#spiky — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #spiky, aggregated by home.social.
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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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In the #OMN hashtag story, #spiky is the confrontational, direct, and uncompromising tendency within radical movements - the willingness to push back hard against power, name uncomfortable truths, and refuse to sand down political edges for the sake of mainstream respectability and blinded common sense.
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When we build networks this way, we decentralize power, not just servers. The #OMN Path: Openness as Revolution https://hamishcampbell.com/the-omn-path-openness-as-revolution/ Balancing the #fluffy (care, empathy, collaboration) and the #spiky (truth, resistance, boundaries).
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Public Money, Private Hype: From Blockchain to AI – and the #FOSS Path Less Taken
In tech funding, over the last decade, the #EU poured hundreds of millions of euros into the #blockchain mess. The promise has proven to be illusion, we built no working transformation: trustless systems, frictionless governance or new economic layers for Europe. The reality? By any honest social metric, 99.9% of that public funding was poured straight down the drain. Now we are lining up to do the same with AI. Another wave of hundreds of millions, based on another cycle of hype, feeding […] -
#FOSS needs to take a social lead
This matters for #FOSS because as if it remains culturally trapped inside the #geekproblem, it becomes socially irrelevant at the exact historical moment it is most needed. Right now, most #FOSS energy still assumes that if you build complex tools, argue narrowly, and keep everything technically “open,” people will come. But only a tiny minority actually want to live the full-stack geek life: self-hosting, compiling, debating licenses, maintaining infra. That path selects for a […] -
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 […] -
Super #thorny #rugosa rose tree branch with a #rosehip clinging to it.
#nature #thorns #spiky #spiked #botanical #PlantDefense #botanical #Autumn
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Super #thorny #rugosa rose tree branch with a #rosehip clinging to it.
#nature #thorns #spiky #spiked #botanical #PlantDefense #botanical #Autumn
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Super #thorny #rugosa rose tree branch with a #rosehip clinging to it.
#nature #thorns #spiky #spiked #botanical #PlantDefense #botanical #Autumn
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Super #thorny #rugosa rose tree branch with a #rosehip clinging to it.
#nature #thorns #spiky #spiked #botanical #PlantDefense #botanical #Autumn
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Super #thorny #rugosa rose tree branch with a #rosehip clinging to it.
#nature #thorns #spiky #spiked #botanical #PlantDefense #botanical #Autumn
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The #OMN Path: Openness as Revolution
Let's think outside the normal paths. This is about revolution as regeneration, not only destruction. In an era built on tech dependency, revolution isn’t only about smashing the machines, it’s about liberating them. Turning tools back into commons, not commodities. It’s composting the toxic monoculture of the #dotcons into fertile ground for the #openweb to grow again. Revolution means reclaiming agency, not blindly rejecting technology, but re-rooting it into light, human-scale, […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-omn-path-openness-as-revolution/
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The Mess is Boiling
Were in a mess, our worship of the #deathcult has driven emissions to another record: the world’s CO₂ levels jumped by 3.5 parts per million from 2023 to 2024 the largest single-year increase on record. Our decision to leave the #nastyfew in charge - our short-sightedness and worship of greed - has pushed the planet beyond the stable ecosystem that supported human life. We have done this for nothing, only for big numbers to go up, for nothing. The one planet we know that can support life […] -
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/
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Who are the #nastyfew?
This should be obvious to anyone who as some knolage of left politics. They are the people who always rise to the top when #mainstreaming takes hold. You see them on TV, in parliament, running #NGOs, managing #dotcons tech projects. On the surface, they don’t always look bad - in fact, they often present as competent, articulate, even charming. But scratch that surface and the pattern is clear: their drive is not shared flourishing, it’s possession and control. This minority #nastyfew, […] -
Composting the#techshit funding
Not surprised. This is probably the 10th time we've applied to the #NLnet / #NGI fund over the years. Just heard back: our proposals for #OGB (Open Governance Body), #indymediaback, and #MakeingHistory were not selected - again. “We are very sorry that we cannot offer you support for your good efforts.” Sure, I, appreciate the polite brush-off again. But after so many rejections for solid, urgently needed tech projects that actually fit the funding goals, it's time to name what's […] -
“Compost tending” the fabric of #openweb
Let's look at what makes sense: it’s about collective dynamics, not individual blame. The focus is on mapping the social landscape, understanding the patterns of dysfunction, and then figuring out how to break through those blockages. The idea of switching between #spiky and #fluffy approaches as needed is powerful, rejecting rigid ideology in favour of practical, responsive action. Making the #blocking visible is essential. So much of the stagnation in #openweb and activist spaces comes […]https://hamishcampbell.com/compost-tending-the-fabric-of-openweb/
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When Love Breaks Down.
Sibling image to 'Absence Makes The Heart Lose Weight (Yeah)'
Exposed for about a week in late summer.
I used a custom-made contact frame of 70 x 50 cm to hold everything in place for so long.
Even after a week, some leaves have let no UV light through.
Title from a Prefab Sprout song. https://youtu.be/fMYbD7kK7fI
#cyanotype #blueprint #leaves #HeartShape #WhenLoveBreaksDown #PrefabSprout #LongExposure #ContactPrint #AbsenceMakesTheHeartLoseWeight #Sunprint #Spiky
