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- 1NASA's hidden teams of women fiber arts experts●RE: https:// tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/1173823 97216266564 that’s why # NASA hired teams of # embroidery # knitting # beadi
NASA historically hired teams of embroidery, knitting, beading and fiber arts experts — most of them women, many of them Native American, African American and Latina — to produce the precise textile work needed for space missions. The women were nicknamed the "Little Old Ladies," echoing wider attention on the overlooked female workforce behind early spaceflight, similar to the story popularized by "Hidden Figures".
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A new essay examines the original Luddites, the early nineteenth-century English textile workers who destroyed machinery they believed threatened their livelihoods, and draws lessons for today's debates about automation and labor. Using lace-making as a case study, it argues the Luddites were not opposed to technology itself but to how economic gains were distributed, a tension that resonates with current concerns over AI and workers' futures.
- 3On This Day: Lawrence Textile Strike in Full Swing▼Today in Labor History September 30, 1912: The Lawrence, Massachusetts “Bread and Roses” textile strike was in full swin
Anniversary posts mark September 30, 1912, when 12,000 textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts walked out of the mills in the 'Bread and Roses' strike, protesting the arrests of two strike leaders. Police reportedly clubbed strikers and made many arrests. The strike remains a landmark of US labor history and its slogan endures in labor movements today.
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The Benton Institute for Broadband & Society has published a piece asking what the Luddites — the 19th-century English textile workers who famously smashed machinery — would make of today's debates over digital access and opportunity. The article uses the historical movement as a lens on modern technology resistance and broadband policy. Broader reaction is not yet visible.