RE: the last retoot. We need to talk about Luddites.

Your whole life you have been fed a pack of lies about the Luddites. They were not technophobes.

The Luddites were activists, guerillas, saboteurs, a labor movement which did not shy away from action; breaking certain machines that the wealthy were using to kill their livelihoods (lowering wages, worsened working conditions, inferior products), and in some cases stealing their art. Their machine-breaking brought about the Perceval’s Frame Work Bill which enacted a death penalty for machine breaking. A. Death. Penalty.

They were not scared of new technology, the common use of the name now, many were machine operators. They were scared of starvation. Some of them lost their lives at the hand of the govt while fighting back.

This was not a case of the automobile supplanting the horse and buggy, (true, there was some reluctance to change, but that was not the gist) this was the wealthy slowly killing off a class of workers for profit (while working them to death) through loss of livelihood or, if that didn't work, the death penalty.

Agree or disagree with the methods, the Luddites were hard core. Not sniveling technophobes.

George Clooney is an actor.

Put him in the role of a surgeon in front of a camera, and he will do and say things the average non-surgeon viewer will agree are surgeonish. After an hour of that, we are, as average non-surgeon viewers, satisfied and entertained.

Put him in an operating theatre, and the patient will fucking die because he's not a surgeon and knows nothing about really doing surgery.

This is a post about LLMs.

NEW | Israel Moves to Legitimize Its Crimes in the West Bank, ISM Palestine reports.

The occupied West Bank is witnessing an unprecedented surge in Israeli violence, fueled by both military operations and settler aggression. In Beit Lid, settlers have seized large areas of land to establish illegal outposts, while Palestinians continue weekly peaceful protests against the expansion of settlements on their lands.

In Nur Shams refugee camp, the Israeli Supreme Court approved the demolition of 25 buildings, threatening the displacement of over 70 families. This latest act continues Israel’s decades-long policy of targeting Palestinian homes and the refugee cause, with limited access granted to residents to retrieve belongings under heavy restrictions.

Meanwhile, in Jenin, As-Sila al-Harithiya, Israeli raids have killed multiple Palestinians, including Ahmad Abu Zayoud, 22, the sole provider for his mother.

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