#encryptionists is about the feeling of total control that encryption gives the #geekproblem this is key because all good progressive society are based on trust, which is about giving up this desire. The problem in “geek” is the problem of socialization… a known geek issue 🙂 in itself is fine, am not judging. BUT this…
#mainstreaming is obviously a #deathcult we do need to keep saying this
#mainstreaming is obviously a #deathcult we do need to keep saying this. There are well document alt’s that I push with every use of the hashtags #OGB #OMN #4opens etc. The problem we way too often face is people wanking liberal “common sense” in the era of the #deathcult so need to make this point…
Focus on things we don’t actually know are going to fail
We need non #deathcult #mainstreaming there are meany ideas to make this happen but no agreement on which one to take 🙂 I am into grassroots as have long expirence of this working at local levels and federation gives us an option to try this for larger groups, that is worth trying #OGB The problem…
lets talk about the hashtag story
The #hashtags cover technology and society from a progressive view and are very simple: #deathcult = neoliberalism #fashernista = fashion in relation to social political relations #openweb = the original ideals of the WWW and internet culture #closedweb = is the pre internet computer networks and the post #openweb networks, the #dotcons grow. #4opens =…
Ians Campbells EulogyÂ
While people are coming in “You can’t get me, I’m part of the union” by the Strawbs…. https://youtu.be/qJYbFFFZwdE History Ian was born in 1936 in Gillingham, Kent then brought up in Coventry during World War 2. The day after the bombing of Coventry, his family left and spent the war with family at Campbell’s Garage,…
A sordid story of fear and punishment, and a path to walk away from this
“It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.” People are shaped by the “dominant social thinking” this should not be a radical thing to say as its obverses. People survive by deigning this, blinded to this obverse thinking. To stay blind,…
Let us tell a fabulous story of social technology
Looking at the history of socialhub you can see the history of Monocracy, Aristocracy and Feudalism in the #geekproblem The kings left long ago or never joined, why would a “divine” touch the muddle ground. The aristocrats in their social isolation still preen their fathers and try on their inviable cloths of gold and satin,…
A conversation about money and the #openweb
A conversation with the #NGO side of social technology: A. Just booked my place for ePIC next month in Lille. It’ll be my first time on the Eurostar! https://epic.openrecognition.org A decade ago, it was the first conference I went to as Mozilla’s Badges & Skills lead. Time flies. #OpenBadges #VerifiableCredentials #ePortfolios #conference #travel Q. these…