiotics and Language" https://amzn.to/4tRF3cT
Jean Baudrillard "Simulacra and Simulation" https://amzn.to/4rWMzkC
Wilhelm Reich "The Mass Psychology of Fascism" https://amzn.to/4tAS3mS

00:00 - Fascism's New Face
11:03 - what's Hyperreal
18:35 - what's Fascism
32:01 - Kristi Noem ICE Barbie
38:52 - The Psychosexual Semiotics of Fascism"]]></description>
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1my3jJ96cyKmHubZu5mTLgp3wzEWtXKJkqfP0kKcF6kE/edit?tab=t.0

0:00 Intro
4:06 Challenge accepted
6:55 Three Questions
24:14 Why no influences? (deskilling/narcissism)
35:50 Profiles of the Future
47:54 Good uses of Suno
59:05 Futurism/Techno-Optimism
1:16:22 New Virtues
1:22:03 Final Predictions"

[via:
https://blog.ayjay.org/faster/

"Near the beginning of this long, fascinating, and deeply depressing video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk ] Adam Neely says that he doesn’t think Mikey Shulman, the CEO and prime hypeman of Suno, is evil. I dunno, I think he might be evil. A person who makes and advocates for anything this destructive will likely be one of the following:

• Evil — happy to do any amount of damage to humanity as long as he gets rich;
• Sociopathic — unable to consider the consequences of his actions for others;
• Self-deceived — skilled at internally avoiding obvious questions about the validity of what he’s doing.

So being evil is not the only option here, but it’s definitely one of three.

There are so many bizarre things about this dude, but I was taken by one small thing: around the 8:40 mark of the video he says, “I know one person who is a songwriter who had a lull in creativity, and after finding Suno went from maybe making 50 songs a year to making 500 songs a year.” Now this is a ridiculous thing to say — but in an interesting way. Shulman knows so little about musical composition that he thinks that a person in a creative “lull” writes a mere fifty songs a year.

Let’s think about that. Consider Bob Dylan, whom some people think of as a prolific sngwriter. In his 65-year career he has composed roughly 700 songs. Pathetic! Even if he had experienced a lifelong “lull in creativity,” he’d have, by Shulman’s metrics, produced 3250 songs — and if he’d used Suno, why, he’d have knocked out 32,500 songs by now, with a few thousand more probably remaining to be processed by the Suno Song Extruder™.

As absurd sales pitches go, Shulman’s is solid gold.

Anyway, you should watch Adam’s human-made non-extruded video. It raises many important issues and makes many important points, especially about the relative value of patience and impatience. Shulman loves impatience, because impatient people are his primary marks. “Faster is obviously better,” he says, a comment he doesn’t seem to think applies only to music composition. Maybe he has the same view about eating, talking with friends, and sex. Faster! And then what? [https://blog.ayjay.org/and-then/ ]

But the most vital claim Adam makes, I think, is this: the arrival of AI slop machines like Suno will dramatically accelerate something that’s already well underway, the widening chasm between live music and recorded music. When musicians recorded live in studio, the gap between that and live performance was very small; now it’s vast and getting vaster. And as Adam says, people will always want to experience live music — and perhaps will value it all the more because of the contrast to an increasingly slop-dominated world of recordings. (Especially in human-scale venues where lip-syncing and pitch-correction are impossible.)

I happened to come across Adam’s video yesterday just after watching Julian Lage and his bandmates perform “Something More” [https://youtu.be/AECKSq8r2OM?si=WCJ4gW-viCdlYjAX ] — what a beautiful song, and look at that, it’s just four people in a room making that beauty happen. I only wish they were coming my way sometime soon."]]]></description>
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    <title>Everything Was Already AI - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-09T19:34:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km2bn0HvUwg</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Feedback welcome, hope you enjoy this video which was a lot of fun to make (albeit late)

References (in rough order of appearance)

How to Make Realistic Predictions About AI, Tantham
https://curveshift.net/p/how-to-make-realistic-predictions

Silicon Valley Insider EXPOSES Cult-Like AI Companies | Aaron Bastani Meets Karen Hao 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enXRDlWguU

‘Large AI models are cultural and social technologies’, Farrell et al.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt9819

Artificial Intelligences, Herbert Simon

Debunking Economics, Keen 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debunking_Economics

Scientists Just Discovered Why All Pop Music Sounds Exactly the Same
https://www.mic.com/articles/107896/scientists-finally-prove-why-pop-music-all-sounds-the-same

The Dorito Effect, Shatzker
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Dorito-Effect/Mark-Schatzker/9781476724232

How Corporations Hijacked Anti-AI Backlash 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRq0pESKJgg

The Stock Market is a Conventional Wisdom Processor: Why Trump’s Tariffs Crashed the Stock Market While the Trump Musk Payments Crisis Hasn’t (Yet), Tankus
https://www.crisesnotes.com/content/files/2025/04/The-Stock-Market-is-a-Conventional-Wisdom-Processor-Why-Trump-s-Tariffs-Crashed-the-Stock-Market-While-the-Trump-Musk-Payments-Crisis-Hasn-t--Yet-.pdf

Elon Musk’s Billionaire Games - Between the Scenes | The Daily Show 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqlbn2nPO-A

The Job Market Is Hell: Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired. By Annie Lowrey
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/job-market-hell/684133/

What's Wrong with Capitalism (Part 1) | ContraPoints 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJW4-cOZt8A

Disney is Perfectly Happy With Their Catastrophic Downfall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW2Zr8Q6Xqw  

Mr. Plinkett's What Happened To Star Wars?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xeMak4RqJA

AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN9wnPvU0

Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Economy - with Dr Stuart Mills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E6p3J9dko8

An Existing, Ecologically-Successful Genus Of Collectively Intelligent Artificial Creatures, Kuipers
https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4116
https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~kuipers/papers/Kuipers-ci-12.pdf

AI Integration Is the New Moat, Tim O’Reilly
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/integration-is-the-new-moat/

Dirty Little Marketing Secrets That Always Work - Rory Sutherland (4K)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvpw4_O25eU

The Time for Cybernetics Has Come - with Daniel Davies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3HpdNGvJDc

notes on the industrialisation of decision making, Davies
https://backofmind.substack.com/p/notes-on-the-industrialisation-of

the only message the channel can carry is a scream, Davies
https://backofmind.substack.com/p/the-only-message-the-channel-can

The AI Circular Economy, Blakeley
https://graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ai-circular-economy

The Case Against Generative AI, Zitron
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-against-generative-ai/

The Map is Eating the Territory: The Political Economy of AI, Farrell
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-political-economy-of-ai

the ending of every 7 hour video essay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8reiauyQCM 

Further reading

AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton - The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart | Podcast on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4pWuwQq8M8Gzf9F9U0AYZW

Transformers, the tech behind LLMs | Deep Learning Chapter 5 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M

You're Being Lied To About Private Equity | Truth Complex 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pzLhWCxH_g 

AI As a Normal Technology, Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-normal-technology "]]></description>
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    <title>The Swiss Watch Industry Needs Bernhard Lederer's Philosophy</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-02T12:57:08+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For the first time, I found myself wholeheartedly agreeing with a press release [https://lederertimepieces.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DP2-LEDERER-CIC39mm-T2.pdf ] that just landed in my in-box. This was disorienting. Agreement is not a position I’ve found myself taking vis-a-vis press materials before. Most aren’t pushing anything to agree or disagree with in the first place. But as I read the PDF explaining Lederer’s new watch (the CIC 39 [https://lederertimepieces.com/watch/cic-39-racing-green/ ], already sold out), I was nodding my head approvingly the whole way down.

The watch takes on the historically significant and rather fascinating detent escapement [https://revolutionwatch.com/the-detent-escapement-in-wristwatches-dream-a-big-little-dream/ ] invented by Abraham-Louis Breguet, but what struck me about this press release was the philosophical statements woven into almost every paragraph. Together, these statements formed a coherent—yet wonderfully dreamy—philosophy of watchmaking that also (perhaps unwittingly) lodges a long-needed critique of the Swiss watch industry writ large.

[photo of Lederer CIC 39]

I mean, this is a really good press release. It comes from Bernhard Lederer, one of the few great living independent watchmakers to come out of the generation that gave us Philippe Dufour, F. P. Journe, Kari Voutilainen and Laurent Ferrier—a tiny ilk of true masters.

Check out these extracted bits from the CIC 39’s press release, which in condensed form read like a hybrid of Wittenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Shunryu Suzuki’s Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind.

“…a watch is never an object, it is a manifestation of thought.”

“[Watchmaking’s] future belongs to those who pursue sincerity rather than spectacle.”

“…a creation has value only if it solves a real mechanical challenge, clarifies a system, stabilizes energy, or deepens understanding. Anything else is only noise.”

“Advancement cannot betray the craft.”

“Independence is not solitude….”

“Aesthetics arise not from decoration…”

“Every aesthetic choice in the [watch] exists to serve the mechanics.”

“…the elegance of a mechanism that has nothing to hide, only truth to reveal.”

“A movement should teach.”

“Its architecture is not merely functional; it is didactic.”

“Each wheel, bridge, and lever is placed with intent so that the movement reads clearly, teaching the eye how energy travels and how precision is earned.”

“…the [watch] expresses precision with a calm, almost meditative authority.”

“[The watch] does not demand attention; it invites a quieter form of fascination.”

[photo of Lederer CIC 39 movement from back of watch]

“…a quieter form of fascination.”

Many years ago, I started a podcast called Beyond the Dial that set out to explore the intersection of aesthetics and mechanics in watchmaking. I didn’t set out to explore mechanics and aesthetics separately, or even in parallel; I intended to explore the intersectionality of mechanics and aesthetics, what I envision as a kind of blurry overlaying of the Venn diagram’s circles into a unified field of aesthetic-mechanical creation from which those attuned to it could sometimes derive a state of prolonged wonder, a horological high.

A few truly great watches seamlessly fuse mechanics and aesthetics: Patek Philippe’s Ref. 1518, F.P. Journe’s Chronomètre à Résonance, the Lange 1, Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Master Hybris Mechanica Calibre 362. These watches, and precious few others, have transcended trends and can reliably engender the horological high, that uniquely prolonged state of wonder, that “quieter form of fascination,” as Lederer aptly puts it.

On the podcast, I struggled to express what this high was, exactly. I used phrases like “the phenomenology of watches,” [https://www.beyondthedial.com/post/insight-the-watch-collector-enthusiast-dichotomy-its-discontents-the-phenomenology-of-watches-as-spiritual-practice/ ] “mechanical wonder,” [https://www.beyondthedial.com/post/podcast-the-final-episode-through-the-looking-glass-on-philosophy-watches/ ] and “tripping on watches” to expound the idea that—since telling the time was no longer the point of looking at a mechanical wristwatch—experiencing a heightened state of mind might be. 

Watches are aesthetic objects, of course. All objects are. But when I allow watches to become mere objects of style, the psychological balm, the horological high, the sweet buzz of time abstracted via a tiny machine…it all just evaporates. When this happens, I find myself chasing down some passing trend [https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/vintage-vacheron-allen-farmelo ], or vying for social position in the horological hierarchy, worried about what so-and-so would think of my so-called wrist-game. And then I’d grow cynical about watches and, in the end, bored with them.

[photo of Lederer CIC 39]

Grokking mechanics to some degree is fundamental to my achieving the horological high, “the quieter form of fascination.” Promoting this state of mind, I will argue, should be the core mission of the Swiss watch industry. This message is implicit in Lederer’s philosophy.

The Sweeping Problem

I believe that social media and the mass popularization of watches it helped foster have made it much harder to filter out the buzz of fast-fashion and tune into the hard-hitting horological high I was pushing via Beyond the Dial. 

With a tiny glimmer of hope, I sense a return to mechanical concerns across the industry as the post-pandemic markets calm down. I sense that serious watch maisons are realizing that something more than a sage-green dial or some clever “collab watch” is required to draw serious collectors back to their latest offerings. The bubble burst around 2023, and now the hype-fest is cooling down. I’m seeing little glimpses of a return to mechanical concerns from Panerai, Breguet, Vacheron Constantin, and even Rolex.

Lederer’s recent release of the CIC 39 (as well as the other five watches in his Masters of Escapement [https://lederertimepieces.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/2025_Press-Dossier-LEDERER_Bernhard-Lederer-Biography.pdf ] series) may point the way for the watch industry to regain its hold on generating that elusive sense of mechanical wonder in its customers. This is certainly the highest calling of the enterprise called watchmaking, and it is well worth considering how the Swiss watch industry can humbly return that sense of mechanical wonder to primacy.

The Language of a Master

The philosophy of Lederer, so eloquently woven into this recent press release, is built from the astute language of a master who knows about mechanical wonder, about attaining horological highs, about transcending the surface of visual aesthetics (i.e., going beyond the dial) and basking in the blurry merger I call mechanical-aesthetics.

If Lederer’s philosophy of watchmaking wasn’t sincere, this language would be easy to dismiss as just more high-handed marketing fluff, of which a great deal emanates from the Swiss watch industry. But the Lederer release rings sincere—even humble—when considered within the context of the mechanical problems with which he toils.

[photo of Bernhard Lederer]

“A mechanism must solve a real problem. If it doesn’t, it remains an idea, not watchmaking. For centuries, the detent escapement had potential locked inside it. I wanted to give it a voice,” Lederer is quoted as saying in the press release for the CIC 39.

I’m reminded of John Coltrane, the jazz saxophonist who toiled humbly for well over a decade before finally figuring out how to go beyond the bold accomplishments of Charlie “Yardbird” Parker. Many great artists toil tirelessly in the shadow of a specific forebearer, a (usually deceased) master who haunts them with lingering unanswered questions.

[photo of John Coltrane]

Coltrane once said [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/592345/3-shades-of-blue-by-james-kaplan/ ], “I’ve had a strange career. I haven’t yet quite found out how I want to play music. Most of what’s happened these past few years has been questions. Someday we’ll find the answers.”

“We go where watchmaking has questions left to answer,” Lederer says in the press release, sounding just like Coltrane.

The Detent Escapement and its Problems

Others of Lederer’s generation have toiled with Breguet’s escapements (both the natural and detent mechanisms), including Laurent Ferrier [https://laurentferrier.ch/blogs/news/in-depth-look-laurent-ferriers-natural-escapement ] and Kari Voutilainen [https://revolutionwatch.com/the-detent-escapement-in-wristwatches-dream-a-big-little-dream/ ]. The problems inherent to these mechanisms loom large, nagging the great masters to solve them.

You can find dozens of videos [https://www.google.com/search?udm=7&q=detent%20escapement&sqi=2 ] depicting the detent escapement’s fascinating motion, which will serve you better than my attempts at explanation. What I can confirm is that for centuries the detent escapement had suffered from limitations that make it unsuitable for use in everyday watches. It’s hard to get going once the movement has stopped, for one, and it is prone to instability at low amplitude, which is required for any meaningful power reserve in the relatively small space of a wristwatch movement. 

Lederer claims to have toiled—and, importantly, failed repeatedly—with the detent escapement for decades, slowly building up his understanding of the mechanism’s limitations and eventually finding workable solutions.

[photo of Lederer CIC 39 movement showing detent escapement]

The result of Lederer’s protracted effort is a gorgeous movement that runs the revised detent escapement off of a center-mounted balance cock. The escapement drives two independent gear trains, a configuration similar to the natural escapement-driven movement in his Central Impulse Chronometer [https://www.phillips.com/article/162598500/in-depth-the-lederer-central-impulse-chronometer ] of 2022, one of the six movements that Lederer is releasing as part of his Masters of Escapement series.

Humility and Slowness Can Reset the Watch Industry

As I read the press release for this watch, I hear a not-entirely subtle critique of the mainstream Swiss watch industry. Lederer’s philosophy of watchmaking is tersely in opposition to what has become the operable norm of Swiss watchmaking today: namely, that style and decoration (from gratuitous dial treatments to gaudy pave cases and trendy reissues) dominate watch design.

“Aesthetics arise not from decoration…”

“…a creation has value only if it solves a real mechanical challenge, clarifies a system, stabilizes energy, or deepens understanding. Anything else is only noise.”

“[Watchmaking’s] future belongs to those who pursue sincerity rather than spectacle.”

In espousing this philosophy, Lederer is, I think, showing the watch industry how it might rearrange its priorities and, with that, keep itself from bleeding out while caught in the hype-trap. The underlying message is that the marketing strategies of large luxury groups have sacrificed too much in service of social media’s voraciousness and the fashion industry’s quarterly renewals. Watchmaking that allows the inherently slow development of genuine mechanical innovation to (literally) undergird aesthetics can never keep that pace.

It is abundantly obvious to me that the reason Swiss watchmaking today can feel so spurious, so devoid of meaning, at times so blatantly dumb, is that too many brands insist on attempting to keep an unreasonable pace dictated by the demands of their marketing departments and not their R&D divisions. This hyper-pace has resulted in a splintering of annual collections into monthly, sometimes weekly, introductions of new dial colors, limited editions wrapped in weak partnership narratives, endless announcements about who wore which watch to what red-carpet event, and the press release I received last year asking me to tell my readers about a new strap color on offer for a watch already released multiple times with increasingly horrendous dial colors. I’m confident that this is the “noise” to which Lederer refers.

[photo of Lederer CIC 39]

With a measure of compassion, I understand that the onset of social media, the broadening of luxury markets, and the demand for quarterly ROI have pressured the great watchmakers of Switzerland (and elsewhere) to hustle beyond their capacity for genuine innovation. We all get it on some level; the impact is felt across industries around the world—including journalism.

But wasn’t watchmaking meant to be that one oasis of enduring sanity in a desert of spurious luxury madness? Or, shouldn’t it be?

Over and over we’ve seen the mandates for growth destroy the integrity of horological endeavors ranging from publications [https://www.wsj.com/style/fashion/hodinkee-luxury-watches-ben-clymer-b4078322 ] to philanthropic programs [https://robbreport.com/style/watch-collector/lists/15-watches-withdrawn-from-onlywatch-auction-1235595062/ ] to entire watch brands [https://robbreport.com/style/watch-collector/lists/bremont-watches-are-suddenly-good-investments-here-are-10-to-get-now-1235799724/ ]. At some point an industry gets stretched too far and can lose something essential, allowing consumer cynicism to creep in. Watchmaking has to at least consider resetting its priorities around something other than striving to keep pace with the mad tempos of social media and the world of fashion into which it seems so desperate to enter.

It’s time to put mechanical wonder back at the center of watchmaking, to respect the actual history of mechanical watchmaking rather than perennially spinning that history up into some seasonal marketing campaign, to more slowly help neophytes come to understand the subtleties of mechanical watchmaking rather than trying to degrade their sense of self in order to convince them to buy this week’s offering. We’ll get fewer bubbles this way, but they won’t burst their wet mess all over the quarterly reports, either.

Without a reinstatement of a core philosophy that prioritizes meaningful horological achievements, we’re going to end up in a world of uninspiring watches traded as the coinage of social capital. The world needs that about as much as it needs another smooth jazz record."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Nostalgia for the past has supplanted our yearnings for the future, becoming the default marketing tool for corporations. Instead of asking ‘what’s new?’, they ask ‘what have we done before that you liked?’. This trend transcends marketing tactics, reflecting a destabilizing era of remakes and reboots. Crucially, nostalgia is a finite resource, and its exhaustion bears unknown consequences.

Jean Baudrillard’s notions of simulacra and simulation offer a valuable framework for understanding this phenomenon. In the post-postmodern era, the line between reality and representation has blurred into hyperreality, where simulations precede and replace the real.

Constructed Nostalgia depletes this finite resource, erasing authentic memories and replacing them with inferior copies. Consequently, our recollections are overwritten by simulacra, leaving us with inauthentic memories devoid of the original’s substance.

***

Authentic Nostalgia

To understand this phenomenon, it is essential to distinguish between authentic and constructed nostalgia. Authentic nostalgia arises from genuine personal experiences and emotional connections to the past. In contrast, constructed nostalgia is manufactured, designed to evoke a sentimental response without the underlying connection. It creates a feeling that one should be nostalgic, even if the specific reasons for that nostalgia are unclear.

Constructed Nostalgia is a Xerox of a Xerox. It starts with something you genuinely remember and feel fondness for, then revises it. This sanitized and engineered version of the past creates a sense of familiarity and longing without the authentic emotional foundation. For example, the resurgence of 1980s-themed products and media is predominantly consumed by much younger people rather than those who lived through that decade. Twenty-first-century teenagers listen to cassette tapes and records, feeling an inexplicable sense of home despite having no direct experience with these mediums.

***

Stages of Simulacrum

Baudrillard’s stages of simulacra elucidate this phenomenon further. Initially, a nostalgic product is created as a faithful reproduction—consider Commodore 64 clones, for example. These products aim to replicate the original experience closely, preserving the essence and integrity of the original, and maintaining a strong connection to authentic nostalgia. However, as these products become pervasive and are altered for modern tastes, they transform into distorted representations (second order simulacra). Remastered video games with updated graphics and controls, while retaining the essence of the original, introduce modern elements that alter the authentic experience, thereby introducing a layer of inauthenticity.

The third order of simulacra involves copies that pretend to be real but are fundamentally different from the original. The NES Classic, a modern version of the original Nintendo Entertainment System with pre-loaded games and new features, presents itself as an authentic revival but is essentially a different product. In this stage, the distinction between the original and the copy becomes blurry, creating a hyperreal experience where the simulation takes precedence over the original.

Finally, the fourth order of simulacra represents copies with no relation to any reality whatsoever. Modern devices designed to look vintage but equipped with entirely new technology fall into this category. These products evoke a sense of nostalgia through aesthetics alone, without any genuine link to past experiences. At this stage, the nostalgic product is a pure simulacrum, serving as a standalone object of nostalgia without any connection to the authentic past.

The progression of these stages illustrate how the commodification of nostalgia is an ouroborus - you can’t help but erode the ground your standing on. This process of transforming authentic memories into commodified products ultimately results in a loss of genuine cultural and personal history. We replace the warm feelings of authentic nostalgia with it’s sugar-free version, lacking depth and authenticity.

The more we engage with these feelings, the more they’re overwritten.

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Psychological Impact of Constructed Nostalgia

The psychological impact of constructed nostalgia extends beyond mere consumer behavior, influencing how we perceive and recall our past. As constructed nostalgia becomes the prevalent form, it begins to distort our memories and affect our well-being in profound ways.

When individuals repeatedly engage with nostalgic products that simulate the past, their authentic memories begin to fade, replaced by the sanitized versions sold to them. This phenomenon is known as “retroactive interference,” where new information interferes with the ability to recall old information accurately. For instance, someone playing a remastered version of a childhood game may find their memories of the original game becoming hazy, replaced by the updated experience. This not only affects personal memories but also shapes the collective cultural memory, as we begin to remember the past through the lens of these reconstructions.

The malleability of these feelings has profound emotional consequences. Simulated warmth and familiarity do not stand up to the real thing. The realization that one’s nostalgia is constructed can lead to feelings of disconnection and dissatisfaction. When individuals recognize that their nostalgic feelings are based on inauthentic experiences, it creates a sense of loss that extends beyond the media or products they interact with. This recognition seems to drive a cycle where people seek out more nostalgic connections in an attempt to recapture the original emotions, further cannibalizing their opportunities to experience genuine nostalgia.

The broader implications of this phenomenon are significant. We struggle to form a coherent sense of self when our memories are constantly overwritten by constructed experiences. This constant overwriting detracts from the formation of a stable personal identity. Culturally, our reliance on constructed nostalgia leads to a homogenized view of the past, where diverse and authentic childhood experiences are overshadowed by a dominant, sanitized narrative. This homogenization not only distorts our understanding of history but also diminishes the richness and variety of cultural memory.

***

We Can’t Go Back

Once this process of photo-copying and overwriting begins, we reach a point of no return. The original emotions tied to our authentic memories are replaced by their engineered versions. The broken wheel of constructed nostalgia ensures these genuine feelings are lost forever.

Consider a child who watches Ghostbusters in the 1980s and cherishes the film as part of their childhood. As an adult, they participate in the new sequels - a second stage simulacrum - but their own child, even if they watch the original first before the sequels, understand the film as “Dad’s thing”, since they can’t have the emotional connection to the time and place of the original film. They can only feel the simulacrum, the modernized version, without the cultural and emotional context.

With time, this means that nostalgia for the property gets burned up entirely. Dad gets frustrated with the retrobait no longer doing anything for him emotionally. Daughter never really felt a connection with it at all. Corporation moves on and starts constructing nostalgia for something else.

What we are witnessing is the creation of a feedback loop, where each generation’s history is undermined from the foundation upwards. Future generations, growing up with sequels and remakes, are nostalgic for a simulacrum—a copy without an original. This manufactured sentimentality lacks the depth of authentic emotional connections.

Before the post postmodern, history was rewritten by the victors. Now it is continually revised by those who profit from it. This commodification of nostalgia transforms our cultural history into a mass-produced disposable product. We slide through the tree of history, turning branches into walking sticks, and reduce it to a superficial, fragmented cultural memory.

***

Historical Events and Nostalgic Overwriting

By continuously engaging with these simulations, we risk erasing the genuine emotional connections that form the foundation of our personal and collective identities. As a result, the more we indulge in constructed nostalgia, the more we lose touch with the authentic experiences that once defined us.

The Summer of Love in 1967, celebrated as a time of peace, love, and cultural revolution, is a prime example of this phenomenon. The reality of the period was far more nuanced, marked by rampant racism, drug abuse, and clashes with police and the state. Nostalgic portrayals often delete these aspects, focusing instead on the era’s vibrant aesthetics and countercultural symbols.

Fashion and media not only reshape our cultural history of the Summer of Love by selling tie-dye shirts and bell-bottom jeans—they burn the historical context entirely. If listening to a Beatles record represents first-order nostalgia, then Temu flower-power jeans are a fourth-order simulacrum. As authentic nostalgia is consumed, subsequent generations fundamentally misunderstand past events. This sanitization permanently erases the struggles and achievements of our history, affecting contemporary social and political movements by oversimplifying and misinterpreting lessons from the past.

Moreover, our reliance on these nostalgic narratives stifles critical engagement with our own humanity. When the past is primarily remembered through constructed nostalgia, the complexities and true nature of our lives become reduced. The potential for meaningful reflection and growth is hindered, leaving us with an unstable foundation upon which to build our understanding of history and identity.

The long-term consequences of relying on constructed nostalgia are profound. As we continue to replace authentic memories with sanitized versions, we risk losing the ability to learn from history. This not only impoverishes our cultural heritage but also weakens our capacity to address contemporary issues with the depth and nuance they require. By embracing a more critical engagement with the past, we can preserve the richness of our collective experiences and foster a more informed and empathetic society. It is essential to recognize the difference between genuine nostalgia and its commodified counterparts, ensuring that our memories and histories remain grounded in reality rather than in superficial reconstructions.

***


Identity Formation and Attachment to Childhood Media

As constructed nostalgia replaces authentic memories, individuals struggle to form a coherent sense of self. We chase connections to our history, and not finding it, attach ourselves to our media instead. This phenomenon is particularly evident in the intense devotion a section of modern adults display towards the media of their childhood, such as the fervent fandoms surrounding franchises like Star Wars, Disney, or Marvel.

The attachment to childhood media often stems from a longing for the simplicity and comfort of the past. Constructed nostalgia plays a crucial role in this attachment by continuously repackaging and marketing these media franchises in ways that evoke sentimental feelings. As a result, adults find themselves clinging to these cultural touchstones, which provide a sense of stability in a world that, due to our reliance on overwritten memories, feels unfamiliar and ever-changing.

This reliance on media for identify formation has significant social implications. On an individual level, obsession with childhood nostalgia leads to a superficial sense of self, anchored in consumer culture rather then true authentic personal experiences. These “Disney-Adults” who define themselves through their fandoms are beyond the point of developing an independent identity, nor do they want to; Their self-concept is entirely influenced by the shifting trends and narratives of manufactured nostalgia, making it difficult to cultivate a stable and nuanced sense of self.

Baudrillard critiqued Disneyland as a prime example of hyperreality—a place where the lines between reality and fantasy are blurred. He argued that Disneyland exists to conceal the fact that it is the “real” America, or rather, a sanitized and idealized version of it. In Baudrillard’s view, Disneyland is not just a theme park; it is a simulation that represents the larger cultural tendency to replace the real with the hyperreal.

If this is the case, then Disney-Adults are the first class citizens of this “real” America, and exist only as expats in material reality. Simulated Nostalgia is their first language before english, more comforting and comprehensible then the material world.

This intense emotional investment in childhood media often leads to exclusionary and defensive behavior. A notable example is the vitriol directed at properties like the new Star Wars films and Captain Marvel. While sexism against female leads was certainly a factor, it overlooks a larger issue—the fear among fans that their identity, deeply intertwined with these media franchises, is being threatened by new adaptations and interpretations. These changes deviate from what they nostalgically cherish, prompting a backlash fueled by a perceived loss of the familiar elements that define their sense of self.

This pattern of defensiveness and exclusionary behavior is not limited to media fandoms; it extends into our larger cultural interactions, particularly in current politics. Constructed nostalgia plays a significant role in shaping political identities and behaviors, as individuals cling to idealized versions of the past that align with their beliefs and values. Political movements often invoke a “golden age” narrative, appealing to voters’ nostalgic longing for a perceived better time. This strategy capitalizes on constructed memories, glossing over the complexities and challenges of the past to create a compelling, yet simplistic, vision of history.

The rise of populist movements globally can be seen as a manifestation of this phenomenon. Leaders and political figures frequently evoke nostalgic imagery to rally support, promising a return to the values and prosperity of a bygone era. This rhetoric resonates deeply with those who feel disconnected from the present and yearn for the familiarity of the past; Moreover, the reliance on constructed nostalgia in politics can lead to polarized and inflexible viewpoints. Just as fans of media franchises react defensively to changes, political adherents reject new ideas and policies that challenge their nostalgic ideals.

The long-term consequences of relying on constructed nostaliga for identity formation will be profound. As individuals and societies become increasingly defined by their media consumption, the ability to engage critically with the past and present is compromised. The only option left is to burn it all down.

***

Oops, We’re Doing an Accelerationism

There is no turning back. It’s impossible to deny Constructed Nostalgia. As long as someone, somewhere, says “Remember this?” the process of its transformation begins, regardless of intent. The speed of resource extraction only increases as profit is discovered.

We can, however, accelerate its consumption until the economy of nostalgia self-destructs; revel in our history like dogs in mud. Burning through our nostalgic resources, we may reach a point where the past is entirely exhausted. This accelerationism proposes that we push this cycle to its logical extreme: by fully embracing the artificiality of Constructed Nostalgia, we expedite its collapse.

In this scenario, the relentless pursuit of monetizable history consumes all historical connections, stripping them of meaning until only the simulacra of all our feelings remain. With nothing left to feel nostalgia for, we are forced to confront the present in all its complexity. By exhausting the past, we free ourselves from its perpetual re-creation, and construct an authentic engagement with the now.

This would be a new cultural paradigm. In this landscape, individuals and societies would be forced to restructure around genuine, unmediated experiences - a world without history.

The only way out is through. Hasten the demise, and clear the path for an authentic future. Burn all of history until all that’s left to monetize and feel is the now - forge a new relationship with time and memory; grounded in the present, free from the distortion feel of commodified sentimentality.

This is why I’m watching the new Fallout TV show on loop. I’m an accelerationist.

***

References

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C, B. (2024, May 17). Diagnosing Lore-Brain. Brennan Words. https://brennanwords.ca/2024/05/diagnosing-lore-brain/

This Exists. (2024, July 4). CRT gaming and the trap of retrobait. YouTube. https://youtube.com/watch?v=vpuomqq6W9A "]]></description>
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    <title>Fauxstalgia: When the Internet Misses a Past That Never Existed</title>
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Fauxstalgia thrives in an internet culture obsessed with reboots, retro filters, and analog vibes. It’s comfort content — emotional escapism packaged as vintage fantasy. But beneath the sepia tones lies a fascinating question: why do we long for the unreal? And what does it mean when the internet manufactures collective memories?

This post explores how fauxstalgia works, who profits from it, and how we can engage with nostalgia consciously — not as a digital dream, but as a mirror for the anxieties of the present.

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The Rise of Fauxstalgia in Digital Culture

The Internet’s Love Affair with the Past

From 8-bit graphics to lo-fi beats, digital spaces are saturated with simulated nostalgia. Social platforms, particularly TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, recycle retro aesthetics — VHS filters, film grain, vintage fonts — to evoke emotions of innocence and comfort. These aesthetics aren’t authentic representations of the past; they’re aestheticized versions of it, stripped of complexity and hardship. The “good old days” are reconstructed for emotional impact, not historical accuracy.

Nostalgia Without Memory

Unlike traditional nostalgia, which comes from personal experience, fauxstalgia is borrowed emotion. A Gen Z user might romanticize the 1990s — floppy disks, MTV, mall culture — despite never having lived through it. This secondhand nostalgia is shaped by digital fragments: curated playlists, pixel art, and AI-enhanced footage that makes the past look better than it ever was. It’s a simulation of memory, a synthetic longing that feels real precisely because it’s shared collectively online.

Why We Crave the Simulated Past

Fauxstalgia offers emotional safety in uncertain times. As technology accelerates and the future feels unstable, the past becomes a psychological refuge. Online, nostalgia functions as an escape hatch — a pause button in an overwhelming digital world. But when that nostalgia is artificial, it reveals not our love for history, but our discomfort with the present.

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Aesthetic Time Travel: The Digital Reconstruction of Memory

The Role of Aesthetics in Manufactured Memory

Every filter, soundtrack, and visual edit contributes to a sensory illusion of the past. Apps like Instagram and VSCO transform reality into a retro dreamscape, making even a 2025 selfie look like a Polaroid from 1979. These images aren’t about authenticity — they’re about emotional tone. The past becomes a brand aesthetic, a texture applied to modern life to make it feel meaningful.

The Rise of “Core” Culture

Online trends like “Y2K core,” “cottagecore,” and “90s core” illustrate how nostalgia has evolved into a taxonomy of moods. Each aesthetic reconstructs a version of the past designed for comfort: a stylized fantasy free of historical messiness. The 90s are remembered not for their inequality or turmoil, but for chunky sneakers and bright windbreakers. These selective memories flatten complexity into aesthetic pleasure, where emotion matters more than truth.

The Algorithmic Memory Machine

Algorithms play a crucial role in sustaining fauxstalgia. They learn which content evokes engagement — a pixelated filter, an old TV ad remix — and amplify it endlessly. The more users respond emotionally, the more nostalgia content gets pushed. In effect, platforms automate the past, creating an endless loop where yesterday is always trending.

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The Commerce of Comfort: How Brands Sell Fauxstalgia



Marketing Through Memory

Brands have long understood the power of nostalgia, but the digital era has refined it into an art form. From Netflix’s retro series like Stranger Things to Pepsi’s 90s-style logos, companies resurrect cultural touchstones to trigger emotional loyalty. Fauxstalgia allows brands to connect emotionally even with audiences too young to remember the original eras they reference. It’s not about memory — it’s about mood.

The Resale of the Past

Products once considered obsolete — vinyl records, film cameras, typewriters — are being rebranded as lifestyle artifacts. The past is no longer gone; it’s re-merchandised. Online thrift platforms and retro subscription boxes sell experiences of authenticity in a world dominated by digital copies. This commodification of the past gives nostalgia a price tag, turning emotional connection into consumption.

The Ethics of Manufactured Memory

While fauxstalgia can feel harmless, it raises questions about authenticity and manipulation. When brands engineer longing for a past that never existed, they also shape how we interpret history. A glossy, corporate version of the 80s or 90s hides economic and social realities. By selling us curated comfort, companies risk erasing the complexity of real memory — and our ability to learn from it.

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The Psychology of Fauxstalgia: Longing for an Unlived Life

Emotional Displacement and Digital Escapism

Fauxstalgia reflects a deeper psychological tension: the desire to escape modern disconnection. The internet offers boundless connection but limited intimacy. The idealized past, whether it’s a synthwave sunset or an imagined 2000s summer, becomes a symbol of simplicity. It’s not the past we miss — it’s the feeling of belonging and presence that modern digital life often lacks.

Collective Yearning in the Age of Uncertainty

Sociologists suggest that nostalgia spikes during cultural instability. Economic precarity, environmental anxiety, and information overload drive people toward emotional retreat. The collective longing for the “before times” — even invented ones — offers a sense of shared mourning. Fauxstalgia becomes both a symptom and a salve for collective unease, a digital campfire where users gather to remember what never was.

Memory, Authenticity, and Emotional Simulation

Fauxstalgia tricks the brain. Research shows that emotionally charged imagery can create false memories — we believe we’ve experienced things we’ve only seen or imagined. Online, constant exposure to curated “vintage” content reinforces these sensations, blurring the line between history and fantasy. The internet doesn’t just preserve memories; it fabricates them.

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When Nostalgia Becomes a Loop: The Future That Keeps Looking Back

The Death of Newness

Fauxstalgia has created a culture of recycling rather than innovation. Music samples old tracks, fashion rehashes old silhouettes, and films reboot existing franchises. The obsession with the past has made cultural originality rare. We’re stuck in a feedback loop of remix culture — consuming the familiar endlessly while craving novelty we no longer trust.

The Emotional Cost of Endless Remakes

Living in constant nostalgia can dull our ability to experience the present. When every image and sound references something older, we risk emotional stagnation. Fauxstalgia offers comfort, but also a kind of cultural paralysis — a refusal to imagine new futures. The past becomes not a lesson, but a lullaby that keeps us from waking up.

Reimagining the Future Through Real Memory

Breaking free from fauxstalgia doesn’t mean rejecting nostalgia altogether. Authentic nostalgia — grounded in personal memory and reflection — can inspire creativity and healing. The key is awareness: recognizing when nostalgia is being sold back to us and choosing to engage with it critically. To move forward, we must reclaim memory as a tool for meaning, not marketing."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Nostalgia - let's explore it!!

1990s Nostalgia: "Simulated Nostalgia: The Banality of the Future | Sleepcore"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58X4opy8vrw 

Nostalgia on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W

Watch and Bullion:
https://watchandbullion.com/casio-f-91w-review/

Watches of MadMen:
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/in-depth-the-watches-of-mad-men-season-five-courtesy-of-the

Fauxstalgia:
https://www.lifeblogs.org/entertainment/fauxstalgia-when-the-internet-misses-a-past-that-never-existed.html

Depleting Real Nostalgia:
https://lagomor.ph/2024/07/they-dont-make-it-like-they-used-to/ "]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://techwontsave.us/episode/303_peter_thiel_is_the_real_antichrist_w_gil_duran">
    <title>Peter Thiel is the Real Antichrist with Gil Duran - Episodes - Tech Won’t Save Us</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-23T16:32:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://techwontsave.us/episode/303_peter_thiel_is_the_real_antichrist_w_gil_duran</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[transcript:
https://www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-valleys-fake-christianity-enables-tech-genocide/ ]

"Paris Marx is joined by Gil Duran to discuss how Peter Thiel’s bizarre obsession with the antichrist is really a desperate and embarrassing attempt to divert attention from his own misdeeds.

Gil Duran writes The Nerd Reich and is working on his first book, The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Gil wrote about Peter Thiel’s Antichrist obsession [https://newrepublic.com/article/200471/peter-thiel-obsession-antichrist-religion ] and the apocalypse capitalism of Silicon Valley [https://www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-valley-apocalypse-capitalism/ ].

• This link is for Peter Thiel (or any Silicon Valley millionaires who may be listening); Gil recommends a brush-up on the French Revolution. [https://www.worldhistory.org/French_Revolution/ ]

• Steve Bannon expects to go to prison. [https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-predicts-prison-if-republicans-lose-midterms-2028-11009422 ]

• Donald Trump’s relationship to crypto continues to be awful. [https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2025/10/10/trump-is-now-one-of-americas-biggest-bitcoin-investors/ ]"

[also here:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/peter-thiel-is-the-real-antichrist-w-gil-duran/id1507621076?i=1000737559693
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyP5hErsA9Y ]]]></description>
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    <title>How the Web Was Lost | James Gleick | The New York Review of Books</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-20T19:48:14+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Internet was not meant to suck."

[archived:
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"Walsh is one of those users—part of a generation that could say (as she did in a previous book, Girl Online), “All the good things in my life have come to me through screens.” She, too, celebrates an egalitarian ideal. We built Internet culture; it’s ours. “I don’t like books that use ‘we,’ that extend the particular to the general, erasing the subtleties of individual lives,” she writes, but that we is essential to her project. She speaks for a presumed cohort of like-minded people, of the right age and class to have a shared experience of the Internet, from then to now. “Online, what we make, and make of ourselves, is experienced not only by whoever’s in front of us, but by anyone we allow to see (and some we don’t),” she says. This is a nice observation. She adds, “Online isn’t an unfamiliar experience any more; it’s where we live.” She means the people who are sometimes called consumers but who, for Internet culture, are also the creators. Her amateurs were liable to use the word aesthetic with particular pleasure and self-consciousness. She celebrates the aesthetic they created, and mourns it, and celebrates it again.

She barely mentions Berners-Lee, but he anticipated her aesthetic of the creative amateur. He, too, liked chaos—“anarchic jumble.” He deplored the apparent rationality evidenced by urban planners like Le Corbusier: “‘rational’ cities, which segmented neighborhoods by function and stripped buildings of detail and ornamentation.” His design for the web was an antidesign, refusing to impose particular structures, leaving space for unanticipated uses and possibilities: “I explicitly conceived of the web to be fractal, thumbing my nose at this kind of false ‘rationality.’” It would evolve, making connections, opening portals, and encouraging creativity. Doctorow remembers it as “a wild and woolly internet, a space where people with disfavored views could find one another, offer mutual aid, and organize.”

Berners-Lee’s memoir serves as a genial potted history of the Internet. He seems to have been everywhere and met everyone. Making an early appearance is a college student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign named Marc Andreessen. In 1993 he was an undergraduate learning to program—he earned $6.85 an hour writing Unix code at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, on the Illinois campus. With another NCSA programmer, Eric Bina, he wrote a web browser they called Mosaic, intended to be simple and user-friendly, with versions for Windows and Macintosh PCs.

That was exactly what the world needed in this moment, when hundreds of thousands of PC owners discovered all at once, modems squealing, that they could “dial in” to “Internet service providers.” The NCSA, with funding from Al Gore’s program, backed the Mosaic browser with press promotion, and for a while it was so popular that people talked about being “on Mosaic” rather than on the Internet or the web. “Think of it as a map to the buried treasures of the Information Age,” The New York Times gushed. Hardly anyone remembers Mosaic now, the history of the Internet being a history of things that were incredibly hot for an incredibly short time.

Berners-Lee, who recalls a tense meeting with a truculent Andreessen in a campus basement, saw his free-for-all vision being co-opted. In short order, Andreessen graduated, decamped to Silicon Valley, and took the web browser private with his own Mosaic Communications Corporation. He settled an intellectual property lawsuit from the University of Illinois, changed the browser’s name to Netscape, and became one of the first Internet billionaires. He appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1996 with bare feet and a lupine grin. Thirty years later, Andreessen is one of Silicon Valley’s most powerful venture capitalists, an enthusiastic backer of the current wave of AI and cryptocurrency. He is the quintessential technocrat, a proud captain of what he calls “the techno-capital machine.”

To its users, the web browser was a lovely tool. To its owners, it was a platform—a means of control, a system that locked users in and monitored their behavior. Microsoft, late to the Internet, caught up and countered Netscape with a browser of its own, Internet Explorer. This period was known as the browser war. The browser acquired more and more features—for playing games, watching videos, signing forms, and most of all buying stuff, ideally with a single click. There was money to be extracted, data to be harvested.

In the most profound way, Andreessen was Berners-Lee’s nemesis, but it’s not Berners-Lee’s style to get mad. That’s more Cory Doctorow’s thing:

<blockquote>The internet is getting worse, fast. The services we rely on, that we once loved? They’re all turning into piles of shit, all at once. Worse, the digital is merging with the physical, which means that the same forces that are wrecking our platforms are also wrecking our homes and our cars, the places where we work and shop. The world is increasingly made up of computers we put our bodies into, and computers we put into our bodies. And these computers suck.</blockquote>

What Doctorow means is that the bright, shiny objects of the Internet have become spy tools, surreptitiously collecting information about us—our habits, our desires, our health, our political inclinations—and using it to manipulate our behavior. The platforms that appear to serve users hungry for information—and did serve them, at first—now go to extreme lengths to seize attention. Algorithms designed to maximize “engagement” amplify anger and sensationalism at the expense of truth.

Novel platforms emerged and swelled in overlapping sequence: the browser, the search engine (Google), the social network (Facebook, Twitter), the megastore (Amazon). Before all of these, before any dream of the Internet, the proto-platform was the Bell System—the American telephone network, a monopoly operated by the world’s most powerful corporation. The Bell System left nothing to chance and nothing to the user. It owned the wires and the telephones. Customers were captive, and so were the ostensible regulators, for most of a century.

After the breakup of the telephone monopoly, the new platforms could not lock in users so absolutely. They had to resort to cunning. Case number one: Facebook, which Doctorow calls “a service that Mark Zuckerberg started in his dorm room so that he and his creepy pals could nonconsensually rate the fuckability of their fellow Harvard undergrads.”

He’s not wrong. But users loved it. They exchanged personal news and relationship statuses and music preferences and pictures. Zuckerberg’s was not the first social media service; oldsters may vaguely recall Friendster and then MySpace, which by 2006 had been snapped up by Rupert Murdoch. As Facebook put it in a marketing pitch:

<blockquote>Has it occurred to you that MySpace is owned by an evil, crapulent, senescent Australian billionaire named Rupert Murdoch, and he spies on you with every hour that God sends?

Come to Facebook, where we will never spy on you.</blockquote>

Now, of course, spying on users is the essence of Zuckerberg’s business model. This is what the Harvard business professor Shoshana Zuboff has called surveillance capitalism, a project of behavior control, commodifying individuals’ personal experience and private information to target them with advertising and propaganda.

In Walsh’s terms, creativity has been replaced by extraction. “Creators are back in the age of the patron,” she writes. Customers become unwitting captives: they have friends and followers, but only by sufferance of the platform; if they want to switch to a different service, they can’t take their network with them.

The ironies are abundant, and chief among them is that the early Internet thrived on cutting out the middleman. If people complained about the markup charged by their brick-and-mortar bookstore, the upstart Amazon promised to eliminate the overhead of shelf space, store rents, and clerk salaries and deliver the merchandise straight to their front door. Or straight to the eyeballs—cut out the printers and paper mills, too. The buzzword was disintermediation. Another master of disintermediation was eBay, connecting buyers and sellers directly, cutting out the antique dealers and flea markets. Napster did the same for music lovers, cutting out the record stores; it began enabling song downloads in 1999, operated for a year and a half, claimed 80 million users, and devastated the recording industry.

And now? The platforms are middlemen par excellence. They squeeze buyers and sellers alike. Music streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music say they aim to connect artists with their fans, helping music lovers find the music they love and helping creators find a livelihood; instead they use their centralized control to pay artists less than ever. Google and Facebook, dominating the global advertising market, have colluded to raise prices for advertisers while minimizing the revenue to websites that publish the ads."

...

"Enshittification represents the fulfillment of a vision laid out by Andreessen in a famous 2011 Wall Street Journal essay, still featured on his company website. “Software is eating the world,” he declared proudly. By then he was a major investor in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Skype, and many others. What he meant by “eating the world” was that Amazon had destroyed Borders, Netflix had destroyed Blockbuster, music-streaming giants were destroying record labels, and Google was “using software to eat the retail marketing industry.” He considered this to be good news.

But software doesn’t eat anything. Tech companies do, when they gain the power to use the levers of the information economy to consolidate and dominate."

...

"Reality has surely disappointed Doctorow yet again. Trump replaced Khan with a commissioner who is reversing her agenda. The antitrust case against Google ended in September with a whimper: the Biden administration had asked for a forced separation of the company’s browser business from its search business, but Judge Amit P. Mehta, having already declared Google a monopolist, backed down. “Here the court is asked to gaze into a crystal ball and look to the future,” he wrote. “Not exactly a judge’s forte.” And Trump has made his own kind of peace with the tech oligarchs: demanding personal obeisance and dispensing favors. Musk and Andreessen became full-throated and deep-pocketed supporters; Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos donated to his inaugural festivities; Google and Apple executives have come to the White House as supplicants, bearing flattery and gifts. Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Meta all joined the list of donors to Trump’s vanity ballroom project in the now-demolished East Wing of the White House.

We amateurs are going to need a work-around."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["New York’s hottest status symbol is a grocery store selling nothing."

...

"Andrea Hernández, creator of the popular Substack Snaxshot—aptly dubbed by The New York Times the Nostradamus of snacking—has another name for stores like Erewhon: Hypebeast grocers. “It doesn’t seem like there’s enough in the store to make sense.” Hernández tells me, “There’s a difference between selling gourmet items versus selling the hype around the grocery store itself. Erewhon is the Supreme of grocery stores. The $30 smoothie I must try… They create an aura of scarcity.” The phenomenon is international. In Seoul, Monday Morning Market drops groceries like capsule collections.

In stark relief, Hernández describes our parents’ buying habits. They went to the store, and then got out. The big choice in the cereal aisle would be buying a private label (ShopRite’s own) over a name brand (Barilla) for the sake of affordability and value. Then, “Along comes our generation, growing up with social media and inheriting the behaviors of affordable affluence. It’s the lipstick effect.” You may not be able to afford a Birkin, but you can go and try a $20 strawberry at Erewhon and post about it in the same way. Whether you eat the berry at all, actually, doesn’t matter.

How many people can really afford to do a full shop at one of these stores? In 2023 New York Magazine ran a sobering profile about the Angelinos going into debt to afford their Erewhon habit—people fixated both on the potential wellness benefits and the potential upward mobility Erewhon has to offer. Hernández remarks, “It’s depressing to think that this is the way that we are able to kind of have that same dopamine hit of keeping up with the Joneses, but it’s like, what’s in your grocery cart?” 

After the development of the first self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly in 1916, packaging began to take on a more and more significant role in how we eat. There was an attempt to make products you might otherwise pass up in a grocery aisle more attractive. Now, with the advent of social media, branding, aesthetic intrigue, and hype are everything. “It’s the Trojan-horsing of aesthetics, the yass-ification of everything. Like, why does a can of beans have to look like that?” says Hernández. As she points out, Happier Grocery even offers transparent bags with the logo—like a walking display case for your carefully selected nut milks and pre-washed salad. 

The issue, Hernández feels, is that we’ve “shaped grocery stores in our clout-chasing image.” She explains, “We’re the apex consumers, and we’re treating grocery stores like luxury stores. Everything around us has to signal something because of social media.” Nussdorf, however, is skeptical of how Erewhon and its direct competitors’ clout chasing will translate to a New York audience: “I don’t think these smoothies with these influencers or designers in New York City that some of these other competitors are doing is making them that much money.”

These “HypeMarts” have more shared DNA with Balenciaga or Telfar than they do with a Whole Foods, relying on scarcity, drops, and branding for business. Beyond acting like clothing brands, these grocery stores also have their own clothing brands. Hernández tells me, “Happier grocery sells $120 jackets. Erewhon has been dropping, like, merch capsules.” Happier Grocer was created by a former Marc Jacobs designer and is owned by the same team that runs the W.S.A. building in FiDi and S.A.A. in Bushwick—two fashion hot spots—and the luxurious Cayman Heights hotel Palm Heights. Flamingo Estate, a popular lifestyle brand that sells a $80 jar of dried strawberries, has the tagline “Mother Nature is the last great luxury house.”"

...

"Culturally, as our grocery stores have trended sparer, so too have our bodies. For the past two years, publications across the world have published, repetitively and without satisfaction, about whether being ultra thin was “back.” According to CNN, as of 2024 1-in-8 American adults has taken Ozempic or another GLP-1. For Hernández these grocery stores represent the final evolution of consumerism: When you see groceries not as a necessity but as luxury good.  “It’s fucking dystopian as hell at a time where you have food inaccessibility, and people are having to DoorDash or eat Taco Bell because it’s cheaper than going to the grocery store. In Austin, there’s a store that’s opening soon with underground delivery because it’s cheaper and doesn’t have any overhead costs.” The brand (can we even call it a store?) is called Goods and advertises two-minute grocery delivery via “underground delivery” sent to a pickup lane near you. Hernández speculates, “Maybe we are going to start getting more groceries from underground tunnels, and then only if you can afford it, you’re gonna go have that luxury experience of going to an actual grocery store.” If that all sounds like a pipe dream, then it’s worth noting that when Erewhon debuts a new product, they often set up a selfie station with vegetables as the photo backdrop. Hernández, who grew up shopping at local markets in Honduras, turns somber: “We cannot unlearn convenience. We’re basically cosplaying being able to connect with what nurtures us.”"]]></description>
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    <title>A Propaganda Film By Betar USA - YouTube</title>
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After joining Betar, the producer of this documentary filmed a series of intimate interviews with Ronn Torossian, a famed New York public relations professional who helped establish Betar USA as a vehicle for advancing the ideology of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane in the US.

Presenting Torrossian and his henchmen in their own words, without an editorial filter or narration, this film offers a raw, bracing portrait of the most radical edge of American Zionism."

[See also:

"Filmmaker who infiltrated Betar USA speaks"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQLBq-gC8wQ

"The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal interviews "Adam," the Jewish American filmmaker who infiltrated the most militant Zionist street organization, Betar USA, and provided a raw portrayal of its leadership during a period of unprecedented influence over US policy."]]]></description>
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    <title>Monopoly Round-Up: Obamacare Is Cooked. What's Next?</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["But it’s not actually hard, conceptually, to get at the problem. The basics of how to fix health care are simple. Make all prices in health care standardized and transparent, and try and get rid of the power of all middlemen who don’t deliver care or directly produce medicine. Most mergers in health care happen to gain an advantage on pricing; if you just standardize pricing, the incentive to consolidate disappears. But to turn this dynamic into a political argument, Democrats are going to have to drop the pretenses that spending more is good, and that the problem is access to insurance. And Republicans are going to have to drop the pretense that there’s a private sector in health care. Whoever is able to turn health care into industrial policy will win this debate. Neither party is close.

That said, we know eliminating corporate bloat works; in July, I did a story about what happened when Ohio eliminated CVS Caremark and UnitedHealth, from running its drug benefit system for Medicaid. It turns out, the state saved $140 million over two years, even as dispensing fees to pharmacies increased by 1200% on average, and the program got better, with patients able to access 99% of pharmacies. Corporate waste is the main problem in health care.

Other states have also done something like this, with similar success. Abroad, the Japanese run a high quality cheap system. They do not have Medicare for all, there are lots of health insurers. But their government has a list of all treatments with a price next to each treatment. That’s the price. There’s no billing department to fight with other billing departments, there are no quality surveys to give bonus payments to hospitals, no random arbitration firms over price. The price is the price. It’s not like the U.S., where the same procedure or drug could have thousands of different permutations, depending on the insurer, hospital system, physician, and so forth. We could do what Japan does - Medicare has a price list. Just do Medicare prices for all, as Phil Longman keeps suggesting.

Getting rid of corporate power in medicine works. It took forty years to build the system we’re in, and most of our policy thinkers are captured by the complexity of the system and the unbelievably stupid obsession with middlemen. But popular rage is now at a boiling point. And saying things like “health care is a human right” or “everyone should have access to health care” isn’t going to cut it. Most Americans have health insurance. It’s just expensive and bad. It’s time to wake up to that."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Ever wondered what a TV show about us would look like?

Get to know us: https://h-moser.com/the-manufacture/ "]]></description>
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    <link>https://www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-rss/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read"]]></description>
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    <title>ANOTHER POST ON POSTERS. | STUFF FROM THE LOFT.</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-28T22:51:59+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Clever-clogs, San Franciscan adman Howard Gossage once said that advertising had a responsibility to society not to pollute our environment.
Particularly outdoor, as everybody was exposed to it.
I’m sure everyone in marketing at the time nodded sagely in agreement, then got back to polluting.
After all, job one is shifting product.
Creating a more pleasant trip to the shops is an indulgence.
Isn’t it?
If you believe dull, ugly ads shift more product.
Do they get you to buy?
Are they easier to remember?
Of course not.
So why are our streets filled with them?
Maybe it’s inappropriate to be playful and fun when times are tough?
Times like these call for ‘hard working ads’!
Every Creative will have been told, solemnly, ‘Now this one needs to be a hard-working’.
(Like you’re just fucking about the rest of the time to amuse yourself.)
Nope, this time, they actually need to sell some shit, so keep it straight, don’t go all creative on us.
Ok, so what is the information we need to deliver without diluting it with our fancy creativity?
The magic bullet?
Ah! ‘Our product is…(wait for it)…good’.
Great.
It’s not to say that every message needs to be put through some kind of creative filter.
Let’s say the BMW i3 goes for 300 miles on a single charge – you probably don’t want to veer too far from that set of words.
But if the information was, what the headline became ‘As promised, the all-electric BMW i3’ you should veer.
Or flee even.
Not to keep yourself amused but to generate interest from others.
Simply introducing a product or is saying it’s good isn’t hard-working.
It’s dull and unbelievable.
Like saying your son is so handsome or you’re a great golfer.
There has never been more products available as there are today.
And there’s never been fewer differences between them.
Take cars, I’m in the process of buying one – asking dealers what the difference between model x and model y is like debating a politician.
“What does the extra £5k get me?”
“It gets you the ABC Model.”
“I know, but why’s it better than the CBA Model?”
“It’s the ABC Model…it’s superior.”
“In what ways?”
“Multiple.’’
“What specifically?”
“All round, it’s a superior car…it’s the ABC!”
Oh FFS!
That’s a big purchase, imagine asking someone at Sainsbury’s what the difference is between soaps – “The one on the left has the word ‘Pears’ printed on, whereas …”
But you still have to choose one soap over the others.
If you can’t differentiate them by what they do, you are forced to differentiate them by how they present themselves.
The name, packaging, marketing and so on.
Never was this more true than in the lager category.
BMP used to regularly launch new beers, beforehand they’d conduct some blind taste tests, to see how their new brew fared against the competition.
They concluded that ‘beer drinkers drank the advertising’ because they couldn’t taste the difference between one pint and another.

Today, most categories today are like the lager category -very few tangible differences between brands.
So what you say is less important than how you say it.
Simply saying your lager is awesome won’t do it.
You have to be creative.
You have to conjure up a personality to separate yourself from your competition.
What kind of personality appealing?
Well, no one’s looking to be bored – so don’t be dull.
I’m sure I’m not alone in finding bullshit off-putting – so be honest.
Given the choice, I prefer self-deprecation to self-aggrandising.
I’d guess people prefer buying from intelligent companies rather than dumb ones.
I like those who make me smile, laugh even.
I’m more likely to look at something attractive than ugly, hence the word ‘attractive’ I guess.

Oatly is a good example.
I like them.
What’s the difference between them and other Oat Milks?
No idea.
But I like the cut of their jib.
They don’t take themselves too seriously, occasionally make me smile, they just seem cool.
Next time I’m in Tesco’s, staring at Oatly and the 30p cheaper oatmilk next to it in the fridge, I’ll probably go Oatly.
30p!
Those 30p’s can really start adding up back at Oatly Towers in Malmö.
Would I feel that way if Oatly said stuff like this…"

[several examples, usually in pairs for comparison]

"Here’s Howie again – ‘The buying of time or space is not taking out of a hunting licence on someone else’s private preserve, but it is the renting of a stage to perform.’
We can’t make people engage with our ads, but we can try to engage them.
If we fill our streets with dull, shouty creative work, it devalues those spaces.
Maybe there’s a tipping point – when people assume there won’t be anything interesting on those posters up ahead –  so don’t turn their heads.
On that head movement rests the success of the outdoor industry.
Maybe we’d engage more people if we gave them more engaging content?
A reason to look.
Maybe even make them smile.
Maybe Mr Gossage was right; we shouldn’t pollute our streets.
Maybe it’s not only morally right, maybe it’s financially right too."]]></description>
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    <title>Howard Gossage - Wikipedia</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Howard Luck Gossage (1917–1969) was an American advertising innovator and iconoclast during the "Mad Men" era,[1] frequently referred to as "The Socrates of San Francisco".[2][3]

Out of a converted firehouse nestled in San Francisco's Barbary Shore neighborhood, Gossage created the headquarters of his advertising agency (Freeman, Mander & Gossage). The building would become a salon where many of the era's influential thinkers congregated,[1] from John Steinbeck to Buckminster Fuller, Tom Wolfe to Stan Freberg.[4][5]

A non-conformist who railed against the norms of so-called scientific advertising in his day, Gossage introduced several innovative techniques to the advertising practice that would only become appreciated decades after his death.[1]

Gossage is credited with discovering the media theorist Marshall McLuhan, introducing him to media and corporate leaders thereby providing McLuhan his entry into mainstream renown.[6] More widely, Gossage was involved in some of the first environmental campaigning in the USA with the Sierra Club, and in the establishment of Friends of the Earth through his friendship with David Brower.[7]

Co-founder at age 36 of the advertising agency Wiener & Gossage, Howard Gossage is listed by Advertising Age at number 23 of its 100 advertising people of the 20th century.[8] AdAge.com calls Gossage a "copywriter who influenced ad-makers worldwide."[9]

Today when advertising is disliked and avoided by most people, Howard showed that commercial communication worked best when it was fun, irreverent and entertaining, using humour, intrigue and sometimes outrage to win his audience's attention, affection - and custom. "]]></description>
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    <title>Scottish Watches Podcast #519 : Chatting With Allen Farmelo About Watches, Bikes, Audio and A New App For Us All - Scottish Watches</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-25T08:52:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.scottishwatches.co.uk/2023/11/20/scottish-watches-podcast-519-chatting-with-allen-farmelo-about-watches-bikes-audio-and-a-new-app-for-us-all/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[also here:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Uy0ow9rjtbdSbqT0bM3pj
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scottish-watches-podcast-519-chatting-with-allen/id1448576480?i=1000635376350

referenced:

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, by Jerry Mander (1978)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Arguments_for_the_Elimination_of_Television ]]]></description>
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    <title>#49 “I’m more about people than more about brands” – Allen Farmelo, Founder of Beyond the Dial - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-25T08:23:37+00:00</dc:date>
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[See also:

"#78 “When I put it on I feel the message was received ” – Allen Farmelo, Founder of Beyond the Dial"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkQ2qZT26vI

"In part 2 of our interview with Allen, we discuss how Andy Warhol inspired him, the American watch scene, and how pocket watches and rail road watches became collectible items."]]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.beyondthedial.com/post/e63-rolex-vs-gen-x/">
    <title>Podcast Insights E23 - Rolex vs. Gen X - BEYOND THE DIAL</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-24T23:14:55+00:00</dc:date>
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[Also here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/insights-e23-rolex-vs-gen-x/id1472733566?i=1000518322057
https://open.spotify.com/episode/30aIknfcJE6JPuVshl0jru ]]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2025-07-24T23:13:12+00:00</dc:date>
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[Also here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/insights-e17-the-aesthetic-revolution-will-be-beautiful/id1472733566?i=1000474649630
https://open.spotify.com/episode/350bhPLlRJLgrDipWJzcVI ]]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.beyondthedial.com/post/e31-spiritual-materialism-how-watches-take-on-significance-and-meaning/">
    <title>Podcast Insights E16 - Spiritual Materialism: How Watches Take On Significance and Meaning - BEYOND THE DIAL</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-24T23:12:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.beyondthedial.com/post/e31-spiritual-materialism-how-watches-take-on-significance-and-meaning/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["On the surface, owning a watch isn’t a complex thing. Dig a little deeper into our motives for owning any given watch, and things get complicated fast. Allen explores the mental gymnastics involved in picking out your next watch, and he explores everything from the study of human motives, to why so many watch nerds hate on Invictas, and more."

[Also here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/insights-e16-spiritual-materialism-how-watches-take/id1472733566?i=1000472834936
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ZyTLTvJ8JfY9J4LJc3Dwu ]]]></description>
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    <title>The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-21T21:32:16+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[Follow-up here:

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

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

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

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

...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And remember that you, as a regular person, can understand all of this. These people want you to believe this is black magic, that you are wrong to worry about the billions wasted or question the usefulness of these tools. You are smarter than they reckon and stronger than they know, and a better future is one where you recognize this, and realize that power and money doesn’t make a man righteous, right, or smart."]]></description>
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    <title>The banality of Palantir’s evil airport ad</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-13T22:25:12+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Why is a company that makes millions tracking down immigrants for ICE advertising at SFO?"

[archived:
https://archive.ph/7mrud ]

"Palantir was born in the Bay Area in 2003, so it’s not a surprise that the AI data analysis firm would advertise here like so many other firms whose indecipherable billboards litter our skyline.

But its new installation at San Francisco International Airport is so much more than just an ad: it’s a winking, cynical tribute to the hellscape we currently occupy, and a bland admission that, yes, they’re the baddies — but, you know, in a cool way. 

This week, a photo of the ad went viral on Reddit. At first, it seems entirely banal: Cast in black and white, the wall-sized screen reads “Palantir Technologies Est: 2003 USA,” with a tagline that shouts “SOFTWARE THAT DOMINATES.” 

Much of the reaction on Reddit was negative, not just because of the ad’s gargantuan scale or aggressive messaging, but because of the heinous lore of Palantir itself. The company’s rep is so bad that, frankly, it must know what it’s doing by posting such a monolithic ad in SFO where tourists and immigrants from around the world fly in every day.

Is Palantir’s intention ragebait and virality, or to whitewash its profitable flouting of civil rights with bland reminders that it occupies a central position in the techno-zeitgeist? I’m really not sure, and that scares me more than a little. 

Palantir — like the first Trump administration — was launched in part by the billionaire Peter Thiel, and it has become one of the most controversial tech companies in America because of its partnerships with ICE and the U.S. military. As has been widely reported, the company profits off the killing of Palestinians and mass deportations of immigrants under the Trump administration. 

Thiel co-founded PayPal and over the years evolved into a kind of right-wing bag man, funding a morass of reactionary groups and destroying press outlets, all while declaring he does not believe in democracy and building the blueprint for a techno-capitalist syndicate to run America (think feudalism, but more Waymos). 

He’s also worked to mentor Vice President J.D. Vance and “Dark Enlightenment” thinker Curtis Yarvin, whom he foisted on the mainstream. For this ilk, “progressive” isn’t just a slur, it’s a pathway to literal extinction. To these self-styled John Galts, trust in political institutions is naiveté verging on idiocy. And Thiel’s ideology of “superior persons” leading society is not just a personal belief, it’s a business plan that includes marketing via a dystopian ad placement in the airport of America’s “wokest” city. For the widely reported chess “prodigy,” this is the equivalent of taking the board and smashing it with a sledgehammer. Apparently, we’re supposed to see this as another step toward revolution (and the tech singularity). 
 
Naturally, Palantir doesn’t divulge its terrible politics in its marketing materials; on its site, the company states that “our software powers real-time, AI-driven decisions in critical government and commercial enterprises in the West, from the factory floors to the front lines.” (Is your dog’s head turning from all those whistles?) In addition to receiving tens of millions from ICE and nearly $800 million from the Department of Defense, Palantir contracts with juggernauts like Morgan Stanley and AT&T. With skyrocketing revenue and rising market valuation, Palantir is officially bigger than Disney.

In that context, the ad feels less like marketing and more like a taunt. Palantir doesn’t need our money. It wants our complicity, and will mock us along the way. The slogan cares little about value statements like “Think Different” or “Just Do It.” It is “software that dominates,” regardless of what you want it to do. At Harvey Milk Terminal, it has found a home to burrow into our heads, living rent-free while we struggle to figure out the path ahead. 

Palantir’s ad has nothing to sell but a reputation, and it happens to read like a threat."]]></description>
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    <title>‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star | YouTube | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-09T22:54:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/03/mrbeast-jimmy-donaldson-youtube-videos-star</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Donaldson’s forays into philanthropy – or philanthropy-themed YouTube content – have, in recent years, caused sporadic outbreaks of public controversy. The earliest of these was called Giving a Random Homeless Man $10,000: a simple video, featuring none of the hallmark hyperactive editing or blaring narration. Donaldson just walks up to a homeless man in Greenville, and gives him an envelope containing $10,000. The video was not a massive success by MrBeast standards, but it got a strong enough positive reaction to suggest that using the channel’s earnings to give away large sums of money was a way of both doing something positive and producing more – and more lucrative – content.

There followed a series of videos in which Donaldson enacted vaguely absurdist forms of philanthropy – picking up an Uber customer in a brand new Lamborghini, say, and then just giving it to him. Despite the slightly troubling way in which they made a spectacle of entirely arbitrary largesse – of Donaldson himself as part gameshow host, part trickster god, indulging in a little light wealth redistribution for the folks at home – the videos were hard to dislike. They were hard to dislike for the same reason Donaldson himself is hard to dislike: they were driven by a childlike, ungainly benevolence.

In 2023, this run of philanthropic content culminated in a video entitled 1,000 Blind People See for the First Time, in which Donaldson paid for 1,000 people to be given a very straightforward medical treatment curing them of severe visual impairment. The video wasn’t controversial because Donaldson paid no attention to the structural injustice of these people not having been provided with this basic procedure by their government (the video makes clear that blind people from all over the world were cured, though it focuses pretty much exclusively on Americans). The controversy centred almost entirely around the way in which the curing of 1,000 blind people was approached as raw material for light entertainment.

The thing I personally find most troubling about the video is the jarring opposition of its style and content. The whole thing is characterised by a manic, attention-hustling showmanship, and a refusal to grant viewers a moment’s respite in which we might contemplate the experience of the cured or the wider social implications. As with something like I Survived the 5 Deadliest Places on Earth, it bypasses any kind of narrative setup and goes straight for the emotional payoff. We learn almost nothing about any of the people whose blindness is cured, other than that they once were blind but now they see. We can be confident that they are poor – why else would their condition have remained untreated? – but we are left to intuit this. In most cases, we are not even given their names.

Of course, there are only so many formerly blind people you can watch being given the gift of sight before it starts getting a little samey. But Donaldson has, of course, anticipated this problem, and the video keeps your dopamine transmitters operating at full capacity. Moments after the bandages have been removed from one woman’s face, the first sight she is met with is Donaldson standing before her in surgical scrubs, presenting her with an open briefcase containing $10,000. Another patient, who we learn had to leave his job as a cashier because he couldn’t see the money he was handling, has his bandages removed, and is told to read an eye chart; it says “YOU JUST WON $10,000”.

At the bottom of the screen, there is a counter that flips upward with the rising number of cured. It is, essentially, a score counter, as though Donaldson were keeping track of the points he’s racking up in a video game. And this seems to me to gesture towards what is troubling about the 1,000 Blind People video in particular, and Donaldson’s project more generally: the way in which his content treats people – contestants in his competitions, beneficiaries of his philanthropy – as mere elements in a larger game he is playing, the object of which is maximum viewer-stimulation, maximum attention, maximum numbers. “At their core, the premise of most MrBeast videos is that numbers with lots of zeros are impressive,” as the US writer Max Read put it in an excellent essay exploring the controversy around the blindness video. “One blind person seeing for the first time isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? One thousand blind people seeing for the first time.”

Donaldson’s acts of charity are bestowed, randomly, upon people who are themselves explicitly presented as “random”; their lurid arbitrariness illuminates the arbitrariness of charity per se. (Just £1 could cure this child of this condition; but why this child, in this place, and why this condition?) As far as he’s come from posting Minecraft playthroughs, consuming his work still feels, in some sense, like watching a guy play video games. Even the videos in which he himself is not a central protagonist, where huge numbers of people compete against each other for even huger amounts of money, it’s as though Donaldson is designing and playing some kind of strategy game. He constructs a world, and a set of rules to govern it; he populates it with semi-autonomous people – mostly anonymous and interchangeable – and watches the unfolding consequences of their moral and strategic choices.

Donaldson is not himself a political figure. He doesn’t tend to weigh in on party-political questions, or express much interest in them. But there is a politics to his content. It reflects a world in which people are isolated and helpless, subjects of vast and inhuman economic mechanisms. People spending months alone in supermarkets; standing in large circles for as long as they can endure it; competing for private islands, houses, deliverance from their personal financial torments. People in states of gruelling seclusion; people in vast and impersonal crowds, pitted against one another in a Hobbesian gameshow of all against all.

Loneliness, survival, isolation, and the divine intervention of an unimaginably wealthy and famous man: there is a politics to all this, all right, and it is the politics of our time. In its themes and preoccupations, its insistent motifs of financial precarity and arbitrary deliverance – its Lamborghinis and its private islands and its vast pyramids of cash – the oeuvre of MrBeast is like nothing so much as the dream of an entire culture. Donaldson might not be the genius we need, or the genius we want, but he may be the genius we deserve."]]></description>
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    <title>Gen Z and gen Alpha brought a raw, messy aesthetic to social media. Why does it feel as inauthentic as ever? | Eugene Healey | The Guardian</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The glossy perfection of millennial content gave way to something that felt more ‘real’. But that was a mirage – and brands quickly caught on

- Eugene Healey is a brand strategy consultant, educator and creator"

...

"Authenticity is the great mirage of the modern age. Its promise – to live unmediated, in full accordance with our values and beliefs – feels like the ideal we’re always reaching for before it vanishes beyond the horizon. And ironically, the more we try to prove we’re authentic online, the more we seem to accelerate its disappearance.

As Generations Z and Alpha joined social media, they responded to the cultural demand for perfection with chaos – raw, unfiltered, deliberately messy content. The curated feed of flatlays gave way to the sloppy photo dump; the finstas; the bedrotting. Finally, our real lives represented on screen. Finally, something real.

Except that this quickly became another role to be performed, a generation-defining content genre that has itself become subject to more and more extreme performances – filming oneself bawling into the camera, extreme overshares, breakdowns in public. Vulnerability-as-aesthetic, where what began as a rejection of perfection has become its own form of perfectionism – the flawless execution of being flawed.

To understand why authenticity is impossible, first we need to understand what social media has done to us. It’s turned personal identity into performance art – and in doing so, has transformed us all into brands (I should know, I’m a brand consultant).

The modern experience is one of constantly being perceived. We view ourselves in the third person, as an entity to be managed. How will this action make me look? How can my lived experience be something I can capture?

This isn’t limited to chronic social media users. Panoptic surveillance, whether state or private, makes us intensely conscious that every public action is potentially recorded, screenshotted and data-harvested. All the world’s a stage – and we’re all method actors who never break character.

Authenticity simply can’t survive this environment of constant performance – we become alienated from our own actions when every moment is filtered through the question of how it will be received. Social media accelerates this process of negation.

Ever-attuned to the unmet desires of our society, the marketing world has itself been through several iterations of packaging and selling authenticity over the past 15 years. Post the great financial crisis, our efforts to be “real and relatable” saw us shrugging off polished corporate messaging to ape the awkward-earnest tone of millennial-era entertainment such as Garden State or Girls. Brands such as Airbnb championed a Simon Sinek-personified approach – driven by a deeper purpose and appealing to a common underlying humanity.

Like many aspects of millennial culture, this authenticity has now been sufficiently roasted for its naive and cloying self-importance, but replaced by something arguably worse.

Today’s brand “authenticity” means co-opting the gen Z performance of being “raw and unfiltered”. Go into any viral TikTok video and observe this peculiar modern dystopia: a legion of brands colonising the comment section, all speaking to one another in the same sardonic, self-aware, fourth-wall breaking, chronically online tone. The irony is, of course, that there is nothing less authentic than multinationals with billions of dollars in market capitalisation pretending to be jaded teenagers, yet here we are.

If we want authenticity, we’ll need to unwind our culture of surveillance – to create spaces where actions aren’t immediately documented, dissected and distributed. But that feels like trying to uninvent the printing press. The infrastructure of observation has become so fundamental to how we live and work that opting out more or less means retreating from modern society altogether.

So what we actually need, especially for our youth, is an unmaking of expectation – the suffocating demand that they ruthlessly optimise and curate every element of their lives for public presentation just to access a fraction of the economic prosperity their parents enjoyed. Because we’ve created a world where turning yourself into a brand isn’t a lifestyle choice but a survival strategy, particularly as AI puts a blowtorch to the remaining areas of knowledge work that once promised middle-class security.

The internet has fundamentally altered the conditions under which genuine self-expression can exist. The solution isn’t to perform authenticity harder, but to recognise and jealously guard the remaining places where real authenticity might still be possible: in unrecorded conversations, in private moments, in closed networks that haven’t yet been colonised by the attention economy.

Ironically, admitting we can’t be authentic online might be the closest thing to honesty we have left."]]></description>
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    <title>Why You Should Hate the Rich Even More (with Rob Larson)</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-19T05:15:10+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The rich are severed from the rest of us — materially through gated communities and jets, and psychologically through the bubbles they exist within."

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    <title>Podcast Episode: Love the Internet Before You Hate On It | Electronic Frontier Foundation</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-27T00:38:00+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There’s a weird belief out there that tech critics hate technology. But do movie critics hate movies? Do food critics hate food? No! The most effective, insightful critics do what they do because they love something so deeply that they want to see it made even better. The most effective tech critics have had transformative, positive online experiences, and now unflinchingly call out the surveilled, commodified, enshittified landscape that exists today because they know there has been – and still can be – something better.

That’s what drives Molly White’s work. Her criticism of the cryptocurrency and technology industries stems from her conviction that technology should serve human needs rather than mere profits. Whether it’s blockchain or artificial intelligence, she’s interested in making sure the “next big thing” lives up to its hype, and more importantly, to the ideals of participation and democratization that she experienced. She joins EFF’s Cindy Cohn and Jason Kelley to discuss working toward a human-centered internet that gives everyone a sense of control and interaction – open to all in the way that Wikipedia was (and still is) for her and so many others: not just as a static knowledge resource, but as something in which we can all participate.

In this episode you’ll learn about:

- Why blockchain technology has built-in incentives for grift and speculation that overwhelm most of its positive uses

- How protecting open-source developers from legal overreach, including in the blockchain world, remains critical

- The vast difference between decentralization of power and decentralization of compute

- How Neopets and Wikipedia represent core internet values of community, collaboration, and creativity

- Why Wikipedia has been resilient against some of the rhetorical attacks that have bogged down media outlets, but remains vulnerable to certain economic and political pressures

- How the Fediverse and other decentralization and interoperability mechanisms provide hope for the kind of creative independence, self-expression, and social interactivity that everyone deserves  

Molly White is a researcher, software engineer, and writer who focuses on the cryptocurrency industry, blockchains, web3, and other tech in her independent publication, Citation Needed. She also runs the websites Web3 is Going Just Great, where she highlights examples of how cryptocurrencies, web3 projects, and the industry surrounding them are failing to live up to their promises, and Follow the Crypto, where she tracks cryptocurrency industry spending in U.S. elections. She has volunteered for more than 15 years with Wikipedia, where she serves as an administrator (under the name GorillaWarfare) and functionary, and previously served three terms on the Arbitration Committee. She’s regularly quoted or bylined in news media, speaks at major conferences including South by Southwest and Web Summit; guest lectures at universities including Harvard, MIT, and Stanford; and advises policymakers and regulators around the world."

[also here:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/love-the-internet-before-you-hate-on-it/id1539719568?i=1000709237056
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5EzTnzhlp17EkieCahwCG4 ]]]></description>
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    <title>I Am Waiting at the Counter for the Man to Pour the Coffee</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-23T19:00:17+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Political reporters love a Midwest diner. Even though most Americans live in urban areas, even though a third of Americans live in California, Texas, Florida, or New York, even though around 40% live on the coast (east or west), even though more than half are under age 40, the depiction of "average American" – particularly in an election year – is often an older middle-age white person who just happens to be sitting in a neighboring booth from the reporter, casually eating pancakes on a Wednesday morning but more than willing to chit-chat politics (and endorse Trump's policies).

Come to find out (although never remarked upon in the actual reporting) this diner also happens to be a former Republican Party co-chair for the county or the sister-in-law of an RNC delegate or the nephew of a major party donor or a former member of the board of the Heritage Foundation. Nevertheless, their opinions get laundered as representative, and readers' take-away from this sort of article is supposed to be that "average Americans" hold these truths – whatever story that Midwest diner patron happens to be telling, that is – to be awfully self-evident.

So think the same, but for digital technology, particularly for ed-tech: the young white teacher – formerly TFA, but that's not mentioned. The innovative principal – a featured speaker at SXSWedu, according to their resume but not the article copy. An evangelist from Google. An employee of a think-tank funded by Google. A parent – also, coincidentally, an investor. A star pupil (if in college, they attend an Ivy League school, rarely a state school and almost never community college). All very excited to endorse whatever product is being launched. (Or sometimes, the inverse: a teacher, close to retirement. A concerned parent, persistently making phone calls. Everyone slightly hysterical in their refusal to change, to adapt.)

If you read a lot of technology-oriented publications – and I'm guessing you might if you subscribe to Second Breakfast – or if you spend a lot of time on social media with a network of "friends" and "follows" who talk primarily about technology, then you're inundated with stories that sure start to feel like they're representative of what "regular folks" are thinking about and doing with AI. Everyone is talking about AI. Everyone is using AI. "Everyone is cheating their way through college." No one cares about privacy. No one cares about copyright. No one can stop it. That sort of thing.

But I don't know... I reckon far more people are resistant to technology than these stories want us to believe (certainly than the industry wants us to believe), whether or not those people have an intricately developed notions about technology's political or economic dangers.

Mostly, people know technology sucks. The phone sucks. The laptop sucks. The WiFi sucks. The apps suck. The Web sucks. Not in a "yikes, this sure seems like techno-fascism" sort of way, but in "this goddamn thing does not work" but "my boss/my doctor/my principal/my bank/the IRS makes me use it anyway." In a "this is fucking ridiculous" sort of way. AI? AI?! R U SRS?!

Cory Doctorow is right, I think, that technologies now undergo rapid enshittification. But we're being very generous – too generous – when we grant that they were, once-upon-a-time, ever that good.

There is, nonetheless, some very weird nostalgia for that once-upon-a-time, and I think we should be very wary of those who want to "make computers great again" for what I hope are obvious reasons.

Someone asked me the other day how I approach "the news" about various technologies, how I formulate my analysis, what shapes my thinking. And I admitted that these days, one of the very first things I notice is who is telling the story. Computing (in general and ed-tech specifically) has long been the bastion of white male privilege; and while there had been efforts to change that – in pipelines and on panels and whatnot – AI is clearly a re-entrenchment of that power, explicitly so with the Trump Administration's dismantling of civil rights protections, echoed by the tech industry's dismantling of its own DEI initiatives. It's hardly a surprise that the loudest advocates of AI (in education or otherwise) are white men, many just remarkably aggrieved not just by the critics of technology but by anyone in technology who they feel has displaced them from the center of the conversation: particularly women, particularly women of color.

Much of what's posted on Substack newsletters and LinkedIn is like that stereotypical Midwest diner, populated by very motivated hustlers masquerading as "the common man."

Don't eat that bullshit. Step outside. Talk to people who are not at the counter.

I took a week off from writing this newsletter and tried to take a week off from paying attention to the specials they're hawking on that AI diner menu. Tried and failed, and the rest of the newsletter was going to be a long list of a lot of links from the past ten days. But that feels a little hypocritical (and quite depressing), I realize: here I am encouraging you to get offline, and I send you away with hours of suggested digital reading to do.

---

If there is one thing that you must read – no really, I insist – it is Helen Beetham's excellent piece describing "how the right to education is undermined by AI," surely one of the most clear and thorough articulations of why we must resist and refuse the future that the tech oligarchs are engineering for us – a future that is absolutely contrary to the kinds of rights outlined in international conventions: "education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and the sense of its dignity… to enable all persons to participate effectively in a free society, [and] promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations and all racial, ethnic or religious groups’."

A "data-fied" and "platformed" education infrastructure – one that certainly predates the release of ChatGPT – circumscribes the development of humans, of humanity. Education technology, despite all the stories of innovation and possibility, has served to make education less accessible, less accountable, less effective, less interesting, less reliable. It has removed control from students and from communities; it has undermined the expertise of educators and researchers; it has eroded knowledge; and it has centralized power in the hands of the technology industry and its oligarchical philanthropists.

"Young people in education are therefore subject to three distinct threats to their educational rights" from AI, Beetham argues:

<blockquote>1. So-called predictive AI is used to collect their data, to make unaccountable and discriminatory decisions about their futures, and to surveil and discipline their interactions with educational systems

2. So-called generative AI is used to capture and monopolise cultural and educational content, to advance hegemonic languages and perspectives, and to replace pedagogical relationships with automated agents

3. The narrative of ‘AI futures’ is used to refocus educational outcomes around the automation of intellectual work, stunting the development of young people’s capacities, and preparing them for work that will be precarious, exploitative, and algorithmically disciplined</blockquote>

Beetham makes very clear that we already have a long list of documented harms that digital technologies, including AI and chatbots, have done to young people. It's a long long long long list.

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Incidentally, I keep hearing some of the patrons of those digital diners say that "we don't have any research yet" about the effects of AI. (Others, just as loudly, are busily hyping fraudulent research and claiming AI is unbelievably, utterly transformative.)

Folks, we have at least 50 years of research on the effects of AI on students. We do, in fact, know a lot about chatbots and algorithms and various media/computing literacies; there are decades of debate on how best to design assignments and assessments – digital assignments and assessments. Just because some people started paying to ed-tech in 2023 doesn't mean no one has ever thought about or studied this stuff until now.

And no matter what that research on AI and education might say – it's good! it's terrible! it's mediocre AF! – people do still have every right to say "no thanks." Bless your heart, social scientists, but often your findings are wrong, even if they're statistically significant. Life is so much messier, so much more complex than experimental design.

(Much like my embrace of the word "Luddite," I'm going to start nodding and cheering for "moral panic" when it's used to belittle people's opposition to technology. "Yes, in fact, I do have a moral code. Don't you?" That said, I'm not panicked as much as furious. Yet exhausted.)

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We are suffering, in part, from an amnesia that erases the past (all the coverage this week, for example, that touted Google's AI announcements at its flagship developer conference as if it has suddenly added artificial intelligence to its products – as if it has not been, since its very founding, an AI company).

We are suffering at the same time from a nostalgia that keeps us stuck in an invented past: I can almost guarantee you that Jony Ive's company, acquired this week by OpenAI, will be making AI-enhanced spectacles, because AI is a Cold War fantasy and these men are all still fixated on some juvenile, comic book con about X-ray glasses.

But mostly, it seems, people are suffering, and the story selected from the diners at least, is that AI promises salvation. It's way too easy a story to tell, but not so easy a tall tale to swallow. A lot of us – even more than you might think – are choking on it."]]></description>
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    <title>AI, slavery, surveillance, and capitalism</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-18T04:00:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://thetechbubble.substack.com/p/ai-slavery-surveillance-and-capitalism</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It matters, then, what we think of Silicon Valley and its operations because that will, in turn, structure the nature of the response. Is Silicon Valley to be expropriated or exulted? Will we subject it to a controlled demolition, or should society be remade in its image? Are we satisfied with this nexus of capital, technology, and power, or are we interested in another mode of technological development?

Small wonder then that, despite their best efforts, the past few years have seen many critics and sycophants start to sound like one another. Capitalism, they insist, is coming to an end because our powerful digital technologies are unraveling the mode of production that has come to dominate Earth these past few centuries. Surveillance capitalism, techno-feudalism, and techno-authoritarianism are dialects that share the same mother tongue: an artificial language incapable of accurately describing our reality. The longer we cling to them, the harder we will find it to accurately assess what exactly we take issue with and what to do about it.

The most well-known of these theories comes to us from Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff's 2018 brick of a book (and title), The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. In it, she insists capitalists have leveraged digital technologies to expand computational resources, develop data analytics tools, and—most importantly—generate new digital services. In the beginning, Zuboff tells us, there was Google's behavioral value reinvestment cycle. User activities like search queries generated data that was analyzed to improve digital experiences or offer new ones. This drew more users, yielded more data, and so grew the Edenic digital paradise. Google needed to make money from this cycle, so it introduced a snake into the garden through advertisements. Then Google made a fateful discovery: "data exhaust," or the byproduct of user digital behavior, was not waste to be expelled but gold to be mined. Web searches don't just generate results; they generate data: the way you type your query, the heatmap of your mouse, the pages you do or don't visit, and more. This exhaust was actually a "behavioral surplus" capable of bolstering Google's burgeoning advertising business by incorporating predictive modeling based on data its users generated. This, Zuboff laments, sealed the deal: Google abandoned the behavioral value reinvestment cycle for a behavioral surplus business model. It began to prey on its users, hunting for more behavioral surplus and investing in greater tools of surveillance, accumulating "surveillance capital" and developing an expansive extractive and predictive infrastructure eventually aimed at influencing and determining human behavior. Goodbye capitalism, hello surveillance capitalism.

While the book received widespread praise, it was met with criticism from fellow academics and tech critics. Kirstie Ball, professor at the University of St. Andrews, notes the book's refusal to cite relevant surveillance literature, which ends up duplicating numerous arguments that weaken the tome and leave it offering embarrassingly little in terms of concrete next steps. Ball chalks this up, ultimately, to the text being "intended as a wake-up call for the educated business reader to recognize the massive power of the tech platforms." It may provoke some reflection, but ultimately "is more likely to be found in an airport bookshop than in a learned library." 

Blayne Haggart, professor at Brock University, goes a bit further in sharing that he wouldn't be teaching it because "as an academic work, it falls far short of the standards to which we should hold ourselves." He echoes Balls' concerns about citation and engagement with literature but adds that Zuboff goes to great lengths to obscure her own analytical framework and often relies on hyperbole when evidence is scant. 

One example Haggart offers is that Zuboff compares people under surveillance capitalism to poached elephants. She envisions the poachers as some Big Other—in a 2015 article, she defined this as "a new universal architecture existing somewhere between nature and God." Big Other "poaches our behavior for surplus and leaves behind all the meaning lodged in our bodies, our brains, and our beating hearts." We are not the product; we are an abandoned elephant carcass. An existential metaphor that suggests little is to be done, Haggart notes, but a simplistic one that prevents us from thinking clearly about this issue. If one remembers that some people enjoy social media despite its negative externalities, then capitalist reformers might pursue well-established policy solutions constructed for this very type of predicament: taxes or regulation or abolition of the enterprise entirely. 

There are other criticisms of Zuboff's book and theory. The major one comes from tech critic Evgeny Morozov's 14-part, 16,000-word review that interrogates the foundations of Zuboff's argument. Zuboff's theory, he observes, relies on a certain way of seeing capitalism: that its dysfunction is not a product of historical or even systemic features—such as deindustrialization or profit-seeking—but rather "the avoidable consequences of particular organizational arrangements, which, while having their uses in earlier eras, could now be made obsolete with information technology." At play here, also, is an intellectual genealogy stretching back to Havard business history professor Alfred Chandler and his mentor, sociologist Talcott Parsons; social systems function because they have specific needs satisfied by specific parts—history alters those needs, which alters the functioning of those parts, which forces society to adapt. Chandler's own grand theory of "managerial capitalism" was a tautological mess: an analytical model of history that ignored power relations, prioritized technological change, ignored evidence that inconvenienced the core premise that sprang its inquiry and could not recognize it was analyzing capitalism. 

Such is the thrust of Zuboff's work. Surveillance capitalism is driven by the imperatives of surveillance capitalism, which narrows her inquiry to relationships between firms extracting behavioral surplus from users and ignores vast swaths of the digital economy. We discard the geopolitics that helped catalyze Silicon Valley, the sources of capital that fuel its startups, the labor relations at major platforms that carve up daily life, the assetization schemes ranging from crypto to nature itself, the effects of concentrated ownership of computational resources, and more. In effect, we hyperfocus on specific phenomena (surveillance by advertiser giants) in ways that normalize consequential phenomena (as well as other types of surveillance!) happening elsewhere in the digital economy because they do not fit into the theory. However, their inability to fit into surveillance capitalism's theorization does not mean their effects on our politics, labor relations, social lives, culture, economy, and ecology are any less real—just that surveillance capitalism is likely a useless theory. 

Despite Morozov's field dressing, Zuboff's surveillance capitalism has been influential enough to regress our understanding of the digital economy. Before we turn to Zuboff's influence, it's worth looking at a different surveillance capitalism offered up by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney at the Monthly Review.

Foster and McChesney's 2014 essay is a lengthy one with a simple premise: World War 2 lifted the U.S. economy out of the Great Depression into hegemonic supremacy, but state planners were still concerned that this would be temporary because "domestic demand would be insufficient to absorb the enormous and growing potential economic surplus generated by the production system, thereby leading to a renewed condition of economic stagnation and depression." To that end, planners in industry and government organized three major campaigns to absorb that surplus: a corporate marketing revolution via Madison Avenue, a military-industrial complex committed to imperial control of markets abroad, and technological innovation, and when those two efforts waned, the ascent of financialization emerged."

...

"It is true that Silicon Valley is home to a horde of reactionaries that pine for a modernity free of liberalism, as well as gripped by a delusion that society would be best served under their dominion. But why? If we are going to offer a theory such as techno-authoritarianism, we have to have some theory about why there is such a break. LaFrance offers us a tautology: these individuals accelerating the pace of our innovation and the triumph of digital technologies owe it to ideas that prioritize accelerating our innovation and the triumph of digital technologies. 

The sad truth is this: Silicon Valley and its reactionaries are chickens coming home to roost. Silicon Valley is not some Promethean flame we smuggled from Olympos. Technology is not some primordial force corrupted by libertarian nerds with too much money. It's of the real world, it's material, it's influenced by the forces of history as much as anything else. Those forces come out of choosing to prioritize technology that helps us undertake surveillance for commerce, advertising, imperial adventure, speculation, and political suppression. The existential threat posed by today's tech capitalist overlords will get much worse. The funny ideas they have about their divine right to rule, their suspicion of competition and democracy, and other people who do not look like them—well, that's how we got here in the first place."]]></description>
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    <title>The Obscurant Function of 'Artificial Intelligence' with Edward Ongweso Jr - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this episode, we speak with Edward Ongweso Jr about "artificial intelligence" and its implications, particularly concerning corporate interests and historical parallels with labor control. Edward critiques the term “artificial intelligence” for obscuring the underlying digital technologies and algorithmic systems that serve corporate agendas, emphasizing the narrow view of intelligence that excludes human cognitive elements. The conversation delves into the historical roots of computation, drawing parallels between modern AI and 19th-century plantation management techniques aimed at maximizing productivity and control. 

We also explore the exploitation of global south workers in AI development, likening it to racialized regimes of chattel slavery. Furthermore, Ongweso critiques the concept of surveillance capitalism, arguing that surveillance has been integral to capitalism since its origins, particularly post-World War II, through marketing revolutions, the military-industrial complex, and financialization. The discussion concludes with an analysis of techno-authoritarianism, highlighting Silicon Valley's historical hostility to democracy and its prioritization of technologies that advance surveillance and social control.  Edward is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn, NY. Most of his work centers around tech criticism, labor and financial reporting, and book reviews. He is also the co-host of This Machine Kills, a podcast started in 2020 to discuss the political economy of technology.  Support us via Patreon or BuyMeACoffee    Relevant Links:    Surveillance capitalism vs techno-feudalism vs techno-authoritarianism   A Materialist Approach to the Tech Industry: From Household to Military Tech with Dwayne Monroe"

[See also:

"AI, slavery, surveillance, and capitalism
(or AI for The Labor Question & What is Silicon Valley?)"
https://thetechbubble.substack.com/p/ai-slavery-surveillance-and-capitalism ]]]></description>
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    <title>Breaking the Spell</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-11T22:00:35+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The dire wolf is not back. The New Yorker tried to convince us otherwise this week, with an article that surely makes one wonder what happened to its famed fact-checking department. Extinct, I guess, much like the Canis dirus which lived in the Americas until about 10,000 years ago.

The photos of the admittedly very cute little pups – photos supplied by the genetics startup Colossal Sciences and reprinted with incredulity by multiple publications – are not photos of any resurrected species. These are not dire wolves – not phylogenetically, and maybe not even morphologically, particularly if what you're looking for in a dire wolf is the creature you saw in Game of Thrones. (One of the pups is named Khaleesi, so you can see the PR game being played here.) These are just plain old wolves – Canis lupus – with 20 gene edits, although the exact details of which genes have not been disclosed. This information is – surprise surprise – the "company's I.P."

According to The New Yorker article, the grey wolf is the closest living relative of the dire wolf: "they share 99.5 per cent of their DNA," it says, linking to a Nature article that says nothing of the sort and posits that the lineage between dire wolves and other canids (including not just grey wolves but the equally-close relatives coyotes and dholes) diverged some 5.7 million years ago.

As Tom Scocca's Indignity newsletter puts it,

<blockquote>What Colossal is selling, by all appearances, is furry vaporware. The company's rationalizations for its bogus dire wolves and imaginary mammoths are as bogus and imaginary as the animals themselves. There is no available ecological role for an ersatz Ice Age mammoth in the overheating, human-ravaged 21st century; the idea of rewilding any part of Earth back to a Pleistocene ecosystem—whether with fully reincarnated ancient megafauna or with synthetic functional approximations of those megafauna—is shameless nonsense. The planet is barely wild enough right now for the regular wolves and regular elephants to get by.</blockquote>

Questions about canine genes might seem far afield from the topic at hand here at Second Breakfast: education and artificial intelligence and, of late apparently, the end of democracy. But I'd argue that there are important connections worth making, and not simply, as Ben Williamson's work reminds us, because educational genomics remain an area of research for those pushing for predictive measurements in schooling and for new technological infrastructure (and old racist practices) to rank and sort students.

Edward Ongweso Jr. also published a story this week on "DNA's real value" – about 23andMe's bankruptcy and the links between genetic testing, advertising, and authoritarianism. Charles Murray – yes, that Charles Murray – is apparently among those interested in buying 23andMe's genetic data, which should tell you everything you need to know about the politics of the genetic testing industry. The value of this data – whether extracted by 23andMe or utilized by Colossal Science – lies not in "personalized medicine" or new drug treatments, Ongweso Jr. argues, but in reactionary efforts to bolster the police state and to undermine our empathy and collective responsibility to one another.

Eugenics is at the core of this project, just as it is foundational for artificial intelligence. And the politics of AI is much the same too: AI is, at its heart, a technology of discrimination.

See also: "Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport People" by 404 Media's Jason Koebler. "The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI," by Mother Jones's Luke O'Brien. That's Clearview AI, which from the outset planned to use its tools to identify immigrants and leftists. Peter Thiel and Palantir have a hand in all of this. (Palantir stock, FWIW, is up 340% since Trump's inauguration.)

<blockquote>A good definition of AI is the branch of computer science dedicated to making computers work the way they do in movies – Alan Blackwell, Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI</blockquote>

I spoke last night to a class of education/sociology grad students, laying out my very long list of reasons why using AI in education is a very bad idea – environmentally, politically, pedagogically, morally. One student came up to me after class and asked, with a mix of panic and exasperation, "what the hell can we do?"

I rarely have a satisfactory answer to this because the right answer – or at least, the full answer – is the most difficult path forward: we have to change everything. We have to radically reimagine education at both the micro and macro levels – how schools are funded, how schools are staffed, which practices matter, how we develop our relationship to knowledge and, even more importantly, to one another. We must expand human capacity, not outsource and privatize and turn education over to (and turn teachers and students into) machines.

Oh, and also: eat the rich.

But there is a smaller step, one that requires a lot less of us, but that is nonetheless incredibly powerful: ask questions. Push back on the technology, shatter the illusion that AI is all-powerful, inevitable, necessary, or even good – as Neil Postman argues in the closing pages of Amusing Ourselves to Death about the dangers of television to civic discourse:

<blockquote>What is information? Or more precisely, what are information? What are its various forms? What conceptions of intelligence, wisdom and learning does each form insist upon? What conceptions does each form neglect or mock? What are the main psychic effects of each form? What is the relation between information and reason? What is the kind of information that best facilitates thinking? Is there a moral bias to each information form? What does it mean to say that there is too much information? How would one know? What redefinitions of important cultural meanings do new sources, speeds, contexts and forms of information require? Does television, for example, give a new meaning to “piety,” to “patriotism,” to “privacy”? Does television give a new meaning to “judgment” or to “understanding”? How do different forms of information persuade? Is a newspaper’s “public” different from television’s “public”? How do different information forms dictate the type of content that is expressed?</blockquote>

To ask questions, Postman argues, is to break the spell.

So much of the talk about artificial intelligence (and, no doubt, this whole "de-extinct" dire wolf as well) relies on our uncritical awe, on promises of the good that the technology will someday be able to do. Often Arthur C. Clarke's famous adage – that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" – is wielded to dismiss those without sufficiently advanced scientific knowledge rather than to showcase how those who are peddling technology rely on a fair amount of hand-waving to get us all to play along with the future they're invested (literally) in building.

In a recent op-ed, Tressie McMillan Cottom argued that artificial intelligence is pretty "mid" – a goofy and even benign kind of magic that still sometimes adds a sixth finger to human hands in the images it generates. But that's not really the entirety of the magic trick that AI's promoters are trying to pull off: that this is the worst AI you'll ever use, as Ethan Mollick often chuckles.

The technology's advocates would like us ignore that AI is being wielded right now, today to round up immigrants, to identify "subversives," to revoke student visas, to deny social services, to extract value from the commons, to crash the economy, to expand government austerity, to facilitate genocide, to bolster the fossil fuel industry, to dismantle democratic accountability.

Ask questions. Break the spell.

***

The ASU+GSV Summit was held this past week – the annual gathering where ed-tech's most powerful investors and policy-makers have long plotted and schemed on how to profit from a privatized education sector. There was a bit of pushback. Math teacher Dan Meyer took folks to church. [Praise hands emoji, for sure.] In his presentation, Ben Riley made crystal clear the links between AI – the theme and big marketing push of the conference – and the rise of techno-fascism. The Chronicle of Higher Education's Goldie Blumenstyk challenged the audience at her talk about their complicity in the face of the current administration's policies: after all the money those present have made on the backs of educational institutions, how could they be silent?

Mostly, I gather, they managed to be silent. Frankly, I'm not even sure it was awkward silence.

Honestly, I don't know why anyone in and adjacent to ed-tech would continue to believe that the trajectory the tech industry is on will take us anywhere other than the subversion of democracy, although I know there are good folks who do. [Less enthusiastic hand emoji.] I saw someone say that Colin Kapernick was at the event, hawking some AI thing, and I reckon in a different life I could have made bank helping celebrities avoid these "oops, I did a fascism" kind of moments with their ed-tech philanthropy. But hey. I digress.

I recognize that people want to believe that, in their little corner of educational software, everything is kind and fun and empowering for teachers and students alike. But as David Golumbia argued in his posthumously published book Cyberlibertarianism: The Right Wing Politics of Digital Technology, the tech industry has long sought to explicitly "disrupt" two of democracy's core institutions: journalism and education. And phew. Look at us/US now.

Sure, I guess it is funny that Education Secretary Linda McMahon misread from her teleprompter at the event and said "A1" instead of "AI." Twice. Hahaha. But also goddamn. Let's not have that blunder be the takeaway.

The takeaway is that the ed-tech industry, so busy hustling AI products and services to schools, continues business as usual as the Trump Administration actively dismantles civil rights and public education. And maybe we should recognize that that's been the goal all along.

So here's a question for you (and a question for you to ask others – to break the spell): how can you, in good conscience, compel any student to use any piece of education technology right now, to upload any personal data to any educational provider – institutional or third-party, knowing that there are no assurances that this information will not be shared with the US government and used against them?"]]></description>
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    <title>According To Ariel: Unsustainability Will Be The New Chic In Luxury &amp; Watches | aBlogtoWatch</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-24T19:40:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.ablogtowatch.com/according-to-ariel-unsustainability-will-be-the-new-chic-in-luxury-watches/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["How will a projection of unsustainability be part of watch brand marketing in the years to come? The obvious answer is already happening, and that is in how much brands charge for their watches. Prices used to better relate to how much a product costs to manufacture. More recently, and especially among the most elite watchmakers, prices relate to asking buyers how much they can afford to waste. By making objects harder to get and increasing the wait times for them, brands shift the value of a watch from its commodity value to the exclusivity value. This is a nuanced psychological manipulation game that asks a consumer to forget what they are buying and instead think about all the people who simply can’t have it. The value comes in the buyer being able to project status and wealth, as opposed to the inherent value of the object. I find this practice distasteful and don’t recommend that people spend hard-earned money on such watches when so many exceptional timepieces are available. That, however, requires someone to have worked hard for their money. If that isn’t the case, then paying for exclusivity to mask one’s insecurity about how easily their money came to them is a winning value proposition for enough buyers. In any event, buyers who want the experience of something hard-to-get and rare have no interest in sustainability and are attracted by the idea of spending more than something actually needs to cost. That type of waste is only going to become more attractive in the eyes of the mainstream.

People with private jets have already been long associated with extreme elitism. Now that form of travel is as revered as it was once demonized for the signals that being able to travel that way sends. The “jet-set lifestyle” is what we use to refer to any time people use social media as a platform to project how privileged they are. As wasteful and dirty as jet travel may be, few can deny that it will increasingly be associated with the privileged, which people aspire to be. Therefore, while dirty practices will remain dirty, they will also be an ultimate signal for status seekers — exactly the currency that the luxury industry trades in. Similarly, luxury watches will thus further emphasize the pleasure and pursuit of travel, and most of the time, planes as the way of getting places.

Someone hipper than myself will come up with a term for the allure of unsustainability in luxury brand and wristwatch marketing over the next several years. I simply proclaim that the era of sustainability has concluded in the watch and luxury space. Vestiges of this messaging will endure a bit longer, and some brands will have pledged long-term commitments to carbon reduction. Nevertheless, luxury and high-end timepiece makers will resume their embrace of waste and excess the way their consumers have seemingly always wanted it. No one with much extra money wants to be reminded about it, nor do they want to feel guilty about their spending. These emotions, above all else, will be the foundation of much luxury watch buying in the years to come."]]></description>
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    <title>The Persistence of Time | The Hour Glass - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-18T03:02:00+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Hour Glass presents The Persistence of Time, an evocative cinematic exploration of timekeeping’s historical evolution and its enduring impact on contemporary artisanal watchmaking. From the earliest milestones in measuring time to the groundbreaking innovations of horloger de la marine Abraham-Louis Breguet, this film traces the rise of independent watchmaking across the generations.
 
Join some of the watch industry’s leading voices—Alex Ghotbi, Aurel Bacs, David Rooney, Felix Baumgartner, Firmin Li, Jean Arnault, Kari Voutilainen, Maximilian Büsser, Michael Tay, Rémy Cools, Rexhep Rexhepi, Su Jia Xian, and Wei Koh—as they reflect on the forces shaping this timeless art form to uncover how time defines both craft and perception."]]></description>
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    <title>Daring Fireball: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-13T21:13:45+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["But while there’s an obvious appeal to Apple pitching the most compelling, most ambitious AI story possible, the only thing that was essential was telling a story that was true. If the truth was that Apple only had features ready to ship in the coming year that were table-stakes compared to the rest of the industry, that’s the story they needed to tell. Put as good a spin on it as possible, but them’s the breaks when you’re late to the game.

The fiasco here is not that Apple is late on AI. It’s also not that they had to announce an embarrassing delay on promised features last week. Those are problems, not fiascos, and problems happen. They’re inevitable. Leaders prove their mettle and create their legacies not by how they deal with successes but by how they deal with — how they acknowledge, understand, adapt, and solve — problems. The fiasco is that Apple pitched a story that wasn’t true, one that some people within the company surely understood wasn’t true, and they set a course based on that.

The Apple of the Jobs exile years — the Sculley / Spindler / Amelio Apple of 1987–1997 — promoted all sorts of amazing concepts that were no more real than the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park, and promised all sorts of hardware and (especially) software that never saw the light of day. Promoting what you hope to be able to someday ship is way easier and more exciting than promoting what you know is actually ready to ship. However close to financial bankruptcy Apple was when Steve Jobs returned as CEO after the NeXT reunification, the company was already completely bankrupt of credibility. Apple today is the most profitable and financially successful company in the history of the world. Everyone notices such success, and the corresponding accumulation of great wealth. Less noticed, but to my mind the more impressive achievement, is that over the last three decades, the company also accumulated an abundant reserve of credibility. When Apple showed a feature, you could bank on that feature being real. When they said something was set to ship in the coming year, it would ship in the coming year. In the worst case, maybe that “year” would have to be stretched to 13 or 14 months. You can stretch the truth and maintain credibility, but you can’t maintain credibility with bullshit. And the “more personalized Siri” features, it turns out, were bullshit.

Keynote by keynote, product by product, feature by feature, year after year after year, Apple went from a company that you couldn’t believe would even remain solvent, to, by far, the most credible company in tech. Apple remains at no risk of financial bankruptcy (and in fact remains the most profitable company in the world). But their credibility is now damaged. Careers will end before Apple might ever return to the level of “if they say it, you can believe it” credibility the company had earned at the start of June 2024.

Damaged is arguably too passive. It was squandered. This didn’t happen to Apple. Decision makers within the company did it.

Who decided these features should go in the WWDC keynote, with a promise they’d arrive in the coming year, when, at the time, they were in such an unfinished state they could not be demoed to the media even in a controlled environment? Three months later, who decided Apple should double down and advertise these features in a TV commercial, and promote them as a selling point of the iPhone 16 lineup — not just any products, but the very crown jewels of the company and the envy of the entire industry — when those features still remained in such an unfinished or perhaps even downright non-functional state that they still could not be demoed to the press? Not just couldn’t be shipped as beta software. Not just couldn’t be used by members of the press in a hands-on experience, but could not even be shown to work by Apple employees on Apple-controlled devices in an Apple-controlled environment? But yet they advertised them in a commercial for the iPhone 16, when it turns out they won’t ship, in the best case scenario, until months after the iPhone 17 lineup is unveiled?

When that whole campaign of commercials appeared, I — along with many other observers — was distracted by the fact that none of the features in Apple Intelligence had yet shipped. It’s highly unusual, and arguably ill-considered, for Apple to advertise any features that haven’t yet shipped. But one of those commercials was not at all like the others. The other commercials featured Apple Intelligence features that were close to shipping. We know today they were close to shipping because they were either in the iOS 18.1 betas already, in September, or would soon appear in developer betas for iOS 18.2 and 18.3. Right now, today, they’ve all actually shipped and are in the hands of iPhone 16 users. But the “Siri, what’s the name of the guy I had a meeting with a couple of months ago at Cafe Grenel?” commercial was entirely based on a feature Apple still has never even demonstrated.

Who said “Sure, let’s promise this” and then “Sure, let’s advertise it”? And who said “Are you crazy, this isn’t ready, this doesn’t work, we can’t promote this now?” And most important, who made the call which side to listen to? Presumably, that person was Tim Cook.

Even with everything Apple overpromised (if not outright lied about) at the WWDC keynote, the initial takeaway from WWDC from the news media was wrongly focused on their partnership with OpenAI. The conventional wisdom coming out of the keynote was that Apple had just announced something called “Apple Intelligence” but it was powered by ChatGPT, when in fact, the story Apple told was that they — Apple — had built an entire system called Apple Intelligence, entirely powered by Apple’s own AI technology, and that it spanned from on-device execution all the way to a new Private Cloud Compute infrastructure they not only owned but are powering with their own custom-designed server hardware based on Apple Silicon chips. And that on top of all that, as a proverbial cherry on top, Apple also was adding an optional integration layer with ChatGPT.

So, yes, given that the news media gave credit for Apple’s own actual announced achievements to OpenAI, Apple surely would have been given even less credit had they not announced the “more personalized Siri” features. It’s easy to imagine someone in the executive ranks arguing “We need to show something that only Apple can do.” But it turns out they announced something Apple couldn’t do. And now they look so out of their depth, so in over their heads, that not only are they years behind the state-of-the-art in AI, but they don’t even know what they can ship or when. Their headline features from nine months ago not only haven’t shipped but still haven’t even been demonstrated, which I, for one, now presume means they can’t be demonstrated because they don’t work."]]></description>
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    <title>You Are Witnessing the Death of American Capitalism - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-09T18:07:48+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Corrections and notes: 

A few things were possibly over-simplified to prevent this from becoming a 170 part Ken Burns series. Please do some searching/reading and learn your butt off! I'll add to these as needed, as responding to comments will just get lost in the ether of YouTube comment pages.
 
- Futures contracts and options are a bit different. In a contract, the buyer is obligated to buy the asst, and an option frees them of that obligation. 

- The wealth generated in the 1950's can also be greatly contributed to much of Europe's destruction and how America used that as leverage to lend money under the condition of the US dollar being standardized for trade. This is a fascinating hour long video in itself.

- I anticipate that a portion of viewers will argue that this is just a new phase of capitalism. I disagree, but delving further into that disagreement requires further analyzing the semantic definition of "capitalism", which is probably a waste of time. So whether this is a new thing that doesn't have a name or a new mutation of capitalism that doesn't have a name, both are correct in describing the circumstances. 

- Bitcoin would've been a great answer to a lot of these problems. Unfortunately it's not used as a currency, but as a prospective asset. If it's not replacing the US dollar enmasse, it's not a solution to anything in this video. In fact, it makes a lot of this worse when you consider the insane amount of alt-coins. 

Further viewing: 
- There is no higher recommendation on YouTube than  @PBoyle  for anything related to finance or economic history. 
- Adam Curtis (BBC, etc) makes films that provide excellent surreal recaps of recent history that absolutely inspire me greatly. 

LOTS of books I recommend:
- Technofuedalism is an excellent and accessible book about this from Yanis Varoufakis. It's actually a bit more far-reaching (and scary) than my conclusions in this video. 

All of the following inspired this video: 
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
- Platform Capitalism by Nick Srnicek
- The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu
- New Dark Age by James Bridle
- Capital is Dead: Is this something worse? by McKenzie Wark

Finally, there are too many books to name about WWII and the Soviet Union that fascinate me endlessly. There is so much to learn those time-encapsulated parallel economies. 

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:43 - CH1 Capitalism (A Eulogy)
9:23 - CH2 History Repeats Itself
19:33 - CH3 Post Capitalism
26:27 - CH4 Digital Sharecropping
36:10 - Conclusions"]]></description>
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According to Rabbi and organiser Alissa Wise, it's precisely the teachings of her faith that informs her stance against Israel, and her advocacy for a free Palestine.

Rabbi Wise is a former organiser with Jewish Voice for Peace, and in December 2023 founded the group Rabbis for Ceasefire, calling for an end to Israel's genocide in Gaza.

The group now has more than 200 members, all of them teachers of the Jewish faith. They're a part of a growing movement of dissenting voices within Jewish communities challenging ideas that were taboo for decades.

Back in November, shortly after the re-election of Donald Trump, The Big Picture Podcast  travelled to Philadelphia to meet with Rabbi Alissa Wise to talk about the history of Judaism and the Jewish people.

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AP, Feb. 11, 2025, DOGE cuts $900 million from agency that tracks American students’ academic progress
https://apnews.com/article/ies-musk-doge-education-cuts-4461d7bdbe9d55c5a411d8465999b011

Stars and Stripes, Feb. 7, 2025, DODEA adds lessons to ‘do not use’ list sent to schools worldwide
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2025-02-07/dodea-removes-book-pending-review-16753412.html

Scripps News, Feb. 14, 2025, Public schools face deadline to remove DEI policies or lose federal funding
https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/education/public-schools-face-deadline-to-remove-dei-policies-or-lose-federal-funding

WaPost, Feb. 14, 2025, Park Service deletes trans references on Stonewall Inn monument pagehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/02/13/stonewall-transgender-lgb-national-park-service/

Stonewall National Monument website, https://www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm

Wash Post, Feb. 4, 2025 Here are the words putting science in the crosshairs of Trump’s ordershttps://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/02/04/national-science-foundation-trump-executive-orders-words/

On the Media, Feb.17, 2025. Donald Trump is Rewriting the Past.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/donald-trump-is-rewriting-the-past-plus-the-christian-groups-vying-for-political-power

MSNBC, Feb. 14,, 2025 At confirmation hearing, Linda McMahon refuses to say Black history courses will be allowed
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/linda-mcmahon-black-history-dei-trump-rcna192301

The 74, Feb. 13 Stunned Education Researchers Say Cuts Go Beyond DEI, Hitting Math, Literacyhttps://www.the74million.org/article/stunned-education-researchers-say-cuts-go-beyond-dei-hitting-math-literacy/

Audrey Watters blog https://audreywatters.com/blog/ and https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/
Audrey Watters on AI Foreclosure https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/ai-foreclosure/

CNN, Oct. 13, 2024 With AI warning, Nobel winner joins ranks of laureates who’ve cautioned about the risks of their own work
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/13/health/nobel-laureate-warnings-ai/
Statement on AI Risk, https://www.safe.ai/work/statement-on-ai-risk

Michael Gerlach, AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking
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[via:
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via:
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Audrey’s newsletter, Second Breakfast: https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/

Audrey’s book Teaching Machines https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546065/teaching-machines/

Simone Brown on the origins of surveillance in the management of plantation labour: https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/klr/article/view/1100

Emily Bender and Timnit Gebru (et al’s) famous paper: On the dangers of stochastic parrots: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922

Recent critique of this paper from a posthumanist perspective, referenced by Helen: https://posthumanism.co.uk/jp/article/view/3287

Meredith Whittaker on Babbage, computers and plantation labour: https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/

Reid Hoffman ‘AI will empower humanity’ in the NYT, referenced by Audrey: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/opinion/ai-chatgpt-empower-bot.html

The article is paywalled but there is an interview with similar takes here: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/26/why-reid-hoffman-feels-optimistic-about-our-ai-future/

A recent Guardian UK article on the ‘Paypal Mafia’: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk-peter-thiel-apartheid-south-africa

Peter Thiel’s argument that freedom and democracy are incompatible, referenced by Audrey: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/. This is also referenced by Curtis Yarvin and Nick Land in support of their Dark Enlightenment neo-reactionary movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

Links between Palantir (Peter Thiel’s company) and the US military: https://www.palantir.com/offerings/defense/air-space/

Helen’s original substack post on Faculty AI (a new one follows shortly): https://helenbeetham.substack.com/i/139080460/safer-ai-round-two

AI Snake Oil, blog of the book by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, discussed by Audrey and Helen:
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    <title>The Truth About 2 Hour Learning &amp; Unbound Academy a/k/a The School “Replacing Teachers with AI”</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["They haven’t replaced teachers with AI. They have replaced poor kids with rich kids."

...

"No cheat codes.
I’d never claim that public schooling is perfect, or that every public school is doing a great job. But the hardest part about public schooling is obviously the “public,” not the “schooling.” The hardest part is our commitment to educating everybody rather than just a wealthy few, a commitment that gets harder and harder to meet as life gets more and more precarious for more and more people.

Because of our country’s economic and political choices, millions of kids experience poverty, food insecurity, and record levels of homelessness. Even as material conditions worsen for those students, school budgets stay the same. Teacher pay stays the same. Student-teacher ratios stay the same. We ask teachers to motivate and educate all of those kids, whatever their circumstances, often without extra resources.

Educating everybody, especially under those worsening conditions, is a task that requires a significant number of humans—teachers in particular. If you tell me your school doesn’t need teachers, my first guess is either that you are misleading me or you aren’t trying to educate everybody.

This is the case with Unbound Academy, which is hiring just as many teachers as the public schools it derides in its charter application. This is the case with the Alpha private school network, which gets great results, as far as I can tell, not by replacing teachers with AI, but by replacing poor kids with rich kids, by replacing unengaged families with engaged families.

Unbound Academy wants us to believe they have found a technological cheat code for the most enduring challenge in public schooling. We, the public, should be thrilled if that were true, but Unbound Academy shouldn’t receive any of our resources until they can prove it."
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    <title>To the people who “love what they do”. - Téa Smith</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["LinkedIn is my favourite social network. No, I’m not kidding. Even though I hang out mostly on Twitter, LinkedIn has a special place in my heart. It is not like other social networks.

Twitter is full of stupid, loud, entitled, angry and entitled Millennials who are mad at Boomers. Facebook is full of stupid, loud, angry and entitled Boomers who are mad at Millennials. LinkedIn has both: stupid and angry Boomers and Millennials who, whilst yelling at each other on Twitter and Facebook, are also on LinkedIn, where they’re all forced to behave, because they have to co-exist in meat space. With sexy results.

[Homer Simpson GIF: "with sexy results."]

Gen X, all but forgotten, just hang and laugh at the stupid, angry chaos, because we hate both Millennials and Boomers and see that they’re ultimately the same agents and defenders of the status quo and are only in a fight to the death to run it. (Gen Z are off doing fuck knows, but entertain Gen X with their zero fucks).

Where other social platforms have a slight glimmer of sympathy, and pay lip service to, the working class and the disadvantaged, LinkedIn’s mission is clear: you are capital’s bitch, and if you want to eat, you’ve gotta play along. It’s… refreshingly honest.

Every day on LinkedIn, you see a rich kid who is winning awards for their “achievements” for doing the bare minimum. Hustle-bros who scam people, live with their parents, and call it “merit”. Woke Billionaires telling us that they really do super care about inequality, because look at my beard and jeans, not my actions. And definitely don’t look under the hood of my business. Look over there.

Don’t forget that you, too, can make a difference like me, if you just slept a bit less and just decided to be less poor, more male, and went to an Ivy League University and stopped being so negative. Poor people are so negative all the time. Why are you complaining so much? Don’t you know I’m a Forbes 30 Under 30 winner and why haven’t you looked at my jeans?

LinkedIn is capitalism’s most brazen bullshit, in all its glory, on tap. I love it. Everyone mostly existing in a structure that none of us want, but all of us perpetuate, because it’s just …easier. Ironically, LinkedIn is more human than any other platform, and culminates in a fascinating phenomenon that I call “capitalist cope”: thinking you can capitalism your way out of problems that are caused by capitalism by simply ignoring it.

LinkedIn is like jumping out of a plane, face first and then asking gravity to maybe be a little less negative as it pulls you toward the ground at 100 miles an hour. It’s funny. And delusional.

LinkedIn is a 24/7 capitalist cope machine, mask off, for all to see, and Human Resources professionals, brand managers and venture capitalists are here to run interference on the off chance you might look at all of it, contrast with your ever-increasing cost of living, lack of power and sleep deprivation and say “yeah, what a load of shit”, and start demanding a slightly fairer deal. Duh, it’s a free market. Don’t you understand basic economics? Like… supply and demand?

[GIF of Amy Poehler saying "Is this the mansplaining part of the evening?"]

[Capition: "Fellas, feel free to argue with me, but as a socialist, I own my own labour within a free market, which means, for me to engage, you can pay me or commission a piece of writing. Free market where you pay me for my labour on my terms. Capiche?"]

Without getting too boring and engaging in dumb quibbles (and so we can just move on so I get to my actual point) “Capitalism” is simply an approach to a free market, not the free market. In both socialism and capitalism, you still have a market, but they function differently, and prioritise different things. You still exchange goods and services and have money and iPhones and food and colourful clothes that aren’t hessian sacks. Socialists (well, the ones who know what they’re talking about and aren’t annoying), simply use “capitalism” to describe laissez-faire economics.

Socialism simply suggests that maybe capitalists have a slightly (cough) utopian view of human nature and history, and unregulated markets have had a tendency to concentrate wealth in the hands of a few. And, perhaps people are more than just units of production on par with dirt, water and wood.

Under capitalism, society orients towards profit, and because it tends to accumulate, we ultimately end up serving the interests of those who accumulate the most capital (because we all have to survive). So, ultimately we design a society that encourages exploitation. Capitalism, *drum roll* prioritises capital over social. You know, people-are-human-beings-not-robots, and tend to have a breaking point and heads of the wealthy tend to spontaneously fall off every hundred years or so if you keep treating everyone like shit.

Capitalism and socialism are in direct conflict with each other, because each system prioritises one class’ interests over the other and those interests don’t align. So, ultimately we either function to serve the 1% or we function to serve everybody. Get it? Can we move on past first year Pol Sci? I’m bored.

Which is why I find it really odd when I see otherwise-good people who work in Human Resources, or Brand Marketing, or their adjacent peers, posting on LinkedIn how they “love what they do”. I understand that there is a widespread fundamental misunderstanding of what capitalism is, does, how it behaves and how it always ends badly when you look at historical trends. I know that people simply don’t think about it. Mostly because socialists tend to be really fucking annoying. But… think about it now for a sec. Go on.

What is the real role/function of what you do?

When you say you “love” what you do, what does that mean? Do you ever think about the bigger picture? I get it… the small wins are good in a shitty world. But what makes it shitty? You like hanging with people and helping them. So do I. So why not do that for everyone? I also completely understand that you’ve gotta eat and pay your bills somehow, and you’re just trying to get by. But an awful lot of people seem to “love” what they do, when their job’s very function is something they should at least feel a little shame over.

I get it. I worked in marketing and thought I could nibble at the edges of this stuff for two decades. I tolerated it. But I never loved it. I saw it as necessary to live, until eventually I could no longer reconcile that I was contributing to an industry that was doing harm. I never “loved” what I did. I was ashamed of it, and even today, any job that I may take, I see as a concession based on my need to survive.

I used to joke that if I were more attractive I’d choose sex work over marketing, because at least that is an honest transaction …and you get to charge more for being fucked in the arse.

But, moving on.

You are allowed to see jobs as necessary, without “loving what you do”, or lying to yourself and others. It’s okay to admit that you need a job for money and would rather have time to write or paint. Geez. At least charge more for anal.

What is your real function here?

Zoom out.

For example, HR’s entire premise is built on the idea that people are resources to be extracted for profit by corporations, and are a “problem” to be “managed” if they step out of line. HR’s job is to extract as much labour from that “resource” as possible. Human beings are no different to the ground, air and water, and we all know how much corporations respect natural resources.

Just think about your role in it and what your primary function is. For one second. You don’t have to don a Che Guevara t-shirt and wear a beret and write slam poetry. I promise. Just think for a sec.

You “love what you do”?! Why? How?

HR’s function is to facilitate an egregious imbalance of power, whilst providing the illusion that the “resource” has a say in it. Those who are especially good at it make an employee think their exploitation is their own idea. You know, win-win.

Try saying no, or challenge this in any way and see how friendly HR is then. Try telling them that the way people are treated when applying for jobs is disrespectful, dehumanising and not at all okay for anyone who claims to be in the people business. Try telling them that the fact they say they love what they do when they know this is the stuff they do to people, actually makes them a terrible human being.

Try telling Human Resources that they are a salve, and actually run interference for an abusive, exploitative and dehumanising system. Point out that they call people Human Fucking Resources.

Watch them scurry, or shift in their seat, or deflect and call people like me negative, for asking for just one second to consider that maybe their ‘brand values’ are a little bit bullshit. Try seeing through the Woke veneers or corporate jargon and ESG platitudes. Try saying no to RUOK? Day or Pride Month because your employer has no legal right to ask about your private life and they know it. They’re friendly. They’re family. They care. They just want to accommodate you.

It’s definitely not bonded labour, because that would be bad and only bad guys force people to do labour in exchange for little to no pay to pay their debts. You are free to leave at any time. It’s not as if you will starve if you say no to it or anything.

Free market. Choice. Team Player. RUOK?

Unfortunately, modern government’s function is to (ideally) protect people from the excesses of this, and mostly to ensure people don’t get angry and start doing the numbers or reading the fine print and start getting ideas about changing things. The government’s job is to mediate between the interests of the wealthy and the natural and human resources the wealthy totally earned through hard work, like the air, water, earth and people in it. They earned it. Why would they pay taxes? Taxes are for socialists who hate the free market and don’t understand basic economics like supply and demand, you see.

Of course, governments also end up stuck with their own HR Departments, because we are now in a situation where corporations have claimed everyone’s resources, and therefore governments are starved out from tax avoidance, corporate lawyers and privately-owned public goods.

Government staff also have rent to pay and fast fashion to buy, and we all know that austerity is the only acceptable way to run a society. So, don’t go getting ideas, like that if we made it so people didn’t starve for not signing a predatory contract where they rented themselves out in exchange for shelter, food and water that is owned by a handful of people (which is definitely not slavery, that would be bad), HR would have far less power over the “resources” and unable to extract as much labour. We can’t have that.

Marketing (and by extension Media)’s function is to make inelastic goods and services out of elastic ones, and emotionally manipulate us to sell things at a higher price and therefore a higher margin. If they’re really super extra good at this, they can put a B badge on it like Nespresso, or make suffragette M&Ms.

The Media’s job is to tell you it is all fine that we’re in a cycle of indentured servitude of being harvested for profit, treated not as human beings but as ingredients in a rainbow cake on RUOK Day. Ignore the wars. What are you, a Russian bot?

I suppose I can understand why people don’t think too deeply about it. It’s painful to think you might be hurting people, unless, of course, you’re a psychopath. And I know that most people are just trying to get by. But this is why I want you to at least consider before you say you “love what you do”. Do you really? Do you really love this? Why?

I don’t. I hate that I am stuck here. I hate that I am surrounded by people who are part of a system that benefits so few, and hurts so many, and they have to find a way to love it. I understand that it feels overwhelming, but as much as we try to quibble over economic theory, and semantics and engage in a massive capitalism cope, it really is as simple as “do you prioritise people over profit?”.

Thinking too deeply about why you do what you do and who we are serving, and owning it, requires us to take stock and look at ourselves honestly. That can be really difficult, especially when the system just feels so large and the solutions are inconvenient.

But, if there’s one thing I hope it’s that people can at least be more conscious about it, and not be deceived by a system that makes all of this seem like our own idea. And for those who reject what I am saying here, I want you to examine what your priorities truly are, and to stop saying that you love people, or that you are in the “people business”. The line between bonded labour and trafficking and how capitalism functions at its core is simply a matter of semantics and branding, at the end of the day. Some are just better at lying to themselves than others.

It’s easier to pretend, or theorise, or quibble, or rationalise with ideological semantics than it is to look at who, ultimately, we are serving, why we are serving them (and yes, survival is a valid reason, up to a point), what our real values are, and how we might change the system that has been built from the ground up to benefit those who can rationalise putting profit over people.

I actually love people, which is why I am saying this. And I put my money where my mouth is. Zoom out."

[via:
https://x.com/Tyler_A_Harper/status/1865566223817179308

"Wrote about this a while back: a core function of elite higher education is to acculturate future elites into the belief that you can simultaneously be a Good Person With Good Liberal Opinions and also work in predatory industries that ruin other peoples lives and/or the country." (with a screenshot of the two-paragraph passage just above)

in response to
https://x.com/LolOverruled/status/1865281915390939228

"Some just finding out that a lot of other people do actually believe that doing certain jobs, even white collar ones, can make you a bad person"

where the author of this bookmarked essay responded with:
https://x.com/tealou/status/1865607208203067580

"haha I wrote this a few years back https://teasmith.au/to-the-people-who-love-what-they-do/ "]]]></description>
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    <title>Taste is Eating Silicon Valley. - by Anu Atluru</title>
    <dc:date>2024-09-27T23:43:39+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Just as software ate the world and dramatically transformed industries in the last era, taste is now eating software—and with it, Silicon Valley."

...

"Taste is eating Silicon Valley.

In 2011, Marc Andreessen famously declared that software was eating the world. For a time, that was the undeniable reality. Software was the engine of transformation, revolutionizing everything from tech to finance and retail to healthcare.

Back then, technical prowess meant market dominance. Y Combinator, the spiritual center of Silicon Valley,1 crowned technical founders as the chosen ones. Those who could manifest and master software were seen as gods. Venture capitalists funded those who could scale that code to massive heights. After all, software alone could transform giant, legacy industries, rapidly and efficiently.

It’s a different story today. Software has been commoditized — the result of technological advancement, decreasing cost and complexity, and democratization of coding as a skill. AI’s push into the mainstream has supercharged this shift. The lines between technology and culture are blurring. And so, it’s no longer enough to build great tech.

Everyone’s software is good enough. Software used to be the weapon, now it’s just a tool.

In a world of scarcity, we treasure tools. In a world of abundance, we treasure taste. The barriers to entry are low, competition is fierce, and so much of the focus has shifted — from tech to distribution, and now, to something else too: taste.2

Taste is eating software. Taste is the new weapon.

Whether in expressed via product design, brand, or user experience, taste now defines how a product is perceived and felt as well as how it is adopted, i.e. distributed — whether it’s software or hardware or both.

Technology has become deeply intertwined with culture.3 People now engage with technology as part of their lives, no matter their location, career, or status.

The markets being served now are cultural markets, where utility plus taste is the foundation.

In this new era, functional products are increasingly just supporting players in larger cultural movements. And so, in one way or another, founders are realizing they have to do more than code, than be technical. Utility is always key, but founders also need to calibrate design, brand, experience, storytelling, community — and cultural relevance.

The likes of Steve Jobs and Elon Musk are admired not just for their technical innovations but for the way they turned their products, and themselves, into cultural icons. But the competition isn’t just within the tech world anymore — founders are up against celebrities and influencers that have an edge in distribution, branding, access, and cultural resonance, even if they’re not as readily tech-savvy. The elevation of taste invites a melting pot of experiences and perspectives. Thus, the imperative of taste will challenge “legacy” Silicon Valley.

You could look at companies like Apple and Tesla and AirBnb and say taste matters because they’re classically consumer-facing businesses. But that’s not the whole story — consumer-driven traits like taste have infiltrated every corner of the tech world. B2C sectors that once prioritized functionality and even B2B software now feel the pull of user experience, design, aesthetics, and storytelling.

Arc is taking on legacy web browsers with design and brand as core selling points. Tools like Linear, a project management tool for software teams, are just as known for their principled approach to company building and their heavily-copied landing page design as they are known for their product’s functionality.4 Companies like Arc and Linear build an entire aesthetic ecosystem that invites users and advocates to be part of their version of the world, and to generate massive digital and literal word-of-mouth. (Their stories are still unfinished but they stand out among this sector in Silicon Valley.)5

Even in the most cutting-edge technical fields, taste is shaping the future as much as the technology itself.

In the general-purpose AI chatbot sector, OpenAI’s ChatGPT came out strong as the market leader. Since then, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, Poe, and others have joined the race from different angles. Yes, they’re competing on technical merits, but with how quickly AI is improving, it feels like they’ll converge on similar functionality.

So how do they compete? On how they look, feel, and how they make users feel.6 The subtleties of interaction (how intuitive, friendly, or seamless the interface feels) and the brand aesthetic (from playful websites to marketing messages) are now differentiators, where users favor tools aligned with their personal values. All of this should be intertwined in a product, yet it’s still a noteworthy distinction.7

Investors can no longer just fund the best engineering teams and wait either.

They’re looking for teams that can capture cultural relevance and reflect the values, aesthetics, and tastes of their increasingly diverse markets. How do investors position themselves in this new landscape? They bet on taste-driven founders who can capture the cultural zeitgeist. They build their own personal and firm brands too. They redesign their websites, write manifestos, launch podcasts, and join forces with cultural juggernauts. (And yes, people will still question whether VCs even “get” taste.)

Code is cheap. Money now chases utility wrapped in taste, function sculpted with beautiful form, and technology framed in artistry.

But what exactly is taste? The dictionary says it’s the ability to discern what is of good quality or of a high aesthetic standard. But who sets that standard? Taste is subjective at an individual level — everyone has their own personal interpretation of taste — but within a given culture or community, it can be calibrated.8

Taste is some combination of design, user experience, and emotional resonance that defines how a product connects with people and aligns with their values and identity. None of these things alone are taste; they’re artifacts or effects of expressing taste. At a minimum, taste isn’t bland — it’s opinionated.

As Arnold Bennett famously said, ‘Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.’9

Products make you feel something when you use them, and they make other people feel something about you.

Products are no longer just functional tools; they are emotional touchpoints. Increasingly, products are designed as vehicles of self-expression and social signaling, reflecting your values, lifestyle, and identity. Products with technology at their core are closer than ever to art. If true, this also means that other players become critical to the ecosystem: artists, designers, creators, creative directors, media companies.

And more questions inevitably arise: Who are the kingmakers and gatekeepers of taste? What culture war will the greater focus on taste ignite? Does the city or culture a company is created in matter a lot more?10 Nobody owns “taste,” but enough people will certainly try.11

Just as software ate the world and transformed industries in the last era, taste is now eating software—and with it, Silicon Valley.

In this new era of Silicon Valley, taste isn’t just an advantage — it’s the future. The most compelling startups will be those that marry great tech with great taste. Even the pursuit of unlocking technological breakthroughs must be done with taste and cultural resonance in mind, not just for the sake of the technology itself. Taste alone won’t win, but you won’t win without taste playing a major role.

As taste continues to infiltrate every corner, the roles of founders and venture capitalists are evolving. Founders must now master cultural resonance alongside technical innovation. And investors? They must bet on which companies will lead the next wave of innovation, where tech and culture are no longer separate entities, but fused into one. Some people won’t like this, some will rebel against it, some will just try to wait it out — but it’s a sign of the times.12

Founders must become tastemakers, and venture capitalists the arbiters of taste.

The challenge: Utility still demands respect. Theory still needs execution. More people think they have great taste than is reality. And maybe taste recognizes taste, but can metrics recognize it? It’s more of a science than just “vibes” — right?"]]></description>
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    <title>This is not a pyramid scheme: Is 'master resell rights' the new MLM? | Endless Thread</title>
    <dc:date>2024-06-30T18:27:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2024/06/28/master-resell-rights-mlm</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Every year, thousands of Americans lose money participating in multi-level marketing (MLM). So, last year, when a new business idea that promised to correct MLM's sins bubbled up on Instagram and TikTok, a lot of people hopped off the MLM train, and onto this new one, lured by the promise of a low-lift and lucrative side hustle.

This new business idea is called "master resell rights." But what exactly is it? Where did it come from? And does it actually solve any of MLM's problems? Endless Thread investigates."

[on Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-not-a-pyramid-scheme/id1321060753?i=1000660532630

on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5pMvWgrfJy9EhEvHboBPRK ]]]></description>
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    <title>Camera Reviews Need to Change... - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2024-05-29T16:36:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7c4ZbBzqK0</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Sharing my thoughts on the role YouTubers play in the marketing of a camera release.

=============================
Table of Contents:
=============================
0:00 - The Why
0:55 - My Post
2:15 - Why Now?
2:51 - Reviewer Life Cycle
4:17 - Press Trips
7:30 - Embargoes
8:16 - Being First
11:21 - Negative Reviews
12:20 - Lumix
15:01 - Canon
15:34 - Fujifilm
16:57 - Nikon
17:46 - Sony
18:55 - Advice to Brands
19:43 - Lumix Frustration
24:10 - Advice to Creators
25:20 - Final Thoughts"

[via:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwZxh4gn6eo ]]]></description>
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    <title>How Does the Lost World of Vienna Still Shape Our Lives? - Freakonomics</title>
    <dc:date>2024-05-28T05:43:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-does-the-lost-world-of-vienna-still-shape-our-lives/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["From politics and economics to psychology and the arts, many of the modern ideas we take for granted emerged a century ago from a single European capital. In this episode of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, the historian Richard Cockett explores all those ideas — and how the arrival of fascism can ruin in a few years what took generations to build."

[See also:

Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World, by Richard Cockett (2023)
https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300266535/vienna/

"How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century?
 
Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens—every aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some way shaped by Vienna.
 
The city of Freud, Wittgenstein, Mahler, and Klimt was the melting pot at the heart of a vast metropolitan empire. But with the Second World War and the rise of fascism, the dazzling coteries of thinkers who squabbled, debated, and called Vienna home dispersed across the world, where their ideas continued to have profound impact.
 
Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of this extraordinary story. Tracing Vienna’s rich intellectual history from psychoanalysis to Reaganomics, Cockett encompasses everything from the communist rebels of Red Vienna to the neoliberal economists of the Austrian School. This is the panoramic account of how one city made the modern world—and how we all remain inescapably Viennese."]

[via the CW&T newsletter:

"Late last Thursday night, Che-Wei was on a train to Boston and he texted me "we should figure out how to argue better". I texted back "sure, but please first more context".

He then sent over one of the latest Freakonomics podcasts, How Does the Lost World of Vienna Still Shape Our Lives? In this episode Stephen Dubner chats with Richard Crockett about his recent book Vienna : How the city of ideas created the modern world. The part about arguing only comes at the very end. But it left me yearning to learn more about Vienna. Also, Dubner boasts that Crockett's book was one of those rare, lucky reads that happen only once or twice a year that you can't stop thinking about.

Early in the book, Crockett talks about the concept Bildung, an idea coined by Prussian philospher + education administrator Willhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) where people prioritize and value lifelong learning and curiosity, as opposed to class and money. In the late 1800s, Vienna was very much a city of immigrants, and the people who lived there formed very strong connections with these ideas. He then goes on to talk about how these values were cultivated and shaped society.

I'm not going to re-tell the whole book, but aside from establishing access to free standardized, multidisciplinary education for men and woman ages 6-14, being a hobbyist, tinkerer, having interest in the arts or philosophy was very much ingrained in everyday life. Part of this had to do with the cafe culture, but also the architecture of middle class homes. These were very well suited with spaces to not only host gatherings, but to have workshops, or even terrariums/animal/insect habitats. It was common for groups of friends to gather at homes and for fun attempt to replicate some of the latest experiments published in scientific journals, or for young kids to raise and study insects or animals.

We all know how the story ends (not good). And even though I haven't finished the book, I can't stop thinking about that world, its loss and wondering about what parts of it remain and can be cultivated."]]]></description>
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    <title>How Does Nomos Glashütte Make A Beautiful Watch With Manufacture Movement For Under $3,000? - Quill &amp; Pad</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I was recently embroiled in a long and interesting conversation in Switzerland. The topic of this conversation, which occurred before the introduction of the Nomos Glashütte Neomatik, was: how can Nomos Glashütte make a watch with a manufacture movement for about €1,000 when – with the exception of perhaps the Swatch Group, a conglomerate that owns close to 200 companies – Swiss brands can’t?

The entry-level price at Nomos Glashütte is exactly €1,080 for the Club, a 36 mm stainless wristwatch with a hand-winding manufacture movement (Caliber Alpha) designed and made in-house. Yes, that’s right, an in-house manufacture hand-winding movement for under $1,500.

And let me also be very, very clear about the origin of Nomos Glashütte’s components: they are either made on premises, sourced in Germany, or sourced in Switzerland (such as the case and hands).

I know, you don’t have to ask me . . . how can this be possible?

Well, it is. And Nomos Glashütte proves it. I asked managing director Uwe Ahrendt to explain some of the details of this feat to me.

Start high, work down low?

Ahrendt patiently listens to my question, chuckling a little to himself as he does. We have known each other for close to two decades now. He knows I have seen Nomos Glashütte grow from a three-man operation to the full-fledged watch company employing almost 300 people it has become. He knows I can probably figure the answer out, yet he indulges me.

“Very often we have international retailers, but also end consumers, who don’t believe us when we say we make everything ourselves. And as strange as this may sound, if I put our Lambda or Lux down on the table first and tell them this is a manufacture product, he or she will believe much faster that the Club and Tangente models are also manufacture products. It’s crazy, but it’s true.”

In case you’re unaware, the Lux and Lambda models constitute Nomos Glashütte’s luxury line. After more than 20 years in business, in 2013 these two timepieces were not only among the first to be encased in gold, they were also the very first radical departures from the classic Bauhaus design Nomos laid down in 1990 with the four original models Tangente, Tetra, Orion, and Ludwig (all of which are still in the collection today).

The differentiated appearances of the Lux and Lambda are luxurious, as are the manufacture movements that tick within with their finely finished and unconventional design: Caliber DUW 1001 in the Lambda, and Caliber DUW 2002 in the polarizing, tonneau-like Lux. DUW, by the way, stands for “Deutsche Uhrenwerke” (“German watch manufacture”) and alludes to Glashütte’s powerful past in terms of movement manufacturing capability.

The Lux model retails for between €13,400 and €14,800, while Lambda sells for between €11,800 and €13,800.

So where’s the magic?

The relatively complicated answer lies in the sum of many factors.

“For one, wages are lower here than in Switzerland,” Ahrendt begins. “Another is that we probably have a shallower (profit-margin) calculation than the Swiss – because, I would say, we are content with less and therefore have less impact from material and other costs.”

“We also trim the fat,” Ahrendt continues. “Our marketing and sales force is manageable, which is also reflected in our calculations. Our administration, marketing, and so on are all accomplished in-house.”

Some time ago, Nomos Glashütte founded a second office in Berlin with about 30 employees, which is called Berliner Blau. “There we have our own designers and employees who book our advertising, make our marketing plans, and think up our campaigns. We do not employ expensive agencies. Berliner Blau is at least as ‘verticalized’ as our production.”

If you have paid attention to the advertising, marketing, and printed literature that Nomos Glashütte puts out, you would know that there is hardly a more cohesive and interesting set of visuals in the watch world.

No matter which way you look, the “little” brand’s corporate image is not only immaculate, but interesting, eye-catching, and fully reflective of the brand’s personality. That is yet another advantage of creating these equally-as-essential elements in-house.

And not to mention the website, which now includes e-tailing; Nomos is not readily available all over the world in retail shops, though it is exported into 40 countries, so online sales became a must in an increasingly globalized world market. As an aside, Ahrendt points to the United States as the biggest market for Internet sales. Berliner Blau also employs in-house developers and native speakers of English to ensure that the website, press materials, and any other printed literature are as close to perfect as possible – and flexibly so.

“What we have in Glashütte in terms of watchmakers, engineers, salespeople, mechanics, and toolmakers is the equivalent of what we have in Berlin in terms of graphic artists, journalists, programmers, and social media experts,” Ahrendt confirms. “These two locations cross-fertilize if you will.”

Comparisons

“But what I believe is perhaps an important element [with regard to your question] is that we orient ourselves less on what our neighbors [A. Lange & Söhne, Glashütte Original, Moritz Grossmann, and Tutima Glashütte] are doing in terms of production methods, but rather on perhaps the auto industry. Or even ETA and Rolex in Switzerland.”

So now we get to the meat of it: Nomos Glashütte sees itself in a more industrial than luxury light.

“And we don’t have a lot of different movements; we have very few that we produce in high numbers. And we have produced these for many, many years. We have certainly manufactured a few hundred thousand of our Alpha caliber, and the experiences in quality, cost-saving measures, and technology that we have gained in doing so – whether it’s milling, cutting teeth, CNC, or assembly – naturally flows in.”

“And we ‘industrialize’ where it makes sense to do so,” Ahrendt continues. “Like Rolex or ETA also do. With automatic bench systems, automatic oiling, automatic measuring, and even automatic regulation. And I think that these measures all add up.”

Automatic Caliber DUW 3001

We learned about Nomos Glashütte’s brand-new automatic Caliber DUW 3001 in Nomos Glashütte Neomatik: A Sensibly Priced, Efficient, Fashionable, And Mechanically Sound Tribute To The Past And Future Of Glashütte.

While the Nomos Club outfitted with the Alpha caliber retails at €1,080, the new Neomatic line powered by automatic Caliber DUW 3001 is somewhat more expensive, with a starting price of €2,520 in the Neomatik Ludwig. Why the jump?

For one, the difference between manual winding and automatic. When you stop to consider that, there should be no further questions. Yet, Ahrendt has a few more answers.

“What we have here is a totally modern, completely freshly designed manufacture caliber only 3.2 mm in height,” says Ahrendt.

“Regarding Caliber DUW 3001, we planned several hundred thousand pieces in our technology and production calculations,” Ahrendt continued. “All of our experience from the last 20 years has flowed into this caliber. And we succeeded in creating a new manufacture automatic movement for a watch costing between €2,500 and €2,900.”

The Swing System

Lest we forget: this caliber – and now every other caliber in the Nomos Glashütte range – also contains the Swing System (balance and escapement) introduced at Baselworld 2014 in the new Metro (see Bravo, Nomos Glashütte! Now The Metro Will Change The Watch Game).

“Many people will surely ask how we can do it [keep the price so low despite using one’s own regulator]. Well, the Swing System only uses one set of components. All our watches only use this one set of regulating components, not three, four, or five. Making a small amount of parts would have high development and tooling costs. We make one and only one. And every day we try to make it a little bit better, optimizing, increasing quality. And this is how we did it.”

“We haven’t quite gotten to Nivarox prices just yet,” Ahrendt reveals. “But the [stronger] Swiss franc has helped us this year to just about get there, and only a few little percent fractions are missing until we actually have the same price for this subassembly as Nivarox or ETA.”

So there we have it: economies of scale combined with years and years of experience in making the same product as well as intelligent solutions have allowed Nomos Glashütte to keep its prices at a humane level, at the same time granting many fans of great watchmaking the ability to find a wonderful entryway into the world of fine horology.

“Step by step, working to make a better product, not investing in testimonials and giant parties, just staying simple,” Ahrendt sums up.

Nomos Glashütte has crossed the threshold from a bit player to having the potential to become a major force; the brand is already by far the largest manufacturer of mechanical watches in Germany. And when I compare the three-room house in Glashütte that founder Roland Schwertner inhabited with his company at the beginning to the large amount of real estate and almost three hundred employees that the brand now encompasses, I realize what an amazing accomplishment this is.

Component by component and watch by watch, Schwertner, Ahrendt, and so many others in the team have worked hard to build a brand using not only their heads and their hands, but also their hearts. Nomos makes a true Glashütte product, one that I am proud to have in my own watch box."]]></description>
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    <title>New Discovery Shows Rolex Used to Alter Photos - Coronet - Rolex Stories</title>
    <dc:date>2024-05-23T22:54:18+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A watch writer based in Australia has recently made an interesting discovery about a Rolex brochure. Nick Gould posted on his Instagram account on Saturday that Rolex tinkered with a picture to show a navigator in the 1950s wearing a GMT-Master while in fact he wasn't wearing one, a sign of how far the brand was willing to go to market its watches as professional tools.

Nick said he had recently stumbled upon the original photo by accident. The 1955 photo shows a navigator taking Loran readings, an early radio system used for long-range navigation. In the original photo, the man wears a white-dial watch that looks nothing like a Rolex.

The picture used by Rolex and captioned “…for pilots, ships' captains, navigators, travellers and members of the Armed Forces” shows a GMT-Master on the wrist of the navigator. Rolex seemed to have super-imposed a drawn GMT-Master 6542 on his wrist — an early method of “photoshopping,” as Nick puts it — and used the picture for the cover of the GMT-Master booklet included with the watch."]]></description>
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    <title>The Stuff of (a Well-Lived) Life - by L. M. Sacasas</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Watching the ad, I mostly thought to myself, “I’m glad Albert Borgmann, may he rest in peace, is not around to see this.” (I understand, of course, that this is not what most normal people thought as they watched the ad.) But then I thought, “I don’t know, how good might it have felt to see your whole critical philosophy of technology, first articulated in the mid-1980s, so fully vindicated by both the tech company’s unwitting admission and the negative response it triggered?”

Borgmann, who passed away just over a year ago, was a German-American philosopher of technology. In my view, which you can take with a grain of salt, he was one of the giants of the field, and he has deeply informed my own thinking and writing. On the occasion of his death, I re-published an essay I’d written years ago, which serves as a decent introduction to some of the main themes in his work. The essay was titled, “Why An Easier Life Is Not Necessarily Happier.”1

To keep us moving briskly along and focused on Apple’s implicit vision of human flourishing as conveyed in their recent ad, here are the core relevant concepts from Borgmann’s work.

In an effort to understand the dominant technological patterns of the age, Borgmann identified what he called the device paradigm. The logic of the device paradigm is pretty straightforward. It describes the tendency to hide the complex machinery of a technology below a slick, commodious surface that makes the output of a device available to the user with minimal effort. The goods a device offers its users are “rendered instantaneous, ubiquitous, safe, and easy.” “A commodity is truly available,” Borgmann writes, “when it can be enjoyed as a mere end, unencumbered by means.” Apple products have long been leading exemplars of the device paradigm.

But this is only part of the picture. Borgmann opposed devices to what he called focal things. Focal things demand something of us. They require a measure of care, practice, and engagement that devices do not. Our use of them induces our focus, which they invite by design. “The experience of a [focal] thing,” Borgmann also notes, “is always and also a bodily and social engagement with the thing’s world.” There are, in other words, embodied and communal dimensions to the use of a focal thing. They involve our bodies, and they involve us in relationships to a degree that devices do not.

Consider just one of many possible examples: musical instruments. To learn how to make music with a guitar, for example, requires time and effort. Mastery of the instrument will take a great deal of time and effort. Your body may literally be marked by the effort with calloused finger tips. But the rewards are great, too. The pleasure of making and not merely consuming music, and of sharing it with others.2 In short, focal things are characterized by the kind of engagement which they invite and sustain. Or as I’ve put elsewhere, in relation to devices we tend to be relegated to the status of user, who may more often than not be the one being used. But no one would describe a musician as a user. Yes, they use the instrument, but the richness of the relationship between the musician and their instrument demands a different term, one that signals the degree to which a skill is cultivated in relation to the focal thing. We speak of musicians, not users of musical instruments because the musician is characterized by a set of skills they have cultivated in order to make something with the instrument.

So, then, one more thing I can say for Apple’s ad is this: when explaining Borgmann’s work, I can now simply say “watch this.” The ad amounts to a compelling, visceral depiction of a device crushing an array of focal things and thus eliminating the corresponding focal practices and their attendant skills and pleasures. It is a visual depiction of the triumph of the device paradigm.

The near universal response to the ad, which was heartening, also demonstrated another of Borgmann’s core claims: our experience tends to be enriched by focal things and diminished by devices. A good life is supported by a diverse array of focal things and practices, which tend to reward us with deeper, more meaningful experiences; a gratifying measure of bodily skill and competence; and possibly even a stronger fabric of relationships. Alternatively, a life characterized merely by the consumption of virtual goods mediated through devices, and the subsequent dependence and isolation such a life necessarily entails, will not be conducive to our well-being.

Granted, it is hard to resist the promise of ease, safety, efficiency, and convenience, particularly when many of us may already be operating with some degree of burnout and exhausted by what is demanded of us to simply get by day to day. This is the trap set for us by our existing social order. When society is built to run like a machine for the optimization of profit and productivity with little regard for the constraints inherent in the embodied human condition, then we are tempted to embrace the device paradigm as a matter of survival or because we have been conditioned by the machine and have internalized its values.

The point, to be clear, is not that you and I must cook every meal from scratch or listen only to music we make for ourselves or never use a device that may facilitate the completion of certain tasks. The point is that we ought to resist any vision of the good life in which we are reduced to mere consumers of readily accessible digitally simulated goods or in which human flourishing is indexed solely to the sheer quantity of our techno-economic system’s outputs without reference to their kind and quality. Implicit in Apple’s ad is the idea that virtually unlimited access to such goods is the summum bonum of human existence.

I have the good fortune of being able to walk to a farmer’s market most Saturday mornings. Usually, some local musicians will be performing. The acts vary from young, solo artists to duos or groups of various styles and compositions. Last Saturday, I listened as an older couple, easily in their seventies if not their eighties, played and sang together. The old man played guitar and his wife played the fiddle as they sang an assortment of classic American folk songs.

I do not know their story, of course, but they appeared to be enjoying themselves and for a few moments they enriched my life. I can imagine the tale their instruments could tell, and I can imagine how much those relatively simple instruments must mean to them. Ordinarily, the user of a device is only all too ready to part with it when a newer model arrives or when it loses its novelty or functionality. The reaction to the Apple ad reminds us that focal things are not so readily parted with. They are deeply valued and even treasured.

If the Apple ad was a graphic depiction of the triumph of the device paradigm and the crushing of focal things along with the forms of life they sustain, then this couple playing their instruments together after many long years embodied the joy and satisfaction focal things and practices bring to our lives.

These appear to be the two paths presented to us: one in which the device paradigm colonizes more and more swaths of our experience and we are increasingly reduced to swiping along a glassy surface of endless content, or one in which we refuse the lure of limitless and meaningless consumption and reclaim focal things and practices along with the skills, satisfactions, and community they generate."]]></description>
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    <title>Creative Good: Apple made a terrible mistake: it told the truth</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I have to give Apple credit here: the video is boldly telling us the truth. Other companies hide their true agenda, or even – if they have real competition – occasionally try to make things better for customers. But Apple’s globe-spanning monopoly gives it that walk-away scale of money and power that allows it to say – and then do – whatever it wants. For a totalizing company like Apple and the other Big Tech beasts, anything that stands in the way of the company’s dominance must be destroyed. You like playing the guitar for friends on the beach? No. Use a screen instead. You enjoy reading print books, which don’t spy on you as you read them? Not acceptable. Use a screen. Do you value being creative, or social, or just living a moment of your life off the screen? Get over it. Everything else will be destroyed. Only screens will remain.

I guess it’s like Steve Jobs always said: “We’re going to build a bicycle for the mind . . . and then we’re going to crush the bicycle in a 2-ton press, just flatten it right in front of you, so you can feel our destructive power. Take that, bicycle lovers. You all suck.”

Of course Jobs would never have said such a thing, just as he’d never have approved the “Crush” ad. But things have changed at Apple. The sheer arrogance, indeed the sadism, required to plan and execute such a campaign is indicative of the new position of the Big Tech giants. They are more than companies, now. They are acting like colonial masters."]]></description>
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