🗃️ #c19th #19thc #Luddites #Luddism

Any books articles podcast eps etc you know that tells Luddite history in a new, positive light, optionally relating it to current tech-labour situation?

I'm particularly interested in stuff by academic historians as other stuff I'm able to find with more ease.

Took me a while to get around to listening to this, but now that I have, I just want to say this is one of the most uplifting and inspiring podcast episodes I've listened to in a while.

Thanks @parismarx.com , Amanda and Lucy

#LudditeClub
#Luddism

a blurry picture of a city skyline with a few buildings in the foreground Alt: Amazon’s new sex factory opens up in Lebanon

ITS NOT!!!!!!! STOP ASKING ME!!!!!

#luddism

I was invited to the "AI-Freecast". We talked about #luddism #ai, data center and the human need for friction.

It was great fun.

player.captivate.fm/episode/71f7...

I was invited to the "AI-Freecast". We talked about #luddism #ai, data center and the human need for friction.

It was great fun.

player.captivate.fm/episode/71f732a8-a2db-4c...

We should all be Luddites Courtney Radsch discusses rehabilitating the idea of Luddites as people concerned with the control and impact of technology.

We should all be Luddites | Brookings

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#Bookmarks #AI #Luddism

sacrificing accessibility for not getting web-scraped

When LLMs f#ck with us, then well, let's f#ck with LLMs. #ai #luddism tilschuenemann.de/projects/sacrificing-acc...

The New Luddites Want To Pump the Brakes on Driverless Cars Anti-driverless car protest sign

Fair point, I made sure to look up

#Luddite before I used it. Historical #Luddism has become the 2nd usage:

Definitions from Oxford Languages Learn more

Lud-dite

/'lədit/

noun

1.

A DEROGATORY

a person opposed to new technology or ways of working.

"a small-minded Luddite resisting progress"

excerpt from: Biagini, Cedric and Guillaume Carnino (ed.): Les Luddites en France, English translation: „Since Marx at least, it has been customary to portray Luddites as the first technophobes. This psychologisation ("these people are prey to an irrational fear and should therefore be reassured" - rhetoric combining progressivism and paternalism that would be taken up by all proponents of industrial progress 13) of a strong political act is a complete historical misinterpretation. In fact, the Luddite takes a resolutely technophile position, since he demands the destruction of machines in the name of his own know-how, that is, in the name of the technique of which he is the custodian.“

This is spot on #Luddism (eng. translation in alt)

frankenstein | Les Éditions L'échappée L’industrialisation de nos sociétés, la rationalisation de toutes les sphères de notre existence et la recherche de maîtrise totale (temps, espace, corps, relations humaines, etc.) trouvent leur justification dans l’idéologie du progrès, partagée par l’ensemble des courants politiques. Celle-ci postule que l’humanité s’inscrit dans un processus d’amélioration général qui se présente comme linéaire, cumulatif, continu et infini (des cavernes à la conquête de l’espace). Cette idéologie établit un lien direct entre avancées technoscientifiques et améliorations sociales et politiques (exaltation de la croyance dans le bien-être matériel) ; elle dissocie l’analyse des mutations technologiques de leurs effets (la technique serait neutre, tout dépendrait de l’usage que l’on en fait). Cette collection, constituée d’ouvrages collectifs, retisse des liens avec une tradition ouvrière et rurale de résistance à la modernisation capitaliste et participe à la refondation d’une critique radicale de l’idéologie du progrès et de tout discours prônant la croissance, le productivisme et le développement industriel et technologique.

Just fyi, in term of #LuddismStudies the French are of course way ahead and already have a fantastic #Luddite book series aptly named „Frankenstein“:

https://www.lechappee.org/collections/frankenstein

I'm a not so secret AI critic so here's my first run at the topic...

peoplesrepublicof.london/products/us-...

#AI #artificialintelligence #antiai #aicritic #resistai #resistance #technology #technocolonialism #technofeudalism #Luddite #Luddism #GeneralLudd

What do you want to bet these are designers who’ve been put out of a job because of „AI“ and are now rehired at half of the wage? Tale old as time #Luddism

An open newspaper, on it the title of the piece in French (translated „When unions confronted the digital“) and it’s about French unions in the 70s and how they agitated against computerization of their workplace

Nice history of #Luddism article in the French Le Monde Diplomatique

An open newspaper, on it the title of the piece in French (translated „When unions confronted the digital“) and it’s about French unions in the 70s and how they agitated against computerization of their workplace

Nice history of #Luddism article in the French Le Monde Diplomatique

The Answers In Progress channel asks: "What Is the Future of Art (in a generative AI world)?"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Yl...

#AIslop #GenerativeAI #GenerativeArt #TechnoRealism #Luddism #AIArtDebate #fzWebVideos #fzLinks

The New Tech-Racism: Mankind Against Artificial Intelligence When Fear Breeds Contempt: How We’re Dehumanizing What We’ve Already Humanized

#racism #ai #society #luddism #ArtificialIntelligence
medium.com/@gianlucabai...

This is the #luddism I can get behind

A small tattoo on the inside of a man's wrist. The tattoo is of a crescent wrench with the word "Luddite" underneath.

I figure if I'm going to spend all day telling people not to put LLMs into things I might as well make it official #luddism

Tales from the CSS Working Group

🔖 https://youtu.be/ukUewXT_Ifk?si=F_6Myz7owhiAZuaB
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/tales-from-the-css-working-group/

#CSS #Browsers #Web #Web Design #Accessibility #AI #Fascism #Luddism

Today starts our lecture series "Unstitching Datafication" at the CRC 1187 in Siegen!

Join us via webex for our first lecture by @gavinmueller.bsky.social on Luddite Futures.

⏰ April 16, 2:15 pm (CET)
👉 register on our website for a webex link
#Unstitching #luddism #MediaofCooperation

es geht um
1) Rechte an eigener Arbeit/Stimme/… nicht ‚nur‘ um Ersatz *)
2) Qualität
3) Macht

Maschinenstürmern/Luddites ging es auch nicht um die Maschinen selbst, sondern um Strukturen.

*) die Killerphrase vom Fortschritt (denn Strukturwandel gab es immer - auch ohne Maschinen/Technik) #luddism

The lecture series will feature talks by @gavinmueller.bsky.social, @jenmadelene.bsky.social, @menkman.bsky.social, David Gauthier, @ulises-mejias.bsky.social, Alina Gombert, Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss, and @danmcquillan.bsky.social

#Unstitching #Datafication #CRC1187 #Luddism #DataColonialism

AI in the workplace PUBLIC AI in the workplace Six reasons not to use Generative AI tools in the workplace, and five questions to ask when you use it anyway. What is this document? This document came out of discussions at the...

I wrote this just over a year ago, reread it today thinking it'd probably be embarrassingly out of date but... it's not?

"AI in the Workplace: six reasons not to use generative AI tools, and five questions to ask when you use them anyway"
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#AI #LLM #Luddism

Fuck the Cult of Productivity My alarm jolted me awake at 5 am. Like every morning. I rubbed my eyes, already feeling the weight of the day pressing down on me. I had a meeting at 7:30, a project deadline at noon, and a seemingly endless stream of meetings that could have been emails

Fuck the Cult of Productivity

🔖 www.joanwestenberg.com/fuck-the-cult-of-product...
🔗 ellyloel.com/bookmarks/fuck-the-cult-...

#Working #Capitalism #Productivity #Living #Luddism

I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better I'm tired of pretending tech makes things better. I'm tired of kidding myself that all these apps, these chatbots, these "tools" are doing anything but dragging us into the mud and the shit and calling it progress. I sat down at a cafe a few days ago, hungry and ready

I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better

🔖 www.joanwestenberg.com/im-tired-of-pretending-t...
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#Tech #Fascism #Luddism #AI #Web

Original post on mastodon.social

Do you want to feed your family and not live in poverty?

Welcome to the club. You're a Luddite.

"The Luddites were not “anti-technology.” They were skilled craft workers who believed that the new machinery being deployed by factory owners would impoverish, disempower, and immiserate them […]

"A Luddite Criticism of Open Source" at FluConf On February 1st I had the privilege of getting to speak at the first Fluconf about Open Source and why that whole movement might not do as much good for as as we might want it to. It’s not that Open S...

I got the opportunity to talk about #Luddism and Open Source at FluConf and had a great time with also great questions afterward that made me realize the actual point I should have made (will write about that later)

tante.cc/2025/02/06/a...

"A Luddite Criticism of Open Source" at FluConf On February 1st I had the privilege of getting to speak at the first Fluconf about Open Source and why that whole movement might not do as much good for as as we might want it to. It’s not that Open Source is “bad” but that it is sometimes presented as a solution to sociopolitical […]

I got the opportunity to talk about #Luddism and Open Source at @fluconf and had a great time with also great questions afterward that made me realize the actual point I should have made (will write about that later)

tante.cc/2025/02/06/a-luddite-cri...

Generative AI and the (Re)turn to Luddism T. Philip Nichols, Charles Logan and Antero Garcia ABSTRACT This article examines the historical and contemporary mobilizations of ‘Luddism’ as a mode of resistance to technological inevitability, particularly in response to the integration of generative AI into education. Tracing three historical ‘waves’ of Luddism – the original nineteenth century machine-breakers, the Neo-Luddites of the late twentieth century, and the present day critics of digital automation – it explores how the term has been mobilized, at different junctures, in service of overlapping (and, at times, competing) political projects. Reading across these ‘waves,’ the article considers what lessons, and cautions, they hold for how education research and practice might confront generative AI and the challenges it introduces for teaching, learning, and school governance

🟨New Publication in #LMT 🟪

In this paper @philnichols.bsky.social, @charleswlogan.bsky.social & @anterobot.bsky.social examine #Luddism to consider what lessons it holds for how education research and practice might confront #AI automation.

Read more: tinyurl.com/3ysb8a4z