We should, by all means, do our darnedest to reclaim that agency, to use computers to lift up rather than punch down, and we have proof positive that it *is* possible, and we should draw hope from that. But we also need to contextualize that we are not attempting to return to a past; that past was always built on the surface of a soap-bubble; we need to carry the fragments of that past forward into a more durable future and to see every scrap of liberation we manage as a miracle in its own right
@glyph Every revolution contains within it the seed of a new oppression. How that seed grows depends on whether it is weeded or watered
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