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Daniel Onren Latorre

@daniel-latorre.bsky.social
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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.

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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Understatement of the year
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Founder mode” is a euphemism for monarchism/authoritarianism. It’s why so many user-centered roles in design,CX, and research have been cut in recent years. No need to listen when the “great leader” dictates everything. The world is too complex for any one *man* to assume they know what’s best.
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
@proton.me what is going on? total global outage due to one datacenter cooling issue? rather shocking. please explain more.
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I logged on this crypto backed cyberlibertarian platform just to share this. Notable
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
@jerrybrewer.bsky.social Excellent truth speaking piece today after nihilistic utilitarian ends-justifying posts from others at the Athletic blog and all over. It’s seems many need to hear the timeless lesson about King Midas and his “golden touch”. From Knicks to USMNT the touch is rotten. #nokings
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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 05/05/2026
Great news! If anyone deserves a re-publish, it’s Paulina Borsook. She saw it all coming, before Golumbia, Morozov, and Wired magazine’s redirection. – cc @greglindsay.org – cc @nickkauf.bsky.social – cc @daniel-latorre.bsky.social – cc @grantennis.bsky.social – cc @movito.bsky.social
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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.
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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
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
@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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Thorben Wieditz @twieditz.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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...
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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.
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
A bit slow on the uptake? Still boggled by seeing people active on Twitter.
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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?...
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Make It Rain
YouTube video by The KLF - Topic
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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...
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The hidden religious divide erupting into politics
The “cradle” vs. “convert” fight comes to Washington.
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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.
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Is this the speculative fiction people need to understand the right wing nature of Cyberlibertarianism? #foresight #designfiction #futurism
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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.
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
@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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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 30/01/2025
"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
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The Problem With Cyberlibertarianism w/ Chris Gilliard
Podcast Episode · Tech Won't Save Us · 01/30/2025 · 58m
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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?
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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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PlacemakingX @placemakingx.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Help us get the #placemaking conversation going here. Some #PlacemakingX leaders to follow and engage with: bsky.app/profile/did:... #PublicSpace #Cities #UrbanPlanning #Urbanism
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Dave Troy @davetroy.com · 25/01/2025
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.
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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.
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
"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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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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.
Screenshot from a 2020 BuzzFeed News story that reads:

One employee who spoke with BuzzFeed News after the event was not comforted by their CEO’s words.

“He seems truly incapable of taking personal responsibility for decisions and actions at Facebook,” they said.
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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.
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Relevant to the US election and prior post on David Golumbia’s new book on the right-wing nature of Cyberlibertarianism. Becca knows this space cold.
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Really looking forward to reading David Golumbia’s brand new posthumous opus on digital cult-ure as we’ve known it so far. So that we can mindfully pivot to wiser paths: Cyberlibertarianism The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology www.upress.umn.edu/978151791814...
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Cyberlibertarianism
An urgent reckoning with digital technology’s fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinnings In a timely challenge to the potent political role ...
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Been on social media detox for months. Soon I’ll migrate fully from Twitter to here and Mastodon as these are the two best mass appeal private tools in this age of rising authoritarianism and retreat from democracy.
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
Spent a hour+ surfing content here on @bsky.app and it truly does feel like Twitter before Musk bought it to turn it into Parler. But this isn't the best thing either. Even before Musk's takeover, Twitter wasn't offering much psychological safety for people who were not privileged/well-resourced.
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
Dipping back in to check out the state of the AT Protocol in practice. Of all current options it’s great to see Brasilians choose @bsky.app. Bem-vindo!
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Daniel Onren Latorre @daniel-latorre.bsky.social · 15/09/2023
This is a very dejavú copy paste social app vibe isn’t it?
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