#stupidindividualism and the #deathcult that breeds this 1) One of the main ones is co-option by #NGO agender, both, by organizations who push for “common sense” #dotcons paths and individuals who strive to build their careers by trampling over the grassroots horizontality. 2) Second, I know a lot of people who would fuck over the…
Why so many manure piles online?
In web application development, there are 3 groups you can empower, and it’s important to understand which group you are empowering. 1) the users2) the producers3) the geeks who develop/admin Most #geekproblem coding is about the 3ed grouping taking all the power to decide. This, tiny, “elite” know what is good for the rest “passive”…
DRAFT – contemporary look and feel
The “newswire” used to be open publishing we now add a switch trust/moderate to this wire. The UK indymedia site did something similar latter in its life. Its up to the “editorial collective” to flip this switch for site/accounts/tags etc The central “fetures column” is newswire articals promoted to a feature. These are written by…
A look at the internal mess of the uk indymedia project
The project i like to point to as an example. The indymedia project, an early alt-media network that spread the use of open source software and #4opens organizing around the world at the turn of the century. In the UK the was a #geekproblem vs #openweb fight that became nasty over what we would now…
The currency of the 21st century is information
What is the effect of #geekproblem, of privacy and encryption, and their fetishization of #cryptocurrencies? The market (liberal individualism and private property that comes with it) provides information on value based on explotion greed and selfishness. #Opendata and #metadata provides information on value based on connection, cooperation and altruism. A #4opens approach spreads connection, cooperation…
Fig leafs are dangerous in tech
The #geekproblem fight between open/closed is a dangerous game of #figleaf. Media is always done in the open, so trying to secure and close this is completely self-defeating. In social networks it’s more complex, privacy in open is sudo anonymous at best. In closed in theory you can have secure p2p connections, but for 99.9%…
If you are interested in technology and society
Open/closed, a look at the issues in tech The idea of total control manifested in the master/slave relationship of computers and programmers is a core of geek culture. The #geekproblem at root in our society is about liberalism excepting the division of the state and the citizen, it’s about the liberal ideal of individualism “the…
All code is ideology manifested
Q. Some interesting things, mostly the collaborative pad. As I said some time back, this is how I would (obviously) try running this effort – pads not threads. In terms of general direction, the activitypub etc doesn’t inspire me in terms of rethinking media. I will continue my #postmedia project, which has quite different axioms,…