#luddism — Public Fediverse posts

@FLbeachinggirl

you have to go into lockdown mode and 2FA everything

and if it isn't 2FA, consider it forfeit

make your online footprint as circumspect as possible

and beyond *that*, vile evil like #palantir is already siphoning it all up from the backend with #capitalist entities with no care that happily sell out your #privacy for a few bucks, putting it into #AI, and profiling you

i am not a luddite, but boy oh boy does #luddism sound more and more tempting with each day

#neoLuddism

@alexch
I can recommend the small book from Garvin Mueller. https://gavinmueller.com/

Breaking Things at Work – The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job. 2021

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622870/breaking-things-at-work-by-gavin-mueller/

In German, its publish under a other titel "Maschinenstürmer – Autonomie und Sabotage"

https://edition-nautilus.de/programm/maschinenstuermer/

#luddism #luddismus #neoluddism #works #marxism #workingsociety #history and present

@imtheq But that’s one of the foundations of neo-luddism: To realise that the narrative of them being opposed to technology itself is only the lying propaganda that was written by the capitalists, and that the real story is much more nuanced.

Luddism sparked the first unions and worker movements. It was a fight against how the machines were used to literally kill thousands of workers, not against the machines themselves.

Most workers were positive to technology making their lives easier — but when the choice of improved worker lives was weighed against increased profits, the capitalists chose the latter. The consequences were horrific and fatal for thousands.

The Nib has a TL;DR in comic form that I warmly recommend:

https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

#luddism #neoluddism #economy #automation

#Luddism #Neoluddism #BigTech: "Maybe instead of focusing on the tech, I’ll focus on the incentives that drive its production and deployment currently. These are too often efficiency at the expense of worker well-being, cost savings at the expense of safety and integrity, and the illusion of computational sophistication at the expense of meaningful accountability — or automation as a liability shield. This is compounded by the extraordinary concentration of power in the tech industry. By and large these imperatives are shaping what tech gets built, the stories told about it, and the growing chasm between those with the power to make and use it and those on whom it’s used, and who suffer the blunt force of its harms."

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-12-07/column-the-worst-tech-of-2023-an-anti-gift-guide

@juergen_hubert @ShaulaEvans …absurd extremes. Such horrible, initial user experiences 🤯

Anecdotes by testers: Spent more time reviewing output, retrying prompts, etc. than if they'd have done the tasks unassisted.

Maybe such results indicate techies' silent, ground-level revenge against C-suites & boards pushing #GenAI? Those seem to mostly #FOMO the #GartnerHypeCycle like headless chickens.

#QuietQuitting #Luddism #NeoLuddism #ChatGPT #enshittification #e14n #stochasticParrots