A conversation about ideology, sociology, and the #openweb. Let’s start with a basic liberal framework:
“Most social interactions should happen in the open. Some personal interactions should remain private.”
Seems reasonable, right? That’s the position
A conversation about ideology, sociology, and the #openweb. Let’s start with a basic liberal framework: “Most social interactions should happen in the open. Some personal interactions should remain private.” Seems reasonable, right? That’s the position many of us think we agree on. Yet when we look at how our technology, and by extension, our society, is being built, that balance is totally out of whack. Today, more and more of life is CLOSED: Closed apps.Closed data.Closed social groups.Closed algorithms.Closed hardware.Closed governance. And on the flip side, the things that should be protected, our intimate conversations, our location, our health data, are often wide open to surveillance capitalism and state control. What the current “common sense” dogma gets wrong? What is missing is the idea that mainstream tech culture, privacy absolutists, and many crypto/anarchist types: Almost all good social power comes from OPEN.Most social evils take root in CLOSED spaces. When people organize together in the open, they create commons, accountability, and momentum. They make movements. When decisions are made behind closed doors, they breed conspiracy, hierarchy, abuse, and alienation.
It’s not just about what is open or closed, it’s about who controls the boundary, and what happens on each side. If we close everything… If we follow the logic of total lockdown, of defaulting to encryption, of mistrust-by-design… then what we’re left with is only the closed.
This leads to a brutal truth, the powers that dominate in closed systems are rarely the good ones. Secrecy benefits the powerful far more than the powerless. Always has.
So when we let the #openweb collapse, or treat it as naive, we’re not protecting ourselves. We’re giving up the last space where power might be accountable, where ideas might circulate freely, where we might build something together. ⚖️ Examples: When openness was lost
Let’s talk about a real-world case of #Diaspora vs. #RSS. 15 years ago, Diaspora emerged with crypto-anarchist hype as the alternative to Facebook. It was secure, decentralized, and… mostly closed. It emphasized encryption and privacy, but lacked network effects, openness, and simple flows of information.
In the same era, we already had #RSS, a beautifully open, decentralized protocol. It powered blogs, podcasts, news aggregators, without permission or centralized control.
But the “Young #fashionistas ” of the scene shouted down RSS as old, irrelevant, and too “open.” They wanted to start fresh, with new protocols, new silos, new power. They abandoned the working #openweb to build “secure” ghost towns.
Fast-forward a decade, and now we’re rebuilding in the Fediverse with RSS+ as #ActivityPub. The same functionality. The same ideals, just more code and more complexity. That 10-year gap is the damage caused by the #geekproblem, the failure to build with the past, and for real people.
So what is the #geekproblem? At root, it’s a worldview issue. A failure to think about human beings in real social contexts. Geeks (broadly speaking) assume:
People are adversaries or threats (thus: encrypt everything),
Centralization is evil, but decentralization is always pure (thus: build silos of one),
Social complexity can be reduced to elegant protocols (thus: design first, use later).
But technology isn’t neutral. It reflects ideologies. And if we don’t name those ideologies, they drive the project blindly.
A place to start is to map your ideology, want to understand how you think about openness vs. closedness? Start by reflecting on where you sit ideologically, not in labels, but in instincts. A quick sketch: Conservatism: Assumes order, tradition, and authority are necessary. Values stability, hierarchy, and often privacy.Liberalism: Believes in open society, individual freedom, transparency, and market-based solutions.Anarchism: Rejects imposed authority, promotes mutual aid, horizontal structures, and often radical openness. None of these are “right,” but understanding where you lean helps clarify why you walk, build or support certain tools. If you’re building tools for the #openweb, these questions matter: Do you default to closed and secure, or open and messy?Who do you trust with knowledge—individuals or communities?Do you believe good things come from control, or emergence? These are sociological questions, not just technical ones, maybe start here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociolog… and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_…. Where do we go from here? Let’s bring this back to the openweb and the projects we’re trying to build, like: #OMN (Open Media Network)#MakingHistory#indymediaback#Fediverse#P2P tools (DAT, Nostr, SSB, etc.) All of these projects struggle with the tension between openness and privacy, between usability and purity, between federation and anarchy.
But if we start with clear values, and an honest reflection on the world we want to create, we can avoid the worst traps. Let’s say it plainly: Not everything should be open. But if we close everything, we lose what’s worth protecting. Let’s talk: What do you think should be closed? What must be kept open at all costs? What’s your ideological instinct, and how does it shape your view of the #openweb?
¡Buenos días! Os saludo hoy con un nuevo artículo que escribí ayer: La cultura como acto político.
En él, recojo reflexiones que me han suscitado varios ensayos que he leído estos años (El amanecer de todo, La cuerda de las generaciones y Escrito en la arena) y también novelas y relatos (Walkaway, Los desposeídos, Los que se marchan de Omelas), acerca de cómo concebimos lo cultural y la tradición.
Frente a la idea de cultura como algo que recibimos y transmitimos y que es más auténtico cuanto menos se modifica, recojo una noción de cultura entendida como un proceso dinámico fruto de decisiones políticas, es decir, colectivas.
¡Ojalá os guste o parezca interesante! Como siempre, me encantaría saber qué os parece cuando lo leáis 🥰🌷
This is so god damn weird behaviour… the more infill I add (which is applied every second layer) the faster it goes on that layer. On layers where he only prints perimeters #PrusaSlicer limits the print speed to 15mm/s for some unknown reason. I can't find the weird setting responsible for this… #3DPrinting
there is a time setting for the minimal time, a Layer must cool. Is the print time of the layer smaller than this cool time, the printing Speed slows down no matter what Speed is Set to. Decreese the cooling time per Layer and the Speed goes up. Took me hours to find out.
Texas Overhauls Anti-Abortion Program That Spent Tens of Millions of Taxpayer Dollars With Little Oversight —
After a ProPublica and CBS News investigation revealed that Texas’ funding pipeline for anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers is riddled with waste, nonprofits in the program must now provide a detailed accounting of their expenses.
Republicans Say "It Is OK If My Girl Friend To Have An Abortion But Not For The Rest of Woman." Animal Farm's famous saying "All Animals are Equal But Some Are More Equal Than Others."
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I hate this so much. “Legal” “non-profit” anti-abortion centers are in on the Republican grift & shouldn’t exist. 🤬 Texas taxpayers like me think we could’ve spent that money in better ways. Flood control? Infrastructure? Improving education/ schools. Feeding the poor. Helping the unhoused. Caring for the sick and elderly. 😣
Il plugin #Docusaurus gist aggiungeva una pagina all'istanza di Docusaurus, mostrando tutti i gist pubblici degli utenti GitHub che lo usano
Le versioni di docusaurus-plugin-content-gists precedenti alla 4.0.0 sono vulnerabili all'esposizione dei token di accesso personale GitHub negli artefatti di build di produzione quando vengono passati attraverso le opzioni di configurazione del plugin. Il token, destinato esclusivamente all'accesso API in fase di build, viene inavvertitamente incluso nei bundle JavaScript lato client, rendendolo accessibile a chiunque possa visualizzare il codice sorgente del sito web. Questa vulnerabilità è stata risolta nella versione 4.0.0.
Paul McCartney sta per tornare in tournee in Nord America. L'ex Beatle ha annunciato le date del suo primo tour dal 2022 che prendera' il via il 29 settembre a Palm Desert in California. (ANSA)
Ferrero ha raggiunto un accordo per acquistare WK Kellogg per 23 dollari per azione in contanti. E' quanto si legge in una nota. L'accordo è stato approvato all'unanimità dal consigli di amministrazione di WK Kellogg. (ANSA)
Le forze israeliane intensificano gli attacchi aerei e terrestri su Gaza, uccidendo almeno 55 palestinesi nel territorio assediato dall'alba, secondo quanto riferito da fonti mediche ad Al Jazeera. (ANSA)
Jannik Sinner si allena in vista della sfida in semifinale di Wimbledon contro Novak Djokovic. Con Pierluigi Basile come sparring partner, il numero uno indossa ancora il manicotto, ma nessun fastidio durante i colpi
C'è un post sponsorizzato simile a mille altri che abbiamo visto negli anni, un post che è una classica offerta fuffa, di quelle che vogliono convincervi a comperare sfruttando un link che, a detta loro, vi permette di risparmiare tantissimi soldi.
"Non bisogna fare una seconda Agenzia delle Entrate, che credo che non voglia nessuno. A noi serve uno strumento diverso per far fronte a questa necessità". (ANSA)
Mercanti e Puppa ”Unità e chiarezza. Avanti con Giani“ I due consiglieri, in interventi differenti, condividono la candidatura-bis del governatore: “La destra è aggressiva, mettiamoci al lavoro pancia a terra“.
Le Parlement européen a largement rejeté une motion de censure visant la Commission européenne et sa présidente, Ursula von der Leyen, accusée de manque de transparence dans sa gestion de la crise du COVID-19.
Saranno presenti vari artisti per celebrare la ricorrenza dell’80esimo Anniversario della Liberazione d’Italia e il ricordo della festa indetta dal sindaco Antonio Greppi in occasione del 14 Luglio 1945 (Liberi di cantare e ballare).
CONDUCONO
Paola Piacentini e Matteo Villaci
SALUTO ISTITUZIONALE
Tommaso Sacchi – Assessore alla Cultura del Comune di Milano
** APERTURA**
Primo Minelli – Presidente ANPI provinciale di Milano
CANZONI
Anna Castiglia
Giovanni Truppi
Alessio Lega
Giulia Mei
Andrea Satta con Giorgio Maria Condemi alla chitarra
Sade Mangiaracina & Giuseppe Anastasi
Francesco Motta
Area
INTERVENTO
Gianfranco Pagliarulo – Presidente nazionale ANPI
LETTURE
Benedetta Buccellato attrice – Vincenzo Calò, Segreteria nazionale ANPI: “Ricordando Sandra e Visone”
La poetessa Maria Grazia Calandrone legge i suoi versi
Nel corso della FESTA, verranno proiettati filmati del 1945 accompagnati al piano da Angelo Pelini dei Têtes de Bois.
E interverranno Giuseppe e Gea di 14 e 11 anni che il 15 luglio partiranno da Fosdinovo sulle Alpi Apuane per “La Transumanza Gotica” in bicicletta, dal Tirreno all’Adriatico sulla Linea Gotica.
O vídeo mostra um homem em um traje formal, composto por um terno azul, camisa azul clara e gravata vermelha, falando em um microfone em um ambiente que parece ser uma assembleia ou sessão legislativa. Ele está em um contexto político, como indicado pelo texto em português sobreposto, que inclui frases como "NIKOLAS TRAIDOR DA PÁTRIA" (Nikolas Traitor of the Homeland) e "EU QUERO SABER DO SEU BOLSONARO" (I want to know about your Bolsonaro). O homem gesticula com as mãos enquanto fala, e o fundo mostra outros indivíduos sentados, alguns usando óculos e trajes formais, indicando um ambiente formal e político.
A cena se desenrola com o homem continuando a falar, e o texto sobreposto muda para "SE O ESTADOS UNIDOS TIVESSE INVAINDO O BRASIL" (If the United States had invaded Brazil) e "O BOULOS ESTAVA DO LADO DOS ESTADOS UNIDOS" (Boulos was on the side of the United States), sugerindo críticas políticas. A atmosfera é de tensão e debate, com o homem expressando suas opiniões de forma enfática.
No final, o texto sobreposto muda para "ELE FEZ O QUE ELE SABE" (He did what he knows) e "LACRAÇÃO E GRACINHA" (Mess and nonsense), indicando uma crítica contínua. O vídeo captura um momento de discussão política intensa, com o homem expressando suas opiniões de forma vigorosa.
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Sottopassi allagati e fiumi esondati: il climate change, ma non solo pressenza.com/it/2025/07/sotto… Leggo la spiegazione dell’evento e la sua immancabile cornice è il cambiamento climatico: “Il caldo estremo nei bassi strati dell’atmosfera ha determinato la grande quantità di umidità che s’è scontrata con un fronte instabile di aria più fredda in quota… Redazione Palermo
Da Rontani (Capannori Cambia) critiche sull’affidamento delle indagini demoscopiche Dubbi sulla legittimità dell'incarico per Capannori Città Quadrifoglio a due anni dal lavoro sul bicentenario a Capannori
Samsung conferma l’arrivo del suo primo tri-fold Galaxy G Fold entro il 2025, con display da 10", telaio in titanio e chip Snapdragon 8 Elite sotto la scocca.
#OtD 10 Jul 1949 Black @iww dockworker activist Ben Fletcher died at his home in Brooklyn, aged 59. He had been the leading organiser who organised the Philadelphia docks in the early part of the 20th-century, and was imprisoned during World War I. More: workingclasshistory.com/podcas…
Double podcast episode about Ben Fletcher, a very important but little-known dock worker and labour organiser in the US with the Industrial Workers of the World union.
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A glimmer of good news. Lightning Bugs Are Back: Chicago Fireflies 'More Abundant' This Summer After A Few Dark Years #Chicagoblockclubchicago.org/2025/07/0…
forum.f-droid.org/t/brax2-alte… is from a security researcher who was the lead developer of DivestOS. The information can be confirmed.
It's all verifiable information and many other privacy and security researchers say the same. Mike Kuketz and other privacy/security researchers also responded.
Brax phone is a proprietary GPL-violating OS and 5 year old outdated hardware that you can get from Alibaba for 1/4th the price: Helio P60 (MT6771) - MediaTek - WikiChip This product is no longer available.
You gotta figure there’s an underground community of illicit drug makers that share formulas and techniques right? That would explain how a particular practice gains such wide adoption so fast. mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1…
Weird chemical used in plastics has erupted as latest fentanyl adulterant It's unclear why the use of BTMPS has taken off—but scientists have some ideas. arstechnica.com/health/2025/07…
Woensdag maakte topvrouw Linda Yaccarino onverwacht bekend dat ze vertrekt bij sociaal medium X. Haar taak was de druk op eigenaar Elon Musk verlichten, en het vertrouwen van adverteerders terug te winnen terwijl hij radicaliseerde.
The image contains a text in Dutch discussing the acquisition of Musk's AI startup xAI by X for 33 billion dollars. The text highlights that X not only sells personal data of users but also collects its own data. It mentions that xAI, after the acquisition, can utilize the vast amount of text, photos, and videos shared on X as valuable training data for AI products. The text also notes that xAI received 10 billion dollars in investments shortly before acquiring X and claims to be worth 80 billion dollars. The most important product of xAI is the chatbot Grok, described as 'anti-woke' by Musk. The text states that Grok should not be restricted by the behavior rules that other bots like ChatGPT or Claude have, and it provides an example of a recipe for cocaine generated by Grok for users who sexually objectify women on X.
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