🚫 🛠️ We are disapointed to report that an application for the role of "Digital Artist in Residence" at University College Cork (UCC) submitted by The Institute earlier this year has not been successful.

The project was titled "The Luddite Academy" and proposed to bring the current resurgence of luddite theory and praxis to bear on the university's digital arts and humanities departments.

We proposed to 1) Audit the university's dependence on Big Tech 2) Experiment with alternatives with students and staff, including but not limited to hosting our own (experimental) digital services and 3) Document everything so that it could outlive the residency.

While this particular application failed we will endeavour to find another home for this work in 2026.

#fail #shareyourfailures #notsuccess #luddites #kingludd

"We will eat whatever slop gets scooped onto our plate as long as it's a bigger scoop than China's or Russia's."

This is an incredibly well reasoned philosophical argument against the continued encroachment of AI and the rot at the heart of our tech and our economy, but this one sentence cuts to the quick of why it will still steam-roll over us: The vast majority of the populace, at least in America, and I suspect in the larger "developed world" does not care. As long as there is reasonably palatable slop for us to consume, that's good enough to appease us. I see little islands of folks like me ranting and raving about this shit online, but do it in person, and you'll find yourself speaking with a sympathetic (but docile) choir, or folks who just... don't get it. They *like* it.

THEY LIKE IT.

They like the slop. It's good enough. It's easy. Why do I have to keep making things so difficult?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dm_UY8jCGQ

#GenAI #RotEconomy #Enshittification #Luddite #KingLudd #MainFrameBreakers