It’s not a pipeline. 2018 and 2025 guys either had 2014 guy killed or they ruined his life and forced him into suicide.
yes, different levels of maturity of the technology attract different profiles.
Gutenberg wanted to spread the word, Murdoch is in the hate business
RIP Aaron Swartz
Oh I am still at the 2014 phase.
We… used to have a term for people that advanced further: sell-outs.
Though I do very much prefer the recently popularized Cyberpunk lingo:
Fucking Corpo Scum.
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People like 2025 guy have never held thoughts like the other 2, they were always self serving cunts. They just kept a facade till they depended on others, but once they joined the rich fucks club, they dropped the facade.
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I wonder how somebody can completely miss their own message like this. Or maybe somebody made an original image and then a techbro made this AI slop as a duplicate to spite them.
Bad meme. Implies “information wants to be free” leads to “have you considered monetizing empathy?”
yeah, the “information wants to be free” and the other two are completely different people….
it’s more like, 3 different kinds of tech people:also, i’m going to call this “tech-bro” thing sexism… women are awesome in tech and the field can be very exclusionary… just because society has been keeping women out of tech, doesn’t mean you can just assume they’re all bros….
also check out unixsocks… they’re definitely not bros….
I could be wrong, but I think “tech-bro” as a term isn’t meant to apply to everyone in tech. It’s mean to capture the intersection of tech people and “bros” – the kind of guy who likes football or something.
Of course that’s just what it’s meant to be; if people use it for all men in tech then yeah it just becomes a sexist and luddite terminology.
it was originally the intersection of Joe Rogan, raw meat enema, bro world with tech… but as the term spread, it’s now just a derogatory term for anyone into technology….
but the other person who responded to you put it better….I’ve heard that “argument” about a lot of slurs. Do you think any non-tech person is involved or interested enough to make any difference between the good tech-males and the bad tech-bros? Besides, why would there be a problem with a guy who likes football?
BTW. Men are not the victims of that slur. The subtext is that good girls don’t do tech. Or if they do, they at least don’t make waves. They don’t invent things, become rich tech CEOs, or anything else that someone might find objectionable. They can become artists and make pretty things, or authors and write about their feelings; that sort of thing. You know, girl stuff.
I did not say that men are the victim, though I don’t dispute it either. I said it’s sexist. I also didn’t say it was a slur.
Anyway, I hear my friends in tech use the term a lot. They aren’t referring to white-hat hackers, they’re generally referring to vapid entrepreneurs.
precisely
I disagree. It’s not “one leads to the other,” it’s that people change. Far too often people start out, not just in tech, bucking the system in some way. Anti-authority, pro-privacy, anti-centralized control, etc.
But when the server costs start mounting for a service that gets popular and money needs to come in, people change. Now you need to monetize via ads or whatever, now you get attacked, you circle the wagons, get investors, and it’s all downhill from there.
Digg and Reddit are big examples, Google could arguably be a similar case, it happens in music too where a band “sells out”, like Metallica for example. An originally anti-authority metal band starts lawsuits and banning fans to protect profits.
Sure there are plenty of situations where services remain open and free (for now), like wikipedia, linux distros, etc. but we aren’t always that lucky.
You may have missed the word “pipeline.” I’m not denying people change, but this meme is suggesting that good intentions are the first step toward bad intentions.
Beware the AI slop Pipeline
2030: By the implementation of AI, the orphan crushing machine can now process 35% more biomass per hour, providing a sustainable power source to our server parks
I’m so sick of seeing this exact fucking face and facial expression on everything. please just use ms paint to shoddily squiggle a matchstick man, at least it will have personality.
Why is pipeline being used for everything now? This is progression. Not pipeline.
Devil’s advocate here, it could be metaphorically, pipeline implies that it is an unavoidable sequence, rather than a progression, which it is.
edit, I agree with the below that it is more of a replacement
Ai slop
Rich billionaire assholes are ruining every industry. It’s not just the tech sector.
Am I stupid? Idk what the hell this is trying to say
It’s not something that’s unique to tech, but I read it as a joke about enshittification due to greed.
Lots of start-up companies start out all idealistic and positive, then don’t stay true to that mission as the founders age and want more (or sell out to a bigger company).
I honestly think delusion is a core component of startup culture. There’s this energy of overly sincere rich kids who think they can make the world a better place by perpetuating a system of exploitation
It’s kinda tragic really
I do envy their ability to take such big risks though (often because they have money to fall back on, I assume).
I’ve never been in a position to take a risk like that without jeopardizing my (and now my family’s) future.
Oh yeah there’s definitely a joy to it. I think doing crazy things when your young and inspired is core experience in life. It’s a shame most people are in your position and can’t rely on the support of their community to fall back on if the risk fails
Also as an aside, if stock points cripples your integrity then you never had any to begin with
The feeling of power that being in the technology sector brings changes a man.
Sorry, but I feel 2014 should be replaced with 1980, 2018 should be replaced with 2000… Maybe 1990. But the whole monetisation thing started loooonngg before 2025.
I just listened to War is a Racket by General Smedley D Butler. It’s 40 minutes long and very insightful.
Bankers monetize the lives of soldiers to protect private investments. If they put a price on blood there’s nothing they won’t monetize.
Butler prevented the business plot from happening…now it’s happening.
TIL there were no tech bros before 2014.
