Original Air Date: 2-20-2024
"Luddite" should never have become the epithet that it is as the Luddites were never afraid of or opposed to technological advancement, they only opposed the exploitation of workers and the degradation to society that came with the unfair distribution of the benefits of the targeted technology.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: The New Luddites - SHIFT - Air Date 2-14-24
Ch. 2: Being a Luddite Is Good, Actually ft. Jathan Sadowski - Left Reckoning - Air Date 5-29-21
Ch. 4: This is not good - jstoobs (TikTok) - Air Date 2-16-24
Ch. 5: The ACTUAL Danger of A.I. with Gary Marcus Part 1 - Factually! - Air Date 7-2-23
Ch. 6: The Left Luddites and the AI Accelerationists - torres - Air Date - 5-15-23
Ch. 8: The ACTUAL Danger of A.I. with Gary Marcus Part 2 - Factually! - Air Date 7-2-23
Ch. 9: The anti-tech movement is back. - Alice Cappelle - Air Date 6-15-22
MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions)
SHOW IMAGE:
Description: An 1812 block print of “The Leader of the Luddites” depicting a man in disheveled early 1800s clothing and missing one shoe leading other men up a hill while a building burns in the background.
Credit: “The Leader of the Luddites”, Messrs | Working Class Movement Library catalog | Public Domain
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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