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Copper the chameleon – earth processes generating critical copper.

A seminar in Oxford today. This presentation of the green alternative within capitalism. Recycling and doing better from mine wastes as a B company. VC funding is flooding into this area. A moral question, mining copper is a core part of allowing our current dysfunctional society to continue without the needed fundamental change. This is […]

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The #OMN Modding Process

The #OMN Modding Process The #OMN instances have been running for the last 5 years with an open modding process. Users can become mods after being around for a bit. The modding process is based on a clear #KISS project statement, with a “don’t be a dick” rider on the end. If an account is […]

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People BLOCKING the needed process, or more normally simply ignore it.

If you keep doing the same thing, there will be the same outcome. Different world views have different process and sometimes different outcomes. All the #OMN projects are based on a different world view that we know can work to build “society” with scaling limitations and combining this with using #openweb tech that we know […]

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ESF horizontal and vertical process and how they fail to balance from 27 01 2004 and 23 02 2004

Published Date 10/17/12 3:50 AM In relation to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Social_Forum DRAFT – this is a e-mail dialogue that illustrates the issues of horizontal and vertical process and how they fail to balance. Firstly the has been a lot of talk of me as some kind of egotistical anarchist… this is far from the truth, and by long […]

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This is not a protest this is a process

A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity My videos are on these two youtube channels visionontv 3,832,876 views and undercurrents 22,689,976 views

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Am going to start blogging more about process in activist groups am involved in

A river that needs crossing political and tech blogs – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over- complexity My videos are on these two youtube channels visionontv 3,832,876 views and undercurrents 22,689,976 views

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Funding tech outside the shadow of the #deathcult

The is a compleat lack of funding for the community (non #mainstreaming) side of tech, I have put in more than ten funding applications over the last few years to all the openweb funding flows. And the answer, if the is one, is always the same, some of the replies: ” This kind of effort […]

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Revisiting the ActivityPub foundation idea

There are a few views on this, the “common sense” #NGO path, an example Presenting Fedi Foundation: Empowerment for SocialHub community 1 And the more “nativist” openweb path What would a fediverse “governance” body look like? And then we have the #geekproblem path, which has been pushing the fep process the last 2 years, but […]

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#Fediverse How can we do better

#Fediverse How can we do better at this https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/the-process-platform-isnt-working/3923/6 #blocking is not the solution, its like putting head in sand. Our projects are #4opens thus anyone, including the #dotcons can be a part of the #openweb in this it’s a good thing they are moving back to this space. Feel free to block them, but […]

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Algorithms of War: The Use of AI in Armed Conflict

Joel H. Rosenthal (Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs), Janina Dill (University of Oxford), Professor Ciaran Martin (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Tom Simpson (Blavatnik School of Government), Brianna Rosen (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford) Algorithms of war Arriving early, the panel and audience are ugly broken people, priests and worshippers of […]