"It’s really important for a kid to be left alone"- When #TaikaWaititi made his feelings clear about the role of tech in children's lives

By Sourav Chakraborty
Modified May 03, 2025 04:54 GMT

" 'Exactly, now they’ve all got iPads and it’s done for them! I think it’s really important for a kid to be left alone and left to figure it out for themselves how to pass the time. As a kid, I spent so much time bored and coming up with ideas of how to do things, so I’d write stories or I’d draw pictures or invent worlds through drawing or just in my head, just thinking about things. I think that a lot of my creativity has really come from being bored.' " [SO TRUE!!!]

https://www.sportskeeda.com/us/movies/it-s-really-important-kid-left-alone-when-taika-waititi-made-feelings-clear-role-tech-children-s-life

#SmartphoneAddiction #TechIsDumbingUsDown #NoAI #Imagination #LudditeClub #NeoLuddites #Luddites #LessScreenTime #MoreBoardGames #MoreGreenTime #MoreOutdoorTime #FlipPhones #MoreBooks #Smartphones #TechAddiction #TurnOffYourPhone #BePresent #ThinkForYourself #ResistTheMachine #NoSmartphonesForKids #MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime

Politicising Science in the US and some of the consequences. Who would have thunk it, a country that has prospered economicaly is busy tearing down the infrastrucure that made American Science world class (and it still is for now).

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/29/trump-american-science

#Science #Politicisation #Trump #Luddites #BeginningOfTheEnd

The most hated man in the world is about to launch a fleet of job elimination robots in June. What could possibly go wrong?

#Tesla #Austin #luddites #robots

Rejoice #luddites, turns out human data is actually a bit of a drag for #AI's
There is just not enough of it and humans are actually bit slow teaching the machines.

So the engines now are going to get their own goals, with hookers and blow.

Machines get smarter, and you don't have to cry that the #LLM ate your Furry-Marvel fanfic crossover erotica blog! #winwin !!!

"Absolute Zero: Reinforced self play reasoning with zero data"

#paper link here
https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2505.03335

The latest version of #ChatGpt #4o is very shit at coding.
I can see why #vibecode folk are frustrated and #luddites rejoice.

Eg;
Context "forgets" key spec points of the session, even ones that are critical to ops.

You have to jam everything with special checkpoint directives and hammer specs in, least they get forgotten.

It's terrible (and I have used earlier versions and #Claude)

In my opinion, what is happening because of the high compute burn, #OpenAi optimised the session manager. It burns less compute but is also more shit. The balance must be restored.

Good half hour about Ned Ludd, on BBC Radio Four's Great Lives. At the end the guests mention "defense of skill," "pride in your work" and "craft" as reasons to be a Luddite today. Some mention also of Captain Swing (a later agricultural King Ludd) who was new to me.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002bhk9

#NedLudd #luddites #BBCRadio4

"François Jarrige est maître de conférences en histoire à l'université de Bourgogne et membre de l'Institut universitaire de France. Historien du 19e siècle, il s'intéresse à l'industrialisation et à ses impacts sociaux et écologiques. Il étudie en particulier l'évolution des mondes du travail, des techniques, des socialismes et des débats énergétiques."—Antithèse

Comment dépasser l'illusion technophile? >

https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/comment-dépasser-lillusion-technophile-l-françois/id1584473890?i=1000705593235

#podcast #François_Jarrige #progrès #technophilie #histoire #impacts_sociaux #impacts_écologiques #techniques #luddites #débats_énergétiques #industrialisation #smartphones #travail #évolution #machines

Big drama at #CIVITAI, The premium #AISlop hosting site.
Civitai is THE #LORA (#GenAI) model repo.

Payment processors like Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Stripe, and PayPal have banned transactions in the past related to pornography or sex work on the basis of "reputation risk" and it looks like their morality tentacles reached Civitai.

Content Control Through Financial Gatekeeping: Because banks and payment processors control the flow of money, they can indirectly dictate what content is monetizable on the internet. This "financial censorship" is a form of privatized control where banks affect ultra conservative ideology. What Musk and #Maga cohorts would call "Sexual Degeneracy"

Isn't it great when the forces of evil (#finance) and #luddites (who let me be swift in saying are the good guys) combine to fight against AI ?!!!

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/23/durin-digs-up-3-4m-to-automate-drills-for-critical-minerals-exploration/

For the love of God, please keep these people from watching LotR

(I refuse to believe that they _read_ any of Tolkien's work)

#startups #vc #siliconvalley #luddites