2025-08-03 17:46 UTC
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@weyoun6@kolektiva.social 2025-08-03 17:49
@jensorensen@mastodon.social there's nothing wrong with Luddism.
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@Research_FTW@sciences.social 2025-08-03 18:00
@jensorensen@mastodon.social more Luddism please! Nothing wrong with refusing to participate in harmful technology!
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@angel@triptico.com 2025-08-03 18:00
I will attend your call to Luddism.
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@slashdottir@mastodon.online 2025-08-03 18:06
@jensorensen@mastodon.social With Stephen Colbert being cancelled and the major networks capitulating to fascism... going back to a pre-internet lifestyle may actually be the way out.
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@esko@hcommons.social 2025-08-03 18:06
@jensorensen@mastodon.social Luddism rules as does this comic
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@Aaidanbird@disabled.social 2025-08-03 18:07
@jensorensen@mastodon.social Honestly, I'm thinking of going back to all of that. Though I'd be using public transportation, mainly buses. Or trains.
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@janeishly@beige.party 2025-08-03 18:12
@jensorensen@mastodon.social I bought a pre-computerised car in 2021 for exactly this reason. I've not quite got to the other stuff yet, but I can feel it coming.
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@chris@social.uggs.io 2025-08-03 18:18
@jensorensen@mastodon.social But.. But there are steps in between in "Electronic Communication" and "writing a letter like it's 1850.". Print Media? From news happening to receiving a printed copy.. Just takes too long. Nonono. Technology is awesome. Just learn how to use it - and what to use. Right tool for the right job. Not all tools at once! And please, no drilling holes in heads to relief a headache...
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@dzwiedziu@mastodon.social 2025-08-03 18:24
@jensorensen@mastodon.social The original Luddites were very technologically apt, maintaining and constructing their own looms. They engaged in the destruction of machines belonging to the industrialist willing to reduce pay and quality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
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@theogrin@chaosfem.tw 2025-08-03 18:27
@jensorensen@mastodon.social The way things are going, I genuinely expect some loom-smashing due to a lack of profits being shared with us working-class. But also, I definitely want a reduction in shitty, unnecessary tech...
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@oclsc@mstdn.ca 2025-08-03 18:30
@jensorensen@mastodon.social Distrust of technology need not be binary. It's about excesses and going beyond the necessary. My phone doesn't have to spy on me to be useful.
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@miles@snug.moe 2025-08-03 18:41
@jensorensen@mastodon.social Yeah, okay, but emails are still cool (if servers weren't so needlessly hard to setup lol)
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@f4grx@chaos.social 2025-08-03 18:43
@jensorensen@mastodon.social we need much more luddism these days. Cheers and thank you for this. I'm very worried about my next car in particular.
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@c_merriweather@social.linux.pizza 2025-08-03 18:44
@jensorensen@mastodon.social Sometimes the simple things work the best. Overcomplexity leads to multiple failure points.
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@UkeleleEric@mstdn.social 2025-08-03 18:46
@jensorensen@mastodon.social Old technology is generally more repairable, and tends to last longer. I have a plate warmer that dates from the 1950s (estimated, could be earlier) - simple plug, lead, and connection to a long resistance that just gets warm, so is unlikely to burn out, not even a switch or light, made mainly from metal, with some plastic (Bakelite?) ends. Nothing to go wrong means it will last as long as I need it.
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@mattesilver@101010.pl 2025-08-03 19:00
@jensorensen@mastodon.social just careful plugging that *sony* walkman in any digital devices, never know what it will try to install
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@riese@soc.iotaomegapsi.io 2025-08-03 19:21
@jensorensen@mastodon.social instead of luddism, why not use tech-bro-free software? Homes work perfectly fine w/o alexa, while other tech still works. And pre-computerized cars? Idk. They're dirty and stink. (Or have I overlooked an fossil free pre-computerized car that still works?) Got a bike, tho. Non electric, with satnav, no tech-bro. (Seller of the thing doesn't know, where I'm riding) Just saying..m
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@reallyflygreg@mstdn.ca 2025-08-03 19:35
@jensorensen@mastodon.social everything they're doing, plus now governments working hand in hand to monitor us even further, isn't technical progress in my mind. It's likely making it far more difficult to get real advanced solutions that help real people. They're driving Luddism more than anything at this point.
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@DougJayne@mastodon.social 2025-08-03 19:46
@jensorensen@mastodon.social I think for most people it's not realistic to cut out the middle man entirely but maybe it's a good start to reduce your presence. I've been on a years long journey to de-google my life. There's lots of videos and blogs out there but I recommend people start with customizing their privacy settings first. It's zero cost, monetary and functionality, and is instantly rewarding.
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@lykso@tiny.tilde.website 2025-08-03 20:03
@jensorensen@mastodon.social Living that pre-Internet life is, I'd wager, more environmentally friendly as well, provided one is doing it "instead of" rather than "in addition to."
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@alienghic@timeloop.cafe 2025-08-03 20:11
@jensorensen@mastodon.social Using technology popular in the 1980s and 1990s would certainly be the easiest way for most people to disconnect from today's big tech's surveillance empire. It'd certainly be possible to build things off-line first, but big tech really loves its behavioral targeting data. As an example some geeks recently built something roughly equivalent to an original iPod https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara
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@AdamOnza@mastodon.online 2025-08-03 20:11
@jensorensen@mastodon.social Is AI, a simulated tech bro?🤔
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@KekunPlazas@mamot.fr 2025-08-03 20:17
@jensorensen@mastodon.social Aka why I'm going on holiday with a GBA and not a Switch.
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@maconite@mastodon.social 2025-08-03 20:24
@jensorensen@mastodon.social If it costs nothing, you are a commodity
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@jpujolar@mastodont.cat 2025-08-03 20:51
@jensorensen@mastodon.social What's wrong with Luddism? Have you read the book "Breaking things at work"?
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@stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au 2025-08-03 21:12
@jensorensen@mastodon.social Technology needs to exist to serve people, not be an excuse to charge a subscription. I think that is the fundamental issue at hand here. The older technology just focused on the basics: we replaced a hot water system here, the old one was a gas unit from the mid 90s… the only thing "electric" in it was the piezo starter. It got replaced by a heat pump which came with a fancy "cloud" service. Spent much of yesterday installing a WiFi access point right beside it because the genius designers decided to put the WiFi module right at the bottom of the tank. I question why an Internet connection is needed, but penny pinchers at the manufacturer decided having a front panel that conveyed the same information was too expensive: better to blow it on a $50/month AWS instance and hire a dev/ops dev team instead. 🙄
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@Edelruth@mastodon.online 2025-08-03 21:24
@jensorensen@mastodon.social My car is a well-maintained 2006 Camry, and I will drive it until the wheels fall off.
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@lemgandi@mastodon.social 2025-08-03 21:59
@jensorensen@mastodon.social Hits a nerve. I currently drive a 2008 car. I'd love to replace it, but I'll have to go into the dashboard and remove or disable the cell antenna there. Ugh.
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@ghoti@infosec.exchange 2025-08-03 22:19
@jensorensen@mastodon.social This! So much more of this!!
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@InspirationForum@zirk.us 2025-08-03 23:12
@jensorensen@mastodon.social We actually hosted a panel discussion on the problems that modern #technology both solves and creates. We discussed questions surrounding personal #data collection policies and processing, the influence of smart tech, and the right to refuse their use. You can hear our experts speak on the topic in Czech and English here :) 👉 https://www.inspirationforum.com/video/smart-things-that-save-time
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@TripTilt@mastoart.social 2025-08-04 01:01
@jensorensen@mastodon.social surveillance state is more like car plate readers and apps on phones that don't need to know your gps data but send it out. any thought on how to cut those out, no matter the middleman? cool comic!
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@cswalker21@mastodon.online 2025-08-04 03:13
@jensorensen@mastodon.social Oh man I got in a big fight about this cartoon on lemmy because they were all like, “Well ackshully, there’s still a middleman if you buy print media, stationery and flip phone,” and I was all like, “I don’t think they mean that kind of middleman; have you ever had a page in a paper book ask if you want an AI plot summary, or a ball point pen make you subscribe to ink to continue writing.” They still didn’t get it. I guess every comic has to pass a literal correct test over there.
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@lispi314@udongein.xyz 2025-08-04 03:37
@jensorensen@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr I think the issue is the implication only analog options avoid the inclusion of corposcum.
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@Peace@mstdn.ca 2025-08-04 04:02
@jensorensen@mastodon.social ❤️
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@kyber_punk@mastodon.art 2025-08-04 05:49
@jensorensen@mastodon.social I approve this message. Technology should serve the user, not some corporate overlord.
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@splitmind@rheinneckar.social 2025-08-04 07:37
@jensorensen@mastodon.social They are all vampirical business models
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@CaptainMalu@mastodon.social 2025-08-04 08:07
@jensorensen@mastodon.social A big problem I have with the collection of data is, that they also make it hard or impossible for you to use them by your own as you like. Sure the other big problem is that the data will be miss used from bad actors against you. But a lot of people are good in underestimating this risk. It's to abstract.
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@mtconleyuk@mastodonapp.uk 2025-08-04 11:48
@jensorensen@mastodon.social https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/
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@Dianora@ottawa.place 2025-08-04 12:12
@jensorensen@mastodon.social Luddism suffered muchly from the propaganda of capitalists methinks. Luddites were not so much opposed to modern technology as opposed to workers being replaced by machines with many put out of work. I think this interpretation is more in line with what you are saying with this comic. People being replaced by AI.