bitofhope

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I distance myself from the findings presented in my texts last night where the article claimed I "need u pleasee come back", postulated you are a "hrartless bicht" and concluded that further inquiry is required into the question of whether you would be willing to "send nudes". I distinctly remember my drinking buddies who peer reviewed them unanimously recommending publication.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 16 points 2 years ago

there’s an upvoted post on here about how to take away the average working class tech worker’s job

Are you talking about mine? The point of the post was that techbros and tech industry workers are not the same thing, and that actually the tech workers whose valor those CEOs are stealing are vulnerable to the same tactics techbro startups have used to fuck over workers in other sectors.

A lot of software devs and tech workers are marginalised, neurodivergent or otherwise socially disadvantaged. Too many people in this thread are completely ignoring any kind of intersectionality just because they’re men.

A lot of people in every industry are marginalized, neurodivergent or otherwise socially disadvantaged.

I am a queer, neurodivergent, left wing tech worker myself. Most of the regulars here are probably at least two or three of those things as well. I know lots of tech workers who are in no way techbros, but I've also met some of the least class conscious, most obliviously racist and misogynist opportunist motherfuckers who would lick the boots of every billionaire on earth for a chance to join their ranks. This is about the latter.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 13 points 2 years ago

No, that is not what I meant. Not all software devs are techbros at all. Techbros are people characterized by their romanticization of computing history viewed through a corporatist lens; an obsession with IT and Fintech megacorps and trend-du-jour bandwagons like blockchains or AI; a façade of laid back trendiness; business ideas based on rent-seeking and value extraction; or attempts to minimize, excuse and deny the deep-seated misogyny and racism within startup and tech corporate culture.

What I'm saying is that there is a certain prestige (albeit a steadily diminishing one) associated with the technical professions, paricularly software development, and the venture capital types are taking advantage of that fact by acting as if their wealth is built on their technical talents (e.g. Paul Graham appointing himself and his news site as champions of hacker culture or Elon Musk attempting his out-of-touch idea of code review).

The idea was that if you hated both techbros and actual computer nerds, you could help ruin that prestige by taking a page from the VCs themselves (Airbnb in particular being an Y Combinator startup). Make everyone an "independent contractor", shift the ever-accumulating capital expenditure on them, make the crabs drag each other back into the bucket and position yourself as the purely extractive middle man. See how the techbros like it when you do it to their little sacred cow industry.

And as @froztbyte points out, some of this has already happened. I'm just trying to imagine the cognitive dissonance of pretending you're a genius programmer while also believing (even celebrating) that LLMs will replace software developers.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, I know gig economy for programmers already exists, but to really make it the UberBnB for Upwork, the idea is to push the CAPEX to the workers themselves.

Uber became the world's biggest taxi company while owning no cars. Airbnb became the world's biggest hotel chain while owning no hotels. Imagine being the world's biggest cloud while owning no servers.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 16 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Anyway if any of you actually do hate techbros for being nerds and wanna give a fuck you to computer geeks in general and tech enterpreneurs in particular, I have an evil plan for you.

Found the Uber for software development. Create an app to connect customers with freelance developers (particularly in lower income countries) and crucially, make sure the developers are responsible for their own infrastructure. Have the devs shoulder the ever-growing burden of cloud bills and server maintenance, minimize your own role except as a middleman and encourage a race to the bottom between the people doing the actual work. Use your VC money on lawyers, manipulative user interface development, marketing and sabotaging your competition.

Congratulations, you will have accelerated the inevitable devaluation of the computer programming profession and stripped it of its perceived prestige. You will have fucked over the majority of software developers and IT operations people. You might even break the pretension that finance bros owe their wealth to their skill with computing technology. You will hoist some "disruptors" by their own petard, hit a bunch of people for collateral damage and probably make a lot of money for bigger fish capitalists.

Do not actually do this, or I hope one day you will be treated like the pestilent leech you are. Consider becoming a communist instead.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You think I hate nerds? Ha ha, fuck you. If I did hate nerds, I could never do the kind of damage to the reputation of the geek subculture that Paul Graham and his like-minded cohorts have.

Come on out and nerd fight me, posers. I will outnerd you. I will eat you for breakfast. You ain't got shit on me. Give me six lines written by the hand of the most pedantic bluecheck and I will pedantically point out seven fallacies in them, write a filk song about it and arrange it to chiptune.

Yet somehow people don't seem to hate me for being a nerd. I think I'm fairly popular and most people react to my nerdy interests positively, or at worst indifferently. If it sounds like I'm bragging, I'm not saying I'm some super cool gigachad, but that anyone is compared to these losers.

People don't hate techbros for being nerds, or men for that matter. If I (a nerdy man) am the one who supposedly hates nerds and men, why are you the one implying that the faults I criticise techbros for are innate to nerds and men?

Oh well, we all know the real reason techbros hate leftists is that we make so much better art, have better sex, do better science and are oh so resentably attractive.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago

I don't recall

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 2 years ago

Recommend publication?
>yes
later

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago

So bighast, perhaps even polyghast?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

An AI illustration of something vaguely biotechnological with lots of incomprehensible labels. Looks a bit like a circuit board.

This one from the same is also funny

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 30 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Here's the pic in its full glory.

AI generated illustration of a rat with a massive schlong in cross-section and misplaced and misspelled captions: "sentollc stem cells", "Dissilced", "dislocctal stem ells" with the first letter s mirrored, "Rat", "Testtomcels", "dck", "Retat", "iollotte sserotgomar cell", "Spermatocial syem cells", and "Sterrm cells" with the last letters smeared together into some kind of quad-hump letter m

Tag yourself, I'm Testtomcels

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i am ALL sickos on this blessed day :)

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