🥩 Red Meat Friday: Score One For The Luddites (opens in new tab)

As many of you know, I have a special contempt for what I call “the new Luddites”: those who find (nonsensical) fault—usually for performative reasons—with technology. The most common current sign of the new Ludditism today is giving up smart phones in favor of retro flip phones. My favorite old time example of this was the reaction to calculators when they first became available. “Kid won’t learn how to do arithmetic” or “Rich kids who can afford calculators will have an unfair advantage” an...