"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
The #Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, & organizers fighting #AI & automation at work. @alex
A reply to Maples et al.'s reply to our reply to "Loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT3-enabled chatbots": Part 1
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.
I read #luddite as luddu ite, ಲಡ್ಡು ಐತೆ.
Can mean sweets (laddos) are here (ite).
“Join the luddite renaissance”
Source: https://synthmedia.fr/data-centers/resistances-technologiques-renaissance-luddite/
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.
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
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?
RE: https://a2mi.social/@csalzman/116476592453965727
Just today I was seriously thinking this exact thing. I find myself just fucking HATING! the "modern" version of everything from music devices to kitchen appliances & wishing it was possible (which it often isn't) to just stay with gadgets that do whatever one thing they need to, do it well & include not a single digital feature or microchip of any kind...
Gavin
Allan Haverholm
mr.w0bb1t
theluddite
Thejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ ಎನ್
Asciilander
Wulfy—Speaker to the machines
Artemis
JWcph, Radicalized By Decency