An #openweb organic intellectual,technologist and part of the #OMN
From my decades of real-world experience – especially in activism – I’ve found that self-professed #Postmodernists and Western #Buddhists have been some of the most useless and damaging people I’ve worked with. Not an exaggeration: I could probably count the genuinely good ones on one hand. This isn’t bitterness. It’s about composting a mess that … Continue reading Our liberals talking about the death of #postmodernism
The #makinghistory project is a decentralized, open-source archiving and storytelling network designed to preserve and amplify grassroots histories. It’s founded on the idea that history isn’t written by the winners – it’s made by those who resist, build, and care. Using digitized collections like the CampbellFamily archive as a seed, the project invites communities to … Continue reading Dev test work for Makinghistory application
In tech paths, the last 20 years have been a mess of #fashernista trends and the ongoing #geekproblem, we now face a compost heap of broken promises and abandoned projects. It’s obvious if you lift the lid and really look. The glossy hype fades fast, the rot underneath remains. Much of what we call “innovation” … Continue reading Not to punish the individuals, but to highlight the groups to compost
#Mainstreaming talk about the internet generally completely misses the point, yep, it’s the FT so no surprise I suppose. The actual internet, the one we built before the takeover of the #dotcons, this is a culture of #4opens protocols, stitched together with moth-eaten mythologies and some messy traditions. It was never clean or pure, but … Continue reading From unstoppable slop, to #enshittification, the #FT on the internet is adding to the mess
The #blocking of current action, the constant stalls, confusion, and fragmentation, has a lot to do with the mess our use of language makes. And the deeper issue is how this messy language feeds back into our culture, which then loops back to make the language even murkier. It’s a feedback loop that clouds meaning, … Continue reading Messy language feeds back into our messy culture
Why don’t people boost #MutualAid posts? This needs a thread on trust, tools, and the current limits of our #openweb. Saw this poll recently: One comment stood out: And that hits the nail on the head: Mutual aid vs charity. The difference flows from power. Charity is hierarchical, Mutual aid, at its root, is about … Continue reading #MutualAid posts?
Let’s get this out of the way, most new tech projects are pointless. That’s not an insult, it’s a cultural symptom. People are pushing things not because they’re useful, but because they can. And when every shovel is used to dig holes in sand, we’re not building anything, we’re flailing. From this experience, let’s build … Continue reading Finding a path is messy
From where I’m standing, a lot of people are being absolute prats when it comes to social and technological issues. That should be obvious… but clearly, it’s not. We’ve got two basic paths here: Now, in the era of #stupidindividualism, which path do you think most people are taking? Yeah. That one. If you’re blocking … Continue reading On being a prat in tech and social spaces (Yes, this might be about you 😘)
The #OMN project is a #DIY commons, that is it only works if we build it together. This isn’t a startup pitch. It’s not a platform that magically appears out of nowhere to fix everything. It’s not a product to consume, it’s a path you walk. The direction is participatory, not passive. You don’t get … Continue reading The #OMN is not a product — It’s a path you walk
The #4opens is a completely obverse social restating of the #FOSS development model — but with a critical edition: The return of #openprocess, something we’ve lost over the last 10 years due to the shift from public email archives to our reliance on encrypted chat. With this in mind, what is still #blocking the #openweb … Continue reading Can people engage with the #4opens process?
Emissary.dev presents itself as a promising low-code platform that might potentially expedite prototyping for the #ActivityPub based #OMN projects. It has an emphasis on ease of use and integration with #openweb social APIs. This is the path we need to take for rapid development without getting bogged down in initial complexities. Potential benefits are, rapid … Continue reading DEV of the #OMN projects
Almost all our posting in the #openweb and in the #dotcons in response to #mainstreaming news is noise. It’s reactive, fragmented, performative. We scroll, we rage, we boost, we dunk, but we don’t build. Sometimes, someone posts something thoughtful, something deep, meaningful. But it vanishes in the churn. The system is designed this way. Even … Continue reading News, the signal-to-noise mess