#luddites — Public Fediverse posts
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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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"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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"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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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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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/
#Luddites #Technology -
To anyone ashamed of being called a Luddite by slop bros for being anti-AI, I bring you the Luddite John Booth and the most metal last words ever.
Don’t be ashamed to be a Luddite. Be like John Booth. #antiai #antillm #luddites
https://www.spenvalleycivicsociety.org.uk/spen-fame-trail/the-star-inn-and-john-booth
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Blood in the Machine
"By the end of the first decade of the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution was in full swing. The most successful entrepreneurs and industrialists—the first tech titans, we might call them—had accumulated impressive stores of wealth and power, and more followed in their footsteps. Entrepreneurs and businessmen were mechanizing work in England’s largest industry, automating jobs that had been bound by tradition for generations, and building new monuments of power and […] -
Blood in the Machine
"By the end of the first decade of the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution was in full swing. The most successful entrepreneurs and industrialists—the first tech titans, we might call them—had accumulated impressive stores of wealth and power, and more followed in their footsteps. Entrepreneurs and businessmen were mechanizing work in England’s largest industry, automating jobs that had been bound by tradition for generations, and building new monuments of power and […] -
Blood in the Machine
"By the end of the first decade of the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution was in full swing. The most successful entrepreneurs and industrialists—the first tech titans, we might call them—had accumulated impressive stores of wealth and power, and more followed in their footsteps. Entrepreneurs and businessmen were mechanizing work in England’s largest industry, automating jobs that had been bound by tradition for generations, and building new monuments of power and […] -
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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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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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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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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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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Wishing all fellow #Luddites a successful week. 🍀
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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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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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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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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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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. 😂
