About Me
Hello! I'm Alessandro! I am 23 yo and I am a student of political science and a passionate photographer.
Where I'm From
I am from Francavilla al Mare, a small city in the beautiful region of Abruzzo!
Whether you like the mountains or the sea, Abruzzo has it all thanks to its geographical position that grants it a chunk of the Appenines mountain range (the one with its highest mountain, Gran Sasso, if I may add) AND a coast of some hundreds kilometers along the Adriatic Sea (not the cleanest water you'll see, but not too bad either).
The region is also famous for its food, most notably "arrosticini" (sheep meat in a stick), and its wine (not a fan myself but the New York Times says so)
Not convinced yet? Ok, let me show you some photos :)
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Why I Started This Website
Everything began on November 10th 2025. I had just finished reading Shoshana Zuboff's Surveillance Capitalism and I realized that I no longer wanted to be on social media. I found truly relatable and heart-breaking all the parts of the book in which Zuboff indulges in criticizing this system that big techs have built to first spy on us, and now to influence our behavior.
As a lot of people out there, I have grown up with the myth that progress (and especially digital progress) would have make our lives so much better through the connections it allowed us to create. I am old enough to remember when the first smartphones were coming out and how cool they seemed to us all.
Little did I know back then that the surveillance capitalists would proceed to trap us with their tools and platforms up to a point in which to many teens and young adults a life without a cellphone and/or social media seems impossible.
As many others like me, I have a natural inclination to connect with other people and I will not let tech lords exploit it to glue me to a screen seeing things that make me sad and mad. Not anymore.