We keep making mess, then wondering why everything smells

A big part of this is the language we use, when we unthinkingly spread #mainstreaming terms, we push the worldview that comes with them, and that worldview is usually rooted in fear, control, and market logic. Take “digital sovereignty.” it sounds solid, sensible, progressive. But, it’s a made-up term trying to frame the internet in nation-state and market terms - ownership, borders, competition. It’s a liberal answer to a fear-based economy: “how do we control this thing so it […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/we-keep-making-mess-then-wondering-why-everything-smells/

The right-wing taking the tools, traditions and myths of the left wing https://hamishcampbell.com/the-right-wing-are-taking-the-tools-traditions-and-the-myths-of-the-left-wing/ If we don’t actively shape this, the risk is simple: the forms of the left survive, but the substance gets hollowed out, and quietly folded back into the logic of the #deathcult.
The right-wing taking the tools, traditions and myths of the left wing – #OMN (Open Media Network)

The #dotcons, #mainstreaming, and Build to Walk Away

Three years ago I was trying to explain something simple in language liberals might actually hear. They talk about “platform capitalism.” Fine. But I’ve been calling it the #dotcons for 20 years - because that’s what it is - a con. The last 30 years of tech hasn’t just drifted into this mess. It’s been shaped, step by step, enclosure by enclosure, into systems designed to extract value from us. What we now call the internet is, in large part, a machine built to manipulate, […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-dotcons-mainstreaming-and-build-and-walk-away/

Yes, this is the 40 years of mess, we need to break free from. Compost comes to mind - Worshipping at the Temple of the #Deathcult: The Business Class and Its Myths https://hamishcampbell.com/worshipping-at-the-temple-of-the-deathcult-the-business-class-and-its-myths/
Worshipping at the Temple of the #Deathcult: The Business Class and Its Myths – #OMN (Open Media Network)

#DiaryOfRoundSparrow Monday April 13

American / USA fans of "True Crime" and "Serial Killer" documentary television are thrilled here in USA 2026 (where I live) with the #DeathCult leadership. One can leave an abusive spouse, but you can't escape a world wide abuse #cult of MAGA breeder reactor

Memory As A Form Of Resistance

Long eco-poem by Gerry McGovern inspired by his last essay 99th Day: A Warning About Technology.

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