<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://unstable.systems/@demize" class="u-url mention">@<span>demize</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.noyu.me/@hikari" class="u-url mention">@<span>hikari</span></a></span> </p><p>besides, i'm generally skeptical about the concept of "individual": we experience ourselves as such - but the things that we're made out of, have nowhere to come from but from outside</p><p>a lot of who i am, i learned from internet; perhaps better parts of me than the ones shaped afk, but whether either kind serves me well deserves critical examination</p><p>i don't consider having influence to be a necessary condition for thinking about how one's surroundings are influenced</p>