If you were to recommend one, relatively short (article length or below) introduction to contemporary #Luddism - why it is needed today, what its hopes are, how to get started - what would it be?

This is the #luddism I can get behind

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:j7tdfjsbop2oq7cghfbdwvqq/post/3lrbbxz74s22i

#Meta is giving their millions of users in Europe a phony "legitimate interests" cover-story for circumventing the #GDPR. It's no longer about selling data to 3rd parties, now it's about using data for impersonating people through #MetaAI.

I hope this will be challenged in court. Until then I will continue to use ad-blockers, clear cookies and device IDs, use multiple web browsers, make data as useless as I can, and remind other people to do the same. I don't mind if you call that #Luddism

@wdenton

it is unfortunate CBC has deleted the old Ideas broadcast archives because Paul Kennedy's bit on #Luddism was very good, from 2003 or so, and while we can no longer listen, Wayback can at least recall Paul's Recommended Reading list:

https://web.archive.org/web/20040407012911/http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/luddites/index.html

#whenwewasfab

Great show on Luddites #History #Luddism #NedLudd

🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002bhk9

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#digitaldetox #techcriticism #bigtech #luddite #luddism #bookstodon #reading #libraries #nypl #nyc #socialmedia #doomscrolling #attention

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

☝️Tomorrow starts our lecture series ‘Unstitching Datafication’.
Join us for our first lecture by Gavin Mueller: Luddite Futures.
⏰ April 16, at 2:15 pm
👉 registration: https://u-si.de/kZwhc Gavin Mueller presents a re-reading of the historic Luddites’ destruction of machines as a form of labor struggle.

#CRC2025 #Unstitching #glitch #DataColonialism #luddism

📢 The programme of our new lecture series »Unstitching Datafiction« is out, and we are excited about all the contributions! We invited artists, activists, and scholars to explore how digital technologies can be un- and re-stitched by working on their seams.
👉 more information & registration: https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/unstitching-datafication/

#CRC2025 #Unstitching #glitch #DataColonialism #luddism

'Social Inflation'

I want to introduce a concept I'll call "social inflation", defined as 'the gradual thinning of the interpersonal resources of a society'. I imagine that the field of sociology has some language for this, but let's pretend I'm coming up with something new.

Economic inflation is something we are long familiar with, as it is just assumed that everything has to always get more expensive as 'standards of living' (for the wealthy) must perpetually increase (not wages, though). Social inflation, however, is impossible to define quantitatively. Leading up to times of turmoil there is a creeping breakdown of relationships that can snap suddenly, a socio-economic depression, to the point that our civil institutions can no longer function. Globally, we may be entering a socio-economic depression that will drastically reshape our states and institutions.

I believe that social and economic inflation, essentially the drawdown of resources that support our civic institutions, is driven by technological grifting and worker exploitation. #Luddite platforms simultaneously address workers rights and techno-scams. The foundation of #Luddism, to me, is addressing these two intertwining factors, by rejecting the hyper-technological 'growth' used to justify the 'trickle down' approach to economics that exploits workers and destroys the planet. #usPol #SolarPunk #Sociology #PoliticalScience

Fuck the Cult of Productivity

🔖 https://www.joanwestenberg.com/fuck-the-cult-of-productivity/
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/bookmarks/fuck-the-cult-of-productivity/

#Working #Capitalism #Productivity #Living #Luddism

Heres why I think #bigtech is so scared. They've given us 20 years of products that simply replaced existing products, and the result is far worse. For the most part, outside the cell phone, they havent actually given us anything new. Their products supposedly were cheaper and faster. The first benefit was an outright lie - always was - and faster is certainly debatable at this point and its only getting worse. They sure as hell arent safer: think about the number of scams we now have to avoid. Add in the minor detail of their supporting the creation of a totalitarian state. But dont worry, their new device is 3% faster and uses 'AI' to generate emojis. Also you have to add 5 new subscriptions to make it functional and they will brick it in four years. 'Check out the new phone: comes with fascism pre-installed'.

BigTech keeps pumping heroin into our veins hoping that we never sober up. But the thing is, their heroin is losing its potency. The public sees straight through 'AI', the ultimate grift. They are in a race against time to replace as many of us with 'AI' before enough of us realize how shit this version of reality is. Once you get used to avoiding netflix, spotify, amazon, google, facebook, apple, microsoft, you lose the drive to try them again because the alternatives are entirely workable and dont come with the massive downsides. These companies have strong armed our entire economy into funneling everything through them. BigTech is scared because alternatives exist, and have always existed, and once the public goes back, its going to be much harder to sell us on technological grift a second time. Our economy is far more vulnerable now with it adoption. Now, whatever benefit we may have had through their advancements has been traded in for the loss of rights and dignity, on top of economic collapse. #SolarPunk #Luddism #uspol

[en] #Luddite: anti-progress fanatics, a popular misconception

"... original ... Luddites weren’t against #technology. "

"... wrest back control of technology for #democratic ends ... kind of "#digital #Luddism" which echoes past struggles against high-tech #injustice."

"... systemic change towards #sustainable, #transparent and #usercontrolled infrastructure."

https://theconversation.com/digital-luddites-are-rising-they-want-to-democratise-tech-not-destroy-it-251155

#overreliance #dependency #dominance #bigtech #gafam #techoligarchy #privacy #security #antitrust #ethical

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

🔖 https://www.joanwestenberg.com/im-tired-of-pretending-tech-is-making-the-world-better/
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/bookmarks/i-m-tired-of-pretending-tech-is-making-the-world-better/

#Tech #Fascism #Luddism #AI #Web

this one resonated so much! ive quite proudly calling myself a #NeoLuddite and this nay be one of the few cases of 'good ol days' #privacy #luddism #criticaltech

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/im-tired-of-pretending-tech-is-making-the-world-better/

Am nächsten Donnerstag halte ich einen Vortrag über "Die Ethische Nutzung von Gen AI" bei der @JUG_DA
https://www.jug-da.de/2025/02/Barrierefreiheit-und-Ethik-in-GenAI/
#genai #luddism #ethics #darmstadt

Brief take away. Excellent historical summary and analysis of three different perspectives on technology/technicity.

1. Managerial/Capitalist desire to control productive forces (including workers, not just machines) and increase profit
2. Left techno-utopian thought, the accelerationist belief that technology will ultimately liberate the people
3. Experience-based workers’ struggles that see their livelihood pulled away under their feets

Luddism is than every class-composing technic-sabotaging action, that makes workers regain control in their struggles against being dominated by capitalist powers or illusory political theory. The book also provided an interesting perspective on Marxist analysis of technology.

#Luddism #AntiCapitalism

"Luddism was a working-class movement opposed to the political consequences of industrial capitalism. The Luddites wanted technology to be deployed in ways that made work more humane and gave workers more autonomy. The bosses, on the other hand, wanted to drive down costs and increase productivity."
https://theconversation.com/im-a-luddite-you-should-be-one-too-163172
#luddism #anticapitalism

@tante presented

> A luddist criticism of "Open Source"

https://fluconf.online/sessions/a-luddist-criticism-of-open-source-/

#luddism #openSource #FOSS #licensing

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. They were right. They didn’t want “zero technology,” they wanted to feed their families."

#luddite #luddism #justice

https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2018/01/18/why-the-luddites-matter/