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Hamish Campbell
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The Blockchain Socialist: Self-Destruction as Theory

The Blockchain Socialist podcast is the deluded self-destructive talking about the deluded self-destructive in tech. It’s a mirror of our time: intellectuals dissecting the ruins while still worshipping the same #deatcult gods that caused the collapse.

I am listening to an example of this Urbit - a hardcoded, reactionary dream of order built on decentralization, doomed from the start. Not only because the code is bad, but because the culture is. Control disguised as liberation. Hierarchy […]

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@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

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The Blockchain Socialist: Self-Destruction as Theory

The Blockchain Socialist podcast is the deluded self-destructive talking about the deluded self-destructive in tech. It’s a mirror of our time: intellectuals dissecting the ruins while still worshipping the same #deatcult gods that caused the collapse.

I am listening to an example of this Urbit - a hardcoded, reactionary dream of order built on decentralization, doomed from the start. Not only because the code is bad, but because the culture is. Control disguised as liberation. Hierarchy […]

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Change is Freedom, Change is Life

A post inspired by rereading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed as a part of the utopia reading group in #Oxford. This book is useful for the students jumping to the next stage of their lives. There’s a moment - often at the end of the teens when people face a choice. To be like everybody else for the rest of their lives, or to make a virtue of their peculiarities.

Most people choose the easy path: they find a nice, safe hierarchy and settle in. They obey the rules, repeat […]

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@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

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Change is Freedom, Change is Life

A post inspired by rereading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed as a part of the utopia reading group in #Oxford. This book is useful for the students jumping to the next stage of their lives. There’s a moment - often at the end of the teens when people face a choice. To be like everybody else for the rest of their lives, or to make a virtue of their peculiarities.

Most people choose the easy path: they find a nice, safe hierarchy and settle in. They obey the rules, repeat […]

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@hamishcampbell@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

How we describe things matters, in this our #fashionistas “common sense” needs work to compost. Cutting through 99% of the #techshit https://hamishcampbell.com/cutting-through-99-of-the-techshit/

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@hamishcampbell@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Let’s be honest, much of the so-called “alternative” tech scene is still stuck. Yes, we fled the #dotcons for something better, but ended up with to meany copies of the same broken models. Dig, Plant, Grow. Compost the #Techshit. Repeat https://hamishcampbell.com/dig-plant-grow-compost-the-techshit-repeat-2/

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The #AI bubble might be nastier than the Dot.com crash

The path the #mainstreaming in tech is taking is clear. #AI is fashion, the valuations are absurd, the cost structures unsustainable, and the hype cycle feels like it’s already outpacing reality.

We’ve been here before, dot.com déjà vu. The #dotcons bubble of 2000 was built on fake demand and fantasy valuations. Venture capital flooded into half-baked platforms that promised to "reinvent" everything, while the effect was to hollow out and enclose the native #openweb. When the bubble […]

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@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

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The #AI bubble might be nastier than the Dot.com crash

The path the #mainstreaming in tech is taking is clear. #AI is fashion, the valuations are absurd, the cost structures unsustainable, and the hype cycle feels like it’s already outpacing reality.

We’ve been here before, dot.com déjà vu. The #dotcons bubble of 2000 was built on fake demand and fantasy valuations. Venture capital flooded into half-baked platforms that promised to "reinvent" everything, while the effect was to hollow out and enclose the native #openweb. When the bubble […]

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Looking for an affinity group to take the first step #OMN

The #hashtag story is about disempowering the #mainstreaming in our minds. That’s the first step, breaking the spell, realising we don’t have to accept their frame.

The second step is the affinity group forming circle — gathering with others who see through the mess of smoke and mirrors. That circle gives us the power to build the #OMN shovel.

The last step is the work of composting. Taking all the #techshit, the failed projects, the poisoned culture, and turning it back into soil […]

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Looking for an affinity group to take the first step #OMN

The #hashtag story is about disempowering the #mainstreaming in our minds. That’s the first step, breaking the spell, realising we don’t have to accept their frame.

The second step is the affinity group forming circle — gathering with others who see through the mess of smoke and mirrors. That circle gives us the power to build the #OMN shovel.

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The #hashtag story is about disempowering the #mainstreaming in our minds. That’s the first step, breaking the spell, realising we don’t have to accept their frame.

The second step is the affinity group forming circle — gathering with others who see through the mess of smoke and mirrors. That circle gives us the power to build the #OMN shovel.

The last step #OGB is the work of composting. Taking all the #techshit, the failed projects, the poisoned culture, and turning it back into soil

What we do with the soil we create is up to us. That’s where the future grows. #KISS

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The #hashtag story is about disempowering the #mainstreaming in our minds. That’s the first step, breaking the spell, realising we don’t have to accept their frame.

The second step is the affinity group forming circle — gathering with others who see through the mess of smoke and mirrors. That circle gives us the power to build the #OMN shovel.

The last step #OGB is the work of composting. Taking all the #techshit, the failed projects, the poisoned culture, and turning it back into soil

What we do with the soil we create is up to us. That’s where the future grows. #KISS

https://hamishcampbell.com/hashtags/

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Hamish Campbell
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Composting the #techshit, planting the future

We are stripped naked by the last 40 years of the #deatcult. Every assumption that we lived in a tolerant, “good” world. The class war was balanced to stop the possibility of a soviet takeover, as liberals see this, two accidents: a temporary ecosystemic surplus and a temporary post-WWII settlement. Both have been steadily dismantled. And when the foundations are gone, the liberal illusions fall with them.

In the USA, Trump, neoliberalism’s golem, is dismantling his creators’ […]

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Composting the #techshit, planting the future

We are stripped naked by the last 40 years of the #deatcult. Every assumption that we lived in a tolerant, “good” world. The class war was balanced to stop the possibility of a soviet takeover, as liberals see this, two accidents: a temporary ecosystemic surplus and a temporary post-WWII settlement. Both have been steadily dismantled. And when the foundations are gone, the liberal illusions fall with them.

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@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

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Pick up the shovel, build the commons

Right now, our digital lives are stuck between two bad choices: Stranded silos, your notes, photos, chats locked into one device. #dotcons capture, hand it all to Google, Apple, Meta, and rent your own history back from them.

We deserve better. What we actually need is simple: Blobs of data that syncs across devices and servers. A conflict resolution flow. Sync is hard, but not impossible, better to resolve a clash than lose flow. A protocol path that isn’t “just another cloud,” but […]

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A small view of a step we need

I normally talk and work on big issues, let's look for a moment at smaller steps. To make a big change, we need to start with practical paths (everyday grassroots & do-able). A personal short step is to detox one feed, not your life. Pick one algorithmic platform and shrink usage: unfollow, mute, or temporarily uninstall the app. Replace 15–30 minutes of scrolling with one intentional action by using replacement tools (not perfect, but better).

Try ActivityPub/Fediverse clients (Mastodon, […]

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@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp last month

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A small view of a step we need

I normally talk and work on big issues, let's look for a moment at smaller steps. To make a big change, we need to start with practical paths (everyday grassroots & do-able). A personal short step is to detox one feed, not your life. Pick one algorithmic platform and shrink usage: unfollow, mute, or temporarily uninstall the app. Replace 15–30 minutes of scrolling with one intentional action by using replacement tools (not perfect, but better).

Try ActivityPub/Fediverse clients (Mastodon, […]

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The algorithm is feeding us fascism – Time to step away

With the spreading of right-wing propaganda on the #dotcons what we're experiencing is a late-stage symptom of the #dotcons algorithm machine. Once it starts feeding this level of right-wing “recommended” propaganda, you can be certain that the average person has been saturated with it for years. That’s how we end up with the cultural rot and polarisation we see now.

The dynamic is simple:

Engagement is the only metric → anger and fear drive more engagement than trust or hope → […]

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The algorithm is feeding us fascism – Time to step away

With the spreading of right-wing propaganda on the #dotcons what we're experiencing is a late-stage symptom of the #dotcons algorithm machine. Once it starts feeding this level of right-wing “recommended” propaganda, you can be certain that the average person has been saturated with it for years. That’s how we end up with the cultural rot and polarisation we see now.

The dynamic is simple:

Engagement is the only metric → anger and fear drive more engagement than trust or hope → […]

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@hamishcampbell@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

The #dotcons algorithm as started to show me right-wing propaganda on #YouTube which means normal people have been seeing this crap for the last few years. This is likely why we are such a mess, we need to get people to step away from this back to the #openweb. To make this happen, the is lots of #techshit to compost #OMN

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