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conscious

/con·​scious/ · (noun)
Aware of and responding to one's surroundings; awake...

The digital world incentivizes unconscious behavior. The push is always for more, better, and newer automations, ambience, and action.

Email newsletters appear at intervals regardless of the present's consent. Algorithms serve up that which we never seek but persistently find. Notifications pop-up to assault a user's senses.

This version of online is one we need less of.

The push I'm making, within this unobtrusive, anarchist little corner of the internet, is a call to reclaim conscious participation with online spaces.

This site will never try to reach out to you, never be a place you visit while multi-tasking on the go, and never be a place you tend to for distraction.

You can bookmark the site, hook-up an RSS reader for my blog or feeds, visit once but never again, or use the guides the Practices output in their printed form.

But unconscious participation in the work here is not allowed.

If you want to engage the artifacts within, you must consciously choose to.