"The Luddites were anything but technophobes: they were skilled high-tech workers [...] Their objection to powered textile machines had nothing to do with fear of the machines: rather, it was motivated by a clear-eyed understanding of how factory owners wanted to use the machines." - https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/20/love-the-machine/

On this cursed day let us all be Luddites.

Pluralistic: Podcasting “Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk” (20 Mar 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

I'm just so tired of all this genAI bullshit, from text to images. World is getting worse before our very eyes. But not all hope is lost, only thing to do is to fight back. There is no other option.