#ThoughtProvoker :blobhyperthink:
We rightfully revile Silicon Valley style techbroism as we take moral higher standpoints, stick to our values.
Yet in our total rejection of #techbro culture, do we fail to learn from it? SV outperforms #FOSS under #hypercapitalism. #BigTech is winning. We must improve our fitness formula to catch up.
Is where SV #culture differs that folks from across the globe totally dare to unleash creativity? While fedi sees ideas usually followed with techies-impl-talk?
Welcome. There us no algorithm putting your posts into eyes.
Engagement on Mastodon is by hashtags. Make new hashtags, find well.used ones.
After typing a # Mastodon will the you the number of users for the hashtag.
For example if you type - #usp - Mastodon will say 1.9k under highlight meaning almost two thousand recent posts with rhe US politics hashtag "#uspoli"
#maps #google #techbro #tech #code #app #coders #map #mappers #directions
🤖 Ah, yet another tech bro claiming they've achieved the holy grail of perfect #codebase memory with their #AI. 🚀 Spoiler: it's just a glorified search tool with a sprinkle of #buzzwords, and no, it won't write your code for you. 💻👻
https://github.com/Muvon/octocode #techbro #hype #softwaredevelopment #HackerNews #ngated
Boohoo, #techbro fascists. Cry more.
Le truc avec les dominants de toutes sortes (racistes, bourgeois, capitalistes, mascu, tech-bro, libertariens) c'est qu'ils ne peuvent pas s'empêcher de se la jouer. Alors qu'ils ne font que de la merde :
"Looks like the other 20% is used for bullshit generation." 😂 🤣
#ia #ai
#Hiatus
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#Bd
#BandeDessinée
#Comics
#OpenSource
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#unix_surrealism
#Tech
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#Capitalisme
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war journal
Podcast: Die Peter Thiel Story
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/die-peter-thiel-story-100.html
Peter Thiel ist der Strippenzieher hinter dem kulturellen Rechtsruck in den USA und einer der wichtigsten Unterstützer von Donald Trump. Mit Paypal und Facebook ist er reich geworden. Das ist die Geschichte des geheimnisvollen Tech-Milliardärs.
Carole Cadwalladr - Broligarchs, AI, and a Techno-Authoritarian Surveillance State | The Daily Show
“I think what is happening in America is they are building a techno-authoritarian surveillance state.” Carole Cadwalladr, the award-winning journalist behind the Substack newsletter “How to Survive the Broligarchy,” talks to Jon Stewart about how the U.S. government ignored the huge wake-up call that was the Cambridge Analytica-Facebook data breach scandal – a story Cadwalladr broke and which resulted in no legislative protections for citizens’ private data. She warns about the unregulated dangers that data-mining and AI pose to individual privacy and freedom, and what people and institutions can do to push back on big tech’s authoritarian agenda.
"Meet Zachary Terrell, #DOGE ’s apparent authority on scientific merit... Terrell’s apparent qualifications for overruling decades of #scientific expertise? A 2022 bachelor’s degree from Kansas State & a brief career in #crypto.
...This is the expertise now trumping peer review at the #NSF. Not content knowledge, not research experience... Just the confidence that comes with being a 23-yr-old #techbro who thinks he knows better than any actual expert."
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/02/a-23-year-old-crypto-bro-is-now-vetoing-nsf-grants-while-staring-at-his-water-bottle/
welp… do not ever tell me am hysterical or wrong.
updated this thread without having read that Peter Thiel and Elon Musk and the whole #techbro mafia got what they wanted: a citizens database THEY get to control.
https://defenseofliberty.social/@MalcolmNance/114615704833032139
said 15 years ago this is where #RealID was heading.
and just 2-3 years ago said #Palantir’s #ICE work should be treated as a backdoor #malware to hacking citizenship and voting information FOR ALL AMERICANS.
previously:
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/114308956005550550
The only answer to the " opt in opt of AI scraping ask/threat/exposure" is neither yes or no, but uninstall.
Or sometimes, quitting.
OPINION >>> MAUREEN DOWD: #TechBro Had to Go
#ElonMusk came to Washington with a #ChainSaw and left with a #BlackEye
Shrinking government is hard, particularly when you do it callously and carelessly — and apparently on #Hallucinogens
As with President #DonaldTrump’s tariffs, #DOGE has created more volatility than value
A guy who went bankrupt six times doesn’t really care about spending
#Trump certainly didn’t want to see the headline, “Trump Cuts #SocialSecurity"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/opinion/elon-musk-doge-trump.html
@bruces when do people start attacking "#AI" #datacenters?
#sarcasm #IEpol #Ireland #TechBros #Enshittification #AIslop #WastefulComputing #EnergyCrisis #TechBro #AI
The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:
#devconf2025
#afrikaans
#southafrica
#rhodesmandela
#empire
#techbro
#southafrican
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#afrikaans
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#amastodonstory
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#rhodesmandela
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My country, #SouthAfrica, is closely associated with the #RhodesMandela scholarship system. That system has a terrible history, all about #empire and the #techbro s of the late 19th Century.
One 21st Century pattern in Rhodes Mandela scholarship grants is for #SouthAfrican students to go to #Harvard. There's even local jokes about it - when you've blown your political capital in SA, you bow out to 'do a post-grad at Harvard'.
We want that. We want that to continue. We want that SO MUCH.
It's a history thing. It's a money thing. It's a relationship thing. It's an intellectual capital thing.
When my country-people go to Harvard, it makes my sometimes parochial or provincial country look outwards, raise their heads, dream dreams and see visions.
🎉 Oh, look! Another tech bro thinks they've found the holy grail of dependency hell by throwing #Nix at it! 🤔 Surely this 16-minute read will save us all from the abyss of unmet dependencies and library chaos... because who needs #simplicity when you can have Nix? 🚀
https://maych.in/blog/its-time-to-give-nix-a-chance/ #techbro #dependencyhell #librarychaos #HackerNews #ngated
And in case you still don't get the snark: I just demolished his entire mythology, developed over decades with countless charts, graphs, and concomitant speculations, using two generic, measly little graphs and no data. Along with it, I also demolished any rational basis for the cult of the Singularity that rose up in his wake, and all the techbro longtermist singulitarian speculation you hear coming out of kooks like Sam Altman and Eliezer Yudkowsky.
A house of fucking cards, knocked down by a slight breeze.
#Singularity
#singulitarianism
#TESCREAL
#longtermism
#techbro
#SamAltman
#EliezerYudkowsky
#TheRealHallucination
#cult
#CoryDoctorow at his fiery best, telling us how we got to here and why and then topping it off with ways to undo all the shitty #TechBro malignancy to bring about a better, fairer internet (as well as a better society).
Replete with real world examples of how we’ve all been ‘captured’ by ruthless individuals and what has been done so far to address the raping of our privacy and curtailment of our choices.
If you can spare a hour to watch Cory’s address at the Python Conference on ‘enshitification’ and the solutions to it, you will come away hopeful of a better tomorrow. It might also spurr you to action when you have the opportunity to make a difference
