On the path of the current climate and systemic crises, it becomes realistic to see that #neoliberalism, with its free-market orthodoxy and the pushing of minimal state intervention, is fundamentally an inadequate path that is ill-equipped to address #climatechaos and social challenges we face. This failure means a radical shift in perspective and approach is…
Activist History: A Balanced Approach
Activist history is often marred in sectarianism. This fragmentation means that often the most contentious and least effective voices dominate the narrative, overshadowing the efforts of those who were diligently work on the ground. Addressing the Challenges To tell the story of activist history accurately and fairly, we need to work to overcome the following…
Images of protest posters
Thalia and Ian Campbell have been #makinghistory throughout their life’s, by collecting an amazing collection of posters that we have divided into categories below: Peace Postershttps://photos.app.goo.gl/Csvttwcur7hzkH6HA Labour and Trade Union Postershttps://photos.app.goo.gl/Csvttwcur7hzkH6HA Feminist Postershttps://photos.app.goo.gl/LMCQHpJYkj4GUXog8 Counter Culturehttps://photos.app.goo.gl/8V4S2skG15EDcrBh9
The mess we made with the dotcons
The #dotcons are designed for greed and selfishness, everything about them feeds this and in turn feeds off this negative path. This is coded deep into them, they cannot be fixed, and we cannot reboot alternatives to this by simply copying them in #FOSS as we have done too much in the #Fediverse. The rebooting…
A positive view of Postmodernism in tech
In the postmodernist mess of the last 40 years, this is a balanced positive from the negative view. In the context of projects of the #OMN (Open Media Network), #OGB (Open Governance Body), #indymediaback, and #makinghistory. Postmodernism/modernism influences the approach to media, governance, and historical narratives: Overall, postmodernism shapes the philosophy and approach of these…
Digital waste – shouting into the void
Interesting links on “digital” waste https://gerrymcgovern.com/world-wide-waste/ https://volume.lboro.ac.uk/digital-waste-polluting-the-planet/ https://theconversation.com/dark-data-is-killing-the-planet-we-need-digital-decarbonisation-190423 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/15/power-grab-hidden-costs-of-ireland-datacentre-boom https://digitaldecarb.org/ This is true. With the #OMN we are building tools for use, not for distraction, shouting into the void is not the project. Community, talking to community, is the core mission. The “personal” is not a part of our core project. This is alien to…
Funding Proposal: Archiving the “Commons” with #MakingHistory and #OMN
Funding Proposal: Archiving the “Commons” with #MakingHistory and #OMN Project Overview:The #MakingHistory project, from the Open Media Network (#OMN), is a project to create a decentralized and community-driven archive of the “commons” – a collection of grassroots, activist, and historical material shared across a wide network of people and community groups and organisations. By leveraging…
Archiveing the “commons” the #makeinghistorys project.
The #OMN are building this into the archiving nodes (see the #makinghistory project https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/MakingHistory) you can then choose to archive hashtags, and you can get a “lossy” view of what is backed up across the network you can see, so you can choose what to focus on your archiving then we rely on “institutions like…
Next step in the #OMN
The majority of #mainstreaming #openweb tech projects have the assumption that human nature is a fixed thing and that every project has to be built in reaction to the 40 years of neo-liberal #deathcult that we all live in now as this is the “only” human nature visible. They completely miss/ignorer the social nature of…