Simone Salis | Creative Technologist (@simone.org)

Downtown Chicago but Dune.

19.02.2026 02:54 👍 44 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Da persona con un cognome sardo, sono felice tu stia bene in Sardegna :)

13.11.2025 20:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Postcard and the Thing Itself (On Falling in Love with Ideas) My meditation teacher said something that stopped me cold: “We fall in love with the idea of a person, and then we fight so hard to keep it alive.”

We fall in love with the idea of a person, a country, or ourselves—then fight to keep the delusion alive. The real pain isn't from reality, but from the fighting.

A new essay on loving a postcard vs. the thing itself.

28.10.2025 15:42 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

Why do I have to prove I'm human online, but robots don't have to prove they're robots?

17.06.2025 02:27 👍 31 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

I'll check that, thank you so much for letting me know!

29.05.2025 23:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That's right. Give a read to the link if you have time, and you'll find that too. 😉

11.05.2025 14:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Consumerism: The First Universal Religion Humans Actually Practice From Apple's glass cathedrals to unboxing rituals and tech prophets, we replaced religious behavioral patterns with product worship without acknowledging it—creating perhaps the first truly global fai...

We've replaced crosses with logos but kept the worship intact.

I explored this architectural theology further: simone.org/consumerism/

11.05.2025 14:34 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Brand flagships aren't stores—they're cathedrals.

Products rest on pedestals under perfect lighting, using the same techniques that baroque churches used to elevate relics.

11.05.2025 14:34 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Consumerism mirrors many traditional religious aspects, including architecture.

The Apple glass cube in NY rises like a minimalist temple, appearing even more ethereal than the Kaaba in Mecca.

11.05.2025 14:34 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I just realized the Chicago event is actually in Evanston—but I'll try to leave work earlier because it's a unique opportunity! 😊

05.05.2025 20:31 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm afraid you'll now have to:

1. Build an Amazon competitor
2. Grow beyond Amazon
3. Buy Amazon
4. Make Bezos beg and kneel
5. Shut down Amazon
6. Subvert capitalism
7. Have the "book" taken down
8. Make Bezos kneel again at this point because why not

24.04.2025 00:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How about used Fujifilm X-T20/X-T30, Fujifilm X-E3, or Ricoh GR II?

19.04.2025 19:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Molto bella, Gianfranco. Sembra essere dalle parti di Via Cavour? Non credo sia la Scalinata dei Borgia, ma forse nei dintorni?

15.04.2025 12:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You may have noticed by reading the post that this is the case for me too.

07.04.2025 13:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Perhaps, but even then, the nefarious nature may be naked.

07.04.2025 04:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

RAI, BBC, NHK are not free in the senses that taxes fund them now with a hybrid model, but they exist. Streaming services are paid anyways.

06.04.2025 20:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What If We Made Advertising Illegal? What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy itself. A thought experiment worth considering.

What if we made advertising illegal?

simone.org/advertising/

06.04.2025 14:14 👍 91 🔁 17 💬 7 📌 12

Lovely color tones and blacks as well, Chris.

16.01.2025 22:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0