#luddites — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #luddites, aggregated by home.social.
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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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Why Today's Modern Luddites Are Sparking a Massive Workplace Reckoning Across America
Full story 👇
Learn more: https://www.earthinsider.in/2026/08/modern-luddites-ai-disruption.html
#EarthInsider #EarthInsiderNews #EINews #US #America #USNews #USPolitics #Luddites #ArtificialIntelligence #TechDisruption #FutureOfWork #BreakingNews #Trending
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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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Een oude smartphone aan grut slaan voor de symboliek, het is eens iets anders dan AI-ontwikkelaars als Anthropic die massaal tweedehands boeken opkopen en vernietigen om ze te kunnen scannen als trainingsmateriaal voor hun taalmodellen.
In deze tweede blogpost vertel ik behalve over de nieuwe luddieten ook over mijn wedervaren met #Linux Mint.
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Een oude smartphone aan grut slaan voor de symboliek, het is eens iets anders dan AI-ontwikkelaars als Anthropic die massaal tweedehands boeken opkopen en vernietigen om ze te kunnen scannen als trainingsmateriaal voor hun taalmodellen.
In deze tweede blogpost vertel ik behalve over de nieuwe luddieten ook over mijn wedervaren met #Linux Mint.
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Fully recommended this 90min video-essay about the newspapers' crisis in 1986-1987 in London when Rupert Murdoch plotted against unions to replace loads of workers by computerized press.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNpd96fmv8U
Thanks, @jjimenezshaw, for the recommendation!
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Fully recommended this 90min video-essay about the newspapers' crisis in 1986-1987 in London when Rupert Murdoch plotted against unions to replace loads of workers by computerized press.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNpd96fmv8U
Thanks, @jjimenezshaw, for the recommendation!
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Bernie Sanders wants the US government take ownership in AI companies. But is that really a good move?
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with Thomas Dekeyser to discuss the long history of tech refusal and why we need to recognize this tech is not neutral.
Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/337_tech_refusal_has_a_very_long_history_w_thomas_dekeyser
#tech #luddites #berniesanders #generativeai #artificialintelligence #openai #anthropic
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Bernie Sanders wants the US government take ownership in AI companies. But is that really a good move?
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with Thomas Dekeyser to discuss the long history of tech refusal and why we need to recognize this tech is not neutral.
Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/337_tech_refusal_has_a_very_long_history_w_thomas_dekeyser
#tech #luddites #berniesanders #generativeai #artificialintelligence #openai #anthropic
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“We are interested in building alternative social infrastructure that allows us to be no longer reliant on Big Tech”👌🏻😍
“The new Luddites seek not to abandon technology entirely, but build new infrastructure that embraces proximity and in-person human relationships, instead of alienation and doom-scrolling” 👈🏻 My favourite quote from the entire article! It's pure 👨🏻🍳💋
Wearing my #Luddite badge with pride 🤘🏻😎
#DigitalAutonomy #DigitalSovereignty #SovereignByDesign #FuckTheAlgorithm #GenAI #Luddites
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“We are interested in building alternative social infrastructure that allows us to be no longer reliant on Big Tech”👌🏻😍
“The new Luddites seek not to abandon technology entirely, but build new infrastructure that embraces proximity and in-person human relationships, instead of alienation and doom-scrolling” 👈🏻 My favourite quote from the entire article! It's pure 👨🏻🍳💋
Wearing my #Luddite badge with pride 🤘🏻😎
#DigitalAutonomy #DigitalSovereignty #SovereignByDesign #FuckTheAlgorithm #GenAI #Luddites
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Here are some noteworthy quotes:
“[…] tech companies design AI tools and social media apps to make people dependent on them — making them feel helpless, alienated, and addicted to the endless scroll”
“Far from the distorted caricature of Luddites as curmudgeonly, puritanical tsk-tsk’ers, the new Luddites attract people to their movement through playfulness and participation” [1/2]
#DigitalAutonomy #DigitalSovereignty #SovereignByDesign #FuckTheAlgorithm #GenAI #Luddites
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Here are some noteworthy quotes:
“[…] tech companies design AI tools and social media apps to make people dependent on them — making them feel helpless, alienated, and addicted to the endless scroll”
“Far from the distorted caricature of Luddites as curmudgeonly, puritanical tsk-tsk’ers, the new Luddites attract people to their movement through playfulness and participation” [1/2]
#DigitalAutonomy #DigitalSovereignty #SovereignByDesign #FuckTheAlgorithm #GenAI #Luddites
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“You don’t need social media and extractive tech platforms to meet people and have fun” 👉🏻 https://www.404media.co/luddite-events-nyc-off-tech-summer-of-ludd/
I'm *definitely* going to save this one & share it every time people ask me why I'm aiming at #DigitalAutonomy & #DigitalSovereignty. Luddism is fun, don't walk away from it. Embrace it. Live it! 🤘🏻😎
“These companies want you to think that you’re dumb, but that is a lie. Everyone here is smart. Everyone here is creative”
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“You don’t need social media and extractive tech platforms to meet people and have fun” 👉🏻 https://www.404media.co/luddite-events-nyc-off-tech-summer-of-ludd/
I'm *definitely* going to save this one & share it every time people ask me why I'm aiming at #DigitalAutonomy & #DigitalSovereignty. Luddism is fun, don't walk away from it. Embrace it. Live it! 🤘🏻😎
“These companies want you to think that you’re dumb, but that is a lie. Everyone here is smart. Everyone here is creative”
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Oh, the irony!!! NYC activists: “You don’t need social media and extractive tech platforms to meet people and have fun.” TL;DR: You can have fun without social media… if you live in a big metropolis like New York City!! And that’s why I’m no luddite but rather a communist à la Karl Marx.
“This time, the protest isn’t a one-off. It’s part of the “Summer of Ludd,” a week-long festival of free public events organized and advertised entirely off of tech platforms and social media. The Summer of Ludd doesn’t have a website, but you can call a phone number to get a run-down of the events happening each day around the city. The schedule includes everything from an “offline rizz” workshop designed to help you ditch dating apps, a phone-free rave called “Let’s Get Off Together,” internet piracy 101 skill-shares, and an outdoor play that retells the story of the original Luddites. I found out about the Summer of Ludd from a local event mailing list called NYC Off Tech, but other folks I met throughout the week learned about it from posters wheat-pasted around their neighborhoods, paper event guides distributed to bookstores and coffee shops, or just word-of-mouth from friends.
Basically, the whole thing is an experiment designed to prove a single point: You don’t need social media and extractive tech platforms to meet people and have fun.”
https://www.404media.co/luddite-events-nyc-off-tech-summer-of-ludd/
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Oh, the irony!!! NYC activists: “You don’t need social media and extractive tech platforms to meet people and have fun.” TL;DR: You can have fun without social media… if you live in a big metropolis like New York City!! And that’s why I’m no luddite but rather a communist à la Karl Marx.
“This time, the protest isn’t a one-off. It’s part of the “Summer of Ludd,” a week-long festival of free public events organized and advertised entirely off of tech platforms and social media. The Summer of Ludd doesn’t have a website, but you can call a phone number to get a run-down of the events happening each day around the city. The schedule includes everything from an “offline rizz” workshop designed to help you ditch dating apps, a phone-free rave called “Let’s Get Off Together,” internet piracy 101 skill-shares, and an outdoor play that retells the story of the original Luddites. I found out about the Summer of Ludd from a local event mailing list called NYC Off Tech, but other folks I met throughout the week learned about it from posters wheat-pasted around their neighborhoods, paper event guides distributed to bookstores and coffee shops, or just word-of-mouth from friends.
Basically, the whole thing is an experiment designed to prove a single point: You don’t need social media and extractive tech platforms to meet people and have fun.”
https://www.404media.co/luddite-events-nyc-off-tech-summer-of-ludd/
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"Far from the distorted caricature of Luddites as curmudgeonly, puritanical tsk-tsk’ers, the new Luddites attract people to their movement through playfulness and participation."
https://www.404media.co/luddite-events-nyc-off-tech-summer-of-ludd/
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"Far from the distorted caricature of Luddites as curmudgeonly, puritanical tsk-tsk’ers, the new Luddites attract people to their movement through playfulness and participation."
https://www.404media.co/luddite-events-nyc-off-tech-summer-of-ludd/
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When the #Ai controlled killer bots will be chasing down the last humans...
...the Aiantagonists / #luddites will still be claiming that AI is useless, doesn't think and is really just a useless fancy autocomplete.
They are as much a problem as the #techbros are
To counter an issue, you first have to recognise it's a threat.Kicking down a #datacenter to a poorer and less organised municipality is not the win the AI non-users think it is, #nimbyism
#RegulateAi ,put in place laws and regulations the #seouldeclaration and #bletchleydeclaration demands
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It's quite long but this video has everything: #luddites #technology #RupertMurdoch, #history, #industrialization, #windmills, #Thatcher, and obvious implications for the #AI hell we're enjoying.
It's also terribly funny and I want to watch the film about Mt Everest lava sharks now
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It's quite long but this video has everything: #luddites #technology #RupertMurdoch, #history, #industrialization, #windmills, #Thatcher, and obvious implications for the #AI hell we're enjoying.
It's also terribly funny and I want to watch the film about Mt Everest lava sharks now
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"The conclusion of The AI Con reveals the structural limit of the entire approach. Bender and Hanna propose “strategic refusal” as a political horizon: saying no to AI, drawing inspiration from Luddite movements and feminist struggles. The invitation is suggestive, but the question left unanswered is: refusal in favour of what? If AI is a technology that, as the book itself documents, is already reshaping work, healthcare, education, and cultural production, refusal without an alternative project risks being a symbolic gesture that leaves the field open to those who govern and deploy these technologies. The authors envision specific, narrow-scope tools designed in collaboration with communities; but this vision sets a very low bar and fails to reckon with the possibility that general-purpose language models have already produced widespread, imperfect, and improvable benefits—benefits that a politics of outright refusal would end up surrendering entirely to those with fewer scruples."
https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-end-of-algorithmic-denialism/
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Art #ArtHistory #Luddites #Neoluddites
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"The conclusion of The AI Con reveals the structural limit of the entire approach. Bender and Hanna propose “strategic refusal” as a political horizon: saying no to AI, drawing inspiration from Luddite movements and feminist struggles. The invitation is suggestive, but the question left unanswered is: refusal in favour of what? If AI is a technology that, as the book itself documents, is already reshaping work, healthcare, education, and cultural production, refusal without an alternative project risks being a symbolic gesture that leaves the field open to those who govern and deploy these technologies. The authors envision specific, narrow-scope tools designed in collaboration with communities; but this vision sets a very low bar and fails to reckon with the possibility that general-purpose language models have already produced widespread, imperfect, and improvable benefits—benefits that a politics of outright refusal would end up surrendering entirely to those with fewer scruples."
https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-end-of-algorithmic-denialism/
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Art #ArtHistory #Luddites #Neoluddites
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Only a fool would deny that... I'm getting tired of all this anti-AI bullshit. It's just a very efficient automation tool with specific affordances that can be well used or badly used. OK, there are still some hiccups in terms of efficiency but this is mostly an engineering problem together with an illiteracy problem from the part of some users.
"The Star Wars director, George Lucas, has added his voice to the growing chorus of film-makers receptive to the rising use of AI tools in moviemaking.
Speaking in an interview with A Rabbit’s Foot, Lucas, 82, said: “Artificial intelligence means it’s much easier for us to make movies.”
Resistance to the technology, he said, was “very much like sitting here saying: ‘Well, I believe the horse and the buggy is really where it’s at. These cars, they break down, they need gas, there’s all kinds of problems with them and pretty soon they’ll be making them into tanks, and then they’ll be killing people. It’s terrible.’”
Adoption of such tools, continued Lucas, was an inevitability. “There’s nothing you can do about it. That’s progress, it’s the future.”
Lucas is not the only director of a Star Wars film to have come out in favour of AI. The British film-maker Gareth Edwards, who made Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and most recently Jurassic World Rebirth said generative AI “is a fucking genius at helping you”."
#AI #GenerativeAI #Luddites #NeoLuddites #AntiAI #Film #Movies #Cinema
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Only a fool would deny that... I'm getting tired of all this anti-AI bullshit. It's just a very efficient automation tool with specific affordances that can be well used or badly used. OK, there are still some hiccups in terms of efficiency but this is mostly an engineering problem together with an illiteracy problem from the part of some users.
"The Star Wars director, George Lucas, has added his voice to the growing chorus of film-makers receptive to the rising use of AI tools in moviemaking.
Speaking in an interview with A Rabbit’s Foot, Lucas, 82, said: “Artificial intelligence means it’s much easier for us to make movies.”
Resistance to the technology, he said, was “very much like sitting here saying: ‘Well, I believe the horse and the buggy is really where it’s at. These cars, they break down, they need gas, there’s all kinds of problems with them and pretty soon they’ll be making them into tanks, and then they’ll be killing people. It’s terrible.’”
Adoption of such tools, continued Lucas, was an inevitability. “There’s nothing you can do about it. That’s progress, it’s the future.”
Lucas is not the only director of a Star Wars film to have come out in favour of AI. The British film-maker Gareth Edwards, who made Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and most recently Jurassic World Rebirth said generative AI “is a fucking genius at helping you”."
#AI #GenerativeAI #Luddites #NeoLuddites #AntiAI #Film #Movies #Cinema
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Inside the Luddite festival harnessing Gen Z’s rage against Big Tech
New York City’s Summer of Ludd festival is teaching people how to live offline.
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/07/inside-the-luddite-festival-harnessing-gen-zs-rage-against-big-tech/
#Luddites #Technology -
Inside the Luddite festival harnessing Gen Z’s rage against Big Tech
New York City’s Summer of Ludd festival is teaching people how to live offline.
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/07/inside-the-luddite-festival-harnessing-gen-zs-rage-against-big-tech/
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Before the Luddites and the arrival of capitalism, it wasn’t just workers pushing back against technology; governments did too.
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with Thomas Dekeyser to discuss how refusal of technology has a very long history.
Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/337_tech_refusal_has_a_very_long_history_w_thomas_dekeyser
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Before the Luddites and the arrival of capitalism, it wasn’t just workers pushing back against technology; governments did too.
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with Thomas Dekeyser to discuss how refusal of technology has a very long history.
Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/337_tech_refusal_has_a_very_long_history_w_thomas_dekeyser
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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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Wishing all fellow #Luddites a successful week. 🍀
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Wishing all fellow #Luddites a successful week. 🍀
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Emily Lu, writing in the Berlin Review, has this to say on why she doesn’t use AI:
“The truth is, I do not use AI in my day-to-day work and life for mostly quotidian prosaic reasons. I have tried and found it not very helpful for the particular projects I am working on. I find that it sends me down unhelpful rabbit holes and wastes more of my time than it saves. I also don’t entirely trust its answers, so I anxiously check the veracity of its responses to even simple queries—a process which often becomes just as involved as that of simply going about tackling the original question directly. Most basically, though, I do not use AI, because I for the most part like the activities of my work enough that I do not feel the constant need to streamline it. Plus I find the experience of chatting with an AI to be tiresome and frankly, annoying. Its relentless peppiness. Its annoying cadence of “thought,” which delivers every response in a “Vox explainer” voice. Its obsequiousness makes me ashamed. Its longwindedness feels like filibustering.”
https://blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/2026-08/als-ob-philosophieren-lily-hu
The full article talks about the use of AI in philosophy and, even for non-philosophers, has fascinating insights.
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Emily Lu, writing in the Berlin Review, has this to say on why she doesn’t use AI:
“The truth is, I do not use AI in my day-to-day work and life for mostly quotidian prosaic reasons. I have tried and found it not very helpful for the particular projects I am working on. I find that it sends me down unhelpful rabbit holes and wastes more of my time than it saves. I also don’t entirely trust its answers, so I anxiously check the veracity of its responses to even simple queries—a process which often becomes just as involved as that of simply going about tackling the original question directly. Most basically, though, I do not use AI, because I for the most part like the activities of my work enough that I do not feel the constant need to streamline it. Plus I find the experience of chatting with an AI to be tiresome and frankly, annoying. Its relentless peppiness. Its annoying cadence of “thought,” which delivers every response in a “Vox explainer” voice. Its obsequiousness makes me ashamed. Its longwindedness feels like filibustering.”
https://blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/2026-08/als-ob-philosophieren-lily-hu
The full article talks about the use of AI in philosophy and, even for non-philosophers, has fascinating insights.
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This is a support request I received today. In its entirety. That’s it. That’s the whole message.
I don’t work in IT. This is from someone in my family. This is what it’s like to be a technologist in a family of luddites. 😂
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This is a support request I received today. In its entirety. That’s it. That’s the whole message.
I don’t work in IT. This is from someone in my family. This is what it’s like to be a technologist in a family of luddites. 😂
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:boost_love: :notAI: NYC, come out to Union Square (Quaker Meeting House) tomorrow or Tuesday for a workshop on resisting AI & other Big Tech authoritarianism. Free of cost, no registration required.
More at: https://www.techreclaimers.club
#NoAI #SurveillanceCapitalism #BigTech #optOut #luddites #NYC #NewYork
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"Als ich eines nachmittags am Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn saß, hatte ich den plötzlichen Drang mein iPhone ins Wasser zu schmeißen. […] Ich sah keinen Unterschied zwischen dem Müll auf meinem Telefon und dem Müll, der auf dem verdreckten Wasser trieb. Ein paar Monate später schaltete ich mein Telefon aus, legte es in eine Schublade und meldete mich bei Social Media ab. So begann mein Leben als Ludditin."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/style/luddite-teens-reunion.html
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"Wie alle iPad-Kinder wollte ich, seit ich 10 war, bei Instagram, Snapchat und TikTok berühmt werden. […] Mit meinem Telefon hatte ich die kuratierten Leben meiner Mitschüler immer dabei, egal wo ich hin ging. Sie folgten mir an den Abendbrottisch, die Bushaltestelle bis schließlich ins Bett, wo ich erschöpft und nervös, oft spät in der Nacht mit dem Gerät in der Hand einschlief. […]
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/116799695633903136
This is what the #Luddites opposed. The misconception that they just didn't like new things is an #EpsteinClass lie.
#AI #LLM #Datacenters are the new child-eating looms.
