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RosyI'm not an anprim or anything but modern society/civilization is so boring. I hate spending so much time at my job. And I hate how there's cars and screens and ads and shit everywhere.<a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/antiwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antiwork</a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#luddite</a>

Miss GayleI haven't listed to this podcast yet, but the title caught my eye b/c over the years I have had clients who wanted to do fairly complicated bookkeeping using just spreadsheets - and I designed them a template for that, with a shrug. Sure, why not?Never imagined I'd be thinking about switching to it myself. But here we are.Luddites sabotaged machinery that was taking their jobs. I want to sabotage spyware & theft-ware.Link: <a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-04-02/crazy-town-episode-101-neo-luddism/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-04-02/crazy-town-episode-101-neo-luddism/</a><a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Luddite</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Surveillance</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Privacy</a>

Bastian Greshake TzovarasHow can one engage in algorithmic sabotage to poison "AI" scrapers looking for images when one is running a static website? Thanks to <a href="https://social.ty-penguin.org.uk/@pengfold" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pengfold</a>, I've implemented a quick and easy way for my own blog:<a href="https://tzovar.as/algorithmic-sabotage-ii/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tzovar.as/algorithmic-sabotage-ii/</a>Also thanks to <a href="https://mastodon.social/@rostro" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@rostro</a> & <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@asrg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@asrg</a> for the pointers and discussion!<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/sabotage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sabotage</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#luddite</a>

Dave FischerI've long claimed that the most recent addition to *nix that I like is mmap(). (ie: nothing worthwhile has been added since the 80s.) BUT... I've been playing with mount namespaces on linux recently and it's GRRRRRREAT! I don't like putting everything in isolated containers, but a LITTLE bit of control along those lines is fantastic.(I set up my compute batch queues to have a different /tmp than the rest of the system. Everything else is the same. Killer.)<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unix</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddite</a>

Quercus 🟡⚪🟣⚫'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. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddite</a> platforms simultaneously address workers rights and techno-scams. The foundation of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Luddism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddism</a>, 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. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/usPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usPol</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SolarPunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SolarPunk</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sociology</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PoliticalScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliticalScience</a>

Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷The analogy drawn between criticism of the introduction of (early/current) <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenAI</a> / <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> to the reluctance to adopt calculators and computers is flawed.Early computers were limited, but they gave you correct answers (when you didn't hold them wrong).<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddite</a>

ghost_shit 🪣I don't want my car to be smarter than me: I want my car to be designed by a *human* who's smarter than me.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddite</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TeslaTakedown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TeslaTakedown</a>

The New Oil<a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/DigitalLuddites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalLuddites</a> are rising. They want to democratise tech, not destroy it<a href="https://theconversation.com/digital-luddites-are-rising-they-want-to-democratise-tech-not-destroy-it-251155" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/digital-luddites-are-rising-they-want-to-democratise-tech-not-destroy-it-251155</a><a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/Luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddite</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a>

Robert KingettSomeone sent me a podcast called Accessibility and Gen AI by <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Ted_drake" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Ted_drake</a> and, aside from doubting if they'll have disabled AI critics on the show, my main response to their latest episode is <a href="https://robertkingett.com/posts/6593/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://robertkingett.com/posts/6593/</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Accessibility</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddite</a>

F-DroidThis week in <a href="https://floss.social/tags/FDroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FDroid</a> (TWIF) is live:- if you do read this you're a <a href="https://floss.social/tags/luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#luddite</a> - <a href="https://floss.social/tags/RISCV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RISCV</a> builds our catalogue - change your <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> client - <a href="https://floss.social/tags/freeminer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freeminer</a> takes on <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Luanti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luanti</a> - fresh <a href="https://floss.social/tags/OpenConnect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenConnect</a> - update <a href="https://floss.social/tags/QUIK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QUIK</a> SMS - <a href="https://floss.social/tags/shatteredpixeldungeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shatteredpixeldungeon</a> 3.0 introduces The Cleric - <a href="https://floss.social/tags/warsmash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#warsmash</a> brings Warcraft III into your handsUp to 209 apps touched upon in <a href="https://f-droid.org/2025/03/06/twif.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://f-droid.org/2025/03/06/twif.html</a>

Research Network Digi-Oek.ch[en] <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddite</a>: anti-progress fanatics, a popular misconception"... original ... Luddites weren’t against <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technology</a>. ""... wrest back control of technology for <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/democratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democratic</a> ends ... kind of "<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#digital</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Luddism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddism</a>" which echoes past struggles against high-tech <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/injustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#injustice</a>.""... systemic change towards <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/sustainable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sustainable</a>, <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/transparent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transparent</a> and <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/usercontrolled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usercontrolled</a> infrastructure."<a href="https://theconversation.com/digital-luddites-are-rising-they-want-to-democratise-tech-not-destroy-it-251155" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/digital-luddites-are-rising-they-want-to-democratise-tech-not-destroy-it-251155</a><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/overreliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#overreliance</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/dependency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dependency</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/dominance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dominance</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bigtech</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/gafam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gafam</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/techoligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#techoligarchy</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#security</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antitrust</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/ethical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ethical</a>

Odin HalvorsonOh, Ye of Useless Class, Beware! <a href="https://medium.com/illumination/oh-ye-of-useless-class-beware-aa0408aced4a?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Default-NonImage" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://medium.com/illumination/oh-ye-of-useless-class-beware-aa0408aced4a?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Default-NonImage</a><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Philosophy</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Thought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thought</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/LifeLessons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LifeLessons</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ideas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideas</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddite</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tech</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a>

Quercus 🟡⚪🟣⚫When you try out openstreetmaps or organicmaps, yes there's going to be some annoyances over functionality you were used to with google. But soon you'll zoom into a new city you are exploring and not have to immediately see where the home depot is and instead by able to get little basketball icons on every basketball court in the city and you'll understand that google never knew how to make that good of a product, they just learned how to be first across the finish line. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddite</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Cyberpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cyberpunk</a>

Ned LuddI'm a <a href="https://union.place/tags/Luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddite</a>, and so can you: <a href="https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/</a>

René SeindalDo 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."<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#luddite</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/luddism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#luddism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#justice</a> <a href="https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2018/01/18/why-the-luddites-matter/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2018/01/18/why-the-luddites-matter/</a>

uncapybarableWelp, glad I moved away from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fedora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fedora</a> last year. "One big item on our list for the year is looking at ways Fedora Workstation can make use of artificial intelligence. ... This includes making sure Fedora Workstation users have access to great tools like RamaLama, that we make sure setting up accelerated AI inside Toolbx is simple, that we offer a good Code Assistant based on Granite and that we come up with other cool integration points."<a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2025/02/03/looking-ahead-at-2025-and-fedora-workstation-and-jobs-on-offer/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2025/02/03/looking-ahead-at-2025-and-fedora-workstation-and-jobs-on-offer/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#luddite</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/luddism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#luddism</a>

Leftist Lawyer"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”-- Frank Herbert"“Men have become the tools of their tools. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.”-- Henry David Thoreau <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#luddite</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a>

Simon HainGood to see that <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@tante</a> is featured on Ars Technica. "a certain sect" lol <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#luddite</a> <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/</a>

Robert KingettFully behind these folks. If you're being bad and bypassing robots.txt, I'm fine with tools that set your entire server room on fire. See the other tools list on this page for others like this one. <a href="https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddite</a>

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