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Wells Lucas Santo

Wells Lucas Santo

📍 Occupied Ohlone Land (Oakland) https://wellssanto.com

thinking through my own goals

This past week, I finally decided to announce my intention to start a sociotechnical co-op called LUDDENITES. While I did link the blog post on Twitter, Bluesky, and LinkedIn, I haven't made a concerted effort to reach out to my networks and past contacts just yet, since I&

some goals and values for LUDDENITES

LUDDENITES is a sociotechnical co-op organization that I hope to start this year. While I've written a prior blog post giving a very high-level overview of the organization, a lot of details remain vague and abstract. I want to think through some of these here, with the caveat

Thinking through LUDDENITES

LUDDENITES is envisioned as a worker cooperative organization that develops alternatives to existing tech services, platforms, and infrastructures. Whereas there has been plentiful critical research that has called for the abolition, dismantling, refusal, or outright destruction of specific technologies (including carceral tech, surveillance tech, and generative AI just to name

Introducing Luddenites

Playing off both LUDENS and LUDDITES, LUDDENITES is envisioned as a collective whose goal is to counter oppressive technologies like surveillance tech and generative AI, instead seeking communal infrastructures in service of CONSENTFUL PLAY and CREATIVE JOY.

running a blog like a blog

I've been stressing myself out too much by wanting every post here to be "official" in some sense (like, they're really not), and it's been preventing me from actually just writing. I haven't sat down to write in about a

travel reflections (may 8, 2025)

For whatever reason, it feels like folks often write reflections when they return from traveling. Admittedly, far too many thoughts swirl around my mind whenever I leave the country, and I'm constantly longing to write them down as well... but I never seem to actually do it. It&

a sleepless thought on blue prince

This post contains spoilers for Blue Prince. I'm writing this post after pulling an all-nighter playing Blue Prince with my friend Patrick, so the writing is going to be rough. We got through a solid portion of the game this past night, but frustrations with the game began

a new term (january 19, 2025)

This week I don't have a substantive blog post, mainly since all of my writing energies are focused on trying to revise a paper for publication. I can see a pathway for it to be accepted, but the paper itself needs quite a bit of work to get

one week (january 13, 2025)

Periodically, I make journal posts on my blog. This is one of them.

A rare post about boba

Today I went to try Molly Tea, another boba shop that's recently opened up in the Bay Area. I had a ton of thoughts™️ about the drink, so much so that I realized I had an mini existential crisis about boba and needed to write a blog post about it?