We use hashtags as scaffolding for the needed social truth, not as slogans, but as scaffolding, lightweight markers that point to recurring structural issues: #geekproblem #fashernista #dotcons #blocking are not insults. They are shorthand for patterns that otherwise take pages to explain. But […]
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...
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.
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...
If you need a definition of the #geekproblem its putting the social side of tech outside of tech. It's the beaver of child putting is head in the sand and saying I can't hear you.
And this is strong #mainstreming #blocking of any working alt paths in tech. It's a problem, a#eekproblem that we […]
www.techpolicy.press/the-case-for-open-source... Tech Policy Press on treating open source as EU public infrastructure, calling for a Sovereign Tech Fund.
But let's be honest — the #geekproblem is part of the problem, and the #NGO crowd often […]
We cannot build future paths by pretending the problem is just technical. Talking About the #geekproblem in Funding hamishcampbell.com/talking-abou...
An example of the #geekproblem historically is the refusal, or failure, to engage seriously with standards. Everything we build sits on standards hamishcampbell.com/everything-w...
Let’s be honest: we have a real and ongoing #geekproblem in how funding is allocated in the alt-tech and #openweb space. Talking about this in #openweb funding hamishcampbell.com/talking-abou...
One thing I do on this site is to use the #OMN hashtag story to address the challenges and opportunities in the tech world. Understanding #OMN and the #GeekProblem hamishcampbell.com/understandin...
Here’s a small but powerful challenge for #openweb builders – and a perfect #DIY project if you’re fed up with the current #geekproblem. Programming Mission: Let’s Fix the Fediverse Discovery Gap hamishcampbell.com/programming-...
All the current #fedivers instant picker fail because they are #geekproblem that is they focus on facts not metadata - I am looking for instances that cover my town of Oxford so i can promote them but web searches and instances pickers are painless dead ends on this - it's a problem someone can […]
If you are a part of this #geekproblem then it is worth taking a step back to consider how our current coding practices shaped by society and liberalism affect both society and ecology in this blind worship. Addressing the #geekproblem https://hamishcampbell.com/addressing-the-geekproblem/
The geek path for tech and social change is a diverse view, though always full of the #geekproblem. The Open Society and its Media (Mark S. Miller at GMU, 1991?) hamishcampbell.com/the-open-society-and-its...
The Philosophers Talking About AI: Context, Flow, and the #geekproblem hamishcampbell.com/the-philosop... There were some underlying themes that are deeply relevant to how we think about privacy, information, and our current techno-social mess.
All code is ideology solidified into action hamishcampbell.com/all-code-is-... The problem we face is the endemic #geekproblem prat’ish behaviour that blocks this needed balance.
A sharp take hamishcampbell.com/a-sharp-take/ That’s the #geekproblem: not the code, but the refusal to look at the problem outside the code.
Critique without action is just noise. If we want real change, we need to move beyond commentary and into building. From #GeekProblem to #OMN Solutions hamishcampbell.com/from-geekpro...
The #mainstreaming influx is a HUGE distraction to our #fashernista and #geekproblem people, and this is leading to a fuckup on usability hamishcampbell.com/a-guest-post-the-mess-of...
The #GeekProblem: Why Open Development Is Stuck in a Dead End hamishcampbell.com/the-geekprob... This is why open projects fail. They mimic the structures of the #dotcons without the resources to sustain them. They chase security and rigidity at the expense of usability and social flow.
@elazar have tried a few times to make this socially easier over the last 20 years. Each time has been a compleat fail, it's a #geekproblem that is hard if not currently impossible to fix at the moment, we need fresh ideas and paths.
Technology and Social Change Working with the Facebook Generation hamishcampbell.com/technology-a... The path isn’t more #geekproblem tech fixes or empty branding exercises, it’s a radical grassroots step to collective agency.
The #Fediverse is a step, but it’s still struggling with #geekproblem governance issues. The Fediverse is a step hamishcampbell.com/the-fedivers...
The real outsiders are the ones who see what’s coming and refuse to play along. The ones who step away from the herd and start building alternatives.
That’s what the #OMN is about—a space for those who refuse to march toward disaster.
The first step to escaping the #deathcult? Stop waiting […]
I kinda notice that most people I talk to are insane on the internet, this is not just an online issue, you find the same offline.
After 40 years of worshipping a #deathcult #stupidindividualism and our tech built by the #geekproblem this is not a surprise.
Finding sanity is a question I put […]
