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Watched this again last night on Kanopy with new appreciation. Definitely worth it.
Check with your local library to see if this service is available to you.
#thegodsmustbecrazy #technology #luddism #kanopy #publiclibraries
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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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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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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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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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"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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"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://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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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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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://mastodon.tedomum.net/@deuxfleurs/116183706328320620
La journée dédiée à la #matérialiténumérique et aux action pour les limiter les #infrastructures se terminera par une projection du film #MachinesInFlames de Thomas Dekeyser et Andrew Culp !
Ce documentaire révèle l’histoire oubliée du Comité Liquidant ou Détournant les Ordinateurs (#CLODO), actifs dans les années 80 à #Toulouse. On a aujourd’hui oublié que l’informatisation ne s’est pas faite sans oppositions.
18h30 - #Le108 à Orléans
Inscription - https://www.infrabasse.fr/e
#sabotage #luddism -
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"«
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»…the Luddites themselves “were totally fine with machines,” says Kevin Binfield […] They confined their attacks to manufacturers who used machines in what they called “a fraudulent and deceitful manner” to get around standard labor practices. “They just wanted machines that made high-quality goods,” says Binfield, “and they wanted these machines to be run by workers who had gone through an apprenticeship and got paid decent wages”«
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/
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I was invited to the "AI-Freecast". We talked about #luddism #ai, data center and the human need for friction.
It was great fun.
https://player.captivate.fm/episode/71f732a8-a2db-4c61-8e68-83a1a99abc5c/
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RE: https://aoir.social/@sakhavi/116036726350286066
It would be an entirely different story if the LLM was actually intelligent. Email emailed. Word Processors processed byte streams as words. Aeroplanes lifted their planes into the air.
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We should all be Luddites | Brookings
🔖 https://www.brookings.edu/articles/we-should-all-be-luddites/
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/we-should-all-be-luddites-brookings/ -
Ich frage mich wirklich, wann die ersten AI-Antis anfangen, Datacenter niederzubrennen, wie die #Ludditen damals die Webmaschinen. Denn die Anzahl an radikalen Technologieverweigerern scheint immer weiter zu steigen, wenn man sich im Internet so umhört.
#KI #AI #luddism #Luddismus -
Ich frage mich wirklich, wann die ersten AI-Antis anfangen, Datacenter niederzubrennen, wie die #Ludditen damals die Webmaschinen. Denn die Anzahl an radikalen Technologieverweigerern scheint immer weiter zu steigen, wenn man sich im Internet so umhört.
#KI #AI #luddism #Luddismus -
Ich frage mich wirklich, wann die ersten AI-Antis anfangen, Datacenter niederzubrennen, wie die #Ludditen damals die Webmaschinen. Denn die Anzahl an radikalen Technologieverweigerern scheint immer weiter zu steigen, wenn man sich im Internet so umhört.
#KI #AI #luddism #Luddismus -
Ich frage mich wirklich, wann die ersten AI-Antis anfangen, Datacenter niederzubrennen, wie die #Ludditen damals die Webmaschinen. Denn die Anzahl an radikalen Technologieverweigerern scheint immer weiter zu steigen, wenn man sich im Internet so umhört.
#KI #AI #luddism #Luddismus -
Ich frage mich wirklich, wann die ersten AI-Antis anfangen, Datacenter niederzubrennen, wie die #Ludditen damals die Webmaschinen. Denn die Anzahl an radikalen Technologieverweigerern scheint immer weiter zu steigen, wenn man sich im Internet so umhört.
#KI #AI #luddism #Luddismus -
‘Le C.L.O.DO. ou la révolte contre l'informatisation de la société’ par Florence de Talhouet sur France Inter.
Au début de la décennie 80 CLODO, Comité Liquidant ou Détournant les Ordinateurs ’s’infiltre dans les failles de la modernité, frappe les centres de données, défie l’État, les multinationales et l’opinion publique.’
Also Destructionist International’s ‘Machines in Flames’ video.
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‘Le C.L.O.DO. ou la révolte contre l'informatisation de la société’ par Florence de Talhouet sur France Inter.
Au début de la décennie 80 CLODO, Comité Liquidant ou Détournant les Ordinateurs ’s’infiltre dans les failles de la modernité, frappe les centres de données, défie l’État, les multinationales et l’opinion publique.’
Also Destructionist International’s ‘Machines in Flames’ video.
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‘Le C.L.O.DO. ou la révolte contre l'informatisation de la société’ par Florence de Talhouet sur France Inter.
Au début de la décennie 80 CLODO, Comité Liquidant ou Détournant les Ordinateurs ’s’infiltre dans les failles de la modernité, frappe les centres de données, défie l’État, les multinationales et l’opinion publique.’
Also Destructionist International’s ‘Machines in Flames’ video.
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@JessTheUnstill @futurebird Luddism has about 200 years already, and opposing extractive capitalism is its core belief, so maybe we can say #Luddism is a religion?
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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
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it is unfortunate CBC has deleted the old Ideas broadcast archives because Paul Kennedy's bit on #Luddism was very good, from 2003 or so, and while we can no longer listen, Wayback can at least recall Paul's Recommended Reading list:
https://web.archive.org/web/20040407012911/http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/luddites/index.html
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it is unfortunate CBC has deleted the old Ideas broadcast archives because Paul Kennedy's bit on #Luddism was very good, from 2003 or so, and while we can no longer listen, Wayback can at least recall Paul's Recommended Reading list:
https://web.archive.org/web/20040407012911/http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/luddites/index.html
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it is unfortunate CBC has deleted the old Ideas broadcast archives because Paul Kennedy's bit on #Luddism was very good, from 2003 or so, and while we can no longer listen, Wayback can at least recall Paul's Recommended Reading list:
https://web.archive.org/web/20040407012911/http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/luddites/index.html
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it is unfortunate CBC has deleted the old Ideas broadcast archives because Paul Kennedy's bit on #Luddism was very good, from 2003 or so, and while we can no longer listen, Wayback can at least recall Paul's Recommended Reading list:
https://web.archive.org/web/20040407012911/http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/luddites/index.html
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it is unfortunate CBC has deleted the old Ideas broadcast archives because Paul Kennedy's bit on #Luddism was very good, from 2003 or so, and while we can no longer listen, Wayback can at least recall Paul's Recommended Reading list:
https://web.archive.org/web/20040407012911/http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/luddites/index.html
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[en] #Luddite: anti-progress fanatics, a popular misconception
"... original ... Luddites weren’t against #technology. "
"... wrest back control of technology for #democratic ends ... kind of "#digital #Luddism" which echoes past struggles against high-tech #injustice."
"... systemic change towards #sustainable, #transparent and #usercontrolled infrastructure."
#overreliance #dependency #dominance #bigtech #gafam #techoligarchy #privacy #security #antitrust #ethical
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[en] #Luddite: anti-progress fanatics, a popular misconception
"... original ... Luddites weren’t against #technology. "
"... wrest back control of technology for #democratic ends ... kind of "#digital #Luddism" which echoes past struggles against high-tech #injustice."
"... systemic change towards #sustainable, #transparent and #usercontrolled infrastructure."
#overreliance #dependency #dominance #bigtech #gafam #techoligarchy #privacy #security #antitrust #ethical
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[en] #Luddite: anti-progress fanatics, a popular misconception
"... original ... Luddites weren’t against #technology. "
"... wrest back control of technology for #democratic ends ... kind of "#digital #Luddism" which echoes past struggles against high-tech #injustice."
"... systemic change towards #sustainable, #transparent and #usercontrolled infrastructure."
#overreliance #dependency #dominance #bigtech #gafam #techoligarchy #privacy #security #antitrust #ethical
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[en] #Luddite: anti-progress fanatics, a popular misconception
"... original ... Luddites weren’t against #technology. "
"... wrest back control of technology for #democratic ends ... kind of "#digital #Luddism" which echoes past struggles against high-tech #injustice."
"... systemic change towards #sustainable, #transparent and #usercontrolled infrastructure."
#overreliance #dependency #dominance #bigtech #gafam #techoligarchy #privacy #security #antitrust #ethical
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[en] #Luddite: anti-progress fanatics, a popular misconception
"... original ... Luddites weren’t against #technology. "
"... wrest back control of technology for #democratic ends ... kind of "#digital #Luddism" which echoes past struggles against high-tech #injustice."
"... systemic change towards #sustainable, #transparent and #usercontrolled infrastructure."
#overreliance #dependency #dominance #bigtech #gafam #techoligarchy #privacy #security #antitrust #ethical
