Shared by a brilliant court reporter. Let me know if you want your name here.
Check out this page for the book Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant.
As told by the page, and ostensibly expounded on in the book, the Luddites weren’t against technology. Their livelihoods were taken away by factory owners. They were going to starve.
This page expounds on the idea quite a bit. Though in my view it goes to great lengths to not mention that they were starving.
Brings some interesting context to someone calling us neo-Luddites, as a few have in the past. We’re not against technology. We use technology. We are against companies using their money to lie to the public. We are against corporations violating the law to push us out of our livelihoods.
Those that fail to study history are doomed to repeat it?
P.S.
Tomorrow’s post is written the way it is for many, many reasons. My best friends asked if I was okay. I’m okay.
I don’t anticipate you will read the whole thing. I don’t anticipate anyone will read the whole thing. There are strategic, social, political, and legal reasons for a lot of what I do. The day may come when it is time to reveal these things to the world in more detail or in a more formal setting. Till then…
I just ordered the book on CD from my local library. (Does that make me a Luddite?) I love reading nonfiction.
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Recall the 23 word letter warning AI risk? “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” (https://www.safe.ai/work/statement-on-ai-risk)
I include the link because the long list signatories is as serious as the statement itself. Bill Gates is Luddite! Who knew?
I’m new to the landscape that Stenonymous operates within, and I found this a very a helpful parallel to draw. So thank you (and thank you for the book recommendation).