read, study, understand.

the knowledge of theory linked to knowledge of history ties it all to the 'real' and how wefucking got here, which ties it to this moment.

then live praxis.

we're here because tim berners-lee and frank zwhatshisname failed to get their vision for the future of tech off the ground, and we're refugees from the corporate internet, which is the child of wall street (steve jobs was a salesman, not a tech guy. bill gates was a rich kid who had connections before he was out of high school. silicon valley gets a lot of its muscle from stanford-a business school, not MIT or any of the great tech schools in CA) more than the workshops and workstations of old (farewell, sweet prince, sweet xerox-parc, semantic web, university network, anonymous freedoms showing us our truest selves), which is structured like a panopticon(okay thats a whole thing, but tl;dr: it's built around self censorship and social pressure and limiting opportunnities and privacy) slaughterhouse (so when temple grandon redesigned the modern slaughterhouse, she took it from something the cows struggled against, to something they would walk forward in and fuel by their own muscle, just by manipulating the walls and view, and making them comfy until it was time to shoot them in the fucking head)of the mind(because social media and the algorithm(s) are made to harvest your attention like commodity sell your soul for pennies twenty times a second and harness your attention until you're so fucked and fragmented you can't even read a book. use every part of the (abstraction of) the animal, and make it easier to extract exploitative labor from!) and... a bunch of other stuff that you now see why im not typing out, so we're here because we wanted some brief moment of community and wholeness and maybe even the genuine human connection we were promised from the internet, from society, from everything, but never got because capitalism doesn't give, it takes hostage with every inch ceded and sends you little pieces in dead drops when you beg. it will monopolize and break every promise. and we mostly haven't found it, that connection, that togetherness, because who among us even remembers how? how to be friends or lovers or comrades?

but im a little high and inclined towards poetry. so maybe, despite my attempts to keep it to a minimum, that all just sounded like nonsense.