Q. what do you mean by “mainstreaming”. A. we all worship the #deathcult (neo-liberalism) in polatics, economics, most of the food we eat, our jobs and social lives are all mediated/mostly created by this invisible world-view. In progressive terms #mainstreaming is pushing this agender to build carriears and social structures to further the personal #stupidindividualism…
Thinking about a bigger lifeboat fit out for Russian voyage
When we bring our boat back to London am looking at getting a bigger boat for longer expeditions Looking at something like this https://www.apolloduck.com/boat/commercial-vessels-life-boat-for-sale/282352/4701297 but likely a bit bigger Looking for a bigger boat As near to 10m as possible but not over due to ICC (though after more reading around we can go up…
A humane project to push balance back into the current #deathcult flow
I think it is time to talk about giving up our desire for total control and moving to thinking about the world as flows rather than static. Our illusionary “static” individualism is a mental illness that makes us powerless to resist the displacement and death of billions of us over the next 100 years due…
Shifting power in #openweb projects
Before we dive into the whole open/closed misunderstanding/fight it would be good to look at the different roles in a project and who has the power to say yes/no at each level. admin mod producer user reader “closed” the power is concentrated at the top. “open” it is shifted down to the producer. The reader…
Security concepts tend to be from the conservative ideological viewpoint
#OMN building progressive alt tech we cannot repeat the behaver of the #dotcons as it’s a different environment, we need different agenders. “The security context is the relationships between a security referent and its environment. From this perspective, security and insecurity depend first on whether the environment is beneficial or hostile to the referent, and…
Why use the hashtags?
The #OMN is based on “nothing new” as a core project process. Though we do describe things in different ways than they are normally described, we use everyday metaphors for the language of computing and coding where necessary, we use nature metaphors where possible. We have lived in a deeply damaging era for the last…
On every measurable indicator, Bitcoin has been a failure
From the #openweb If I look at the metric of “is the banking system gone yet?” I notice that indeed, no, Bitcoin has not made even a ding in the banking system. The same crooks are running the same old international scams, politicians are still stuffing their ill-gotten cash in offshore accounts, and Bitcoin has…
A conversation on #OMN issues around metadata
* Capitalism wants to privatise metadata to the #dotcons and the capitalist then control the government – fascism is back into fashion. * Chinese communism, wants the state to control the metadata, so they can control capitalism, we are back to the command economy just digitised. * Liberalism want to privatise metadata to the individual…
Why do people need power?
To be fully human is to be empowered to live a meaningful life in society. To be sub-human is to live a powerless life outside of society. We are social creators that make our own meaning with this power. The ONLY important question is how power is shared inside society – all political ideology are…
What does anarchism want #4opens #OMN is an attempt to find an answer
Q. “We’re supposed to think of #metadata as less than #data, but it isn’t: often it is more. . .#govts that want to control their people & crush #dissent want #metadata.” #privacy #Whatsapp #BigTech This is an interesting point, but it only makes sense if you see people as isolated individuals and the being no…
We need to talk about “metadata” and the “freemarkit”
Q. “We’re supposed to think of #metadataas less than #data, but it isn’t: often it is more. . .#govts that want to control their people & crush #dissent want #metadata.” #privacy #Whatsapp #BigTech A. This is an interesting point, but it only makes sense if you see people as isolated individuals and the being…