witchescauldron6d ago

Added a global section to this local post. The tragedy isn’t that technology failed, it is more that we let our technological imagination be captured by oligarchs. Prometheus gave humanity fire so we could build civilization together, not so a tiny #nastyfew tech CEOs can privatise the flame and sell back the light.

The real question isn’t whether technology will shape the future, it’s who controls it. Disciplined curiosity beats IQ, Oxford https://hamishcampbell.com/disciplined-curiosity-beats-iq-oxford/

Disciplined curiosity beats IQ, Oxford – #OMN (Open Media Network)

#OMN (Open Media Network)Mar 11

Disciplined curiosity beats IQ, Oxford

There is a persistent myth pushed in our culture that intelligence - high IQ, academic credentials, elitist education - leads naturally to clear thinking. My organic experience suggests the opposite, what matters is disciplined, skeptical, freethinking curiosity. Without that, intelligence simply becomes a tool for defending whatever assumptions people already hold. This is one of the reasons many academic environments produce people who are, bluntly, credulous. Not because they lack […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/disciplined-curiosity-beats-iq-oxford/

Xamanismo ColetivoFeb 23

"To start to compost this mess we need to get back to rebooting an alternative, for twenty years I’ve been arguing that we urgently need to reboot a working alternative. A good place to start is the #openweb as the mainstream web is dominated by corporate platforms tightly coupled to capital and intelligence ecosystems. We cannot keep debating inside systems owned by the #NastyFew and expect any structural change.

We need #4opens publishing infrastructure, federated networks with transparent governance and community hosting to build protocol-level resilience infrastructure."

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-nastyfew-are-not-hidden-theyre-integrated/

#OMN (Open Media Network)Feb 23

The #NastyFew Are Not Hidden – They’re Integrated

The #NastyFew are not hiding in the shadows, they’re integrated. The so-called “Epstein files” are not the record of one predator. They are a snapshot of how #mainstreaming works at elitist levels, a map of proximity around the people who default-run the mess we call society. Billionaires. Prime ministers. Cabinet officials. Tech founders. Bankers. Cultural icons. From Bill Gates to Elon Musk. From Reid Hoffman to Peter Thiel. From Ehud Barak to Prince Andrew. Different countries. […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-nastyfew-are-not-hidden-theyre-integrated/

Show threadwitchescauldronFeb 9

@slashdottir https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/uk-attitudes-toward-conflict-israel-and-gaza the majority of people in the UK are against the genocide, the small minority are actively for it, we should #KISS call these people evil.

This will take away a bit of support for the #nastyfew who control this mess https://hamishcampbell.com/mess-can-be-less-about-thinking-and-more-about-strategy-understanding-this-we-shift-the-talk-to-focus-more-on-evil/

UK attitudes toward the conflict in Israel and Gaza

A new Ipsos poll examines UK public attitudes towards the conflict in Israel and Gaza.

Ipsos
#OMN (Open Media Network)Jan 24

Radical Reductions in Inequality

The current #dotcons economy is not neutral, it is designed to centralise control in the interest of the #nastyfew, platform owners, server landlords, data hoarders. These are the financial intermediaries who extract value without producing social good, this is not an accident or a side effect, it is the business model. We are told that inequality is the natural outcome of innovation, talent, and efficiency. In reality, it is engineered through enclosure. Digital infrastructure that could […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/radical-reductions-in-inequality/

#OMN (Open Media Network)Jan 24

Ecological Transformation via Digital Abundance

The ecological crisis is not a failure of technology, it’s a failure of values. We’ve been trapped in a toxic loop where growth = progress, where every solution must expand markets, increase consumption, and generate profit for the #nastyfew. This logic is killing the planet. A #4opens world pulls up this mess at its root. Digital goods are different, they are non-rivalrous, freely replicable, and infinitely shareable. When knowledge, culture, and coordination move into open digital […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/ecological-transformation-via-digital-abundance/

#OMN (Open Media Network)Jan 19

Open Media Network: A Manifesto for the Digital Commons

A cohesive manifesto is needed as the world we inherited is fractured. Wealth, power, and knowledge are concentrated in the hands of the #nastyfew: platform owners, data hoarders, and corporate monopolies who extract value from our work, our attention, and our trust. Democracy has been hollowed out, captured and controlled by algorithms that decide what is knowable, profitable, and even true. Ecology, community, and care are sacrificed on the #deathcult altar of growth and consumption. In […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/open-media-network-a-manifesto-for-the-digital-commons/

witchescauldronJan 9
Who are the #nastyfew? https://hamishcampbell.com/who-are-the-nastyfew/ scratch that surface and the pattern is clear: their drive is not shared flourishing, it’s possession and control.
Who are the #nastyfew? – #OMN (Open Media Network)

#OMN (Open Media Network)Jan 8

We need to stop worshipping a #deathcult

A path to do this is to step away from the #mainstreming mess. In 2024, the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson. The prize recognised their work on how institutions shape prosperity, most famously through their book Why Nations Fail. The timing matters, it matters a lot. This award lands at exactly the moment we should be asking why Institutional Economics - the respectable face of #mainstreaming - has spent the last fifteen years […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/we-need-to-stop-worshipping-a-deathcult/

We need to stop worshipping a #deathcult – #OMN (Open Media Network)