Tom Morris
Luddites are just fighting the inevitable. The metaverse is the future. Especially when combined with NFTs.
Mar 4 at 4:18pmIceCubesApp
Show threadvery normal personMar 4
@tommorris can you believe there are still people who haven't invested in NFT's? Like seriously get with the program
Show threadCharlie StrossMar 4

@tommorris @pndc

No, the future is Eight Track and Betamax!

Show threadRRBMar 4
@cstross @tommorris @pndc os2 and ada
Show threadwoe2youMar 4
@cstross @tommorris @pndc Magnetic tape? Pfft. Get with the times, any minute now we'll all be using Laserdisc.
Show threadbugbearMar 6

@woe2you @cstross @tommorris @pndc Nah, people will realise vinyl is better for video than LaserDisc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc

Capacitance Electronic Disc - Wikipedia

Show threadHighlandLawyerMar 4
@cstross @tommorris @pndc
Vril and orgone will power Wings Over The World in shaping things to come.
Show threadCadbury MooseMar 4

@cstross @tommorris @pndc

Disagree: wire recorders and Quadruplex!

As for computing: Ferranti Mercury and Autocode. (The ultimate solution to AI slop!)

Show threadAdrian HowardMar 5
@cstross @tommorris @pndc Tosh. LaserDisc is the future.
Show threadLars Marowsky-Brée 😷Mar 4

@tommorris The very first project I helped develop a Linux Virtual Server (IP load balancer, replacing the very expensive Cisco Local Director, I worked at an ISP at the time) for in *1998* was for a VR-based Avatar thing one of our customers was selling.

VR has and will always be the future.

Powered by clean energy from fusion.

Show threadCuriousMar 4
@tommorris this is the future and its 3D TVs. The hardware equivalent of AI. Are we over the two years you can't buy anything without it yet? Please. . .
Show threadMad EngineeringMar 4
@tommorris Do you take dogecoin?
Show threadFazal MajidMar 4

@tommorris Luddism was never about rejecting technology, it was about fighting wealth inequality engendered by technological change, i.e. proto-socialism.

That's why they were the object of a campaign of vilification by proto-capitalists and of actual repression by the State (more British soldiers were quelling the Luddite uprising than were fighting Napoleon, and breaking a machine loom was made into a capital offense people were hanged for).

Show threadPetra van CronenburgMar 5
@fazalmajid 🎯 @tommorris
Show threadJohn BreenMar 4
@tommorris Make P.T. Barnum Great Again
Show threadMaysonLancasterMar 4
@tommorris My sister-in-law is a successful Luddite: for decades she made her career as a weaver and teacher of weaving and other fabric arts. The inevitable is unequally distributed.
Show threadEndlessMasonMar 5
@maysonic @tommorris
She hiring?
Show threadMaysonLancasterMar 6
@EndlessMason @tommorris No, she’s pretty much retired, doing a little teaching at her local guild, gardening, playing recorder with a local group, and learning cello (she recently bought a carbon fiber cello!), and a little bit of weaving to try to get rid of some of the yarn she’s accumulated over the years.
Show threadlemgandiMar 5
@tommorris And all powered by AI of course. We will Never have to Work or Think Again.
Show threadLangerJanMar 5
@tommorris @claudius I read that as „NTFS“. Which obviously is the future, duh. No more manual defrag!
Show threadMaurice FrankMar 5
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Show threadLars Marowsky-Brée 😷Mar 5
@tommorris It's also worth noting that the original fight of the Luddites wasn't against something that had no value, but that was introduced with the goal of devaluing labor.
Show threadAtomic OrbitalsMar 5
@tommorris Driving around in a Sinclair C5!
Show threadJeremy KahnMar 12

@geoglyphentropy @tommorris

We could have had Sinclairs in every garage but you playing

Show thread🐈‍⬛🕯️fraco favor (-e)Mar 6
@tommorris I love logging into the Metaverse with my Google Glass glasses!
Show threadStackyMar 12
@tommorris @conniptions is Linux finally ready for the desktop!!??