Digital technology continues to colonize every sphere of human acitivty with terrifying rapidity [10], and Artificial Intelligence portends the abolition of humanity [11]. Even the United Nations' belated and insufficient efforts to put a regulatory regime [12] in place for AI acknowledge that human face imminent "loss of control [13]" over the technology. There are glimmers of hope, however: practical resistance [14] to the rollout of AI in school classrooms, and the national protests [15] against the proliferation of data centers. And in New York City, the local Luddite Club [16] just held a Summer of Ludd [16] 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 [17] podcast, Bill Weinberg offers a report from Manhattan's Lower East Side.
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