George Aguiar

Liberation Technologist

The blog

  1. A sunlit wooden desk in a home engineering studio featuring an ultra-wide monitor displaying code, hand-drawn schematics, a soldering iron, a green circuit board, and a steaming mug, with late-autumn bare trees visible through a large window.

    Better, Faster, Cheaper: Why Claude Fable 5.2 Gives Us All Three

    ProfessionalPragmatic

  2. A rustic wooden workbench in a sunlit cabin featuring an ink sketch of a binary-code Möbius strip transforming into roots, surrounded by a brass compass, microcontroller, soldering iron, and coffee mug, with an autumn landscape visible through the window.

    Strange Loops, Broken News, and Finding Truth Below the Noise

    Pragmatic

  3. A rustic wooden workbench by a window overlooking autumn hills, featuring a 1930s Bakelite radio beside an envelope sketched with a broadcast tower labeled "Propaganda & Unchecked Slop" on the left, a Linux laptop beside a circular diagram reading "Imitate -> Constrain -> Verify -> Craft" on the right, and a pencil, tuning fork, and steaming bowl of vegetable soup in the center.

    From Radio Slop to Open-Source Craft: Reclaiming Our Digital Commons

    Political

  4. An overhead, natural-light photo of a rustic wooden desk by a window with a view of late-autumn hills under a clear blue sky. On the desk, an unbleached kraft envelope features a hand-drawn mesh network sketch connecting small houses and musical notes with lines labeled "Empathy," "Open Source," and "Shared Needs" alongside a crossed-out crumbling wall. Nearby sits an open-source microcontroller with a tiny antenna, a wooden fountain pen, a steaming ceramic mug of tea, and the corner of a digital piano keyboard.

    From Broken Glass to Open Nodes: Choosing Connection Over Division

    Political

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About

  1. I build with software, design, writing and AI, but I’ve learned that tools alone don’t set anyone free.

  2. The deeper work is reclaiming the history we were never taught, unlearning the fear we absorbed, and breaking the patterns of thought that keep domination alive.

  3. We live in a time of constant crisis, collapsing trust, and institutions that reward distraction over truth.

  4. In that climate, technology is only useful if it helps people remember clearly, think independently, and act with moral responsibility.

  5. This site is where I do that work: putting modern tools in service of awareness, repair and self-determination, not of spectacle or the polished repetition of dead ideas.

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