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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you signed a Terms of Service you never read when you were born. it's called the social contract. it dictates where you can work. how much of your income you keep. what substances you can put in your body. who you can marry in some places. what you can say in others. you didn't agree to it. you can't fork it. there's no competitor offering better terms. the only opt-out is moving to a different country – which requires permission from both the country you're leaving and the country you're entering. imagine if any SaaS product operated this way. "you can cancel your subscription, but only if a competing product approves your transfer, and also you need to physically relocate your entire life." the App Store would reject it. but somehow it's the foundation of modern civilization. I'm not saying this to be nihilistic. I'm saying it because the first step to building better systems is admitting the current ones are weird.
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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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