Morgan Fletcher28m ago

"When Ned Ludd and his band of weavers took hammers to the new looms in early 19th-century England, mill owners retaliated by shooting them. I wonder how the tech titans will respond if voters switch from holding placards outside data centres to smashing them up. This seems likely, given the gulf between the pioneers' excitement about what #AI might offer, and the scams, slop and job losses that citizens currently see."

The new #Luddite movement
https://www.ft.com/content/f5c96fa6-5b9b-4951-b71d-e32b3b57d8df?syn-25a6b1a6=1

The new Luddite movement

If governments don’t slow AI down, voters — like their predecessors — might take matters into their own hands

Financial Times
Gavin1d ago
The New #Luddite Movement - #FinancialTimes https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/ed1ebc0a-a6cb-4852-ab5a-99cfbde556cc
Allan Haverholm2d ago

"I get told a lot that AI is the future and I should embrace it. To which I enthusiastically retorted: I ain't gotta do SHIT! And I'm going to tell you why!"

I'm Going to Rant About How Much "AI" Fucking Sucks
https://raintreeruckus.com/ai-fucking-sucks/

HT @shellsharks's latest Scrolls newsletter https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2026-05-22

#noAI #luddite

I'm Going to Rant About How Much "AI" Fucking Sucks

It sucks ass. Get that shit out of my face. And as for this entry? Get that shit out of my face too, I'm tired of looking at it.

Raintree Ruckus
mr.w0bb1t3d ago

The #Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, & organizers fighting #AI & automation at work. @alex

👉🏻 https://labor.dair-institute.org/

theluddite6d ago

A reply to Maples et al.'s reply to our reply to "Loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT3-enabled chatbots": Part 1

https://lemmy.ml/post/47520752

A reply to Maples et al.'s reply to our reply to "Loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT3-enabled chatbots": Part 1 - Lemmy

In early 2024, shortly after writing a post on Maples et al.'s “Loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT3-enabled chatbots,” we also wrote a response to the journal. In it, we noted that Replika, the app they used for the study, was an AI companion app marketed for erotic role play. Maples et al. had failed to mention this little piece of context in their study, along with Maples’s conflicts of interest. As of November 2025, that response was finally published, along with their reply. Despite apparently taking a year to write, their reply is a mere 319 words and dodges the substance of our critique. In this second reply, we go through their response point by point and, in the process, show how both Maples and Luka (the company that owns Replika) have used the study in their advertising and public communications, greatly exaggerating and generalizing its already dubious findings as it suits them.

Thejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ ಎನ್May 12

I read #luddite as luddu ite, ಲಡ್ಡು ಐತೆ.

Can mean sweets (laddos) are here (ite).

AsciilanderMay 12

“Join the luddite renaissance”

Source: https://synthmedia.fr/data-centers/resistances-technologiques-renaissance-luddite/

#luddite #ludditeMovement

Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machinesMay 7

@anildash

Well Intentioned

but entirely wrongheaded approach.

Apocryphal stories with single data points.
Lack of serious research or non-credible research.
Conflating socials with Ai
Ideology driven

This is equivalent to banning internet rather than teching about cyberbullying / use of the tool.

Jobs will be hard to find already, disabling kids chances because you're not preparing them for the Ai office is harmful.

#education needs to prepare the young people for the future, not for what a #Luddite ideology dictates.

mr.w0bb1tMay 4

Wednesday, May 20 · Launching the #Luddite Lab Resource Hub · A new resource for fighting AI at work.

👉🏻 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/launching-the-luddite-lab-resource-hub-registration-1988317489134

ArtemisMay 3

Hey tech friends. I'd like a phone recommendation.
I need a new phone and I hate large phones (I have very small hands and pockets).

I'm looking at the Jelly Star because it's so small and cheap and mostly functional, but I wish it had a bit better of a camera.

Do you have any suggestions for something similar?

#phone #phones #privacy #smartphone #luddite