Going to this event to see what the #mainstreaming think about the upcoming political changes to economic is about.It was interesting, but the only agency was asking the servants of power to do make the needed change. This has been the same ansear for the last 5 seminars i have attended in Oxford. It is…
Best to start from #KISS the left is based on trust and open culture.
Best to start from #KISS the left is based on trust and open culture. Moving away from this the left has destroyed itself over the last 40 years. * The #fashernista embracing of postmodernism * The soft left embrace of the “common sense” of neoliberalism Combined, these have undermined the foundations the left is built…
Thoughts on my 3ed Oxford seminar
Most academy is about building consensus on how to name things. Am at a Oxford seminar on Deepfakes & Disinformation (Cassidy Bereskin) which is doing this, maybe discourse after, let’s see. The events are status games, to establish a place in #mainstreaming hierarchy with the subject they are working on. There is little if any…
The current mess making, media coverage, of tribal struggles in the Middle East
The current media coverage of tribal struggles in the Middle East is fraught with complexities and contradictions. The situation in the West Bank and Gaza, with Israel’s establishment of settlements and the resulting occupation, is a source of intense debate and contention. As highlighted by Ms. Pillay in her statement, successive Israeli governments have ignored…
#dontbeaprat is a positive statement of what’s next?
In activism (and interestingly less so in #mainstreaming life now) #stupidindividualism is a constant poison. With #blinded, people treat critical social thinking as ONLY personal criticism. This has the effect of #blocking that spreads mess over the very needed social change and challenge. Am increasingly using the #dontbeaprat hashtag to communicate on this problem. I…
Projects that need to work to help #reboot the #openweb
The #OGB is important to develop better ways of having “trust” based conversations and “trust” based “governance” in the #openweb. It is built on years of on-the-ground organizing and emphasizes the need for voluntary cooperation and collaboration. The project recognizes the problems in alternative tech, starting with the #4opens to remove complexity to building governance…
A scrypt for the #OGB video
[Background music playing] Narrator: In a world dominated by #mainstreaming narratives and centralized control, there is a project that dares to think differently. Introducing the #OGB project, an initiative focused on developing trust-based conversations and governance in the #openweb. [Visual of people engaging in conversations and collaborating] Narrator: The OGB project is built upon years…
Signal to noise on the #FBI seazing a database of a fediverse instance
https://kolektiva.social/@admin/110637031574056150 The #Fediverse is all #4opens so should not be used for anything that should be P2P encrypted. It’s important to keep this clear to users by not focused on the fig leaf of “hardening” security as the is non. It’s a very successful #OMN open media network, and it’s value lies in this. Peoples…
The mess we make of the #openweb
Our #mainstreaming problem – if you are wondering why I am documenting the devouring of this #ActivityPub #openweb reboot, it is because next time we can maybe try and mediate our “libertarian cats” for a better outcome. We cannot keep fucking up like this #XR A project for this: I have been through this mess…
#ActivityPub is an accidental reboot of the #openweb
#ActivityPub is an accidental reboot of the #openweb. It came into existence because the #dotcons (#mainstreaming platforms) attended a #wc3 meeting but did not find anything useful for themselves. As a result, they left the “weirdos” to build an approach based on the #4opens principles. The “weirdos” managed to keep things together long enough to…