what if the sharks been talking to the orcas and decided to join their #Luddites party and go for what the humans can’t live without these days? 🧐
has anybody seen a shark wearing a hand still holding an iPhone as a hat? 🤔
#luddites
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is there an existing umbrella term for the following movements? (apologies for all the hashtags I'm only doing ones with active use in the last week lol)
#smallWeb or #smallTech, tiny internets, (new?) luddism from (new?) #luddites, #permacomputing, #solarpunk, low-tech, boring tech, computing within limits, collapse informatics, salvage computing, etc? (send me more movements for the list!!)
thanks to https://damaged.bleu255.com/ for more obscure terms.
would very much appreciate boosts
Today in Labor History March 11, 1811: Luddites attacked looms near Nottingham, England, because automation was threatening their jobs. At the time, workers were suffering from high unemployment, declining wages, an “endless” war with France and food scarcity. On March 11, they smashed machines in Nottingham and demonstrated for job security and higher wages. The protests and property destruction spread across a 70-mile area of England, reaching Manchester. The government sent troops to protect the factories and made machine-breaking punishable by death.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #luddites #automation #unemployment #england #wages #war #technology #vandalism
Dan Milway reviewed Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant
The true story of what happened the first time machines came for human jobs, when …
Ned Ludd was right then, and he's right now
5 stars
A vividly told narrative of the Luddite uprisings of the early 19th Century. Brian Merchant expertly connects the struggles of textile workers then with workers of every stripe today whose jobs are continually under threat by the bosses using the smokescreen of technology.
Today in Labor History February 27, 1812: Poet Lord Byron gave his first address as a member of the House of Lords. In his speech, he spoke out in support of Luddite violence against industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire. He spoke specifically against the Frame Breaking Act, which gave the death penalty to anyone guilty of breaking a machine. The state hanged 60-70 Luddites during the time the law was on the books. However, most of the time, the courts used other laws to convict them.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #deathpenalty #hanging #luddites #lordbyron #poet #poetry #books #writer #author #industrialism #technology @bookstadon
A Luddite is a person who wants technology to benefit the lower echelons of society (workers, low wage-earners, etc), instead of those at the top (bosses, millionaires, corporations).
And who is willing to take action to stop those top dogs from using technology to trample those at the bottom.
Be a Luddite.
#Luddite #Luddites #NeoLuddites #LudditeRevolutionNow #ProudLuddite
We live in a world increasingly ruled by technology; we seem as governed by technology …
Instead of the proletariat we now have the precariat: a class of people with insecure jobs afraid to ask for pay rises or improved working conditions. And, just like the Luddites before them, workers insist that they are not against innovation, technology or flexibility, they just want some basic rights and security.
— Rage Inside the Machine by Robert Elliott Smith (Page 144)
Powerful as ever from @TimHarford on the lessons still relevant today from the #Luddites in the #tech era
#CautionaryTales
After reading @pluralistic 's recent posts on Luddites, I was reminded of this gem by Johnny Cash that deals with the theme of machines replacing humans.
"Did the Lord say that machines ought to take the place of living, then what's a
subsitute for bread and beans? I ain't seen it. Do engines get rewarded for their steam?"
Cory Doctorow replied to Cory Doctorow's status
"The Luddites had looked to the law to protect them but had been let down... It’s not that law will fail to regulate the harmful effects of AI, but rather that AI is already exposing the comprehensive failure of the law to address real injustice"
https://danmcquillan.org/obnoxious-machines-the-prospects-for-luddism-in-the-era-of-ai.html
#Luddites #Luddism
In *Blood In the Machine,* @bcmerchant delivers the definitive history of the #Luddites, and the clearest analysis of the automator's playbook, where "entrepreneurs'" lawless extraction from workers is called "innovation" and "inevitable":
https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/brian-merchant/blood-in-the-machine/9780316487740/
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https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/26/enochs-hammer/#thats-fronkonsteen
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Here's @brianmerchant asking the real question: When is the revolution starting?
https://www.fastcompany.com/90949827/what-the-luddites-can-teach-us-about-standing-up-to-big-tech