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eppur_se_muova

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16. I wish more people understood that about the Luddites. They were losing their jobs and livelihoods, when there was

Reply to GenThePerservering (Reply #15)

Wed May 27, 2026, 03:55 PM

May 27

nothing to fall back on in those days -- no Welfare, no unemployment, nothing but the churches, and tough luck if you were in the wrong church.

An offer of job retraining might very well have turned them onto a different path, at minimal cost to employers. Too late now; job loss on a recurring basis is now baked into our social structure.

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US Law Enforcement Warns of 'Anti-Tech Extremism' as AI Hatred Grows [View all] highplainsdem May 26 OP

I, For One, Welcome Our New AI Overlords (/eyeroll) Tim S May 26 #1

Luddites of the world unite! pecosbob May 26 #2

It's not about just the resistance to AI "adoption." It's about NO water AND skyrocketing electricity bills. ancianita May 26 #3

Exactly. highplainsdem May 26 #10

Fucking hell. The "anti-tech" (which they are actually using to describe anyone who specifically is anti-AI) people Karasu May 26 #4

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Time to get the Monkeywrench Gang back together... EarthFirst May 26 #5

... highplainsdem May 26 #12

Anti-tech? Plenty of techies are against AI IronLionZion May 26 #6

Yes. So are science fiction writers like John Scalzi, and I think that particularly upsets the AI bros highplainsdem May 26 #13

It's not anti-tech, it's anti-exploitation. They use new technology for new forms of exploitation, but ... eppur_se_muova May 26 #7

True. highplainsdem May 26 #14

Such were the luddites GenThePerservering May 27 #15

I wish more people understood that about the Luddites. They were losing their jobs and livelihoods, when there was eppur_se_muova May 27 #16

There isn't any need to have thousands of AI data centers all over the country. patphil May 26 #8

They're in the phase known as "excessive buildout". Demand for their product will never be enough to meet the costs of eppur_se_muova May 27 #17

What's even crazier is that obsolescence GenThePerservering May 27 #18

If AI starts wiping out tens of millions of jobs NickB79 May 26 #9