Hobsbawm, E. (1952). The machine breakers - Eric Hobsbawm | libcom.org. Libcom.org. Retrieved September 9, 2025, from https://libcom.org/article/machine-breakers-eric-hobsbawm
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Smash The Frames as a slogan would be a call back to the early industrial revolution, that where labour organised against the industrialists and factory owners. As a form of industrial action and protest called wrecking. Workers would smash the frames that made machine made fabrics (Hobsbawm,1952)
In the modern context I would suggest such a slogan would apply to anti AI and big tech corporations. Frames in this context is taken to mean mainframes of computers.
Is there much going on in the world? Probably not. I haven't been paying attention. In lieu of any actual noteworthy events going on, I am going to review another YA book I found at a library book sale for 50 cents.
The book in question is "What Waits in the Water", a 2017 young adult mystery/horror novel written by Kieran Scott. The book is set in contemporary times and follows a group of teenagers stuck in a "cabin in the woods" style scenario, with some adolescent melodrama
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"Hang on a second, Marley, you can't do this ghost-of-Christmas stuff at me. I'm Jewish."
"Oh? Oh yes, I'd forgotten. Well, not to worry, we cover all major and minor holidays. We can certainly shift gears here and do the ghosts of Yom Kippur. Which, I should note, is even more relevant to the things you must do, since it is the
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