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  1. The #hashtags are simple. They are a shorthand for different parts of the same social, political and technological mess - and for some of the ways we might start composting it.

    #deathcult = neoliberalism: growth, competition, extraction, consumption and individualism treated as common sense.

    #fashernista = fashion applied to social and political relations: following the latest language, agenda or institutional trend rather than looking at what actually works.

    #openweb = the original ideals of the WWW and internet culture: open standards, decentralised publishing, linking, sharing and people making their own tools.

    #closedweb = the move away from the open internet: proprietary networks, closed platforms and centralised control. It describes both the pre-internet closed networks and the post-#openweb world where the #dotcons grew.

    #4opens = the open-source/FOSS tradition with the addition of transparent process: open data, open source, open standards and open process.

    #encryptionists = the belief that more encryption is automatically the answer to social problems. Encryption is useful, but treating it as the solution to everything can become unthinking technological dogma.

    #dotcons = the transition to a for-profit internet and the social relationships that came with it: users as products, platforms as owners, data as property and participation shaped around extraction.

    #geekproblem = an old argument about free will and determinism, but also a cultural and social problem around technical culture. The “two cultures” discussion is a useful way into understanding it: technical expertise is valuable, but it is not the whole toolbox.

    #techshit = part of the composting metaphor. Shit is not simply waste, it is part of an ecological cycle. Social and technological shit can be composted too: expose it, learn from it, keep what is useful and grow something better.

    #techchurn = the technological outcome of the #geekproblem: endless cycles of new tools, platforms and architectures being treated as progress, even when they don't solve the underlying social problem.

    #nothingnew = a deliberately polemical way of slowing and reversing #techchurn without becoming dogmatic. Before building another shiny new thing, ask whether we have actually seen this problem and solution before.

    The hashtags are tools for thinking. They help us name patterns that otherwise disappear into the noise. And once we can name the pattern, we have a better chance of changing it.

    #OMN #openweb #4opens #commons #KISS

  2. The #hashtags are simple. They are a shorthand for different parts of the same social, political and technological mess - and for some of the ways we might start composting it.

    #deathcult = neoliberalism: growth, competition, extraction, consumption and individualism treated as common sense.

    #fashernista = fashion applied to social and political relations: following the latest language, agenda or institutional trend rather than looking at what actually works.

    #openweb = the original ideals of the WWW and internet culture: open standards, decentralised publishing, linking, sharing and people making their own tools.

    #closedweb = the move away from the open internet: proprietary networks, closed platforms and centralised control. It describes both the pre-internet closed networks and the post-#openweb world where the #dotcons grew.

    #4opens = the open-source/FOSS tradition with the addition of transparent process: open data, open source, open standards and open process.

    #encryptionists = the belief that more encryption is automatically the answer to social problems. Encryption is useful, but treating it as the solution to everything can become unthinking technological dogma.

    #dotcons = the transition to a for-profit internet and the social relationships that came with it: users as products, platforms as owners, data as property and participation shaped around extraction.

    #geekproblem = an old argument about free will and determinism, but also a cultural and social problem around technical culture. The “two cultures” discussion is a useful way into understanding it: technical expertise is valuable, but it is not the whole toolbox.

    #techshit = part of the composting metaphor. Shit is not simply waste, it is part of an ecological cycle. Social and technological shit can be composted too: expose it, learn from it, keep what is useful and grow something better.

    #techchurn = the technological outcome of the #geekproblem: endless cycles of new tools, platforms and architectures being treated as progress, even when they don't solve the underlying social problem.

    #nothingnew = a deliberately polemical way of slowing and reversing #techchurn without becoming dogmatic. Before building another shiny new thing, ask whether we have actually seen this problem and solution before.

    The hashtags are tools for thinking. They help us name patterns that otherwise disappear into the noise. And once we can name the pattern, we have a better chance of changing it.

    #OMN #openweb #4opens #commons #KISS

  3. The #hashtags are simple. They are a shorthand for different parts of the same social, political and technological mess - and for some of the ways we might start composting it.

    #deathcult = neoliberalism: growth, competition, extraction, consumption and individualism treated as common sense.

    #fashernista = fashion applied to social and political relations: following the latest language, agenda or institutional trend rather than looking at what actually works.

    #openweb = the original ideals of the WWW and internet culture: open standards, decentralised publishing, linking, sharing and people making their own tools.

    #closedweb = the move away from the open internet: proprietary networks, closed platforms and centralised control. It describes both the pre-internet closed networks and the post-#openweb world where the #dotcons grew.

    #4opens = the open-source/FOSS tradition with the addition of transparent process: open data, open source, open standards and open process.

    #encryptionists = the belief that more encryption is automatically the answer to social problems. Encryption is useful, but treating it as the solution to everything can become unthinking technological dogma.

    #dotcons = the transition to a for-profit internet and the social relationships that came with it: users as products, platforms as owners, data as property and participation shaped around extraction.

    #geekproblem = an old argument about free will and determinism, but also a cultural and social problem around technical culture. The “two cultures” discussion is a useful way into understanding it: technical expertise is valuable, but it is not the whole toolbox.

    #techshit = part of the composting metaphor. Shit is not simply waste, it is part of an ecological cycle. Social and technological shit can be composted too: expose it, learn from it, keep what is useful and grow something better.

    #techchurn = the technological outcome of the #geekproblem: endless cycles of new tools, platforms and architectures being treated as progress, even when they don't solve the underlying social problem.

    #nothingnew = a deliberately polemical way of slowing and reversing #techchurn without becoming dogmatic. Before building another shiny new thing, ask whether we have actually seen this problem and solution before.

    The hashtags are tools for thinking. They help us name patterns that otherwise disappear into the noise. And once we can name the pattern, we have a better chance of changing it.

    #OMN #openweb #4opens #commons #KISS

  4. The #hashtags are simple. They are a shorthand for different parts of the same social, political and technological mess - and for some of the ways we might start composting it.

    #deathcult = neoliberalism: growth, competition, extraction, consumption and individualism treated as common sense.

    #fashernista = fashion applied to social and political relations: following the latest language, agenda or institutional trend rather than looking at what actually works.

    #openweb = the original ideals of the WWW and internet culture: open standards, decentralised publishing, linking, sharing and people making their own tools.

    #closedweb = the move away from the open internet: proprietary networks, closed platforms and centralised control. It describes both the pre-internet closed networks and the post-#openweb world where the #dotcons grew.

    #4opens = the open-source/FOSS tradition with the addition of transparent process: open data, open source, open standards and open process.

    #encryptionists = the belief that more encryption is automatically the answer to social problems. Encryption is useful, but treating it as the solution to everything can become unthinking technological dogma.

    #dotcons = the transition to a for-profit internet and the social relationships that came with it: users as products, platforms as owners, data as property and participation shaped around extraction.

    #geekproblem = an old argument about free will and determinism, but also a cultural and social problem around technical culture. The “two cultures” discussion is a useful way into understanding it: technical expertise is valuable, but it is not the whole toolbox.

    #techshit = part of the composting metaphor. Shit is not simply waste, it is part of an ecological cycle. Social and technological shit can be composted too: expose it, learn from it, keep what is useful and grow something better.

    #techchurn = the technological outcome of the #geekproblem: endless cycles of new tools, platforms and architectures being treated as progress, even when they don't solve the underlying social problem.

    #nothingnew = a deliberately polemical way of slowing and reversing #techchurn without becoming dogmatic. Before building another shiny new thing, ask whether we have actually seen this problem and solution before.

    The hashtags are tools for thinking. They help us name patterns that otherwise disappear into the noise. And once we can name the pattern, we have a better chance of changing it.

    #OMN #openweb #4opens #commons #KISS

  5. The #hashtags are simple. They are a shorthand for different parts of the same social, political and technological mess - and for some of the ways we might start composting it.

    #deathcult = neoliberalism: growth, competition, extraction, consumption and individualism treated as common sense.

    #fashernista = fashion applied to social and political relations: following the latest language, agenda or institutional trend rather than looking at what actually works.

    #openweb = the original ideals of the WWW and internet culture: open standards, decentralised publishing, linking, sharing and people making their own tools.

    #closedweb = the move away from the open internet: proprietary networks, closed platforms and centralised control. It describes both the pre-internet closed networks and the post-#openweb world where the #dotcons grew.

    #4opens = the open-source/FOSS tradition with the addition of transparent process: open data, open source, open standards and open process.

    #encryptionists = the belief that more encryption is automatically the answer to social problems. Encryption is useful, but treating it as the solution to everything can become unthinking technological dogma.

    #dotcons = the transition to a for-profit internet and the social relationships that came with it: users as products, platforms as owners, data as property and participation shaped around extraction.

    #geekproblem = an old argument about free will and determinism, but also a cultural and social problem around technical culture. The “two cultures” discussion is a useful way into understanding it: technical expertise is valuable, but it is not the whole toolbox.

    #techshit = part of the composting metaphor. Shit is not simply waste, it is part of an ecological cycle. Social and technological shit can be composted too: expose it, learn from it, keep what is useful and grow something better.

    #techchurn = the technological outcome of the #geekproblem: endless cycles of new tools, platforms and architectures being treated as progress, even when they don't solve the underlying social problem.

    #nothingnew = a deliberately polemical way of slowing and reversing #techchurn without becoming dogmatic. Before building another shiny new thing, ask whether we have actually seen this problem and solution before.

    The hashtags are tools for thinking. They help us name patterns that otherwise disappear into the noise. And once we can name the pattern, we have a better chance of changing it.

    #OMN #openweb #4opens #commons #KISS

  6. Problems talking to people online. Of course it depends whether you're talking about the personal or the social.

    I'm almost always talking about the second. The personal is often the problem, not - as much of our thinking assumes - the solution.

    We keep trying to fix social problems by fixing individuals. But the structures, incentives and relationships around people matter too.

    #OMN #openweb #commons #KISS

  7. Problems talking to people online. Of course it depends whether you're talking about the personal or the social.

    I'm almost always talking about the second. The personal is often the problem, not - as much of our thinking assumes - the solution.

    We keep trying to fix social problems by fixing individuals. But the structures, incentives and relationships around people matter too.

    #OMN #openweb #commons #KISS

  8. Problems talking to people online. Of course it depends whether you're talking about the personal or the social.

    I'm almost always talking about the second. The personal is often the problem, not - as much of our thinking assumes - the solution.

    We keep trying to fix social problems by fixing individuals. But the structures, incentives and relationships around people matter too.

    #OMN #openweb #commons #KISS

  9. Problems talking to people online. Of course it depends whether you're talking about the personal or the social.

    I'm almost always talking about the second. The personal is often the problem, not - as much of our thinking assumes - the solution.

    We keep trying to fix social problems by fixing individuals. But the structures, incentives and relationships around people matter too.

    #OMN #openweb #commons #KISS

  10. Problems talking to people online. Of course it depends whether you're talking about the personal or the social.

    I'm almost always talking about the second. The personal is often the problem, not - as much of our thinking assumes - the solution.

    We keep trying to fix social problems by fixing individuals. But the structures, incentives and relationships around people matter too.

    #OMN #openweb #commons #KISS

  11. It's the #dotcons, not your phone. We have the software of the #deathcult in our pockets, and we're addicted to this digital drug.

    Don't fall into despair, step away, step back into the #openweb and get some of your life back.

    It's hard to detox from the algorithms, but it's harder to stay trapped in the mess.

    The phone isn't the problem, the system behind it is.

    #OMN #4opens #techshit #KISS

  12. It's the #dotcons, not your phone. We have the software of the #deathcult in our pockets, and we're addicted to this digital drug.

    Don't fall into despair, step away, step back into the #openweb and get some of your life back.

    It's hard to detox from the algorithms, but it's harder to stay trapped in the mess.

    The phone isn't the problem, the system behind it is.

    #OMN #4opens #techshit #KISS

  13. It's the #dotcons, not your phone. We have the software of the #deathcult in our pockets, and we're addicted to this digital drug.

    Don't fall into despair, step away, step back into the #openweb and get some of your life back.

    It's hard to detox from the algorithms, but it's harder to stay trapped in the mess.

    The phone isn't the problem, the system behind it is.

    #OMN #4opens #techshit #KISS

  14. It's the #dotcons, not your phone. We have the software of the #deathcult in our pockets, and we're addicted to this digital drug.

    Don't fall into despair, step away, step back into the #openweb and get some of your life back.

    It's hard to detox from the algorithms, but it's harder to stay trapped in the mess.

    The phone isn't the problem, the system behind it is.

    #OMN #4opens #techshit #KISS

  15. It's the #dotcons, not your phone. We have the software of the #deathcult in our pockets, and we're addicted to this digital drug.

    Don't fall into despair, step away, step back into the #openweb and get some of your life back.

    It's hard to detox from the algorithms, but it's harder to stay trapped in the mess.

    The phone isn't the problem, the system behind it is.

    #OMN #4opens #techshit #KISS

  16. #AI mythology is currently more of the same

    OK, lets not deny real risks, but also don't accept the AI industry's mythology as the starting point for discussing risks. The useful question is what currant AI's actually do, who controls them, and what infrastructure and power relationships we are building around them. AI is useful technology wrapped in a massive social, political and financial mythology. At the #OMN we are less interested in the usual argument between “AI will save humanity” and “AI will destroy humanity”. as […]

    hamishcampbell.com/ai-mytholog

  17. #AI mythology is currently more of the same

    OK, lets not deny real risks, but also don't accept the AI industry's mythology as the starting point for discussing risks. The useful question is what currant AI's actually do, who controls them, and what infrastructure and power relationships we are building around them. AI is useful technology wrapped in a massive social, political and financial mythology. At the #OMN we are less interested in the usual argument between “AI will save humanity” and “AI will destroy humanity”. as […]

    hamishcampbell.com/ai-mytholog

  18. The #deathcult is selling the future as #techshit

    We have done this before, we take a useful technology, wrap it in a huge financial story. We centralize it, try and monetize it to turn it into a platform. Then we pretend the social consequences were somehow an accident, it is what we are doing with LLMs. We took an interesting piece of software and started selling it as AI, then AI became AGI, became super-intelligence. This smoke and mirrors feeds the path of building gigantic data centres, burning enormous amounts of energy, raising […]

    hamishcampbell.com/the-deathcu

  19. The #deathcult is selling the future as #techshit

    We have done this before, we take a useful technology, wrap it in a huge financial story. We centralize it, try and monetize it to turn it into a platform. Then we pretend the social consequences were somehow an accident, it is what we are doing with LLMs. We took an interesting piece of software and started selling it as AI, then AI became AGI, became super-intelligence. This smoke and mirrors feeds the path of building gigantic data centres, burning enormous amounts of energy, raising […]

    hamishcampbell.com/the-deathcu

  20. The #deathcult is selling the future as #techshit

    We have done this before, we take a useful technology, wrap it in a huge financial story. We centralize it, try and monetize it to turn it into a platform. Then we pretend the social consequences were somehow an accident, it is what we are doing with LLMs. We took an interesting piece of software and started selling it as AI, then AI became AGI, became super-intelligence. This smoke and mirrors feeds the path of building gigantic data centres, burning enormous amounts of energy, raising […]

    hamishcampbell.com/the-deathcu

  21. The #deathcult is selling the future as #techshit

    We have done this before, we take a useful technology, wrap it in a huge financial story. We centralize it, try and monetize it to turn it into a platform. Then we pretend the social consequences were somehow an accident, it is what we are doing with LLMs. We took an interesting piece of software and started selling it as AI, then AI became AGI, became super-intelligence. This smoke and mirrors feeds the path of building gigantic data centres, burning enormous amounts of energy, raising […]

    hamishcampbell.com/the-deathcu

  22. As the worshipping the #deathcult for the last 50 years becomes harder to hide, the lies are more naked.

    The lie of endless growth, trickle-down wealth, technological salvation and individual freedom are running into the material reality they created.

    The mess can no no longer be hidden in the abstract.

    #Climatechaos. Inequality. War. Social fragmentation. Political decay. #techshit.

    The question now is impossible to keep ignoring, not whether the system has problems. It is whether we can see the problems clearly to stop worshipping the mess that created them.

    This is where we need social composting. Turn the pile. Expose the assumptions. Keep what is useful. Let the dead ideas rot down.

    Then grow something alive.

    #OMN #openweb #4opens #commons #KISS #socialcomposting #lifecult

  23. As the worshipping the #deathcult for the last 50 years becomes harder to hide, the lies are more naked.

    The lie of endless growth, trickle-down wealth, technological salvation and individual freedom are running into the material reality they created.

    The mess can no no longer be hidden in the abstract.

    #Climatechaos. Inequality. War. Social fragmentation. Political decay. #techshit.

    The question now is impossible to keep ignoring, not whether the system has problems. It is whether we can see the problems clearly to stop worshipping the mess that created them.

    This is where we need social composting. Turn the pile. Expose the assumptions. Keep what is useful. Let the dead ideas rot down.

    Then grow something alive.

    #OMN #openweb #4opens #commons #KISS #socialcomposting #lifecult

  24. As the worshipping the #deathcult for the last 50 years becomes harder to hide, the lies are more naked.

    The lie of endless growth, trickle-down wealth, technological salvation and individual freedom are running into the material reality they created.

    The mess can no no longer be hidden in the abstract.

    #Climatechaos. Inequality. War. Social fragmentation. Political decay. #techshit.

    The question now is impossible to keep ignoring, not whether the system has problems. It is whether we can see the problems clearly to stop worshipping the mess that created them.

    This is where we need social composting. Turn the pile. Expose the assumptions. Keep what is useful. Let the dead ideas rot down.

    Then grow something alive.

    #OMN #openweb #4opens #commons #KISS #socialcomposting #lifecult

  25. As the worshipping the #deathcult for the last 50 years becomes harder to hide, the lies are more naked.

    The lie of endless growth, trickle-down wealth, technological salvation and individual freedom are running into the material reality they created.

    The mess can no no longer be hidden in the abstract.

    #Climatechaos. Inequality. War. Social fragmentation. Political decay. #techshit.

    The question now is impossible to keep ignoring, not whether the system has problems. It is whether we can see the problems clearly to stop worshipping the mess that created them.

    This is where we need social composting. Turn the pile. Expose the assumptions. Keep what is useful. Let the dead ideas rot down.

    Then grow something alive.

    #OMN #openweb #4opens #commons #KISS #socialcomposting #lifecult

  26. As the worshipping the #deathcult for the last 50 years becomes harder to hide, the lies are more naked.

    The lie of endless growth, trickle-down wealth, technological salvation and individual freedom are running into the material reality they created.

    The mess can no no longer be hidden in the abstract.

    #Climatechaos. Inequality. War. Social fragmentation. Political decay. #techshit.

    The question now is impossible to keep ignoring, not whether the system has problems. It is whether we can see the problems clearly to stop worshipping the mess that created them.

    This is where we need social composting. Turn the pile. Expose the assumptions. Keep what is useful. Let the dead ideas rot down.

    Then grow something alive.

    #OMN #openweb #4opens #commons #KISS #socialcomposting #lifecult