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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoA Prayer for Limits - by Matthew Battles2026-07-03T07:04:10+00:00
https://matthewbattles.substack.com/p/a-prayer-for-limits
robertogrecoOur relationship with life seems to be in crisis today. Everything that appears as a “limit” — incapacity, illness, old age, suffering, vulnerability — tends to be seen primarily as a defect to be corrected, rather than as a reality through which our humanity matures and opens itself to relationship. And yet we must remember that humanity flourishes not despite limitations, but often through them….
It is precisely within our limitations that the following find a place: compassion, as well as a sincere concern for the needs of others; a generosity that can emerge even in the midst of darkness and failure; spiritual experience and the worship of God…. Mysteriously, it is precisely in such moments that we can discover a new wisdom, tangibly experience the closeness of others and encounter the presence of the Lord.
I found myself wanting not merely to assent to these words, but to pray with them. It was a curious and inexorable feeling. I have not made a practice of composing and sharing prayers; but a spiritual confidante whose fellowship I trust has encouraged me to share this one. And so here is a prayer for our limits, offered not for intercession or supplication but in adoration:
It is through your love, O Lord, that we learn to love our limits,
which give force to our compassion
and shape to the fear we feel for others in their need;
which nurture our generosity even as we fall and fail;
which frame and enfold our measures of adoration.
Confronted as we shall be by rejection,
grieving as we must at the loss of all we hold dear,
quaking as we do in the face of our failures,
may we gather our wits, sense your nearness,
and come to rest in the embrace of our entanglement.
We suffer from these limits and we learn from them.
Without them, we would cease yearning even for love.
To love, to learn, and to desire is to wound and be wounded.
What a gift it is to be drawn into your woundedness,
into this adventure of failure and freedom, disappointment and dream.
In you, we affirm the tragedy and splendor and glorious mystery
of being your body together; with you, we choose the human."]]>matthewbattles 2026 popeleoxiv magnificahumanitas encyclicals ai artificialintelligence catholicchurch catholicism antónbarba-kay technology siliconvalley lmsacasas technocracy utility tools environment marshallmcluhan perception resistance matthewsitman samadler-bell jackhanson beauty grace life living limits incapacity illness age aging suffering vulnerability humanity humanism compassion wisdom experience prayer spirituality failure freedom disappointment entanglement human humanness humans knowyourenemy friction frictionlessnesshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d7e82e1856b5/Dictionary of the Illegible - Source Type: Store - Source Type2026-07-03T01:27:36+00:00
https://www.sourcetype.com/store/51534/dictionary-of-the-illegible
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https://macleans.ca/society/my-university-students-cheat-i-dont-blame-them/
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https://bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/
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https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/om
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https://runtimewire.com/article/om-malik-taught-silicon-valley-to-read-itself
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/ai-tutor-education-human-investment/687678/
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https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-algorithmic-order/
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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/rule-world-education-power-stanford-tech-theo-baker/
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1
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https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/06/llms-as-the-worst-of-both-worlds-a-review-of-cory-doctorows-the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai/
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/22/the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai-by-cory-doctorow-review-the-real-price-of-artificial-intelligence
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https://48hills.org/2026/06/flocks-panopticon-sight-sound-and-search/
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https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/the-gravitational-force-of-tech-money
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https://breakingground.us/ivan-illich-technology-skill-of-hospitality/
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https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/remembering-illich-a-conversation-154
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RafuYcUolY4
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https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-social-scene-curated-offline-events-dinner-parties-2026-6
robertogrecoHosting an intimate dinner in sf for lore builders.
Founders, narrative architects, writers, world builders. Humans at the intersection of storytelling x culture x craft x storytelling x philosophy x design.
Keeping it to <10. Who should be in the room? 🫶
— Joumana (@JoumanaElomar) June 23, 2026 [https://x.com/JoumanaElomar/status/2069509402437222482 ]
Many of these curated events follow a similar blueprint: a promo that looks like an A24 film poster and grainy, film-like photos that make it feel more like a 90s-era house party than a tech founders' event.
"I think trusted (human) curation is so important now, even more than ever," said Michelle Fang, who leads Stripe Startups, a program offering financial support and resources to early-stage, venture-backed companies, and has a weekly newsletter that rounds up in-person tech events in San Francisco.
Fang said that when she first started the newsletter in 2023, she posted an average of 20 to 30 in-person events a week. That number has now risen to 70 to 80 a week.
"There's been a noticeable shift in both the frequency and types of events happening in SF, especially over the past year," she said.
AI has accelerated this trend dramatically, she said, as the AI boom brings an influx of talent who want to establish their community in the city.
While some of the events Fang has listed are traditional building workshops and hackathons, others include Pilates classes, peptide tasting parties — the latest self-optimization craze — and "intentionally curated" dinners.
It's a vibe shift from the large happy hours and networking events that defined post-pandemic tech socializing, said Fang. These smaller events don't require a big budget or venue, and with the speed of AI growth, people want to make sense of new concepts and the changes happening in real time, she said.
[image: "Dinner table with bowls of sushi and edamame at an event hosted by coworking and tech events startup Verci's / Verci, a coworking space and events startup, hosts monthly dinners and workshops for members. Ami Yoshimura/Verci"]
'Taste is a new core skill'
The taste conversation kicked off earlier this year when Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham wrote in a post on X that, as AI democratizes building, "taste will become even more important."
Two days later, OpenAI President Greg Brockman cemented the catchphrase on X, writing that "Taste is a new core skill." Since then, it's led the tech world to hyperfocus on AI companies and founders who are winning the taste battle.
Alongside the taste discourse, being offline has become a status symbol. Having the ability to de-digitalize is seen as a luxury and a way to connect with people more authentically, with in-person events being a means to achieve this, especially for those whose working lives already revolve around AI.
peak bengaluru and bangerlore pic.twitter.com/1imEhjhCBX
— prerna (@Prerrrrna_) June 7, 2026 [https://x.com/Prerrrrna_/status/2063545613632037129 ]
An event "only for hot people and nerds" in Bangalore, which appeared to be in collaboration with the early-stage Bangalore-based consumer tech company Faff, made the rounds on X earlier this month. The vibe is artfully arranged cheese boards, trendy cocktail menus (with AI puns), and grainy photos.
Ami Yoshimura, the 23-year-old cofounder of Verci, a members club and coworking space in New York, hosts events such as rooftop parties and multi-day retreats for founders and creatives. "Relationships, aesthetics, and telling a story" have become crucial ways to stand out in the hyper-competitive AI industry, he said.
Small parties, big bucks
It's not just San Francisco that is seeing this event boom.
new york tech week highlights:1. went blind into an event hosted by @join_ef and successfully met a group of really cool people with 0 degrees of mutual connection2. met/made some really good friends from url ➡️ irl shoutout fonzi and corgi team3. ended off the week with a… pic.twitter.com/CA3h0mwmLe
— sara kong (@saraknggg) June 8, 2026 [https://x.com/saraknggg/status/2064047927702782454 *]
Katia Ameri, a partner at A16z who spearheads Tech Week in San Francisco, LA, and New York City, wrote on X last month that New York was so far the largest Tech Week in history by events and attendees. The LA and San Francisco equivalents are coming up later this year.
Eliza Wu, cofounder of Corner, a social mapping app that describes itself as "Google but social," wrote in a post on X that there were over 600 RSVPs for a panel she was hosting at New York Tech Week.
Leading AI companies are also taking note. In April, Anthropic posted a brand events lead role in San Francisco, with a salary of up to $400,000.
There are four open marketing events positions at Anthropic, while OpenAI has two open positions for events, commanding over $200,000 salaries with options to gain equity too.
Anthropic is paying up to $400,000 a year for an events role.They're looking for someone to own the execution of brand experiences that translate Anthropic's values into physical moments.This person will produce everything from intimate thought-leadership gatherings to… pic.twitter.com/SWvmSarclY
— Andrew Yeung (@andruyeung) April 26, 2026 [https://x.com/andruyeung/status/2048545188608364593 ** (archived: https://www.are.na/block/47316282 )]
Andrew Yeung, an ex-Google and Meta product lead turned event host and angel investor, wrote on X in response to the job advert that it shows Anthropic understands that "they need to create visceral, unforgettable IRL experiences that make complex technology feel accessible and human."
"The massive opportunity now is offline, analog, in-person," he said.
But while the taste that goes into hosting a party is human, we are living in an AI world — and as with your job applications, an AI screener might still be standing between you and an invitation.
Wu, the cofounder who hosted a New York Tech Week event with 600 RSVPs, said she turned to Claude to winnow down her guest list.
She said she prompted the chatbot to scan through potential attendees' social posts to identify "markers of excellence" and to suss out the "quality of their thoughts."
With the help of Claude, only 300 people made the cut."
[* full text of https://x.com/saraknggg/status/2064047927702782454:
new york tech week highlights:
1. went blind into an event hosted by @join_ef and successfully met a group of really cool people with 0 degrees of mutual connection
2. met/made some really good friends from url ➡️ irl shoutout fonzi and corgi team
3. ended off the week with a bang at vega (shoutout ben & maddie)
i think when it boils down to WHAT constitutes a good event, it varies based off what your specific persona is trying to get out of it.
for me, events with well-catered hospitality that are more intimate (without just randomly throwing people together sloppily) call out more to me because you make more solidified relationships.
likewise, it’s good to put an online face to a name because that alone can unlock so much trust and future opportunities.
see you soon nyc!
** full text of https://x.com/andruyeung/status/2048545188608364593
Anthropic is paying up to $400,000 a year for an events role.
They're looking for someone to own the execution of brand experiences that translate Anthropic's values into physical moments.
This person will produce everything from intimate thought-leadership gatherings to large-scale industry activations.
The top AI research lab in the world recognizes that to cross the chasm and reach everyday consumers, they need to lean into hospitality. They need to create visceral, unforgettable IRL experiences that make complex technology feel accessible and human.
They understand that digital channels are getting increasingly saturated. Every feed is flooded with AI content... every inbox is overflowing.
The massive opportunity now is offline, analog, in-person.
The companies that win in the next decade won't just have the best product but the most emotional in-person presence and the most compelling storytelling.
If you're in events, experiential marketing, or brand activations, this is your moment. The biggest tech companies in the world are betting on you.
[two images of the job posting]
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https://matthewbutterick.com/extinction-level-capitalism.html
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https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/ai-is-not-conscious-but-it-is-becoming
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https://dougald.substack.com/p/when-the-music-stops
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https://ellul.org/themes/ellul-and-berry/
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https://www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-silicon-valley-bubble-part-1/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b30d7FR8YP0
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https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/content-violation/
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https://www.equator.org/articles/to-dwell-in-possibility-vatican-AI
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/reflections-on-the-machine/
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https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/xia-jia-the-ai-story-is-not-done/
robertogrecoxiajia 2026 writing howwewrite ai artificialintelligence listening confiding psychology counseling liucixin technologyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:48018ea3c6cf/How needing others became a source of shame for Americans | Psyche Ideas2026-06-11T22:19:47+00:00
https://psyche.co/ideas/how-needing-others-became-a-source-of-shame-for-americans
robertogrecous interdependence self-reliance individualism psychology susanmatt 2026 society shame chatbots ai artificialintelligence ruggedindividualism lukefernandez technology loneliness rebeccadickinson radio telephones history dalecarnegie normanvincentpeale ralphwaldoemerson thoreau zanfavero daragami replika companionship sociabilityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e1f974c6d0da/What is Nick Land’s philosophy of accelerationism really? | Aeon Essays2026-06-11T21:43:57+00:00
https://aeon.co/essays/what-is-nick-lands-philosophy-of-accelerationism-really
robertogrecoaccelerationism nickland ai artificialintelligence computers computing 2026 capitalism technology innovation philosophy benjaminnoys imperialism apartheid southafrica modernity resistance kant humanity hegel jacquesderrida edmundhusserl death nietzsche georgesbataille siliconvalley singularity singularitarianism tescreal doomers williamgibson ijgood gillesdeleuze deleuze guattari félixguattari deleuze&guattari phenomenology globalsouth commoditization immanuelkant francisfukuyama margaretthatcher ronaldreagan denxiaoping cybernetics arthurschopenhauer otherness curtisyarvin darkenlightenment menciusmoldbug markfisher jakechapman dinoschapman heidegger sadieplant kode9 ccru garrytan palantir marcandreessen brentontarrant technocapitalism stargateproject humanextinction georgtrakl authoritarianism vincentlê vincentle freudhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6ab27ca0351e/"Tech-Driven Prosperity & Right-Wing Racist Politics": Quinn Slobodian on Elon Musk and SpaceX IPO - YouTube2026-06-09T21:55:54+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPMzjr39F1g
robertogreco2026 quinnslobodian elonmusk spacex power wealth ideology politics us rightwing farright governance government democracy infrastructure technofascism ai artificialintelligence business technology tescrealhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8eec5576a11c/Come funziona la scuola in Cina - YouTube2026-06-09T07:23:54+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU1U6VXLw2Y
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https://syndekit.substack.com/p/the-butlerian-jihad-has-begun
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https://www.theverge.com/report/942609/benn-jordan-music-gear-cybersecurity-surveillance-questionnaire
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https://www.thenerdreich.com/ai-argentina-and-the-antichrist-thiels-vision-blooms/
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https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-future-belongs-to-those-who-resist-it
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/07/generative-ai-human-culture-philosophy/674165/
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https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/06/pope-leo-ai-christian/687388/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8rLRIhDS-Y
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https://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/neuroscience-technology-and-translation-in-education-policy-and-practice/
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https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/at-what-cost/
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https://jacobin.com/2026/05/educational-technology-children-learning-iready
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https://comment.org/ai-as-christian-heresy/
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https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/should-the-lion-lie-down-with-the-electric-lamb
robertogrecoAI is not “inherently evil” in the sense that it can be used exclusively to bomb and oppress. But not even nuclear weapons or machine guns work that way. We are never caused to do anything by a tool (or a narcotic). There is therefore no trade-off between using Claude and “reading stories to a child” or “offering company to an elderly person” or the other activities that the encyclical commends to our attention as human. But that is just the problem, that even as the trade-off does not happen at the level of content, it cannot but take place at the level of formal tendencies. Almost no one idolizes AI, but the technocratic paradigm is a matter of form rather than content: a matter of habitual incentives that, once internalized, become practically imperative. And the Church has not yet recognized heresies of form.
I wish I understood what Barba-Kay means here by “formal tendencies,” “heresies of form,” etc. But I think he might be thinking along the same lines I followed in this post [https://blog.ayjay.org/some-thought-on-habitus/ ] on habitus, focal practices, and the virtues required for healthy praxis. I should perhaps revisit these thoughts, alongside a further inquiry into “diseases of the intellect.” [https://blog.ayjay.org/diseases-of-the-intellect/ ] The time seems ripe."]]]>antónbarbakay 2026 popeleoxiv encyclicals magnificahumanitas ai artificialintelligence claude form catholicchurch catholicism habitus technocracy technology haroldinnis humanity cognition cognitivedeskilling automation rerumnovarum industrialization labor work workers capitalism human humans humanism dignity attention reverance care insight thinking howwethink finitude transhumanism posthumanism llms intelligence mediahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0fddbf4d7539/Do Not Resign From Life - by L. M. Sacasas2026-06-03T09:27:19+00:00
https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/do-not-resign-from-life
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https://om.co/2026/06/01/clothes-are-nice-fashion-biz-not-as-much/
robertogreco“The clothes are inoffensive, but there’s no point of view. The downside isn’t bad taste, but the erosion of individuality.” – Turner Allen, personal stylist, New York
Menswear today is neutral tones, muted basics, everything well-cut and normal. Or as they say, nice. The Business of Fashion recently called this an epidemic. Everyone in the industry has an opinion about it. What almost nobody has is an explanation for why. The fashion media is smart enough to spot the symptom but fails at the diagnosis.
The BOF at least attempts an answer, channeling the music critic Simon Reynolds, who argued in his book Retromania that pop music had collapsed into endless pastiche – referencing references, with nothing original left to say. The same, the BOF writer suggests, has happened to fashion. The epidemic of nice clothes is what you get when an industry runs out of ideas.
Maybe. But that framing is still entirely about the industry. It leaves out the person standing in front of the mirror.
Me.
The writers’ complaints are simply the arrogance of insiders, something common across media. Just look at how self-referential the Atlantic and the New Yorker have become. Same when it comes to technology, sports, and everything else.
They all treat the paying customer as a rube. What if we stopped wanting the opinions of fashion insiders and sports reporters who are not nearly as honest as they pretend to be? Everyone is talking their own book, all the time, everywhere. Everyone is looking to get paid.
We the rubes have learned a thing or two.
For years we have been swimming in images. Instagram, street style blogs, TikTok, Pinterest, the endless scroll. Whatever you think of that flood of images, it has done something to our eyes. It has trained us. We have looked at more clothing combinations, more visual context than any generation before us. We have developed taste not from magazines but from sheer accumulated exposure.
The assumption buried in the insider complaint is that the point of view should come from the garment. That the designer is the author and we are the readers. That clothes arrive with meaning already assigned, and our job is to receive it correctly. This is how the whole enterprise of fashion writing has always worked – and it is, not incidentally, how affiliate link revenue works. You spot the trend and explain why it matters. You link to where they can buy it.
That model made sense when images were scarce and editors were gatekeepers. It makes far less sense now.
Look at my own closet. It is a capsule collection of about a hundred pieces. Plain, nice, comfortable, well-made garments. French-made bespoke blue shirts. Muji T-shirts. Japanese workwear. I arrived at each of them because they are precisely what they are not: a line item in LVMH’s annual profit report. They work with my body. When I combine them, the result is mine. Not defined by a runway, a trend, or any external verdict.
Alexander McQueen famously said: “I want you to come out either repulsed or exhilarated, as long as it’s an emotion. If you don’t feel an emotion, I’m not doing my job.” It is a great quote. It is also a completely designer-centric view of the world. The designer produces the feeling. You experience it. You are the audience.
That model is over. Today’s designers are mostly hired hands executing the commercial agenda of conglomerates whose job is to sell expensive product on installment plans to people who want to feel rich. The clothes that result are rarely worth the allegiance.
A perfectly cut neutral trouser means almost nothing by itself. But that trouser with a specific shoe, a worn jacket, a watch with some history, a shirt you found somewhere unexpected – now there is something. The clothes are the vocabulary. I write the sentence.
Compare this to what came before. The hypebeast era, the logomania, the streetwear machine – that was actually the most passive way to dress in living memory. The brand told everyone what you were about. The logo spoke. You just put the thing on. It was expensive ventriloquism.
The epidemic of nice clothes is not a failure of imagination in the industry. It might be the industry finally catching up to what people actually want: room to think for themselves. A canvas, not a lecture.
The question was never whether the clothes have a point of view. The question is whether you do.
Lawrence Lessig in 2008 argued that the 20th century had been a Read-Only culture. You consumed what the professionals produced, passively, with no mechanism to talk back. The phonograph, the radio, the CD: the machines made you an audience. The internet broke that. Suddenly culture was Read-Write. You could take what existed, layer it, reinterpret it, make something yours. That shift has expanded with every generational turn – Web 1.0, Web 2.0, social, mobile, and now AI.
Fashion just got there later. The hypebeast era was the last gasp of Read-Only dressing. What is happening now looks like an epidemic of nice clothes. It is actually the beginning of something else.
The read-write metaphor has since become read-write-read. And the data backs it up.
Hundreds of millions of people are not just consuming culture – they are recreating it. Layering it, putting it back out. The fashion industry’s complaint that people lack a point of view doesn’t hold against what the numbers actually show. These are the same people uploading 14 million tracks a month to SoundCloud and posting 272 TikToks a second. They have plenty of points of view. They just stopped waiting for permission to express themselves.
Now give me the raw energy of Diya Joukani – a self-taught designer from Mumbai who just filmed a cameo with Rihanna. Wintour is good for hosting the Met Gala, not for finding the new thing. She can’t. Because there isn’t one new thing anymore. And the fashion-industrial complex doesn’t understand that.
The upside of the connected world means now I can find a talent like Diya without any editor telling me that I must pay attention to her. And in her I see what I have always imagined, a world where we tell the story of us. Diya and I are about 35 years apart, but she captures how I see my clothes. A palette to be put together. Simple, nice, and authentic. Embellishing is what I do. Sure, I learned from Anna and her ilk. But now I know myself much better, and hence nice is not just nice. It is me."]]>ommalik clothing fashion apparel self self-expression identity luxury branding readwriteweb web online internet socialmedia gatekeeping influencers elitism diyajoukani consumption consumerism influence 2026 media simonreynolds business industry technology sports thenewtorker theatlantic insiders journalism tiktok pinterest exposure garments design clothes hype hypebeast expression logos lawrencelessig 2008 readonly readwrite readwriteread nice soundcloud personalexpressionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9b2d0a15618b/They Need You Illiterate - by Sana Saeed - Views My Own2026-06-01T08:09:37+00:00
https://sanasaeed.substack.com/p/they-need-you-illiterate
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https://religiondispatches.org/2026/05/26/leo-xiv-links-ai-histories-enslavement-and-exploitation
robertogrecoroopikarisam 2026 popeleoxiv enslavement slavery history colonialism colonization exploitation catholicchurch catholicism encyclicals magnificahumanitas rerumnovarum popeleoxiii humanism humanity humans human labor workers work ai artificialintelligence technology automation societyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2e39d8348822/Moral Panic, Moral Imagination2026-05-30T23:13:37+00:00
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/moral-panic-moral-imagination/
robertogreco“places the dignity of work and of workers at the forefront of its reflection; affirms the right to a fair wage for oneself and one’s family; recognizes that persons have a fundamental value that takes precedence over capital and profit; defends private property along with its indispensable societal role; esteems workers’ associations; and proposes forms of cooperation between the different components of society as an alternative to the mentality of class struggle.”
Human dignity – the word “dignity” appears over one hundred times in this latest encyclical – is undermined by the ongoing exploitations of capitalism; and it is increasingly threatened by the acceleration of technologies, particularly “AI” which
“promises to boost productivity by taking over mundane tasks, [but] frequently forces workers to adapt to the speed and demands of machines, rather than machines being designed to support those who work. As a result, contrary to the advertised benefits of AI, current approaches to technology can paradoxically de-skill workers, subject them to automated surveillance and relegate them to rigid and repetitive tasks. The need to keep up with the pace of technology can erode workers’ sense of agency and stifle the innovative abilities they are expected to bring to their work.”
With a remarkable apology for the Church’s role in colonialism, the Pope links the violence of slavery and human trafficking in the past to the violence of slavery and human trafficking today and the threats of new forms of slavery in the future – “a decisive test for the ethical discernment of AI and digital transformation,” particularly as new technologies curb human freedoms, intellectually and bodily. “Without this ethical and humanizing reflection, the growing power of digital systems could lead us toward new atrocities that are no less shameful than those of the past that we now deplore, while we continue to present ourselves as ‘advanced’ and ‘civilized’ societies.”
To avoid this future – to avoid the reduction of everyone to objects, to eschew the tech industry’s valorization of efficiency and extraction, to end its demands to control all aspects of our lives – it is imperative that we build systems that are “centered on the human person and not solely on performance,” the Pope argues. He’s speaking here specifically of how we push back on automation and technology in the workplace, but I think this is absolutely relevant to education as well. Teachers’ working conditions are, as the union saying goes, students’ learning conditions; but I think we need to see students as doing work too – important intellectual work of their own, work that also matters for minds and souls and bodies and futures and freedom. Both teachers and students deserve dignity and care; both deserve systems that are human and humane; both deserve systems that are not mechanistic and exploitative as almost every single piece of education technology that’s flooded classrooms most certainly is.
And I’d add here too that students – children and adult students like – deserve systems that do not view them solely or even primarily as vulnerable and weaker beings in need of protection. When children are described as “precious treasure,” as the Magifica Humanitas does, it is too easy then to cast them as the objects of education and to deny their agency, their inquiry, their rights."]]>audreywatters ai artificialintelligence moralpanic edtech technology luddism neoluddism neoluddites luddites 2026 magnificahumanitas popeleoxiv popeleoxiii douglasadams panic catholicchurch catholicism slavery colonialism colonization rerumnovarum dignity humanism human humans humanity society work labor workers capitalism education teaching howweteach learning howwelearn schools schooling colleges universities highered highereducation academia agency humanrights automation humandignity encyclicals enslavementhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:adc0c3f703ec/How Anthropic used its AI ethicslop to play the pope and eclipse OpenAI2026-05-30T05:18:55+00:00
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-anthropic-used-its-ai-ethicslop
robertogrecoThe Vatican could have partnered with the exploited data workers fighting for their rights, the people whose water is polluted fighting data centers, or the many other victims around the world. But no, they featured ANTHROPIC, giving them their endorsement with this feature. "Vatican washing", like greenwashing.
This also works in reverse, I think. Anthropic’s opportunism leaves a stain on the entire encyclical, which now, ironically, looks a bit like an accessory to helping the largest and richest AI company yet—not to mention the one aiming to sell the most job automation tools—reach new heights of power.
Like I said, Anthropic is full of shit. It sent a billionaire co-founder to the Vatican to solemnly intone about the specter of mass job loss and the importance of caring for the poor, and then three days later issues a press release about its massive new funding round and resultant sub-$1 trillion valuation."]]>anthropic popeleoxiv timnitgebru brianmerchant 2026 ai artificialintelligence openai encyclicals samaltmam darioamodei claude claudecode chatgpt superbowl magnificahumanitas labor work workers chrisolah lordoftherings jrrtolkien kriskhnarao vatican catholicchurch catholicism broadcom jpmorgan taxes taxation progressivetaxation opportunism vaticanwashing power edzitron finance financialengineering luddism neoluddism neoluddites luddites rerumnovarum popeleoxiii 1891 capital capitalism dignity humanism human humans humanity technology production productivity exploitation popejohnpaulii unemployment markets slavery inequality afl-cio lorenagonzalez ethics ethicslop automation societyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:eac36fcb7692/AI’s empty head can see only the apple2026-05-29T22:47:30+00:00
https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/trevor-paglen-how-to-see-like-a-machine-review/
robertogrecotrevorpaglen 2026 alexpark ai technology machinelearning art artificialintelligence machinerealism lawenforcement police policing flock oakland reneémagrittehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:00810c9fbbe5/Pope Leo and the ‘Babel Syndrome’ | Commonweal Magazine2026-05-29T06:26:46+00:00
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/spadaro-leo-olah-ai-technology-magnifica-humanitas
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https://www.theringer.com/2026/05/28/tech/pope-leo-xiv-ai-encyclical-tech-industry-problems
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https://restofworld.org/2026/china-ai-tourism/
robertogrecochina tourism 2026 technology ai artificialintelligence manufacturing factories kinlinglohttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5e2af47d7bde/What the Pope Said About A.I. | The New Yorker2026-05-28T22:28:10+00:00
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-pope-leo-xiv-said-about-ai
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYJj4qwko9k
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https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/25/encyclical-on-ai/
robertogrecopopeleoxiv 2026 encyclicals magnificahumanitas ai artificialintelligence simonwillison catholicchurch catholicism christianity humanism responsibility human humans technology automation work workers labor society humanityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:21da018dd662/Is Peter Thiel the target of Pope Leo's Gandalf quote? An investigation. - Ars Technica2026-05-28T07:32:18+00:00
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/is-peter-thiel-the-target-of-pope-leos-gandalf-quote-an-investigation/
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https://www.wired.com/story/pope-leo-schooled-the-tech-bros-on-tolkien/
robertogrecopopeleoxiv jrrtolkien economics culture ai literature philosophy worldview faith spirituality technology lordoftherings techbros milesklee 2026 artificialintelligence peterthiel elonmusk palantir critique donaldtrump gandalf society power wealth militarization iran war encyclicals magnificahumanitas catholicism catholicchurch humanism responsibility human humans automation work workers labor humanityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dfc05102b700/👁️ The Professor and the Nazi (Part 1)2026-05-28T05:59:00+00:00
https://davidzmorris.substack.com/p/the-professor-and-the-nazi-part-1
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https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/
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https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/hating-ai-is-good-actually
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https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/promises-and-perils
robertogrecoFear that there may be no alternative to the will of the AI arise because we have been told for decades that there is no alternative to neoliberalism, that there is no alternative to the mediation of all society by profit-driven markets, no alternative to the universal power of private self-interest that continually tries not to better the world, but to maximize it’s own profit and hence power. Stories about the “promises and perils” of AI ring true, not because the AI is poised to hunt all of us down, but because the stories reflect real experiences of technology, capitalism, and ideology; they reflect the capitalist developments of the incomprehensibility of technology, the invisibilization of labor, enclosures, proliferating neoliberal bureaucracies, and the sense that there is no alternative to capitalism and the status quo.
[from Blix & Glimmer, Why We Fear AI, page 56]
In other words, the threat isn’t so much that AI is inevitable as that the ongoing—and likely expanding—immiseration of workers is unstoppable. This is the subtext of the strange and conflicted messaging that we get from the hype men: when they say that you better learn AI or be left behind, they are admitting that a great many people will be left behind. And if you—smart and clever and hardworking person that you are—are somehow able to make it to the other side of the line, you’re supposed to find relief or pride at having done so, and not horror at all the people suffering in your wake. You’re supposed to be as uncaring as the capital that uses you.
But getting through this gauntlet is no guarantee of getting through the next one—and there will be a next one, because the plain aim of the technocrats is to immiserate everyone, eventually. From the capitalist perspective, anyone with skills enough to negotiate a comfortable wage is a cost in need of cutting. Add to that the fact that AI’s whole pitch is that the more you use it, the more data it gathers, the more likely it becomes capable of mimicking you well enough to convince the fools above you that it can do your job. So get-in-or-get-left-behind is something of a trick—everyone is left behind, eventually.
Which is both terrifying and clarifying. Terrifying in that the capitalists really do have the ability to do us harm—they have been doing so, already. Clarifying in that there really isn’t any reason to stay on the path they’ve laid out for us. It leads nowhere good. Meanwhile, there aren’t very many people up ahead, and there are a whole lot of us back here. Let’s see what we can do."]]>ai artificialintelligence capitalism neoliberalism inequality technology society labor work workers nerdreich tescreal mandybrown hagenblix ingeborgglimmer power encolsures messaging datahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:26bd88e812a8/