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Miss GayleI haven't listed to this podcast yet, but the title caught my eye b/c over the years I have had clients who wanted to do fairly complicated bookkeeping using just spreadsheets - and I designed them a template for that, with a shrug. Sure, why not?Never imagined I'd be thinking about switching to it myself. But here we are.Luddites sabotaged machinery that was taking their jobs. I want to sabotage spyware & theft-ware.Link: <a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-04-02/crazy-town-episode-101-neo-luddism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-04-02/crazy-town-episode-101-neo-luddism/</a><a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddite</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tech</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Surveillance</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Privacy</a>

Bastian Greshake TzovarasHow can one engage in algorithmic sabotage to poison "AI" scrapers looking for images when one is running a static website? Thanks to <a href="https://social.ty-penguin.org.uk/@pengfold" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pengfold</a>, I've implemented a quick and easy way for my own blog:<a href="https://tzovar.as/algorithmic-sabotage-ii/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tzovar.as/algorithmic-sabotage-ii/</a>Also thanks to <a href="https://mastodon.social/@rostro" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@rostro</a> & <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@asrg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@asrg</a> for the pointers and discussion!<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/sabotage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sabotage</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#luddite</a>

Dave FischerI've long claimed that the most recent addition to *nix that I like is mmap(). (ie: nothing worthwhile has been added since the 80s.) BUT... I've been playing with mount namespaces on linux recently and it's GRRRRRREAT! I don't like putting everything in isolated containers, but a LITTLE bit of control along those lines is fantastic.(I set up my compute batch queues to have a different /tmp than the rest of the system. Everything else is the same. Killer.)<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unix</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddite</a>

Kala Grogg“It robs art of the one component—it robs art of the humanity! That’s what art is!”I’ve never felt like someone so clearly articulated my exact feelings on this trash. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#luddite</a>

Wulfy<a href="https://mastodon.social/@talin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@talin</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/@cstross" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@cstross</a> First, Kudos to you exploring. Too many smart folks poke the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> with a stick and then join the "AI Slop" <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#luddite</a> chorus.There is an LLM setting called "Temperature" on public models, it's set low. Result is pedestrian writing. Some API calls allow you to mess with it. But you'll need a huggingface personal <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> model to play with it.Think of it as Ernest Hemingway's bottle of whisky. The higher the temperature, the higher the creativity.I'll refer you to me mate <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/claude" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#claude</a> for more;Temperature Parameter in LLMs## Basic Concept - Controls the probability distribution of token selection - Low temperature (close to 0): More deterministic, focused responses - High temperature (closer to 1 or higher): More random, creative responses## Practical Effects - Low temperature (0.1-0.3): - More conservative, precise answers - Tends to choose most likely tokens - Reduces hallucination - More factual and consistent- High temperature (0.7-1.0): - More imaginative and diverse outputs - Increases likelihood of unexpected/creative responses - More prone to potential inaccuracies - Can generate more varied text

Quercus ⚫🟣⚪🟡'Social Inflation'I want to introduce a concept I'll call "social inflation", defined as 'the gradual thinning of the interpersonal resources of a society'. I imagine that the field of sociology has some language for this, but let's pretend I'm coming up with something new.Economic inflation is something we are long familiar with, as it is just assumed that everything has to always get more expensive as 'standards of living' (for the wealthy) must perpetually increase (not wages, though). Social inflation, however, is impossible to define quantitatively. Leading up to times of turmoil there is a creeping breakdown of relationships that can snap suddenly, a socio-economic depression, to the point that our civil institutions can no longer function. Globally, we may be entering a socio-economic depression that will drastically reshape our states and institutions.I believe that social and economic inflation, essentially the drawdown of resources that support our civic institutions, is driven by technological grifting and worker exploitation. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddite</a> platforms simultaneously address workers rights and techno-scams. The foundation of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Luddism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddism</a>, to me, is addressing these two intertwining factors, by rejecting the hyper-technological 'growth' used to justify the 'trickle down' approach to economics that exploits workers and destroys the planet. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/usPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usPol</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SolarPunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SolarPunk</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sociology</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PoliticalScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliticalScience</a>

Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷The analogy drawn between criticism of the introduction of (early/current) <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenAI</a> / <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> to the reluctance to adopt calculators and computers is flawed.Early computers were limited, but they gave you correct answers (when you didn't hold them wrong).<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddite</a>

ghost_shit 🪣I don't want my car to be smarter than me: I want my car to be designed by a *human* who's smarter than me.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddite</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TeslaTakedown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TeslaTakedown</a>

Raph V.I find it very hard to teach <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> without sounding like a pessimistic <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#luddite</a>. Some of my slides really have this vibe of "Look, in my days there were clear rules about how I could get a loan for my house. Now it's a completely opaque system prone to what we like to call 'hallucinations' but are actually part of the design of the system".

Kyle BronsdonCelebrating the very civil <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddite</a> movement that began today in 1811, Nottingham, England. Also celebrating that hanging is no longer practiced in the west. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/progressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#progressive</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prog</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/piano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#piano</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/livestream" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#livestream</a><a href="https://kylebronsdon.art/livestream.php" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://kylebronsdon.art/livestream.php</a>

Sarah FarooquiCan’t handle using AI to even generate cover letters/CV as suggested by most. Almost two decades of whiling away my youth reading, writing, editing, studying, researching, caffeinating, only to have a plagiarising bot tell me to rephrase years of existence into a cleaner bullet point?! 😱 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#luddite</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Haw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Haw</a>

The New Oil<a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/DigitalLuddites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalLuddites</a> are rising. They want to democratise tech, not destroy it<a href="https://theconversation.com/digital-luddites-are-rising-they-want-to-democratise-tech-not-destroy-it-251155" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/digital-luddites-are-rising-they-want-to-democratise-tech-not-destroy-it-251155</a><a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/Luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddite</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a>

Robert KingettSomeone sent me a podcast called Accessibility and Gen AI by <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Ted_drake" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Ted_drake</a> and, aside from doubting if they'll have disabled AI critics on the show, my main response to their latest episode is <a href="https://robertkingett.com/posts/6593/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://robertkingett.com/posts/6593/</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Accessibility</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddite</a>

F-DroidThis week in <a href="https://floss.social/tags/FDroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FDroid</a> (TWIF) is live:- if you do read this you're a <a href="https://floss.social/tags/luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#luddite</a> - <a href="https://floss.social/tags/RISCV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RISCV</a> builds our catalogue - change your <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> client - <a href="https://floss.social/tags/freeminer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freeminer</a> takes on <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Luanti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luanti</a> - fresh <a href="https://floss.social/tags/OpenConnect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenConnect</a> - update <a href="https://floss.social/tags/QUIK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QUIK</a> SMS - <a href="https://floss.social/tags/shatteredpixeldungeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shatteredpixeldungeon</a> 3.0 introduces The Cleric - <a href="https://floss.social/tags/warsmash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#warsmash</a> brings Warcraft III into your handsUp to 209 apps touched upon in <a href="https://f-droid.org/2025/03/06/twif.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://f-droid.org/2025/03/06/twif.html</a>

Jan Walraven*Ik typ mijn opgenomen interviews gewoon zelf uit*<a href="https://social.coop/tags/Luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddite</a>

tinydoctorBetter Angels will include a series of "Angel Postcards" impromptu angel poems I wrote on some of the hundreds of blank <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/postcards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postcards</a> I have laying around, and mailed to <a href="https://gnusocial.jp/simsa03" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@simsa03</a>. Stamped and dropped into a mailbox, irl. I will be printing physical books, and may do an online version, if this <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#luddite</a> can figure it out.

Research Network Digi-Oek.ch[en] <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddite</a>: anti-progress fanatics, a popular misconception"... original ... Luddites weren’t against <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technology</a>. ""... wrest back control of technology for <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/democratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democratic</a> ends ... kind of "<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#digital</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Luddism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddism</a>" which echoes past struggles against high-tech <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/injustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#injustice</a>.""... systemic change towards <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/sustainable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sustainable</a>, <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/transparent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transparent</a> and <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/usercontrolled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usercontrolled</a> infrastructure."<a href="https://theconversation.com/digital-luddites-are-rising-they-want-to-democratise-tech-not-destroy-it-251155" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/digital-luddites-are-rising-they-want-to-democratise-tech-not-destroy-it-251155</a><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/overreliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#overreliance</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/dependency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dependency</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/dominance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dominance</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bigtech</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/gafam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gafam</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/techoligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#techoligarchy</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#security</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antitrust</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/ethical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ethical</a>

Adachi_Kaori<a href="https://fedibird.com/@minna_iiko" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@minna_iiko</a> 是非ハッシュタグ <a href="https://wstrsd.masto.host/tags/Luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddite</a> とともに :ablobcatbongo:

Odin HalvorsonOh, Ye of Useless Class, Beware! <a href="https://medium.com/illumination/oh-ye-of-useless-class-beware-aa0408aced4a?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Default-NonImage" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://medium.com/illumination/oh-ye-of-useless-class-beware-aa0408aced4a?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Default-NonImage</a><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Philosophy</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Thought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thought</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/LifeLessons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LifeLessons</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ideas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideas</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luddite</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tech</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a>

zahntron"A kind of apathy can take hold among voters as we approach that first Tuesday in November. Does our vote matter? Will it really make a difference if we show up? I'm of the mind that our vote actually does matter; it just matters less than we want it to."<a href="https://thelightjournal.substack.com/p/vote-with-your-wallet?r=5awxcx" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thelightjournal.substack.com/p/vote-with-your-wallet?r=5awxcx</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#foss</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/floss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#floss</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/attentioneconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#attentioneconomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usa</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/votewithyourwallet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#votewithyourwallet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#substack</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oligarchy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/regulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#regulation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/luddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#luddite</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oped" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oped</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/article" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#article</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socialmedia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#google</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#apple</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meta</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amazon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tiktok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tiktok</a>

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