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Open Media Network: A Manifesto for the Digital Commons

A cohesive manifesto is needed as the world we inherited is fractured. Wealth, power, and knowledge are concentrated in the hands of the #nastyfew: platform owners, data hoarders, and corporate monopolies who extract value from our work, our attention, and our trust. Democracy has been hollowed out, captured and controlled by algorithms that decide what is knowable, profitable, and even true. Ecology, community, and care are sacrificed on the #deathcult altar of growth and consumption. In […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/open-media-network-a-manifesto-for-the-digital-commons/

This quote from @hamishcampbell will get you thinking: "Like the #dotcons before it, this was never really about copyright or efficiency. It is about whether knowledge is governed by openness or corporate capture, and therefore who knowledge is for." https://hamishcampbell.com/there-is-no-intelligence-in-ai-and-no-path-to-any/

There is no intelligence in AI – and no path to any

Despite the constant #mainstreaming hype, the branding, and the trillions of dollars being poured into it, there is a simple reality that needs to be stated plainly: There is no intelligence in current “AI”, and there is no working path from today’s Large Language Models (#LLM) and Machine Learning (#ML) systems to anything resembling real, general intelligence. What we are living through is not an intelligence revolution, it is a bubble - one we’ve seen many times before. The […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/there-is-no-intelligence-in-ai-and-no-path-to-any/

@maxleibman yep #dotcons are tech for profit for people who still worship inside mainstreaming "common sense" its more #tecsiht to compost.

Our hashtags try to name it: #stupidindividualism #deathcult #dotcons #nothingnew in that we repeat the same patterns, inside the same systems, and wonder why nothing changes. What does mainstreaming do? https://hamishcampbell.com/what-does-mainstreaming-do/

Software licences and the #geekproblem

There are meany online exchanges about software licences that can help to highlight the #geekproblem. Yep, these conversations can sound radical at first glance: “Software licences won’t destroy capitalism, but if they can be even slightly annoying to capitalists in the meantime, I’ll take it.” Fair. Nobody sensible thinks a licence clause will end capitalism. Making exploitation harder while working on the material conditions that allow it to exist is reasonable. But after this, […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/software-licences-and-the-geekproblem/

Where is our media

Published Date 1/24/15 7:42 AM #Climatecamp is a clear example of the transition from alternative media to social media. When the Climate Change Movement began, #Indymedia was already in decline. At the first two Climate Camps, however, there was still a healthy Indymedia centre providing internet access, sustainable power, and shared computers. There has always been tension between alternative media and outreach to traditional media. They compete with each other and, to a large extent, […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/where-is-our-media/

Not much is radical

Putting content into #dotcons creates a feedback loop with diminishing returns. The impact is marginal - and shrinking - because all you are really doing is training #failbook’s algorithms to better sell you, and everyone who interacts with your content, more “stuff.” This includes not just products, but ideology: the subtle shaping of thought, behaviour, and community through algorithmic social control. It’s very easy to get pulled into a #flamewar on #failbook, because conflict […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/not-much-is-radical/

We use hashtags as scaffolding for the needed social truth, not as slogans, but as scaffolding, lightweight markers that point to recurring structural issues: #geekproblem #fashernista #dotcons #blocking are not insults. They are shorthand for patterns that otherwise take pages to explain. But, without shared context, they are still easily misread as personal attacks. Again we face #blocking.

From personal mess to shared paths, #OMN in the post-truth world

Consensus matters - but it’s so hard - collective projects, media, activism and infrastructure require a minimum level of agreement about what the problem is. Not total agreement, but enough shared reality to coordinate sustainable action. Without some form of shared external social truth, progressive projects do not move at all, this is not always because people are malicious, but more often because they are no longer standing on any shared ground. This mess, is a problem, as it means […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/from-personal-mess-to-shared-paths-omn-in-the-post-truth-world/

It is a media war and we have no media

We are living in deeply befuddling times, and neither the agendas of the #dotcons nor the noise of the #conspiracynutters is helping. In fact, they make everything worse. That’s why it’s best not to spread the chemical crap. It isn’t fertiliser. It poisons the ground. Keep media organic. #openweb. In the Western world, almost all the wars that actually matter are now fought in the media. Yes, the disadvantaged are the immediate casualties, and much of the so-called third world will be […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/it-is-a-media-war-and-we-have-no-media/

Mainstreaming: Piracy is a symptom, not a crime

From a #mainstreaming point of view, what people call “piracy” is not a simple moral failure, it’s rather a signal of systemic #dotcons failure. Again and again, across decades, people have shown a simple truth: When access is fair, affordable, and humane, people pay. When systems become extractive, people route around them. This is not new, not edgy, it’s basic social behaviour. Before the Internet: we had Informal commons, cassette copying, vinyl bootlegs, tape trading networks, […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/mainstreaming-piracy-is-a-symptom-not-a-crime/

We need to stop worshipping a #deathcult

A path to do this is to step away from the #mainstreming mess. In 2024, the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson. The prize recognised their work on how institutions shape prosperity, most famously through their book Why Nations Fail. The timing matters, it matters a lot. This award lands at exactly the moment we should be asking why Institutional Economics - the respectable face of #mainstreaming - has spent the last fifteen years […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/we-need-to-stop-worshipping-a-deathcult/

Open Media Network, a path we forgot

The #OMN is not trying to invent the future, it’s trying to restart a social path people forgot they had. That path was never clean, it never asked permission, it never felt safe. But it was real, and that’s the only soil movements have ever grown in. Why this has to happen now? Because the ground we’re standing on is collapsing. The #dotcons are rotting - hollowed out into surveillance, manipulation, and rent extraction. Journalism has collapsed into PR cycles, outrage farming, and […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/open-media-network-a-path-we-forgot-we-had/

Why this has to happen now? Because: the #dotcons are rotting, journalism has collapsed into PR and outrage, activism is trapped in performative loops, #climatechaos doesn’t wait for governance frameworks. And because - bluntly - the knowledge is dying with the people who lived it.

If it isn’t re-embedded in practice now, it becomes archive instead of lineage.

The American hard right is not a movement – It’s a mess

Meany people lazily see “the Right” in America as a unified political movement, but this is simplistic, comforting fiction. People still see as "normal" what we used to have, an orthodox worship of a #deathcult. But this is tired path is now being overwhelmed by a hard right (populist) rejection, and to add to this mess, this reaction is it itself is captured by meany personal grabs for power and statues, yes it truly is a mess.We need to look at this, it matters, because treating the […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-american-hard-right-is-not-a-movement-its-a-mess/

We fucked up… and that matters because we still have agency

Let’s start with the uncomfortable truth: we fucked up the last 20 years of #openweb tech. Not “they” fucked it up. Not only #BigTech, not only venture capital, not only governments and surveillance states. We did, especially those of us who were closest to the tools, the protocols, the decisions - the geeks, developers, architects, and maintainers who shaped how this stuff actually worked in practice. That matters, because it means we still have direct power over what happens next. […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/we-fucked-up-and-that-matters-because-we-still-have-agency/

Theological thinking disguised as economics

In the traditional media and our social reflection of this - “Belief in markets”, is theological thinking disguised as economics. The market is a god, and economists its priesthood. Modern economic discourse treats “the Market” as: omniscient (“the market knows best”), omnipotent (“there is no alternative”), morally authoritative (“price signals reveal truth”), beyond democratic challenge (“don’t interfere, or you’ll anger it”) It should be easy to understand this […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/theological-thinking-disguised-as-economics/

The #OMN is a simple project https://hamishcampbell.com/the-omn-is-a-simple-project/ The #OMN is not an app you install. It’s a set of processes + tools to move us from isolation to commons, from #dotcons back to #openweb.

The shite pile: why almost everything is noise

Most mainstream journalism is not about public truth, it’s about platform survival. This shite pile is why almost everything is noise, what gets called “news” today, when It's not straight up propaganda is shaped by: attention metrics, outrage cycles, advertiser safety, institutional access, career risk management. That’s why it feels so empty, even when it’s "factually" correct. The framing is already captured, journalism inside the logic of the #deathcult, wearing progressive, […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-shite-pile-why-almost-everything-is-noise/

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