#techbro

just small circles 🕊smallcircles@social.coop
2025-06-12

#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?

2025-06-07

@lokjo

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

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-06-07

🤖 Ah, yet another tech bro claiming they've achieved the holy grail of perfect memory with their . 🚀 Spoiler: it's just a glorified search tool with a sprinkle of , and no, it won't write your code for you. 💻👻
github.com/Muvon/octocode

2025-06-06

Boohoo, #techbro fascists. Cry more.

#stocks #FailedTrumpEconomy #Broligarchs

2025-06-06

I have long thought that #Musk would end up being the sacrificial #Techbro, there is a large #Trumpist faction who are deeply worried about the #Techbros, throwing #Musk to them is a useful distraction, which won’t impact Thiel & co.

2025-06-05

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
#FOSS
#unix_surrealism
#Tech
#TechBro
#Capitalisme

via > @prahou 🔗 merveilles.town/@prahou/114626

war journal

Girl is reading a strange book, lying on a couch.

"After 4 days of tracking we finally caught up with one of MATA's last fully sentient companies. They stood no chance."

Penguin is hanging around, making coffee.

Penguin: "What's that you're reading?"

Girl shows him guiltily.

It's Puffy's War Journal.

Penguin: "Where did you..."

Girl: "Please don't tell him!"

Penguin: "Scoot over."

Girl and Penguin read together.

...

Puffy, Rabbit, Penguins and Cirno stand over a dying MATA soldier in a ruined city.

Man of Mata: "*cough* How does it feel to know you cannot win?"Man of Mata: "You bicker amongst yourselves, arguing about some licensing fairy tale. Meanwhile over 80% of our war machine runs code you wrote.

Before this war even began, every third FOSS critter was already in our pocket.

All the knowledge of your pathetic ancestors that you hope to preserve - we have it all.

And you know what that means?

You cannot kill MATA-

His head is blown off by Cirno.

Cirno: "Looks like the other 20% is used for bullshit generation."

Podcast: Die Peter Thiel Story

  • denn man sollte verstehen, mit wem es die Demokratien da zu tun haben.

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.

#podcast #techbro #longtermism #technofeudalism

2025-06-03

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.

Zhi Zhu 🕸️ZhiZhu@newsie.social
2025-06-03

"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."
techdirt.com/2025/06/02/a-23-y

#Science #News

Headline and text from article:
 A 23-Year-Old Crypto Bro Is Now Vetoing NSF Grants While Staring At His Water Bottle

from the seems-bad? dept
Mon, Jun 2nd 2025 09:20am - 
by Mike Masnick

Picture this: You’re a researcher who has spent years developing a grant proposal, gone through layers of expert review, and received National Science Foundation (NSF) approval. Then some kid barely out of college — whose main qualification appears to be founding a company that puts ads on the blockchain — logs into a Zoom meeting, pays more attention to his fingernails than the discussion, and kills your grant with an uninterested thumbs down.

Welcome to science under DOGE.
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦blogdiva
2025-06-02

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 mafia got what they wanted: a citizens database THEY get to control.

defenseofliberty.social/@Malco

said 15 years ago this is where was heading.

and just 2-3 years ago said ’s work should be treated as a backdoor to hacking citizenship and voting information FOR ALL AMERICANS.

previously:
mastodon.social/@blogdiva/1143

2025-06-02

@caseyliss

The only answer to the " opt in opt of AI scraping ask/threat/exposure" is neither yes or no, but uninstall.

Or sometimes, quitting.

#mozilla #google #techBro #ai

Brian HarrodBrianHarrod
2025-05-31

OPINION >>> MAUREEN DOWD: Had to Go

came to Washington with a and left with a

Shrinking government is hard, particularly when you do it callously and carelessly — and apparently on

As with President ’s tariffs, has created more volatility than value

A guy who went bankrupt six times doesn’t really care about spending

certainly didn’t want to see the headline, “Trump Cuts "

nytimes.com/2025/05/31/opinion

Mastodon Trends South AfricatrendsZA@mastodon.africa
2025-05-27

The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:

#devconf2025
#afrikaans
#southafrica
#rhodesmandela
#empire
#techbro
#southafrican
#harvard
#amastodonstory

Based on recent posts made by non-automated accounts. Posts with more boosts, favourites, and replies are weighted higher.

Mastodon Trends South AfricatrendsZA@mastodon.africa
2025-05-27

The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:

#devconf2025
#afrikaans
#hope
#encouragement
#amastodonstory
#southafrica
#rhodesmandela
#empire
#techbro
#southafrican

Based on recent posts made by non-automated accounts. Posts with more boosts, favourites, and replies are weighted higher.

Mastodon Trends South AfricatrendsZA@mastodon.africa
2025-05-27

The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:

#devconf2025
#afrikaans
#hope
#encouragement
#randomthought
#amastodonstory
#southafrica
#rhodesmandela
#empire
#techbro

Based on recent posts made by non-automated accounts. Posts with more boosts, favourites, and replies are weighted higher.

Mal 🇿🇦🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️malmorrow@mastodon.africa
2025-05-27

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.

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-05-26

🎉 Oh, look! Another tech bro thinks they've found the holy grail of dependency hell by throwing at it! 🤔 Surely this 16-minute read will save us all from the abyss of unmet dependencies and library chaos... because who needs when you can have Nix? 🚀
maych.in/blog/its-time-to-give

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

2025-05-23

#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

#Enshitification #TechBros #Monopolies #DigitalAge

youtu.be/ydVmzg_SJLw

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