#NickClegg, former Deputy Prime Minister and Meta executive, discusses his views on #socialmedia, #politics, and #SiliconValley culture. He believes social media empowers people but acknowledges its challenges. Clegg criticises the “#techbro” culture for its #machismo and #selfpity, contrasting it with his upbringing in a privileged but grounded family. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/23/facebook-nick-clegg-tech-bros-trump-leaving-silicon-valley?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Pro tip.

Every time you hear a techbro saying "more efficient" immediately substitute "less effective" in its place. See how it makes much more sense.

You're welcome.

"Imagine if you had infinite resources to build something that might topple the established world order, and all you could come up with was… an automatic internet troll10."

Plato vs Grok - by M. F. Robbins - The Value of Nothing
https://martinrobbins.substack.com/p/plato-vs-grok?utm_medium=ios

#techbro
#LLMS
#Society
#Psychology
#criticalthinking
#Philosophy

Mal wieder ein guter Podcast.

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/tech-bro-topia-f1-mit-der-roten-pille-zur-macht-100.html

We Don’t Need More Liberal Techno-Utopianism

There’s a lot of #fluffy around these days. Take books like Abundance – dressed up as bold new visions, but really just more of the same old liberal centrism with a shiny, tech-friendly finish. It flirts with Marx at the end, but only to dress up in borrowed credibility. At heart, it’s not socialist, it’s a manifesto to reassure the #mainstreaming chattering class that everything will be OK if we innovate harder and manage smarter. This is blinded feel-good “supply-side liberalism” […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/we-dont-need-more-liberal-techno-utopianism/

Aussie #Techbro #SpaceKaren explodes and splatters it's techwank over #Bowen #Queensland

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-30/gilmour-space-technologies-launch-orbital-rocket-bowen/105470024

when people argue that #X and #bluesky are better because "tHe EnGaGeMeNt" -

so "tHe EnGaGeMeNt" is more important to you than not being on an either #nazi or #billionaire #techbro platform - what kind of person are you?

i say no thanks, stay where you are.

finished watching Superman
That was surprisingly fun! And no wonder the right are mad about it: for starters, a broligarch and Netanyahu are the villains XD

#movies #superman #dc #jamesGunn #palestine #techbro

#Substack bragging about their new $100 million investment from the #TechBro VC’s and how that will enable them to democratize publishing and do more online community building. Uh-huh. They took big $$ from previous investor Andreessen, who based on his own utterances appears to be a racist fascist. I’m personally not confident, as a previous contributor to the site, that being beholden to right-wing investors is a good thing - on any level. It sure didn’t work out with #SocialMedia did it? Now, more of the same in the online #DigitalPublishing space. Looks like #enshittification to me.

AI tools are already helping marginalized communities daily - translations, image descriptions, text simplification.

You can/should hate Big Tech while recognizing real impacts - anything else isn't meaningful discourse.

Wenn wir unsere Proteste ernst meinen und uns wehren wollen …
#musk #thiel #zuckerberg #bezos #amazon #techbro #tyranny #demokratie #boykott

https://www.instagram.com/p/DMFKog5t11U/?img_index=8&igsh=MWQ5enY3bHF2bWxnOQ==

is it just me or has every #techbro and #vc idiot either NOT read #1984 by #GeorgeOrwell and are thinking the light at the End of The #AI Tunnel is something other than a reflection or an oncoming train and are abusing it to realize their #technofascist wet dream?