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Blood in the machine
The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods.
The Luddites organized guerrilla raids to smash those machines—on punishment of death—and won the support of Lord Byron, enraged the Prince Regent, and inspired the birth of science fiction. This all-but-forgotten class struggle brought nineteenth-century England to its knees.
Today, technology imperils millions of jobs, robots are crowding factory floors, and artificial intelligence will soon pervade every aspect of our economy. How will this change the way we live? And what can we do about it?
I found out about Blood in the machine through the episode of 99% Invisible podcast of the same name. Blood in the machine is storytelling more than anything else. It follows just a few emblematic people, recreating their life and struggle from the sources, and goes to more general lessons from there. This narrative approach…
Downloadable Olympics calendars
Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games calendars (*.ics). Contribute to fabrice404/olympics-calendar development by creating an account on GitHub.
Use this Olympics calendar list to subscribe to: All Olympics event with a given country All events within an Olympic sport I subscribed manually to everything because I have way too much free time, and I also subscribed, in another calendar, to everything France-related. First games in 2 days, I’m so excited!
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Restless Dolly Maunder
Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were finally starting to creak ajar for women. Born into a poor farming family in country New South Wales but clever, energetic and determined, she spent her restless life pushing at those doors.
Kate Grenville writes the story of her grandmother, as she imagines it from a few photos and a couple of anecdotes. It’s the story of a woman before women could get out of the home, it’s fascinating and so horrifyingly mundane. There is despair in these pages, but this kind of despair is felt only…
Do people IRL know you have a blog?
bacardi55 (bacardi55.io)Yet another non usual technical blog post today… But something I have been thinking about for a few weeks… So I thought that writing it here might get it out of my system (and maybe raise intersting responses). Maybe with the reply july challenge (even though I’m not officially participating),…
Not only do people IRL know I have a blog, but I don’t let them forget it. I’m extremely obnoxious about the upsides of having a personal blog and wanting us all to use RSS feeds and comment sections and/or webmentions. More importantly, I use my blog as a repository of answers to conversations or…