Public Survival Chat

Part of the 8K Open Studio public archive scaffold.

Core framing

This conversation is not only about a hard-drive failure. It is a record of a person attempting to build public-interest software and media infrastructure under disability conditions that make normal employment unreliable or impossible.

The important distinction is that self-directed, bedroom-based, AI-assisted bursts of work do not demonstrate ordinary competitive employment capacity.

Key sentence

I am not limited by opportunity. I am limited by functional capacity.