#OMN (Open Media Network)May 16

Compost “digital sovereignty”, build working commons

The #KISS secret about the noise in “digital sovereignty” is very simple - Ignore most of this branding and build commons tech instead. That’s the path, not another layer of management, another funding bureaucracy for a glossy strategy document. Not another NGO conference circuit explaining why nothing can happen without another round of funding. Just build working commons. This matters because much of the #EU “digital sovereignty” conversation is simply more churn inside the same […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/just-build-working-commons/

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The #KISS secret of all this noise about digital sovereignty - is simple, you ignore it and instead build commons tech.

This is a commons path for composting #mainstreaming mess.

Signal-to-noise.

hamish campbellMay 16

The #KISS secret of all this noise about digital sovereignty - is simple, you ignore it and instead build commons tech.

This is a common path for composting #mainstreaming mess.

Signal-to-noise.

BubblesMay 15
Sophists – From Ancient Greece to Neoliberal #mainstreaming
https://hamishcampbell.com/sophists-from-ancient-greece-to-neoliberal-mainstreaming
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Sophists – From Ancient Greece to Neoliberal #mainstreaming – #OMN (Open Media Network)

#OMN (Open Media Network)May 15

Sophists – From Ancient Greece to the current #mainstreaming

“Being in #Oxford today, I popped into the #OxfordUnion to use a room. Glancing through the term card, it’s absolutely vile - and has been consistently so for the two years I’ve been back in the city. It’s a useful, if deeply dispiriting, exercise in reading the people and place. This is where parts of the next ruling class form their opinions and sharpen their instincts. Judging by what they’re platforming, we are not heading for a good time...” One useful term about this mess […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/sophists-from-ancient-greece-to-neoliberal-mainstreaming/

#OMN (Open Media Network)May 9

A fluff view of current tech we need to compost

You know, when people are heading over a cliff, I'm more than happy to be "left behind". This story is #openwashing, not innovation. “New European social network” is actually a fork of #Bluesky wrapped in sovereignty language, as Elena Rossini says with the same #dotcons logic - PR-first launch (Davos), reality comes later (or never). This tech mess illustrates, if people start with branding, funding, and media narrative instead of community and process, it’s not #openweb - it’s […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-view-of-current-tech-we-need-to-compost/

#OMN (Open Media Network)May 3

The Meta-Mess of the “Open” Social Web

Signal, Noise, and the missing ground - We have a signal-to-noise problem, that if we’re serious about “paths to growth,” we need to be honest about the paths and people pushing us down paths we’re actually walking. The problem was never just the #dotcons platforms. It’s what we build instead - and more importantly, how and why we build it. Right now, too much of the #openweb conversation is caught in narrative loops of reframing stagnation as growth, critique as progress and […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-meta-mess-of-the-open-social-web/

#OMN (Open Media Network)Apr 28

The End of the “Peace Dividend” and the Return of History

#Identitypolitics, is what happens when liberalism turns inward and fragments - call it mad liberalism. #Culturewar is what happens when that same liberalism hardens and lashes out - bad liberalism. Both look like opposites, but they come from the same place. The uncomfortable part is both were pushed onto the "left" as the way to fight #neoliberalism the very system that’s been tearing apart the social fabric for decades. Instead of building collective power, we pushed endless identity […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-end-of-the-peace-dividend-and-the-return-of-history/

#OMN (Open Media Network)Apr 28

Actually solving things, and why this matters for #OMN

Activism has a reputation problem, in default #mainstreaming storytelling it’s painted as chaos, absence, or naive idealism. But if you look at what activists at best actually do, a different picture emerges: a long tradition of people working out, in practice, how to solve real problems together without relying on distant authority. And that’s the bit most people quietly skip. In most social/political movements, the hard questions - how we organise, decide, share resources, resolve […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/actually-solving-things-and-why-this-matters-for-omn/

#OMN (Open Media Network)Apr 27

#OMN Grounding (the roots as a story)

#techchurn is the endless cycle of adopting new platforms, tools, and technologies - not because they solve any real problems, but because novelty is mistaken for progress. It burns community trust, institutional memory, and activist energy, while leaving the underlying #nastyfew power structures untouched.https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=techchurn The #OMN uses #stupidindividualism to describe the culturally manufactured habit of prioritising personal gain and self-interest over collective […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-grounding-the-roots-as-a-story/

#OMN Grounding (the roots as a story) – #OMN (Open Media Network)