A possibly fictional man who symbolizes anti-technology sentiments against a man who has embraced it as his livelihood.
I've been thinking a lot about the parallels between automation and the original luddites:
luddite, 1811, the name taken by an organized band of weavers in Midlands and northern England who for about 5 years thereafter destroyed machinery, for fear it would deprive them of work. Supposedly they got it from Ned Ludd, a Leicestershire worker who in 1779 had smashed two machines in a rage, but that story first was told in 1847. Applied by 1961 to modern spurners of automation and technology. As an adjective from 1812.
Another example is how algorithms pick up the unconscious biases of their creators. As data scientist Cathy O'Neil said: Algorithms are opinions embedded in code. You can see this pretty starkly with how facial recognition is (hopefully was) disproportionately weighed towards white faces creating a wave of false arrests for non-white people.
Anyways! Those are the two examples I came up with. Thank you for your help!
Hey everyone! Hope you are well and keeping safe. I am posting one of my short stories, of course, it has a bit of Wolfeishness but it is more motivated by Italo Calvino. Like every author, it is no wonder that I also wish to be read, and thank you for your time.
Tales of The Singularity
Pioneers in Artificial Intelligence have suggested that in the near-future synthetic non-biological intelligence will dictate terms to human beings, and the human race may become second-class denizens in a world of their own creation. Human beings vs. Machines has been a recurrent theme in science fiction, and sometimes it has boiled over into the real world, such as Ned Ludd’s rebellion against machines towards the end of the 18th century, and in recent times, concerns against driver-less vehicles.
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“The first time I heard of this, I was amused” — Twrtdfle said with a giggle and continued.
“Singularity also happened a long time ago, at the beginning of the universe. Black holes are also singularities. I recently heard that someone took a photograph of a black hole.” — Twrtdfle looked at me with inquiring gestures, I nodded in reply.
“…and when technological growth is beyond the grasp of human beings, it is known as the technological singularity. I have seen all three of them. The first one was spectacular, and the third was boring!”
“It started with the looms, and Ned Ludd and his followers went on a rampage and destroyed everything in their wake, looms mostly. The Luddites became synonymous to technological redundancy. I recall Jeffery and his son Barney from Sheffield, they were petrified to know that looms can be automated, and there was John who used to shave Ned and his rag tag band of revolutionaries. He used to say that in no time shaving will also be done by machines and he and his family will die of starvation. Guess what, three hundred so years later, one of his direct descendant works in the research and analysis division at Gillette. Come on, give me a laugh! robots have not yet taken your job, neither are you turning into a robot like Zhang. Who is Zhang? hmmm…in due time.” Twrtdfle was broadly in a monologue, though answering most of the relevant questions.
“Of course, the loom became the bourgeois symbol of resilience — a totem for the farmers, the fishermen and the miners. We did not have the hammer and sickle
... keep reading on reddit ➡And I mean luddites that actally went around breaking machines and thought that technology was ruining the livelihoods of people and making society worse? Were they pretty much hated by everyone, and was there protests sucessful at changing anything?
Do your worst!
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
You take away their little brooms
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
There hasn't been a post all year!
It’s pronounced “Noel.”
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Bob
So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."
Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.
Just to clarify, 12345678
Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...
Notices there's only 2;
Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."
I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.
When I got home, they were still there.
