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The popular meaning of "luddite" is a straw-man. It's a sloppy word with a sloppy meaning now, and it's one we'd do well to watch out for.
The actual reality of who the Luddites were is far more interesting, the center of the hard-fought struggles against owners of factories disrupting entire towns and cities economies with massively terrible results, centralizing power and money and leaving a great number of people without any control of their work, formerly artisans who'd had a hand in their own work, and many automated out of jobs. Luddites destroyed automated looms not because they hated technology. They destroyed automated looms because they were taking the livelihood they depended on, with no recourse, and it was a disaster for a good while, and then millwork has gone from those places probably forever.
The problem now with LLMs and automated research systems is there's very little way for workers and creators to stick their shoes in the machinery. They've tried (https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12281) but mostly failed, since unlike a factory full of textile workers, the equipment is remote, the automation virtual, an intangible software object that few can access in any meaningful way.

Don't leave for the weekend without reading today's Metacurity for the top infosec developments you should know, including
--US feds seize nearly $8 million from fake DPRK IT workers
--Cellebrite buys Corellium for $200m,
--Play gang breached 900 orgs,
--Two ViLE members sentenced,
--UK revenue offices lost $64m to phishing scam,
--One-fifth of Ukraine IP space under Russian control,
--Cairncross defends his lack of tech expertise,
--Ukr…

US feds seize nearly $8 million from fake DPRK IT workers
Cellebrite buys Corellium for $200m, Play gang breached 900 orgs, Two ViLE members sentenced, UK revenue offices lost $64m to phishing scam, One-fifth of Ukraine IP space under Russian control, Cairncross defends his lack of tech expertise, Ukraine claims hack of Russian aviation giant, much more

What does jamming a crowbar into the fracture point look like?
When the Trump admin says they’re backing off deporting agricultural workers, remind the racists that Trump screwed them over to appease its ultawealthy corporate ag owners.
When the Trump admin keeps deporting undocumented people seeking work and thus drains the abusable labor pool, remind the rich corps who employ those people that Trump screwed them over to appease the racist chucklefucks who really control it.
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Supreme Court clears way for Trump to gut education department – live updates
The supreme court has cleared the way for Donald Trump’s administration to resume dismantling the Department of Education -- part of his effort to shrink the federal government’s role in education in favor of more state control.
In the latest high court win for Trump, the justices lifted a federal judge’s order that had reinstated nearly 1,400 workers affected by mass layoffs at the department and block…

We in Game Workers Unite Ireland stand in solidarity with Animation Workers of Ireland, and the international trade union coalition happening to organise against the threat of AI in the animation industry, and we support their call to acton.
Join them Thursday 12 June at 14:00 at the Pâquier in Annecy!!
#Animation

🪦 “It’s killing us”: Following workplace death, Amazon worker at JFK8 in Staten Island speaks out on unsafe working conditions
#work

“It’s killing us”: Following workplace death, Amazon worker at JFK8 in Staten Island speaks out on unsafe working conditions
The WSWS is urging workers to take matters into their own hands and organize a rank-and-file committee to investigate this and other needless incidents at JFK8 and fight for workers’ control over safety.

Warframe shows us a world full of bosses and big corporations crushing the little people. The Corpus exploit workers, the Grineer enforce control with brute force, and the Solaris fight back to survive.
It’s cool to see the game hint at worker solidarity and rebellion. But at the same time, the game makes me grind endlessly or pay up real cash, which feels a lot like the very system it tries to criticize.
Warframe tells a story about breaking chains, but still keeps me locked in …

The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Song Kum Hyok (Song), a malicious cyber actor associated with the sanctioned Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) hacking group Andariel.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…

Sanctions Imposed on DPRK IT Workers Generating Revenue for the Kim Regime
WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Song Kum Hyok, (Song), a malicious cyber actor associated with the sanctioned Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) hacking group Andariel.Song facilitated an information technology (IT) worker scheme in which individuals, often DPRK nationals working from countries such as China and Russia, were recruited and provided with falsified ident…

I don’t care what people think or say. I stand in solidarity with the @… and share their vision for a free, self-organized workers’ movement in Norway. Even if syndicalists are few, we’re here, and I proudly support their struggle for worker control and direct action.
I identify as a syndicalist because I actually enjoy working, but only when labor is organized…