An #openweb organic intellectual,technologist and part of the #OMN
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
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
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
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
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
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
Published Date 12/15/16 5:05 PM
draft
The internet has “grown” mind/s of its own.
This is a convoluted sketch outline of a core tech/social issue.
in the #dotcons Neo Liberalism “free trade” is baked into our dominant online infrastructure, in this it flows freely though society perverting and sickening as it touches. Everything the #dotcons do pushs this poison deeper.
Google links/adsences
Fakenews in “Macedonia”
The populist loon energy of the disempowerd
Trumps melding this to gain personal power
There is a logical feedback loop here that is built into the working everyday internet. The flow of the historical choices/actions shaping our use of the internet are now pushing global political agenda’s. Trump was chosen and elected by this internet/web and more will grow from the #dotcons
The (unthinking) liberal solution of censoring “facknews” makes the issue more dangerous, as in most things the solution is in “open” rather than “closed” in this we have to unravel the current “closed” #dotcons rather digging them in deeper.
Here ends a sketch of a key issue we face today and over the next year.
Ps. jumping on to VPN’s is no core solution just pushing back the issue while digging deeper into it.
Published Date 12/15/16 4:56 PM
Boater Life – The Canal and River Trust (CRT) is a two faced org that was set up to enclose and moniterise the waterways. One face is soft and the other hard. Asking them for good outcomes is nieave. Forcing them by a carrot and a STICK is effective as they are also useless, weak and ineffective. In the end boaters need government to replace CRT with an org “outside the market” to treat the water ways as a common good, which they are.
I tried to bring this up at a recent Nbta London gathering when the new boaters were talking about the good ideas CRT should do. Sadly it got a blank response from the room. The idea of asking for a replacement for CRT would scare the shit out of um (stick) and help push good needed stuff (carrot). Of course in the end they need reforming/replacing as their agenda is neo-liberal and incomparable with our boater life which is based on “commons”
Published Date 12/15/16 4:53 PM
The use of language and writing by activists has an impact.
Possessiveness “us-them” is a root failing in open structures that cant be avoid, BUT, best not to feed it.
“Bring your flyers, posters, leaflets, newsletters, news clippings, video footage, photographs, banners, artwork and disobedient objects, and display them in the open spaces.”
“your” is possessive the sentence makes just as much sense with out it.
“Bring flyers, posters, leaflets, newsletters, news clippings, video footage, photographs, banners, artwork and disobedient objects, and display them in the open spaces.”
In the second one this is less “us and you” and “one telling the other what to do.”
When working with/in open structures best to just take all the “pointing” words out. Sentences generally work fine with out them.
Just had a “discussion” about this for the expo.
Published Date 12/15/16 4:46 PM
I start to understand why all alt/grassroots events have the same speakers. Looking about, you send out invites to everyone who has done it before. To reach out to new people would be taking a risk, and would be hard work to hand hold them though the process. The lack of time and resources leaves little focus than to just repeat the past. This is a hard realization and incite into the poverty of such events.
I am starting to feel slightly ashamed of not knowing this before. Ideas please, we do need to fix this. Not a #conspiracey, rather a #fuckup, we are only human.
“To be honest, you should be commended for putting it all together in the first place. No one else is doing it, and it’s essential. Every form of direct action is worthy and amazing given the world we live in.”
What can we do:
1 a bit of mentoring goes a long way
2 offer expenses and look for some funding – either grant funding or crowdfunded
3 offer speaker training events
The idea would work if we had the time and the funding, time is relative but funding for alt/left is tiny and hard to get. Almost all left’ish funding is dispelled into #NGO and #fashionista pointlessness.
Ideas for diverting some of this waste might be a start? Actually it is a good time to try this, who is up for it?
Published Date 12/11/16 8:50 PM
The use of language and writing by activists has an impact.
Possessiveness “us-them” is a root failing in open structures that cant be avoid, BUT, best not to feed it.
“Bring your flyers, posters, leaflets, newsletters, news clippings, video footage, photographs, banners, artwork and disobedient objects, and display them in the open spaces.”
“your” is possessive the sentence makes just as much sense with out it.
“Bring flyers, posters, leaflets, newsletters, news clippings, video footage, photographs, banners, artwork and disobedient objects, and display them in the open spaces.”
In the second one this is less “us and you” and “one telling the other what to do.”
When working with/in open structures best to just take all the “pointing” words out. Sentences generally work fine with out them.
Just had a “discussion” about this for the expo.
Update:
participative facilitation teaches this
participative and inclusive
it needs one facilitator and the goal is that everyone become able to take the facilitator role
Working on what became known as the “resistance exhibition”
Activism and flaring egos go hand in hand
Well, that almost went well with editing the headboards for the activist project. Shame on us all for it degenerated into shit behaver for the last 45 min.
It’s understandable X wanting a say on the project – an open way to do it would have been to say, let’s make some changes to this KEY doc and discus it for a bit. Then do it.
The doc had been though at least 4 drafts and was waiting for a polish at this stage. This drafting had shaped it as an “open process” without the “you-me” that often peppers language. The definitions (subjects) were all outside on the boards rather than in the intro. This left open and inviting space to take part.
At this stage, while already over time, the way people acted was like lighting a match to a messy explosion. When Y attempt to mediate then closed the job half done, with Z coming in blind, a nasty mess was (hopefully) resolved in a nasty way. We did not need this to happen.
#Openprocess is not a solution, but it helps.