#OMN (Open Media Network)9h ago

How our “mainstreaming” people understand what they’re doing

The new #NGO generation are in the process of the second sell-out of the #openweb. These people are eather new or are comeing back to this "native" space, have stepped stright into running the current reboot after the original grassroots path burned out and was pushed aside. This new “NGO generation” holds strong views, their perspective, is that they already lived through a catastrophic failure once, and they are determined not to repeat there version of it. Their mostly blinded story […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/how-our-mainstreaming-people-understand-what-theyre-doing/

Show threadwitchescauldron4d ago
Most people now understand that culturally, and socially, we are in a growing nasty mess. The #blocking of action, the constant stalls, confusion, and fragmentation, has a lot to do with our use of language. https://hamishcampbell.com/messy-language-feeds-back-into-our-culture/
#OMN (Open Media Network)5d ago

Power, the social cost we keep talking past in #FOSS

A post sparked Hacker News spouting of noise and smoke. It looks like “just fork it.” phrase in #FOSS culture provokes heat. So worth a second look, for some it’s the purest expression of freedom, to others, it’s a conversation-stopper that quietly protects power. What’s striking isn’t that one side is right and the other wrong, it’s that people are too often talking about entirely different things, while using overlapping words, thus the smoke and heat in the linked discussion […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/power-the-social-cost-we-keep-talking-past-in-foss/

eicker.news ᳇ tech newsJan 23
79% of the largest #news websites in the UK and US are #blocking #AItrainingbots, with 34% blocking all bots analysed. #Publishers are blocking bots due to the lack of value exchange and the need for traffic to survive. The IAB Tech Lab recommends publishers block bots due to the increasing frequency of crawling for AI chatbot responses. https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/eight-in-ten-of-worlds-biggest-news-websites-now-block-ai-training-bots/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
witchescauldronJan 23

We need to be explicit that spiky and fluffy are complementary, not opposing paths. They serve different functions in the same path, both are necessary for anything healthy to grow.

The problem is not disagreement between spiky and fluffy. The problem is the large number of people who actively fight against this complementarity - who insist on one mode being legitimate, and work to exclude and delegitimise the other.

This is the majority of people we end up interacting with. So until we name this clearly, we keep misdiagnosing the conflict. It isn’t about tone, strategy, or culture. It’s about a refusal to accept plurality, balance, and context - that refusal blocks progress far more effectively than any external opposition.

* Spiky without fluffy becomes brittle and exclusionary.

* Fluffy without spiky becomes easily captured and ineffective.

Together, they create resilience.
For the #OMN and #openweb to survive, we have to stop treating this as a personality clash and start recognising it as a structural issue that needs active mediation, not denial and #blocking

mclovinJan 23

D e n i e d

#memes #biochemistry #interception #blocking #science

Osna.FMJan 22
After the decision on the Mercosur trade agreement in the European Parliament, the SPD has taken a strong stance against the Greens, accusing them of stupidity... https://news.osna.fm/?p=31519 | #news #blasts #blocking #deal #europe
SPD Blasts Greens as "Stupid and Instinctless" for Blocking the Mercosur Deal in Europe Parliament Vote. - Osna.FM

Discover how the SPD slammed the Greens for political foolishness and lack of instinct following the Mercosur vote, accusing them of delaying the agreement and displaying inconsistency.

Osna.FM
#OMN (Open Media Network)Jan 22

Reclaiming the Meaning of “Common Sense”

The #OMN is a good-faith project, so let’s begin from that assumption. I don’t value the mainstreaming direction of this podcast, but it is still a useful thinking point when considering our project outlines. It highlights the pressures and narratives that open projects eventually have to navigate when we deliberately choose a diversity of paths rather than a single, optimised one. Yes, it is always possible to game any system, including those built on trust. That risk never disappears. […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/reclaiming-the-meaning-of-common-sense/

witchescauldronJan 21
If you’re serious about changing society, you have to think your way past this common sense #blocking. The rise of stupid individualism https://hamishcampbell.com/the-rise-of-stupidindividualism-as-a-mainstream-path/
The rise of #stupidindividualism as a common sense path – #OMN (Open Media Network)

#OMN (Open Media Network)Jan 21

The rise of #stupidindividualism as a common sense path

Part of the shitty mess we’re in comes from the failure of #DIY culture and the rise of #stupidindividualism as the common sense path. #stupidindividualism is completely unscalable in social terms. It fragments, isolates, and exhausts. That isn’t accidental, it’s a classic divide-and-control strategy of the #deathcult. And we need to consciously step away, and away, and far away from this. An example, over the last 20 years, I’ve answered the same questions individually, over and […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-rise-of-stupidindividualism-as-a-mainstream-path/