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DoomsdaysCW"It’s really important for a kid to be left alone"- When <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TaikaWaititi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TaikaWaititi</a> made his feelings clear about the role of tech in children's livesBy Sourav Chakraborty Modified May 03, 2025 04:54 GMT" 'Exactly, now they’ve all got iPads and it’s done for them! I think it’s really important for a kid to be left alone and left to figure it out for themselves how to pass the time. As a kid, I spent so much time bored and coming up with ideas of how to do things, so I’d write stories or I’d draw pictures or invent worlds through drawing or just in my head, just thinking about things. I think that a lot of my creativity has really come from being bored.' " [SO TRUE!!!]<a href="https://www.sportskeeda.com/us/movies/it-s-really-important-kid-left-alone-when-taika-waititi-made-feelings-clear-role-tech-children-s-life" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sportskeeda.com/us/movies/it-s-really-important-kid-left-alone-when-taika-waititi-made-feelings-clear-role-tech-children-s-life</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SmartphoneAddiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmartphoneAddiction</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TechIsDumbingUsDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechIsDumbingUsDown</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoAI</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Imagination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Imagination</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LudditeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LudditeClub</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NeoLuddites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NeoLuddites</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Luddites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Luddites</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LessScreenTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LessScreenTime</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MoreBoardGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MoreBoardGames</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MoreGreenTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MoreGreenTime</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MoreOutdoorTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MoreOutdoorTime</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FlipPhones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FlipPhones</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MoreBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MoreBooks</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Smartphones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Smartphones</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TechAddiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechAddiction</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TurnOffYourPhone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TurnOffYourPhone</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BePresent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BePresent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThinkForYourself" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThinkForYourself</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistTheMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ResistTheMachine</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSmartphonesForKids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoSmartphonesForKids</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime</a>

DoomsdaysCWNow in College, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LudditeTeens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LudditeTeens</a> Still Don’t Want Your LikesThree years after starting a club meant to fight <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a>’s grip on young people, many original members are holding firm and gaining new converts.By Alex Vadukul Jan. 30, 2025"Biruk Watling, a college sophomore wearing a baggy coat and purple fingerless gloves, walked the chilly campus of Temple University in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Philadelphia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Philadelphia</a> on a recent afternoon to recruit new members to her club. She taped a flier to a pole: '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JoinTheLudditeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JoinTheLudditeClub</a> For <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MeaningfulConnections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MeaningfulConnections</a>.' Down the block, she posted another one: 'Do You Desire a Healthier Relationship With Technology, Especially Social Media? The Luddite Club Welcomes You and Your Ideas.'"When a student approached, Ms. Watling dove into her pitch. "'Our club promotes <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ConsciousConsumption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ConsciousConsumption</a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a>,' she said. 'We’re for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanConnection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HumanConnection</a>. I’m one of the first members of the original Luddite Club in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Brooklyn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Brooklyn</a>. Now I’m trying to start it in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Philly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Philly</a>."She pulled out a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FlipPhone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FlipPhone</a>, mystifying her recruit."'We use these,' she said. 'This has been the most freeing experience of my life.' If Ms. Watling had a missionary’s zeal, it was because she wasn’t just promoting a student club, but an approach to modern life that profoundly changed her two years ago, when she helped form the Luddite Club as a high school student in New York. "But that was then, back when things were simpler, before she had embarked on the more independent life of a college student and found herself having to navigate QR codes, two-factor-identification logins, dating apps and other digital staples of campus life. "The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LudditeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LudditeClub</a> was the subject of an article I wrote in 2022 — a story that, ironically, went viral. It told of how a group of teenage tech skeptics from Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn and a few other schools in the city gathered on weekends in Prospect Park to enjoy some time together away from the machine. "They <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sketched" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sketched</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/painted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#painted</a> side by side. They read quietly, favoring works by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dostoyevsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dostoyevsky</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kerouac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kerouac</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Vonnegut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vonnegut</a>. They sat on logs and groused about how <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TikTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TikTok</a> was dumbing down their generation. Their flip phones were decorated with stickers and nail polish."Readers inspired by their message responded in hundreds of emails and comments. Reporters from Germany, Brazil, Japan and elsewhere flooded my inbox, asking me how to reach these students who were so hard to track down online. Snarky Reddit threads and think pieces sprouted. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RalphNader" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RalphNader</a> endorsed the club in an opinion essay, writing: 'This is a rebellion that needs support and diffusion.'" Read more: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/style/luddite-teens-reunion.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/style/luddite-teens-reunion.html</a>Archived version: <a href="https://archive.ph/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SolarPunkSunday</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nature</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NeoLuddite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NeoLuddite</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Luddites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Luddites</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LessScreenTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LessScreenTime</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MoreBoardGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MoreBoardGames</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MoreGreenTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MoreGreenTime</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MoreOutdoorTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MoreOutdoorTime</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FlipPhones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FlipPhones</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MoreBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MoreBooks</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistTheMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ResistTheMachine</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KleeBenally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KleeBenally</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SongToTheSun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SongToTheSun</a>"Our mother aches Iron claws dig until she breaks And she bleeds for this How much is enough?I remember listening to songs of the sun For all those, who’s breath was stolen Who’s future was taken away Who learned too lateCHORUS: And so we sing again To the house of dawn There are no words, no words that can right these wrongs.This land breathes pain And nothing grows that doesn’t carry the trauma that we’ve wept, that you sow…CHORUSthis empire of blood and bones of stolen, poisoned, homes… genocide… mutilated ghosts…fierce hearts lay buried… their struggle speaks… fierce hearts lay buried… saying… “leave it in the ground…”While the mines lay abandoned – What has been done? Wells poisoned… nothing has been done? Cancers spread… tell me, what has been done? To right these wrongs! To right these wrongs!CHORUSdeafening the screams grinding down the gears you can’t hear them cause your window is closed and you’ve surrendered your power to your fearsThere’s a market for everything… social media exists so you keep on consuming… it’s revolutionary chic and at least you “liked” and shared… for liberation…oh what a loaded word… and you’ve marched quietly along and you’ve marched so complacently alongone brutal violent machine pressing against another (3x) crushing all our dreams, and all we desire the price is paid in blood and we know what its worth… the price is paid in blood… capitalism is the enemy…of mother earth. (2x)deafening the screams grinding down the gears you can’t hear them cause your window closed and you’ve surrendered your power to your fearsone brutal violent machine pressing against another you’ve surrendered your power to your fears one brutal violent machine pressing against another you’ve surrendered your power to your fearsI will hold your hand At the edge of this world As we watch it burn to the groundI will hold your hand At the edge of the dawn And laugh and wonder at the new days we’ve foundthey will not suffocate this fire it burns from our hearts so long as we hold this inside they can never take this from ushow much can you take? how much can you give? there is no post-apocalyptic oh this is ithow much can we bleed? till were up off our knees? there’s no post-colonial, we live itthey will not suffocate this fire it burns from our hearts so long as we hold this inside they can never take this from usif this is our grave such a wondrous bed we’ve been made only so much we can bleed so much more than we’d ever needI will hold your hand At the edge of this world As we watch it burn to the ground.Peabody‘s drag lines across the landscape like militarized borders that carve this police state 1974 government pens wrote, “relocate” divide and conquer, 14,000 and today?We know this nightmare because it repeats ’till something breaks An act of liberationYes we all know it’s the rich against the poor class, race, gender, and mother earth just a resource globalization is colonization and colonization is always war…We know this nightmare because it repeats ’till something breaks An act of liberation!Industrial capitalist hetero-patriarchy We know the story of so many manifested destinies From the broken bones of broken homes and violated boarding school dreamsWe know this nightmare because it repeats ’till something breaks An act of liberation!From Big Mountain to Palestine, relocation is genocide. We stand against all wars and occupation Against nationalism, against state sponsored terrorismthe free market non-profit industry accountable to foundations no not community paychecks for activism, for justice or just them? But this ain’t no revolutionary commodity… It’s an act of liberationAn act of liberation!it’s only a matter of time it’s only a question, an affirmation of who we are and who we’ve have beenreconnect the dots trace back the memories its only a matter of time until our words match our actionsCHORUS: these laws, these borders, these walls, will fall it’s only a matter of time, it’s only a matter of actionHow much can we pretend, that we’re not complicit in our silence? how much longer, until these times get so desperate?the beating in our hearts a rhythm we can’t shut out calling us to action, call us to action…CHORUSits a matter of action.these are desperate times calling for desperate measures these are desperate times calling for desperate actionits a matter of action.Time for actionFollowing paths so many ways to wander so many ways I’ve wondered always the question biting at my heel sometimes its too much to feelopen hearts bleed strong hearts deceived where were you in this time of need?following paths so many ways to take it on so many ways we’ve lost always the question expressing the real sometimes its too much to feelopen hearts bleed strong hearts deceive where were you in this time of need? where were you?your shadow still cast all that we lived past your words still linger if we could peel back the time uncover the wounds so they can really healsometimes its too much to feelopen hearts bleed strong hearts deceive where were you in this time of need? where were you?"<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEBhDVnzG_s" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEBhDVnzG_s</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AnActOfLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AnActOfLiberation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Degrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Degrowth</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TimeForAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeForAction</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ATimeForLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ATimeForLiberation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ATimeForAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ATimeForAction</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AMatterForAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AMatterForAction</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AnActOfLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AnActOfLiberation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PostColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PostColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistTheMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ResistTheMachine</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistHeteroPatriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ResistHeteroPatriarchy</a>

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