When i was in primary school, we would have weird recess debates about who the worst dictator was. Hitler? Zedong? Stalin? A dark horse (Pinochet, Franco, Pol Pot)?

Techbros are the modern equivalent. Who's the worst? Google? Zuckerberg? Dorsey? Musk (bought in but still).

#ShowerThoughts #techbros #fascists #technology

An unwavering rule:

When billionaires build utopia, it will always — always, always — be dystopia.

Utopia is utopia only when it's built for all.

Billionaires always — always, always — build only for themselves and their cronies. See: Elon Musk.

#California #TechBros #SiliconValley #utopia #dystopia

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/9/2191211/-Billionaires-want-to-build-a-new-city-in-rural-California-They-ll-have-to-convince-voters-first

Leave it to the the #financebros and #techbros to take a perfectly good thing like AI and warp it into something to further widen wealth and resource chasm. Oh it makes me so angry I could bare my teeth and hiss.

Is this why the corporate ruling class, esp. #TechBros, don't care if millions of us die from #Covid, #GunViolence, the #ClimateCrisis... Many of us won't be needed if they get their way:

Generative #AI will upend the workforce, McKinsey says, forcing 12M job switches & automating away 30% of hours worked in the U.S. economy by 2030.

#UnionStrong

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/generative-a-i-will-upend-the-workforce-mckinsey-says-forcing-12-million-job-switches-and-automating-away-30-of-hours-worked-in-the-u-s-economy-by-2030/ar-AA1erMpm

I enjoy reading two disparate books simultaneously.

Currently up?

Pulitzer Prize-winning Eviction by Matthew Desmond, and recently released Survival of the Richest by Douglas Rushkoff.

#ThisIsAmerica

#Poverty #TechBros #Milwaulkee #SiliconeValley #PublicTransit #PrivateJet #TrailerPark #Bunker #SSI #Crypto #Landlord #TaxAccountant

@BPStuart He's an asshole that can be further sub-categorized into a #techbro. Most #techbros are experts in the art of assholery.

Wealthy tech executives and their investors have bought up 50 thousand acres in Solano County California to build a “utopia”. This brings to mind Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh’s takeover of “The Big Muddy Ranch” in Wasco County Oregon. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/apr/11/wild-wild-country-review-netflixs-take-on-the-cult-that-threatened-american-life #TechBros #Utopia #Cults #SolanoCounty

@thomasfuchs This is probably because AI doesn't discriminate and the #techbros worry that their own interests and investments will turn against them.

#TechBros threaten us bc they’ve been given virtually unchecked power. Why did the CA Public Utilities Commission vote to expand driverless ride-hailing services in San Francisco? What were the commissioners promised?: Scores of residents asked commissioners to limit Cruise & Waymo’s expansion, describing the robotaxis as “death traps’ & a menace to disabled people & children. Injured person reportedly dies after Cruise cars block first responders. #AutonomousVehicles https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/cruise-cars-reportedly-block-first-responders-18343475.php

I'm so tired of #broculture. You've got #techbros, #spacebros, #cryptobros, #coinbros, #financebros; one for almost every aspect of #capitalism. These types throw around a lot of jargon that they do not even understand themselves just to look smart. In the end they sound like douche clowns.

#weshouldimprovesocietysomewhat #alexrussell #techbros #webinfluencers

@Amelia #TechBros like #ApartheidEmeraldBoy ...

"f you regularly follow debates about public policy, especially those involving wealthy tech bros, it’s obvious that there’s a strong correlation among the three Cs: climate denial, Covid vaccine denial and cryptocurrency cultism."

~ Paul Krugman

#ClimateChange #ClimateDenial #Covid #vaccines #crypto #TechBros #libertarianism #science #disinformation

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/28/opinion/columnists/covid-climate-cryptocurrency-plutocrats.html

#TechBros are barbarous, esp. with #AI, #crypto & #socialmedia: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/28/scale-ai-remotasks-philippines-artificial-intelligence/

@mishi @jennzycos @ione @Radical_EgoCom

#TechBros #SanFrancisco

Where do they live? What do their cars look like? Just wondering, not trying to incite any #StreetJustice. That would be illegal. Never break the law. You might get in trouble, especially if you're stupid enough to do it in front of a camera.

Crimes against humanity: #TechBros Musk & Zuck have decided they don’t need the news IDU -causing problems when nat. disasters strike. As wildfires ravage W CAN, Canadians can’t read: news about them on FB/IG. Meta blocked links to news orgs. in CAN to protest a law -require it to pay publishers for distrib. their content. As a storm flooded much of S CA -residents & govt agencies who turned to X for real-time updates struggled to discern fact from fiction🚨. #HumanRights https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/24/canada-fires-ca-floods-meta-x-news/

Erst #Wacken, jetzt #BurningMan...

- es scheint fast, als ob die Natur heftig mit dem Ursache/Wirkung-#Extremwetter-Zaunpfahl winkt - und sei es nur damit den #TechBros global endl ein Licht aufgeht, dass solche Mega-Festivals, so cool sie auch seien, angesichts #Klimakatastrophe in jeder Hinsicht überholt sind und mit zu ihrer Verschlimmerung beitragen. Stichwort Emissionen bei der Anreise von unfassbaren Menschenmassen in Verbrennern, um nur ein Beisp zu nennen...1/2

https://www.businessinsider.com/burning-man-festival-flooding-closure-challenges-tropical-storm-hilary-2023-8

Something tells me that the #Weather #channel is about to fall into the tank.

#TechBros #VentureCapitalist #IBM #DataHarvesting #data #privacy #apps

IBM sells The #WeatherChannel and other #digital #assets after seven-year hold - UPI.com

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/08/22/ibm-francisco-partners-weather-company-underground-channel/5661692721941/

#Instance #policies

Moderators would do well to ensure that none of their alleged policies are actually discriminatory and not functional.

I'm sure if I had a policy of setting fire to #techbros there would, oddly enough, be some noted resistance to that a 'policy.'

And quite right*.

*Think of the pollution...

I'm adding #Kiva to the pile of "should have been a distributed model" horror stories. #TechBros strike again.