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Yeah, but they teach us he was bad without explaining why he did what he did aside from a vague "He hated machines"

luddites are reactionary according to marx

but what is happening here with the unions is seizing AI tech for the benefit of workers, not the corporations. the contract explicitly allows writers to use it as they wish, but cannot be pressured by corporations to use it to meet quotas. it is explicitly not luddite, and is in fact what marx suggests to do with emerging technologies. i fully expect writers to use ai to make their jobs easier going forward and to have something to bounce ideas on without having their jobs endangered.

YOU DID NOT HAVE A REAL JOB ANYWAY! THE BAZINGA TECH IS LIBERATING NO MATTER WHO OWNS AND COMMANDS IT AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT YOU'RE A LUUUUUUUUUHDIIIIIIITE

:ludd-shining:

The enormous destruction of machinery that occurred in the English manufacturing districts during the first 15 years of this century, chiefly caused by the employment of the power-loom, and known as the Luddite movement, gave the anti-Jacobin governments of a Sidmouth, a Castlereagh, and the like, a pretext for the most reactionary and forcible measures. It took both time and experience before the workpeople learnt to distinguish between machinery and its employment by capital, and to direct their attacks, not against the material instruments of production, but against the mode in which they are used.

TL;DR We shouldn't destroy the machines, we should seize them from the ruling class.

Also

Imagine my surprise lol

Universal symbol for "you're about to hear a shit take."

They are luddites in the sense that the Luddites were cool as fuck

Hexbear had a feverish outbreak of the same takes for a little while when LLMs got successfully marketed as "AI" and it seemed like magic godlike holographic waifus were just around the corner.

I remember when we first set up shop here and I realized there were actual teenagers amogus. I threw up in my mouth a little with the idea of talking to someone half my age without realizing it.

Good news is it's 3 years later and they've all likely grown into full people at this point.

Children should not be allowed to use the internet.

If you're old enough to drive a tractor and ride a moped on public roads, you're old enough to get mildly dunked on by an obscure internet forum you'll never even hear of.

Sorry, I don't make the rules.

If you publish a public take on unions, you should be praised or bullied as an adult

EDIT: Sorry I meant Batgirl.

But does it give you the cancelled Catwoman?

Idk when I was 16 I was the normal sort of stupid 16 yos are, not this hilterlite trash

Yes but also it's in black and white in the Constitution:

"The right to consume treats shall not be infringed."