game theory

A dark server room aisle. Racks recede on both sides, their equipment picked out in rows of small green and blue indicator lights, with bundled patch cables looping across the front of each cabinet. One bay in the middle of the right-hand row stands empty and unlit, a loose handful of cables hanging down it, connected to nothing.

Nobody has to agree

Autistici/Inventati was never playing against the United States. No charge was laid, no forum convened, no argument heard. The collective learned of the designation from the press. No US authority had asked it to take anything down or to hand anything over. Italian authorities had made such requests between 2005 and 20…

September 21, 2026 · 19 min