#neoluddites — Public Fediverse posts
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Der letzte große Luxus unserer Zeit scheint das Offlineleben zu sein. Die Neo-Luddites zelebrieren es und wollen mehr als sich kurz mal Ausloggen, weiß unsere Kolumnistin.
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Der letzte große Luxus unserer Zeit scheint das Offlineleben zu sein. Die Neo-Luddites zelebrieren es und wollen mehr als sich kurz mal Ausloggen, weiß unsere Kolumnistin.
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Critical thinking has left the building. Is everyone in the U.S. going mad? It seems to me, judging by this whole hysteria anti-AI and pro-AI. I'm just tired of it. Just use the tools that you think work best for you but just don't be judgemental. Human output is also full of slop. Just because it was created by a human being, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be reviewed in the sense of improving it. The exact same thing is valid for any AI output!! Just don't use lame excuses to justify a reactionary and conservative position towards technology. Being anti-AI is not progressive nor emancipatory if you just avoid all the time getting your feet wet by using the tools and experimenting a lot. It just shows you lack the exact same critical thinking you accuse pro-AI people of lacking.
"Having heard an increasing number of anecdotal stories over the last year or so of people finding weird, wild and defiant ways to avoid using AI in their professional lives, tales I've seen told in fragments across social media and platforms like Linkedin, I decided to speak directly with as many workers as I could to hear their stories in full.
What I found particularly interesting was that while some employees are able to duck out from using the technology altogether, a surprising number of people without that luxury are still finding ways to minimise, misdirect or even sabotage their company's AI mandates by using the technology against itself.
Given everyone I spoke to was still employed at the place they're talking about, they've requested their names and employers be withheld. And while (since this is a video games website) there are some video game industry workers featured below, I also ended up speaking with many affected employees across a range of other industries, from utilities to finance to cloud hosting."
https://aftermath.site/ai-resistance-tips-workforce-llm-workers/
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Automation #Productivity #Neoluddites #ReactionaryThought #Conservatism #Neoluddism
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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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Is there a job portal/network for the #noAI, #neoLuddites crowd?
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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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Which city/cities are you aware of (worldwide) that has a group of Neo-Luddites?
I only heard of New-York so far, and I would like to discover more groups :no_ai: 👀
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"Neo-Luddit*innen sind Bürger*innen des 20. Jahrhunderts - Aktivist*innen, Arbeiter*innen, Nachbar*innen, Sozialkritiker*innen und Gelehrt*innen - die die vorherrschende moderne Weltanschauung hinterfragen, die predigt, dass grenzenlose Technologie Fortschritt ist. Neo-Ludditen haben den Mut, die ganze Katastrophe unseres Jahrhundert in den Blick zu nehmen: Die Technologien, die unsere westlichen Gesellschaften hervorgebracht und verbreitet haben sind außer Kontrolle und sie entweihen das zarte Gewebe des Lebens auf der Erde. Wie die frühen Luddit*innen, sind auch wir verzweifelte Menschen, die versuchen die Lebensgrundlagen, Gemeinschaften und Familie, die sie lieben, zu schützen, wie sie drohen zerstört zu werden."
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"Around the world, governments are going hard to present themselves as AI leaders willing to do whatever the industry wants to attract investment.
Last month, I spoke to Will Dunn on Tech Won’t Save Us about how this is playing out in the UK, where the government has gone so far as to use chatbots to drafts laws. France has gone all in too, presenting itself as the third pole of AI leadership between the United States and China. Now, my own country is making its bid to join the fray.
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney rolled out his government’s AI strategy earlier this month, annoyingly titled “AI for All.” But in it, I saw something novel: not just the aggressive pursuit of AI dollars by giving industry what it wants, but also reframing opposition to AI and hyperscale data centers as the product of a lack of AI “literacy.” If only the Canadian public was taught to use AI tools, the strategy suggests, they’ll come around to backing them.
As you won’t be surprised to hear, I think that’s a poor judgement that misunderstands why people have turned against AI so aggressively. I wrote up my thoughts recently for The Tyee, a fantastic progressive publication based in British Columbia. They’ve been kind enough to let me share them with Disconnect subscribers."
https://disconnect.blog/ai-opposition-isnt-the-product-of-a-lack-of-literacy/
#Canada #AI #GenerativeAI #BigTech #AntiAI #Neoluddism #Neoluddites
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Student #ReadingAbility Spikes After Removing Tech From Class
"Remove all the #distractions and we can get our kids back."
By Frank Landymore
Published Jun 15, 2026"Would you believe it: a teacher and her students say their reading ability soared after banning tech in the classroom.
"Maureen Mulvaney, an AP Literature and English teacher at Washburn High School in Minneapolis, started the low tech experiment last year after becoming frustrated with plagiarism, distracted students, and plunging literacy rates.
"And so, with the enthusiastic support of parents, she banned phones and laptops, requiring all coursework to be done with pencil and paper. The turnaround was quick and resounding, and despite some initial resistance from students, they quickly fell in love with the old, analog ways of doing things.
"In September, before the experiment started, just 46 percent of Mulvaney’s students said they felt confident about their reading ability. By February, that share shot up to 95 percent.
" 'We’re having a lot of trouble in education and I think what my kids told us was that there is a solution and the solution is to go #LowTech. Go back to the old ways of doing things,' Mulvaney told local TV news station KARE 11. 'Remove all the distractions and we can get our kids back.'
"Mulvaney let her students ease into a tech free environment. First, they started with just ten minutes of silent reading and writing by hand. Still, the first day was 'rough,' she wrote in an essay in The Minnesota Star Tribune. Most students quit after just half a page of longhand composition.
" 'I told the kids this is like lifting weights,' she told KARE 11. 'You don’t go in and you don’t start with 80 pounds.' "
Read more:
https://futurism.com/future-society/students-reading-improves-no-tech-class#LudditeClub #NoTech #NoPhones #NoAI #Reading #Writing #Humans
#Smartphones are #DumbingUsDown #SolarPunkSunday #Handwriting #NeoLuddites #SmartphoneBan #Longhand -
Awww... 💌
Dear Readers: Yes, #PenPal programs still exist in a digital world
By HOLLY RAMER
Updated 5:27 PM UTC, May 5, 2026Excerpt: " 'People are very interested in physical, analog things right now,” [Rachel Syme] said. 'I think it really has an appeal especially to a younger generation who grew up with a phone glued to their hand, to do something that’s more tactile, slower, more intentional, more mindful, but also just disconnected from the internet in every way.' "
Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/pen-pals-letters-comeback-bc87e1b9c229665bafd368e19751d6caArchived version:
https://archive.ph/P9gal#PenPals #Handwriting #WrittenCorrespondence #Analog #LowTech #NeoLuddites
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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 -
Ooouf... I'm an not going to dismiss Gabriele because of their age... There are smart people of their age... but for a person who uses #science in their content... they need to try harder.
They conflate a few things together in their #Aibad cauldron and stir with a ladel of emotion.
They conflate bots (not all #AI) with psychology (AI adjecent) and a couple of opinion pieces pushed as "Science"
Of course we lead with Kosmyna!
Kosmyna - The headline finding rests on six people's brainwaves.
Lee et al. - People self-reporting how much they thought is like asking dieters how much they ate.
Wan et al. - The authors say don't trust their own labels.
Nosta - A blog post having an existential crisis in a lab coat.
And thats in the 'further reading' description, lets hope they meant 'sources' because otherwise it looks like an emo blog source.
Lets hope that video doesnt get much more than the 12K it already has, its not doing the neo-luddites much good in the credibility stakes.
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Where do the #lowtech and #NeoLuddites hang out? The #permaculture and #bicycle geeks? The co-op and #RepairCafe heroes?
Looking for alternate scenes around alternate living: sharing, building, eating, and learning together.
Much obliged.
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I am getting sick of performative anti-AI bullshit. If you don't like AI, then simply don't use it. Stop involving the rest of us in your insecurities. It's not going away just because you call it stupid and useless at every opportunity.
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@bazkie #neoluddites and #introverts have an interesting venn situation I'm certain 🤓
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@bazkie #neoluddites unite :akko_fistup: (*separately, in their own homes :blobcat_smilehappyeyes: )
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AI does not have agency. Anything created with AI is not somehow artificial; it is manmade. A human being had to imagine the outcome before any AI involvement. AI was just the tool, like a pen or paintbrush.
#AI #Technology #Science #Politics #Policy #Automation #NeoLuddites
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Why the Brain Prefers to Read on Paper
by Kris deDecker, October 25, 2013
" 'Beyond treating individual letters as physical objects, the human brain may also perceive a text in its entirety as a kind of physical landscape. When we read, we construct a #MentalRepresentation of the text in which meaning is anchored to structure.
"The exact nature of such representations remains unclear, but they are likely similar to the mental maps we create of terrain—such as mountains and trails—and of man-made physical spaces, such as apartments and offices.
"Both anecdotally and in published studies, people report that when trying to locate a particular piece of written information they often remember where in the text it appeared. We might recall that we passed the red farmhouse near the start of the trail before we started climbing uphill through the forest; in a similar way, we remember that we read about Mr. Darcy rebuffing Elizabeth Bennett on the bottom of the left-hand page in one of the earlier chapters.
"In most cases, paper books have more obvious topography than onscreen text. An open paperback presents a reader with two clearly defined domains—the left and right pages—and a total of eight corners with which to orient oneself. A reader can focus on a single page of a paper book without losing sight of the whole text: one can see where the book begins and ends and where one page is in relation to those borders. One can even feel the thickness of the pages read in one hand and pages to be read in the other.
"Turning the pages of a paper book is like leaving one footprint after another on the trail—there’s a rhythm to it and a visible record of how far one has traveled. All these features not only make text in a paper book easily navigable, they also make it easier to form a coherent mental map of the text.' "
https://www.notechmagazine.com/2013/10/why-the-brain-prefers-to-read-on-paper.html
#SolarPunkSunday #TechAddiction #Books #PhysicalBooks #ASMR #FullyEngaged #NeoLuddites #LessScreenTime #LibrariesRule #ReadABook #PaperMaps #PhysicalLandscape #Handwriting
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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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Should we add "#SkinJobs" and "#Toasters" and "#GoRustYourself" to this list?
How ‘#Clanker’ Became the Internet’s New Favorite Slur
New derogatory phrases are popping up online, thanks to a cultural pushback against #AI
by CT Jones, August 6, 2025
"Clanker. #Wireback. #Cogsucker. People are feeling the inescapable inevitability of AI developments, the encroaching of the digital into everything from entertainment to work. And their answer? Slurs.
"AI is everywhere — on Google summarizing search results and siphoning web traffic from digital publishers, on social media platforms like Instagram, X, and Facebook, adding misleading context to viral posts, or even powering #NaziChatbots. #GenerativeAI and #LargeLanguageModels — AI trained on huge datasets — are being used as therapists, consulted for medical advice, fueling spiritual psychosis, directing self-driving cars, and churning out everything from college essays to cover letters to breakup messages.
"Alongside this deluge is a growing sense of discontent from people fearful of artificial intelligence stealing their jobs, and worried what effect it may have on future generations — losing important skills like media #literacy, #ProblemSolving, and #CognitiveFunction. This is the world where the popularity of AI and robot slurs has skyrocketed, being thrown at everything from ChatGPT servers to delivery drones to automated customer service representatives. Rolling Stone spoke with two language experts who say the rise in robot and AI slurs does come from a kind of cultural pushback against AI development, but what’s most interesting about the trend is that it uses one of the only tools AI can’t create: slang
" '#Slang is moving so fast now that an #LLM trained on everything that happened before it is not going to have immediate access to how people are using a particular word now,' says Nicole Holliday, associate professor of linguistics at UC Berkeley. 'Humans [on] #UrbanDictionary are always going to win.' "
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/ku2Uw#BattlestarGalactica #AIResistance #AISucks #NoNukesForAI #NeoLuddites #ResistAI #LudditeClub #SmartPhoneAddiction #AreYouAlive #AreYouHuman
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"Digital technology may be harnessed by forces on the political right, but there is nothing inherently right-wing about digital technologies, right? Right?!?!?
Wrong.
At least, that is the response given by David Golumbia in his vital and provocative book Cyberlibertairnism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology. It is a book in which Golumbia argues that the core politics coded into digital technologies are overwhelmingly right-wing, and in which he further argues that—knowingly or not—by defending and idealizing digital technologies many left-leaning groups and individuals have wound up disseminating and entrenching the very right-wing politics they oppose. In Golumbia’s estimation, and argumentation, the issue is not only that the way we talk about digital technologies tends to advance right-wing politics, but that these technologies themselves continually advance right-wing politics, with this advancement often occurring under a veneer of appeals to freedom and liberation.
In contrast to the numerous works by left-wing, and left-leaning, academics and activists arguing that the liberatory potential of digital technologies has been warped by right-wing billionaires and by business interests, Golumbia’s Cyberlitertarianism argues that the problem is not only with the billionaires or the business interests but with the technology itself. At the core of Cyberlibertianism is the argument that not only is digital technology not neutral, but that by this point we are fooling ourselves by refusing to admit what its politics actually are."
#Cyberlibertarianism #Neoluddism #DigitalTechnology #Neoluddites
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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
