Hardstuck 2014. I'm not changing
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Fuck, monetizing empathy. Is that even a fucking option? Can we just buy our way out of this shithole timeline? Can Gates just write a check for 97 billion and we go back to not performing genocide bring us back out of the Jim Crow and misogynist era?
I have a very very real problem with this oversimplification of very distinct tech viewpoints.
Like, what, you dont think information should be freely available? You LIKE the model where information is locked down with hefty fees? Because that's what the actual "tech bros" want.
This is at best ignorant and at worst just hateful.
i'd say both ignorant and hateful
TIL there were no tech bros before 2014.
It's not a pipeline. 2018 and 2025 guys either had 2014 guy killed or they ruined his life and forced him into suicide.
never forget Aaron Swartz
he was murdered though, it wasn't suicide
People like 2025 guy have never held thoughts like the other 2, they were always self serving cunts. They just kept a facade till they depended on others, but once they joined the rich fucks club, they dropped the facade.
I'm going in the opposite direction.
I'm recognizing how much we've been herded like sheep just to make rich people richer, and I'm fighting back in the ways that I can.
Yeah, by 2014 that mentality was being phased out, they just couldn't do it overnight.
Yay I love AI slop, keep feeeding me AI slop I fucking love it, I fucking love AI shit memes, they are definitivelt not obviously AI, and definitively not slop
I wonder how somebody can completely miss their own message like this. Or maybe somebody made an original image and then a techbro made this AI slop as a duplicate to spite them.
How can you tell it's AI generated? This is a real question because I legitimately have trouble recognizing AI that doesn't have egregious issues like mangled fingers, and unfortunately I think recognizing AI content is going to be a survival skill in the next decade.
The fun thing is, old AI slop helps new AI slop look more believable. The main tells is line work and fonts. Chat GPT has a very distinct art style, with a lot of soft lines and generic fonts. It's also extremely consistent. You could look up a dedicated sub for Chat GPT memes to get a feel for it. Then you'll start to loathe it.
The artstyle. I have learned (through experencie, more than through actual research) what artstyles AI uses, but I can't point out exactly what are their characteristics, they just give me a special type of uncanny valley vibes. In this one, the eyes are what stand out the most because I do remember more memes with that type of eyes, but I think I have also seen these face shapes in other AI memes.
Edit: The two people who hate me for not liking AI, make yourselves seen, I'm aware of your downvoting in comments!
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Oh I am still at the 2014 phase.
We... used to have a term for people that advanced further: sell-outs.
Though I do very much prefer the recently popularized Cyberpunk lingo:
Fucking Corpo Scum.
Fuck corporats
It's funny ever since Cyberpunk I can no longer pronunciate that word as it should be, instead it will always come out as corpo rats.
exactly as it should be pronounced 😁
The #corpolitical
The first one is a hacktivist, the second one is an OSS dev, and the third is a tech bro. So not really a pipeline since there are still hacktivists, OSS devs, ans tech enthusiasts (also most tech bros started in finance)
That feels like saying evolution isn't real as there are apes, great apes and humans at the same time.
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monetizing empathy
You Cave Johnsons...!
RIP Aaron Swartz
And we’ll never know, selfishly speaking, the possible extent of his further contributions to society. Died at 26 after an incredible life already.
Besides his life, what else did they steal from us?
RIP Aaron
(Reposting my comment from last year)
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
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"I want to change the world with this tech"
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"3 billion you say? The company is yours!"
I mean a lot of us talk big game but I’m sure many of us would sell out for a 9 figure acquisition. Hell for 7.
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Bad meme. Implies "information wants to be free" leads to "have you considered monetizing empathy?"
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When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you.
I think only a handful of people could remain principled in spite of having attained wealth, power and status. And it is not that power makes one greedy, I think a person who attains success becomes surrounded by sycophants and yes-men who like to gain access to the successful person for the sycophants' own use.
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
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