Societal Glitch is a personal site/blog which hosts a collection of thoughts, resources, and ideas of Winston Smith. I suppose it is also a documentation site on topics I enjoy. Topics include technical, social, political, preparedness, thought pieces, video games, and more. I believe information is meant to be fairly free. There is nothing new under the sun and the more we share information we believe to be valuable, the greater its chance of living and not being shuttered by big tech, big pharma, or big government.

I am not a conspiracy theorist. However, science fiction has often proven to become science fact. Its a gradual process that sneaks in invasively and takes hold while we are distracted. The longer we live distracted, the less likely we are to remember the freedoms we one had, enjoyed, and clearly took for granted. These are my observations over 40+ years and therefore the preservation of knowledge and information (at a human-scale) is important to me.

This site is meant to be a part of the "smol internet".

Smallnet or SmolNet (also known as Small/Smol Internet/Web, etc.) is a movement of small-scale Internet networking that emphasizes the smallness of the servers (including low system requirements) as well as that of the user communities. It can be regarded as a counter-movement to the centralization and bloat of the world-wide-web. -Source: Permacomputing.

Societal Glitch is meant to be light-weight and portable. Meaning it can be moved from one server to another with ease and without complex protocols, frameworks, or dependencies. It's built with MkDocs and leverages the Low Power, Least Resource principle. Nothing here is meant to "go viral". Viruses generally, eventually die. What I hope sticks with you is the knowledge you discover here. It is my hope that something you read here causes you to pause, think, and maybe be inspired.