Daniel Onren Latorre
@daniel-latorre.bsky.social
Mindful tech product leader, founder & advisor at WiseCityLife.com. Founder of Digital #Placemaking. ex-PPS_Placemaking. Recently led product for a cutting-edge distributed protocol startup. Calling in a more pluralistic place-led world: offline>online.
Most democratic (small d) New Yorkers really needed to hear that fiery yet humanistic victory speech in Brooklyn last night. I wager so do most Americans if they haven't already.
November 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Most democratic (small d) New Yorkers really needed to hear that fiery yet humanistic victory speech in Brooklyn last night. I wager so do most Americans if they haven't already.
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My free Stop the Presses newsletter is giving out letter grades to news outlets, based on their level of truth-telling to expose the MAGA assault on our democracy.
The Guardian: A
Associated Press: B+
New York Times: C
CNN: C-
Washington Post: D-
CBS News: F
See more grades and my rationale here.
The Guardian: A
Associated Press: B+
New York Times: C
CNN: C-
Washington Post: D-
CBS News: F
See more grades and my rationale here.
I’m handing out pro-democracy grades to the media
The Guardian gets an A, the NY Times gets a C, CBS gets an F
www.stopthepresses.news
October 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
My free Stop the Presses newsletter is giving out letter grades to news outlets, based on their level of truth-telling to expose the MAGA assault on our democracy.
The Guardian: A
Associated Press: B+
New York Times: C
CNN: C-
Washington Post: D-
CBS News: F
See more grades and my rationale here.
The Guardian: A
Associated Press: B+
New York Times: C
CNN: C-
Washington Post: D-
CBS News: F
See more grades and my rationale here.
@beehiiv.com 1st time user, trying to create account. Can't due to "Email is not valid. Code: [464]" error. Dumb "AI" bot can't help. Support site: zero results. Dumb "AI" bot is programmed to offer support ticket but can't create it since it expects beehiv user's email despite what I just told it.🙄
October 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
@beehiiv.com 1st time user, trying to create account. Can't due to "Email is not valid. Code: [464]" error. Dumb "AI" bot can't help. Support site: zero results. Dumb "AI" bot is programmed to offer support ticket but can't create it since it expects beehiv user's email despite what I just told it.🙄
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Just in case there are any municipalities considering contracting out accessibility services to US tech platforms like Uber, maybe consider this, among many other issues. #Hamilton
www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/t...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/t...
US sues Uber, alleging disability discrimination | CNN Business
The US government on Thursday sued Uber Technologies, accusing the ride-sharing company of discriminating against passengers with disabilities.
www.cnn.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Just in case there are any municipalities considering contracting out accessibility services to US tech platforms like Uber, maybe consider this, among many other issues. #Hamilton
www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/t...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/t...
A bit slow on the uptake? Still boggled by seeing people active on Twitter.
Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...
Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky
Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves.
www.wired.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A bit slow on the uptake? Still boggled by seeing people active on Twitter.
Where has wisdom gone? For our cities, democracies, planet? Seeking all who already know we need post-cyberlibertarian and post-technocratic ways for anything wise to regrow.
youtu.be/A_XtNQSmf-M?...
youtu.be/A_XtNQSmf-M?...
Make It Rain
YouTube video by The KLF - Topic
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June 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Where has wisdom gone? For our cities, democracies, planet? Seeking all who already know we need post-cyberlibertarian and post-technocratic ways for anything wise to regrow.
youtu.be/A_XtNQSmf-M?...
youtu.be/A_XtNQSmf-M?...
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Ever wonder why Vance quotes Medieval church sayings. Catholic/Orthodox Traditonlaism: “Its public face online is largely female: the “trad wife” influencers. But make no mistake: Despite its TikTok and Instagram aesthetics, this is primarily a men’s movement.”
www.vox.com/politics/405...
www.vox.com/politics/405...
The hidden religious divide erupting into politics
The “cradle” vs. “convert” fight comes to Washington.
www.vox.com
April 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Ever wonder why Vance quotes Medieval church sayings. Catholic/Orthodox Traditonlaism: “Its public face online is largely female: the “trad wife” influencers. But make no mistake: Despite its TikTok and Instagram aesthetics, this is primarily a men’s movement.”
www.vox.com/politics/405...
www.vox.com/politics/405...
Keep pressuring all you know to stop using Twitter. By my last Twitter stat report I saw over 50% of accounts I follow are inactive. Pre-Musk it was maybe 5%, so let's keep up the pressure to hit 80%. (I still have my twitter account for monitoring, I just don't use it.)
The top 25 political and news accounts on X in the past 30 days.
March 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Keep pressuring all you know to stop using Twitter. By my last Twitter stat report I saw over 50% of accounts I follow are inactive. Pre-Musk it was maybe 5%, so let's keep up the pressure to hit 80%. (I still have my twitter account for monitoring, I just don't use it.)
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Fred Lambert at Electrek has his own wild story arc. He was basically Musk’s biggest fan in the world for a decade, promoting Tesla incessantly. Then in Sept 2024, just before the election, he said he didn’t trust Musk anymore and sold all his Tesla shares. Now he writes very bluntly about Musk.
March 15, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Fred Lambert at Electrek has his own wild story arc. He was basically Musk’s biggest fan in the world for a decade, promoting Tesla incessantly. Then in Sept 2024, just before the election, he said he didn’t trust Musk anymore and sold all his Tesla shares. Now he writes very bluntly about Musk.
Is this the speculative fiction people need to understand the right wing nature of Cyberlibertarianism? #foresight #designfiction #futurism
Imagine explaining this to someone in the 1940s
February 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Is this the speculative fiction people need to understand the right wing nature of Cyberlibertarianism? #foresight #designfiction #futurism
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I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
February 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
Best audio interview with @beccalew.bsky.social about her recent article on the misogyny at the heart of techno utopianism & cyberlibertarianism. Save it now and listen.
soundcloud.com/this-is-hell...
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Becca Lewis / How Technofacism is Rooted in Silicon Valley
Disinformation and far-right digital media scholar Becca Lewis, who posted The Guardian article, “‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley.
soundcloud.com
February 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Best audio interview with @beccalew.bsky.social about her recent article on the misogyny at the heart of techno utopianism & cyberlibertarianism. Save it now and listen.
soundcloud.com/this-is-hell...
soundcloud.com/this-is-hell...
@hypervisible.bsky.social good to see you here! Haven’t been on twitter since Musk took over! Perhaps now people will get what we’ve long talked about.
January 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
@hypervisible.bsky.social good to see you here! Haven’t been on twitter since Musk took over! Perhaps now people will get what we’ve long talked about.
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"What's closer to the truth is that [Big Tech folks] have been right-wingers all along, and that the so-called 'u-turn' – because they haven't received enough praise – is a very convenient fiction." – @hypervisible.bsky.social discusses David Golumbia's last book Cyberlibertarianism
The Problem With Cyberlibertarianism w/ Chris Gilliard
Podcast Episode · Tech Won't Save Us · 01/30/2025 · 58m
podcasts.apple.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"What's closer to the truth is that [Big Tech folks] have been right-wingers all along, and that the so-called 'u-turn' – because they haven't received enough praise – is a very convenient fiction." – @hypervisible.bsky.social discusses David Golumbia's last book Cyberlibertarianism
What if I told you the core Cyberlibertarian ethos of the digital culture is right-wing? That anything made from this ethos furthers right wing paths? That the deeper problem isn’t just big tech, or platforms, or protocols, but the core anti-democratic ethos itself?
Have another big post today on the importance of Bluesky/ATprotocol/decentralization, but also hoping to get people to understand the path forward is taking control over their own social media experience... www.techdirt.com/2025/01/27/e...
Empowering Users, Not Overlords: Overcoming Digital Helplessness
Disclosure: I’m on the board of Bluesky, so feel free to take as many grains of salt as you want in reading it, though all of it applies equally to other decentralized social media ecosys…
www.techdirt.com
January 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
What if I told you the core Cyberlibertarian ethos of the digital culture is right-wing? That anything made from this ethos furthers right wing paths? That the deeper problem isn’t just big tech, or platforms, or protocols, but the core anti-democratic ethos itself?
Any major change in media ecologies also changes social structures. Because: interdependence is the nature of our vast reflexive web of being. The challenge is can we change more consciously? More wisely? Or just let the 1% unwisely do whatever they want? All choices matter.
Altman seems unambiguously more accurate here? If the changes are as profound as he, Andreessen, & the people talking up AI investment claim- particularly on the jobs front, which doesn’t get enough attention -there’s no way there isn’t a major structural societal shift. There would have to be, no?
January 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Any major change in media ecologies also changes social structures. Because: interdependence is the nature of our vast reflexive web of being. The challenge is can we change more consciously? More wisely? Or just let the 1% unwisely do whatever they want? All choices matter.
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Help us get the #placemaking conversation going here. Some #PlacemakingX leaders to follow and engage with: bsky.app/profile/did:...
#PublicSpace #Cities #UrbanPlanning #Urbanism
#PublicSpace #Cities #UrbanPlanning #Urbanism
January 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Help us get the #placemaking conversation going here. Some #PlacemakingX leaders to follow and engage with: bsky.app/profile/did:...
#PublicSpace #Cities #UrbanPlanning #Urbanism
#PublicSpace #Cities #UrbanPlanning #Urbanism
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Many parallels are being drawn with Nazi Germany right now, as if that is the nadir of human evil. I worry this blinds us to the many signals that our current trajectory will take us someplace far worse still — potentially underestimating dangers by orders of magnitude.
January 25, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Many parallels are being drawn with Nazi Germany right now, as if that is the nadir of human evil. I worry this blinds us to the many signals that our current trajectory will take us someplace far worse still — potentially underestimating dangers by orders of magnitude.
Been advising all since 2018 to stop using Facebook as a form of harm reduction for all civic public realm work. And I've effectively stopped using Instagram a year ago. Signal is better and safer than WhatsApp. There's only more reasons now to move off of *all* Zuck's apps.
January 8, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Been advising all since 2018 to stop using Facebook as a form of harm reduction for all civic public realm work. And I've effectively stopped using Instagram a year ago. Signal is better and safer than WhatsApp. There's only more reasons now to move off of *all* Zuck's apps.
"The main task for a philosophy of technology, according to Winner, is “to examine critically the nature and significance of artificial aids to human activity” (Winner, 1986, p. 4). Since the underlying purpose is positive, criticism in technology should afford the same value as in any other area."
January 8, 2025 at 3:04 AM
"The main task for a philosophy of technology, according to Winner, is “to examine critically the nature and significance of artificial aids to human activity” (Winner, 1986, p. 4). Since the underlying purpose is positive, criticism in technology should afford the same value as in any other area."
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As someone who spent years reporting on Zuckerberg, I've struggled to find something coherent to say about today. Then @cwarzel.bsky.social reminded me of my old reporting.
This is what a FB employee said to me in 2020 after Zuckerberg addressed workers following FB-enabled violence in Kenosha, WI.
This is what a FB employee said to me in 2020 after Zuckerberg addressed workers following FB-enabled violence in Kenosha, WI.
January 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
As someone who spent years reporting on Zuckerberg, I've struggled to find something coherent to say about today. Then @cwarzel.bsky.social reminded me of my old reporting.
This is what a FB employee said to me in 2020 after Zuckerberg addressed workers following FB-enabled violence in Kenosha, WI.
This is what a FB employee said to me in 2020 after Zuckerberg addressed workers following FB-enabled violence in Kenosha, WI.
New blog from Dave Troy aptly named as we face a hard reboot one way or another due to zombie neoliberalism and other anti-democratic media ecology realities. Wise leadership needed more than ever.
NEW: "Without Sky: Social Media and the End of Reality"
Users are flocking to Bluesky in droves, but creators and users should think critically about the possibility of capture by potentially hostile investors.
america2.news/without-sky-...
Users are flocking to Bluesky in droves, but creators and users should think critically about the possibility of capture by potentially hostile investors.
america2.news/without-sky-...
Without Sky: Social Media and the End of Reality
Users are flocking to Bluesky in droves, but creators and users should think critically about the possibility of capture by potentially hostile investors.
america2.news
November 23, 2024 at 4:16 PM
New blog from Dave Troy aptly named as we face a hard reboot one way or another due to zombie neoliberalism and other anti-democratic media ecology realities. Wise leadership needed more than ever.