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What if we embrace the idea that technology can escape its creators? #openweb vs #closedweb is the battle for the Internet https://hamishcampbell.com/openweb-vs-closedweb-is-the-battle-for-the-internet/
What if we embrace the idea that technology can escape its creators? #openweb vs #closedweb is the battle for the Internet https://hamishcampbell.com/openweb-vs-closedweb-is-the-battle-for-the-internet/
There is such a thing as society -and the #openweb depends on it
There is such a thing as society. The entire #openweb is built on that assumption 🙂Deny it, and everything collapses into noise, power grabs, and enclosure. That denial, dressed up today as “post-truth” - is killing us.
Our current media ecology is broken. So called #AI and Google are no longer a useful way to find information about most things that actually matter. This isn’t accidental; it’s a structural #dotcons problem. Extraction, advertising, and algorithmic manipulation […]
There is such a thing as society -and the #openweb depends on it
There is such a thing as society. The entire #openweb is built on that assumption 🙂Deny it, and everything collapses into noise, power grabs, and enclosure. That denial, dressed up today as “post-truth” - is killing us.
Our current media ecology is broken. So called #AI and Google are no longer a useful way to find information about most things that actually matter. This isn’t accidental; it’s a structural #dotcons problem. Extraction, advertising, and algorithmic manipulation […]
The use of #hashtags is a progressive and critical perspective on technology and society. Think about neoliberalism ( #deathcult) and consumer capitalism ( #fashernista), promoting the ideals of the open web ( #openweb) against the for-profit internet ( #closedweb #dotcons). Serendipity and #Hashtags https://hamishcampbell.com/serendipity-and-hashtags/
The use of #hashtags is a progressive and critical perspective on technology and society. Think about neoliberalism ( #deathcult) and consumer capitalism ( #fashernista), promoting the ideals of the open web ( #openweb) against the for-profit internet ( #closedweb #dotcons). Serendipity and #Hashtags https://hamishcampbell.com/serendipity-and-hashtags/
The use of #hashtags is a progressive and critical perspective on technology and society. Think about neoliberalism ( #deathcult) and consumer capitalism ( #fashernista), promoting the ideals of the open web ( #openweb) against the for-profit internet ( #closedweb #dotcons). Serendipity and #Hashtags https://hamishcampbell.com/serendipity-and-hashtags/
The use of #hashtags is a progressive and critical perspective on technology and society. Think about neoliberalism ( #deathcult) and consumer capitalism ( #fashernista), promoting the ideals of the open web ( #openweb) against the for-profit internet ( #closedweb #dotcons). Serendipity and #Hashtags https://hamishcampbell.com/serendipity-and-hashtags/
The Open Media Network: Composting the Dead Systems
#FOSS and open source is always political. Let’s say that out loud, because it’s easy to forget. The very idea of open collaboration, of sharing code, ideas, and stories freely, was never a neutral stance. It was, and remains, a radical act of refusal. Refusal to privatize creativity. Refusal to turn cooperation into competition. Refusal to let the #deathcult of neoliberalism define what freedom means.
From the early days of free software and the #4opens, to the #openweb and #Indymedia, […]
At best, the old #mainstreaming is about equality in worshipping the #deathcult
The old #mainstreaming was only in a limited way about freedom, we now need to focus on what it was about, equality in obedience. Equality in our blinded worship of the #deathcult: growth, consumption, competition, endless mess on a dying planet.
That’s why #fashernista liberal progressivism is always a dead end problem, it plays radical, says radical, but composts nothing. At best, it sells rebellion as a lifestyle. It’s equality inside the system, not about freedom from it.
We’ve […]
At best, the old #mainstreaming is about equality in worshipping the #deathcult
The old #mainstreaming was only in a limited way about freedom, we now need to focus on what it was about, equality in obedience. Equality in our blinded worship of the #deathcult: growth, consumption, competition, endless mess on a dying planet.
That’s why #fashernista liberal progressivism is always a dead end problem, it plays radical, says radical, but composts nothing. At best, it sells rebellion as a lifestyle. It’s equality inside the system, not about freedom from it.
We’ve […]
The Open Media Network: Composting the Dead Systems
#FOSS and open source is always political. Let’s say that out loud, because it’s easy to forget. The very idea of open collaboration, of sharing code, ideas, and stories freely, was never a neutral stance. It was, and remains, a radical act of refusal. Refusal to privatize creativity. Refusal to turn cooperation into competition. Refusal to let the #deathcult of neoliberalism define what freedom means.
From the early days of free software and the #4opens, to the #openweb and #Indymedia, […]
Change is Freedom, Change is Life
A post inspired by rereading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed as a part of the utopia reading group in #Oxford. This book is useful for the students jumping to the next stage of their lives. There’s a moment - often at the end of the teens when people face a choice. To be like everybody else for the rest of their lives, or to make a virtue of their peculiarities.
Most people choose the easy path: they find a nice, safe hierarchy and settle in. They obey the rules, repeat […]
Change is Freedom, Change is Life
A post inspired by rereading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed as a part of the utopia reading group in #Oxford. This book is useful for the students jumping to the next stage of their lives. There’s a moment - often at the end of the teens when people face a choice. To be like everybody else for the rest of their lives, or to make a virtue of their peculiarities.
Most people choose the easy path: they find a nice, safe hierarchy and settle in. They obey the rules, repeat […]
Media shapes how we think, act, and relate. Right now, most of it is trapped inside #dotcons — corporate silos that feed fear, distraction, and control. The same path that built fascism now runs our feeds: obedience through algorithms, comfort through consumption, silence through dependency.
The Open Media Network ( #OMN) is about composting that mess, turning the waste of the #closedweb into fertile soil for something new. Rebuilding media as commons, based on the #4opens
This matters because without open, trust-based networks, there is no real freedom. Just managed choice.
#OMN — composting tech for a better world.
https://hamishcampbell.com
Media shapes how we think, act, and relate. Right now, most of it is trapped inside #dotcons — corporate silos that feed fear, distraction, and control. The same path that built fascism now runs our feeds: obedience through algorithms, comfort through consumption, silence through dependency.
The Open Media Network ( #OMN) is about composting that mess, turning the waste of the #closedweb into fertile soil for something new. Rebuilding media as commons, based on the #4opens
This matters because without open, trust-based networks, there is no real freedom. Just managed choice.
#OMN — composting tech for a better world.
https://hamishcampbell.com
We need better, more hopeful understanding of this technology. #openweb vs #closedweb is the battle for the Internet https://hamishcampbell.com/openweb-vs-closedweb-is-the-battle-for-the-internet/
We need better, more hopeful understanding of this technology. #openweb vs #closedweb is the battle for the Internet https://hamishcampbell.com/openweb-vs-closedweb-is-the-battle-for-the-internet/
YouTube and the #deathcult of “Independent” Media
Over the last ten years, we’ve all been spending more and more time on #YouTube. And maybe you’ve noticed something strange: many of the channels you once thought of as independent are no longer independent at all. They’ve been quietly bought up by private equity firms with billions in backing from SoftBank, Amazon, Disney, Goldman Sachs, Blackstone - the usual #mainstreaming priests of the #deathcult.
Channels like Task & Purpose, Vice, Veritasium, Donut Media, Simple History, […]
YouTube and the #deathcult of “Independent” Media
Over the last ten years, we’ve all been spending more and more time on #YouTube. And maybe you’ve noticed something strange: many of the channels you once thought of as independent are no longer independent at all. They’ve been quietly bought up by private equity firms with billions in backing from SoftBank, Amazon, Disney, Goldman Sachs, Blackstone - the usual #mainstreaming priests of the #deathcult.
Channels like Task & Purpose, Vice, Veritasium, Donut Media, Simple History, […]
