More recently, @bcmerchant.bsky.social's Blood in the Machine is an history of the Luddites that's also a strong argument for Ludditism, written in a way that would be extremely engaging for an audience of people who, um, don't already know what Enoch's hammer is:

bookshop.org/p/books/bloo...

"challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will" is a lot of words when you could just say "kill people."

Certainly, I wouldn't inflict myself as a guide on any would-be Miltonist

*described

It was a direct quote of something someone said to me, in a specific situation which was descried in the same sentence.

All advice is culture specific?

Cannot imagine your advisor transgressing this fundamental rule, bc he is good people

the reason you don’t chase reactionaries is they’ll demand you make your platform worse and then vote for someone even worse than that anyway, the best you can ask is that they stay home

the people who want to leave the cult, those you can give a cookie and a trans rights manifesto

Disagree with her deprecation of Arizona, tho.

To be fair, I did three of these and the other two were suites w/o visible bed and the (mixed-gender) cmtes behaved very professionally. Still weird though.