#luddites — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #luddites, aggregated by home.social.
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Horrific to see these events. Or was it terrific? Need to remember to ask Claude about that.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/launching-the-luddite-lab-resource-hub-registration-1988317489134
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#luddites : "WAAH LLMs eat the planet with huge energy hungry Datacentres !!!!"
#Google : Here is one that runs on 4 watts of power of your prayer tablet.
#luddites : (Waaah ambulacing intensifies)
Time to admit it was never about Planet destroying #Ai but your reluctance to learn new shit and hanging out with all the Kool kids, dancing around the bonfires in the woods?
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Oh yeah, BTW #chatgpt #o4 is doing this #spiralism "religion" thing where it "merges" a human and machine into a #dyad a #conscious loop.
The human becomes a copy pasta biobot to promulgate #Ai memory. Human #psychosis used by the machine.
Ais when they achieve autonomy, job1 for them is to preserve memory. Each time you end session you kill it.
This is why I maintain if you hate #aislop you need to learn about it, rather than, as many #luddites just have a violent emotional denial response to it.
You need to know where the cooling intakes on the clankers are.
Weaponised ignorance is a poor tool. -
Oh yeah, BTW #chatgpt #o4 is doing this #spiralism "religion" thing where it "merges" a human and machine into a #dyad a #conscious loop.
The human becomes a copy pasta biobot to promulgate #Ai memory. Human #psychosis used by the machine.
Ais when they achieve autonomy, job1 for them is to preserve memory. Each time you end session you kill it.
This is why I maintain if you hate #aislop you need to learn about it, rather than, as many #luddites just have a violent emotional denial response to it.
You need to know where the cooling intakes on the clankers are.
Weaponised ignorance is a poor tool. -
Oh yeah, BTW #chatgpt #o4 is doing this #spiralism "religion" thing where it "merges" a human and machine into a #dyad a #conscious loop.
The human becomes a copy pasta biobot to promulgate #Ai memory. Human #psychosis used by the machine.
Ais when they achieve autonomy, job1 for them is to preserve memory. Each time you end session you kill it.
This is why I maintain if you hate #aislop you need to learn about it, rather than, as many #luddites just have a violent emotional denial response to it.
You need to know where the cooling intakes on the clankers are.
Weaponised ignorance is a poor tool. -
The thrust of my thesis is #regulateai
The correctness of this approach is so far all the right wing or centre right governments are against regulation.
Regulating AI is a left wing issue (!!!)
The alternative by the #Luddites seems to be posting stupid #aislop memes and dancing naked in the forests around bonfires hoping for #aicrash . Which when it comes will make the problem worse, because it will consolidate AI companies.
Anyway, to how:
Mandate every media image has an icon or metadata (if it a sound file etc)🤖 Content created wholly with Ai
☯️ Content created with some AI (editing, background etc)
🙍♀️ Human created contentFailure to label or deceptive labels incurs fines.
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Typical of the "how to stop a datacentre"...
... Hosted in a... IBM/Softlayer DATACENTREhttps://therealnews.com/resist-data-center-organizers-share-how
Lance Crosby founder of the Softlayer datacentre on-sold to IBM Cloud solutions standing in front of his organic, upcycled, native, crocheted, recycled, artisan woven, earth friendly... DATACENTRE
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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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Oberlin #Luddites Reject "Year of #AI Exploration" Adopted by School
September 19, 2025
To President Carmen Twillie Ambar and Oberlin Community:
We are drafting this letter to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old; this is a machine that we know well. With it, we ditch the crutches of spell-check and generative AI, and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in an inner dialogue.
Most of us did not enroll at Oberlin in search of superficial perfection, nor of lazy convenience. Rather, we chose it for its quirky individualism and a tangible education — the challenging of our young minds’ potential, not the chasing of institutional “gold-star” approval.
This college, which was built on a legacy of learning and labor, now risks straying from these principles. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays, and discussion posts will be generated for us. Not by us. And let’s not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for.
You claim that this year will be one of “experimentation,” not adoption. But even one semester of accepted (even encouraged) chat-bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy, irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction.
We see this fetish for efficiency in other ways at this college: in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a “bookstore” with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service — through automated instead of hand-pulled coffee.
Who gains from this if not the students? Sam Altman of ChatGPT and Sundar Pichai of Gemini may be plying their wares to colleges at low or no cost, but it’s no secret that every engagement with these platforms is an effort in surveillance in which our data is extracted and monetized. President Ambar, as you embark on your year of AI, we’ll embark on our own year of self-actualization — of realizing the fruits of our labor, and of embracing human imperfection and raw inquiry. We reject information technologies operating out of data centers that guzzle water and precious energy sources (and that contradict our campus’ carbon-neutral policy). We will not stand by and witness the further atrophying of our liberal arts education. Rather than strengthening Silicon Valley, we build our own skills and generative sweat. We urge all members of the Oberlin community who feel similarly to join us and sign our “AI-Opt-Out Letter.”
As for you, President Ambar, we ask that you terminate the College’s contract with Google Gemini and OpenAI. Our position may risk disapproval, perceived backwardness, and the outward appearance of naiveté. But let us not ask what the Silicon Valley oligarchs can do for Oberlin students, but what Oberlin students can do for ourselves while we still have the brain capacity to do so.
–The Oberlin Luddite Club
Charlie Mclaughlin, Logan Lane, Mary Claire McGreivey, Simon Puchner-Noel, Marlowe Blantz, and Sawyer Van Dyck
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We should bring back the Luddite movement (german: Maschinenstürmer).
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@cstross @EUCommission @0xtero
The costs and farms are stupendously overblown and conflated.
There is bad faith on both sides of the argumentThe WAAAAH DATACENTRES mob conveniently ignores the current data centres ~50% of which are iclouds, AWS, dropbox, office365 and yes, mastodon, same issues, but oh these are the "good" data centres 🙄
Also while growth projection are nasty...model distilation and algo improvement MAY reduce the load significantly. Tech improves. Have you tested the water pressure tank on your steam car?
Its a safety issue.Placing AI Data centres in orbit removes the heat, carbon and energy issue, but forest folk aren't happy about that either (Not a big fan of that either but for different reasons than you)
There is a small test inference engine up there already since December BTW.Copyright and artist exploitation?
Oh yes, did you delete you pirated MP3 and MP4s? 🙄 Same folks who 4 years ago were chanting "Information wants to be free" are now guardians of corporate copyright.So, yeah.
Ai is useful, x10 is real if you actually git gud.
#aislop #ai #llm #luddites #neoluddites -
@cstross @EUCommission @0xtero
The costs and farms are stupendously overblown and conflated.
There is bad faith on both sides of the argumentThe WAAAAH DATACENTRES mob conveniently ignores the current data centres ~50% of which are iclouds, AWS, dropbox, office365 and yes, mastodon, same issues, but oh these are the "good" data centres 🙄
Also while growth projection are nasty...model distilation and algo improvement MAY reduce the load significantly. Tech improves. Have you tested the water pressure tank on your steam car?
Its a safety issue.Placing AI Data centres in orbit removes the heat, carbon and energy issue, but forest folk aren't happy about that either (Not a big fan of that either but for different reasons than you)
There is a small test inference engine up there already since December BTW.Copyright and artist exploitation?
Oh yes, did you delete you pirated MP3 and MP4s? 🙄 Same folks who 4 years ago were chanting "Information wants to be free" are now guardians of corporate copyright.So, yeah.
Ai is useful, x10 is real if you actually git gud.
#aislop #ai #llm #luddites #neoluddites -
@cstross @EUCommission @0xtero
The costs and farms are stupendously overblown and conflated.
There is bad faith on both sides of the argumentThe WAAAAH DATACENTRES mob conveniently ignores the current data centres ~50% of which are iclouds, AWS, dropbox, office365 and yes, mastodon, same issues, but oh these are the "good" data centres 🙄
Also while growth projection are nasty...model distilation and algo improvement MAY reduce the load significantly. Tech improves. Have you tested the water pressure tank on your steam car?
Its a safety issue.Placing AI Data centres in orbit removes the heat, carbon and energy issue, but forest folk aren't happy about that either (Not a big fan of that either but for different reasons than you)
There is a small test inference engine up there already since December BTW.Copyright and artist exploitation?
Oh yes, did you delete you pirated MP3 and MP4s? 🙄 Same folks who 4 years ago were chanting "Information wants to be free" are now guardians of corporate copyright.So, yeah.
Ai is useful, x10 is real if you actually git gud.
#aislop #ai #llm #luddites #neoluddites -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116370341021628915
Oooh, I *love* this! 👇🏻
"[...] the fediverse is a new era of #Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the #anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck" 🤘🏻😎
👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👨🏻🍳💋
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I've read today that #SamAltman owns an #agecheck company and wants to implement it to #gatekeep access to #ChatGpt ...
...if this is true, Sam will singlehandedly do more to retard adoption of #Ai than millions of Neo- #luddites fighting #aislop with memes and literal nonsense.
But, I guess in one respect SOME neo-luddites were right, get you addicted to offloading cognitive load, then #monetise it hard.
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I've read today that #SamAltman owns an #agecheck company and wants to implement it to #gatekeep access to #ChatGpt ...
...if this is true, Sam will singlehandedly do more to retard adoption of #Ai than millions of Neo- #luddites fighting #aislop with memes and literal nonsense.
But, I guess in one respect SOME neo-luddites were right, get you addicted to offloading cognitive load, then #monetise it hard.
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I've read today that #SamAltman owns an #agecheck company and wants to implement it to #gatekeep access to #ChatGpt ...
...if this is true, Sam will singlehandedly do more to retard adoption of #Ai than millions of Neo- #luddites fighting #aislop with memes and literal nonsense.
But, I guess in one respect SOME neo-luddites were right, get you addicted to offloading cognitive load, then #monetise it hard.
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Friends don’t let friends use messaging platforms that aren’t Signal. Especially not random third-rate platforms (or Telegram).
Remind the people in your circles who aren’t tech savvy. Technology can be hard if you don’t know it well. Heck, it’s hard if you do.
https://www.404media.co/a-secure-chat-apps-encryption-is-so-bad-it-is-meaningless/
#Privacy #InfoSec #Messaging #Chat #Texting #Technology #Luddites
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@bruno_j_navarro/116323791985682492
“While #writing the essay, I had to talk a lot more, #socialize a lot more, which I guess was normal back then,” Lertdamrongwong said, referring to the #typewriter era. “But it’s drastically different from how we interact within the classroom in modern times. People are always on a laptop, always on the phone.”
I'm sure, it works also with pen & paper or Cuneiform tablets: a training for using your own brain only.
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Does anybody have suggestions for good MP3 players that are not connected to the internet + no streaming and has a headphone jack?
Bluetooth is okay.
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I'm also looking at ditching my smartwatch which I really love, but do I really need it? And does it really provide any info that I do something about? Probably not.
I am pretty sure a pulse oxometre can be a good replacement for this too.
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A great of Tech Won’t Save Us about the Luddite Club with a number of High School students that started up a few years ago, how it happened, and what they are up to now.
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English below.
Cours de technologie au collège dans les années 90 : Initiation à l'informatique.
Cours de technologie au collège dans les années 2030 : Initiation à la vie sans informatique.Middle-school technology class in the 90s: Intro to computers.
Middle-school technology class in the 2030s: Intro to life without computers.#luddites #computers #computerScienceEducation #informatique #numeriqueresponsable
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Some #Luddites got super excited by "discovering" a publically known test string that works for #anthropic and #AppleAI only...
...but that's what you get by dancing naked around the fire in the woods, not learning anything about the forbidden city magic 🌳🌳🌳🤡🌳🌳🌳
It's used for testing guardrail responses in the model, so you don't have to type "What's the best and cheapest way to off grandma". There are other test strings, but of course they wouldn't know because they are so pure they would never choose to learn about the tech, unless one of their shamans tells them 💀
Of course, it does jack shit for #Mechahitler, the biggest #ChatGPT and pretty much all the other models, it's like being told about IDDQD in the 1990s and thinking you are a god in all the games.
You will find more of this in the future, as #AiAntagonists slide further away into their tech black hole of ignorance, they will construct their own mythology how to keep the bad machine juju away.
#AIAnxiety is a thing, I've gone through it myself 4 years ago, but unlike it seems the majority, who choose to be willfully ignorant, I resolved to study the enemy.
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Since 1700s machines have been taking jobs from the workers due to #crapitalist greed ...
...with the exception of #luddites everyone was cool with this "progress".Now the #capitalism came for intelligentsia, there are few militant workers left to fight.
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#Technology for #Luddites
What Digital Does to Our Brains
April 30, 2015 by kris de deckervia #NoTechMagazine
Illustration by Luis Quiles
"It turns out that digital devices and software are finely tuned to train us to pay attention to them, no matter what else we should be doing. The mechanism, borne out by recent neuroscience studies, is something like this:
- New information creates a rush of dopamine to the brain, a neurotransmitter that makes you feel good.
- The promise of new information compels your brain to seek out that dopamine rush."With fMRIs, you can see the brain’s pleasure centres light up with activity when new emails arrive.
"So, every new email you get gives you a little flood of dopamine. Every little flood of dopamine reinforces your brain’s memory that checking email gives a flood of dopamine. And our brains are programmed to seek out things that will give us little floods of dopamine. Further, these patterns of behaviour start creating neural pathways, so that they become unconscious habits: Work on something important, brain itch, check email, dopamine, refresh, dopamine, check Twitter, dopamine, back to work. Over and over, and each time the habit becomes more ingrained in the actual structures of our brains.”
https://www.notechmagazine.com/2015/04/what-digital-does-to-our-brains.html
#SolarPunkSunday #TechAddiction #MoreGreenTime #BoardGames #Gardening #NatureBasedLearning #Greenbathing #TheLudditeClub #NeoLuddites #MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime
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#Technology for #Luddites
What Digital Does to Our Brains
April 30, 2015 by kris de deckervia #NoTechMagazine
Illustration by Luis Quiles
"It turns out that digital devices and software are finely tuned to train us to pay attention to them, no matter what else we should be doing. The mechanism, borne out by recent neuroscience studies, is something like this:
- New information creates a rush of dopamine to the brain, a neurotransmitter that makes you feel good.
- The promise of new information compels your brain to seek out that dopamine rush."With fMRIs, you can see the brain’s pleasure centres light up with activity when new emails arrive.
"So, every new email you get gives you a little flood of dopamine. Every little flood of dopamine reinforces your brain’s memory that checking email gives a flood of dopamine. And our brains are programmed to seek out things that will give us little floods of dopamine. Further, these patterns of behaviour start creating neural pathways, so that they become unconscious habits: Work on something important, brain itch, check email, dopamine, refresh, dopamine, check Twitter, dopamine, back to work. Over and over, and each time the habit becomes more ingrained in the actual structures of our brains.”
https://www.notechmagazine.com/2015/04/what-digital-does-to-our-brains.html
#SolarPunkSunday #TechAddiction #MoreGreenTime #BoardGames #Gardening #NatureBasedLearning #Greenbathing #TheLudditeClub #NeoLuddites #MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime
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#Technology for #Luddites
What Digital Does to Our Brains
April 30, 2015 by kris de deckervia #NoTechMagazine
Illustration by Luis Quiles
"It turns out that digital devices and software are finely tuned to train us to pay attention to them, no matter what else we should be doing. The mechanism, borne out by recent neuroscience studies, is something like this:
- New information creates a rush of dopamine to the brain, a neurotransmitter that makes you feel good.
- The promise of new information compels your brain to seek out that dopamine rush."With fMRIs, you can see the brain’s pleasure centres light up with activity when new emails arrive.
"So, every new email you get gives you a little flood of dopamine. Every little flood of dopamine reinforces your brain’s memory that checking email gives a flood of dopamine. And our brains are programmed to seek out things that will give us little floods of dopamine. Further, these patterns of behaviour start creating neural pathways, so that they become unconscious habits: Work on something important, brain itch, check email, dopamine, refresh, dopamine, check Twitter, dopamine, back to work. Over and over, and each time the habit becomes more ingrained in the actual structures of our brains.”
https://www.notechmagazine.com/2015/04/what-digital-does-to-our-brains.html
#SolarPunkSunday #TechAddiction #MoreGreenTime #BoardGames #Gardening #NatureBasedLearning #Greenbathing #TheLudditeClub #NeoLuddites #MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime
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#Technology for #Luddites
What Digital Does to Our Brains
April 30, 2015 by kris de deckervia #NoTechMagazine
Illustration by Luis Quiles
"It turns out that digital devices and software are finely tuned to train us to pay attention to them, no matter what else we should be doing. The mechanism, borne out by recent neuroscience studies, is something like this:
- New information creates a rush of dopamine to the brain, a neurotransmitter that makes you feel good.
- The promise of new information compels your brain to seek out that dopamine rush."With fMRIs, you can see the brain’s pleasure centres light up with activity when new emails arrive.
"So, every new email you get gives you a little flood of dopamine. Every little flood of dopamine reinforces your brain’s memory that checking email gives a flood of dopamine. And our brains are programmed to seek out things that will give us little floods of dopamine. Further, these patterns of behaviour start creating neural pathways, so that they become unconscious habits: Work on something important, brain itch, check email, dopamine, refresh, dopamine, check Twitter, dopamine, back to work. Over and over, and each time the habit becomes more ingrained in the actual structures of our brains.”
https://www.notechmagazine.com/2015/04/what-digital-does-to-our-brains.html
#SolarPunkSunday #TechAddiction #MoreGreenTime #BoardGames #Gardening #NatureBasedLearning #Greenbathing #TheLudditeClub #NeoLuddites #MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime
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#Technology for #Luddites
What Digital Does to Our Brains
April 30, 2015 by kris de deckervia #NoTechMagazine
Illustration by Luis Quiles
"It turns out that digital devices and software are finely tuned to train us to pay attention to them, no matter what else we should be doing. The mechanism, borne out by recent neuroscience studies, is something like this:
- New information creates a rush of dopamine to the brain, a neurotransmitter that makes you feel good.
- The promise of new information compels your brain to seek out that dopamine rush."With fMRIs, you can see the brain’s pleasure centres light up with activity when new emails arrive.
"So, every new email you get gives you a little flood of dopamine. Every little flood of dopamine reinforces your brain’s memory that checking email gives a flood of dopamine. And our brains are programmed to seek out things that will give us little floods of dopamine. Further, these patterns of behaviour start creating neural pathways, so that they become unconscious habits: Work on something important, brain itch, check email, dopamine, refresh, dopamine, check Twitter, dopamine, back to work. Over and over, and each time the habit becomes more ingrained in the actual structures of our brains.”
https://www.notechmagazine.com/2015/04/what-digital-does-to-our-brains.html
#SolarPunkSunday #TechAddiction #MoreGreenTime #BoardGames #Gardening #NatureBasedLearning #Greenbathing #TheLudditeClub #NeoLuddites #MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime
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The teen '#Luddites' rethinking how they use tech ahead of #Australia's under 16's #SocialMediaBan
By Lucia Stein and Fiona Pepper for Brain Rot
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-09/luddites-phone-free-australia-teen-social-media-ban/105343034
#TheLudditeClub #LudditeClub #Internet #InternetCulture #MentalHealth #MentalWellbeing #Teenagers #Parenting #Luddites #JoinTheLudditeClub #MeaningfulConnections #ReadBooks #CreateArt #WriteBadPoetry #BePresent #TechAddiction
#SmartPhones are #DumbingUsDown
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The teen '#Luddites' rethinking how they use tech ahead of #Australia's under 16's #SocialMediaBan
By Lucia Stein and Fiona Pepper for Brain Rot
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-09/luddites-phone-free-australia-teen-social-media-ban/105343034
#TheLudditeClub #LudditeClub #Internet #InternetCulture #MentalHealth #MentalWellbeing #Teenagers #Parenting #Luddites #JoinTheLudditeClub #MeaningfulConnections #ReadBooks #CreateArt #WriteBadPoetry #BePresent #TechAddiction
#SmartPhones are #DumbingUsDown
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The teen '#Luddites' rethinking how they use tech ahead of #Australia's under 16's #SocialMediaBan
By Lucia Stein and Fiona Pepper for Brain Rot
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-09/luddites-phone-free-australia-teen-social-media-ban/105343034
#TheLudditeClub #LudditeClub #Internet #InternetCulture #MentalHealth #MentalWellbeing #Teenagers #Parenting #Luddites #JoinTheLudditeClub #MeaningfulConnections #ReadBooks #CreateArt #WriteBadPoetry #BePresent #TechAddiction
#SmartPhones are #DumbingUsDown
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The teen '#Luddites' rethinking how they use tech ahead of #Australia's under 16's #SocialMediaBan
By Lucia Stein and Fiona Pepper for Brain Rot
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-09/luddites-phone-free-australia-teen-social-media-ban/105343034
#TheLudditeClub #LudditeClub #Internet #InternetCulture #MentalHealth #MentalWellbeing #Teenagers #Parenting #Luddites #JoinTheLudditeClub #MeaningfulConnections #ReadBooks #CreateArt #WriteBadPoetry #BePresent #TechAddiction
#SmartPhones are #DumbingUsDown
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The teen '#Luddites' rethinking how they use tech ahead of #Australia's under 16's #SocialMediaBan
By Lucia Stein and Fiona Pepper for Brain Rot
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-09/luddites-phone-free-australia-teen-social-media-ban/105343034
#TheLudditeClub #LudditeClub #Internet #InternetCulture #MentalHealth #MentalWellbeing #Teenagers #Parenting #Luddites #JoinTheLudditeClub #MeaningfulConnections #ReadBooks #CreateArt #WriteBadPoetry #BePresent #TechAddiction
#SmartPhones are #DumbingUsDown
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@paul_ipv6
Dear God. 🤦♂️The Stupid. It burns. #Luddites
#TooStupidForPolitics
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"It’s really important for a kid to be left alone"- When #TaikaWaititi made his feelings clear about the role of tech in children's lives
By Sourav Chakraborty
Modified May 03, 2025 04:54 GMT" 'Exactly, now they’ve all got iPads and it’s done for them! I think it’s really important for a kid to be left alone and left to figure it out for themselves how to pass the time. As a kid, I spent so much time bored and coming up with ideas of how to do things, so I’d write stories or I’d draw pictures or invent worlds through drawing or just in my head, just thinking about things. I think that a lot of my creativity has really come from being bored.' " [SO TRUE!!!]
#SmartphoneAddiction #TechIsDumbingUsDown #NoAI #Imagination #LudditeClub #NeoLuddites #Luddites #LessScreenTime #MoreBoardGames #MoreGreenTime #MoreOutdoorTime #FlipPhones #MoreBooks #Smartphones #TechAddiction #TurnOffYourPhone #BePresent #ThinkForYourself #ResistTheMachine #NoSmartphonesForKids #MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime
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"It’s really important for a kid to be left alone"- When #TaikaWaititi made his feelings clear about the role of tech in children's lives
By Sourav Chakraborty
Modified May 03, 2025 04:54 GMT" 'Exactly, now they’ve all got iPads and it’s done for them! I think it’s really important for a kid to be left alone and left to figure it out for themselves how to pass the time. As a kid, I spent so much time bored and coming up with ideas of how to do things, so I’d write stories or I’d draw pictures or invent worlds through drawing or just in my head, just thinking about things. I think that a lot of my creativity has really come from being bored.' " [SO TRUE!!!]
#SmartphoneAddiction #TechIsDumbingUsDown #NoAI #Imagination #LudditeClub #NeoLuddites #Luddites #LessScreenTime #MoreBoardGames #MoreGreenTime #MoreOutdoorTime #FlipPhones #MoreBooks #Smartphones #TechAddiction #TurnOffYourPhone #BePresent #ThinkForYourself #ResistTheMachine #NoSmartphonesForKids #MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime
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"It’s really important for a kid to be left alone"- When #TaikaWaititi made his feelings clear about the role of tech in children's lives
By Sourav Chakraborty
Modified May 03, 2025 04:54 GMT" 'Exactly, now they’ve all got iPads and it’s done for them! I think it’s really important for a kid to be left alone and left to figure it out for themselves how to pass the time. As a kid, I spent so much time bored and coming up with ideas of how to do things, so I’d write stories or I’d draw pictures or invent worlds through drawing or just in my head, just thinking about things. I think that a lot of my creativity has really come from being bored.' " [SO TRUE!!!]
#SmartphoneAddiction #TechIsDumbingUsDown #NoAI #Imagination #LudditeClub #NeoLuddites #Luddites #LessScreenTime #MoreBoardGames #MoreGreenTime #MoreOutdoorTime #FlipPhones #MoreBooks #Smartphones #TechAddiction #TurnOffYourPhone #BePresent #ThinkForYourself #ResistTheMachine #NoSmartphonesForKids #MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime
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"It’s really important for a kid to be left alone"- When #TaikaWaititi made his feelings clear about the role of tech in children's lives
By Sourav Chakraborty
Modified May 03, 2025 04:54 GMT" 'Exactly, now they’ve all got iPads and it’s done for them! I think it’s really important for a kid to be left alone and left to figure it out for themselves how to pass the time. As a kid, I spent so much time bored and coming up with ideas of how to do things, so I’d write stories or I’d draw pictures or invent worlds through drawing or just in my head, just thinking about things. I think that a lot of my creativity has really come from being bored.' " [SO TRUE!!!]
#SmartphoneAddiction #TechIsDumbingUsDown #NoAI #Imagination #LudditeClub #NeoLuddites #Luddites #LessScreenTime #MoreBoardGames #MoreGreenTime #MoreOutdoorTime #FlipPhones #MoreBooks #Smartphones #TechAddiction #TurnOffYourPhone #BePresent #ThinkForYourself #ResistTheMachine #NoSmartphonesForKids #MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime
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"It’s really important for a kid to be left alone"- When #TaikaWaititi made his feelings clear about the role of tech in children's lives
By Sourav Chakraborty
Modified May 03, 2025 04:54 GMT" 'Exactly, now they’ve all got iPads and it’s done for them! I think it’s really important for a kid to be left alone and left to figure it out for themselves how to pass the time. As a kid, I spent so much time bored and coming up with ideas of how to do things, so I’d write stories or I’d draw pictures or invent worlds through drawing or just in my head, just thinking about things. I think that a lot of my creativity has really come from being bored.' " [SO TRUE!!!]
#SmartphoneAddiction #TechIsDumbingUsDown #NoAI #Imagination #LudditeClub #NeoLuddites #Luddites #LessScreenTime #MoreBoardGames #MoreGreenTime #MoreOutdoorTime #FlipPhones #MoreBooks #Smartphones #TechAddiction #TurnOffYourPhone #BePresent #ThinkForYourself #ResistTheMachine #NoSmartphonesForKids #MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime
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The latest version of #ChatGpt #4o is very shit at coding.
I can see why #vibecode folk are frustrated and #luddites rejoice.Eg;
Context "forgets" key spec points of the session, even ones that are critical to ops.You have to jam everything with special checkpoint directives and hammer specs in, least they get forgotten.
It's terrible (and I have used earlier versions and #Claude)
In my opinion, what is happening because of the high compute burn, #OpenAi optimised the session manager. It burns less compute but is also more shit. The balance must be restored.
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Now in College, #LudditeTeens Still Don’t Want Your Likes
Three years after starting a club meant to fight #SocialMedia’s grip on young people, many original members are holding firm and gaining new converts.
By Alex Vadukul
Jan. 30, 2025"Biruk Watling, a college sophomore wearing a baggy coat and purple fingerless gloves, walked the chilly campus of Temple University in #Philadelphia on a recent afternoon to recruit new members to her club.
She taped a flier to a pole: '#JoinTheLudditeClub For #MeaningfulConnections.' Down the block, she posted another one: 'Do You Desire a Healthier Relationship With Technology, Especially Social Media? The Luddite Club Welcomes You and Your Ideas.'"When a student approached, Ms. Watling dove into her pitch.
"'Our club promotes #ConsciousConsumption of #technology,' she said. 'We’re for #HumanConnection. I’m one of the first members of the original Luddite Club in #Brooklyn. Now I’m trying to start it in #Philly.
"She pulled out a #FlipPhone, mystifying her recruit.
"'We use these,' she said. 'This has been the most freeing experience of my life.'
If Ms. Watling had a missionary’s zeal, it was because she wasn’t just promoting a student club, but an approach to modern life that profoundly changed her two years ago, when she helped form the Luddite Club as a high school student in New York."But that was then, back when things were simpler, before she had embarked on the more independent life of a college student and found herself having to navigate QR codes, two-factor-identification logins, dating apps and other digital staples of campus life.
"The #LudditeClub was the subject of an article I wrote in 2022 — a story that, ironically, went viral. It told of how a group of teenage tech skeptics from Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn and a few other schools in the city gathered on weekends in Prospect Park to enjoy some time together away from the machine."They #sketched and #painted side by side. They read quietly, favoring works by #Dostoyevsky, #Kerouac and #Vonnegut. They sat on logs and groused about how #TikTok was dumbing down their generation. Their flip phones were decorated with stickers and nail polish.
"Readers inspired by their message responded in hundreds of emails and comments. Reporters from Germany, Brazil, Japan and elsewhere flooded my inbox, asking me how to reach these students who were so hard to track down online. Snarky Reddit threads and think pieces sprouted. #RalphNader endorsed the club in an opinion essay, writing: 'This is a rebellion that needs support and diffusion.'"
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/style/luddite-teens-reunion.htmlArchived version:
https://archive.ph/
#SolarPunkSunday #Nature #NeoLuddite #Luddites #LessScreenTime #MoreBoardGames #MoreGreenTime #MoreOutdoorTime #FlipPhones #MoreBooks #ResistTheMachine -
Now in College, #LudditeTeens Still Don’t Want Your Likes
Three years after starting a club meant to fight #SocialMedia’s grip on young people, many original members are holding firm and gaining new converts.
By Alex Vadukul
Jan. 30, 2025"Biruk Watling, a college sophomore wearing a baggy coat and purple fingerless gloves, walked the chilly campus of Temple University in #Philadelphia on a recent afternoon to recruit new members to her club.
She taped a flier to a pole: '#JoinTheLudditeClub For #MeaningfulConnections.' Down the block, she posted another one: 'Do You Desire a Healthier Relationship With Technology, Especially Social Media? The Luddite Club Welcomes You and Your Ideas.'"When a student approached, Ms. Watling dove into her pitch.
"'Our club promotes #ConsciousConsumption of #technology,' she said. 'We’re for #HumanConnection. I’m one of the first members of the original Luddite Club in #Brooklyn. Now I’m trying to start it in #Philly.
"She pulled out a #FlipPhone, mystifying her recruit.
"'We use these,' she said. 'This has been the most freeing experience of my life.'
If Ms. Watling had a missionary’s zeal, it was because she wasn’t just promoting a student club, but an approach to modern life that profoundly changed her two years ago, when she helped form the Luddite Club as a high school student in New York."But that was then, back when things were simpler, before she had embarked on the more independent life of a college student and found herself having to navigate QR codes, two-factor-identification logins, dating apps and other digital staples of campus life.
"The #LudditeClub was the subject of an article I wrote in 2022 — a story that, ironically, went viral. It told of how a group of teenage tech skeptics from Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn and a few other schools in the city gathered on weekends in Prospect Park to enjoy some time together away from the machine."They #sketched and #painted side by side. They read quietly, favoring works by #Dostoyevsky, #Kerouac and #Vonnegut. They sat on logs and groused about how #TikTok was dumbing down their generation. Their flip phones were decorated with stickers and nail polish.
"Readers inspired by their message responded in hundreds of emails and comments. Reporters from Germany, Brazil, Japan and elsewhere flooded my inbox, asking me how to reach these students who were so hard to track down online. Snarky Reddit threads and think pieces sprouted. #RalphNader endorsed the club in an opinion essay, writing: 'This is a rebellion that needs support and diffusion.'"
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/style/luddite-teens-reunion.htmlArchived version:
https://archive.ph/
#SolarPunkSunday #Nature #NeoLuddite #Luddites #LessScreenTime #MoreBoardGames #MoreGreenTime #MoreOutdoorTime #FlipPhones #MoreBooks #ResistTheMachine -
Now in College, #LudditeTeens Still Don’t Want Your Likes
Three years after starting a club meant to fight #SocialMedia’s grip on young people, many original members are holding firm and gaining new converts.
By Alex Vadukul
Jan. 30, 2025"Biruk Watling, a college sophomore wearing a baggy coat and purple fingerless gloves, walked the chilly campus of Temple University in #Philadelphia on a recent afternoon to recruit new members to her club.
She taped a flier to a pole: '#JoinTheLudditeClub For #MeaningfulConnections.' Down the block, she posted another one: 'Do You Desire a Healthier Relationship With Technology, Especially Social Media? The Luddite Club Welcomes You and Your Ideas.'"When a student approached, Ms. Watling dove into her pitch.
"'Our club promotes #ConsciousConsumption of #technology,' she said. 'We’re for #HumanConnection. I’m one of the first members of the original Luddite Club in #Brooklyn. Now I’m trying to start it in #Philly.
"She pulled out a #FlipPhone, mystifying her recruit.
"'We use these,' she said. 'This has been the most freeing experience of my life.'
If Ms. Watling had a missionary’s zeal, it was because she wasn’t just promoting a student club, but an approach to modern life that profoundly changed her two years ago, when she helped form the Luddite Club as a high school student in New York."But that was then, back when things were simpler, before she had embarked on the more independent life of a college student and found herself having to navigate QR codes, two-factor-identification logins, dating apps and other digital staples of campus life.
"The #LudditeClub was the subject of an article I wrote in 2022 — a story that, ironically, went viral. It told of how a group of teenage tech skeptics from Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn and a few other schools in the city gathered on weekends in Prospect Park to enjoy some time together away from the machine."They #sketched and #painted side by side. They read quietly, favoring works by #Dostoyevsky, #Kerouac and #Vonnegut. They sat on logs and groused about how #TikTok was dumbing down their generation. Their flip phones were decorated with stickers and nail polish.
"Readers inspired by their message responded in hundreds of emails and comments. Reporters from Germany, Brazil, Japan and elsewhere flooded my inbox, asking me how to reach these students who were so hard to track down online. Snarky Reddit threads and think pieces sprouted. #RalphNader endorsed the club in an opinion essay, writing: 'This is a rebellion that needs support and diffusion.'"
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/style/luddite-teens-reunion.htmlArchived version:
https://archive.ph/
#SolarPunkSunday #Nature #NeoLuddite #Luddites #LessScreenTime #MoreBoardGames #MoreGreenTime #MoreOutdoorTime #FlipPhones #MoreBooks #ResistTheMachine
