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DoomsdaysCWThe teen '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Luddites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Luddites</a>' rethinking how they use tech ahead of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Australia</a>'s#under16's <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialMediaBan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialMediaBan</a>By Lucia Stein and Fiona Pepper for Brain Rot<a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-09/luddites-phone-free-australia-teen-social-media-ban/105343034" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-09/luddites-phone-free-australia-teen-social-media-ban/105343034</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TheLudditeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheLudditeClub</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LudditeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LudditeClub</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Internet</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InternetCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InternetCulture</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MentalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MentalHealth</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MentalWellbeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MentalWellbeing</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Teenagers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Teenagers</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Parenting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Parenting</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Luddites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Luddites</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JoinTheLudditeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JoinTheLudditeClub</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MeaningfulConnections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MeaningfulConnections</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReadBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ReadBooks</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CreateArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CreateArt</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WriteBadPoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WriteBadPoetry</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BePresent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BePresent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TechAddiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechAddiction</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SmartPhones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmartPhones</a> are <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DumbingUsDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DumbingUsDown</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>

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