Roberto Fa

foraging metaphors for world peace

After months of tweeting about it, I finally wrote it all down: Why artists are worried about generative AI. “They didn’t burn the libraries — they trained them with AI.” dev.to/far/why-arti...

Hi all—I'm available in the DC area for remote hire! Contact me for any graphic design needs in print + digital (identity, layout, posters, typography, web design), also any photography requests (portrait, editorial, retouching). Please email me@robertofarruggio.com directly ✌🏼

I have helped out as a DC/Northern Virginia fixer in the past. I worked for an Emmy nominated HBO team in 2012-13 in Brooklyn. I have experience in PR and ghostwriting, marketing/advertising, ad campaigns, story beats, pitching, editing, pre and post production, networking, security consulting, cit.

queen bee isn't supposed to be doing the worker bee role, unless it involves the economy

almost 1.6 billion iphones are online right now without an adequate digital forensics team

italians are experts on how to go on strike in any industry, if anyone needs any help, i'm here

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journalism continues to be defaced by a dictator, it's not fair

if you see something and say something about it they then attack you harder

millennials are one of the only remaining generations on earth with the ability to understand people and they're still attacking us because they were jealous of our instagrams

planet had a sweet spot. '50s-90s were better than we realised

if spotify sold each individual mp3 it might save spotify's life and every artist too

i'm writing a peace demonstration of a mini digital revolution moment on twitter rn, if anybody wants to watch me paint on captured twitter you're welcome to join in

commercial products are now devaluing craft, labor, and anything made or written by hand Adobe is built for productivity, it's not doing the work for you like an OpenAI subscription generating both text and imagery...

the entertainment industry (including films, music, and video games) are all in a digital-only transition in the middle of a writer's strike across several industries while the OpenAI business model is undervaluing creatives and authorship

PROPHECY AT 1420 MHZ. youtu.be/74NluS3jzTo

Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent. SAG-AFTRA recommends that #SagAftraMembers (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.

compact discs really going extinct? this news is gargantuan in size. colossal. effects the entire entertainment industry because discs can be films or music too. people are realising it's all going into streaming platform no man's land. this is part of the story of the ongoing writer's strike

EFF’s @doctorow.pluralistic.net talked AI with @democracynow.org: “When labor drives automation, it’s usually in service to making the product better, and when capital drives automation, it’s usually in service to making more of the product.” www.democracynow.org/2026/6/25/r...

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𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘴! 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩!! 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢! 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘥, 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩! 𝘕𝘰 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘥-𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘨𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘮! 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘦! 𝘎𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩! 𝘜𝘯𝘱𝘭𝘶𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴!! 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘦! 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦! 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮!

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to summarise it quickly: if you kill off the architects then it all falls down. when they killed off Aaron Swartz, the internet was left incomplete. Innovation cannot continue because they murdered the opposition in an act of war

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

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Generating art with AI without consent is plagiarism, period. It's done enough destruction to the art world and creative industry. If an artist builds their own unique AI tools, then sure, it could be acceptable.

Spotify is a design problem. Do you design it fairly and then write the laws, or the other way around? The design solution of the store isn't finished. It's about recreating the experience of visiting Tower Records where there is organic exploration rather than being constantly fed suggestions.

A friendly reminder: AI is simply software that always existed, and when people mention technology—it's just about electronics. Get over it.

You know what radicalised me? When they intimidated Aaron Swartz. He was an Internet architecht we need right now. Maybe that's why the world is still falling apart on this thing. They mess with the best and it impacts everyone. Probably Russian.