Luddite Doll Hopes You’re Not Reading This on Your Smartphone

Be open to saying, “Okay, I’ll look. Is there a Luddite picture here? I’m at the local bookstore. Well, is there more here?” With this idea of ​​social development, changing people from the idea of, “Okay, I’ll look at the Instagram page, and here are all the events” to the idea of, “I have to leave my house.” Stay awake. We’ll be out here. Tompkins Square Park, perhaps, other parks, private spaces. We have events in this city. It’s amazing. Knicks in five. I love New York.

Gowanus, we like to play a little game at every show.

I like sports.

We are very proud of it. It’s called Control, Alt, Delete. So I want to know the technology that you would like to control, the piece that you can change or modify, and what you can remove, or conquer from the world.

Oh.

Are you ready?

Control, Alt, Delete. Good, good.

Let’s start with authority.

This is so funny that you are asking me this. I would say web servers.

The Internet was presented as something that was, Well, we will have a free exchange of information all over the world. It will help diversity and globalization and all these things, and then, rise. Military technology, right?

We saw this and Ed Snowdenactually.

OK. And now alt.

I’m trying to figure out which technology I feel has a positive effect, but has negative benefits.

Let me give this one. I would change the way social media platforms have a centralized system instead of a unified system. I think it’s very strong, and this was almost at the creation of Twitter, they were on the verge of doing this. Then Jack Dorsey was like, “No, we have to be more consistent.”

And finally, remove it.

I can’t wait. This is my favorite.

What can you delete?

AI. AI data centers. It’s done. It’s done. Immediately it happened. Bomb. It’s gone. I mean, come on, guys.

You. Especially when they say, “Okay, we’re going to create AI to fix all of our climate problems, all of our inequality that we’ve got, but first, we’ve got to destroy the planet’s natural resources.” I mean, it’s just ridiculous. It just makes me so sad. I think data centers are one of the worst things in this Big Tech oligarch world we live in.

Where if Mark Zuckerberg’s demand for the Meta Hyperion data center in Louisiana is legalized it will use several times the amount of energy that New Orleans uses. We can’t support that as a planet, of course. It doesn’t matter how interesting the technology is or what it can do. These are the things we need now for life to go on. We need clean water. We need land to grow food. We need nature the way the birds and the bees and the wild animals can be, and I’m not a fan of selling to a chatbot, even if a chatbot tells me it loves me and we can kiss over the phone.

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