Phony Stark (Never stopped masking)

Opened this for later! Not sure if you read the read of my design rabbit hole post, but I feel breaking the box will be paramount. (I should've done 1/# markers.)

However...! As much as I like to think independently, I also like to be challenged and see what other people think!

Have a super Mar-10!

Renowned researcher @zalaly.bsky.social joins B.C. family physician Dr. Susan Kuo for a conversation about Long Covid, covering what we know, research into mechanisms and treatments, and much more.

Watch the full interview: covidsociety.ca/priorities/l...

#LongCovid #ILCAD2026 #LongCovidAwareness

💪

Even holding onto the actually square box is further Christo-colonialism.

There is no spoon.

Just some thoughts!

Which is exactly the problem with inclusive design:

When we don't decolonize our minds and approaches, we will forever be stuck in the Christo-colonial charity mindset.

Design isn't just limited by the Christo-colonial box.

It is the box.

Breaking the actual box goes so much deeper.

we can start to view the different systems of oppression as truly parallel systems that thrive on the same underlying moral mindset.

And why this is so easy to exploit for bad actors wanting to sow division.

And why political theory needs to foundationally be decolonized.

And why we crave such alignment even when they are contradictory to our own historical oppression?

This is why I make the case for Christo(/Abrahamic)-colonialism as the foundational framework for coloniality.

Because when we shift our thinking from a purely knowledge system to a moral system,

How our ignorance of our privilege creates the blindspots that are the manifestation of our privilege?

But also how Christo-colonial entitlement runs rapid as we find ourselves aligned with Christo-colonial supremacy and powers?

Of how we experience the world in internalized binaries?

Of how we either are oppressed or escape/avoid oppression by being the oppressor?

Of how being aligned with the compass of oppression somehow makes us safer from oppression?

How our moral frameworks thrive on hyperpolarization?

How we approach the world and the knowledge in it.

I believe that while the Wakowski sisters meant the Matrix to be an allegory for the trans experience, that they actually scratched the surface.

Because isn't the trans experience reflective of the entire Christo-colonial binary experience?

Because once we start to view coloniality as a product of Christo(/Abrahamic)-colonialism and its inherent value structure, can we start to see the full scope of how Christo-colonialism has affected the world as it has not only affected the way that we "know" the world, but perhaps more insidiously:

Because once we start including morality and try to position that within historical context, I believe the only logical conclusion is that we need to reframe colonialism and coloniality as a vector of Christo-colonialism.

Which has been a process of the past two+ millennia.

Until I included morality as the third pillar of that model.

On a side note, the psycho-analytical model that I've adopted when I was younger and which has held up over the years, is the model motivations <-> actions <-> goals to analyze and contextualize people's behaviours.
(See my recent post.)

So when I came across decoloniality, it nearly instantly clicked.

And then it really hit me.

Because while at first glance, decoloniality explains the world and our systems of knowledge and power as EU-/US-centric, it felt somewhat incomplete.

That is...

This post is about inclusive design. Bear with me!

Years ago, I first learned about kyriarchy.

A concept that came from feminism to describe the intersectionality of power and domination.

My initial take-away was also that domination and oppression is not linear. Not binary.

There is often a very narrow window between the three and I find that abstracting goals from potentially subconscious motivations through concrete actions can often explain short term (subconscious) goals behind actions.

Validation can both be a particularly powerful motivator and goal!

After more than two and a half decades, I've found this model to not just be helpful but also to have held up as a way to extrapolate and deduce the third component from knowing actions and either motivations or goals.

2/3

Related to the other post that I'm posting shortly:

When I was younger and struggling to make more sense of the world, I adopted the psycho-analytical model of motivations <-> actions <-> goals.

1/3

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

*Rafael Cruz

We cannot have a rational debate about technology. As long as we rely on screens rather than on forests and sunsets to soothe our pain, we will fight to defend the screens, not the forests.

This article is my take on AI.

We cannot actually have rational debates about technology, because our ability to reason is compromised by the colonial fantasy world we live in where the material consequences of our actions don't exist where we don't see them.

The critical discussions we need to have… Such as about the eulogy to Stalin by W.E.B. Du Bois, whose work is crucial to critical race and decolonial scholarship, yet, this selective decoloniality does grave injustice to the liberation struggles of Central & Northern Asia, & Europe’s East

Because, isn't decoloniality realizing that not just all of our systems of thinking/knowledge, power are rooted in not just colonialism, but Christo(/Abrahamic)-colonialism.

Which includes the morality, deification and gospelification + consequent evangelization of colonial leaders and frameworks?

a man in a dark shirt is making a funny face . ALT: a man in a dark shirt is making a funny face .

I kind of default to this gif because any time I bring up decoloniality/decolonization with Marxists, most of them get screeching cat reactions.

And the deeper I go, the more I find myself reaching for the need for better terminology.

1/2

I did submit an abstract! I'm excited to to attend online regardless of whether my proposal/topic gets selected!

Cheers!

Great read! Thanks! Looking forward to the next part!

Timely!

Found your blog from a crypto stackexchange post about Random Oracle Model, while researching SHA-256d weaknesses, while researching decentralized storage and identification/identifiers (via Tahoe LAFS), searching for solutions for decentralized storage of webapp settings (and identity).

Anonymous credentials: an illustrated primer This post has been on my back burner for well over a year. It’s been sitting here unwritten, not because the topic is unimportant — in fact, with every single month that goes by, I become mor…

I wrote a new post on anonymous credentials and how to build them. All of this is in service on a longer future post on how these will fit into age verification systems. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/03/02/a...

sign you into the same account?

If you implement OAuth on your platform, you can make the decision to trust whether that other platform has explicitly verified the user's email address.

Facebook has an explicit field for it for example.