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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
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
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The underlying pathology of that enshittification wasn't the UI, or whether it involved an app store. As the #Luddites knew, the important thing about a technology isn't what it *does*, but who it does it *for* and who it does it *to*:
https://locusmag.com/2022/01/cory-doctorow-science-fiction-is-a-luddite-literature/
The problem wasn't which technology we used. There is nothing inherent about touchscreens that makes them into prisons that trap users, rather than walled gardens that protect them.
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The #enshitternet wasn't inevitable.
The #enshitternet wasn't inevitable.
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Hey look at this
* What neo-#Luddites get right — and wrong — about Big Tech https://www.ft.com/content/f312c9ff-633d-480e-8887-4b5ad3f0ae5e (h/t Naked Capitalism)
* 'Catastrophe Exposure' Pushes State Farm to Stop Selling Insurance in California https://gizmodo.com/climate-change-state-farm-insurance-halts-california-1850487503
* Federal Judge Makes History in Holding That #BorderSearches of Cell Phones Require a Warrant https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/federal-judge-makes-history-holding-border-searches-cell-phones-require-warrant
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#ThankYou everyone who weighed in and schooled me on how to use #Mastodon more effectively. (#ThankYou especially to the folks who were nice about my rookie mistake in asking for a bigger audience.) I'll put your ideas into action, and I welcome any other advice.
We're extremely understaffed for social media and run by a bunch of #luddites. #CutUsSomeSlack.
#Wolves #Conservation #Biodiversity #BiodiversityCrisis #PygmyRabbits #GrizzlyBears #DesertTortoise #ClimateChange #EndangeredSpecies
#ThankYou everyone who weighed in and schooled me on how to use #Mastodon more effectively. (#ThankYou especially to the folks who were nice about my rookie mistake in asking for a bigger audience.) I'll put your ideas into action, and I welcome any other advice.
We're extremely understaffed for social media and run by a bunch of #luddites. #CutUsSomeSlack.
#Wolves #Conservation #Biodiversity #BiodiversityCrisis #PygmyRabbits #GrizzlyBears #DesertTortoise #ClimateChange #EndangeredSpecies
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As with so much of my work these days, the column opens with a reference to the #Luddites, and to @brianmerchant's superb, forthcoming history of the Luddite uprisings, "Blood in the Machine":
https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/brian-merchant/blood-in-the-machine/9780316487740/
As Merchant explains, the Luddites were anything but technophobes: they were skilled high-tech workers whose seven-year apprenticeships were the equivalent to getting a Master's in Engineering from MIT.
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