#neo luddism

[wizardaqua]

I miss before AI when everybody would make stuff in photoshop and it’d be something like one of these and you’d see it and be hyped as hell:

And you’d talk about it the next day at school with your friends like:

I’m just trying to say I miss the sense of wonder and the intent in peoples’ predictions of what things would look like. Let us go back to a simpler time and use our imaginations. There’s no fun in saying “what if?” if a machine does all of the thinking for you

[pandoras-blog]

My fav wlw song written by a mormon guy

[binomialtie7087]

I'm currently working on a big fancy pinned post but until then. Hi, call me Cravat or Binomi or whatever u like rlly idc. 17. he/him. transphobes and radfems fuck off from my blog please. same goes for other bigots too but for some reason the radfems keep finding my blog. may LLMs and AI-slop go the way of the dodo. I like minecraft and stuff. go touch grass and have a sip of water mate

[binomialtie7087]

Luddite Lesson 002 :p

Sometimes the old way has its advantages.

Ok so like most people when I first started cleaning myself I used a hoover (vacuum cleaner for smelly americans). But one day I decided to use a broom to clean the floor of my room (I don't really remember why) and I haven't gone back since due to the many benefits:

It's sort of therapeutic. I quite enjoy reaching into the nooks and crannies of my room and collecting all the dust and miscellaneous rubbish into nice neat piles; it's satisfying and a form of mindfulness I'd say. Also with a broom I can be particular and calculative with my cleaning in a way that a fast-action hoover just can't mirror, which I like

The silence. Hoovers are famously very loud, brooms barely make a sound; I really like this cuz with how busy and chaotic our days tend to be in the 21st century I think we can all benefit from a little of silence. But I don't always keep the silence silent, often I'll play some music or a podcast or the next episode of the sitcom I'm binging while I sweep, things that you can't really do with a noisy hoover in the background (unless of course you have headphones in set to a loud volume ig?)

It saves energy. Hoovers use electricity, brooms don't, this not only reduces your Carbon Footprint but saves you a bit of money on your electricity bills. When it comes to the three Rs of the waste management hierarchy (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) Recycling is in most places easy and intuitive with effective systems built for it; Reusing is decently practiced with reusable bags and water bottles extremely common and Instagram Reels and whatnot full of videos on how to reuse mundane household items, but Reducing (particularly reducing electricity usage) I personally feel is under-stressed despite being the most important one. While it is true and important to keep in mind that the concept of a Carbon Footprint primarily and originally applied to large organisations such as Oil Companies, before being rebranded as something individuals ought to concern themselves with - if we want to create a more sustainable future we ought to not only invest in greener sources of energy, but also reduce the mount of energy we are using, as the population grows and electricity demand increases we need to be able to keep up without having to resort to decimating whole habitats to put in solar panels.

The moral of the story is that sometimes certain technologies provide an overall worse experience, and don't be afraid of doing something the old-fashioned way. Depending on taste of course, I'm sure there's some people who would not enjoy sweeping as much as myself. This post is not meant as anti-hoover, until recently I used to sweep my rubbish into a little pile and then get the hoover and suck it up (now I use a dustpan and brush), cuz Neo-Luddism is not about completely rejecting all technology and returning to caveman, but rather being critical of harmful technologies and the abuse/overuse of technology.

Originally my post was going to end there: "hey look relatively recently I've started to sweep instead of hoover and it's so much better!" But then I noticed a relative of mine (whom I live with) sweeping as well. Which brings me onto:

Luddite Lesson 002.5!

Lead 👏 by 👏 example 👏 and slowly you can change the world.

Now you see in the past these relatives of mine used to use wet-wipes to clean the floor of their room (supposedly every morning), now it seems they've switched to broom and dustpan like myself. I can only assume they've done so because they've seen me doing so and realise the benefits of it. But yeah moral of the story: be the change you want to see in the world

[airanfadh]

the absolute state of the timeline right nowwe have officially hit peak algorithmic fatigue. everyone is collectively tired of the hyper-optimized, AI-generated slop filling their feeds, and the urge to throw our $1,200 tracking bricks into the ocean to buy a 2004 Motorola Razr has never been higher. the actual viral trend of 2026 isn't some new optimized productivity hack; it's literally digitally decomposing and reverting to a low-res offline lifestyle. we don't want targeted ads anymore, we want to take blurry 2-megapixel photos of a cool leaf and go back to when the web was weird, broken, and full of sparkly cursor GIFs.if you feel like your attention span has been micro-plasticed by infinite scroll, here is your permission slip to disconnect this weekend: log offstare at a walland write something incredibly unhinged in a physical notebook. the machine cannot feed on your attention if you are busy staring at a neat bug outside.

[binomialtie7087]

Luddite Lesson 004

Touch Grass!! It's great! :3

Touching grass (or just going outisde in nature generally, although i do enjoy literally touching them baldes) is awesome! I live in a place where touching grass is not something I can conviently do, so whenever I do go and touch grass I make the most of it. Recently I went for a walk in the park closest to my house and it was quite simply a blast. I watched geese and swans in the brook, I marvelled at the trees (tress are like so cool you guys), I breathed in the air. It was so simple yet so rewarding, to just take a moment away from the constant stimulation of screens and just enjoy the calm and quiet of nature, being in the kind of enviroment which we evolved to live in for thousands of years (or God created directly for us if you're more of that persuasion :3). I highly reccomend it, I know everyone says it all the time, but touching really is great.

I never really realised how nice nature is until I just went for a stroll in it by myself. Intellectually i knew that 'touching grass' was good for you and I remembered enjoying it as a kid, but what can I say I had gotten used to minecraft shader leaves being the best that I got that I forgot how good the real thing was until i went outside.

And, I reccomend, don't just go outside and put on a podcast or music in your ears, really take a moment to enjoy and directly interact with nature! Listen to the birds sing or the wind howl, listen to dogs bark or dew drip. Look deeply at the plants and the animals, look at the clouds. Hug a tree maybe. Go touch grass but don't just touch the grass, feel the grass. Feel the grass.

[binomialtie7087]

Luddite Lesson 003

Sometimes taking a break from tech is really good and awesome and try it maybe!

Ok so a couple weeks ago I just felt sick of social media. I had spent all morning just mindlessly scrolling social media and by like 2pm I had enough so I swore to do a screen fast. I had made plans for this kinda thing before but never really stuck to it until that day. from about 3pm until like 1pm the next day I completely avoided screens, and I want to write about what that was like.

Basically -- it was really nice. I just relaxed and did so many things I wouldn't have otherwise gotten done I: made art, played with my pet, looked out the window, day-dreamt, read a book, watered the plants, journalled. I felt this strange kind of bliss and freedom feeling. I've done screen fasts more since then, never for as long tho. I also often do other kinds of tech-fasts tho, such as not using tumblr or youtube for a day; or avoiding going on my phone in bed at night, or for the first few hours of the day. And whenever I do this I compare it when I do use my phone in bed or in the morning, and I find I'm much more relaxed and happy when I take a little break from my devices.

Now don't get me wrong I'm not saying to give up completely this or that; technology has many great uses and the internet has many cool things on it (like this post? heheh), but what I'm saying is that its good to just take a little (or long-ish) break sometimes.

[ratpatrol]

i cant remember what i ate for breakfast this morning so im sure as hell not going to remember shit if i dont take pictures of it

sorry that when im a billion years old i’ll have fond memories to look back on and you will be struggling to remember what your friends’ faces looked like