#techbros

[briteredoctober]

The real issue with DeepSeek is that capitalists can't profit from it.

I always appreciate when the capitalist class just says it out loud so I don't have to be called a conspiracy theorist for pointing out the obvious.

[sepdet]

Ignore the ugly thumbnail & title — this is SUCH a good discussion with US historian Heather Cox Richardson.

Parts are sobering, as she connects the dots and points out the endgame that I don't think the Republicans have realized is the likely outcome (not at all what they intend) if Trump is elected.

But about 15 minutes in she moves past the "democracy is on the line" angle (with surprising insights and receipts) to a more positive, joyful, actionable angle which has been missing from the last two election cycles, and usually from activism and progressivism on Tumblr too.

if you don't wanna watch the whole 20 minute video, jump ahead to 15:00 for that bit. 



Harris keeps emphasizing that we all have the power to make a difference right now. Sometimes it feels like that's just empty words. I find it very reassuring that a historian with research to back it up concurs.

[ritchiepage2001newaccount]

MAGA congressman says top priority is shutting down FEMA like the Department of Education

A Tennessee Republican congressman on Friday told a conservative podcaster that the first thing he wants to do when he returns to Washington D.C. is advocate to reorganize FEMA – and “shut it down.”…

[hasellia]

'What if Al gains sentience?" You techbros

can't even handle the idea of someone with

a communication disability being a sentient

being. You haven't even thought about a

human with a different pattern of thinking

let alone the sentience of an animal that

you can't keep in your home.

"Don't bully my mini Roko's basilisk"! lf it

gains sentience, it's going to wonder what

constitutes as the letter Y, a dwarf planet or

the colour red. It's not going to hate; it's

going to wonder why you're mad that it

doesn't care about money.

[mckitterick]

source post: X

[ignorantsanonymous]

[chaoskirin]

Glaze Your Art!

I recently got Glaze and I've been running some tests on my art and style to see how it affects images. It's much better with highly detailed pieces... On cartoons, you can definitely see artifacts like it's got a JPG compression layover over it. But it prevents your art style from being stolen. The makers of Glaze have also developed Nightshade, which will start poisoning datasets if your art is stolen without consent.

Here's a few of the pieces I've tested Glaze on, and I'm happy with the results. While I used to like posting my ultra-high quality art for people to enjoy, I'm now finding that's no longer an option with all the theft happening lately. But this will do.

You can actually download Glaze and run it yourself with your own resources, but I was very opposed to having the AI dataset present on my computer (which you need in order to pollute your data). But they've come out with a web app that you can request to use with the form on their site, or you can message them on Twitter.

Protect your art!

[azspot]

What do TechBros and TheoBros have in common with Trump and his inner circle? All think their respective causes will be better served by ending American democracy. They want a strongman at top—their strongman. To hell with democracy, and with the rest of us.

TheoBros, TechBros, & Trump

[davekat-sucks]

I think Sollux should just leave behind his warm colors hoes and settle down for a more polite Eridan

Aka, Sollux and Equius scratch a funny itch in me. Maybe cuz that error pic Paradox Space gives you when you type /413 at the url

Pros: They both wear glasses, their lives kinda go around animals, they're incredibly powerful, they're good with machinery, Sollux has a bit of blue goin on, I think they both dislike Eridan, at one point they had the only two trolls with shiny eyes with them... It's interesting.

Cons: All what I said are pickpoints, they would be hard to work out on camera with their personalities, for a genderless species with no idea of what sexual orientations are, they're surprisingly hetero

But I say almost unironically "I can fix them!" as I write the worst, nonsensical fanfic you've ever read about them trying to bond

Sollux x Equius aka Techbros is better than Davekat. I would be happy to read it if you do get the chance to write it down. Send me it once you're finished!

[inkbotkowalski]

cool we're back at ppl unquestioningly reblogging AI shit

[anthophilafalls]

i feel like we inch closer to this every day

[ritchiepage2001newaccount]

Project2025 #TechBros #CorpMedia #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #FeelTheBern

JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava Trump Appeals to Latino Voters by Doubling Down on Racist Lies

Donald Trump’s voter outreach is going great…

[ankewehner]

Moving fast and breaking things is vandalism.

[eubedoo6]

Flim and flam are techbros, not convinced?

Here's my argument

they both(the flim flam brothers and techbros as a group) push a mixture of working(but not to human quality) technology and scams

they both have tried to steal from people doing the thing they're trying to make tech do (apples from the apple family, and art from artiss)

neither cares about much other than the money they can make from it

both try to paint themselves as victims when people refuse things from them that would lose those people their home and current food supply (and somehow don't seem to understand why those people refuse)

and they both try to pass off their money making schemes as "opportunities" or increasing the availability (admittedly the apples could have made more Cider with help, and they proved that, but art isn't about amount of supply, and EVEN neck down paralysis only makes specialised equipment a requirement)

both have tried to sell things as what they aren't (nfts, and a "miracle curative tonic")

and, I'm going to say this again for those who haven't thought about it since last time, THEY BOTH ONLY CARE ABOUT THE MONEY THEY GET FROM IT

However, in all honesty, I have 1 argument in defence of them on this, the flim flam brothers have style, and at least give you a song with their shady presentation, they're good songs too.

[el-ffej]

elonmusk.exe halted due to incompatibility with RichFuck API 8.0.

Tech bros who think digital is forever and that uploading your consciousness to a computer is immortality crack me up. Like bro, you'd be "immortal" on the computer for like a year until your own company sends out some software update that makes you incompatible and whoops, there goes TechBro.soul into the great Recycling Bin in the sky

[chaoskirin]

"But I WANT Chat GPT To Finish this Fanfic! :( :( :("

The most frustrating thing about the rise of the techbro is that they don't understand copyright because they've never had to. It's never been a concern for them, so why would they have ever thought about it?

This leads to a plague of asshats with chronic Dunning-Kruger-itis just deciding they know more about copyright than people who have been well-versed in it for their whole lives.

That's why you get these clueless AI users saying things like "you don't own fanfic, haha got youuuu" because they only have a vague, transparent understanding of IP and how content works.

Here's some actual truth: The reason writers, showrunners, producers, and actors don't read fanfic is because if they do, and they get an idea from your work, and then that idea APPEARS in the media, they have to prove they didn't steal it. (actually, because of the mega-billion dollar entertainment industry, the accuser has to prove the company DID steal it. Harder, but not impossible.)

If it turns out to be stolen, the company MIGHT HAVE TO PAY THE FANFIC AUTHOR FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTION AS A WRITER. This depends on how the court case goes and how similar your work is to the "official" work. Generally, even though it's a fanfic, there's a LOT of original content in that writing, which does NOT automatically belong to the IP.

The original content belongs to the writer, unless the company buys it.

SO! If you, as Techbro McDunning-Kruger, loads that shit into a chatbot or AI text generator, the ONLY shit that doesn't have a natural copyright is anything that VERY SPECIFICALLY pertains to the media itself. Generally, this includes names and extremely unique concepts. Everything else is stolen.

You want to know how I know?

Fucking 50 Shades of Gray.

It's a fanfic, where only the names and hard concepts from Twilight have been changed. It's still being sold, and no money is being paid to Stephanie Meyer.

There's other examples, too. 50 Shades is just the most well-known.

Fanfic is protected. The original material in that fic is copyrighted to the original author. If they tell you you can't use it, you can't use it.

In conclusion: I don't care how much you scream and pound your fists on your chest and piss on trees to assert your dominance. Spewing this nonsense about how fanfic is public domain and you get to use it because you want to is theft. Stop doing it.