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LibrarianShipwreck is a personal blog at librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com about philosophy and politics. Since 2014, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “Why the Luddites Matter”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
"More than machinery, we need humanity."
Most-linked posts?
- Why the Luddites Matter5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-05-12
- Flamethrowers and Fire Extinguishers – A Review of “The Social Dilemma”3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-09-20
What Hacker News says?
An interesting thread that points a couple of issues in the movie: https://twitter.com/vaishnavi/status/1307455391249301504 Summarizing: the people interviewed were not the one who should have been interviewed. People from in house policy temas and others are much more knowledgeable about this and have been raising these types of issues all along. It would also have helped to show a much more diverse picture than a…
Comment linking /2020/09/17/flamethrowers-and-fire-extinguishers-a-review-of-the-social-dilemma/
on “The Social Dilemma”Submitted Why the Luddites Matter as a story · 261 points
HN discussionRelevant: https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2018/01/18/why-the-... > There is a widespread belief in contemporary computer dominated societies, that regular people are not allowed any say in the discussions around the types of technologies that radically reshape their lives. And the way that the term Luddite is commonly used functions to reify this belief by making people believe that they cannot push back ag…
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on “What the Luddites Really Fought Against (2011)”Submitted Ethical OS and Silicon Valley’s Guilty Conscience as a story · 86 points
HN discussionAlways. And every now and then HN realizes it, then promptly forgets. Contrary to popular propaganda, the original Luddites weren't opposed to technology, they were opposed to the effect of technological progress on the working class. They knew that automation and mass production would be used to devalue labor, flood the market with inferior products, and that all of the benefits and profit from the industrial revol…
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on “ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can't correct it”Submitted A review of Yasha Levine’s “Surveillance Valley” as a story · 76 points
HN discussionA great source for this sort of question is Wikiquote. It classifies the quote as "misattributed"[0], and says that it "appears to be something Luxemburg could have said or written, but searches for a source have been unsuccessful". It cites this page[1] as evidence. [0] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg#Misattributed [1] https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2013/07/06/referenc...
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on “Did Einstein say that?: Testing content vs. context in quotations (2017)”Submitted Theses on the Techlash as a story · 15 points
HN discussionLibraries are a form of insurance against the societal costs of illiteracy, which is related to crime. http://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2014/07/10/if-you-wa... --- Though the library may appear to be free, the truth is quite different; it is not that the library borrower is getting things for free, it is that they have already paid. Libraries are the result of a community pooling resources (often gathered thr…
Comment linking /2014/07/10/if-you-want-to-see-the-sharing-economy-go-to-the-library/
on “App parking system shuts down in San Francisco”Submitted What studying disasters has taught me about Covid-1 as a story · 12 points
HN discussionTimely. 210 years ago today (Jan 2), 66 Luddites went on trial for destroying looms which had put 'half the population' (YMMV) out of work. The beef was legitimate then and still is. 'Advances' in tech (just as sound film did in 1927) can quickly create a lot of human pain (not that this forum needs a reminder) which may take a long time to moderate. "Why the Luddites Matter" [ https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.c…
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on “Musicians Wage War Against Evil Robots”Submitted "The bargain we are being asked to ratify" – AI as technological bribery as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Courage to Be Afraid – A Review of Roy Scranton’s “We’re Doomed. Now What?” as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Challenging the Tech Companies from Within as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Against Technological Inevitability – On 20th Century Critics of Technology as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Imagine the End of Facebook as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Theses on Technological Pessimism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Burn It All – A Review of “Your Computer Is on Fire” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flamethrowers and Fire Extinguishers: A Review of the Social Dilemma as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flamethrowers and Fire Extinguishers – A Review of “The Social Dilemma” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The technology giants didn’t deserve public trust in the first place as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who are you calling a Luddite? – A review of Blood in the Machine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted “Computers enable fantasies” – the continued relevance of Weizenbaum’s warnings as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Theses on Techno-Optimism as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Island of reason in the cyberstream: the life and thought of Joseph Weizenbaum as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why it matters who gets to be seen as a “tech critic” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why the Luddites Matter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spotify Wrapped: Who Listens to the Listeners? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Whale and the CEO: A Review of the Inventor Out for Blood in Silicon Valley as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Riddled with Questions: Interrogating Your Technology as a story · 1 points
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