#blinded — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #blinded, aggregated by home.social.
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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/
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#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/
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#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/
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#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/
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#blinded refers to being so captured by #mainstreaming tech orthodoxy and ideological "common sense" - particularly #neoliberalism and #dotcons culture - that you no longer see, or refuse to see, the harms those systems cause or any alternative paths that exist outside them.
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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/
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Yes, its messy stepping out of the churn
Everywhere we look - what we see, touch, and use - we are living inside systems shaped by decades of economic and technological assumptions. This isn’t only something happening “out there”. It has been normalised and internalised over the last forty years. The dominance of #stupidindividualism, combined with rigid economic dogma, influenced how we design technology, how we organise communities, and how we imagine progress itself. The outcomes are now starkly visible: #climatechaos, […]https://hamishcampbell.com/yes-its-messy-stepping-out-of-the-churn/
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Two protesters have been #blinded by so-called “#less-#lethal” munitions deployed by federal officers during an anti-ICE protest last week in Santa Ana, California, according to reports.
The blindings come amid rising scrutiny of federal authorities’
"use-of-force policies",
after the fatal shooting of
Renee Good in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer set off nationwide protests.Widely seen video recorded at the Santa Ana protest showed a 🔥homeland security agent shoot #Kaden #Rummler, 21,
in the face with a less-lethal
munition
at a distance of only a few feet.Doctors found glass shards and plastic fragments in his skull
and a fragment of metal lodged just shy of his carotid artery.Video also showed the federal officer drag Rummler several yards across the pavement and into a federal building after shooting him.
💥The shooting left him blind in his left eye.
“I can’t sneeze or cough because it’s dangerous,” Rummler told KTLA.
“They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye.”
“They said it was a miracle I survived,” he added.
Rummler is 5ft 1in tall and weighs 102 lbs, he said.
♦️A second person, 31-year-old
#Britain #Rodriguez,
described taking a similar close-range shot
to the face with a
"less-lethal" round
at the same protest,🆘 saying
it felt like his
“eye exploded in my head”,
in an interview with the Los Angeles Times published on Friday.The shooting appeared to take place at roughly the same time as the one that blinded Rummler.
Homeland security use-of-force policies describe
“uses of impact weapons to strike the neck or head”
👉as a form of “deadly force”.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not immediately respond to the Guardian’s request for comment about the Santa Ana incidents.
But a DHS spokesperson,
Tricia McLaughlin, has described the protesters as a “a mob”, accusing them of throwing rocks, bottles and fireworks at federal officers.
-- Local police and media reports, however, said protesters threw only traffic cones.
🔸There is no evidence of anything being thrown at officers in the video of Rummler being shot.About 150 people gathered last week for a procession and vigil honoring #Rene #Good at which the shootings took place.
The event culminated with a demonstration in front of a federal building used by ICE.
Orange county supervisor
Vicente Sarmiento
described the event as
“very peaceful”.Attendees included local elected officials and
“many parents with strollers”, he said.A handful of homeland security officers stood at the top of the steps to the federal building during the protest.
When protesters moved closer to them,
the officers confronted them, according to Sarmiento.Videos of the shooting that blinded Rummler show him approaching the officers with a bullhorn after they grabbed another protester and dragged them up the stairs to detain them.
“I feel just outraged that some of our federal delegation and others are considering continuing to fund these federal agencies
that have now gone rogue and are no longer protecting us,but are putting people in critical harm
– killing people and maiming people,”
Sarmiento said.“I’m just really, really distressed.”
❌Crowd control is not a typical function for homeland security.
👉It is not clear why the federal officer chose to engage with protesters who were not the target of immigration enforcement
and who appeared to be demonstrating on public property,
outside the federal building.Arizona State University criminologist Edward Maguire,
who has studied crowd control, did not observe the Santa Ana protest,
but said he had noted
⚠️recent DHS actions elsewhere “appear inconsistent with basic principles of crowd management and de-escalation”.“Decades of research show that when law enforcement responds to crowds and protests in this way,
it tends to escalate tension and conflict
and increases the risk of harm to both officers and civilians,”
Maguire wrote in an email.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/17/protesters-blind-us-federal-agents?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Two protesters have been #blinded by so-called “#less-#lethal” munitions deployed by federal officers during an anti-ICE protest last week in Santa Ana, California, according to reports.
The blindings come amid rising scrutiny of federal authorities’
"use-of-force policies",
after the fatal shooting of
Renee Good in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer set off nationwide protests.Widely seen video recorded at the Santa Ana protest showed a 🔥homeland security agent shoot #Kaden #Rummler, 21,
in the face with a less-lethal
munition
at a distance of only a few feet.Doctors found glass shards and plastic fragments in his skull
and a fragment of metal lodged just shy of his carotid artery.Video also showed the federal officer drag Rummler several yards across the pavement and into a federal building after shooting him.
💥The shooting left him blind in his left eye.
“I can’t sneeze or cough because it’s dangerous,” Rummler told KTLA.
“They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye.”
“They said it was a miracle I survived,” he added.
Rummler is 5ft 1in tall and weighs 102 lbs, he said.
♦️A second person, 31-year-old
#Britain #Rodriguez,
described taking a similar close-range shot
to the face with a
"less-lethal" round
at the same protest,🆘 saying
it felt like his
“eye exploded in my head”,
in an interview with the Los Angeles Times published on Friday.The shooting appeared to take place at roughly the same time as the one that blinded Rummler.
Homeland security use-of-force policies describe
“uses of impact weapons to strike the neck or head”
👉as a form of “deadly force”.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not immediately respond to the Guardian’s request for comment about the Santa Ana incidents.
But a DHS spokesperson,
Tricia McLaughlin, has described the protesters as a “a mob”, accusing them of throwing rocks, bottles and fireworks at federal officers.
-- Local police and media reports, however, said protesters threw only traffic cones.
🔸There is no evidence of anything being thrown at officers in the video of Rummler being shot.About 150 people gathered last week for a procession and vigil honoring #Rene #Good at which the shootings took place.
The event culminated with a demonstration in front of a federal building used by ICE.
Orange county supervisor
Vicente Sarmiento
described the event as
“very peaceful”.Attendees included local elected officials and
“many parents with strollers”, he said.A handful of homeland security officers stood at the top of the steps to the federal building during the protest.
When protesters moved closer to them,
the officers confronted them, according to Sarmiento.Videos of the shooting that blinded Rummler show him approaching the officers with a bullhorn after they grabbed another protester and dragged them up the stairs to detain them.
“I feel just outraged that some of our federal delegation and others are considering continuing to fund these federal agencies
that have now gone rogue and are no longer protecting us,but are putting people in critical harm
– killing people and maiming people,”
Sarmiento said.“I’m just really, really distressed.”
❌Crowd control is not a typical function for homeland security.
👉It is not clear why the federal officer chose to engage with protesters who were not the target of immigration enforcement
and who appeared to be demonstrating on public property,
outside the federal building.Arizona State University criminologist Edward Maguire,
who has studied crowd control, did not observe the Santa Ana protest,
but said he had noted
⚠️recent DHS actions elsewhere “appear inconsistent with basic principles of crowd management and de-escalation”.“Decades of research show that when law enforcement responds to crowds and protests in this way,
it tends to escalate tension and conflict
and increases the risk of harm to both officers and civilians,”
Maguire wrote in an email.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/17/protesters-blind-us-federal-agents?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Two protesters have been #blinded by so-called “#less-#lethal” munitions deployed by federal officers during an anti-ICE protest last week in Santa Ana, California, according to reports.
The blindings come amid rising scrutiny of federal authorities’
"use-of-force policies",
after the fatal shooting of
Renee Good in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer set off nationwide protests.Widely seen video recorded at the Santa Ana protest showed a 🔥homeland security agent shoot #Kaden #Rummler, 21,
in the face with a less-lethal
munition
at a distance of only a few feet.Doctors found glass shards and plastic fragments in his skull
and a fragment of metal lodged just shy of his carotid artery.Video also showed the federal officer drag Rummler several yards across the pavement and into a federal building after shooting him.
💥The shooting left him blind in his left eye.
“I can’t sneeze or cough because it’s dangerous,” Rummler told KTLA.
“They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye.”
“They said it was a miracle I survived,” he added.
Rummler is 5ft 1in tall and weighs 102 lbs, he said.
♦️A second person, 31-year-old
#Britain #Rodriguez,
described taking a similar close-range shot
to the face with a
"less-lethal" round
at the same protest,🆘 saying
it felt like his
“eye exploded in my head”,
in an interview with the Los Angeles Times published on Friday.The shooting appeared to take place at roughly the same time as the one that blinded Rummler.
Homeland security use-of-force policies describe
“uses of impact weapons to strike the neck or head”
👉as a form of “deadly force”.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not immediately respond to the Guardian’s request for comment about the Santa Ana incidents.
But a DHS spokesperson,
Tricia McLaughlin, has described the protesters as a “a mob”, accusing them of throwing rocks, bottles and fireworks at federal officers.
-- Local police and media reports, however, said protesters threw only traffic cones.
🔸There is no evidence of anything being thrown at officers in the video of Rummler being shot.About 150 people gathered last week for a procession and vigil honoring #Rene #Good at which the shootings took place.
The event culminated with a demonstration in front of a federal building used by ICE.
Orange county supervisor
Vicente Sarmiento
described the event as
“very peaceful”.Attendees included local elected officials and
“many parents with strollers”, he said.A handful of homeland security officers stood at the top of the steps to the federal building during the protest.
When protesters moved closer to them,
the officers confronted them, according to Sarmiento.Videos of the shooting that blinded Rummler show him approaching the officers with a bullhorn after they grabbed another protester and dragged them up the stairs to detain them.
“I feel just outraged that some of our federal delegation and others are considering continuing to fund these federal agencies
that have now gone rogue and are no longer protecting us,but are putting people in critical harm
– killing people and maiming people,”
Sarmiento said.“I’m just really, really distressed.”
❌Crowd control is not a typical function for homeland security.
👉It is not clear why the federal officer chose to engage with protesters who were not the target of immigration enforcement
and who appeared to be demonstrating on public property,
outside the federal building.Arizona State University criminologist Edward Maguire,
who has studied crowd control, did not observe the Santa Ana protest,
but said he had noted
⚠️recent DHS actions elsewhere “appear inconsistent with basic principles of crowd management and de-escalation”.“Decades of research show that when law enforcement responds to crowds and protests in this way,
it tends to escalate tension and conflict
and increases the risk of harm to both officers and civilians,”
Maguire wrote in an email.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/17/protesters-blind-us-federal-agents?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Two protesters have been #blinded by so-called “#less-#lethal” munitions deployed by federal officers during an anti-ICE protest last week in Santa Ana, California, according to reports.
The blindings come amid rising scrutiny of federal authorities’
"use-of-force policies",
after the fatal shooting of
Renee Good in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer set off nationwide protests.Widely seen video recorded at the Santa Ana protest showed a 🔥homeland security agent shoot #Kaden #Rummler, 21,
in the face with a less-lethal
munition
at a distance of only a few feet.Doctors found glass shards and plastic fragments in his skull
and a fragment of metal lodged just shy of his carotid artery.Video also showed the federal officer drag Rummler several yards across the pavement and into a federal building after shooting him.
💥The shooting left him blind in his left eye.
“I can’t sneeze or cough because it’s dangerous,” Rummler told KTLA.
“They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye.”
“They said it was a miracle I survived,” he added.
Rummler is 5ft 1in tall and weighs 102 lbs, he said.
♦️A second person, 31-year-old
#Britain #Rodriguez,
described taking a similar close-range shot
to the face with a
"less-lethal" round
at the same protest,🆘 saying
it felt like his
“eye exploded in my head”,
in an interview with the Los Angeles Times published on Friday.The shooting appeared to take place at roughly the same time as the one that blinded Rummler.
Homeland security use-of-force policies describe
“uses of impact weapons to strike the neck or head”
👉as a form of “deadly force”.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not immediately respond to the Guardian’s request for comment about the Santa Ana incidents.
But a DHS spokesperson,
Tricia McLaughlin, has described the protesters as a “a mob”, accusing them of throwing rocks, bottles and fireworks at federal officers.
-- Local police and media reports, however, said protesters threw only traffic cones.
🔸There is no evidence of anything being thrown at officers in the video of Rummler being shot.About 150 people gathered last week for a procession and vigil honoring #Rene #Good at which the shootings took place.
The event culminated with a demonstration in front of a federal building used by ICE.
Orange county supervisor
Vicente Sarmiento
described the event as
“very peaceful”.Attendees included local elected officials and
“many parents with strollers”, he said.A handful of homeland security officers stood at the top of the steps to the federal building during the protest.
When protesters moved closer to them,
the officers confronted them, according to Sarmiento.Videos of the shooting that blinded Rummler show him approaching the officers with a bullhorn after they grabbed another protester and dragged them up the stairs to detain them.
“I feel just outraged that some of our federal delegation and others are considering continuing to fund these federal agencies
that have now gone rogue and are no longer protecting us,but are putting people in critical harm
– killing people and maiming people,”
Sarmiento said.“I’m just really, really distressed.”
❌Crowd control is not a typical function for homeland security.
👉It is not clear why the federal officer chose to engage with protesters who were not the target of immigration enforcement
and who appeared to be demonstrating on public property,
outside the federal building.Arizona State University criminologist Edward Maguire,
who has studied crowd control, did not observe the Santa Ana protest,
but said he had noted
⚠️recent DHS actions elsewhere “appear inconsistent with basic principles of crowd management and de-escalation”.“Decades of research show that when law enforcement responds to crowds and protests in this way,
it tends to escalate tension and conflict
and increases the risk of harm to both officers and civilians,”
Maguire wrote in an email.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/17/protesters-blind-us-federal-agents?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Two protesters have been #blinded by so-called “#less-#lethal” munitions deployed by federal officers during an anti-ICE protest last week in Santa Ana, California, according to reports.
The blindings come amid rising scrutiny of federal authorities’
"use-of-force policies",
after the fatal shooting of
Renee Good in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer set off nationwide protests.Widely seen video recorded at the Santa Ana protest showed a 🔥homeland security agent shoot #Kaden #Rummler, 21,
in the face with a less-lethal
munition
at a distance of only a few feet.Doctors found glass shards and plastic fragments in his skull
and a fragment of metal lodged just shy of his carotid artery.Video also showed the federal officer drag Rummler several yards across the pavement and into a federal building after shooting him.
💥The shooting left him blind in his left eye.
“I can’t sneeze or cough because it’s dangerous,” Rummler told KTLA.
“They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye.”
“They said it was a miracle I survived,” he added.
Rummler is 5ft 1in tall and weighs 102 lbs, he said.
♦️A second person, 31-year-old
#Britain #Rodriguez,
described taking a similar close-range shot
to the face with a
"less-lethal" round
at the same protest,🆘 saying
it felt like his
“eye exploded in my head”,
in an interview with the Los Angeles Times published on Friday.The shooting appeared to take place at roughly the same time as the one that blinded Rummler.
Homeland security use-of-force policies describe
“uses of impact weapons to strike the neck or head”
👉as a form of “deadly force”.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not immediately respond to the Guardian’s request for comment about the Santa Ana incidents.
But a DHS spokesperson,
Tricia McLaughlin, has described the protesters as a “a mob”, accusing them of throwing rocks, bottles and fireworks at federal officers.
-- Local police and media reports, however, said protesters threw only traffic cones.
🔸There is no evidence of anything being thrown at officers in the video of Rummler being shot.About 150 people gathered last week for a procession and vigil honoring #Rene #Good at which the shootings took place.
The event culminated with a demonstration in front of a federal building used by ICE.
Orange county supervisor
Vicente Sarmiento
described the event as
“very peaceful”.Attendees included local elected officials and
“many parents with strollers”, he said.A handful of homeland security officers stood at the top of the steps to the federal building during the protest.
When protesters moved closer to them,
the officers confronted them, according to Sarmiento.Videos of the shooting that blinded Rummler show him approaching the officers with a bullhorn after they grabbed another protester and dragged them up the stairs to detain them.
“I feel just outraged that some of our federal delegation and others are considering continuing to fund these federal agencies
that have now gone rogue and are no longer protecting us,but are putting people in critical harm
– killing people and maiming people,”
Sarmiento said.“I’m just really, really distressed.”
❌Crowd control is not a typical function for homeland security.
👉It is not clear why the federal officer chose to engage with protesters who were not the target of immigration enforcement
and who appeared to be demonstrating on public property,
outside the federal building.Arizona State University criminologist Edward Maguire,
who has studied crowd control, did not observe the Santa Ana protest,
but said he had noted
⚠️recent DHS actions elsewhere “appear inconsistent with basic principles of crowd management and de-escalation”.“Decades of research show that when law enforcement responds to crowds and protests in this way,
it tends to escalate tension and conflict
and increases the risk of harm to both officers and civilians,”
Maguire wrote in an email.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/17/protesters-blind-us-federal-agents?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
LIVE at c-base a #fluffy Fediverse conference
It's been going on for the last few years, let's look at a current example. Live at c-base is a #Fediverse event that highlights the need for composting the dogmatic #fluffy mess making to keep balance in our shared #openweb reboot. With our #fluffy crew talking about the shared reboot, on the surface it looks positive - friendly conversations, smiles, the right hashtags - but underneath it reveals a deeper problem: there is zero balance at these events. This is the third event I’ve seen […]https://hamishcampbell.com/live-at-c-base-a-fluffy-fediverse-conference/
