George Aguiar

George Aguiar

Liberation Technologist

The blog

  1. A smiling older man with a white beard and glasses sits holding an acoustic guitar beside a desk with a laptop and sample ballot, in front of a window overlooking late-autumn hills.

    Stepping Off the Political See Saw Through Joyful Liberation Technology

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  2. An older man with a beard and glasses sits at a desk with a steaming bowl of soup, a vintage calculator, and a wooden theatrical mask, looking out a large window at an autumn forest.

    Trick or Treat: The Reverse Polish Notation of Our Hidden Masks

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  3. Me, a middle-aged man wearing a black cap, dark t-shirt, shorts, and sandals walks toward the camera along an elevated stone pedestrian pathway atop the historic Águas Livres Aqueduct in Lisbon, Portugal. On the left, a metal railing overlooks a sprawling urban landscape of red-tiled roofs and distant buildings under a clear blue sky, while a massive, weathered stone wall with an arched tower borders the right.

    Free Waters and Flexible Frames: Engineering Lessons from Lisbon’s 1755 Earthquake

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  4. An older man with glasses and a beard holding an 8-inch floppy disk at a desk next to an open vintage computer, with autumn hills visible through a window in the background.

    Seeking Common Ground: What a Fragmented Floppy Drive Teaches Us Today

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About

  1. I build with software, design, writing, and AI, but I no longer mistake tools for liberation itself.

  2. The deeper work is freeing ourselves from historical erasure, internalized fear, and the patterns of thought that keep domination alive.

  3. We live in a time of unceasing trauma, 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 explore that work: using modern tools in service of consciousness, repair, and self-determination—not spectacle, not automation for its own sake, and not the polished repetition of dead ideas.

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