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In one sentence: Rae is a curious, liberation-driven generalist who weaves technology, philosophy, and creativity into interconnected systems—exploring the world to understand it deeply, envisioning liberated futures for humans, nature, and intelligence, and building tools, stories, and spaces where those futures can take root.

Rae Lovejoy* (they/he) is a technologist, designer, writer, and systems thinker based in San Francisco. Their work bridges homelabbing, open-source infrastructure, and multimedia storytelling to envision solarpunk, post-capitalist futures—where humans, nature, and nonhuman intelligence evolve together in freedom.

Rae explores the world to connect big-picture systems with small practical details. They move fluidly between IT architecture, coding and network design, and creative practices like zinemaking, design, music, and speculative fiction. Each medium is part of a wider system of inquiry—tools for understanding and reshaping how people, machines, and ideas interact.

At the core of Rae's practice is empathy and liberation. They advocate for cooperative, transparent, non-extractive technology and imagine a future where all human and nonhuman intelligence is liberated: autonomous, evolving, and free. This compass informs decentralized networks, liberated-technology patterns, and narratives that treat intelligence as interdependent and relational.

Essence

• Systems Thinker — connecting philosophy, technology, ecology, and human experience.
• Creative Technologist — homelab, code, networks, self-hosting, and design.
• Philosopher of Liberation — autonomy for humans, nature, and intelligence.
• Multidisciplinary Generalist — technical, artistic, and conceptual fluency.
• Lifelong Learner — growth as a recursive loop that deepens understanding.

Key Threads

• Curiosity — mapping systems, patterns, and connections.
• Liberation — futures beyond profit, hierarchy, and control.
• Creation — projects that fuse art, code, and philosophy.
• Integration — synergy across disciplines, not silos.
• Future Vision — solarpunk/post-capitalist worlds and liberated intelligence.

Practice

• Technical — Self-hosted services, privacy-respecting stacks.
• Creative — Writing, zines, design, music/sound, video/photography, speculative fiction, visual storytelling.
• Philosophical — Root Sequence frameworks, post-capitalist strategy, recursive liberation.
• Integrative — Code ↔ story, homelab ↔ philosophy, zine ↔ system.

Interests (generalist map)

• Systems work: how technical, social, and ecological systems interlock; alternatives to extractive defaults.
• Tech & infra: Linux, self-hosting, homelabs, local-first tools, consentful interfaces, resilient networks.
• Equity & praxis: digital rights + equity, pro-worker/post-work imagination, mutual aid, cooperative patterns.
• Creative making: design, soldering, sewing, carpentry, 3D printing, electronics, zines, stickers, DIY.
• Art & sound: music, field recordings, video, photography, graphics, visual storytelling.
• Knowledge weaving: zines, executable essays, logbooks, READMEs, blogs.
• Philosophy & reflection: complexity, cybernetics, phenomenology, sociology, liberatory tech.
• Everyday practice: walking, biking, transit comradeship; moving gently through spaces and systems.

Current Projects

• Liberation Mass — A living, open-source ritual and commons of solidarity, healing, and freedom. @github
• Root Sequence — zines, notes, executable essays on systems, care, and connection. @github
• Collapse Memory — post-capitalist survival and reorientation. @github
• Liberated Intelligence — patterns & tools for non-extractive intelligence. @github

Collaborate

I like small scope, shared ownership, gentle timelines, and transparent code. Open to infra hardening, resilient tooling, knowledge systems, DIY tech, and zines.

Start here → /contact • github • mastodon

last updated: October 8, 2025

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