Hamish Campbell an #openweb organic intellectual and technologist
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
It’s good to see more people turning their focus back to the #openweb. But for the past five years of the #reboot we’ve been distracted in a signal-to-noise mess from the #fashionistas. That waisted time needs to be over, we need to start looking clearly at both internal rot and the external threats. A good … Continue reading Compost the blocking, keep the seeds alive, and make space for growth
The current ecosystem of alternative and grassroots media is too narrow in its imagination of what media could, and should, be. There’s a persistent naivety or, in some cases, a self-serving dishonesty. Many of the most “successful” progressive media groups continue to mimic #traditionalmedia without understanding, or addressing, the fact that they do not control … Continue reading Building Alt/Grassroots Media Networks to Challenge and Widen Traditional Media
We need a better conversation about ideology, sociology, and the #openweb. A good place to start is with a basic liberal framework: “Most social interactions should happen in the open. Some personal interactions should remain private.” Seems reasonable, right? That’s the position many of us think we agree on. Yet when we look at how … Continue reading What should be closed? And what should never be?
The #fashionistas are coming https://yewtu.be/embed/u_Lxkt50xOg? It’s time to become more real before this inflow swamps our “native” reboot, if we let them they will consume it and shit it out as more mess. To mediate this shit storm, it’s time to act, please, feel free to repost these web posts, thanks. To understand where the … Continue reading Rise and Fall of Grassroots #OpenWeb
This spirit of the early internet and #WWW – sharing, remixing, collectively creating – is the heart of what we call the #openweb. It wasn’t perfect, but it was a space of possibilities, commons, where you could take what you needed and leave something behind, hyperlink by hyperlink. The tools were open – #RSS feeds, … Continue reading Enclosure of the open web was a crime
Q: People are angry about #AI scrapers and that this is exploiting everything for “free” – our art, our words, our data. But let’s be honest, we’ve spent the last 40 years gorging on “free” content online, music, games, video, writing, without paying for a thing unless forced to with a paywall. Yes. We block … Continue reading Digging over the rot and planting something more real
#Neoliberalism isn’t just an economic system, it’s a cult of self-enclosure. Its superpower? #stupidindividualism, turning people inward, away from shared life, into isolated fragments clicking, swiping, and scrolling through ruins. It disconnects us from collective being, and then sells the pieces back as “individual freedoms.” This isn’t an accident. It’s the plan, a trick of … Continue reading Enclosure of self is deathcult worship in the era of #climatchaos
The is nothing new to pointing out that our #fashionistas #mainstreaming crew push tech mess. Remember when drone deliveries were going to revolutionize shopping? When every major news outlet unthinkably reported that we’d have autonomous quadcopters dropping off toothpaste and Amazon boxes on our doorsteps? Or when 3D TVs were the future of entertainment, pushed … Continue reading #Techshit Hype – #NothingNew
Much of academia post-1990s is just a shadow of the #deathcult, stripped of radicalism and repackaged into careerist, bureaucratic loops. It became another self-referential path, detached from real world struggles. The privatization of knowledge through paywalled journals, corporate funding, and NGO capture made sure of this. The same thing happened with #FOSS and #opensource, once … Continue reading A shift back to radical values and paths
Hashtags are a critique and a rallying cry to gather round. They are the protest banners of the openweb #techchurn is the endless cycle of adopting new platforms, tools, and technologies – not because they solve any real problems, but because novelty is mistaken for progress. It burns community trust, institutional memory, and activist energy, … Continue reading Hashtags