nika on alastair

nika dubrovsky and alastair parvin

via tweet [https://x.com/nikadubrovsky/status/2005214000380883345?s=20]:

Speaking at #39C3 about the @museumofcare and the @Graeber_social. Most curious to discuss with @pluralistic and @AlastairParvin: what would a university look like where *knowledge is treated as uncharted territory—not “drop and do pushups” or “take a loan, spend your life in debt”? https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/event/detail/the-museum-of-care-open-source-survival-kit-collection

nika on poetic techs et al

*to me.. rather.. knowledge treated as cancerous distraction.. as irrelevant to the dance

so seeing alastair is founder of open systems lab (indy johar et al).. checked to see if i had a page on him.. which i did/do.. but not connected to lab/indy.. so adding all this now..

hopeful.. perhaps a means to go deep enough to get to root of problem

legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do

how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..

ie: imagine if we listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)

the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness

[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]

there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. for (blank)’s sake..

ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition

otherwise we’ll keep perpetuating the same song.. the whac-a-mole-ing ness of sea world.. of not-us ness.. of part\ial ness.. [again].. for (blank)’s sake..

do wish i could legit be a part of the convo.. legit as in.. wish they could see what i’ve seen

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