Like so much else, this aspect of technology is alienated from us in a capitalist economy, and it is to our peril.

This perspective on technology is encompassed by the term "social technics" (coined by Murray Bookchin), and has its origins in Aristotle's concept of "technique" (the root of English "technology", τέχνη).

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If you have a private server, you can also configure it to dedicate a small piece of your bandwidth as a Tor Snowflake proxy. Doug Belshaw's blog includes some information on how to do that: blog.dougbelshaw.com/tor-snowflak...

It uses WebRTC, the same protocol used by Google Meet or Jitsi. From the network perspective, it looks like the Snowflake user is having a routine phone call, when in fact you are tunneling them into the Tor network

Mann's method helps us to parse complex social relationships down from unitary “totals”; destructive patterns in the happenings around us can absolutely be overcome and our reactions to circumstance are constantly reforming the social bonds that bind us