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NPR's podcast Throughline dedicated an episode to the original 19th-century Luddite movement, explaining that these workers were not simply anti-technology but were organizing to protect their livelihoods from mechanization. The episode, prompted by a listener question, features historian Katrina Navickas discussing parallels between that rebellion and today's anxieties over AI displacing jobs.