https://ngiforum2023.eu/agenda/#day-7232d5d3ef654750bf086e0701cdef3d-161123 This need some concerted activism to hold them to account for the mess they push. Please use the #4opens and try to be polite is my thinking, now where is my shovel?
Best to start from #KISS the left is based on trust and open culture.
Best to start from #KISS the left is based on trust and open culture. Moving away from this the left has destroyed itself over the last 40 years. * The #fashernista embracing of postmodernism * The soft left embrace of the “common sense” of neoliberalism Combined, these have undermined the foundations the left is built…
Talking to the Oxford Academics
Academics writing and thinking on activism tends to be bad because the sources are outa date and second hand, and the people who acutely want to talk to academics are the #fashernistas who have little idea of how things work in activism. Put this into the academic feedback loop, and you have something that looks…
Thoughts on my 3ed Oxford seminar
Most academy is about building consensus on how to name things. Am at a Oxford seminar on Deepfakes & Disinformation (Cassidy Bereskin) which is doing this, maybe discourse after, let’s see. The events are status games, to establish a place in #mainstreaming hierarchy with the subject they are working on. There is little if any…
People pushing mess is the normal #mainstreaming
I get confused with the mess people push over my views. I am a seruse guy, addressing fundamental issues that are #blocking the change and challenge, we all agree are needed in tech to address social and environmental issues, Have been doing this at the VERY sharp face of conflict for 40 years. Please look…
The current mess making in our media coverage of the tribal struggles in the Middle East.
The current media coverage of tribal struggles in the Middle East is fraught with complexities and contradictions. The situation in the West Bank and Gaza, with Israel’s establishment of settlements and the resulting occupation, is a source of intense debate and contention. As highlighted by Ms. Pillay in her statement, successive Israeli governments have ignored…
#dontbeaprat is a positive statement of what’s next?
In activism (and interestingly less so in #mainstreaming life now) #stupidindividualism is a constant poison. With #blinded, people treat critical social thinking as ONLY personal criticism. This has the effect of #blocking that spreads mess over the very needed social change and challenge. Am increasingly using the #dontbeaprat hashtag to communicate on this problem. I…
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