#tech bros

[thoughtportal]

He didn’t invent anything

#tiktok #bill gates #technology history #technology #tech bros #tech billionaires #philanthropy #billionaire #taxes #it industry #india #wages and salaries #wages #outsourcing

[animentality]

#twitter #ups #ups strike #labor rights #labor unions #tech bros

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

#tesla #cybertruck #apple vision pro #darwin awards #elon musk #public transportation #tech bros

[tippenfunkaport]

FYI, I have also locked all my fanfics down to registered users only because of the AI scraping on AO3. I'm one of many fan creators doing this right now and I know it stinks for users without an AO3 account, but it's the only option writers have available to us at the moment to stop our work from being scraped and stolen.

If this makes you mad, the Federal Register is currently open to comments on AI accountability until June 12th, 2023.

It only takes a second to leave a comment to ask for legislation that works used in AI creations or training MUST secure the express consent of the original creator before they can be used. If we can get protections for artists, writers, musicians and everyone who creates that their work cannot be used in AI without their permission, we can go back to making fanworks freely available without fear of them being misused. Until then, we're stuck playing defense until the courts catch up.

(If you're a fan creator looking to do this as well, AO3 has a tool to let you do all your fics at the same time in seconds. On your dashboard, go to Edit Works and you'll be able to change the status on everything at once.)

If you missed the context, AO3 recently found that the archive was scraped for use in AI services like ChatGPT and Sudowrite. While they put in protections in December 2022 to try to stop it from happening in the future, it's not foolproof and there is nothing they can do about works already swiped prior to that date. The archive is recommending fan creators restrict their works to registered users only to prevent against additional large scale scraping in the future.

#ao3 #archiveofourown #archive of our own #ai #artificial intelligence #Sudowrite #tech news #fandom #fanfiction #fanfic writing #pro tip from me to you: you own the copyright to your fanworks #not the characters and details from the source material obviously #but your writing itself is yours and can be registered and protected as such #ChatGPT #tech bros #psa #important psa #ao3 writer

[commiepinkofag]

US legislators are absolutely out of touch with reality — technology especially.

with kosa and tiktok censorship; with meta & google manipulating elections, trafficking private data, selling information to police, providing technology used in war crimes; with the cataclysmic environmental impacts of artificial intelligence… [to name a few]

ALL of the american tech companies do more harm to the world than one company in china.

none of that matters, solely due to the strong presence of a pro-palestine/anti-genocide movement on tiktok.

#tik tok #internet #kosa #censorship #palestine #gaza #us politics #first amendment #tech #tech bros #genocide joe #2024

[91vaults]

As someone who has a Comp Sci degree…sometimes i look at tech and just think “nah, shut it the fuck down. We had a good run but I think we’ve had enough”

#ai art #ai art discourse #technology #tech industry #tech bros #computer #computer science #the internet

[wastehound-voof]

#it’s true #tech bros #artificial intelligence #future #futurism

[ellison-airplane]

The tech industry is no longer concerned with innovation; its only idea anymore is rent extraction

#tech industry #tech bros #silicon valley #tech #AI #capitalism #late stage capitalism #commodification

[thoughtportal]

#tweet #tweets #twitter #ai art #tech bros #AI #creativity

[striving-artist]

Expanded from a poll on Twitter because I loved it.

(uber/lyft - Airbnb - crypto - Ai writing - tiktok/reels/endless scroll - instacart/shipt - twitter/facebook - Siri/Google/facial recognition - police robo-dogs/cute faces and characters)

*sarcasm. if that wasn't clear.

#polls #tech bros #I could list another two dozen #but this feels like the major ones

[xspinnin]

Tech bros love being like "AI is gonna make us have to answer a lot of really difficult questions!!" and then you ask them a difficult question like "how is it legal/moral to use millions of people's IP as training data with no compensation whatsoever" and they call you a slur

#ai #ai art #“ai” #ai “art” #tech bros #elon musk #melon husk #twitter #queer

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

#ai generated #ai art #ai bros #tech bros #artists #animators #invincible #one piece #twitter #get ratioed

[corporationsarepeople]

After the banking crash of 2008, there was a brief moment when progressives could hope that the American cult of billionaire worship would end. It's been hard to shake those paternalistic fantasies that the rich are better than the rest of us: Smarter, more industrious, more prudent. Donald Trump, for instance, benefited from this assumption, allowing the millions of viewers of "The Apprentice" to ignore telltale signs that he's a barking moron. But the Great Recession rattled faith in the economic elite, brought on as it was by a bunch of very rich people making very stupid decisions. The popularity of the Occupy Wall Street movement, for instance, suggested that Americans were finally ready to question the stranglehold on our culture enjoyed by the ridiculously wealthy.

Americans may still have no love of bankers, but alas, the myth of the genius billionaire came roaring back, stronger than ever, thanks to the tech industry…

Excellent article. Read it all.

#us politics #republicans #tech bros

[sapphicgoblinblog]

Companies need to stop relying on AI to do all the work for them. AI is completely insufficient. Robots being forced to serve humans will not end well and society needs to stop pushing this AI nonsense as it will only lead to failure.

#thoughts #ai #ai generated #technology #business #robots #rant #tech bros #what a bunch of idiots #anti ai #ban ai

[digestbutterflies]

Funny that the only two managers from the programming department at my work who showed up to the international Women’s day talk at work were the only two programming departments with ~50/50 men/women. All the other programming departments only have the one token woman in their team. Typical tech bros

#international women's day #tech bros #women in stem

[feckcops]

Tech bros are now obsessed with testosterone parties

“T Party was launched this past Pride month by Jeff Tang, a startup founder who recently worked on the open-source note-taking app Athens Research. Since then, Tang has hosted a number of ‘T Parties’ during which men gather to discuss their health and test their testosterone levels.

“The tech bro obsession with testosterone is no new phenomenon: As a feature published earlier this month by The Information details, testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) startups have been enjoying a boom since the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) relaxed its rules for prescribing controlled substances in 2020. Cis dude celebrities across the political and cultural spectrum — from Dax Shepard to Joe Rogan — have all sung the praises of TRT ...

“The T Parties themselves also sound weirdly wholesome, if a little deranged. According to The Information, topics of discussion at a recent San Francisco T Party included ‘where to buy the most efficacious supplements, why there’s no OB-GYN for men, why sperm counts are down globally, the difficulty of getting testosterone bloodwork, and how talking to hot people has been shown to be a T booster.’ Minus the sperm counts (and maybe the supplements), that easily sounds like any given conversation in a group of transmasculine individuals ...

“There is something darkly ironic about tech bros destroying San Francisco — a historic hub of American trans culture and activism — while inadvertently recreating the FTM support groups that originated in the city in the '80s. And I have to note the conspicuous lack of moral outrage over cis dudes taking T. When transmasculine people take testosterone to affirm their gender, conservative politicians panic; when cis tech bros do it for essentially the same reason, very few people bat an eye.”

#t party #jeff tang #trt #testosterone #hormones #dax shephard #joe rogan #tech bros #hrt #trans men #trans man #transmasc #trans ftm #ftm #ftm support groups #trans #san francisco #california #usa