#fuck tech bros

[sylvanus-cypher]

On the one hand, Elon Musk has utterly mangled one of the most important social media sites, arguably irreparably, and has set such a terrible precedent that other wannabee tech moguls like Steve Huffman and All Those Hollywood Execs[TM] are emboldened to make the most stupid possible decisions without hesitation, further worsening the media landscape

On the other hand, now I can look at Musk stans and shit on them without hesitation, because it takes more than just having annoying personality to look at everything he's done in the past few years and still like him. It takes a special kind of cultist who's willing to pay $8 for internet clout, for one

#elon musk #elongated muskrat #twitter #twitter is dying #reddit migration #fuck u/spez #wga strike #sag aftra strike #wga solidarity #sag solidarity #fuck tech bros #196 migration #196

[retroneko]

WTF TUMBLR YOU HAD ONE DARN JOB! BUT NO YOU ARE ALSO JUST A FUCKING SELL OUT! I´M SO DONE WITH THE INTERNET!

#artists on tumblr #no ai art #midjourney #open ai #fuck tumblr #fuck tech bros #artist against ai #support human artists #retro #anime #90s #manga #80s #90s anime #retro anime #80s anime #80s manga #90s manga #anti ai art #no ai writing #no ai used

[vampirechatroom]

hearing amazon employees (not warehouse workers; i’m talking specifically about tech workers who make upwards of 100k a year doing fake fucking email jobs) talk about how their vision of the future includes “green amazon cargo ships” and a “strong green economy” is fucking laughable. actual clown shit. my vision for the future includes jeff bezos being dragged from his home and killed in the street for the destruction he’s wrought against people and planet. my vision for the future includes amazon hq reduced to rubble and a community garden/food forest being built amongst the remediated ruins. 

#fuck amazon #fuck tech bros #anticapitalism #anti-civ #eco anarchism

[personname1]

At this point I am wondering how long myself and my other transfem friends can actually stay on this site? I legitimately don't see staff doing anything (or to give them the benefit of the doubt being able to do anything) about the actions coming from tumblr's own CEO.

I know I have no following whatsoever (to all like three people who do, I love you more than words can say) but at what point does any conversation about this tech bro in chief other than fellating him become "hate speech" or "threats of violence"?

To come here, and act like harassing trans women is the equivalent to a woman who is venting about her own abuse, is somehow equal to or worse than the systemic erasure that you have a hand in perpetrating is blatantly ridiculous.

So at what point do we get forced off the site?

#poorly articulated rants #fuck tech bros #may they meet loony toons ends

[pers-books]

Words cannot express HOW VERY MUCH I do NOT want to ever interact with fucking AI!!!!

GET THE FUCK OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#Fuck AI #Fuck Tech Bros

[swemtpotamtam]

The whole thing about AI is so fucking annoying, disheartening and straight-up depressing. No place is safe from all of the ai and tech bullshit.

And what options do artists have? What options do I personally have?

Glaze and Nightshade everything? I personally don't have the time or GPU power to glaze billions of artworks that I made. Fucking imagine you make a quick-ish sketch and spend 40 minutes glazing it (and don't get me started on some results of that process looking like the artwork went through 9 circles of bitcrushing hell based on how artifacted it looks)

Put everything I make behind a paywall? I for sure know that only a super small fraction would pay to see whatever I draw, the rest would just not care (either for some personal/general reasons or because people are also having a financial crisis 'cause, girlie, same)

Not post at all? I guess so.

I'm so fucking sick and tired of moving from website to website, trying to have a normal place to post art on and also have a community of people to interact with but time and time AGAIN it all just goes to shit. I wish there was some way to just ban all of these shitty ai things from existing or being developed. Stop treating us artists as some fucking cow you can milk for content and then can just slaughter when we are no longer useful. Fuck AI and fuck harmful tech shit.

#cardi rambles #fuck ai #fuck ai all my homies hate ai #fuck all the tech bros #fuck all the companies and websites that wanna use ai #I'm so tired

[angelboybreakdowns]

i haaaaaate when ppl are going on about ‘oh im so unlovable nobody likes me’ shut up everyone is lovable. it came free with your fucking humanity bitch

#ik im gonna sound like a hippie but i love people and i love humanity and its just such bullshit to call yourself unlovable #even like. even horrible people have people who love them #if fucking elon musk is out here with all these tech bros worshipping the ground he walks on then youre worthy of love and devotion too #rambling

[serialunaliver]

if you call women interested in the workings and development of technology "tech bros" i'm killing you ok?

#tech bro will become the new film bro I predict it #'this person is so fucking pretentious for Knowing Things'

[mod2amaryllis]

i know vet prices are out of control expensive but it's because the world is expensive, not greed, and so every time i encounter someone complaining about it in bad faith i want to grab them by the hands with shaking, sweaty desperation and say "on average human nurses are paid 30-50 dollars an hour. vet techs, who are nurses of every department and every specialty and also janitors and mma fighters, are lucky to break minimum wage."

#my conviction has changed the hearts of at least 3 finance bros over the years #I'm always like. eye contact. this is how hard i work every single day and this is how much money i make. make it make sense #and nobody can #m2a #vet tech #work stuff #nurses of course deserve higher wages too we should all be fucking stacked I'm just saying people don't think of us the same way

[momojedi]

Tech, dying:

Echo: Well, that was my thirteenth reason.

And he was never seen again.

#And he was never seen again #Bro just snapped #bro said fuck it im outta here #star wars #bad batch #season 2 #clone trooper echo #clone trooper tech #other tags: #clone wars #the bad batch #the clone wars #star wars the clone wars #tbb #star wars clone wars #star wars the bad batch #q

[analog-television]

there's something to be said about how disrespectful it is when people feel entitled to an artist's works. this includes highly popular artists, especially when they probably have to deal with a lot more of that entitlement overall.

i can't help but remember how one of my favorite artists (simon stalenhag) essentially got chased off the internet because tech bros felt like they can just use his art without permission. because he's popular and draws cool machinery. the fact that nft bros fucken harassed him when he refused to make his art into nfts (and thus often stole his art to mint), and now ai bros time and time again sampling his art because they want to steal his style. its even more infuriating when you consider the context of stalenhag's art - the fact that it's very critical against capitalism and technology gone awry which harms both humans and the environment. the fact that the torment nexus fans are literally appropriating the "dont build the torment nexus" art.

it's just... why can't people respect artists more? why can't they respect the themes and messages within the art? there are so many better ways to show your appreciation towards the artist which doesn't involve such extreme entitlement.

#rant #i may be a dash too passionate about this #but like man.. FUCK tech bros and their appropriation of art #simon stalenhag is an absolutely amazing artist who deserves legitimate support (buy his books i guarantee theyre worth it)

[nixcraft]

#ai #ml #artists #digital aritst #aritificial intelligence #machine learning #ai art #fuck off tech bros #fuck ai art #fuck ai everything

[mutantrenegade]

Matt, Let's Talk

Hello photographer matthew, head bitch in charge of hellsite, let's have a chat. Don't worry, I'm gonna be cool about it, just calm down and take a seat, have some tea.

Matt, you did a transphobia.

I know you say you aren't transphobic and for now, i'll give you the benefit of a doubt on that one and assume it's true, but like, buddy, pallie, salt of the earth, sugar lumpkin doodles, you did a transphobia.

You probably didn't mean to do a transphobia and probably don't like that all us trannies are mad at you right now, but you did a transphobia.

I know what predstrogen said you to hurt your feelings, i get it, you aren't used to having people vaugepost about your death like most of the trans people on this site are. But see, what you do is, ignore it. Or in this case. Step back for a second and realize what's happening is a trans woman was feeling frustrated and scared because people on your site had been harassing her heavily for months on end and the lack of response from your staff made her feel like your staff didn't care about her and maybe was actively rooting for the people who wished her harm. And if you think it was unfair that she felt that way about your staff. Maaaaaaaybe it's actually a sign you need to try harder to focus on making this site safer for trans women.

Maybe if your userbase is so fast to assume your staff and you personally hate trans people, maybe you should be more worried about why we have reached this conclusion rather than being mad it's being said to your face. Because this site does feel like it doesn't give a shit about trans people especially trans women.

Maybe if your staff is working hard to ban transphobes from this site, it means you have a larger problem because transphobes are fucking everywhere man. Like they just are. Several of them have shown up in my inbox recently telling me i should harass a trans woman over things that aren't my fuckin business.

Maybe think that if you are crossing social media sites to pick a fight with the person you banned for the mean words, that you might be the one worrying to much about it especially when predstrogen does not know you nor would have any ability to contact you.

And I get that it's scary when people say violent things about you online, they've said them about me. I actually had to contact the FBI once over things people said to me online. It was leagues worse and leagues more specific than what predstrogen said to you. You need to let it go man, you are the CEO of a company, people are gonna be mad at you sometimes and you have to have thicker skin than coming off a sabbatical to dm random trans women asking why they don't like you.

Just like, say you fucked up man. Say that you did in fact do an accidental transphobia and then try and fix the things that made you think you weren't doing an accidental transphobia. It's not that hard man. Just drop the ego, admit you did a stupid, and try harder.

#to the trans people here #i too think he should maybe idk #resign and not return #but like #maybe we can at least get him to admit he did a stupid #also lets be real i'm explaining this as babys first social interaction for a reason #were are talking about a tech bro here #he might actually just be that stupid #and fuck him if he isn't #like this isn't me defending him it's me giving him the smallest chance to redeem himself before pulling the trigger #photomatt #matt mullenweg

[breebird33]

Just throwing out there that I am most active* on bluesky and somewhat active some other places if you wish to follow me elsewhere.

*that is actually a lie, I scream about fromsoft games on an alt twit account A LOT

#and if you ask reeeaaaally nicely #I'll give you my ~OTHER~ alt on twit and bksy #especially if we're mutuals #anyway....I hope tumblr doesn't succumb to fucking AI tech bros whims #honestly they shouldn't touch this site with a 10 ft pole for their own sake

[maythearo]

College of Belas Artes using AI designs in advertisement for their courses, hm interesting, eat acid please

#shut up may #entire art world mutually understands this tech is not being used as a tool but to exploit and leave artists jobless #so yeah anyway one of the biggest academic institutions for art in Brazil uses it for their own promo anyway #bcs god forbid they hire any of the artists they graduate to make important social media advertisement right /s #the advertisement that announces open matriculations for the year therefore first inpressions of their institution as a whole #they graduate their students bcs they're paying for classes but offering job opportunities is suddenly not their responsibility anymore ig #whoever the fuck is the head of these decisions is so utterly out of touch with the art market like how do you still have a job #idk if I expect any uproar because this is Brazil after all and it's cultural how much we undermine art in general 🧍i hate it here #hope all ai bros go to hell this is not an exaggeration

[mylittleredgirl]

starting any new medication with intended or unintended mental effects is so weird. it’s not exactly like waking up with a whole new brain but it definitely feels like my mind got reformatted. this latest nervous system one is doing some what it’s supposed to physically (thank god) but it’s definitely doing… something to my thinking patterns and emotional responses. i’m not sure what. it has some overlap with the symptoms of an early manic upswing in the sense that the “regard for consequences” segment of my brain is sending an out-of-office message, so i thought it was that at first, but that’s definitely not it. but. something.

#and it’s NOT good for my job or relationships until i learn to manage it #and before you point at me the ‘girl you are experiencing a category 5 fandom event’ is a symptom and not a cause #maybe the hyper focus that tech bros abuse this thing for is just misfiring?? #it’s like the brain fog moved from inside to outside?? #i’m clever again but can’t see the road ahead or the people around me #i mean ‘nice’ is a deeply ingrained habit i’m not telling anyone to fuck off #my sister gave me extremely good news and i AM happy for her so that cracked through it! #but i have never thought ‘i don’t care’ in my life before unless i was manic lol #maybe posting into the void will shake it off #my exciting mental health #the symptoms