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2026-05-08 14:06 UTC

@murdoc@autistics.life I don't want to seem dismissive of this reply, I really do appreciate it. But I don't think it's a skill issue on my part. I say this not to brag but because if I don't there's no way people would know, and someone said that I should stop being so humble about this stuff: I directed a group whose research was cited by the US Congress, on topics of Internet communication and social change and such... back in 2009. I don't think I'm experiencing a skill issue, with regards to a lack of understanding of how to operate tech, or imagine new formations of it that would operate in culturally meaningfully different ways, as I have already done that, repeatedly, in multiple countries, across multiple decades. I think the issue has much more to do with things like culture, racism, white supremacy, and governance, than the technologies itself.

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@emsenn@kolektiva.social 2026-05-08 14:11

@murdoc@autistics.life Like let me ask seriously: I am an Indigenous person with years of experience doing radicalism over the Internet. I am a cultural and spiritual worker in that culture. I have deep knowledge on communciation theory, semiotics, semantics, formal linguistics, modern Internet protocols, platforms, critical theory including both frankfurt and american schools, *and* category theory. I am willing to share *all of this knowledge*, for free, with anyone who is seriously working to actually do this tech in a different way. Do you know of anyone who is actually opne-minded enough to doing things REALLY differently, like hearing about how we could be doing non-Turing/Shannon computing, right now, on our boolean substrate? Because the lack of space for those conversations is the biggest gap in our ability to govern these technologies, NOT anyone's lack of skill or imagination. There's more than just me with great ideas for how to make things much better. What there isn't enough of, is communication that would translate our experience into actionable technologies commensurate with the current ones.

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