#techfixes — Public Fediverse posts

NGIFORUM2025 is starting to timidly touch sense

DRAFT

It’s good to see events like #NGIFORUM2025. The #Fediverse and the wider #openweb reboot are real forces for social good, messy, hopeful, and grounded in decades of grassroots digital culture, we do need to support them. BUT we also need to speak honestly, as these spaces are not healthy by default.

Too often, they are co-opted by #NGO and institutional actors who bring with them a dangerous kind of “common sense”, what I’ve long described as the parasite class. We see this […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/ngiforum2025-is-starting-to-timidly-touch-sense/

NGIFORUM2025 is starting to timidly touch sense

DRAFT

It’s good to see events like #NGIFORUM2025. The #Fediverse and the wider #openweb reboot are real forces for social good, messy, hopeful, and grounded in decades of grassroots digital culture, we do need to support them. BUT we also need to speak honestly, as these spaces are not healthy by default.

Too often, they are co-opted by #NGO and institutional actors who bring with them a dangerous kind of “common sense”, what I’ve long described as the parasite class. We see this […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/ngiforum2025-is-starting-to-timidly-touch-sense/

NGIFORUM2025 is starting to timidly touch sense

DRAFT

It’s good to see events like #NGIFORUM2025. The #Fediverse and the wider #openweb reboot are real forces for social good, messy, hopeful, and grounded in decades of grassroots digital culture, we do need to support them. BUT we also need to speak honestly, as these spaces are not healthy by default.

Too often, they are co-opted by #NGO and institutional actors who bring with them a dangerous kind of “common sense”, what I’ve long described as the parasite class. We see this […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/ngiforum2025-is-starting-to-timidly-touch-sense/

NGIFORUM2025 is starting to timidly touch sense

DRAFT

It’s good to see events like #NGIFORUM2025. The #Fediverse and the wider #openweb reboot are real forces for social good, messy, hopeful, and grounded in decades of grassroots digital culture, we do need to support them. BUT we also need to speak honestly, as these spaces are not healthy by default.

Too often, they are co-opted by #NGO and institutional actors who bring with them a dangerous kind of “common sense”, what I’ve long described as the parasite class. We see this […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/ngiforum2025-is-starting-to-timidly-touch-sense/

Governance, the mess of AI tech-fix path

DRAFT Seminar Reflection: Philosophy, AI, and Innovation – Week 6Topic: AI Deliberation at ScaleSpeakers: Chris Summerfield (Oxford & AI Safety Institute), MH Tessler (Google DeepMind)Key texts: Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (excerpt) Summerfield et al., “AI Can Help Humans Find Common Ground in Democratic Deliberation” This week's seminar focus on scaling democratic deliberation via AI. The example proposal? Build tools like The […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/governance-the-mess-of-ai-tech-fix-path/