Realism is international relations for adult teenagers who never grew up – still desperate to make their childhood world of heroes, villains, and empires real. The #IR view of how to survive in a hostile world hamishcampbell.com/the-ir-view-...
The first revolutionary act in the 2020s isn’t heroic, it’s just showing up, not being a prat, and doing the obvious things, together hamishcampbell.com/first-step-s...
Brilliant ideas, sometimes beautiful tech, all eventually collapse under the weight of poor social foundations, bad governance, and chasing #geekproblem dreams and #fashionista paths that have nothing to do with real people’s needs hamishcampbell.com/finally-make...
We need a future that’s better, not just less bad. It’s how humans have always lived – together hamishcampbell.com/its-how-huma...
When people have no grounding in subcultures, one that underpins our civil rights, free software, and creative commons, they apply their all-knowing #mainstreaming “common sense.” #BLOCKING the needed process, or simply ignore it hamishcampbell.com/people-block...
The result was a self-destructive cycle that caused the UK #Indymedia project to become irrelevant, exemplifying a broader failure to embrace shared, open paths. The ideological blindness of the tech world hamishcampbell.com/critique-the...
The root problem lies in “common sense” blocking and an intolerance toward the very idea of bridging these divergent paths, hindering progress from both sides. #KISS is a key to democracy hamishcampbell.com/kiss-is-a-ke...
Trust is the foundation of moderation in decentralised networks like the #OMN This is how moderation works in a decentralised network, not by pretending we’re neutral, but by showing up with care and accountability. hamishcampbell.com/trust-is-the...
I am writing to express my support for the #datweb project, which I see as a needed step toward rebalancing the web away from centralized control and enclosure. hamishcampbell.com/support-lett...
Because the web – like Middle-Earth – is worth saving. A Tolkien view of #OMN hamishcampbell.com/a-tolkien-vi...
My feeling and experience of this is that these types of people will with blindness destroy what they say they value for the security of what they say they don't value. So how can people try not to be prats about this conversation? hamishcampbell.com/so-how-can-p...
My feeling and experience of this is that these types of people will with blindness destroy what they say they value for the security of what they say they don’t value. So how can people try not to be prats about this conversation? hamishcampbell.com/so-how-can-p...
LIVE at c-base hamishcampbell.com/live-at-c-ba... 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.
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The #openweb is about more than technology; it’s about the kind of society we want to build, and the kind of people we want to be #KISS. The Forgotten Story of Social Technology: Why It Matters hamishcampbell.com/the-forgotte...
These people have a role in the balance of the #openweb reboot, the middle class, careerists, petty capitalist, “privileged” #NGO and co-op crew. Talking to the Bureaucratic Co-op Crew – Governance, Culture, and the Fediverse hamishcampbell.com/talking-to-t...
The open vs. closed data dichotomy is currently largely invisible, so good to bring focus to this. Replacing market signalling with #opendata signalling hamishcampbell.com/replacing-ma...
The #mainstreaming is hallucinating. Let’s be very blunt, these people are not important as individuals. What matters is the path they push us down. The “commonsense” they sell is poison. hamishcampbell.com/the-mainstre...
Why? Because fear works, the system adapts, the majority would rather scrabble for comfortable servitude than risk any unknown path hamishcampbell.com/why/
We need better, more hopeful understanding of this technology. #openweb vs #closedweb is the battle for the Internet hamishcampbell.com/openweb-vs-c...
We need an honest conversation hamishcampbell.com/we-need-an-h... Please take note of the working activism at the start of this article. You can support and take part.
The #geekproblem might kill meany of us, mediating it matters hamishcampbell.com/the-geekprob... the systemic #blocking of an anti-capitalist movement holds back the needed radical shift, despite our obvious evidence of human adaptability, creativity, and resilience.
There’s an unspoken #geekproblem lurking at the heart of the #openweb, and it’s past time we bring it into the light. In tech, what matters and what is dangerous hamishcampbell.com/what-matters...
Now, in the era of #stupidindividualism, which path do you think most people are taking? Yeah. That one. On being a prat in tech and social spaces (Yes, this might be about you 😘) hamishcampbell.com/on-being-a-p...
This happened to me some years ago at a community-run space in Dalston. One person dominated meetings, spoke over others, and made every decision-making process a battleground. Power Politics and the Race/Gender Card – A Contemporary Reflection hamishcampbell.com/power-politi...
It’s messy by design, because it's rooted in real-world activist practice. The #OGB: A Native Path for Open Governance hamishcampbell.com/the-ogb-a-na...
Ten years ago, I remember being told, often condescendingly, with smug certainty, that hosting in the cloud was the future, and that what I was working on, #DIY grassroots, self and community hosted tech was the dinosaur, a dead end, old obsolete thinking hamishcampbell.com/the-mess-we-...
The #fediverse works because it is untidy, diverse, and decentralised. It’s a network of collectives, not a monopoly machine, it is native to the openweb hamishcampbell.com/the-fedivers...
The #dotcons are digital drugs: infinite scroll, dopamine loops, algorithmic junk food. #Mainstreaming social media: Digital drugs, not social connection hamishcampbell.com/mainstreamin...