#luddism

[criticaldigitalmedia]

Gen Z is pushing back against AI – a reminder to all of us that the future isn’t written

Many baby boomers see AI as a revolutionary tool, while young people see it as taking away their agency.

[queen-mabs-revenge]

Tech Refusal Has a Very Long History w/ Thomas Dekeyser - Tech Won’t Save Us

We are often told that resisting technological development is impossible and ‘progress’ is inevitable, but history says otherwise. Thomas Dekeyser joins Paris Marx to discuss how understanding radical resistances of the past can help us rethink our modern relationship with technology and reshape our vision of the future.

you know an author interview is good when i immediately buy the physical book (techno-negative: a long history of refusing the machine by thomas dekeyser) bc i know it's one i'm gonna need to mark the fuck up with notes

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[criticaldigitalmedia]

Rise of the Gen-Z Luddite

Resistance to tech is brewing among digital natives

[pulpchamber]

It's impossible to really understand the Luddites without knowing that they emerged not in response to the invention of the stocking frame, but 100+ years after its invention. Peasants, people disconnected from the larger world to a degree we can't even understand, just sorta SAW that the frames were exploitative and resisted their introduction many times during the 1700s. Ned Ludd was invented 30ish years after the crown had already passed a specific law against frame-breaking because it was *that* routine for 18th century English laborers to resist frames when someone tried to run them in the area.

Luddism is based around an imaginary dude because by the time it got that name, frame-breakers were already enemies of the state. Frame-based stockings had already driven the price of materials high enough to literally stop artisans from doing their work, tapped into water power [which, like, even at the scale of a mill DOES impact local waterways in ways that use them up as resources], and were starting to use steam power. If anything the Luddites should be criticized for taking so long.

[victusinveritas]

[dynamicity-keysmash]

I just had my order taken by AI at the taco bell drive thru. A dark portent for humanity, suffice it to say.

[victusinveritas]

Luddites are often characterized as anti-technology. But in reality, they were anti-exploitation. The story of the Luddites, the conflict between rich capitalists and impoverished laborers, set the tone for many other class conflicts that followed. Understanding Luddism’s roots is deeply relevant for contemporary Catholic social thought on labor justice, especially in the era of AI.

Link here. Note: this was written by a guy I went to school with, do me a favor and spread it around--Levi is pretty dope.