NPR has a 'Word of the Week' series, and this week it's LUDDITE
I spoke with Emma Bowman about who they really were and about the new luddites organizing against big tech + AI
A fun one and, since it's airing on All Things Considered, maybe the biggest-audience luddite rehabilitation effort yet
It's often a derogatory term used to describe digital dinosaurs and technophobes. That wasn't always the case. NPR's Word of the Week looks back at the not so backwards-looking Luddites.
anyway, you should read this important piece about how elon is, in fact, a killer:
"Uber and Lyft ... routinely charge different customers significantly different prices for the same rides, a monthslong Consumer Reports investigation has found. Across the routes we tested, the median difference between the lowest and highest price groupings was about 50 percent."
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Emma Ellingsen og andre transpersoner opplever økende hets og trusler.
Tenk å måtte oppleve at din eksistens blir debattert daglig. Det går feil vei og transpersoner trenger flere allierte.
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Elon Musk’s empire of wealth is built on suffering.
I løpet av noe uker siden dette ble publisert, ble #Musk den første trillionaire. Skuffende hvor enkelt det er å akkumulere mer når man allerede har mer enn nok.
Gnist – Marxistisk tidsskrift utvider redaksjonen. Løp og søk! marxisme.no/gnist-soker-...
Consumer Reports found Uber and Lyft use algorithmic pricing to give different consumers very different prices for the same rides.
I have been working on societal impacts of language technology since late 2016, and my nightmare example since pretty early on has been using automatic transcription in emergency services systems.
And today I learn it's happening *in my own city*
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Thousands of people die each day in India because of the heatwave, w/temperatures between 45-48 degrees Celsius and extreme humidity. "Shop it like it's hot" is a bit too much on the nose in 2026, @lululemonus.bsky.social, especially when your garments are made of #oil. These deaths are on you.
En ny undersøkelse viser økende skepsis mot transpersoner. Influencer og TV-profil Emma Ellingsen (24) er bekymret.
Ingen i Norge bør ha en årsinntekt på over 2 millioner kroner. Ingen. Det er ikke nødvendig og rett og slett uanstendig i et samfunn bygd på ideer om solidaritet og likestilling. frifagbevegelse.no/loaktuelt/st...
The Seattle Fire Department started using AI technology during live 911 calls in 2023. There hasn't been any public review process.
