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The Tech “Empiricism” Problem

A recent essay on deadSimpleTech makes a point the #openweb community should hear: the biggest problem in technology is not only the tools, it’s also the culture behind them. For years the tech world has operated under a form of narrow “tech empiricism”: the belief that if something produces results quickly, then it must be working well. In this mindset, success is measured by novelty, speed of production, and the ability to create something new. The heroes of this culture are […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-tech-empiricism-problem/

#OMN (Open Media Network)Mar 13

A bit of #OMN history and where the current paths come from

For a long time the focus has been on solving two linked problems - both of which are actually #nothingnew. The first is grassroots publishing and organising. The second is network coordination between communities. Neither of these problems started with the internet, and they certainly didn’t start with Silicon Valley. Projects like #Indymedia and community organising networks solved these problems culturally long before modern platforms existed. They worked through shared practice, trust […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/a-bit-of-omn-history-and-where-the-current-paths-come-from/

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witchescauldron Mar 12

@danie10 @ki @gsymon @EUCommission Any idea if this is public or private, funding, ownership etc.

Is it based on exiting #FOSS projects or more #techshit to compost? Are they adding to the commons or privatising it?

Who wonts to join the team composting #EU #techshit corruption as they will likely be spending billions on this over the next few years, It could be used for good, but more likely just mess making.

#EUcorruption #techshit #4opens

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witchescauldron Mar 12

@EUCommission

This is funding poured down the drain and thus corruption on the part of the people who funded this at the #EU and the company that asked and excepted the funding.

#KISS #funding #EU #techshit

witchescauldron Mar 12

@EUCommission this is funding poured down the drain and thus corruption on the part of the people who funded this at the #EU and the company that asked and excepted the funding.

#KISS #funding #EU #techshit

#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/

#OMN (Open Media Network)Mar 9

OMN: Broken Institutions, and the Need to Rebuild the Commons

For progressive and radical people, one of the central political questions of our time is simple to ask but hard to answer - Why is it so difficult to rebuild the institutions that were destroyed in our #deathcult worship of the 1980s and 1990s? And more importantly why does the impossibility of rebuilding them make it so hard to change the needed balance of power in society? These question matters for working on the future of the society and most importantly the grassroots part of this: […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-broken-institutions-and-the-need-to-rebuild-the-commons/

#OMN (Open Media Network)Mar 9

Shovels, Hashtags, and Revolutions: Roots of the #openweb

It’s obvious to everyone paying attention that the relentless push of #mainstreaming over the last forty years has not made society healthier or more stable. Quite the opposite, the result has been accelerating social disintegration and the rapid expansion of #climatechaos. When the current trajectory continues, the consequences are catastrophic. Over the next fifty years we are looking at millions dead and billions displaced by climate breakdown, ecological collapse, and the political […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/shovels-hashtags-and-revolutions-digging-up-the-roots-of-the-openweb/

#OMN (Open Media Network)Mar 1

Public Money, Private Hype: From Blockchain to AI – and the #FOSS Path Less Taken

In tech funding, over the last decade, the #EU poured hundreds of millions of euros into the #blockchain mess. The promise has proven to be illusion, we built no working transformation: trustless systems, frictionless governance or new economic layers for Europe. The reality? By any honest social metric, 99.9% of that public funding was poured straight down the drain. Now we are lining up to do the same with AI. Another wave of hundreds of millions, based on another cycle of hype, feeding […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/public-money-private-hype-from-blockchain-to-ai-and-the-foss-path-less-taken/

witchescauldron Feb 23

The is resigning to use strong words. Yes, there are parasites. And yes, there’s shit to shovel https://hamishcampbell.com/yes-there-are-parasites-and-yes-theres-shit-to-shovel/ because it gives the people who currently being default parasitic a chance not to be, and the people who are creating #techshit a chance to compost some of this mess. And if they do fantastic a kindness has been done. If they don't, we can compost the #fuckwits ourselves to grow something better #KISS

Yes, There Are Parasites. And Yes, There’s Shit to Shovel – #OMN (Open Media Network)