The Big Bad Luddite List
ANTI: fascism, ai, nfts, Big Tech, billionaires, surveillance states, optimization, algorithms, bot farms, technofeudalism, enshittification, exploitation, extractionism, planned obsolescence PRO: organized labor, punk, analog, solidarity, free speech, friction, degrowth, experimentation, right to privacy, right to repair, diy, material process, mutual aid, ecological living, the human hand, the human mind
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PROTECT BOOKSTORES
Most of these were mentioned in Danny Caine’s book, How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling. Plus a few additions!
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