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   Remus (ikonoklast@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 22:29:14 JST Remus

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   • Malte Engeler

   @malteengeler

   Love the title and the cover 🙂
   Does it give you any 'tools' or perspectives for the future?

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     Malte Engeler (malteengeler@legal.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 22:29:15 JST Malte Engeler

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     As a bonus you will also learn how Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ada Lovelace's work on (proto) computation are closely linked to Luddism.

     Two quotes stayed with me the most:

     "Some machines must be broken, so that they stop producing monsters."

     "If the Luddites have taught us anything, it's that robots aren't taking our jobs. Our bosses are."

     A wonderful and inspiring book, really ✨

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     Malte Engeler (malteengeler@legal.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 22:29:16 JST Malte Engeler

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     Over the course of around 400 pages Brian deconstructs and analyzes how terms like "entrepreneur" or "innovation" changed their meaning and how the blatant attack on workers rights or shameless manipulation of regulation were used then and now by tech corporations.

     The book gives a most valuable framework to understanding todays reality of (digital) capitalism and what we can learn about avenues for fighting back from battles won (and lost) in the past.

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     Malte Engeler (malteengeler@legal.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 22:29:18 JST Malte Engeler

     • Brian Merchant

     I finally finished "Blood In The Machine" by @brianmerchant and can only find words of glowing praise.

     The book retells the story of the "Luddites", an early 1800 workers and protest movement against automation and workers exploitation.

     The book is so valuable because it doesn't simply report the historical events, the years of the uprising and the important figures but uses the Luddites as a blueprint for analyzing the economic dynamics of automation and resistance against Big Tech today.