2018–2026
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2026 246
October 2026
- The #OMN path is about the stories we tell to make technology acceptable
- The #openweb is a network of links, not islands
- The Tragedy of Soviet Market Economists: Civilizing Russia, or whitewashing Neoliberalism?
- Composting and the Commons: Oxford’s Riverbank and the Fediverse
- The uncomfortable question
- Composting and the Commons: Oxford’s Riverbank and the Fediverse
- #OMN: WHERE NEXT? WE HAVE SEED FUNDING, NOW COMES WORK
- A Lesson in Social Composting
- Please get off your knees and pick up a shovel
- A reminder, what is the #OMN
- We need people learning how to work together
- The Open Media Network (#OMN) is both shovel and social path to dig the #Fediverse out of the #mainstreaming crap
- Why technologists need the #4opens
- Composting the mess, growing the alternative commons paths
- The #AI mess
- What do we need to compost in social tech?
- Pause fixing each mess in isolation, building process that composts mess into more useful paths
- We are entering a period of overlapping crises
- Composting the Last Five Years of the Fediverse
- Democratic Resilience: a report back
- Be realistic about how power actually works
- Technology can secure the commons, it should never become a substitute for the commons
- Why does the #Fediverse exist?
- When mainstreaming colonize the things that work
- Pick up the shovels to start growing the commons, that’s the #OMN path
- Can the #openweb reboot scale without copying the #dotcons?
September 2026
- The answer to the #dotcons isn’t everyone becoming a sysadmin
- Turning the lifeboat electric – Solar Power for down-river cruising
- #AI mythology is currently more of the same
- The #deathcult is selling the future as #techshit
- If we fund only the technical layer, we shouldn’t be surprised when the social layer remains broken
- Bunker as a metaphor
- Why “common sense” is a cage – we don’t have to worship this mess
- The #openweb is #4opens, where dues this place the current #AI path?
- A story about our normal path
- People moved right becouse the #deathcult pushing of insecurity and distrust has been uncomposted for 50 years
- Outreaching, what is the #OMN?
- To compost the #dotcons, the #openweb needs more people with shovels
- Power stays with the people doing the work
- Life on a Lifeboat: Where Next?
- #NLnet we are still waiting for an opportunity
August 2026
- Trust matters, community matters, participation matters
- The #openweb and projects such as the #OMN are more than technical alternatives
- Institution create the behaviour they claim merely to measure – Economics → institutions → behaviour → the #deathcult
- There is a wide gap between the people who talk about changing society and the people who actually have to live in the current mess
- The old system is already compost, the question is what we grow from this mess
- This is the Web 1.5
- Rethinking commons
- The expertise problem
- Trust and the trustless mess
- The blocking happens when criticism becomes a substitute for action
- Just put a # in front of words
- The Politics of Ignorance
- The language around #climatechaos is changing
- Religion, mystery and the #openweb
- OMN: Activity, culture and why Soviet experiments matter
- The individual, is not, the starting point for the #OMN
- Public conversation about public problems
- The #openweb needs diversity, not monoculture
- This summer #climatechaos
- Grassroots #openweb infrastructure is need for a different future
- The #OMN and the fight against the #dotcons
- Living through twenty years of #dotcons addiction
- Feelings/facts, stupidindividualism is about peoples role in systems
- Media, the deathcult and climatechaos
- The Fediverse is fun and growing, but it seems to kinda be on autopilot at the moment
July 2026
- How liberal media tries to “fix” liberal media
- The #Deathcult is a historical metaphor
- The mess, the Commons, and the Paths Out of Mess
- Make the #4opens fashionable
- Europe’s digital sovereignty needs challenges
- This was my thinking on the Fediverse a few years ago – building commons
- Why #FOSS matters socially
- Online Chat is a social problem, not just a technical one
- A hybrid p2p look at the OMN
- Our failure to mediate the mess
- The hidden costs of worshipping the #deathcult
- Why we use the #deathcult hashtag
- The #4opens: A Practical Compass for the #openweb
- Which Nature Are We Growing?
- Stupid Individualism: How We End Up Fighting Over Nothing
- Techno feudalism what changes
- The culture of #FOSS
June 2026
- We are living through a dangerous moment
- Oxford boaters every day commons
- Boat Refurbishment Volunteer Weekend Plan
- The commons and the problem of power
- Climate Chaos, the reality, heat, collapse, and denial
- Technology is never just a tool
- Violence, Nonviolence the Missing Commons Question
- The tools we need to compost the #deathcult
- The Fluffy Trap is when Activism forgets the spiky path
- Rainbow Culture: The Dream, the Mess and the Commons
- The Rainbow Lesson: Building Commons Beyond the Market
- Beyond AI
- Why WhatsApp plebiscites, and #dotcons in general are a crude and negative democratic instrument
- When Technologists Forget the Warning
- Rethinking Grassroots Tech Funding
- The Transition Mess
- Rebuilding Shared Meaning in a Fragmented World
- Working Groups, Horizontal Organising, and Getting Things Done
- #Nicenasty the hidden power of soft obstruction
- The dogma of one path: why alternatives, diversity and linking matter more
- Build it permissionlessly and let it loose
- Who controls the story of harm? Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and institutional anti-racism
- The Fediverse’s growing signal-to-noise problem – and who’s causing it
- The non-action bloc: resignation, cynicism, and the culture that keeps people powerless
- AI didn’t break the web. The dotcons did – AI just turned up the volume
- OMN history note: Failbook, activism, and the enclosure of organising
- The EU tech sovereignty plan
- How we built the neoliberal #Deathcult
- The commons were never theory – It was always practice
- Thatcher, Reagan were the wrecking crew: How we keep pushing mess
May 2026
- The everyday con: How the #deathcult turns crisis into extraction
- Something I’ve been sitting with and want to share honestly
- The 20th century imagination was heavily shaped by engineering thinking
- SAVE THAMES RIVER HOMES
- Compost “digital sovereignty”, build working commons
- Sophists – From Ancient Greece to the current #mainstreaming
- The exhaustion of thinking out loud, why engagement matters
- Composting the mess of digital security in activism – We need to talk about this, offline
- Turning stress, conflict, and exhaustion into commons culture instead of mutual destruction
- People ask why the articles are hard to follow without background, it’s a fair point
- A fluff view of current tech we need to compost
- Treating everything as personal conflict is a dead end
- People resist visible structure
- The #encryptionist detour
- The Meta-Mess of the “Open” Social Web
April 2026
- The Problem Was Never Just the Platforms – It’s What We Build Instead
- The Crew – Paths to Growth?
- The End of the “Peace Dividend” and the Return of History
- Actually solving things, and why this matters for #OMN
- #OMN Grounding (the roots as a story)
- People pushing vertical common sense over horizontal process are prats
- In the real world
- A fresh look at the mess we need to compost
- The hashtag story is messy, that’s the Point
- “Digital sovereignty” is more mess we need to compost
- People, Process, and the Myth of Difficulty
- What we’re growing at Oxford Boaters is simple
- Closed systems protect individuals, but they rarely build movements
- Trust and fear – the spiky/fluff debate – OxfordBoaters
- We keep making mess, then wondering why everything smells
- The #dotcons, #mainstreaming, and Build to Walk Away
- Toward Healthier Digital Public Spaces: A Cultural and Structural Challenge
- EU taking the open web path?
- Beyond Blocking: Building Trust Infrastructure for the Open Web
- Why you should help
- What happened over the last ten years on our Fediverse path
- So how do we mediate this fear?
- How things can change
- Why do we keep bringing this up?
March 2026
- Do you remember when technology felt like a way forward?
- News culture on the Fediverse
- Rebuilding Journalism as Commons (not a product)
- Oxford – Boaters & Landowners: A Simple Path Forward (#KISS)
- Gates vs Bridges: the obscure politics of the #geekproblem
- Let’s try and simplify the #OMN
- The value of the #Fediverse comes from its cultural roots in the #openweb
- What We Can Learn from Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders
- The Digital Commons: The Ground We Already Stand On
- Proposal – from #NOAW
- Growing the #openweb – Notes for Composting the #dotcons (and growing an #OMN)
- A Note on “Security” for the #FOSS Crew
- The Tech “Empiricism” Problem
- Thinking of workshops to run at “Nodes On A Web” #NOAW unconference
- Individual fears
- A Note to #FOSS Maintainers and Funders: The Problem With #Mainstreaming
- Why It’s Difficult to Build the #OMN – and What We Can Do About It
- A bit of #OMN history and where the current paths come from
- A note on the current voices speaking for the #Fediverse
- Disciplined curiosity beats IQ, Oxford
- EU tech strategy, composting the mess
- The #dotcons assume you want to be a techbro
- Broken institutions, and the need to rebuild the commons
- Shovels, Hashtags, and Revolutions: Roots of the #openweb
- What projects like #OMN can learn from history
- A note to #FOSS funders
- Make some FOSS compost
- Oxford: Rising With The Flood
- Policy churn, selective memory, and the mess on repeat
- Public Money, Private Hype: From Blockchain to AI – and the #FOSS Path Less Taken
February 2026
- Why good faith is a technical requirement for #FOSS
- #FOSS needs to take a social lead
- A Minimal, Governable Infrastructure for Trust-Based Media Flows
- The #NastyFew Are Not Hidden – They’re Integrated
- Fear feeds compliance
- Age Verification Is Not a Technical Problem
- Who’s Building the #Openweb – and Who’s Just Feeding Off It
- Most people sense that something is off
- Scale changes everything
- The tension that’s pushed back into the fediverse the last few years
- Disappearing from Search: A personal story about visibility, #dotcons, and the shrinking #openweb
- Brexit, tribal politics, ten years on – Still a mess
- The #twittermigration, signal vs noise, for rebuilding #openweb culture
- Trust, encryption, and the risk of “trustless” thinking
- This message is a shovel
- Pile technology
- Who or What Has Consciousness?
- The #openweb is the soil, #OMN the seeds
- An affinity group is not just “a group of people who agree”
- Nobody said it would be easy
- People need free space to stop controlling
- Composting the myths: power, hidden religions, and why the #openweb matters
- Funding Proposal: Open Media Network (#OMN) – Building Portable, Human-Centred Digital Commons
- The EU opportunity and danger, what grassroots projects can offer
- Why mainstream EU tech funding needs counter-currents, why tech activism matters
- Yes, its messy stepping out of the churn
January 2026
- Working on new boat electrics
- The uncomfortable path
- The Blavatnik worldview, book talk
- How our “mainstreaming” people understand what they’re doing
- Fediverse – What actually happened (no bullshit version)
- Privacy in the age of #Dotcons
- Power, the social cost we keep talking past in #FOSS
- Radical Reductions in Inequality
- The end of money as the primary motivator
- Ecological Transformation via Digital Abundance
- #FOSS “Just Fork It” Delusion
- Fascism, treats collaboration as weakness.
- Real Community, Not Algorithmic Spectacle
- Reclaiming the Meaning of “Common Sense”
- Europe, the Fediverse, and the story we failed to tell
- The rise of #stupidindividualism as a common sense path
- Practical tech philosophy
- Open Media Network: A Manifesto for the Digital Commons
- There is no intelligence in AI – and no path to any
- The greybeards and the second sell-out of the #openweb
- Software licences and the #geekproblem
- Liberalism, speech, and why Gaza matters
- The Trump show is noise when we need to be focusing on signal
- From personal mess to shared paths, #OMN in the post-truth world
- Mainstreaming: Piracy is a symptom, not a crime
- We need to stop worshipping a #deathcult
- We live in a deathcult, what is blocking people seeing this?
- Change and challenge
- Safety-absolutism is quietly killing change and challenge
- Open Media Network, a path we forgot
- The American hard right is not a movement – It’s a mess
- We fucked up… and that matters because we still have agency
- Venezuela – Loot, not legitimacy
- Belief in technical decentralisation
- A mainstream example of (stupid) individualism
- An example of the mess from #deathcult centrism
- A mainstream question, what happened?
- OMN is choosing a failure mode that is: slow, repairable, forkable and survivable
2025 400
December 2025
- Theological thinking disguised as economics
- The shite pile: why almost everything is noise
- Progressive Mainstreaming
- There is such a thing as society -and the #openweb depends on it
- LLM`s and the openweb
- What is not real is pretending that violence is secondary to discomfort over language
- Building, what comes next?
- On the #openweb path, what “prat” means
- We don’t need more mess, we need shovels
- Degrowth is unavoidable
- Social value, personal value, and the chicken-and-egg problem
- What Did We Learn from Web3, Crypto?
- A fashionista culture addicted to surface can’t change
- Chatsworth Rd: Stalls and Code
- The #Fashionista problem: How fear blocks change
- Argentina’s Dirty War wasn’t an “excess” it’s glimpse of our hard right future
- Digital Detox Is Urgently Needed
- Process is what gives legitimacy
- Normal is walking around in a toxic story and calling this common sense
November 2025
- Why the #OMN works with #ActivityPub – And why we need a bridge to #p2p
- Why open infrastructure matters to the #OMN
- Manifesto for the Hashtag Commons
- We are not suffering from a shortage of “great leaders”
- The Bloody Days of Genoa
- Eastern Europe on a Zloty – Kraków to the Balkans
- The Power of Film
- The History of visionOntv: What We Built, What We Lost, and Why It Matters Again
- The internet itself isn’t the problem
- A Year-Long Summer (short version)
- Leadership in the Era of Quantum and AI – A Reaction
- Oxford radical history, biography
- “We, we, we,” they say – but who chooses the “we”?
- The Voyage of the Volga: The Wager
- The #OMN Path: Openness as Revolution
- The Mess is Boiling
October 2025
- At best, the old #mainstreaming was about equality in worshipping the #deathcult
- The Blockchain Socialist: Self-Destruction as Theory
- The Open Media Network: Composting the Dead Systems
- Change is Freedom, Change is Life
- How fascism actually works
- Freedom is not mine or yours, it’s ours, or it isn’t freedom at all
- Rebuilding Grassroots Media – Back to the Soil
- The #IR view of how to survive in a hostile world
- It’s how humans have always lived – together
- A Tolkien view of #OMN
- Support letter for funding application
- So how can people try not to be prats about this conversation?
- STAR WARS: THE SOFT EMPIRE
- LIVE at c-base a #fluffy Fediverse conference
September 2025
- The Fediverse is native to the open web
- The #AI bubble might be nastier than the Dot.com crash
- YouTube and the #deathcult of “Independent” Media
- Mess and more mess, “diversity”
- It’s Not About You
- Why Fail Safe Matters Now
- “Your Party” and the Fluffy/Spiky debate – a working path
- Looking for an affinity group to take the first step #OMN
- Composting the #techshit, planting the future
- A small view of steps we need
- The algorithm is feeding us fascism – Its (past) time to step away
- Pick up the shovel, build the commons
- How can we make the mess less stinky?
- Content in the #OMN
- Official Steps into the Open Social Web… but Whose Steps?
- Pick up the shovel: turning habits into compost
- Commons and the metaphor of “grow a backbone”
- OMN projects are tools for YOU to change and challenge the world we live (and die) in
- A small history – Russia
- Pick up a shovel, the work is ours
- Western Buddhists
- The #mainstreaming is hallucinating
August 2025
- The #OMN is a simple project
- We need an honest conversation
- Pushing the #deathcult: “Respect for the rule of law is a must for all EU funding”
- The stubborn few who show up with shovels, laptops, and trust
- Individualism vs Commons: Why the Fediverse matters, and the Indieweb is legacy
- The #dotcons drained the VC swamp and now guzzle from the mainstream corporate socialism
- Looking at working with legacy media thinking – silo vs flow
- In tech, the unit of measure is important
- The blockages in activist tech
- Who are the #nastyfew?
- Compost the blocking, keep the seeds alive, and make space for growth
- Why “teach everyone to code” has become a dead-end slogan
- Smiling-faced vileness: How enforced politeness becomes a weapon in grassroots paths
- The OMN with indymediaback and makeinghistory are paths
- Building bridges instead of walls
- Rebalance, by shifting focus from tools to cultures
- Activist tech is stuck in a defensive crouch
- Security comes from community rather than technological control
- Compost the Chancers: How Careerists Damage Horizontal Tech Movements
- The #OGB: A Native Path for Open Governance
- A guide for staying honest and native
- We Don’t Need More Liberal Techno-Utopianism
- How a Rainbow Gathering Comes Together
- The Fediverse is social tech built by people
- Why Most Fediverse Codebases Are Languishing
- Signal, Noise, and the Mess of #Mainstreaming
- Trust is the foundation of moderation in decentralised networks like the #OMN
- Why #NGO and fluffy #openweb tech events should include radical real grassroots projects
July 2025
- The #nastyfew in the era of #climatechaos and social breakdown
- Frictionlessness is a Poisoned Fantasy – an #OMN Reflection
- W3C fits into #OMN with shared origins and intentions
- Dig, Plant, Grow. Compost the #Techshit. Repeat
- Fixing Protest Camp Problems, and the Backlashes That Follow
- What does mainstreaming do?
- Power Politics and the Race/Gender Card – A Contemporary Reflection
- Talking to the Bureaucratic Co-op Crew – Governance, Culture, and the Fediverse
- Conversations on Compost, Bridges, and the Future
- The Open Media Network: More Than Just a Tech Project
- The #Hashtags Tell a Story: Building Trust in a Messy World
- The Spring OMN: The River of News Project
- Talking About the #geekproblem in Funding
- Criticisms of capitalism and its digital children, the #dotcons
- How I Learned to Stop Panicking and Love Disorder
- Building Alt/Grassroots Media Networks to Challenge and Widen Traditional Media
- If we close everything, we are left with the evil – A bad outcome
- Hopelessness is a deeply conservative reaction to change and challenge
- Should we do something native in the Fediverse?
- Why most #geekproblem software fails: Trust vs. control
- A conversation about money and the #openweb
- Talking about the #geekproblem in #openweb funding
- What do you mean by “mainstreaming”?
- Organising in the 21st Century: What’s Beneath the Surface?
- Everything we build sits on standards
- What Do We Do With Our #Mainstreaming Alt-People?
- Bringing #indymediaback: A Gentle Revival of Radical Media
- Stop throwing regurgitated theory at me: We’re drowning in academic mess
- The roadblocks to change are #Stupidindividualism and the #Deathcult that breeds it
- Talking about the mess we’re in
- Theory and Practice in Activism
- Why most radical tech is pointless, and why #indymediaback isn’t
- Wilde Words for a Wild Problem: The Chattering Classes and the Death of Change
- Pushing back AI hype and building better futures
- Metadata and the #OMN Path: Who Controls the Invisible Hand?
- Soft and Hard Process: Lessons from the Rainbow Shopping Mission
- America was always violent -You likely just have not noticed
- The current mainstreaming’s greatest sin is thoughtlessness
- What should be closed? And what should never be?
- Capitalism is a hostage situation – not an economy
- Real world tackling the #geekproblem
- Where’s the Resistance to Algorithmic Monopolies?
- First step is #KISS – Stop being a prat
- The #mainstreaming is talking about the #deathcult – So why are you still waiting?
- The new right weaponizing culture: The right goes post-liberal
- What is journalism in a dotcons community space?
- Two paths, one bridge – seceding under capitalism vs seceding toward change
- Composting the EU Tech Mess: From #NLnet to #Eurostack
June 2025
- Composting the confusion: A critical response to the misreading of the #Openweb
- Trying to Remember: A Personal Reflection on Activist Histories and Memory Holes
- Rise and Fall of Grassroots #OpenWeb
- Affective Protest vs. Effective Power: From Spectacle to Strategy
- The problem of too big, Mastodon
- Get Out of the Money Economy – Rediscover the Gift Economy
- Actors, Power, and Collective Publishing: Rethinking Fediverse Architecture for Grassroots Media
- The Mess We Make (Again… and again)
- History has a lot to say on the peasant revolt vs. liberal half-measures
- How we push the world into this nasty mess
- Can bureaucracies join the #Fediverse? Yes – with WordPress + ActivityPub
- Why Doesn’t Every City Have a Fediverse Server?
- Programming mission: Let’s fix the Fediverse discovery gap
- This is a story of power, plain and simple
- Getting through this era of collapse with anything humane intact
- NGIFORUM2025 is timidly touching sense
- The future depends on us using the power we still have
- Oxford: Going with The Flow
- Oxford Martin School and the Chattering Classes
- It’s becoming a problem
- Why does any of this matter?
- When we block thinking, it’s pratish #dotcons behaviour
- We’ve Spent 45 Years Worshipping A #Deathcult
- Telling Our Stories: Activist History and the Parasites of #Mainstreaming
- A call-out for collective tech with teeth
- Evangelicals and the hardright
- The Fediverse is opening, but there is a cost
- Trumpism and the progressive paths to an alternative future
- Climatechaos and the hard right is a cycle of collapse
- The wall of funding silence
- Governance, the mess of AI tech-fix paths
- The story: power, truth, and walking the fun path
- Collaborative futures “Go Outside”
May 2025
- William Morris – Bridging Theory and Practice in News from Nowhere
- Finally, make the most of my attention, I’ll be blunt, you don’t have my attention for long
- Telegram messaging app is dieing
- The false continuity
- Confusion and frustration about climate action
- Maybe we don’t then get the guillotine out…
- The Mess – If You Don’t Value Things, You Destroy Them
- Building #OMN projects
- Stop chasing tech cults and start growing rooted alternatives
- The Next Expedition – boatingeurope
- The #OMN isn’t just about media, it’s about building the social soil
- The #OMN View – The Dogma of Anti-Dogma: Rainbow Gatherings
- Composting the reboot funding
- The hard right path, the #nastyfew playing the Nazi card
- Why Tech Belongs in the Open
- The #nastyfew, billionaires funders fear informed, educated public
- Governance rooted in trust rather than formalized decision-making
- Compost lies using #4opens horizontal networks
- OMN, best not to get distracted, this isn’t about purity, it’s about direction
- Composting the fiendlyenemy’s
- In that mess lies compost…
- Neoliberal’s shift to capture the state socialism shift
- The Philosophers Talking About AI: Context, Flow, and the #geekproblem
- World of war – The global battle for industrial supremacy
- What we need is useful compost layer’s for growing native projects
- Enclosure of the open web was a crime
- The West, Russia, and the madness of mutual sabotage
- We do need tools to share to help people on the path back onto the #openweb
- Review: Who Broke the Internet? – Podcast with Cory Doctorow
- Bridging alt and mainstreaming: A note on the shape of resistance
- Ignore the #AI (collective intelligence) mess, build the #OMN – this is a path
- Notes from the Bubble: A Bad Conservative Pantomime at Balliol
- The mess we make – capitalism and climatechaos
- Treating everything as a personal conflict is unbelievably stupid
- Scaling federated networks and codebases: A human-centred balance
- Tech governance fails, its pastime to compost the mess
- Don’t be a prat, please try and recognize the roots of issues
- Digging over the rot and planting something more real
- Without discomfort, we won’t challenge the system we’re still living inside
- If I were a Communist
- We need to compost the spiky and the fluffy nasty
- Let’s build from the rot something rich, wild, rooted, and real
April 2025
- Enclosure of self is deathcult worship in the era of #climatchaos
- Your world’s economic system is horribly broken
- It’s long past time to return to the #openweb, and compost this mess making
- Our liberals talking about the death of #postmodernism
- The Seagull Knows: Notes on a Constipated Discipline
- Dev test work for Makinghistory application
- Not to punish the individuals, but to highlight the groups to compost
- We need to shape native paths, not recreate #fashionista ones with shinier branding
- AI slop, to #enshittification, the #FT writing on the internet is adding to the mess
- Mythos and traditions are needed for revolutions to grow roots
- Rebooting the Fourth Estate: Building tools for grassroots governance
- Neo-liberalism, Fascism
- Bad language feeds back into messy culture
- A letter from the margins of the #openweb
- #MutualAid posts?
- Tearing down the old neoliberal #deathcult consensus
- Adapting to #climatechaos in a post-1.5°C world
- Finding a path is messy
- Reclaiming balance with News, personal, and the #openweb
- “Climate Realism”
- On being a prat in tech and social spaces (Yes, this might be about you 😘)
- The #OMN is not a product, it’s a path you walk
- Can people engage with #4opens process?
- DEV of the #OMN projects
- This is what the #OGB is aiming for
- News, the signal-to-noise mess
- Regime change in the West
- Mainstreaming: Building Grassroots Balance
- Rebooting the #openweb in a good way
- The current #powerpolitics
- It’s in the Walls
- A sharp take, systems are visibly broken
- From #geekproblem to #OMN shovel
- The Failure of #Mainstreaming – What Comes Next?
- A guest post – The Mess of the Current #OpenWeb Path: A User’s Experience
- Building #OGB is about power without #powerpolitics
March 2025
- The #4opens vs liberal tokenism in #openweb tech
- Paranoid individualism creates mess
- What software do social justice activists need?
- The #mainstreaming mess
- Community support needed to keep this site online
- Struggling for a Real Alternative
- #Techshit Hype – #NothingNew
- It’s not easy, and it’s not as simple as clicking “sign up” and walking into a ready-made community
- The #GeekProblem is why so much open development is stuck in a dead end
- The #NGO mess is hard blocking
- The #geekproblem is soft blocking change and challenge in tech
- Composting the #TechShit
- Composting the mess in journalism
- Rebuilding Radical, Grassroots Media
- The #Open Path vs The #Closed Path – Why Simplicity Matters
- The problem with centralized data
- Who Broke the #OpenWeb?
- VisionOnTV: A Lost Future of Grassroots Video
- People, community, the struggle between #openweb and #dotcons
- #AI and Warfare – Oxford Panel Discussion
- Trump and the tools of the old world order
- The left, right mess is on repeat
- The Fediverse is a step
- Security is a social problem first, tech problem second
- This is how we compost failure into growth, instead of repeating mistakes
- A shift back to radical values and paths
- A path we need for the #openweb
- Biography
- Open vs Closed Security: Finding a Path
- These aren’t pointless projects
- Social Media Monitoring, data scraping
- Thinking about data and metadata
- Conversations on this subject
- How #mainstreaming funds grassroots movements, they get their value from
- Why the Fediverse Needs a Bridge Between Mainstreaming and Grassroots
- Bridging the divides, using imperfect tech for real paths
- Fear, hope, and #climatechaos
- Feeding on the Roots: How Mainstreaming Devours Radical Movements
- Radical movements are too often their own worst enemies
- Anarchism, the mess we make
- Signal-to-noise is a hard conversation
- Boatingeurope talk
- Keeping Conversation’s useful, with the Fluffy-Spiky Debate
- When doors to dialogue slam shut, people look for other ways to be heard
- The #fashionistas poisoned the well of alt-media
- The Said Business School is a temple of the #deathcult
- #openweb vs #closedweb is the battle for the Internet
- Marking the difference between the #openweb and #closedweb
- Our future grows from what we cultivate today
- In tech, what matters and what is dangerous
- Food for thought today: Open is life. Closed is death
- The Trump mess, Speech to Congress
- Why grassroots hosting and the #openweb matter
- #Fashionistas in Activism: How Buzzword Chasing Undermines Real Change
- To remember our own history
- #makinghistory an example workflow
- Privatization has been a buzz word for the last 40 years
- The rise of #fascism and the #openweb response
- Web search is a cesspit of algorithm-driven propaganda
- Composting the Mess to Make Room to Plant
February 2025
- Trump and Zelensky
- The Beautiful Insanity of Activism: How Movements Rot or Blossom
- Open Media Network (#OMN) is a tool for change and challenge, to use to compost social mess
- Composting mess making, activism and #openweb
- “Compost tending” the fabric of #openweb
- Is it possible to compost the mess and nurture the people tangled within it?
- Why are our #fashionistas so poisonous?
- Balanceing activism to cultivate change
- Why
- We made this mess, it’s pastime to clean it up
- Be FOR something, not against everything
- There is a method to Trump’s messy geopolitical madness
- Stepping away: #OMN through clear, grounded communication
- Comparing Decentralized #openweb Protocols
- The tools we use shape the activism we grow
- The Age of Global Militarism: How Veneration of the Military Spread – and Why it Matters
- Way late, but better than never
- In the currently spaces trust is built at scale, or do we need to create them from scratch?
- The stress of living in the remains of the commons, boaters in the UK
- Market Failure: Green Energy, Capitalism, and the Path We’re Not Taking
- A #4opens alternative to the #deathcult
- Overlanding by Water: Crossing Europe at 8km/h on a Refurbished Lifeboat
- Rewilding the Digital & Physical World: How My Work Ties to the Environment
- Rewilding a people-first web, beyond the #dotcons
- The Open Society and its Media (Mark S. Miller at GMU, 1991?)
- We need to break out of this cycle
- Maybe it’s time to stop trying to fix broken tools, to build with a truly native approach?
- Mediating bad faith missteps in grassroots movements
- Ideological traps
- Ransom War: The Rising Threat of Cybercrime and National Security
- Escaping the #Mainstreaming Mess: A Call to Real Change
- Decoding the Hashtags: A Roadmap for Social Change
- Worshipping at the Temple of the #Deathcult: The Business Class and Its Myths
- #NLnet #EU #NGI #NGIzero – Will we get it right this time?
- Activism, development of #FOSS paths
- We need real shifts to things that matter in #openweb tech dev
- The challenge for #OMN & #openweb
- Cutting through 99% of the #techshit
- We can’t keep repeating this mess
- Let’s try a #spiky view of #fluconf
January 2025
- The difference between struggle and #fashernista ethics. The latter is comfortable. The former matters.
- Songs that matter, in our times
- Crossing the River: Tech & Politics
- Rethinking Technology
- Bridging the gap: Building a human-first #openweb
- Public Social Media: The Choice is Clear
- How we got into this mess
- The web wasn’t built by solo tech geniuses
- Tech princes and the #deathcult
- A world we see as normal
- How “we” in the west push regime change
- The open web and the messy middle ground
- The OMN path, building the activist openweb infrastructure
- The pushing of doomed projects
- The #dotcons share an ideology
- The Urgent Need for Collective Action
- Prodding a #dotcons flow
- #OMN demonstrates the values that dead ideologies refuse to acknowledge
- The obstacle is people cannot see change and challenge
- A social tech path out of the current mess
- The wider #OMN project from a more #mainstreaming prospective
- “Solutions” pushed for the #Fediverse are #stupidindividualism which comes from #deathcult worship
- Oscar Wilde was a Radical Socialist?
- Activating the Open Media Network
- We Need to Live Differently – And This Time, It Needs to Work
- Save Radley Woods
- #OMN a practical response to the failures of greed-based paths
- Branding keeps coming up as an issue
- What can we learn, what can we do?
- We need to compost the barriers to building shared social truths
- Let’s look from a fresh view at the mess we need to fix
- Open Media Network (OMN): An Overview
- A call to action, clear diagnosis
- Fuck off to the bitcoin bros and their cult of scarcity
- Challenging “liberal trolls” and #encryptionist blindness
- #Mainstreaming social media: Digital drugs, not social connection
- Supporting Native Grassroots Projects in the Fediverse
- Naming the problem, a first step on this path, what is the #deathcult
- #dotcons fail human connection
- Embracing “messiness” is a feature in effective tech solutions
- A look at where we are at in our #openweb reboot
- The #Fediverse is native to anti-common-sense governance
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December 2024
- Why does this matter?
- Signal vs Noise
- The clear and urgent challenge, to step away from entrenched thinking
- Application 2025-02-040 Makeinghistory received
- #Indymediaback Funding Application 2025-02-036 indymediaback received
- Blindness and Compost
- Best not to be a #deathcult worshipping #mainstreaming prat
- The ideological blindness of the tech world
- Shifting tech to collaboration, accountability, and sustainability
- Application 2025-02-032 Open Governance Body #OGB
- Outlining the “native” #openweb path
- What we need to do
- Laying the groundwork for a future worth building
- Inspiration to pick up a shovel to compost the current mess
- Metaphors matter, composting the current paths in #AI
- Breaking the circling of #mainstreaming and liberal trolling
- A compass for the #openweb
- The Evolution of SocialHub
- Homo curator: towards the ethics of consumption
- The “social shit” story is raw, real, and relatable
- How do we bring more people into the space of stepping away and creating something better?
- Why we need the #OGB
- Looking at some of the issues we need to fix
- #4opens vs. the #dotcons
- Personality Politics
- Let’s build tools that reflect human flourishing
- Talking about composting, and the privatisation of our “commons”
- Federated Trust Networks: A Path
- Open-source and #FOSS as everyday anarchism
- Why Humans are Social First, Individuals Second
- The Problem: Postmodernism, Hate, and #StupidIndividualism
- Grassroots Radical Media: A #4opens Path
- Why radical media embrace’s #FOSS and the #4opens
November 2024
- Why ideas matter
- Moving forward, the path is undeniably messy
- Mediating the damage from #fashernistas
- Thinking about news on the #fediverse
- #nothingnew sets the stage for #somethingnew
- What is the “problem” with our geeks
- The #deathcult worshippers are head down in the current mess
- Please lift your head from worshipping the #deathcult
- Songs of Resistance
- We need historical paths to reboot the #openweb with the #fediverse
- The #blocking of #openweb funding
- We need a positive path for tech
- This ends badly
- The #fashernistas and #geekproblem interact to work in unintentional tandem
- The need for #netiquette to mediate hostility on the #openweb
- Replacing market signalling with #opendata signalling
- Is X pushing Fascism?
- Sorting the wheat from the chaff
- Capital will continue on its path, indifferent to the ruins it leaves
- Shifting the #mainstreaming to the #openweb
- How can we mediate the #NGO blocking?
- What can we do with our fashionistas?
- In part, the USA shift to the right is due to the #geekproblem in tech
- Composting the social mess to balance the change we need
October 2024
- Trump is more Italian #fascism than German fascism
- People are talking about this subject
- Hope not hate, in tech
- Blavatnik Book Talks: The Forever Crisis
- Building #FOSS bridges
- We need to compost the current culture of lying
- A “liberal” path to mediate the growing #climatechaos mess
- Help trolls move out from under bridges to become part of a community
- The victim card, always check who is playing this, you will likely find mess to compost
- The #geekproblem might kill meany of us, mediating it matters
- The Activist History of the Web: Lessons we can learn
- Trying to build a bridge
- The #deathcult: 40 Years of neoliberal poisoning the #openweb path
- Community is the power we have
- Ethical Frameworks in Anarchist Approaches
- Navigating the Postmodern Confusion and the Case for Common Sense
- What do I think?
- Composting mess (truth)
- A practical path to balance the current “governance” mess in #FOSS
- The Present and Future of US Politics: Foreign Policy
- Location and Rebellion: Rethinking the Relationship between Revolution and State Capacity
- #KISS is a key to democracy
- The #deathcult we worship: Totalitarian capitalism consumes everything
- The Non-Profit Industrial Complex (#NPIC): A Double-Edged Sword in #FOSS and Activism
- Communities Adopt #KISS Tools, Not Technologies
- A new home #boatingeurope
- Recognizing the failure of the centre
- The tension, grassroots movements and #NGO paths
- Not domination, the cultivation of many efforts, collectively, lead to significant change
- Let’s help people build grassroots communities in this fertile time for tech change and challenge
- Fediverse, grassroots, native, trust, openness, and collaboration
- The #mainstreaming is always filled with imperialism, we need to mediate this mess making
- We need to build more bridges
- Is #fediforum a #4opens project?
- We need to balance this mess making
- Is Mastodon a #4opens project
- The victim card in activism
- Federating Metadata Flows: Bridging Folksonomy and Categories for the #OMN
- Mastodon, Meta and Threads
- #Fediverse, Definitions, and Building Activist Communities
- The #openweb, a partnership, not a nasty walk over
- A Path of Destruction: The Middle East’s Endless Conflict and Global Consequences
- Let’s Try a Right-Wing Metaphor
- Oligarchy, Monarchy, and the Future of Governance of the #openweb
- The metaphor of cat herding
September 2024
- The path out of this mess is in part social tech, we need to build this path
- What am I doing now?
- The #deathcult is neoliberalism
- Where do you see the opportunity for these dialogues
- We need native #openweb media
- Corporate presence in the Fediverse?
- Native grassroots paths are at odds with institutionalized power
- #Boatingeurope talk in Oxford
- Opening a space to build alternatives #OMN
- The Panthers’ slogan “Power to the People” resonates on the #openweb
- The metaphors are change and challenge
- Challenges: online governance, trolling, and privacy
- Mainstreaming the #deathcult metaphor
- Thoughts on the mess we made on #socialhub and the wider #openweb reboot
- What can we do.
- At an Oxford event – The Policy engagement workshop
- Socialhub needs rebooting as grassroots, its drifting
- Yes, we are in a mess, we need a path
- We need to reclaim focus and energy wasted on current failing systems
- USA is a mess
- Recognizing the cracks in the current path
- Why are people OCCUPYING WINDSOR CASTLE #XR
- We’re facing a period of class conflict
- The patriarchs of the early #openweb
- Peace News
- Individualism isn’t the problem, the “stupid” part is the problem
- The Open Media Network (#OMN) is a set of tools to empower communities
- Parasite #NGO and #fashionista tech
- Outreaching in the #dotcons is hard work
- What is “mess” in the hashtag story?
- “Bad Faith” Arguments Dominate Social Media
- The #openweb, the #commons, the real-world spaces we build are where the future lies
- The #openweb and #fediverse is anti-viral?
- Free Software is Political
August 2024
- The problem with fragmentation
- The Slow Evaporation of FOSS value
- What is the #openweb
- Mediating the prat’ish behaviour and #deathcult mentality
- Navigating the Trolls
- Composting the mess
- Linking on the #OpenWeb: Why It Matters
- Humanistic adventures in social technology
- The victimhood narrative needs composting
- Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
- Bogged down in negative criticism, let’s focus on building something better
- Power and opportunity are limited to small “nasty” groups
- There are many groups walking these paths, join them, to pick up a shovel and compost the mess we create
- Moving Forward, A Few Practical Suggestions
- Ideas to build communities on this #KISS path please
- Breaking the circle of #stupidindividualism
- Myth of the tech genius
- The #openweb – Escaping the Grip of the Algorithm
- How we bridge current #blocking conversations for change and challenge
- The Forgotten Story of Social Technology: Why It Matters
- A fluffy view of the path, with a touch of spiky
- The current “debate” about AI is a distraction #KISS
- A case study of upgrading a boat battery system
- The West’s Climate-Catastrophe is “native” to the mess we are in
- Trust in Mutual Aid Networks
- The “fluffy” need to enforce incitement laws
- Money and Power: The Poison We Need to Overcome
- The insanity of #mainstreaming
- The Urgent Need for a Paradigm Shift
- More Than Just a Difference of Opinion
- The Political Landscape of Social Media: We need Change
- Understanding the Hashtags: A Guide
- Post-Modernism Influence on Social Movements
- A Critique of “fluffy” Leftist and Progressive #AI Paths
- Control in Tech Culture
- Communities and People are the #Openweb
July 2024
- Centrism: The Extremist Ideology
- The Mess, Delusion Folly and Hysteria
- Political Belief Systems
- Reconnect with Our Social Roots
- Talking #openweb or #Fediverse, I have to talk about #Mastodon
- Solidarity in the era of #stupidindividualism
- The Path Beyond #Neoliberalism
- Neoliberalism Can’t Solve the Climate Crisis: We Need Activism
- State Funding of #FOSS and Open Source: Is it a Good Idea or a Bad Idea?
- Addressing the #geekproblem
- Climate Chaos who is responsible?
- Indymedia based on the #OMN framework
- Bad conversations in #FOSS and tech
- Why the pushing of #AI is more #techshit
- Keeping communication barriers in place, leads to a lack of awareness
- Crisis of Governance in FOSS: Medieval Politics and Neoliberal Failures
- Grassroots in Tech Communities: Challenges and Paths
- The mess of our “common sense” hard shift to the right – Ukraine
- The Hydrogen Path is #techchurn
- Beyond Consumerism: Building Trust Through Openness and Action
- Slogan for #openweb: “Technology’s job is to hold the trust in place”
- The European Union: A “spiky” view – A Complicated Love Story
- Understanding Left-Wing Anti-Communism
- A messy job, but with the right tools and approach, we can make progress
- The importance of words and ideology
- The Solution: Embrace the #4opens
- Definitions, that might help
- The Role of Academia in Climate Action
- The rise of fascist ideologies
- Progress is not easy
- Understanding Current Tech Paths
- #EU bureaucracy in tech funding
- Change and challenge group dynamics
- Using the #4opens
- When did Christians start doing the opposite of what Christ taught?
- #dotcons push consumerism as propaganda
- The UK Election
- The blindness of fluffy and spiky liberals
June 2024
- Working for the “man” is not voluntary
- The stuff of disaster movies
- Understanding Anarchism
- Building a “nativist” humanistic societies
- Tension in contemporary politics
- How did we get into such a mess?
- What works?
- The mess we have made #mainstreaming postmodernism
- Socialism and Capitalism
- The defeatist Illusion of realism in the era of the #deathcult
- #TED – A Community of Delusions
- Our democracy over the next ten years
- Working with neo hippies for 20 years, they are now #mainstreaming
- Revolution: It’s Inevitable. So, What’s the Plan?
- This site is full of stories
- Serendipity and #Hashtags
- Hashtags for Social Change
- We need to be disturbed
- A Mental Health Time-Bomb
- The Urgent Need for Systemic Change
- ActivityPub and Mastodon from a #closedweb prospective
- The Cost of Living Crisis: Corporate Greed and Political Corruption
- Capitalism is the logic of the #dotcons
- Caring in a culture that disregards human well-being requires resistance to dominant values
- Real Social Media is a Hard Balancing Act
- Security and trust are a part of the fluffy/spiky debate in activism
- Feudalism, #FOSS native governance?
- The internet: Open vs. Closed
- Open vs Closed in Tech
- #mainstreaming counter-cultures
- Tension, Open and Closed Web
- The Fediverse is “native” to Anarchism
- People think in groups, this is natural
- Philanthropy, praising billionaires, underscores the mess
- Nuanced understanding of class, emphasizing shared interests and collective struggle
- Toxic Positivity and the Lies We’re Pushed to Live By
- Living the dream utopia
- Why We Can’t Enjoy life
- Living in the Current Mess
- Would Socialism Work?
- Composting #TechShit: Planned Obsolescence
- A Story of Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things
- We worshipped a #deathcult for 40 years
- Liberalism – is not for you
- “Tanky” is a derogatory term for vertical factions within the left
- Faults of former socialist experiments
- We need pathways to sustainable, equitable and just societies
- A radical view of the Palestine
- What Should New Leftists Do?
- Activist History: A Balanced Approach
- A Positive View Of Current Trends
- Why We Need the Open Media Network (#OMN)
- Why Mainstreaming Politics is Crap
- The Urgent Need for Climate Action
- Strengthen grassroots alternatives to resist the spread of fascism
- By embracing projects like the #OGB people have a chance to shape decisions
- General elections are a travesty of democracy
- Looking at the Izmir ship scrapyard
- A European Future
- The problem with academic “thinking” in activism
- Bridget Kendall in conversation
- The Meyerstein Lecture in Archaeology 2024: The social worlds of Bronze Age animals
- Contrasting Balkan utopias: Navigating migration and futurity in the physical remnants of Yugoslavia
May 2024
- Academics at Oxford
- A tech story
- Encryptionists we do need to talk about Governance in tech
- Marx on Nature Conference
- Why people should worry about NGO paths
- Understanding #OMN and the #GeekProblem
- #climatechaos requires radical work
- I am working on our families archive
- The Supremacy of Capital: A Fundamental Challenge in the Era of #ClimateChaos
- OMN – improving the tech landscape
- People in activism
- The mess we keep making of #FOSS governance
- A conversation that circles
- Reminder about the hashtag family
- Should we ban TikTok
- Who gets to decide what this place is? How are we being represented
- Images of protest posters
- Branding the #4opens: Collective Identity and Values in the Fediverse
- Development of technology in a community-centric direction
- Composting in tech
- What names to use?
- The limitations of #mainstreaming “history”
- People react defensively to bad news, blaming others rather than confront uncomfortable truths
- In the #openweb reboot, metaphors are a strong path
- This blog is on ActivityPub – please subscribe
- The tech world is in a state of chaos and dysfunction
- Cyril Foster Lecture 2024: On the Declining Success of Civil Resistance
- It’s interesting to look at all the new #openweb native social media applications
- We must reckon with the consequences of our past decisions
- Tech governance projects miss the mark
- Composting the Mess: Transforming Society through Collective Action
- The Mess of Web3: Why #openweb natives question the Blockchain Narrative
April 2024
- Funding tech outside the shadow of the #deathcult
- Revisiting the ActivityPub foundation idea
- Parasites are very human
- Why #Enshittification Misses the Point and Why #Dotcons is the Better Frame
- Time to Ground Public Funding: Why We Should Invest in Energy, Not Billionaire Space Races
- #Fediverse how can we do better
- Algorithms of War: The Use of AI in Armed Conflict
- Current messy thinking
March 2024
- Why worry about fashionistas in activism
- The Rise and Fall of Grassroots #openweb Activism in the UK
- Building trust in the #openweb
- A script #makinghistory
- Criticism of Post-modernism and Neo-liberalism
- Women & Online Television in Senegal – Screening of Mistress of a Married Man + Q&A with director Kalista Sy
- Copper the chameleon – earth processes generating critical copper.
- Indymedia back
- The development of ActivityPub was a collaborative effort
- Nurturing the Potential of the Fediverse: A Socio-Political Roadmap
- All code is ideology solidified into action
- Some parts of the geekproblem
- The influence of NGOs in social activism raises concerns
- Building trust in the openweb and Fediverse
- Branding, addressing this issue
- The mess in tech
- The mess we made with the #dotcons
- Navigating the mess of alt-projects
- A positive view of Postmodernism in tech
- We can work together?
- The universal mandate of SSL – We need a pragmatic approach to #openweb security
- Historically, #mainstreaming politics has a tendency to shift to the right during times of crisis
- Composting the mess with the #OMN
- Funding application for the #OMN
- Digital waste – shouting into the void
- A bit of history – visionontv
- The #4opens provides a useful lens to evaluate and assess technology projects
- The problem with #openweb funding and the tools people use
- The problem of fashionistas in activism
- User Story #makeinghistory
February 2024
- Funding Proposal: Archiving the “Commons” with #MakingHistory and #OMN
- Funding Application: Building the Open Media Network
- The #geekproblem is a part of our collective #deathcult
- We need to get this 20-year-old project back online, please help
- Talking about p2p as a tool to use today
- Outreach text for the #4opens
- The right-wing taking the tools, traditions and myths of the left wing
- Good faith in activism
- The new and old #openweb protocols
- The subject I have been talking about for the last 20 years
- Why are tech alternative to the #mainstreaming important.
- Funding Application: Governance with the Open Governance Body (#OGB)
- Funding Application: Open Media Network (OMN)
- Funding Application: MakingHistory – Archiving the Open Media Network
- Why fund the reboot of the #Indymedia project
- What people need to outreach the #OGB
- Rebooting Indymedia: Restoring the OpenWeb and Grassroots Technology
- The Open Governance Body: Revolutionizing Governance with Grassroots Tech
- Politics, paper, print: reflections on the book history of the Mao era
January 2024
- ‘The Arkenstone and the Ring: wilful objects in Tolkien’s The Hobbit’
- A cobra effect in a greening world: can Earth scientists find the antivenin?
- The mess we make with our blind behaviour
- Panel discussion: ‘Post-COP28 debrief: Does the agreement go far enough?’
- If you do not change your behaviour: preventive repression in Lithuania under Soviet rule
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December 2023
- Who is the change and challenge we need?
- Working with #mainstreaming to compost the current mess
- Now, where is my shovel?
- Navigating Grassroots Evolution in Tech Communities: Challenges and Paths
- What is Socialhub – in the ActivityPub world
- Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges
- Mess making is a breakdown in communication – ideas please
- Official launch of the special issue on “Change in Armed Conflict”
- Best not to go down this path
November 2023
- Cyber capacity and strategic advantage: resilience, influence, and control
- A draft to buy for a solar install on a narrow boat
- Why the Russian constitution matters: the dark arts of constitutional law
- The mission of the NGI is to re-imagine and re-engineer the Internet
- Know Your World: Climate Change & Human Health
- Controlling the Capital: Political Dominance in the Urbanizing World
- Trustworthiness as Reputation in International Cooperation-building
- Cambridge Analytica, 5 years on
- Upton Lecture 2023: Fake News: Learning from Spinoza
- Economics and National Security – The audience for this was the servants of power, good to understand what they are thinking
- Had a ontopic post removed twise from a campaining facebook group I used to be an admin for.
- NBTA Its the normal A to B march problem
- Clues on how to compost #mainstremining #deathcult worshiping
- Good video about #deathcult and their worshippers
- Talking about #hashtags
- The #mainstreaming move back to the #openweb is filling with #NGO parasites
- Best to start from #KISS the left is based on trust and open culture.
- 40 years of head down worshipping a #deathcult
- Talking to the Oxford Academics
- Thoughts on my 3ed Oxford seminar
October 2023
- People pushing mess is the normal #mainstreaming
- The current mess making, media coverage, of tribal struggles in the Middle East
- #dontbeaprat is a positive statement of what’s next?
- all the invoices for OMN no OVH
September 2023
- https://politicalcompass.org
- Shut down https://activism.openworlds.info instances on 2023-10-07 due to lack of funding
- To “solve” polarity?
August 2023
- #OGB – what is the project
- Projects that need to work to help #reboot the #openweb
- A scrypt for the #OGB video
July 2023
- The signal to noise issue of our #geekproblem
- Signal to noise on the #FBI seazing a database of a fediverse instance
June 2023
- The mess we make of the #openweb
- ActivityPub is an accidental reboot of the openweb
- The mess we have made
- Meta and the mess
- NGI Zero open source funding talks about the @sovtechfund
- Mainstreaming “common sense” insanity
- A project outline for the OGB
May 2023
- A group of committed libertarian cats and the EU
- What is #SocialHub
- The #IndymediaBack project is an initiative aimed at reviving the #Indymedia project
- What is visionontv
- The #OGB project is an initiative aimed at developing better ways of having “trust” based conversations
- Introduction
- We need fresh thinking on this mess
- Talking to friendly people who have built their careers on and in #postmodernism
- “Look, these guys are covered in mess, we can’t work with them…”
- #fashernistas are invested in the world of as it is
- Greater cooperation and collaboration between the different communities involved in developing #openweb protocols
- It’s less messy to see the “protocol wars” of #bluesky #Nostr #activitypub from a social understanding
April 2023
- The world walks right past us looking the other way and takes the big bundle of bills from capitalism.
- As the righwing is failing, the mess is growing in the left…
- A short film about the bigone #XR event
- Developers and marketers need to be transparent about values and business models
- The risk of co-optation or watering down of the original #openweb values and principles
- Why is Mastodon so dominant in the fediverse?
- A path out of the funding mess
- A draft funding application – OGB
- We used to have a good grassroots #DIY media – SchNEWS
- The #hashtags embody a story and world-view
- People destroy things they love, not from hate, more from possession
- You are making a mess of social technology
- #SSB splintering a “commons”
- A native path out of the mess people make on the #openweb
- The visionontv project has been runing for over ten years
- The #OMN Modding Process
- We need to think different #OGB
- Why would you be the right person to build the #OMN
March 2023
- My indymedia story
- Thinking about – Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun
- Were do fads come from on the #openweb
- The #geekproblem mess we make of #openweb funding
- Modeing horizontalists federated networks
- The social change/challenge project of an organic intellectual
- Why are we overrun with prats?
- To be song to the diggers song
- The mess we have made over the last 40 years
- the mess we made
- Archiveing the “commons” the #makeinghistorys project.
- Looking at the paths out of the current mess
- #OGB is a projects that grew from #socialhub
- Why do people keep doing pointless self harm – news aggregation
- Thinking through composting the #techshit
- Talking about tech – Enclosing the “commons” is a bad history for native societies
- What is the value of “bounded” projects
- Theory and practice in activism
- Talking about trust and power in networks
- Examples, peertube and OMN
- Some of the #OMN projects
- What is visionontv
- What is my website for
- What is the #openweb
February 2023
- Socialist economics
- Anarchist economics
- Libertarian socialism
- Anti-capitalism
- For the last 30 years the has been a strong alt-globalization movement
- The Genoa #G8 Summit protest
- A story about outreach
- The Mess We’ve Made: Neoliberalism.
- The 1999 Seattle WTO protests were a strong moment in the history of globalization and global trade
- The carnival was a reminder that resistance is possible
- The solution to the #geekproblem
- Building a better world, one link, one line of code at a time
- Composting the Last 40 Years of Social Sh*t: Understanding Political Motivations and Embracing Openness and Trust
- Liberal trolls – are often not WHO they think they are
- Archiving the #openweb in a personal way
- Back in the day talking to traditional media
- History of copyleft activist grassroots video distribution
- Hamish Campbell is an activist and filmmaker
- The Runnymede Eco-Village
- Greenham Common – Lucy Campbell, who participated in the march, reminisces about her experience
- This was the thinking of the #OMN project ten years ago
- A trailer film script for the man who bought a lifeboat
- Memorial for Don of 50 Aston street Oxford
- Talking about grassroots media as a step away from the current #techshit
- The problem with institutions funding the social side of #openweb tech
- A large-scale protest against the construction of an open-cast coal mine in Fos-y-fran, South Wales
- Thnking about “communerty”
- If people care, if people do not care.
- Thinking about why #openweb projects fail.
- Looking at #DIY projects
- This is basic to thinking – ideolagy
- “the currency of the 21st century is information”
- A simple view of the #OMN project
- DRAFT film script for #boatingeurope
- How do you understand a conservative worldview?
- We used to have heathy alt culture
- Alternative grassroots cultures fail for obvious reasons
- Libertarian #Fediverse “cats”
- What is wrong with Non-governmental organizations (#NGOs)
- A fresh look at #openweb history
- #Deathcult: a metaphor for forty years of #neoliberalism
- If you can’t understand ideology, you generally cannot “think”
- A little about #openweb projects, the Fediverse
- Worshipping the #deathcult for the last 40 years has led us to this mess.
- Lets look at non #mainstreaming ideas – Anarchism
- Why European Social Democracy for some people is a path to a just and sustainable future
- Criticisms of capitalism and its digital children the #dotcons
- What is wrong with worshipping a #deathcult
- Please share this #openweb project widly thanks
- Story about our EU outreach
- Talking about the #indymediaback project
- A look at the recent history of radical grassroots activism
- Post-modernism is a dead philosophy that still rules the #mainstreaming
January 2023
- By working together and finding working solutions, we can build a more sustainable, inclusive, and equitable #openweb for all
- A news project for the fediverse
- The #OMN is about creating horizontal scaling of social power
- What is the #OGB
- The Witches Cauldron: Making History
- Make stronger the openweb family – #4opens
- Thinking outreach of the hashtag story
- The hashtag story shows the current state of the world
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November 2022
- Some Hashtags
- Nurturing community’s – tech is not going to do this
- Technologies job is to hold the trust in place
- Talking about the #techmess
- Some one asked indieweb vs Fediverse
- Thinking about the social tech mess
- A conversation on trust and tech with #OMN projects
October 2022
- Talking to people about #twittermigration
- An activist history of the web
- Dig, plant, grow. Compost the #techshit, repeat.
- Doing the same thing in the same context and expecting different results is one of the clinical definitions of insanity
- Talking about stories and #stupidindividualism
- People BLOCKING needed process, or worst simply ignore it
- A simple look at the #OMN project
September 2022
- All good progressive society are based on trust, which is about giving up this desire
- #mainstreaming is obviously a #deathcult we do need to keep saying this
- Focus on things we don’t actually know are going to fail
- Let’s talk about the hashtag story
- Ians Campbells Eulogy
- A sordid story of fear and punishment, a path to walk away from this
- Let us tell a fabulous story of social technology
- A conversation about money and the #openweb
August 2022
- “now is not the time”
- Using the power of #4opens
- Have 2 #openweb videos to make
- Ask the question of what needs fixing.
July 2022
- Talking about the mess we are in
- Change and challange to compost the piles of techshit
- The Fediverse is an “accidental” openweb reboot
- ideas to work with
- The left mess we are in – the is a hole in my boat
- Liveing in fear – compost the #techshit – planting seeds of hope
June 2022
- Talking about hope and dispair in tech
- FUD is strong in tech
- Talking about the #geekproblem in funding
- The problem we face with funding – nlnet
May 2022
April 2022
March 2022
- CRT are not fit for purpose
- Our worshipping the #deathcult (neo-liberalism)
- Ukraine – the is a war going on
February 2022
- Looking and learning – life on the water on a scruffy boat
- Fear and loathing on the river lea is killing rare flowers and plants.
January 2022
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December 2021
- What do we think of aristocracy and monarch in codeing?
- Dogmatic liberalism and the geek
- A conversation on the #geekproblem
- An example of the #geekproblem
- Impressions of boating life in London after being back on the lea for a month
- Talking about the #geekproblem in relation to #peertube
November 2021
- The first part is about democracy, the second part is hard politics, and is more nasty.
- Let’s look at corruption in EU funding
- This view is not arrogance, I should know, having worked at the heart of this mess for 30 years
- How to fix the damage to the #openweb from the influx of #mainstreaming funding
- We all live in a #deathcult and most of us are active worshipping this cult.
- Hope is a swift flow and the strong current that pushes change/challenge
- The #hashtags are from a “prospective” that push’s rejection from people outside that perspective
- The mess we need to step away from
October 2021
- Hopelessness is a conservative reaction to social change/challenge
- Invisible agenda on the #openweb
- Influx of EU funding into the #Fediverse – all together push through, the HARD #block crumbles
- Lets rate funding for openweb projects
September 2021
July 2021
- #deathcult and #lifecult are useful metaphors for human nature
- Social media is a drug, we need to stop the self/movement harm now #OMN
- Bringing meaning is hard
June 2021
- The is such a thing as society
- Getting reliable mobile broadband – on a boat
- Really good questions, let’s try and address some issues
- What you do with it is more importent than what it is.
- Fluff/spiky debate and the respect for diversity of tactics – talking to the coop tech crew
- Sorry for the slight rambalyness – mess
May 2021
- NFT – The whole thing is a scam
- Q&A on outreaching the fluffy/spiky debate to the fluffys
- Misunderstanding – Out reaching the #OMN #openweb projects.
- We live in a world full of monsters dressed in fluffy clothes
- On the wider subject of this thread, Identity politics and the agender it pushes
- Talking to the burocractic coop crew
- Taking part in online #openweb events – and resisting the urge to bite people
- Knight foundation and its impact on grassrots media and the #openweb
- Some questions answered on fediverse “governance”
- There are circles in protest and most alternative grassroots movements
- The geekproblem – humanity’s and science
- Should we do something that is native to the Fediverse, and what would this look like?
- From chaos comes order
April 2021
- #mainstreaming #openweb standerds to the #EU
- “governance” in open-source projects
- Privacy and security on the fedivers
- To understand the social/tech #hashtags
- If we close everything we are left with the evil, a bad outcome
- A talk goes off topic – what is an #ecryptionist is illustrated.
- outreaching ActivityPub to the EU – draft
- The Fourth Estates
- The techshit churn
- This is a way of stepping away from the post-truth would
- We need working home hosting
- A conversation
- Q&A on who to empower with tech for social change/challange.
March 2021
- If academic knowledge worked in the real world we would live in very different ways
- The Fediverse – We need to now not fight like we always do
- #indymediaback is a #openweb project of consensus based radical grassroots journalism
- The problem with closed code
- The “cloud” is just a big corporate run data centre that can and will burn down
- NTF and the #fahernistas are nutters of moldy variety
- You can’t start a war if there is nothing to fight over
- That would be a battle worth of a saga
- Censorship on the fedivers is different to censorship on the #dotcons
- Bluesky thinking of a “governance” body of the fedivers
- As with most metaphors (and real life) the definition is not exact
- Doesn’t OMN need to fit into some economic relationships?
- What is the #OMN project for
- hashtag storys #4opens
- Over the last 10 years we have been told a lie
- At the #OMN we have a number of #openweb tools for you to use
February 2021
- Open/closed, hard/soft or trust/fear.
- Looking to build a low power boat computer/electric network on my boat
- Let’s talk about the journalism
- The #hashtags tell a storie
- It’s now hard to get an easy view of the death of #indymedia
- The is a “good” seed of a different view in the #OMN project
- All “standards” are social agreements/consensuses
- Over complexity is fixed by trust and #KISS
- Most history’s of #indymedia are full of academic wank
- Thinking about #OMN from 4 years ago
January 2021
- Churning of pointless tech projects
- The sins of #openweb chat
- Rolling out the test #indymediaback projects
- The #OMN is built from 30 years of working at the coal face of grassroots media and tech
- What do you mean by “mainstreaming”
- Thinking about a bigger lifeboat fit out for Russian voyage
- A humane project to push balance back into the current #deathcult flow
- Shifting power in #openweb projects
- Security concepts tend to be from the conservative ideological viewpoint
- Why use the hashtags?
- On every measurable indicator, Bitcoin has been a failure
- A conversation on #OMN issues around metadata
- Why do people need power?
- What does anarchism want #4opens #OMN is an attempt to find an answer
- We need to talk about “metadata” and the “freemarkit”
- Grants and funding radical/tech projects
- The senate “insurrection” and the media
- #4opens #review Threema GmbH Seriously Secure Messaging
- The is a hierarchy of good/evil in chat
- The #openweb is a space for both progressives and reactionary groups
- The banning of trump and gab on #dotcons
- Makinghistory a OMN project
- Are you depressed with the world – A VERY positive world view for you
- Cat videos – A “shadow ban” experiment on youtube
- Seeing were the problem is and acting on it.
- We need more crew to make this rollout work
- The current mess and the media
- The nutters in “power” need challenging, where is this challenge coming from?
- Next step in the #OMN
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December 2020
- Can you host videos over Tor?
- A positive view of the human condition
- Were next for #indymediaback
- Human tech – OMN
- Peertube is a good project with issues
- Let’s build a real world example base on the OMN tools set -indymeda instance/network
- The OMN is a KISS project.
- Report back on #XR peertube/youtube video posting experiment
- Let think about where the #BLOCKS are on grassroots media.
- Anti dogmatic thinking
- Q. are the unpleasant side effects from the vaccine true?
- Take a moment to think about basics
November 2020
- Where is evil in our world
- Why so many manure piles online?
- If you are interested in online security have a read
- Outreaching the openweb
- What do you think of this mess?
- People send me links – one look is all it takes
- Think the soil is a little dry past time for some compost, get your spades out.
- Judge projects by the #4opens then by #PGA hallmarks is a good first step
- Why openweb projects fail
October 2020
- Rich compost in technology
- DRAFT of indymedia reboot UX
- Modern poison
- Living through a open/closed war in the indymedia years.
- Should we use tech or social to verify a news source/flow.
- Why move away from both the #dotcons and the #encryptionists now?
- DRAFT – contemporary look and feel
- How should the hyper local indymedia rollout
- Q&A what is a fashernista in the hashtag way.
- The encryptionsists – the last 10 years.
- Folksonomy and categories – bottom up/top down – open/closed
- 4opens review of NHSX track and trace app
- On outreach of OMN and indymedia reboot
September 2020
August 2020
- What is the #geekproblem
- Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing
- What did you do in the #dotcons during the climatechoas breakdown
- Are your viral left mems a problem rather than a solution
- Talking to our crew in the dotcons
- What are contemporary sins?
July 2020
May 2020
- What Planet of the Humans Reveals About Us
- The Rainbow Myths and Traditions
- What is the Open Media Network (OMN)
March 2020
- A look at the internal mess of the uk indymedia project
- The stress and destruction of the boaters on rummelsburg bay in Berlin
- Talking to an “academic” what is rainbow
- The currency of the 21st century is information
- Opening up #openweb search
- Blind
- Fig leafs are dangerous in tech
- For the social change we need
- If you are interested in technology and society
- OMN questions
- What is the OMN
February 2020
- All code is ideology manifested
- Step over to the openweb if they wont to keep in touch
- Not scaling is a feature not a problem in federated networks
- You wont find much “truth” in the #dotcons
- #OMN a seed is planted
- A message for my #dotcons frends
January 2020
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December 2019
- #OMN idea of indymedia reboot
- Useing WordPress as a open tech project.
- Windpower on a inland boat
- Tec in the post truth world
- How to leave the #dotcons
- Talking about rebooting openweb media
- Lots of fashionable activist use telegram the chat app, a 4opens review
- 20 years of indymedia
November 2019
October 2019
September 2019
August 2019
- A #4opens review of boatbuddys.co.uk
- Please remember that just about everything around you is pushing the #deathcult
- How not to spead #deathcult propaganda on the #dotcons
- The great hack
- What could a #4opens world look like?
- The question of who has access to data and more importantly metadata.
- Not much is radical
July 2019
June 2019
- Boatingeurope – we made a trial run to the Black Sea today
- Boating Europe: He, she and a lifeboat
- The #dotcons put shiny on there poison pill and we swallowed a heap
May 2019
- The problem of the green party attack on social democracy
- Tesla is greenwash #deathcult
- Capitalism is now visibly a #deathcult its basic stuff
- Tools for portable video screening
- How to be an Admin in the SPAM era?
- It is a media war and we have no media
- A Q&A on altmedia
- Our citys under Capitalism #deathcult
- The fluffy/spiky debate and #XR
April 2019
March 2019
- Were next #Brexit in the era of rotting concrete ideolagy.
- If you want a good progressive media you need to challenge the powerpolatics that our current individual groups are based on
- Its hard to find a external battery that works with laptops and solar power.
- A question for fashionistas is drinking piss healthy?
- A conversation about nuclear power as band aid for climate change
February 2019
January 2019
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December 2018
November 2018
- Draft outline script – 01. Buying the boat & motivation
- Join Boatingeurope patron account
- Omn
- Extinction Rebellion outside the filterbubble
October 2018
- A look at how technology shapes progressive/radical media-looking forward-looking back
- Draft of our funding for the story
- Helping the stepaway from the #dotcons
September 2018
- Rainbow gatherings happen far away from Babylon – the problem of #failbook
- Radical Networks
- Power politics is always full of stupidity
August 2018
June 2018
- Power Trip: Fracking in the UK
- Building alt/grassroots media networks to challenge and widen the traditional media
- Since we left London
- Brainstorming London boater gentrification
- Summing up of the #webroots meetings at #nwsk
- The OMN Its a network of flows
- The Open Media Network (OMN)
- visionOntv – A bit of history