Hamish Campbell
@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp 13 hours ago

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The roadblocks to change: #StupidIndividualism and the #Deathcult that breeds it

If you’ve ever tried to build something radical, collective, and actually useful, you’ve run into these forces. They’re not just annoying. They’re dangerous, structural, and they always show up. This post is about naming those, calling them what they are, and understanding how they’re entangled in the wider problem:

A culture that valorizes individualism, feeds on careerism, and bows to the false “common sense” of the neoliberal #deathcult.

The #NGO agenda: Careerism in activist […]
Hamish Campbell
@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

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Theory and Practice in Activism

There’s a common confusion pushed by well-meaning #fashernistas, about how change actually happens. They love theory. They love to talk about change. But when it comes to doing, things go sideways. Why? Because good horizontalists know: theory must emerge from practice, not the other way around.

At the root of radical practice is #DIY culture. We don’t wait for perfect theory or academic approval. We get our hands dirty. We try things, we fail, we try again. Through this, we build […]
Hamish Campbell
@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp 2 years ago

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History of copyleft activist grassroots video distribution

Hamish Campbell, the founder of #VisiononTV, began his journey into copyleft video through his project called #RoughCuts. In a recent interview, Campbell shared how RoughCuts started as one of the first copyleft video projects that encoded activist video in MPEG-1 format, an early standard format for video. He would burn CDs with an hour of different films and create a user interface using HTML to make it easy for people to watch them and screen them from their computers.

The CDs were sold […]
Hamish Campbell
@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp 2 years ago

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Why do people keep doing pointless self harm – news aggregation

There are hundreds (over the last 20 years likely thousands) of news, aggregation sites. It’s a common #dotcons model to enclose the “commons” people see free content and think I can capture that. The problem is news content looks like it’s free, but that’s because it’s “free” to spread, but it’s VERY expensive in human (and thus money) to produce the content. This side is never addressed in these failed tech projects.

We currently have #traditionalmedia all round the world pushing to be […]
Saaste
@saaste@mementomori.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

No niin, ensimmäinen TRMNL-plugin viritelty. Tämä hakee Ilmatieteenlaitoksen rajapinnasta tuoreimmat säähavainnot. Nyt kun pääsi sisään siihen kuinka tuo toimii, niin voikin alkaa askarrella seuraavan tietolähteen kanssa 🤓

#trmnl #diy
✨ justada :polish_cow:
@adaofgreengables@eldritch.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

​It is done. I finished making the CNC machine. It draws circuits on a copper plate, just how i wanted. It is rare for me to finish a project. I'm so incredibly happy about it blob_melt_sob_love
The machine is still in kind of a rough shape. I will make proper power circuit and maybe a bluetooth for serial. Other then that, it is ready to be used bowsette_blonde

(Part 7: Finished)

#diy #cnc #arduino #electronics​
✨ justada :polish_cow:
@adaofgreengables@eldritch.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Okay I'm so incredibly excited to show this bowsette_redhead_angry The CNC machine is almost ready and here is a short video of the z axis at work, together with a 3d printed pen holding contraption (courtesy of my friend who kindly printed it for me 🥰)
I can't believe it works. Now all that remains is the software part 👀

Credits:
The 3d model used is by tranluan19 and can be found here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5505579

(Part 6)

#diy #cnc #arduino #electronics​

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Tushar Chauhan
@tchauhan@mastodon.mit.edu  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Hi tooters, I seek some electronics wisdom today.

I'm looking for something to cut thin tungsten electrode wires with (done under a microscope). The wirecutters used for electronics quickly develop little grooves and become useless.

Is there a better solution which doesn't cost $500 ? Tried the bead-makers' cutters and they are not sharp enough for this. Any ideas ? Tired of ordering random wirecutters that don't work !

#electronics #wirecutters#DIY #advice #benchwork
Artem Anufrij
@artem@social.anufrij.de  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

A few weeks ago, I got some oak planks from a local farmer. Over a couple of weekends, I built several garden furniture pieces. Here's a gallery with the result. 🪵

First part: Rack for the table and the benches ⚒️

cc: @diy @makershour

#diy #woodenart #woodenart #woodwork #woodart #makershour #selfmade #handmade #nature

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muppeth
@muppeth@fe.disroot.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Grouting done 🎉 its funny how the bathroom starts looking so similar to the idea designed and rendered by @antilopa on a computer. Looking forward to a shower next week.
Today was a weird day. I managed to do a lot of stuff while not feeling tired and I felt overall very happy and relaxed.
To the point my stupid brain kept trying to make me feel like I am missing something or I am not doing enough or that something isn't right. I did manage to supress that most of the day though.
Its a weird condition I diagnosed long time ago but trying to fight it now. This constant feeling like you aren't doing enough, you need to push more and at the same time feeling like you are constantly busy from dusk till dawn and yet can't tell what or how much you managed to do. So you endup always feeling like you did not accomplish anything. You always feel busy and at the same time stressed about not doing enough.

Today was a different day. A day I dont remember having in a long time. 🙃
Feels good.
#diy#spruitje#mentalhealth