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This Week in People’s History, Oct. 3-Oct. 9

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A poster advertising the 1963 Freedom Vote in Mississippi
Exercising the right to vote in Mississippi (in 1963). Air travel revolutionized (1958). Feds can't prove their case (1918). Markets plummet (1973). A new way of walkin' (1923). Deadly influenza (1918). None dare call it mutiny (1971)

Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I.

Kyle Chayka The New Yorker
Brian Merchant’s new book, “Blood in the Machine,” argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.