The term "Luddite" as a pejorative synonym for "technophobe" was a technocrat PR coup; that's not what Luddites were about. They were a labour movement fighting to give workers control over technologies which were advancing w/o oversight and rapidly automating them out of their jobs. Sound familiar?
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Meanwhile, I’m over here, still on Team Bill Joy.🤓
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/why-did-the-luddites-protest/
In many factories there were different companies and the Luddites left alone those machines owned by people who treated their staff well
The assholes' machines got wrecked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixmms8LbDh0
Uhuru : [getting the point] We are experiencing technical malfunction.
--ST 6 T.U.C.
Quick quoted from Wikipedia, with minor punctuation adjust.
From the Star Trek 6 film: The Undiscovered Country
It's one of my fave films!
Yeah, great book.
You were factually incorrect.
Also, the “French world” isn’t the whole fucking world.
What an absolutely shitty, imperialistic thing to say.
At the height of slavery they protested unfair distribution of profit.
Show me a leftist inspirational founder, and I show you a rabid racist.
Fred Hampton?
Do they count as inspirational founders of a mvmt?
To minimize the French revolution is ridiculouslyyyy simpleminded
Have they not picked up a book? Cause victorian london is one of the city's most infamous phases. The victorian era was definitively awful cause industry outgrew infrastructure.
(They were also anti monarchist)
Dude you're basically saying that people who are worried that AI could reproduce their art just suck at drawing. Who's being a douche here?
Sure you could have a competent human for $30/hr, or meh AI for $30/m
Similarly, generative AI in the hands of useless dipshits produces horrible outputs. Didn’t we just see that when those conservatives tried to use it to make a picture of conservative black voter outreach?
What sucks is people haven't woken up and realized exploitation isn't a bug, it's a feature.
Automation has always enriched the owner class. Until people have democratic control of their workplace and labour this will always be the trend.
in my dotage I want to imagine we can remake in a way that isn't forged from flame.
(Multiple books are coming up in the results)
Don’t be a Luddite, AI is the future of destroying faith and killing all gods.
Hail Satan!
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/issue/50993
Maybe make new ones, who knows who cares.
It’s going to be wild.
CAN'T
DRAW
FINGERS
Go learn to draw instead of fantasizing about techno God.
Maybe take up fishing. The ocean is already wild.
So yes, a lot of these AI bros actually are making it their religion, and acting accordingly
I can fish and draw. But since most of you were either asleep in the 80s or not born yet.
The AI war was to be fought then and and there.
Now…now we watch a new world be born.
May your life be filled with everything that is coming, good or bad.
Techno God, hahahaha
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/new-luddites-ai-protest/677327/
I fought a steam drill to protect people from unfair exploitation, not to protect "jobs." "Jobs" was just the context at hand. It was about treating people right & honoring your word. Just sayin'.