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The tools we need to compost the #deathcult
The current mess and tragedy is that the tools we need most are often the first things that stressed, messy, #elitist systems defund, discredit, and dismantle. Why? Because these tools threaten the psychological certainty that people cling to when the world feels unstable. The ability to sit with uncertainty, to question assumptions, to admit complexity. These are not weaknesses, they are survival tools. Yes, this is a mess we need to compost, the #nothingnew path to work on this is about […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-tools-we-need-to-compost-the-deathcult/
The issue here is what happens when common sense becomes blind and starts #blocking everything else.
In the #openweb sense, we need multiple ways of knowing - material, cultural, historical, lived - all in conversation with each other.
When knowledge becomes narrow or isolated, it turns into noise. When it connects back to lived reality, it becomes signal again. So the real split is not “who is right”
* theory without action becomes abstraction
* action without reflection becomes repetition
The #OMN problem is how we build shared spaces where these different paths of understanding can meet, argue, and adjust each other - without collapsing into #stupidindividualism and thus institutional gatekeeping.
That’s the work - collective intelligence, not intellectual silos.
Having a shared pool of hashtags is a way of creating social cohesion and action - a way for people to find each other and talk across #silos. It is a #DIY “search” system, but only if people actually use and share the language.
The #OMN use of hashtags is mostly #nothingnew. I take existing ideas, connect them to outcomes, and create shorthand for conversations that already exist. Examples:
#deathcult = neoliberalism, with the understanding of the real-world outcomes. The metaphor connects a political mindset with its consequences. The historical reference comes from the Irish potato famine - reminder of what happens when a mindset becomes #mainstreaming and millions of people are treated as expendable.
#Geekproblem = a critique of a strand of 20th-century modernism when technical thinking becomes dogmatic. The problem is not “geeks” or technology itself - there is a good side to modernism. The problem is losing the social nuance and turning everything into a technical problem.
#stupidindividualism = thinking about the balance between self and society. It is an outcome of the #deathcult and a symptom of the #geekproblem - the idea that everything can be reduced to isolated individuals instead of relationships and communities.
Could go on…
The point is not the hashtag itself. The point is building shared language, so people recognise patterns, connect ideas and work across the current #blocking silos.
Explainer: How can Europe fight #piracy without breaking the #OpenInternet? 🌍🏴☠️
Blunt #blocking may briefly interrupt illegal streams, but it also disrupts legitimate services and burdens neutral intermediaries such as #CDNs and #VPNs. ⚠️
➡️ https://ccianet.org/library/explainer-fighting-piracy-without-breaking-the-internet-ccia-europe/
Rethinking Grassroots Tech Funding
Building beyond the #deathcult - Our current model of #tech funding and developer agendas is not neutral. The way we fund technology shapes the kind of technology we build. For the last 20 years, the dominant tech culture has followed the same path: venture capital growth platform monopolies extraction of attention and data endless scaling short-term metrics private ownership of public infrastructure This has produced #techshit - technology built because it can make money, not because […]https://hamishcampbell.com/rethinking-grassroots-tech-funding/
There’s no profit in this for me, the more useful question is: who benefits from #blocking these projects?
When people ask “what’s the agenda?” they look for who is trying to benefit from building something. But the better question is who gains when alternatives never get built.
The #openweb has always been about creating spaces outside the usual incentives. That threatens people whose power depends on keeping things closed, controlled, and dependent.
In the era of #climatechaos, people #blocking social change in tech are not just slowing things down - they are helping maintain systems that are driving social and ecological breakdown.
The question is - what do we build instead?
Different paths already exist. #4opens #openweb #OGB #indymediaback #OMN are examples of social tech trying to move away from the failures of #mainstreaming and towards more open, collective ways of organising.
The challenge is mediation: separating signal from noise, building alternatives, and creating space for change.
Take a moment. Think. Then act.
Don’t become part of the blockage. Thanks.
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Stephen Gutknecht
#OMN (Open Media Network)
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