The rehabilitation of the luddites is a beautiful thing

April 09, 2026 - 21:08 UTC

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www.propublica.org/article/federal-government-ai-cautionary-tales
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I also pine for the days of working in sweatshops. Bring back those fair wages and pleasant conditions!
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Read a book
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Congrats! You just won the "couldn't even read the first sentence on wikipedia" award.
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Moron
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Literally what they were fighting against. Congrats you have been successfully controlled.
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I’m from Nottingham and they fill me with pride
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Wasn't "saboteur" from a similar time- shoemakers destroying factory machines that were taking their jobs? (I'm summoning this from an illustrated history book we had when I was a kid, so this is not a deeply-researched fact)
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Plug Plot Riots involved pulling plugs from steam boilers in the 1842 general strike.

Pulling the plug on AI data centres in a Butlerian Jihad doesn't sound so bad.
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Justice for luddites!
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Join a #CommunistParty! There is nothing that any state of Real Socialism did in the past that is worse than what the states of Real Liberalism did in Colonialism, Fascism, Neocolonialism and Current Neofascism.

FYI: #CPUSA is growing!
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I get such shit for telling people that they were actually the original labor activists, but I will shout it from the rooftops.
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Next let's do "saboteur".
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The biggest saboteur these days is Trump, buying oversized shoes and making his cabinet wear them has to be one of his more elegant acts of sabotage of the empire
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Technology belongs to the people, and it should serve us instead of crushing us.
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We are making luddites great again!
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Who was Ludd?
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LuddAItes.
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Man if only there was a large and thorough book about the luddites and maybe what we can learn from them in dealing with the modern tech economy

bookshop.org/p/books/blood-in-the-machine-the-origins-of-the-rebellion-against-big-tech-brian-merchant/a375fa0af7c1e86c
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i know who the good guys are... that's why it's in my bio.
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and then ai/lesswrong jerks like gyges are forced to write anti-luddite manifestos with multiple footnotes! :-)
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TIL!
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