[liberationtech] Liberation Tech would like a word.

[Lorelei Kelly]

hi, thanks for the note.
I'm glad to see this list momentum effort!  We need it!
I lead the modernizing Congress portfolio at Georgetown and I'm still
working adjacent to the US Congress with the members and committees who are
behind this effort-- The House has passed 202 reform and modernization
recommendations. It is truly an unprecedented and historic push forward.
I'm now helping implement the more difficult ones that include a social
cohesion aspect. (i.e. how to we integrate new forms of deliberative
technology into the workflow of members so there is a flow of authentic,
productive, constituent driven feedback)  Also we have gotten ahead of the
curve on AI and LLMs in the House at least. I'm proud of this old
institution, even though its looking like a three ring circus in the news.
I think the Mike Johnson success on Ukraine funding is a very interesting
turning point for looking at democracy as transcendent critical
infrastructure (backed up by pandemic measures to go remote and then J6
reactions to look at the information systems on Capitol Hill as national
security priorities)  We have begun to marginalize deviant behavior through
the process and this is a good, emergent, systems way to make sense of it.
Very interesting time for all of this.
LK




On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 12:19 PM Kate Krauss <katiephr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> We didn't move the list, or change its name (Liberation Tech) but we did
> supply a link which works (after fixing a technical glitch) that you can
> share with new people who might want to join.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kate
>
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 12:12 PM Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim &
> Survivor of Many <gmkarl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > > Hi, I’m confused, what about the list this email was sent to (
>> lt at lists.liberationtech.org) ?
>> > >
>> > > What does the “subscribe” link in this email have to do with that
>> list?
>> > >
>> > > Is it a different list? The same list? Is lt at lists.liberationtech.org
>> still alive or being moved?
>> > >
>> > > Very confused,
>> > > Greg
>> >
>> > I'd like to relate that some communities have been both disrupted and
>> > defended by influences skilled in social manipulation, and that one
>> > attribute of that is changing the environment.
>> >
>> > Changing an environment can help change, whether overt or covert, be
>> > adopted more readily. It can separate both from harm and fear as well
>> > as familiarity and community.
>> >
>> > It's pleasant that changing the list name could help people feel safer
>> > from any trauma associated with the old list, and help anything
>> > targeting the old list have a little trouble finding the new people.
>> >
>> > I hope that everybody who was affiliated with the old list succeeds in
>> > finding the new one, but I know there will be people who don't.
>> >
>> > Some communities often have to move in order to survive well. This
>> > does sadly often mean leaving people behind.
>> >
>> > Crazy Karl (I think I have OSDD from technologically-facilitated abuse!)
>>
>> Apologies, I did not realize it was the _same_ list the subscribe link
>> was sent to.
>>
>> I had assumed by context that this was a new list.
>>
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*Lorelei KellyResearch Lead, Congressional Modernization
<https://beeckcenter.georgetown.edu/project/modernizing-congress/>*



*Founder, Georgetown Democracy, Education + Service (GeoDES)*
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