I feel like all the people who were into tech to improve people’s lives did that and got bought out by people who then went on to try and make money off of it.
2030: By the implementation of AI, the orphan crushing machine can now process 35% more biomass per hour, providing a sustainable power source to our server parks
Hey, you figured out a way to get MAGA types to support abortion - just find a way for tech bros to monetize aborted fetuses for shiny tech thing. Starte= referring to them as “extruded excess biomass” or something.
No, that is wrong. You have to wait for them to be born, as all life is sacred. After that, they can die of measles or rot on the street, it doesn’t matter anymore
I’m so sick of seeing this exact fucking face and facial expression on everything. please just use ms paint to shoddily squiggle a matchstick man, at least it will have personality.
The suit infestation of tech
Yup, I very much doubt more than a handful of c-level people at the big tech companies went through these phases. The change is a result of money people who dont give a damn about technology getting a tighter and tighter grip over tech companies and pushing out the people who do care.
They’re called MBAs and they’re a cancer on society.
This is just a meme, but it does touch on something important. There’s a journalist by the name of Douglas Rushkoff. He put out a book last year titled, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaire Elite, and he was invited by a group of 5 anonymous tech oligarchs out to the desert to talk about surviving what they call “The Event”, or when the consequences of their actions finally catch up to them.
He also says at the core of their desire to escape it is rooted in something he calls “The Mindset”, which is belief that with enough money and technology, wealthy men can live as gods, and transcend the calamities and tribulations that befall us mere mortals.
“The Mindset” is rooted in empirical science, that human beings are nothing more than the sum total of their chemical components, and that’s it, and only the “truly superior” (Billionaire Tech Broligarchs) understand that.
IDK what this meme is trying to say. Its making some leaps.
TIL there were no tech bros before 2014.
“I want to change the world with this tech”
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“3 billion you say? The company is yours!”
Honestly selling the company is understandable. Getting out is normal.
It’s the ones that turn into sociopaths that bother me.
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7 figures??? That’s not selling out, that’s just trying to get anything for a sinking ship if you sell for a million. Thats barely covering salary+expenses for 2-5 engineers depending on level and location.
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Yes, you’re talking about a personal “payout” thats probably only 2-3 years of a salary? That’s not much of a “payout” that’s just a nicer severance package. If you built a company that wasn’t about to go under, it’s not worth handing it to some asshole for practically nothing
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Software engineers at FAANG companies easily make that amount. And that’s the caliber of engineer that is typically making this type of exit.
You’re commenting as if your circumstances are the same as a tech bro founder’s, which seems to be incorrect.
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annuities my dude
1M is 2-3 yr salary??? Hook a brother up with these $300-500k/yr job leads d00d
I’m taking the money and giving a fat chunk of it to programs and things that my government refuses to do anything about. I don’t give a fuck about shallow things like “selling out.”
So, you just want to make Trump richer, I see…
How does that make him richer? I’d use the money to help all of the folks he’s fucking over.
Trump owns the government, all the taxes you’re paying go into his pockets and pockets of his friends. Especially after DOGE went through the offices.
I can see that. I’d hope I could offset it by actually dumping my personal funds into working class programs and offer direct relief, but I know it’s a stupid thought exercise. The reality is that I’ve been in tech for years and have always actively avoided FAANG companies, and any and all paths that lead to corporate or management.
You’ll be better off dumping your cash into stock and shares.
Nah, precisely because we would cash out and settle for peaceful lives long before we’d become billionaires or even millionaires. It takes a certain type of person to begin earning millions and conclude “that’s not nearly enough, I need this times a thousand”. None of them are “good” people.
You don’t usually just “begin earning millions”, some businesses snowball to billion-dollar size quite quickly. Instagram had only a few dozen employees before being sold to Facebook for billions.
It happens, especially in tech, but I’d say it’s still the exception to the norm.
How many here are working for these tech bros or putting money on their companies?
The company I work for isn’t amazing and our most recent CEO is human garbage. I’ve got medical stuff I had to pay for and need the funds to get out of country. Doing my best to be a net drain though by working as slowly and poorly as I can without being fired and I don’t buy into tech stock (or most any stock for that matter). Idk if what I’m doing is as ethical as it could be but I’m doing my best to not support unhinged tech bros despite being in tech
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monetizing empathy
You Cave Johnsons…!
I am still stuck in “2014”, which is where I was back in 1995.
But then again, I never became obscenely wealthy by grossly parasitizing off of the labour of other people, so I never had the chance to devolve and become corrupted by capitalism.
Its ai generated sir but it kinda checks out.
Ironically brought to you by the same tech bros it’s dissing.
Probably not a techbro, but it’s ironic nonetheless.
If you are subverting the means or process of exploitation against itself, well, that’s pretty subversive, anarchist, punk.
If you’re doing that in the digital realm?
Pretty fucking cyberpunk.
These idiot tech bros whoooshed over understanding the cyberpunk genre as a warning of what not to do, and instead adopted its aesthetic and are just now building that world, as its villains.
Well fine then.
Time to reclaim our culture.
Using gen AI isn’t punk. Fuck that bullshit all the way.
Creating your own fucking art is punk. GenAI is slop, powered by theft.
Sure, yes, making your own art would be better in one sense, one way of looking at this, but I guess you don’t appreciate the whole ‘turning it against itself’ aspect of this.
Turning a system against itself is the literal definition of subversion, in the context of complex systems, anyway.
Sure, its not as subversive as intentionally poisoning AIGen stuff to stupify itself over time, but I do think this counts.
Its not like you have to get the AI to draw the image every single time anyone sees it, we can still copy and paste images, host them where many can see them, etc.
To me, there is a sense of ‘art’ in the subversion itself.
If the theft machine already exists, and you don’t have the ability to destroy it, contain or restrain it more directly… using it to generate propoganda against itself, its creators?
I think that’s a clever use of it.
Like, would you say that that one piece of … kinetic/performance art, where its just a machine that you must go up to and hand crank, and it spits out penny by penny at the rate of minimum wage…
Would you say that isn’t art because it forces the art ‘experiencer’ to perform exhausting wage labor, which is simply 100% bad, all the time, no exceptions?
Turning it against itself my ass. This is promoting it. Legitimizing it. Normalizing its presence everywhere. Doing exactly what they want.
They’re on a niche forum sharing convoluted AI slop, harming that which they claim to stand for. These aren’t freedom fighters subverting the system, they’re clowns.
If you are subverting the means or process of exploitation against itself, well, that’s pretty subversive, anarchist, punk.
Wouldnt the same thing be able to be said about writing “Elon Musk is bad” on twitter?
I mean, when Elon bought Twitter, I, having never used Twitter before, created an account just to scream at him, and I managed to get banned in a few hours.
But to attempt to answer your question: Arguably, technically, yes, but it really only matters if it significantly fucks with Elon, or inspires other to meaningfully resist him, or aide those he oppresses.
One person doing that?
Flash in the pan.
Coordinated , consistent swarm, of people or bots, doing this untill the entire site goes down?
Even better: hack in their and reroute it to fucking DDoS itself?
Maybe a bit more meaningful.
I find the use of AIGen to essentially advocate against itself to be fairly clever.
Its not like you have to burn down a bushel of wheat’s cropland every time you copy and paste an already generated image.
I like the other one better.
Money … it’s always about the money and power
I’m sure there are tech bros out there that we will never hear about or see or know about … those are the ones who just want to do tech stuff and not care about anything else
The ones we do hear about who become billionaires were only ever in it for the money and power
“Tech Bro” as a term though does pretty much imply insufferable nouveaux-riche douchbags devoid of any genuine emotion, who are happy to squash human dignity on an industrial scale for profit, and think themselves cool for doing it.
If someone is into tech for the true sake of technology then by definition they aren’t a “tech bro” - they are a programmer, a hacker, a hardware tinkerer, an open-source evangelist, or any number of cool things that don’t involve being an huge dickhead :)
It’s really just about power, but money is one of the best ways to obtain it.
I feel like most of tech had already sold out by 2014. Really by the late aughts it seemed to be all gone; that was when apple and its philosophy had taken hold. Not that apple was the only force in that direction, it just felt like the apotheosis of the greedy and controlling mentality. MS had plenty of greed, but they were willing (in some circumstances) to play ball. Google seemed to love interoperability in the early-to-mid aughts, but look at it now.
Even by the 90’s, it was already accepted that being good with computers could be a great career path to make money. When I went to university in early 00’s, people who were on an engineering track commonly went into computers because the salaries were better than other engineering fields.
There were some people who loved the tech, but a lot of them made the choice due to financial reasons.
If anything, this is more how money corrupts tech folks.
