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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 9d

Realism is international relations for adult teenagers who never grew up – still desperate to make their childhood world of heroes, villains, and empires real. The #IR view of how to survive in a hostile world hamishcampbell.com/the-ir-view-...

The #IR view of how to survive in a hostile world – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 9d

The first revolutionary act in the 2020s isn’t heroic, it’s just showing up, not being a prat, and doing the obvious things, together hamishcampbell.com/first-step-s...

First step is #KISS – Stop being a prat – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 9d

Brilliant ideas, sometimes beautiful tech, all eventually collapse under the weight of poor social foundations, bad governance, and chasing #geekproblem dreams and #fashionista paths that have nothing to do with real people’s needs hamishcampbell.com/finally-make...

Finally, make the most of my attention, I’ll be blunt, you don’t have my attention for long – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 11d

We need a future that’s better, not just less bad. It’s how humans have always lived – together hamishcampbell.com/its-how-huma...

It’s how humans have always lived – together – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 12d

When people have no grounding in subcultures, one that underpins our civil rights, free software, and creative commons, they apply their all-knowing #mainstreaming “common sense.” #BLOCKING the needed process, or simply ignore it hamishcampbell.com/people-block...

People BLOCKING the needed process, or simply ignore it – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 13d

The result was a self-destructive cycle that caused the UK #Indymedia project to become irrelevant, exemplifying a broader failure to embrace shared, open paths. The ideological blindness of the tech world hamishcampbell.com/critique-the...

Critique the ideological blindness of the tech world – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 14d

The root problem lies in “common sense” blocking and an intolerance toward the very idea of bridging these divergent paths, hindering progress from both sides. #KISS is a key to democracy hamishcampbell.com/kiss-is-a-ke...

#KISS is a key to democracy – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 15d

Trust is the foundation of moderation in decentralised networks like the #OMN This is how moderation works in a decentralised network, not by pretending we’re neutral, but by showing up with care and accountability. hamishcampbell.com/trust-is-the...

Trust is the foundation of moderation in decentralised networks like the #OMN – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 16d

I am writing to express my support for the #datweb project, which I see as a needed step toward rebalancing the web away from centralized control and enclosure. hamishcampbell.com/support-lett...

Support letter for funding application – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 16d

Because the web – like Middle-Earth – is worth saving. A Tolkien view of #OMN hamishcampbell.com/a-tolkien-vi...

A Tolkien view of #OMN – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 18d

My feeling and experience of this is that these types of people will with blindness destroy what they say they value for the security of what they say they don't value. So how can people try not to be prats about this conversation? hamishcampbell.com/so-how-can-p...

So how can people try not to be prats about this conversation? – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 19d

My feeling and experience of this is that these types of people will with blindness destroy what they say they value for the security of what they say they don’t value. So how can people try not to be prats about this conversation? hamishcampbell.com/so-how-can-p...

So how can people try not to be prats about this conversation? – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 19d

Let’s try some metaphors. STAR WARS: THE SOFT EMPIRE hamishcampbell.com/star-wars-th...

STAR WARS: THE SOFT EMPIRE – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 20d

LIVE at c-base hamishcampbell.com/live-at-c-ba... With our #fluffy crew talking about the shared reboot, on the surface it looks positive – friendly conversations, smiles, the right hashtags – but underneath it reveals a deeper problem: there is zero balance at these events.

#fediday #c-based

LIVE at c-base a #fluffy Fediverse conference – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 20d

The #openweb is about more than technology; it’s about the kind of society we want to build, and the kind of people we want to be #KISS. The Forgotten Story of Social Technology: Why It Matters hamishcampbell.com/the-forgotte...

The Forgotten Story of Social Technology: Why It Matters – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 20d

These people have a role in the balance of the #openweb reboot, the middle class, careerists, petty capitalist, “privileged” #NGO and co-op crew. Talking to the Bureaucratic Co-op Crew – Governance, Culture, and the Fediverse hamishcampbell.com/talking-to-t...

Talking to the Bureaucratic Co-op Crew – Governance, Culture, and the Fediverse – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 22d

The open vs. closed data dichotomy is currently largely invisible, so good to bring focus to this. Replacing market signalling with #opendata signalling hamishcampbell.com/replacing-ma...

Replacing market signalling with #opendata signalling – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 22d

The #mainstreaming is hallucinating. Let’s be very blunt, these people are not important as individuals. What matters is the path they push us down. The “commonsense” they sell is poison. hamishcampbell.com/the-mainstre...

The #mainstreaming is hallucinating – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 22d

Why? Because fear works, the system adapts, the majority would rather scrabble for comfortable servitude than risk any unknown path hamishcampbell.com/why/

Why? – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 22d

We need better, more hopeful understanding of this technology. #openweb vs #closedweb is the battle for the Internet hamishcampbell.com/openweb-vs-c...

#openweb vs #closedweb is the battle for the Internet – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 22d

We need an honest conversation hamishcampbell.com/we-need-an-h... Please take note of the working activism at the start of this article. You can support and take part.

We need an honest conversation – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 23d

The #geekproblem might kill meany of us, mediating it matters hamishcampbell.com/the-geekprob... the systemic #blocking of an anti-capitalist movement holds back the needed radical shift, despite our obvious evidence of human adaptability, creativity, and resilience.

The #geekproblem might kill meany of us, mediating it matters – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 23d

There’s an unspoken #geekproblem lurking at the heart of the #openweb, and it’s past time we bring it into the light. In tech, what matters and what is dangerous hamishcampbell.com/what-matters...

In tech, what matters and what is dangerous – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 24d

Now, in the era of #stupidindividualism, which path do you think most people are taking? Yeah. That one. On being a prat in tech and social spaces (Yes, this might be about you 😘) hamishcampbell.com/on-being-a-p...

On being a prat in tech and social spaces (Yes, this might be about you 😘) – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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Hamish Campbell @hamishcampbell.bsky.social · 24d

This happened to me some years ago at a community-run space in Dalston. One person dominated meetings, spoke over others, and made every decision-making process a battleground. Power Politics and the Race/Gender Card – A Contemporary Reflection hamishcampbell.com/power-politi...

Power Politics and the Race/Gender Card – A Contemporary Reflection – #OMN (Open Media Network)

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