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Edit: final round is live now https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/111595842718166678
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Too bad Zuckerberg is about to feast on our data now that Threads has federated
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Information is cached on servers in the fediverse through connections. You can’t just make an empty server and harvest all of the data. Now if you unleash millions of accounts on the Fediverse like threads is doing, then you have access to everything.
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So what exactly is your point? That we should just give up that corporations own everything, period, sorry, bud?
If that’s the case, go back to Reddit and sign up for threads.
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Unfortunately the folks over at Mastodon are loving Metas integration
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Better question: who the fuck is Palmer Luckey?
Dude invented oculus
Ok but what has he done to earn a nomination as the worst person in tech?
Being bought out by Facebook doesn’t seem to qualify, especially when Zuckerberg lost in the first round too…
How could anyone but musk win?
Depends on if we consider Zuccer a person.
Zuck is bad sure, but he’s not a jackass, at least not publicly, he might not have made the best decision for meta but the company is by no means failing, Elon is just so much worse on every level.
Not failing, but actively ignoring Metas own research that shows Facebook is directly harmful to children and teens.
I’d say actively continuing to harm children should outrank being a jackass and/or incompetence.
Peter Thiel is also abysmal. Elon is more visibly terrible today but Thiel has been bankrolling regressives from the shadows for 20 years. He published his first screed about diversity in academia in 1995. So he is an all-time shitstain, for sure.
At this point it’s like choosing cancer over Alzheimer’s. Die from excruciating inner torment or infuriate everyone else until you die.
I dunno, some of these votes are like comparing stage 4 leukemia to a mere urinary tract infection, and the UTI is somehow winning.
Go UTI!
Should David Zaslav really be considered in tech? If WB Discovery is considered a tech company, then the Barbie movie is now (technically) a tech product…
How do you do, fellow tech workers?
It’s all content now unfortunately
All modern movies are kinda tech products. At least in a sense that there’s crazy amount of cutting edge tech involved in making them as well as during the consumption of that media
Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman for those who don’t want to click through.
And I have no idea which I would choose to face off from those four, let alone who would win.
Musk.
To make things slightly easier it’s Musk v Thiel and Bezos v Altman.
In the first matchup, I would pick Musk over Thiel for being a bigger POS in general.
In the second matchup I would pick Bezos for the larger impact he has had on the world.
This is the 2023 matchup. You don’t consider Jordan’s performance at UNC when determining their championship status this year. Heck, despite the past damage done, i don’t think. Bezos, for his 2023 tech fuckery, should have made it out of the first round.
By the same metric, Musk easily tops Thiel first 2023 and is the clear shoo-in as champion of the worst.
In the first matchup, I would pick Musk over Thiel for being a bigger POS in general.
But Musk’s acquisition of Twitter is in itself subservient to Theil’s overarching political goals. One has been in the limelight more, but the other has caused more harm overall.
No matter who wins we all lose. That’s kind of the point whenever these guys turn up.
Well, and sadly, said.
Why do people hate Altman? Genuinely OOTL.
He’s not really as bad as the other three, but he did take a nonprofit company and turn it into a multibillion dollar profit machine which has a massive carbon and fresh water footprint.
Also some view ChatGPT (and the other “AIs”) as massive plagiarism machines.
AI or not, plagiarism appears to happen a lot. AI just makes it a little easier than it was before.
His world coin project is one of the sketchiest. Paying people in poor countries to get scanned by this creepy orb thing? Odd.
His sister has also vociferously accused him of molesting her for a period of time when she was 4 and he was 13.
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What did Thiel do to make the internet hate him as much as the other three?
It’s a full time job to answer completely, but from what I know he finances escape fantasies for the rich which they call seasteading. He calls it a libertarian ideal to create these new colonial city states, but what he means is liberty for his ilk from taxes, regulation and societal rules. Meanwhile his brainchild Palantir erodes the rights of the poor people who are left behind through surveillance, military technology and ICE funding. But this is all in line with his ideology, because apartheid “works” in South Africa according to Thiel
So, so, so many things.
Let’s start with him saying women getting the vote was bad for democracy and we can continue on from there.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/peter-thiel-women-democracy_n_5747079be4b03ede4413f6f5
Theil wants a techno libertarian oligarchy with no regulations ala Blade Runner.
Musk wants the rich to escape to Mars while destroying earth and dooming the poor’s.
Bezos wants to send the poor’s into space along with heavy industry and turn earth into a rich person paradise ala Black Mirror “Fifteen Million Merits”.
Altman is just a shitty rich person in tech wasting precious resources to teach a computer to create porn. Becaue we all know that’s what 99% of people do and will use AI for. He’s also a prepper which means he’s a selfish cunt.
If I had to pick just one it would be Theil. I think the man is insidious while the rest are more in your face.
Ranked choice would be Theil, Musk, Bezos then Altman.
I’m shocked that Sam Altman won out over SBF
SBF hasn’t been in the headlines as much recently.
Sam Bankman-Fried is definitely bad for what he did and his belief in effective altruism, which is just another smoke screen to not properly tax rich people because they “donate to charities”. You could argue his getting into crypto also makes him bad because crypto mining is bad but he’s not on the same level as Sam Altman. Not even close.
I’d rather pick someone who did something deserving of life in prison than someone who didn’t, but maybe that’s just me.
Also, Sam Altman has no equity in, and was only paid $73k by OpenAI last year. You can dislike him for the rumors surrounding his managerial style and whatnot, but it’s pretty clear he isn’t exploiting people to get shit rich like everyone else on this list.
I don’t.
Altman is just a shitty rich person in tech wasting precious resources to teach a computer to create porn. Becaue we all know that’s what 99% of people do and will use AI for. He’s also a prepper which means he’s a selfish cunt.
If he wasn’t promoting AI and trying to sell it as the next best thing to sliced bread he’d just be a shitty rich prepper. Instead he is wasting time and resources on AI.
And my personal bias against crypto really lowers my “give a fuck” bar so while, again, what he did is bad I don’t care if he defrauded a bunch of crypto cunts. Same as I don’t care about people “loosing” their NFT’s.
Instead he is wasting time and resources on AI.
Under what circumstances would AI research and training not be considered a waste of time and resources, in your mind?
I don’t care if he defrauded a bunch of crypto cunts
Well, his whole ballgame was selling crypto to normal people, not cryptobros. Do you really think the FTX Super Bowl commercial was targeted at people who can articulate the differences in technology between Bitcoin and Ethereum?
Under what circumstances would AI research and training not be considered a waste of time and resources, in your mind?
Right now? None.
Well, his whole ballgame was selling crypto to normal people, not cryptobros.
All the same crypto cunts to me. Doesn’t matter if you mine, trade, marry or fuck crypto they are all the same cunts to me.
Do you really think the FTX Super Bowl commercial was targeted at people who can articulate the differences in technology between Bitcoin and Ethereum?
I don’t watch any sports and few to no ads so I have no idea what you are talking about.
I love your descriptions for all of them. If you have some free time would you mind writing it for everyone in the brackets?
You could put them in a sack and hit the sack with a stick. You’d never hit the wrong guy.
I like this idea much better than picking one of them as the worst person in tech for 2023. Can we do the stick beating instead?
But we definitely need to have Zuck in there too. And maybe Thiel, as a special guest.
The more the merrier!
Could I? Yayyyy!
Whack. Whack. Whack. Whack. Whack. Whack. Whack. Whack.
Of the four I’ll take Bezos. Elon says controversial stuff but most of his businesses are legit. He owns Twitter now but he didn’t create that monster. Altman opened up a can of worms with AI but I do believe he initially had some good intentions with it. I don’t even know who Peter Thiel is. Bezos is just an evil corporate suit and Amazon will do anything for money.
Thiel is associated with musk, and a pretty awful guy in his own right. The short version is he’s a billionaire techno-fascist that funds political campaigns for people like Trump. Here’s a video for more stuff about him if you’re curious.
Bezos isn’t even involved in Amazon anymore.
He’s executive chair of the board of directors, what are you talking about?
Jassy is the one steering the boat now, and it’s been rechristened as the SS No More Innovation
How is it that every bracket isn’t just “Elon Musk”?
Thiel’s worse, he just hasn’t made a celebrity of himself
the heck, how did altman get so far? not that hes an angel(by far no), but someone like SBF did way worse imo
No spez?
He’s small time. He’s ruining one big-ish social platform. While people like Zuck are ruining many!
Can’t argue with that. But I have to admit that I miss reddit, mate. Hence my question.
He’s an insignificant gnat.
I think I’d say Thiel is worse than Musk. He supports anti-gay politicians while being gay himself. Tax cuts are more important than having the law treat people as human beings.
It’s possible that Musk might fail to understand exactly how shitty he’s being due to his autism, I’m pretty sure Thiel knows he’s fucking people over and doesn’t care. Also the whole bloodboy thing.
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At least Musk is so loud and obnoxious that it’s easy to avoid him. Lex Luthor sits over there at Amazon quietly taking over the world and almost nobody gives him a second thought.
He isn’t autistic. He simply said he is. Which makes him a giant piece of shit.
According to his biographer, he’s wildly bipolar.
I think he is too. But neither of us is qualified to make the diagnosis officially. 😆
…but you’re a doctor.
But everyone’s a dog online. I’m the 10th doctor you always wonder about. 😆
No unity ex ceo?
He’s a small time capitalist. These guys have society shaping power and wealth
I agree with you, but in 2023 unity fuck up was one of the major events cause most developers used unity and still continue using it
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The worst person in tech is a choice between a bunch of people who are working together to make things worse for everyone else?
Final match should have been between Zuckerfuk and incElon
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The one thing he (unfortunately) isn’t, is celibate, lmao.
I think it’s more about his sick mentality in general, and not about if he can eventually bribe a woman to be his living incubator.
At what point does that word lose all meaning?
Meanings drift. The original word was coined in women’s groups, literally for women who didn’t find willing partners. Today it refers to the particular position of certain toxic male groups instead of the involuntary celibacy itself.
Insisting in keeping the original meaning could be a case of etimological fallacy.
Gee, I wonder how this will end if lemmy gets to vote.
Do you mind? We’re trying to have a circlejerk here.
