#luddism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #luddism, aggregated by home.social.
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Linus has nothing to worry about; he's a millionaire tech celebrity and can retire from his position as "Benevolent Dictator for Life" at any time. And kudos to him for his good fortune at making the #1 operating system for billionaires and anarchists of all stripes alike - nobody likes being told what to do; it's understandable... it would just be nice if the people at the top had as much empathy and compassion as everyone else down here struggling to get by in a world controlled by the fantasies, dreams, and whims of a deluded few who no longer have to engage in our crass reality of precarity.
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Linus has nothing to worry about; he's a millionaire tech celebrity and can retire from his position as "Benevolent Dictator for Life" at any time. And kudos to him for his good fortune at making the #1 operating system for billionaires and anarchists of all stripes alike - nobody likes being told what to do; it's understandable... it would just be nice if the people at the top had as much empathy and compassion as everyone else down here struggling to get by in a world controlled by the fantasies, dreams, and whims of a deluded few who no longer have to engage in our crass reality of precarity.
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Waymo attack recently in LA. The New Luddite revolution is gaining momentum bigtime. If you search for video of waymo attacks youll find a lot, not only in the US. Anti data centre activism is expanding rapidly across the globe too. Brian Merchants blog follows this stuff closely, but others are now picking up this ball. Academia needs to take notice of this. Their blanket acceptance of big tech is going to backfire in their face.
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Waymo attack recently in LA. The New Luddite revolution is gaining momentum bigtime. If you search for video of waymo attacks youll find a lot, not only in the US. Anti data centre activism is expanding rapidly across the globe too. Brian Merchants blog follows this stuff closely, but others are now picking up this ball. Academia needs to take notice of this. Their blanket acceptance of big tech is going to backfire in their face.
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"„The New Republic“ titelte gerade: „Es dauerte eine Weile, aber die Amerikaner könnten etwas gefunden haben, was wir alle hassen.“
Sogar innerhalb der MAGA-Bewegung macht sich massiver Widerstand gegen den hemmungslosen Ausbau der KI-Fabriken breit"
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"„The New Republic“ titelte gerade: „Es dauerte eine Weile, aber die Amerikaner könnten etwas gefunden haben, was wir alle hassen.“
Sogar innerhalb der MAGA-Bewegung macht sich massiver Widerstand gegen den hemmungslosen Ausbau der KI-Fabriken breit"
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Summer of Love, Summer of Ludd #luddism
Inside the Luddite Festival Harnessing Gen Z’s Rage Against Big Tech | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-luddite-festival-harnessing-gen-zs-rage-against-big-tech/ -
Summer of Love, Summer of Ludd #luddism
Inside the Luddite Festival Harnessing Gen Z’s Rage Against Big Tech | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-luddite-festival-harnessing-gen-zs-rage-against-big-tech/ -
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@cyberlyra/116844864803984763
Hey @TheOnion, I have a great idea how you could make shit loads of money. How about doing the same thing one more time with some kind of evil company - just buy some stocks right before your story breaks - watch the spike happen - sell the stocks - and then invest the profit in a luddite anti-AI project of your own choosing - then write a hilarious onion story about what you did.
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@cyberlyra/116844864803984763
Hey @TheOnion, I have a great idea how you could make shit loads of money. How about doing the same thing one more time with some kind of evil company - just buy some stocks right before your story breaks - watch the spike happen - sell the stocks - and then invest the profit in a luddite anti-AI project of your own choosing - then write a hilarious onion story about what you did.
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This Sunday, two of the grad students in my lab (Shira Abramovich and Audrey Le Meur) are co-organizing a #FAccT2026 CRAFT workshop on AI refusal.
If you'll be at the conference, I recommend checking it out!
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This Sunday, two of the grad students in my lab (Shira Abramovich and Audrey Le Meur) are co-organizing a #FAccT2026 CRAFT workshop on AI refusal.
If you'll be at the conference, I recommend checking it out!
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RE: https://dice.camp/@StefanEJones/116643947733950818
“The moral of the story is we’re here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that”
Wise words to live by, indeed👇🏻😍
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RE: https://dice.camp/@StefanEJones/116643947733950818
“The moral of the story is we’re here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that”
Wise words to live by, indeed👇🏻😍
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"The substitution of machinery for human labour, is often very injurious to the interests of the class of labourers"
"The opinion entertained by the labouring class, that the employment of machinery is frequently detrimental to their interests, is not founded on prejudice and error, but is conformable to the correct principles of political economy."
--David Ricardo 1821
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/technology-capital-and-skills
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"The substitution of machinery for human labour, is often very injurious to the interests of the class of labourers"
"The opinion entertained by the labouring class, that the employment of machinery is frequently detrimental to their interests, is not founded on prejudice and error, but is conformable to the correct principles of political economy."
--David Ricardo 1821
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/technology-capital-and-skills
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It doesn’t matter if it works | Henry From Online
🔖 https://henry.codes/writing/it-doesnt-matter-if-it-works/
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/it-doesn-t-matter-if-it-works-henry-from-online/ -
It doesn’t matter if it works | Henry From Online
🔖 https://henry.codes/writing/it-doesnt-matter-if-it-works/
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/it-doesn-t-matter-if-it-works-henry-from-online/ -
"My intent is to be AI Amish, which means Internet Amish. Not 1780, but 1980.”
I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline
https://openpath.quest/2026/i-am-retiring-from-tech-to-live-offline/ -
"My intent is to be AI Amish, which means Internet Amish. Not 1780, but 1980.”
I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline
https://openpath.quest/2026/i-am-retiring-from-tech-to-live-offline/ -
Btw: any folks/followers here from #Valencia that are up to meet for a coffee next month? ☕
I'll be in town for https://euspri2026.webs.upv.es/ between 9-12 of June and would love to chat #OpenStreetMap, #OpenScience, #OpenSource, #luddism if anyone is up for it 😊
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Hello world! Luddite Academy investigates the political economy of digital creative practice from a luddite perspective, it aims to produce, curate, and disseminate counter-strategies to reclaim the means of digital production.
We are making our inaugural presentation today at the 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland at University College Cork
🔗 https://www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/3rd-symposium-on-digital-art-in-ireland.html
📔 Book of abstracts: https://sample-studios.com/app/uploads/2026/03/Sample_Digital_Art_Booklet_2026_v5.pdf (p. 15)➡️🌐 Follow us here and check our website as the project develops in the coming months https://luddite.academy
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Hello world! Luddite Academy investigates the political economy of digital creative practice from a luddite perspective, it aims to produce, curate, and disseminate counter-strategies to reclaim the means of digital production.
We are making our inaugural presentation today at the 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland at University College Cork
🔗 https://www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/3rd-symposium-on-digital-art-in-ireland.html
📔 Book of abstracts: https://sample-studios.com/app/uploads/2026/03/Sample_Digital_Art_Booklet_2026_v5.pdf (p. 15)➡️🌐 Follow us here and check our website as the project develops in the coming months https://luddite.academy
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Oooh, and one more, if I may, perhaps a tad more poignant than the previous one I shared:
"Evangelists in corporations or governments may like to tell us it is as a way of undermining our sense of collective agency, but together with the infinite cast who make up the history of techno-negativity, we know better. At a time when Big Tech is becoming enamored with authoritarian politics, the stakes are higher than ever"
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Oooh, and one more, if I may, perhaps a tad more poignant than the previous one I shared:
"Evangelists in corporations or governments may like to tell us it is as a way of undermining our sense of collective agency, but together with the infinite cast who make up the history of techno-negativity, we know better. At a time when Big Tech is becoming enamored with authoritarian politics, the stakes are higher than ever"
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Another noteworthy quote from that blog post:
"With the emergence of the industrial revolution, technology had become a weapon wielded by the capitalist classes. Against this emergent capitalism, the Luddites developed a spirit of collectivism, fighting for themselves, for their fellow workers, and for a future beyond self-interest and profit"
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Another noteworthy quote from that blog post:
"With the emergence of the industrial revolution, technology had become a weapon wielded by the capitalist classes. Against this emergent capitalism, the Luddites developed a spirit of collectivism, fighting for themselves, for their fellow workers, and for a future beyond self-interest and profit"
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"With every leap in technological advancement, we witness a fierce urge to undo it. Technologies are invented, attacked, delayed, dropped, delayed, re-emerge, vanish again"
Thomas Dekeyser guest blogging in Brian Merchant's Blood in the Machine 👉🏻 https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-brief-history-of-techno-negativity
Wonder whether that techno-negativity was as fierce in the good old #Web20 / #Enterprise20 days than nowadays with #GenAI. Did we miss it? 🤔
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"With every leap in technological advancement, we witness a fierce urge to undo it. Technologies are invented, attacked, delayed, dropped, delayed, re-emerge, vanish again"
Thomas Dekeyser guest blogging in Brian Merchant's Blood in the Machine 👉🏻 https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-brief-history-of-techno-negativity
Wonder whether that techno-negativity was as fierce in the good old #Web20 / #Enterprise20 days than nowadays with #GenAI. Did we miss it? 🤔
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RE: https://mas.to/@tg9541/116382243506671913
The blog post below draws a parallel between the Mao era Hundred Flowers Campaign (“Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend") and pressure on employees to write "AI Skills" for "AI Agents" as to use "AI" to make them "more efficient". Of course, workers see that as an attempt to "distill" their skills, and they turn to "AI-Luddism", use LLMs to sabotage The Machine. The blog references an "anti-distill" skill on GitHub.
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#luddism #bullshit #greatleap #sociology -
RE: https://mas.to/@tg9541/116382243506671913
The blog post below draws a parallel between the Mao era Hundred Flowers Campaign (“Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend") and pressure on employees to write "AI Skills" for "AI Agents" as to use "AI" to make them "more efficient". Of course, workers see that as an attempt to "distill" their skills, and they turn to "AI-Luddism", use LLMs to sabotage The Machine. The blog references an "anti-distill" skill on GitHub.
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#luddism #bullshit #greatleap #sociology -
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@danmcquillan/116311576053607691
I like this take: "The illiterate of the 21st century are those who aren't luddites."
Those gullible people parroting the falsehoods of "AI" companies because they are lacking in their ability for critical thinking, are the modern-day analogon of people who couldn't write or read.¹
Especially to those who think that luddites just couldn't appreciate progress, or those who never heard the word 'luddite', I recommend the book 'Blood in the Machine' by @brianmerchant. But to everyone else too. 😊
Also read the book 'Resisting AI' by @danmcquillan.
¹ Except that you needed to be wealthy or privileged in another way to have a teacher who would teach you how to read or write. You cannot blame a medieval peasant for not being able to read. In contrast to that, your clueless manager or colleague who absolutely has all the privileges and could/should know better but nonetheless parrots the "AI" propaganda … they can absolutely be blamed for not using their brain power.
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@danmcquillan/116311576053607691
I like this take: "The illiterate of the 21st century are those who aren't luddites."
Those gullible people parroting the falsehoods of "AI" companies because they are lacking in their ability for critical thinking, are the modern-day analogon of people who couldn't write or read.¹
Especially to those who think that luddites just couldn't appreciate progress, or those who never heard the word 'luddite', I recommend the book 'Blood in the Machine' by @brianmerchant. But to everyone else too. 😊
Also read the book 'Resisting AI' by @danmcquillan.
¹ Except that you needed to be wealthy or privileged in another way to have a teacher who would teach you how to read or write. You cannot blame a medieval peasant for not being able to read. In contrast to that, your clueless manager or colleague who absolutely has all the privileges and could/should know better but nonetheless parrots the "AI" propaganda … they can absolutely be blamed for not using their brain power.
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As I don't use Microsoft products, and avoid "AI" at all cost, I hadn't seen this until now.
Microsoft's terms of use for CoPilot says the quiet part out loud to preempt legal issues, that "yes, the bullshit machine we crowbarred into Windows, MS Office, and Github is just for entertainment purposes".
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/for-individuals/termsofuse
Ergo, "AI" is not a tool, but a toy.
It is literally a Magic Eightball crossed with a Tamagotchi, which you can't escape if you use Windows.
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As I don't use Microsoft products, and avoid "AI" at all cost, I hadn't seen this until now.
Microsoft's terms of use for CoPilot says the quiet part out loud to preempt legal issues, that "yes, the bullshit machine we crowbarred into Windows, MS Office, and Github is just for entertainment purposes".
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/for-individuals/termsofuse
Ergo, "AI" is not a tool, but a toy.
It is literally a Magic Eightball crossed with a Tamagotchi, which you can't escape if you use Windows.
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RE: https://mas.to/@therightarticle/116169766657038724
Yes, it is correct and important to stop using ChatGPT.
OpenAI is the largest funder of Donald Trump and they send everything you type into ChatGPT to the fascist US regime.
But reading this article, it's important to have in mind that Rutger Bregman is a bootlicker of Dario Amodei. It's plain that Bregman would have you use Anthropic's Claude instead of ChatGPT.
Both Anthropic and OpenAI are despicable companies and, as US companies, required by law to give all your chat logs to the US regime.
The correct decision would be to use *neither* ChatGPT nor Claude.
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Unmaking as Emancipation: Lessons and Reflections from Luddism: »The Luddite practices - physical and symbolic, emancipatory, community-engaged, selective, antagonistic, and enduring - reveal a material, social, and political complexity that is lost when Luddism is romanticized as a precedent movement for "an older way of life" or against "consumerism"«
