Did you know the Luddites, English textile worker activists in the early 1800s, weren’t actually anti-technology?
Yes, they smashed machines “Office Space”-style, but primarily, they were pro-community, pro-worker, and concerned about how technology was negatively impacting their communities.
![An aged parchment-style graphic with blackletter text reading: "We will never lay down our Arms [until] the House of Commons passes an Act to put down all Machinery hurtful to Commonality. Signed, General Army of the Redressers, Ned Ludd, Clerk."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hheutzl4mxedshsz4yqek5tt/bafkreiaazrnlwl547kdfcsjkkztneqsyd6ynakixxairtu7tytpf6a2i4i)
![This is a digital platform designed to ultimately bring people together at local in-person events. “Our top priority is that people can find what they need and then take that info out into their community,” Bell said. She noted that corporate-owned social media platforms “are typically trying to keep [users] on there as long as possible, in order to show them as many ads as possible. We do not have that incentive for chicago.com.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tqjpdhcxlnhjpv3byqjpz4l3/bafkreiaeqonanhzyivg6eyt5zzdlh5kcnpwrbjs4vgfjuhu6g47r4ivgiq)
