https://portside.org/2024-03-21/taking-hammer-it
#Garmentworkers in #Bangladesh stage a protest as part of the global #MakeAmazonPay campaign. (Photo: @NazmaAkter73/X ),
#Luddites #nedLudd #directaction #solidarity vs
#Capitalism #AI #Artificialintelligence #Algorithm #Automation #BigTech #exploitation #gigeconomy
@wasabiisoft @SavageSpiel
One of my AI fears is that these text churn bots will pretty shortly start breaking the cardinal rules:
* Don't get high on your own supply.
* Don't shit where you eat.
Producing a feedback loop of increasing nonsense by constantly dumping garbage information into the data sets they're drawing from.
Sabotage, after all, is not incompatible with social distancing.
-- Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
https://worldcat.org/title/1230557127
#Capitalism #NedLudd #Anarchism #SocialDistancing #Pipelines #Sabotage #AndreasMalm #ClimateChange #Activism
Of course, as well as the irruptions of the divine in the Fediverse strata, #JohnMastodon represents a return of the multi-user persona, in the tradition of #NedLudd, #JerryCornelius, #LutherBlissett and others.
Significantly, the bird site has increasingly become fixated by the authority of the Blue Tick to indicate fixity of identity. The alternative is fluidity, which was a key aspect of the game of masques that was the 20th Century iteration of teh interwebs.