Agency without domination
Practical control over your own life without giving another person, institution, tradition, or machine unchallengeable power over it.
TERMS / DEFINITIONS
ZOVERIONS glossary
Short definitions for recurring terms used across ZOVERIONS, MAJIK and AXIOM work. These definitions describe how the terms are used here; they do not replace domain-specific scientific, legal or clinical definitions.
Experiential welfare
The interests connected to lived experience: pain, safety, care, belonging, opportunity, and other conditions that matter to beings capable of experiencing them.
Living consent
Consent that remains informed, specific, voluntary, and open to revision as circumstances or preferences change.
Meaningful exit
The practical ability to leave a group, system, relationship, or service with real alternatives, portability where relevant, avenues of appeal, and a life that can continue afterward.
Evidence labels
I KNOW means strong evidence. I THINK means reasonable inference. I WONDER marks an open question. I IMAGINE marks possibility, metaphor, fiction, or speculation.
ZOVERIONS
An independent publishing and project ecosystem for books, practical tools, storyworlds, public project discovery, human agency, and accountable intelligence.
MAJIK
The companion application at majik.ca for Personal Model work, assessments, reflection/recovery paths, optional accounts, and optional supporter features.
Personal Model
A revisable, user-directed representation of observations, context, interpretations, alternatives, and next uses. It is not a diagnosis or a fixed identity verdict.
AXIOM-MESH
Open-source trust-layer work for bounded authority, provenance, verification, safe failure, and agent operations. Public discovery does not grant privileged authority.
Knowledge → Operation → Authority
Knowing something does not automatically authorize an operation, and technical ability to perform an operation does not automatically grant authority to do it.
Agent Stack Radar
A source-linked ZOVERIONS surface for consequential changes in agents, runtimes, models, generative UI, and compute.
RepoSignal
A browser-local public-repository intelligence tool for surfacing security, breaking, deprecation, licensing, dependency, release, and other repository signals.
Greyhaven
A near-future mystery storyworld. Greyhaven fiction is narrative content, not empirical evidence about real people or events.