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Most people sense that something is off

Meany people see the world degrading, enclosure accelerating. They see climate, politics, media all bending toward extraction. And even when they can see the trajectory, they feel powerless, so they cope by optimise their careers. They scroll. They argue. They consume. They retreat into irony. From birth, we’re trained into one core assumption: There Is No Alternative (#TINA). Not because it’s true, but because every dominant institution reinforces it: Schools train compliance. Media […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/most-people-sense-that-something-is-off/

I proposed a long time ago that #openweb is a less tribal, more expansive framing than #fediverse — socially and technically. It’s also #nothingnew, which is honestly a breath of fresh air. We can (and should) use both terms, but if we want meaningful change and challenge to the #mainstreaming mess, we need to foreground the more generic one.

Predictably, this gets pushback from two directions: the non-political #FOSS crowd, and the mainstreaming crew. And yes, when you bring #NGO behaviour into the #fediverse, there’s going to be friction. Try being #openweb-native on this please.

People are going to keep doing self- and socially-destructive things. That’s a human problem, not a branding one. But the language we choose does shape how we respond to it.

Boost if you think this shift matters.

The uncomfortable path

The individual, their freedom, and their capacity for reason are products of social relationships, not independent origins. Society is not built from isolated individuals; individuals arise from shared culture, history, and collective life. As society grows richer and more humane, individuals gain the conditions needed for deeper development and freedom emerges from this shared foundation. What’s really at stake is power. The shift has to be away from private ownership and toward the […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-uncomfortable-truth/

Our hashtags try to name it: #stupidindividualism #deathcult #dotcons #nothingnew in that we repeat the same patterns, inside the same systems, and wonder why nothing changes. What does mainstreaming do? https://hamishcampbell.com/what-does-mainstreaming-do/

Human tech https://hamishcampbell.com/human-tech-omn/ #OMN is rooted in #nothingnew because systems that survive are systems people already intuitively understand.

Human tech – OMN

The #OMN Framework: the Five Functions (#5f) To build an #OMN site, we don’t start with platforms, features, or ideology. We start with flows. Think of the network as a system of pipes and holding tanks, with different connectors at each end. Nothing magical, nothing proprietary. The goal is that every part, in the abstract, is understandable by a reasonably normal human being - not just developers, not just managers, not just “power users”. This is important: if people can’t […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/human-tech-omn/

An example of the mess from #deathcult centrism

Don’t worry too much, the corporate world has solutions, we look here at #ESG which stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance. Its advocates say that if companies disclose enough data about their environmental and social behaviour, “good” corporate conduct will be rewarded by investors with higher share prices. Let's really look at #ESG, for what they are, #greenwash, a system of delay, distraction, and capture - on this #deatcult path this it is not a mistake, it is a function. […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/an-example-of-the-mess-from-deathcult-centrism/

Progressive Mainstreaming

Most progressive #mainstreaming isn’t about ending the #deathcult - it’s about making its worship feel more fair, more inclusive, more polite. There is some real everyday value in this. Fewer people get crushed immediately, some suffering is reduced, that matters. But let’s be honest about what it does not do, it does not get people off their knees to challenge the altar to stop the sacrifice. It rearranges the seating in the temple, feeding the deeper problem, obedience. Progressive […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/progressive-mainstreaming/

#GoodMorningHorn and #HappyHappy #InternationalCelloDay...!

#DontPanic, #OrAnything; but...

#ExMastodonUser and #AppleFanBoy, #StephenFry has #Declared a #NationalEmergency for #MentalHealth...

#IT's #AnotherOne of his #LuvvieAlarms...

He's #VeryWelcome to #Borrow #MyDoctorate in #ClinicalPsychiatry and #Engineering and #WinAnOscar with #IT...

#OR, #SimplyReturn to #AnotherOne of the #RejectedSocialMediaPlatforms he's #AlreadyOn... #SuchAs #Fakebook or #SpaceKarenX's US$44bn #VanityProject, #Maybe...

There are #LoadsOfThem; they're #NothingNew...

#IT's just a #KindSuggestion...

#DontForget... #QuoteToots; #StillQuiteCool

Have #AnotherPrideMonth; #OrSomething...

🧙⚔️🤖:wolfparty:🤖⚔️🧙 | :PirateBadge:🦹:fediverse:🦄:fediverse:🦹:PirateBadge:

#StephenFry #LuvvieAlarm #BeautifulCreatures #TinyViolin #BigCello #SenseOfProportionControl

A #LongList of #RejectedSocialMediaPlatforms...

#StillAvailable with #WindowsForWerewolves...

#AlsoAvailable with #StephenFry as a #MinorSideBar...

Why the #OMN works with #ActivityPub – And why we need a bridge to #p2p

Let's look at this. #ActivityPub is not a product. It’s not even really a “protocol” in the narrow, rigid sense that vertical tech likes to imagine. ActivityPub is a shared vocabulary, a public language for moving meaning and connection across the #openweb. It gives you nouns and verbs, and the community defines the grammar through lived use. This is why the #OMN works with ActivityPub, a metadata and meaning layer, not a platform, flows, not silos. ActivityPub is the widely deployed […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/why-the-omn-works-with-activitypub-and-why-we-need-a-bridge-to-p2p/

Manifesto for the Hashtag Commons

Outreach for the #OMN path, for the past year, the hashtag story has taken shape, not as branding, not as marketing, but as a shared language for navigating the mess we’re in. Each tag is compost: lived experience, memory of struggle, lessons from broken movements, glimpses of collective futures. Together they form a map of where we have been and the ground we are trying to rebuild. This story is now done enough to act as a tool: a framework that connects all the projects, all the […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/manifesto-for-the-hashtag-commons/

At best, the old #mainstreaming was about equality in worshipping the #deathcult

The old #mainstreaming was only in a limited way about freedom, so we now need to focus on more on what it was about, equality in obedience. Equality in our blinded worship of the #deathcult: growth, consumption, competition, endless mess on a dying planet. That’s why #fashernista liberal progressivism is always a dead end problem, it plays radical, says radical, but composts nothing. At best, it sells rebellion as a lifestyle. It’s equality inside the system, not about freedom from […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/at-best-the-old-mainstreaming-is-about-equality-in-worshipping-the-deathcult/

The Blockchain Socialist: Self-Destruction as Theory

The Blockchain Socialist podcast is the deluded self-destructive talking about the deluded self-destructive in tech. It’s a mirror of our time: intellectuals dissecting the ruins while still worshipping the same #deatcult gods that caused the collapse. I am listening to an example of this Urbit - a hardcoded, reactionary dream of order built on decentralization, doomed from the start. Not only because the code is bad, but because the culture is. Control disguised as liberation. Hierarchy […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-blockchain-socialist-self-destruction-as-theory/

https://blog.odicforcesounds.com/criminalMasters.html
#Criminal #Activities #Professionals #nothingNew

Change is Freedom, Change is Life

You don’t get transformative change by building according to the incentives of the dominant system. A post inspired by rereading Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia as part of the Utopia Reading Group in #Oxford “There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.”— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed Most people choose the easy path: they find […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/change-is-freedom-change-is-life/

Die Oligarchie in den USA - Die "neuen" Oligarchen in den USA 🤨😁

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXGwDK8kGx8

#Aristokratie #Aristocracy #NothingNew

next #music before bedtime: #NothingNew by #ChillBump

https://open.spotify.com/track/2Xl0eBGVhPGBBHKjH1Atz8?

next #music before bedtime: #NothingNew by #ChillBump

https://open.spotify.com/track/2Xl0eBGVhPGBBHKjH1Atz8?

In the reboot of native #openweb media, one guiding principle must be clear: #mainstreaming stays second-rank media. That means:

If you can’t link to a working, open URL, you don’t link.

Any mainstream links are placed at the end of the article, not woven in as authority.

This path is #nothingnew, it’s how we held space before. You can see it in practice back in 2006 with Indymedia’s coverage of the Climate Camp: https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2006/climatecamp/

#KISS in the reboot of native #openweb media, it's important that we push the #mainstreaming into being second rank media.

If you can't link to a working URL you don't link. And any mainstreaming links are placed at the end of the article. This is #nothingnew path you can see it implemented in 2006 here https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2006/climatecamp/

#NothingNew

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