a history of the Luddite movement—a group of artisans and textile workers who resisted the adoption of machines during the early years of the Industrial Revolution in England and whose resistance to being displaced from their work was met with violence by the British monarchy.

That’s a much better explanation of the Luddite movement than I was expecting.

Pretty wild that the author didn’t set up app notifications. Getting specific notifications from specific people on my wrist is a big part of the reason I use a smartwatch. But to each their own.

It’d be pretty cool to get a significant use case of my pricey pricey Garmin for ~CAD$40.