1/ I’ve escaped two dictatorships – one by protest, the other by war. Belarus, then Ukraine. Now in Lisbon, figuring out what “home” means. So I host salons & build experiments about Network-Society futures.
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a priest from 1973 wrote the best framework for AI dependency that nobody's using Ivan Illich's "radical monopoly": when a tool reshapes reality so alternatives become impossible. cars didn't beat buses – they rebuilt cities so you couldn't walk. AI hasn't monopolized coding/writing. it's monopolized cognition itself the conviviality test: can you still do this without the tool? if not, you've crossed the watershed funny part – Illich directly inspired the personal computer. we went from convivial computing to subscription-gated cognition in 3 years. new essay ↓ embassy.svit.la/p/a-dead-priest-and-your-ai-problem
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quick test: name one functioning network state. ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ yeah. me neither. wrote 12 issues about them. there are whitepapers, Discord servers with constitutions, pop-up cities that last two weeks new essay: https://embassy.svit.la/p/requiresovereign-individual-undefined
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