#nedludd — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nedludd, aggregated by home.social.
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"Shouldn't we be resisting this gigantic, carbon emitting version of automated #Thatcherism before it's allowed to trash our remaining #publicservices? It might be tempting to wait for a Labour victory at the election…Unfortunately they aren't likely to restrain #AI; if anything,the opposite. It looks like stopping the megamachine is going to be down to ordinary workers & communities.Where is #NedLudd when you need him?"
@danmcquillan
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How the original Luddites got their Blood in the Machine and paved the way for the rebellion against Big Tech.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a373b/cyber-the-real-history-of-the-luddites?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Tech #Luddite #bloodinthemachine #NedLudd #CYBER -
Of course, as well as the irruptions of the divine in the Fediverse strata, #JohnMastodon represents a return of the multi-user persona, in the tradition of #NedLudd, #JerryCornelius, #LutherBlissett and others.
Significantly, the bird site has increasingly become fixated by the authority of the Blue Tick to indicate fixity of identity. The alternative is fluidity, which was a key aspect of the game of masques that was the 20th Century iteration of teh interwebs.