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Conversations on Compost, Bridges, and the Future
A few recent conversations remind me: we’ve already done the work of building alternatives. Twenty years of grassroots tech, radical process, and messy social organizing. The trouble is, that soil has been hollowed out, scattered, exhausted, and composted into the #dotconsOur current mission isn’t to “start from scratch,” but to rebuild bridges, spread compost, and replenish the soil. That’s why I keep coming back to this moment, the bridging of the #openweb back into #mainstream […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/conversations-on-compost-bridges-and-the-future/
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Conversations on Compost, Bridges, and the Future
A few recent conversations remind me: we’ve already done the work of building alternatives. Twenty years of grassroots tech, radical process, and messy social organizing. The trouble is, that soil has been hollowed out, scattered, exhausted, and composted into the #dotconsOur current mission isn’t to “start from scratch,” but to rebuild bridges, spread compost, and replenish the soil. That’s why I keep coming back to this moment, the bridging of the #openweb back into #mainstream […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/conversations-on-compost-bridges-and-the-future/
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@lsn
Though we don't "follow" anyone on legacy social anymore, indeed #GlennGreenwald would be good to see on fedi. Of course we have lamented that #LeeCamp is still choosing #dotCons via the Amazon-served LocalsDotCom, which is a shame. And we could no longer access his YouTube videos because all 'live' content is now invisible to invidious due to changes at YT, see #invidiousBug.- Hon. Dick Smith (OA) himself,
- #SustainablePopulationAustralia,
- Chris Hedges,1/2
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"Scheff, wenn du mich hier fotofierst, bin ich dann dein Supermodel?"
Ja, Willi, du bist mein Superstar !
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Check this great little resource that can help you identify which instances are on cloudflare, amazon, and/or google servers, so you can warn a user appropriately.
Notice how they position themselves around young people.
Bookmarked.
#fediverseInstances #digitalColonialists #dotCons #fediInstances #avoidList #nazism #youth #indoctrination #extremism #entrapment @zleap
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The questioning over state funding of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and open-source initiatives revolves around invisible ideological debates about benefits and drawbacks. Let’s look at this from a few specific examples: #NLnet, #NGI, and the European Union (#EU), to understanding the implications and effectiveness of this funding path.
- The #NLnet Foundation is a notable example of an organization that provides funding to open-source projects. Supported by private and public funds, including significant contributions from the #EU, NLnet focuses on promoting a free, open, and secure internet.
- The #NGI initiative, funded by the #EU, aims to shape the development of the internet of tomorrow. By supporting a range of open-source projects, NGI tries to foster innovation, privacy, and security. It emphasizes human-concentric technology, ensuring that the future internet respects humanistic values and needs.
- The #EU has been a significant proponent of FOSS, providing funding through programs such as Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe. The EU’s supports digital sovereignty, reduce dependency on non-European technologies through promoting open standards.
The is some democratization as these state-funded FOSS projects ensure software is accessible to wider groups, thus reducing the digital divide. For instance, NGI-funded projects are supposed to focus on inclusivity and user empowerment. At best, this transparency brings public overview to these processes.
There are some economic benefits and cost savings in using and supporting FOSS instead of expensive proprietary software. Funding initiatives like NGI stimulate innovation by allowing developers to build upon existing open-source projects, fostering a collaborative environment. Though, there are unspoken issues of sustainability in a pure capitalist path, thus the question of balance in state funding.
Open-source software allows for independent security audits, reducing the risk of vulnerabilities. The EU’s investment in secure communication tools underlines this advantage. Reducing reliance on a few large proprietaries #dotcons software vendors enhances national security and control. The EU’s support for open-source projects aims to bolster humanistic digital sovereignty.
For example, #NLnet’s diverse (though #geekproblem) funding portfolio highlights this limited community-driven development. The collaboration between public institutions, the private sector, and community contributors helps #NGI projects bring together diverse stakeholders to work on common goals. #FOSS projects thrive on community contributions, leading to continuous improvement and support and thus in theory community needs, though due to the dogmatic #geekproblem this is currently failing.
Funding Continuity: Projects become dependent on government funding, which currently is not stable or continuous. For example, sudden policy shifts in the EU affect long-term project sustainability. Without a sustainable funding, FOSS projects struggle with long-term maintenance and support.
Most #FOSS projects are too idiosyncratic to meet quality #UX standards. Thus, the current #geekproblem dominated process means that state funding inadvertently support meany unusable and thus pointless, subpar projects. Effective diversity and oversight of these mechanisms are crucial to mitigate this failing path.
Government involvement leads to bureaucracy, slowing down and ossifying development cycles, currently we do not work though this path well, The balance between oversight, diversity and agility is critical. With the #EU path this is a huge problem leading to almost all the current funding bring poured down the drain.
For #mainstreaming capitalism the issue of “Market Distortion”, the idea of competition raises the issue of state funding distorting “market” dogmas to disadvantage private companies and startups that don’t receive government support. For instance, EU funding can overshadow smaller #dotcons, capitalist thinking sees this as a risk that government-backed projects might stifle innovation by shaping the market landscape.
Political and ideological biases influence which projects receive funding, this is currently pushing a #blocking of the needed “native” #openweb path. How to move past this to ensuring diversity and “impartiality” in funding decisions need real work. How can we shift this “common sense” focus that government priorities do not align with the wider needs of the #openweb community and end-users. Aligning funding priorities with community needs is needed to address this concern, how can we make this happen with funding like #NLnet and #NGI?
To sum up, #NLnet are doing some good work, but this is focused on feeding the #geekproblem and building #fashionista careers, evern then on balance they do a better job than most. Then the wider #NGI funding is going into the #dotcons and #NGO mess, thus being poured directly down the drain. Over all, it’s fantastic that the #EU is funding the #openweb even if it is doing it very badly by funding very little that is native or useful.
Conclusion, state funding for FOSS and open-source initiatives, in our examples #NLnet, #NGI, and the #EU, has potential for creating real change and challenge, but this path presents both opportunities and challenges. When implemented thoughtfully, it can foster “native” paths, innovation, reduce costs, and enhance community and security to challenge the current worshipping of the #deathcults by our widespread use of the #dotcons. The question is the will and understanding to balancing this path to ensures that state funding positively contributes to the #4opens FOSS ecosystem, driving forward a free, open digital future or just leads to the capitalistic criticism of waste and distortion? At best and at worst, we see some real change and a lot of poring funding down the drain to feed some #geekproblem and build the careers of a few #fashernistas
The is much to compost in the current mess, can we get funding for shovels please #OMN
https://hamishcampbell.com/state-funding-of-foss-and-open-source-is-it-a-good-idea-or-a-bad-idea/
#4opens #blocking #deathcults #dotcons #EU #fashernistas #fashionista #FOSS #geekproblem #mainstreaming #NGI #NGO #nlnet #OMN #openweb #UX
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If you would like to watch #undercurrents videos on the #openweb you can find them here https://visionon.tv/c/undercurrents/videos please embed them on your sites and share them in the #dotcons, thanks.
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@lightweight
The Sinful Seven:- Cloudflare
- (sc)Amazon
- Google
- (Memecoiner and SpaceExplorer who shall not be named)
- Fakebook
- Apple
- Micros[ha]ftOr #CAGEFAM
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The fall of the #VisionOnTV reboot based on #PeerTube was a loss for grassroots media and activist history.
Why? Because over the last ten years, many of our most spiky videos, that told the truth about power, protest, and real-world struggle - have been quietly erased from the #dotcons. YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook… one by one, the archives of resistance are disappearing under “content moderation” and algorithmic amnesia.
The #VisionOnTV project was different. It was a piece of the #openweb — a living, federated video commons built on #P2P infrastructure. It held stories that mattered: direct action, environmental defence, social movements, community struggles. It wasn’t perfect, but it worked — messy, transparent, alive.
Now it’s gone. And with it, a piece of our collective memory.
We need to reboot this path while the backups and fragments still exist. This is not nostalgia, more about preserving the roots of grassroots action so we can grow new ones. Without memory, there is no movement. Without archives, there is no accountability.
It’s time to dig, compost, and rebuild.
#OMN #openweb #4openshttps://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/peertube-visionOntv/wiki/history
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The billionaire problem, Elon Musk, tech oligarchs, and the #deathcult of wealth as a social path.
Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter is emblematic of a larger issue: the unchecked power of tech oligarchs. These aren’t your run-of-the-mill millionaires; they’re part of a nasty few, the class that operates above the ultra-wealthy, shaping politics, economies, and societies to their inadequacy. While the myth is pushed that billionaires are brilliant innovators who work harder than everyone else, the reality is darker. Their actions reflect a destructive #deathcult mentality, hoarding resources, manipulating public discourse, and pushing harmful ideologies for personal gain and standing.
Let’s start with Musk himself. People think of him as the “SpaceX and Tesla guy,” (this is not true, but that’s another story) his behaviour since acquiring Twitter reveals his priorities. Musk purchased the platform for $43 billion, not as a business investment, but as a tool for propaganda to consolidate power and influence politics. To platforming far-right politics, by amplify propaganda and undermine the thin remaining democratic paths. From boosting bots that inflate the appearance of support for far-right ideologies to reinstating accounts that push hate speech, these actions directly impact global politics.
This control of Twitter, and most importantly the chattering classes that stay in this #dotcons, has silenced the little dissent left. Bot-driven disinformation spreading far-right ideologies isn’t accidental; it’s strategic manipulation of public opinion to push agendas. Like supporting trump and authoritarianism, spending over $250 million on Trump’s election campaigns.
Musk isn’t alone, tech oligarchs like Bezos and Zuckerberg are equally complicit in reshaping society to benefit themselves, at the now clear expense of the public. Bezos’s quiet Influence, unlike #Musk, #Bezos operates in the shadows, Amazon spends millions lobbying US politicians to block antitrust laws and maintain monopolies to exploits workers and maximise profit. His strategy is quieter but no less harmful. #Zuckerberg’s free speech farce, with the ending of liberal fact-checking on #Facebook under the guise of “free speech.” The result? A flood of bots spreading hate speech, disinformation, and simple propaganda. By prioritising profit over public responsibility, this #dotcons becomes another breeding ground for extremism.
The #feudalistic influence of tech princes and oligarchs has consequences that go far beyond social media with political manipulation, global meddling. This is no longer just about wealth, it’s about shaping geopolitical realities. This is going to accelerate the current climate and resource chaos. So why do meany of us keep bowing? There is a persistence of the billionaire myth, the idea that they’re smarter, harder-working, and more deserving, which keeps #mainstreaming people from challenging this power. But it should be obvious these aren’t self-made geniuses, they’re nasty inadequate opportunists thriving in a broken system. This isn’t just about Musk or any of the other nasty few billionaires. It’s about rejecting the #deathcult of greed and exploitation our socialites are based on. The rise of billionaires as political actors isn’t inevitable, it’s a symptom of a path that values unrestrained profit over people.
The #OMN has a vision for something better, decentralised, open, and community-driven governance. A world where power is distributed, not hoarded by a handful of deranged oligarchs. The challenge is to make this vision a real path, and to turn our distaste for the status quo into action for this change and challenge.
OMN #openweb #fediverse #makehistory #deathcult #OGB #visionontv
https://hamishcampbell.com/tech-princes-and-the-deathcult/
#Bezos #deathcult #dotcons #Facebook #fediverse #feudalistic #mainstreaming #MakeHistory #Musk #OGB #OMN #openweb #visionontv #Zuckerberg
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No time for crying
We’ve got work to do
We’ve got no time for tears
We’ve got work to do-Mavis Staples, “No Time For Crying”
Please get involved (even if only for an hour!) : https://go.kamalaharris.com
IT’S GO TIME!!
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HARDCOREAZ OROITZEN ZARA? (Txarraskaren aldeko jaialdia): BUILD ME A BOMB + SUB RATS + RETRASO + DOMONISTIKUM + TOO MANY HUMANS
La Kelo Gaztetxea. Santurtzi, martxoa 1(a), larunbata (19:00 CET) -
HARDCOREAZ OROITZEN ZARA? (Txarraskaren aldeko jaialdia): BUILD ME A BOMB + SUB RATS + RETRASO + DOMONISTIKUM + TOO MANY HUMANS
La Kelo Gaztetxea. Santurtzi, martxoa 1(a), larunbata (19:00 CET) -
HARDCOREAZ OROITZEN ZARA? (Txarraskaren aldeko jaialdia): BUILD ME A BOMB + SUB RATS + RETRASO + DOMONISTIKUM + TOO MANY HUMANS
La Kelo Gaztetxea. Santurtzi, martxoa 1(a), larunbata (19:00 CET) -
HARDCOREAZ OROITZEN ZARA? (Txarraskaren aldeko jaialdia): BUILD ME A BOMB + SUB RATS + RETRASO + DOMONISTIKUM + TOO MANY HUMANS
La Kelo Gaztetxea. Santurtzi, martxoa 1(a), larunbata (19:00 CET) -
Check this great little resource that can help you identify which instances are on cloudflare, amazon, and/or google servers, so you can warn a user appropriately.
Notice how they position themselves around young people.
Bookmarked.
#fediverseInstances #digitalColonialists #dotCons #fediInstances #avoidList #nazism #youth #indoctrination #extremism #entrapment @zleap
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Check this great little resource that can help you identify which instances are on cloudflare, amazon, and/or google servers, so you can warn a user appropriately.
Notice how they position themselves around young people.
Bookmarked.
#fediverseInstances #digitalColonialists #dotCons #fediInstances #avoidList #nazism #youth #indoctrination #extremism #entrapment @zleap
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Svahila proverbo (248)
Maji ya moto hayachomi nyumba.
Varma akvo ne bruligas domon.
#Swahili
#Kiswahili
#MethaliZaKiswahili
#Esperanto
#Kiesperanto
#SvahilaProverbaro
#lang_eo
#proverbaro #fajro #domo #akvo #rimedo -
Svahila proverbo (248)
Maji ya moto hayachomi nyumba.
Varma akvo ne bruligas domon.
#Swahili
#Kiswahili
#MethaliZaKiswahili
#Esperanto
#Kiesperanto
#SvahilaProverbaro
#lang_eo
#proverbaro #fajro #domo #akvo #rimedo -
Svahila proverbo (248)
Maji ya moto hayachomi nyumba.
Varma akvo ne bruligas domon.
#Swahili
#Kiswahili
#MethaliZaKiswahili
#Esperanto
#Kiesperanto
#SvahilaProverbaro
#lang_eo
#proverbaro #fajro #domo #akvo #rimedo -
"No real commitment from “allies”, the move to the #openweb was ignored by the #mainstreaming left who stay on the #dotcons…The liberal crowd loves theory, but often won’t do the hard work of actually shifting paradigms, this leaves in place structural hostility to #DIYCulture, PEOPLE ARE SO TRAINED TO CONSUME RATHER THAN CREATE & MAINTAIN that even the “alternative” spaces get stuck replicating the same individualist consumption patterns."
From: @eliasulrich
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"The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed.
- William Gibson
(@DocOnDev - https://x.com/DocOnDev/status/1451597220747350018)
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https://www.wacoca.com/pets/478089/ 有名アイドルと雑誌デビューしたサモエド！一緒に読もうとしたらまさかの展開になりました #CuteDog #dog #DogContent #DogDaily #DogDailyLife #DogFamily #FunnyDog #Inu #PetLovers #PetVlog #puppy #PuppyVideo #samoyed #SamoyedDog #SamoyedPuppy #ViralDogVideo #サモエド #サモエドカフェ #サモエドごはん #サモエドテレビ #サモエドりんたろう #サモエド子犬 #ダッツ #ぬいぐるみ #ぬい活 #ハーゲンダッツ #りんたろう #大型犬 #推しぬい #炊飯器 #炊飯器ごはん #炊飯器ドック #炊飯器犬 #生きたぬいぐるみ #癒し動画 #癒し犬
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https://www.wacoca.com/pets/478089/ 有名アイドルと雑誌デビューしたサモエド！一緒に読もうとしたらまさかの展開になりました #CuteDog #dog #DogContent #DogDaily #DogDailyLife #DogFamily #FunnyDog #Inu #PetLovers #PetVlog #puppy #PuppyVideo #samoyed #SamoyedDog #SamoyedPuppy #ViralDogVideo #サモエド #サモエドカフェ #サモエドごはん #サモエドテレビ #サモエドりんたろう #サモエド子犬 #ダッツ #ぬいぐるみ #ぬい活 #ハーゲンダッツ #りんたろう #大型犬 #推しぬい #炊飯器 #炊飯器ごはん #炊飯器ドック #炊飯器犬 #生きたぬいぐるみ #癒し動画 #癒し犬
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Lijkt erop dat het parkje aan het Capitool gaat verdwijnen voor een parkeergarage ? Ik neem aan Demcon???
Zou niet weten welk terrein anders nr23 zou zijn. Lijkt me sterk dat ze een parkeergage recht voor hun ingang gaan bouwen.
https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/gmb-2024-266051.html
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Oh my God, we've been lucky to have JOE BIDEN as a our president and elected official!!!
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"These hands of ours are burning RED!"
Rain Mikamura and Domon Kasshu from G Gundam for Gray Fox! It took me way too long to get back to these last commissions, to the point where they look vastly different than the previous ones. But it also fits these characters 😅 Thank you again, and sorry I took so long!
(These commissions are closed, these were just the last ones I owed!)
#DomonKasshu #RainMikamura #GGundam #MobileSuitGGundam #anime #90sanime #Gundam #MastoArt #FediArt #art #sketch
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https://www.wacoca.com/pets/477089/ 平日にサモエドとフリーランス女を2人きりにするとこうなります #CuteDog #dog #DogContent #DogDaily #DogDailyLife #DogFamily #FunnyDog #Inu #PetLovers #PetVlog #puppy #PuppyVideo #samoyed #SamoyedDog #SamoyedPuppy #ViralDogVideo #サモエド #サモエドカフェ #サモエドごはん #サモエドテレビ #サモエドりんたろう #サモエド子犬 #ダッツ #ぬいぐるみ #ぬい活 #ハーゲンダッツ #りんたろう #大型犬 #推しぬい #炊飯器 #炊飯器ごはん #炊飯器ドック #炊飯器犬 #生きたぬいぐるみ #癒し動画 #癒し犬
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https://www.wacoca.com/pets/477089/ 平日にサモエドとフリーランス女を2人きりにするとこうなります #CuteDog #dog #DogContent #DogDaily #DogDailyLife #DogFamily #FunnyDog #Inu #PetLovers #PetVlog #puppy #PuppyVideo #samoyed #SamoyedDog #SamoyedPuppy #ViralDogVideo #サモエド #サモエドカフェ #サモエドごはん #サモエドテレビ #サモエドりんたろう #サモエド子犬 #ダッツ #ぬいぐるみ #ぬい活 #ハーゲンダッツ #りんたろう #大型犬 #推しぬい #炊飯器 #炊飯器ごはん #炊飯器ドック #炊飯器犬 #生きたぬいぐるみ #癒し動画 #癒し犬
