Hamish Campbell an #openweb organic intellectual and technologist
Fascism, treats collaboration as weakness. Something you only (pretend to) do when you’re not strong enough to dominate outright. In the fascist worldview, cooperation isn’t power, it’s a temporary tactic until hierarchy and force can be re-asserted. That’s why fascists can never be trusted. Not tactically, not strategically, not “just this once.” They don’t believe … Continue reading Fascism, treats collaboration as weakness.
There are meany online exchanges about software licences that can help to highlight the #geekproblem. Yep, these conversations can sound radical at first glance: “Software licences won’t destroy capitalism, but if they can be even slightly annoying to capitalists in the meantime, I’ll take it.” Fair. Nobody sensible thinks a licence clause will end capitalism. … Continue reading Software licences and the #geekproblem
Let’s start with the uncomfortable truth: we fucked up the last 20 years of #openweb tech. Not “they” fucked it up. Not only #BigTech, not only venture capital, not only governments and surveillance states. We did, especially those of us who were closest to the tools, the protocols, the decisions – the geeks, developers, architects, … Continue reading We fucked up… and that matters because we still have agency
Fighting #fashionistas with fashion. We have an app outline for that: iPhone or android. Not as a lifestyle tweak, not as wellness branding, not as another individual “better habits” story. These proposed apps and the wider projects have nothing to do with self-optimisation, productivity hacks, or personal purity. Framing it that way is already defeat … Continue reading Digital Detox Is Urgently Needed
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”?
We are having a tech reboot for the last few years, federated seems to be where it’s at right now, and it makes sense, the #fediverse is flourishing where so many “#web3” or pure #p2p projects stumbled. This isn’t to say #p2p is bad. But for a peer-to-peer social network to actually work and be … Continue reading The Fediverse is native to the open web
We have been stripped morally naked by the last 40 years of the #deathcult. Every assumption that we lived in a tolerant, “good” world is slipping away. The growing #classwar was historically balanced to stop the possibility of a socialist takeover, as blinded liberals see this, two accidents: a temporary ecosystemic surplus and a temporary … Continue reading Composting the #techshit, planting the future
The problem isn’t that people refuse to act. The problem is that most are stuck in paralysis: “What do I do?” If the only options they see are worshipping the #deathcult or reinventing the wheels, passivity looks like the safest choice. The design challenge of the #OMN isn’t just tech – pipes, tanks, metadata – … Continue reading Pick up the shovel: turning habits into compost
We do keep making a mess of our social, campaigning and activist paths. So lets look at one of these, with the tyranny of the structureless path, every attempt to share the commons decays into a fog of personalities, cliques, and unspoken power. What needs composting here is that, at best, you end up with … Continue reading Commons and the metaphor of “grow a backbone”
The story of the 1990s in #Russia is not just a local tragedy. It is the cornerstone of the modern #deathcult order. December 25th, 1991. The Soviet flag lowered for the last time. The West declared victory. The Cold War was over. “Democracy” had won. But for millions of Russians, that night was not liberation. … Continue reading A small history – Russia
The right-wing feeds on division.The left-wing grows from trust. This simple #KISS truth is buried under decades of shit. Stalinism’s dead weight.Postmodernism’s cynical fog.Neoliberalism’s greed-choked rot.All piled onto our social soil. Now we stand in the stink:social, technological, political, philosophical mess. We don’t deny it.We compost it.We turn the pile, let it breathe,make decay into … Continue reading Pick up a shovel, the work is ours
Let’s look at this problem, the #fashionistas are everywhere in our spaces. They look shiny, sound clever, and always seem “in the know.” But scratch the surface, and you find nothing but mirrors and buzzwords. They are hallucination machines, not listening, not dialoguing, not building, just repeating empty noise to hide their lack of substance. … Continue reading The #mainstreaming is hallucinating