Hamish Campbell an #openweb organic intellectual and technologist
Why use strong words, because there are parasites and shit to shovel. Why this is helpful? Because it gives the people who are currently being default parasitic a chance not to be, and the people who are creating #techshit space to compost some of this mess making. If they do, fantastic, a kindness has been … Continue reading Yes, There Are Parasites. And Yes, There’s Shit to Shovel
All activist history is soaked in struggle, not just against the oppressive systems we set out to confront, but also internally, against the deep currents of sectarianism that fracture our own movements. The history of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp offers a vivid example. The colour-coded gates, yellow, red, blue, were more than navigation markers. … Continue reading Telling Our Stories: Activist History and the Parasites of #Mainstreaming
“But the principal objection will doubtless refer to the plain language used. My excuse, if indeed excuse be needed for saying just what I mean, is, that it is impossible to clothe in delicate terms the intolerable nastiness which I expose, and at the same time to press the truth home to those who are … Continue reading Parasite #NGO and #fashionista tech
Most people are parasites in our current #mainstreaming society, this is non-controversial view in the era of the #deathcult Some examples: Let’s look for a moment at our tech world, if we are generous 90% of people on the #openweb are parasites on this culture and tech space. Maybe 9% are “native” but could do … Continue reading Parasites are very human
Something that’s worth saying out loud: many of the people currently talking for the #Fediverse had very little to do with the generation that seeded this version. That doesn’t automatically make what they say wrong. But it does mean we should be careful about building strategy around their narratives. A lot of the early Fediverse … Continue reading A note on the current voices speaking for the #Fediverse
A few years ago, the liberation cats of the #Fediverse stopped talking to each other. Not only from malice, mostly through burnout, distraction, and quiet withdrawal. Nature abhors a vacuum and into that vacuum stepped the #NGO crew. They didn’t “win” our spaces through better ideas, didn’t persuade anyone. They simply occupied every role that … Continue reading Fediverse – What actually happened (no bullshit version)
Don’t worry too much, the corporate world has solutions, we look here at #ESG which stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance. Its advocates say that if companies disclose enough data about their environmental and social behaviour, “good” corporate conduct will be rewarded by investors with higher share prices. Let’s really look at #ESG, for what … Continue reading An example of the mess from #deathcult centrism
Trump and Putin are the figureheads of the #deathcult and 3ed rate people like Staner are puppets. The #nastyfew, mostly invisible in the smoke and mirrors of #mainstreaming media, are the ones who push the “we”. And they also invest in a part of our “progressive” paths, always much less affective than they need to … Continue reading “We, we, we,” they say – but who chooses the “we”?
It can be hard explane this, as people make the needed change complex, it is not, yes, it’s messy and the are no simple answers. So a first step is composting the #techshit: What it means in practice: The composting metaphor says: yes, we’re drowning in #techshit, but we have the tools to turn it … Continue reading The #OMN is a simple project
In the tech world of social change and challenge, we’re living with a strange imbalance. Too often, the spaces we use and try and build are crowded with useless, self-destructive prats – people more interested in ego, control, and clout than in making anything grow from the roots. And when they do very rearly act, … Continue reading The stubborn few who show up with shovels, laptops, and trust
This should be obvious to anyone who as some knolage of left politics. They are the people who always rise to the top when #mainstreaming takes hold. You see them on TV, in parliament, running #NGOs, managing #dotcons tech projects. On the surface, they don’t always look bad – in fact, they often present as … Continue reading Who are the #nastyfew?