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Wells Lucas Santo

Wells Lucas Santo

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

Setting up a personal music server (Navidrome)

Tired of using Spotify? Want to listen to your personal music library on all your different devices? This is a step-by-step guide on setting up your own personal music server that you can stream your music from. I've written this guide so that you can set it up

what i plan to work on

1. Complete my PhD in 2027 2. Launch LUDDENITES Sometimes it's important to speak into existence my intentions and where I'm headed towards, to make it a reality. I'm committed to completing my doctoral program by 2027, even though the journey here has been

can social media apps connect us in real life?

I've been having more conversations about the possibilities (and failures) of social media lately, especially since I've been telling more folks about LUDDENITES. A large part of me does think it's absurd that I want to actually make another social media platform in this

data center resistance movements

I thought it would possibly helpful to compile resources and materials for resisting data centers in local communities so that we can share learnings and what's been effective. I'm still currently trying to populate this page. I'm mainly looking for things like flyers, posters,

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&