There’s an exhibition opportunity in fakes. Any institution that’s been around long enough will have acquired loads of them, sure as scale build-up in a coffee machine. Grow a pair and air that reputational dirty laundry: here are the objects of supreme craftsmanship that royally screwed us over, and their insane backstories. Challenge the public’s notion of the concepts involved.

All of this makes me wonder what actual protocol is. I fear it involves some combination of litigation, destruction, on-sale and permanent storage instead of anything constructive.

Summarized with the power of wet intelligence:

• History of Luddism - Looms
• Scientific Management and empiricism-washing
• Luddism in the present - VPNs, dark web, browser extensions, etc.
• PS something something racial bias

It’s one of those comics whose impact and memorability is stunted by its preoccupation with info-dumping.

When I think about great Victorian writers, mostly women come to mind. I suppose that’s not accidental.

Seneca taught us that contented poverty is an honourable estate.

Worth a read: https://www.asomo.co/p/tech-doesnt-make-our-lives-easier

Essentially, automation/general technological progress just enables busier lifestyles, and then resells itself as the solution to one’s hectic schedule.