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  A river that needs crossing political and tech – On the political side, there is arrogance and ignorance, on the geek side there is naivety and over complexity

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  All code is ideology solidified into action – most contemporary code is capitalism, this is hardly a surprise if you think about this for a moment. Yes you can try and act on any ideology on top of this code but the outcome and assumptions are preprogramed… cant find any good links on this.

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  How opensource, #FOSS works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CB_Aa2ODeM

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  Anyone any idea what the embedded video would have been in this post, can't find any link. Are you depressed with the world – A VERY positive world view for you https://hamishcampbell.com/are-you-depressed-with-the-world-a-very-positive-world-view-for-you/

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  Does anyone else find the emptiness of #deathcult advertising becoming increasingly transparent? The endless promises of happiness through consumption feel harder to believe when lived reality points in the opposite direction. More branding, more distraction, less substance. Maybe people are finally seeing through it? #media #advertising #capitalism #openweb

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  We waste each other's time far too much. If there is going to be any #HOPE, we need to stop falling into #stupidindividualism and start working together. This is not complicated. It's a basic #KISS principle: respect each other's time, build trust, and get on with the work. #OMN #4opens #openweb

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  Four years ago I said: the #deathcult was becoming #mainstreaming. Today it's much harder to deny. The cracks are visible, in politics, economics, culture and #climatechaos. That's the bad news. The good news? Once you recognise the mess, you can step away from it. That's where change begins. #OMN #openweb #4opens #KISS

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  First we stop feeding the #deathcult. Then we compost the piles of #techshit we've accumulated. From that fertile soil, we nurture small, resilient commons that can survive and grow through #climatechaos. The spirit of #KISS: don't wait for the perfect revolution - start cultivating the ground where something better can take root.

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  Selling some DIY stuff for people to use in projects https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/hamishcampbell In Oxford, UK

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  Things are accelerating. From the global lurch toward authoritarianism to deepening #climatechaos, it's understandable to feel overwhelmed. The answer isn't trying to fix everything. It's staying grounded and building the social and technical infrastructure that can hold the line, nurture trust, and grow what's needed. #OMN #openweb #DIY #4opens

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  “Common sense” says if something has failed for 40+ years, stop repeating it. #Neoliberal has failed on #climatechange, and it’s still failing now. Rebranding it, softening it, or “warming it up” isn’t a solution, it’s just delay. We’re living inside systems that clearly aren’t working. At that point, common sense isn’t about defending them - it’s about recognising the failure and trying something different. More of the same is not realism. It’s inertia. #climatechaos #deathcult #OMN

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  @Mastodon This is historically not true, you guys are a BRAND whose culture is to #NGO to actually be a respectful member of the "movement". So yes a part, but on the balance of mess and responsibility umm the is stuff to compost and truth telling needed. A start: use your reach to shout out other #Fediverse projects to show you can be a responsible member #KISS

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  A nice video about a women's view of boater life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkNKdpOTdPk

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  Decentralised servers - what we now call the #Fediverse - are often talked about as if they’re some new, radical innovation. They’re not, they’re a return to the original design of the network. The early internet wasn’t built to be controlled. It was built to survive. The core idea was simple: if parts of the network were destroyed - even something as extreme as a nuclear strike - the rest would keep functioning. No centre. No single point of failure. No “off switch.” https://hamishcampbell.com...

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  What looks, from a distance, like a marginal issue is in central, a question of whether #Oxford remains a living city, or becomes more controlled, polished and diminished. What we’re growing at #OxfordBoaters is simple https://hamishcampbell.com/what-were-growing-at-oxfordboaters-is-simple/

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  Update on what people are reading https://hamishcampbell.com/engagement/

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  Keeping the bridge in place isn’t an act of charity; it’s a basic #KISS survival strategy. How #mainstreaming funds grassroots movements, they get their value from https://hamishcampbell.com/how-mainstreaming-can-meaningfully-fund-grassroots-movements-they-get-the-value-from/

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  The core point is straightforward: large groups of people don’t act randomly. They cluster around shared assumptions, about power, about trust, about how the world works. To understand the social/tech #hashtags https://hamishcampbell.com/to-understand-the-social-tech-hashtags/

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  https://hamishcampbell.com/the-wall-of-funding-silence/m going to “Nodes On A Web” #NOAW to try and have this conversation in a polite way.

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  Today there are a lot of dishonest people - it’s become the default. Finding someone who is actually truthful is rare.

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  Stopped going to in-person general tech conferences around 15 years ago - they’d become beyond pointless. Since then, I’ve stuck to more focused online events. Now heading back to an in-person one. Curious what I’ll actually find. I have a feeling it’ll be about 75% pointless, 20% narrow geek, academic and #NGO-focused (slightly useful), and maybe 5% - probably less - actually useful. Let’s see how that shifts after the event.

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  Stop burning out alone, the number of good people burning out right now is not accidental. It’s what happens when systemic problems are framed as personal responsibility. Collective infrastructure is weak and crisis is constant. No one can carry that alone, and no one should try. The solution isn’t heroic effort, it’s shared architecture. In #FOSS terms: if the system keeps crashing, stop blaming the users. Redesign the stack, that’s the composting we actually need to do.