#luddism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #luddism, aggregated by home.social.
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”Once again workers are being asked to celebrate technology that’s been built from generations of humans knowledge; Shared, public, collective knowledge. Whilst the ownership of the technology and the gains it produces, are going to be concentrated by private individuals, billionaires.”
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”Once again workers are being asked to celebrate technology that’s been built from generations of humans knowledge; Shared, public, collective knowledge. Whilst the ownership of the technology and the gains it produces, are going to be concentrated by private individuals, billionaires.”
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"Artificial intelligence is not just a market product or a scientific achievement. It is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy" 👉🏻 https://archive.is/l9YbK
Definitely, one for the #Luddites Club 👌🏻😎
"It [GenAI] is the backbone of a superstructure that merges regressive politics with unchecked economic power in the guise of technological innovation" 👏🏻🤯
#SovereignByDesign #DigitalAutonomy #DigitalSovereignty #GenAI #Luddism
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What a week! I just came back from the Nordic Summer University's 76th summer session in Latvia. There, together with Eeva Houtbeckers, we ran one of the 10 study circles, on "LowTech, Luddism and Liberation"
Our 3-year circle is centered on degrowth and exnovation, and this summer's theme revolved around resistance to AI & BigTech, as well as the development of (s)low-tech alternative technologies that are centered on care and solidarity. We had workshops on zine-making and notebook-making, a lowtech solar-cooker tutorial (incl actual solar cooking of some bread and cheese!), lectures on anti-AI tools, education and social movement building, an art installation on techno-resistance, utopian world-building exercises, mental trips into ecofeminist sci-fi worlds, magic incantations, dancing rituals on the beach, and many many more.
I learned so much from the other circle participants, and we all shared resources that we'll be sure to bring to our local living and working places. None of this would have been possible without them. Thanks also to the Nordic Summer University's board, deputies and organizers that made this whole week amazing and magical in so many ways!
#climate #lowtech #technology #climate #sustainability #climate #resistance #bigtech #luddism #science #university #environment
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What a week! I just came back from the Nordic Summer University's 76th summer session in Latvia. There, together with Eeva Houtbeckers, we ran one of the 10 study circles, on "LowTech, Luddism and Liberation"
Our 3-year circle is centered on degrowth and exnovation, and this summer's theme revolved around resistance to AI & BigTech, as well as the development of (s)low-tech alternative technologies that are centered on care and solidarity. We had workshops on zine-making and notebook-making, a lowtech solar-cooker tutorial (incl actual solar cooking of some bread and cheese!), lectures on anti-AI tools, education and social movement building, an art installation on techno-resistance, utopian world-building exercises, mental trips into ecofeminist sci-fi worlds, magic incantations, dancing rituals on the beach, and many many more.
I learned so much from the other circle participants, and we all shared resources that we'll be sure to bring to our local living and working places. None of this would have been possible without them. Thanks also to the Nordic Summer University's board, deputies and organizers that made this whole week amazing and magical in so many ways!
#climate #lowtech #technology #climate #sustainability #climate #resistance #bigtech #luddism #science #university #environment
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Death in the Garden: *You're Probably a Luddite*
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_KuuWVHjHsM
"Luddite. You’ve definitely been hearing this word a lot recently.
A Luddite is “a person opposed to new technology or ways of working.”
That is the definition, at least according to Google.
In short, for over 200 years, it has been a derogatory term to label someone as irrationally afraid of technology or progress.
But where did this term come from? What is a Luddite?
And what if we told you that this was a classic case of the victors writing the history? And what if we told you that you, (yes, you) in the age of AI, probably have more in common with those original machine-breakers than you think?
In this video, we explore the history of this group of rebels and their fight for dignity, self-determination, and freedom. Our main sources are Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant and Rebels Against the Future by Kirkpatrick Sale. Much of the content was inspired by the localization movement, as well.
We hope, by the end of this video, you’ll see why being called “Luddite” in a time of enclosure, corporate consolidation, expansion of polluting industrialism, automation, and alienation is not an insult, but rather, it’s a badge of honor. …"
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Death in the Garden: *You're Probably a Luddite*
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_KuuWVHjHsM
"Luddite. You’ve definitely been hearing this word a lot recently.
A Luddite is “a person opposed to new technology or ways of working.”
That is the definition, at least according to Google.
In short, for over 200 years, it has been a derogatory term to label someone as irrationally afraid of technology or progress.
But where did this term come from? What is a Luddite?
And what if we told you that this was a classic case of the victors writing the history? And what if we told you that you, (yes, you) in the age of AI, probably have more in common with those original machine-breakers than you think?
In this video, we explore the history of this group of rebels and their fight for dignity, self-determination, and freedom. Our main sources are Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant and Rebels Against the Future by Kirkpatrick Sale. Much of the content was inspired by the localization movement, as well.
We hope, by the end of this video, you’ll see why being called “Luddite” in a time of enclosure, corporate consolidation, expansion of polluting industrialism, automation, and alienation is not an insult, but rather, it’s a badge of honor. …"
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I can't recall whether I shared this before, but this video from Hasan Minhaj where he interviews Gowanus, the non-official spokes-puppet for the new Luddite movement.
Entertaining and very informative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxpV97A5I90
#luddism #summerofluddAnd yes, there is irony in sharing this here, but to me the Fediverse is more human that other social media, so :-P
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I can't recall whether I shared this before, but this video from Hasan Minhaj where he interviews Gowanus, the non-official spokes-puppet for the new Luddite movement.
Entertaining and very informative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxpV97A5I90
#luddism #summerofluddAnd yes, there is irony in sharing this here, but to me the Fediverse is more human that other social media, so :-P
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My view on the recent Codeberg drama:
https://gagliardoni.net/#20260724_codeberg_drama
Codeberg voting members have the right to decide the policy of their association, and I understand if a community is averse to anything that is AI- or Web3-related. I understand it, but I don't agree with it, because it's 2026, and if you still think you can just stick your head in the sand and wish for these ugly bad things to go away, well, I have bad news for you.
To me, this is a perfect recipe to relegate Codeberg to irrelevance. And we are already seeing the beginning of a new exodus.
Here is my conspiracy theory: the vote was pushed or manipulated from the inside by Big Tech. Whether this is true or not, one thing is sure: folks at Microsoft, GitHub, OpenAI etc. are now popping champagne.
#codeberg #opensource #foss #floss #libre #ai #llm #web3 #blockchain #crypto #cryptocurrency #antiai #luddism #eu #bigtech #politics #tech #censorship #github #microsoft #openai
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My view on the recent Codeberg drama:
https://gagliardoni.net/#20260724_codeberg_drama
Codeberg voting members have the right to decide the policy of their association, and I understand if a community is averse to anything that is AI- or Web3-related. I understand it, but I don't agree with it, because it's 2026, and if you still think you can just stick your head in the sand and wish for these ugly bad things to go away, well, I have bad news for you.
To me, this is a perfect recipe to relegate Codeberg to irrelevance. And we are already seeing the beginning of a new exodus.
Here is my conspiracy theory: the vote was pushed or manipulated from the inside by Big Tech. Whether this is true or not, one thing is sure: folks at Microsoft, GitHub, OpenAI etc. are now popping champagne.
#codeberg #opensource #foss #floss #libre #ai #llm #web3 #blockchain #crypto #cryptocurrency #antiai #luddism #eu #bigtech #politics #tech #censorship #github #microsoft #openai
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Codeberg community voted to ban AI-generated code in repositories:
https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434
I am a regular Codeberg user, left GitHub in 2019, and co-maintain Libre projects that saw very little if none at all AI in development.
And still I think this decision will backfire badly.
I, like most of Codeberg users, was not even aware that this discussion was in place, did not vote. This only passed because of the anti-AI Luddite crowd. Which, mind you, has a point, I have very conflicting feelings about AI myself, and I think that the current trajectory is quite worrying. But this is just a knee-jerk reaction that has clearly not been thought of well enough.
I applaude the philosophy, or the intent if you want, of not having Codeberg turn into another SlopHub. But this is fairy-tale wishful thinking. There is no way to reliably detect AI-generated code at scale in 2026.
I can already smell the mutual witch hunts across projects and "camps".Anyway, I hope I'm wrong.
#codeberg #ai #llm #drama #opensource #ludd #luddism #antiai #libre #foss #floss #slop #github
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Codeberg community voted to ban AI-generated code in repositories:
https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434
I am a regular Codeberg user, left GitHub in 2019, and co-maintain Libre projects that saw very little if none at all AI in development.
And still I think this decision will backfire badly.
I, like most of Codeberg users, was not even aware that this discussion was in place, did not vote. This only passed because of the anti-AI Luddite crowd. Which, mind you, has a point, I have very conflicting feelings about AI myself, and I think that the current trajectory is quite worrying. But this is just a knee-jerk reaction that has clearly not been thought of well enough.
I applaude the philosophy, or the intent if you want, of not having Codeberg turn into another SlopHub. But this is fairy-tale wishful thinking. There is no way to reliably detect AI-generated code at scale in 2026.
I can already smell the mutual witch hunts across projects and "camps".Anyway, I hope I'm wrong.
#codeberg #ai #llm #drama #opensource #ludd #luddism #antiai #libre #foss #floss #slop #github
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@tante sorry, the "how will people enforce this" argument is real, dismissing it will not make it disappear.
I am a regular Codeberg user, left GitHub in 2019, and co-maintain Libre projects that saw very little if none at all AI in development.
And still I think this decision will backfire badly.
I, like most of Codeberg users, was not even aware that this discussion was in place, did not vote. This only passed because of the anti-AI Luddite crowd. Which, mind you, has a point, I have very conflicting feelings about AI myself, and I think that the current trajectory is quite worrying. But this is just a knee-jerk reaction that has clearly not been thought of well enough.
I applaude the philosophy, or the intent if you want, of not having Codeberg turn into another SlopHub. But this is fairy-tale wishful thinking. There is no way to reliably detect AI-generated code at scale in 2026.
I can already smell the mutual witch hunts across projects and "camps".Anyway, I hope I'm wrong.
#codeberg #ai #llm #drama #opensource #ludd #luddism #antiai #libre #foss #floss #slop #github
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@tante sorry, the "how will people enforce this" argument is real, dismissing it will not make it disappear.
I am a regular Codeberg user, left GitHub in 2019, and co-maintain Libre projects that saw very little if none at all AI in development.
And still I think this decision will backfire badly.
I, like most of Codeberg users, was not even aware that this discussion was in place, did not vote. This only passed because of the anti-AI Luddite crowd. Which, mind you, has a point, I have very conflicting feelings about AI myself, and I think that the current trajectory is quite worrying. But this is just a knee-jerk reaction that has clearly not been thought of well enough.
I applaude the philosophy, or the intent if you want, of not having Codeberg turn into another SlopHub. But this is fairy-tale wishful thinking. There is no way to reliably detect AI-generated code at scale in 2026.
I can already smell the mutual witch hunts across projects and "camps".Anyway, I hope I'm wrong.
#codeberg #ai #llm #drama #opensource #ludd #luddism #antiai #libre #foss #floss #slop #github
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Oh. While this topic is up.
Stop blaming Australia for Murdoch. He was birthed here, but as soon as the US offered him citizenship he renounced.
He is not Australian. He’s a product of an ironically globalist capitalism.
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Oh. While this topic is up.
Stop blaming Australia for Murdoch. He was birthed here, but as soon as the US offered him citizenship he renounced.
He is not Australian. He’s a product of an ironically globalist capitalism.
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Murdoch - and I don’t say this without evidence - is a horrible cunt.
If I believed in a hell, I might comfort myself with that. But hell does not exist. Justice needs to be exacted on Earth.
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Murdoch - and I don’t say this without evidence - is a horrible cunt.
If I believed in a hell, I might comfort myself with that. But hell does not exist. Justice needs to be exacted on Earth.
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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
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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"