It’s one of the opening events of the Summer of Ludd, a weeklong series of talks and activities like how to flirt and date offline, mending, and learning to fight against data centers, all focused on getting people off their phones and into community.

Somewhat paradoxically, I hope they film and post these somewhere so that people like me who can’t afford to travel can still benefit from the knowledge. Like, I know how to flirt and date offline (actually don’t know how to online) but am too neurodivergent to understand where is appropriate now beyond bars (since I stopped Honky Tonkin’ that is), mending is useful af and I could use improvement over my current skillset, fuck a goddamn data center, and I struggle to find cool things/events in my community now that everything is on facebook (beyond nature, but nature is a solitary pursuit and not conducive to meeting anyone besides other stoners, not that I’m complaining too hard but I don’t only like other stoners.)

I’m somewhat of a luddite myself, but still recognize the value of the internet in spreading information (like posting the videos of those talks) and communication (which is just packet radio assisted by infrastructure, really).