Digital technology continues to colonize every sphere of human acitivty with terrifying rapidity, and Artificial Intelligence portends the abolition of humanity. Even the United Nations' belated and insufficient efforts to put a regulatory regime in place for AI acknowledge that human face imminent "loss of control" over the technology. There are glimmers of hope, however: practical resistance to the rollout of AI in school classrooms, and the national protests against the proliferation of data centers. And in New York City, the local Luddite Club just held a Summer of Ludd festival—aimed at getting people to disconnect from the digital pseudo-reality that recuperates our very alienation from itself, and to reclaim real life in the public parks and streets. In Episode 335 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg offers a report from Manhattan's Lower East Side. 

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