The Luddite

This project began as a post about a year ago, in which we followed the provenance of the data from a study about misinformation until, at the bottom, we found Media Bias/Fact Check. Upon further examination, it turned out that Media Bias/Fact Check is ju

This is yet another update to a previous post about Maples et al.'s study. If you haven't read that one, you will be missing some context, but you will pick up enough as you go that this one should make sense on its own. In early 2024, shortly after writi

The Luddite is taking a break and will be back sometime late fall (in the Northern Hemisphere). Thanks for reading! If you liked it, consider subscribing or leaving a tip: BuyMeACoffee.com, Stripe, all options.

Right after the 2016 American presidential election, use of the the terms "misinformation" and "disinformation" on Twitter skyrocketed, presumably as people attempted to come to grips with what had just happened. A few years later (science takes time!), w

This has been my longest gap between posts since I started in 2022. Due to the political situation here, I've been dedicating more time to local organizing. This is undoubtedly the correct decision. As important as I find the issues that I talk about here

Before we get started, a note on current events: If you live in the United States, now is the time to get organized. I don't mean joining a discord or your favorite leftist's patreon. Participate in something, ideally something with a formal structure tha

It takes many people to make The Luddite happen. Many of these people also do cool things outside The Luddite. With all the AI hype, we are crossposting one of those things - a paper on tokenization in Large Language Models. Hopefully, this will be a nice

Source images here and here. This is a review of Joshua Dávila's Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It in 2 parts. The first critiques the book's approach to argumentation. It is, if you like, a theory of the book. The second

This is part of an open-ended series on the relationship between the AI hype, corporate interests, and scientific publishing through the lens of articles published on Nature.com. For the previous one, click here. Nature's Scientific Reports recently publi

On the roughly two-year anniversary of Elon Musk purchasing Twitter, with which he is openly supporting fascism, I want to discuss Jackson, Bailey, and Foucault Welles's #HashtagActivism. The book is a defense of its namesake practice, which they provide