#SF Tech-Tech

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Tech workers spent a whole generation conceiving of themselves as entrepreneurs who bargained, nerd-to-nerd, with other entrepreneurs who needed workers as much as workers needed paychecks.

These workers allowed themselves to be convinced that being “extremely hardcore” — that is, working body- and mind-ruining hours (without overtime pay) was a badge of honor.

They let themselves believe that their bosses gave them gourmet cafeteria food, “on-campus” fitness centers and daycare because they were valued workers — and not because this created the conditions where workers could be induced to put in longer hours without additional pay.

They conceived of themselves as ascetic monks, a priesthood that labored every hour God sent to bring digitization to the world. Meanwhile, their bosses’ wealth soared, even as their own working conditions deteriorated.

Tech workers may be prone to the same rationalization and self-deception as the rest of us, but (like the rest of us), they aren’t fools. Anything that can’t go on forever will eventually stop.

As conditions and prospects worsened, tech workers’ identities as workers emerged from a generation-long coma. They penned manifestos, walked off the job, and formed unions.

-The proletarianization of tech workers: If there is hope, it is in the proles

#eric flint #science fiction #tech workers #labor #unions #there is power in the union #sf #labor organizing #proletarianization

[blogfanreborn777]

Portal - Pathways by Donato Giancola

#fantasy art #fantasy #concept art #digital art #art #sci fi #science fiction #sci fi art #science fiction art #sf #sf art #astronaut #portal #futuristic #high tech #cosmic #cosmic art #space #outer space #space art #donato giancola

[cyberpunk-lesbians]

so glad it cut me off before I committed a crime against my school. Any way to hell with u(sic)ga😂 bc

WHAT’S THE GOOD WORD?

TO HELL WITH GEORGIA!

be prepared for incoming songs bc GT n my frat have GR8 songs 💕🫦😤

#gt #uga #ga #ga tech #engineering #gt engineering #cyberpunk lesbians #podcasts #personal #advice #video #science fiction #video post #I prommie I’ll teach y’all what I learned in my gt sf class I prommie #autism #college #university #uni #tunglr #education

[aurpiment]

Learning about Boat also makes a lot of science fiction click. Since spaceship is a type of Boat.

#mt #like I knew the radchaai were British-flavored but WOW they are British-flavored. #of course you have purple eyes and teenage officers #and on the other end of the spectrum the Shobies story is a DELIBERATE rejection of naval command structure in SF #she said fuck off these are scientists operating at a level of tech that allows them not to need a big staff of subordinates #these seven people are making decisions by consensus. and they brought their kids to work. #imperial radch #(series by Ann Leckie) #the shobies’ story #(short story by THE uklg)

[oliviawebsite]

people in san francisco are always so nice to me im walking down the street getting hellos and compliments left n right. they can tell i am special and important to the plot ^_^

#generally sf people actually from the city are nice and accepting as hell #reactionaries hate it bc dividing lines get blurred and the citys entire working class is unified in wanting to behead tech robber barons

[spectralkeys]

I've spent too much time reading about California politics recently, so have San Francisco being a bastard.

#wttt #ben brainard #brief design notes: #keeping the beanie and glasses to visually tie him to California but moved the beanie's color closer to the golden gate #that's an apple watch on his wrist #and his shirt is similar to the gold&fog flag- sf's alternate better flag #but with a colors scheme closer to the black t-shirt and glasses every tech worker wears

[selkiecoded]

okay thats interesting! in the SF try-outs during the song "legally blonde" she sings about how she cant be legally blonde, while in the official version AND THE DEMO she sings about letting her be legally blonde. which means that at some point they changed the lyrics around, and then changed them back! laurence o'keefe.... nell benjamin.... what occurs in your twisted minds

#covers mouth sorry so sorry guys #im a huge fan of beacon of positivity + good boy (elle puts a leash on emmett confirmed) + love and war (not in the demo but part of SF) #+ i liked some of the lyrics in the demo version of so much better (it called back to beacon of positivity!!! (i am insane)) such as: #I dream of your name next to my own but mine's looking fine up there alone #but i greatly prefer all the official songs we got. well. maybe good boy over ireland wouldve been fun (i think ireland is boring) #but itd play into the 'all men are dogs hurr hurr' joke that im glad they avoided. anyways. what was i saying. #right i havent listened to every version of everything yet (for example theres a SF version of chip on my shoulder i need to watch) #(and just the SF vers in general. shes hidden from me... why was emmett there before the remix... let me see their conversation) #but from what i have heard they made a lot of changes that were sorely needed. in take it like a man demo shes so much meaner?? #it made me sad. it wasnt a duet + they wrung out the romantic tension (no subtext by calvin klein... sigh) + shes meaner!!!! #in the bway vers hes baffled but enjoys going along w it + she genuinely likes him even when hes wearing his regular clothes #but in the demo vers she keeps calling him stuff like ugly duckling and talking about how the geek is gone :( but she likes that geek.. #the lines 'how much do you think i earn??' and 'kindly shut up :)' are funny but speak to a dynamic between the two that makes me sad... #follow me for more beautiful opinions on a fifteen year old musical #(heaves. do you know weird it is to see comments from 15yrs ago when this was actually showing. my brother is fifteen.) #god im so sorry i should be put down like a dog #lgb bootleggers are intense. i swear they got a bootleg every night or smth bc we got her shoe flying off + SF + kyle as understudy etc #go watch a so much better compilation sometime how did they take so many bootlegs?? how did you find them?? #and its awesome cause these were filmed on 2007/2008 tech which means they have 15 pixels maximum #SORRRRYYYYYYYYYY

[vs120shound]

33 SECONDS OF SMOKING PERFECTION WITH CHELSEA

★ ★ ★ ★ ½ | Four-and-a-Half "Stars"

From Juniorjunior (SFK)

Does it get better than this? Digitally enhanced classic video of Chelsea from Specialized Videos (Michigan, U.S.A.), deactivated by owner mid-2010s. Prepared by SF-content super uploader Juniorjunior at Smoking Fetish Kingdom. Added in mid-February 2023. Thanks to Juniorjunior (wishing a tumblr account opens in that name). Not holding my breath for Juniorjunior to move over to tumblr (maintaining a presence on SFK as well). Fun to make wishes, though. This is 33 seconds of heaven, smoking-fetish style, that is. She appeared as No. 10b on the recent Top-25 all-time favorite SF models list, released in January. Received 18 notes (likes/reblog), a paltry number considering her sensationally beautiful looks. This clip was not shot in High Def but with Juniorjunior's (we're guessing) state-of-the-art video/audio editing tools, apps and equipment, this is better than if it were done in high definition back in the day (2000-10). This is a treasure, this clip, as is Chelsea. Hard to articulate why this is not ★★★★★'s, other than to say if it ran closer to a minute or beyond then 5 stars would have awarded. Don't have the evidence, just a gut feeling, that it is a gargantuan task to prepare even 33 seconds for the SF Community's pleasure. So heaps of praise for Juniorjunior. Going to go out on a limb here and say Juniorjunior has other things going in life that need to be addressed aside from the well-dedicated time spent with SF video selection, editing and posting. Don't you think? We at the ole VS120s Hound SF-content shop certainly do. Chelsea has the gorgeousness of a high-paid mainstream model. In some dictionaries, we're sure, the entry for sexy has a picture of her accompanying the definition. Her smoking style is strong, though she has never been a champion in the exhale department. Hope you enjoy. Expect more enhanced clips from Juniorjunior to be posted here in the near and distant future. And, free to admit, always looking to bring more Chelsea to you all, whenever possible.

#SF #Hot women who love smoking cigarettes #Smoking #Top-25 all-time favorite SF models list! #Juniorjunior from SFK and the wonderfully advanced high-tech video enhancement capabilities that deliver World-Class SF clips!

[imgonnagetkilledbynutstink]

Idk why I decided Todd was a hippie

#he is though #a tech savvy hippie #sally face #sf #todd morrison #art #fanart

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Remember when tech workers dreamed of working for a big company for a few years, before striking out on their own to start their own company that would knock that tech giant over?

Then that dream shrank to: work for a giant for a few years, quit, do a fake startup, get acqui-hired by your old employer, as a complicated way of getting a bonus and a promotion.

Then the dream shrank further: work for a tech giant for your whole life, get free kombucha and massages on Wednesdays.

And now, the dream is over. All that’s left is: work for a tech giant until they fire your ass, like those 12,000 Googlers who got fired six months after a stock buyback that would have paid their salaries for the next 27 years.

We deserve better than this. We can get it.

-The proletarianization of tech workers: If there is hope, it is in the proles

#eric flint #science fiction #tech workers #labor #unions #there is power in the union #sf #labor organizing #proletarianization

[blogfanreborn777]

Star Base One by Chris Dien

#fantasy art #fantasy #concept art #digital art #art #sci fi #science fiction #sci fi art #science fiction art #sf #sf art #futuristic #high tech #cosmic #cosmic art #space #outer space #space art #space station #star base #moon #space ship #space fleet #planets #stars #chris dien

[hellotherepaul]

Girl help

I asked my mom what to get her girlfriend for Christmas and she suggested lesbian fanart and some ships

Either drawing katradora or griddlehawk

#look my mom and her gf now fiancée are the most cliche set of transbians #they live in downtown sf and both work in tech #my mom has purple hair #and her girlfriend is super buff and does medieval swords #like she owns platemail #and has pink short hair #they’re both huge nerds esp with ttrpgs #they recently bought like expensive realistic lightsabers and they go to the big park where pride is held and sword fight with them #personal

[professor-doc-emeritus]

I have not one not two but three thing scheduled for tomorrow, naturally this is enough to drive me to madness

#i made the mistake of reading the csccareerquestions subreddit and man #nothing makes me feel more like an abject failure than that sub #it's like a dead even split between people just flexing absolutely insane tech offers #doomer posting about how the industry is oversaturated and its impossible to get hired #and bitching about incompetent coworkers #like i really have to hand it to them they're dedicated to making sure you feel like a failure and have imposter syndrome #no matter your place in life #like i feel like an abject failure because im not a self taught 19 year old working in sf at google making 300k in my first year #i feel like im doomed in my job search despite ALREADY HAVING AN OFFER #and im sure once im actually hired somewhere ill feel like it was all a fluke and that im just the failure who slipped through the gates #like some of these things are mutually exclusive either its impossible to get hired or it unrealistic to expect big offers

[bytchysylvy-art]

punchable brothers, take a swing babes

#i said deac'lulne is a warm subtropical environment then put the fat guy in a trenchcoat #listen. first of all i design characters dick first. second hypothyrodism is a fuckin bitch #anyway im picking galan because his tech start up ceo realness draws my fist to it with a force stronger than the planets magnetic pull #my ocs #my art #hy'nerus #hy'galan #hy'vaens #sf

[templeofshame]

Idk if this is an unpopular opinion at this point, but I feel like at one point it was pretty broadly accepted that -punk in scifi genres meant taking the specified type of technology to a speculative extreme. Not that the word "punk" ever meant an extreme of technology, just like the word "core" never meant aesthetic. And yeah, cyberpunk did initially have some interest in its interpretation of a punk ethos, but idk it just seems like steampunk and dieselpunk (and even solarpunk, arguably, before it evolved into a political ethos) were never claiming to be anything other than scifi exploring extremes of particular types of tech, so it doesn't make much sense to me when people criticize them for not being a totally different thing.

(Now, I can't really speak for why hopepunk is using -punk. Probably actually about rebelling against pessimism?)

#Wikipedia has a source for the origin of steampunk as basically let's swap cyber with the tech of the time we're writing sf set in

[starfilm]

i love how updating the tumblr app makes it worse

#i live so close to the hq im about to put on my sf tech worker sona and fix this bitch myself