#indymediaback — Public Fediverse posts

The tools we need to compost the #deathcult

The current mess and tragedy is that the tools we need most are often the first things that stressed, messy, #elitist systems defund, discredit, and dismantle. Why? Because these tools threaten the psychological certainty that people cling to when the world feels unstable. The ability to sit with uncertainty, to question assumptions, to admit complexity. These are not weaknesses, they are survival tools. Yes, this is a mess we need to compost, the #nothingnew path to work on this is about […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-tools-we-need-to-compost-the-deathcult/

Rethinking Grassroots Tech Funding

Building beyond the #deathcult - Our current model of #tech funding and developer agendas is not neutral. The way we fund technology shapes the kind of technology we build. For the last 20 years, the dominant tech culture has followed the same path: venture capital growth platform monopolies extraction of attention and data endless scaling short-term metrics private ownership of public infrastructure This has produced #techshit - technology built because it can make money, not because […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/rethinking-grassroots-tech-funding/