Catonauts
tanteI'm a luddite - and so can you! https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/
Manuel Batsching@tante
But we know what this could lead to: https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad
Butlerian Jihad
"We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a "dump program." We dump the things which destroy us as humans!" ― Minister-companion of the Jihad[src] The Butlerian Jihad, also known as the Great Revolt as well as commonly shortened to the Jihad, was the crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots...
Wim🧮@tante Definitely! Proud to be a Luddite!
TudbuT@tante there's something i find incredibly frustrating about this. it never brings itself to an incredibly obvious argument. its SO close to, but never arrives.
if it wasn't for capitalist profit-seeking, automation and machines would be AMAZING NEWS. if every job replaced by a machine simply continued to get paid as if the human was still there, there'd be no need to be angry at automation; we'd welcome it! all those "utopian" visions where noone has to work anymore because everything is automated are not possible in capitalism because people need to work to survive, even when this work doesn't make sense for any human to be doing it.
@tante so, resisting technology IS in fact against progress, but it is necessary until capitalism has been defeated
Patrick Gillam@TudbuT @tante
Agreed. The (excellent) cartoon *does* indict capitalism in the Shoshanna Zuboff panel near the end. But the focus of this piece, as the subhead says, is on frontline resistance. A cartoon about systemic, higher-order causes of worker exploitation would be a separate cartoon. Reading this cartoon, I hoped to come to panels that showed a solution, such as worker-owned enterprises; but no.
Agreed. The (excellent) cartoon *does* indict capitalism in the Shoshanna Zuboff panel near the end. But the focus of this piece, as the subhead says, is on frontline resistance. A cartoon about systemic, higher-order causes of worker exploitation would be a separate cartoon. Reading this cartoon, I hoped to come to panels that showed a solution, such as worker-owned enterprises; but no.
Jefferson Harris@tante None of this is even about progress. It's connected VC techbros' attempt to seize control of a body of work that they did not create, and to impose ever-increasing rents on people who want to use it. It's not progress to build a teleporter if all you want it for is theft.
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@tante @jeffersonharrisart Right. While I agree with many aspects in this comic, I also find it highly contradicting. Let‘s stop idealizing „labour“. It’s an structural element of capitalism. Nobody should be forced to do labour for a living. And technology definitely can help with that if it is not in the hands of a few. The problem is capitalizing the technology instead of socializing it.
lunalove@tante I remember there was some talk about degrowth for the economy in Europe and The Economist talked about it as if it was insanity, just in case you forgot America's priorities and (in general) Europe's priorities.
PerseusHuh. Lord Byron is a good guy. Reading this comic just sent me down a rabbit hole of research on Lord Byron, who was actually really cool.
Levka
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“@RichardGlutes @StrawHatKatrina @Ombrelashs For another example, dictionaries tell us that Luddites "destroyed machinery that they believed was threatening their jobs". This is highly deceptive. They didn't simply "destroy machinery". They only ever destroyed one very particular type of machine, the 24 needle cut up frame.”
NoctisEqui 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇹🏳️🌈These AI people never watch movies. They should check out the ‘Terminator’ series!
sparseMatrix 📻I get the sentiment, and I agree people come first. But I'm not sure fucking shit up is the answer.
We got much better ways of doing things.
Consider this:
Twitter became a toxic stew of bullshit, bc reasons.
It is now dying a trembling death as advertisers and users flee for their sanity.
The power of people to do things constructively through boycotts and a general refusal to participate is profound.