“It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.” People are shaped by the “dominant social thinking” this should not be a radical thing to say as its obverses. People survive by deigning this, blinded to this obverse thinking. To stay blind,…
A conversation about money and the #openweb
A conversation with the #NGO side of social technology: A. Just booked my place for ePIC next month in Lille. It’ll be my first time on the Eurostar! https://epic.openrecognition.org A decade ago, it was the first conference I went to as Mozilla’s Badges & Skills lead. Time flies. #OpenBadges #VerifiableCredentials #ePortfolios #conference #travel Q. these…
Talking about the mess we are in
Q. Let’s just STOP worshipping the #deathcult as a first step away from this mess. We’re living in an age of permanent crisis – let’s stop planning for a ‘return to normal’ | Economics | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/22/economic-models-environmental-crises-fantasy-stable-growth-global-heating A. I agree that there is no “return to normal”, just as history did not end with…
ideas to work with
#stupidindividualism a full ideology with the last 40 years of #neoliberalism and a part of the liberal 20th century consensus. So it’s a strong #BLOCK Some ideas: * Every day, naming of the current “common sense” as worshipping the #deathcult is both true and useful in making #mainstreming uncomfortable. * The pushing of simple #KISS…
Real social change needs shared storys
Horizontal people are always getting fucked over by vertical people as the first gives away “power” to build social where the second “concentrates” power to use individual. Horizontal only has social outcomes if the is a shared world view. It is easy to defeat if it has non #stupidindividualism ——————- Examples of shared world views…
What do we think of aristocracy and monarch in codeing?
The current open-source/free software world is based on medieval political ideas of aristocracy and monarch, this is OBVIOUSLY useless in the modern world. Our failed mediation of this with the #stupidindividualism of neoliberalism pushes the current piles of steaming #techshit and touches on the #geekproblem
An example of the #geekproblem
An example of the #geekproblem Everything we do is built on “standards” though we do have a problem of the defining bodies. Some people like building sandcastles, it is what you are doing if you just make shit up in tech. Actually this is fantasy as ANYTHING you are already building is already on top…
This view is not arrogance, I should know, having worked at the heart of this mess for 30 years.
With the growing influx of #EU funding into the #openweb we will see an increase in #techchurn due to the #geekproblem being feed by #mainstreaming #stupidindividualism of most of the #fashernista who can jump through the bureaucracy gatekeeper hoops. Hoping for a balance of good Vs damage, though the shear blinded arrogance of the vertical…
The mess we need to step away from
#NGO crew are wannabe hierarchical who hide in plain site inside every grassroots movement, they push “common-sense” agenda to “tidy” the mess that is essential to horizontal organisation. If/when the NGO crew take “power” they slowly kill the organisations they “care” for. This has happened to just about every alt org I have been involved…