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Faraiwe<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@quillmatiq" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>quillmatiq</span></a></span> still NOT decentralized, still CORPORATE OWNED, still owned by vc crypto techbros.</p><p>thIs TimE wILL Be difFerEnT, right?</p><p>Hardest of passes, thanks, no.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DTBO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DTBO</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techbro</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bluesky</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/centralized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>centralized</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CorporateWallGarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateWallGarden</span></a></p>
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦<p>i will go to bat for y’all any day. ANY. DAY. </p><p>but your messaging to normies needs to be more pointed, more specific and more aggressive in how you describe the human rights <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/crimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crimes</span></a> the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techbro</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/broligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>broligarchy</span></a> is getting away with due to people’s ignorance on how the microcomputers we use as phones are exploited and abused for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> </p><p>love your work, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@eff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>eff</span></a></span> </p><p>that’s why i believe y’all can do better.</p><p>love,<br>liza</p>
Faraiwe<p>BIG BALLS DOWN, I REPEAT, BIG BALLS DOWN.</p><p>One of the "assailants" was a *15* yo girl.</p><p><a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/president-trump-politics/trump-threatens-federal-takeover-dc-crime/3970968/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcwashington.com/news/preside</span><span class="invisible">nt-trump-politics/trump-threatens-federal-takeover-dc-crime/3970968/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TurdReich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TurdReich</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BigBalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigBalls</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techbro</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/dumbasses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dumbasses</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MAGAts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGAts</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
Faraiwe<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@MightyOCD" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>MightyOCD</span></a></span> Every single author who publishes their stuff on <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>substack</span></a> are, from now on, bereft of excuses for still being at the nazi bar, and it's on them.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DTBO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DTBO</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nazi</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techbro</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TurdReich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TurdReich</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
Syulang<p>Aussie <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Techbro</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SpaceKaren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceKaren</span></a> explodes and splatters it's techwank over <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Bowen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bowen</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Queensland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Queensland</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-30/gilmour-space-technologies-launch-orbital-rocket-bowen/105470024" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-07-30/gil</span><span class="invisible">mour-space-technologies-launch-orbital-rocket-bowen/105470024</span></a></p>
RaymondPierreL3<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@fixatedpersonsunit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fixatedpersonsunit</span></a></span> <br>spot on… and only serves to confirms <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TechBro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechBro</span></a> manigance.</p>
Ricós (NeoDB)<p>finished watching <a href="https://neodb.social/~neodb~/movie/3Y9Jmwa7RCk9lnQANws6YP" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Superman</a> <br>That was surprisingly fun! And no wonder the right are mad about it: for starters, a broligarch and Netanyahu are the villains XD</p><p><a href="https://neodb.social/tags/movies/" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#movies</a> <a href="https://neodb.social/tags/superman/" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#superman</a> <a href="https://neodb.social/tags/dc/" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dc</a> <a href="https://neodb.social/tags/jamesgunn/" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jamesGunn</a> <a href="https://neodb.social/tags/palestine/" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#palestine</a> <a href="https://neodb.social/tags/techbro/" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#techbro</a></p><p><a href="https://neodb.social/tags/ersneodb/" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ERSneodb</a></p>
RaymondPierreL3<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@tonycart" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tonycart</span></a></span> <br>Say what you will, but I’m done with centralised <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TechBro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechBro</span></a> platforms and their ‘fences’. But… reach isn’t important to me, so…</p>
RaymondPierreL3<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@emmadavidson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>emmadavidson</span></a></span> <br>I run Mint on an old laptop as a second computer that I can jump onto when my microsoft machine eventually stops working with that OS. I also use it as a linux training tool (tinkering with Wine64 atm). So far, I’m very happy with the Linux Mint distro.</p><p>Getting free of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TechBro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechBro</span></a> software is an ongoing tasks. I am a few days away from migrating my blog away from WordPress and onto <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@shlee" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>shlee</span></a></span> ‘s enhance.net. Still have a Gmail account I need to get out of - that‘s ongoing too。</p><p>So much fun…</p>
Charlie McHenry<p><a href="https://connectop.us/tags/Substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Substack</span></a> bragging about their new $100 million investment from the <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/TechBro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechBro</span></a> 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 <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> did it? Now, more of the same in the online <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/DigitalPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalPublishing</span></a> space. Looks like <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> to me.</p>
bignose<p>Most of them remember that one, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://gamedev.lgbt/@bram" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bram</span></a></span>, but they fail to consider that “the default” is often itself garbage.</p><p>Too many implementors, whether <a href="https://social.chinwag.org/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techbro</span></a> or not, will unthinkingly decide “I don't want to make a political decision so I'll go with the default from my culture”. My nerd friends, *that is a political decision*.</p>
skry<p>Almost 600 people have signed an open letter to...Sequoia Capital after one of its partners, Shaun Maguire, posted [blatantly racist crap] against the Muslim Democratic mayoral candidate in New York City.</p><p>Maguire, a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, posted on X over the weekend that Zohran Mamdani, who won the Democratic primary last month, “comes from a culture that lies about everything” and is out to advance “his Islamist agenda.”</p><p><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/07/founders-sign-letter-to-sequoia-on-shaun-maguires-mamdani-remarks.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cnbc.com/2025/07/07/founders-s</span><span class="invisible">ign-letter-to-sequoia-on-shaun-maguires-mamdani-remarks.html</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nyc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techbro</span></a></p>
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bardicperspiration.club/@tiefling" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tiefling</span></a></span> </p><p>Good news! You can instead use our Windoze™️ ystem which, granted, will throw ads at you every 15 seconds, oh and send all your details to a gazillion advertisers, and also won't run on any older hardware, but at least you don't need to know anything useful. <br>😂 </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/TechBro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechBro</span></a></p>
Diotima<p>You know what, seriously, I'm done with the tech community rn. </p><p> Tech community be like:</p><p>"Oh you want to drive a pretty car? Well first you need to go to engineering school to learn how to design engines, we provide the vehicular frame but you have to build your own engine. Oh but painting your car is easy, you just have to know how to create paint from scratch. No we don't just use standard vehicle paint, we created a special type and only it stick to our car. Oh and don't forget that you have to design seats too, that's an entirely different tutorial, written by Sumerian monks! It's 80 percent out of date but you'll be fine. </p><p>Ugh. Sorry. But its not only AI killing the Internet, its this nonsense. </p><p><a href="https://bardicperspiration.club/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://bardicperspiration.club/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techbro</span></a></p>
Dave Rahardja<p>Are you still on <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Spotify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spotify</span></a>?</p><p>Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek has raised €600M for his new startup, which is developing AI TECH FOR WAR. Ek still owns 9% of Spotify, but has 37% voting control. His net worth went from $2.5B to $10B in the last two years alone, on the back of paying musicians a pittance in royalties.</p><p>And don’t forget:</p><p>• Spotify spent $250M of your subscription dollars to invite Joe Rogan to spew his disinformation on their platform.<br>• They’re still trying to embrace and extinguish Podcasts.<br>• They’re developing in-house, AI-generated “music” so users will play them (royalty-free) instead of music created by humans (who demand royalty).</p><p>And now, he’s using his wealth, created by your subscriptions, to fund tech that will use AI to literally murder humans in war.</p><p>Stop funding him. Quit Spotify now.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/QuitSpotify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuitSpotify</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/militaryTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>militaryTech</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techbro</span></a> </p><p>“Spotify’s CEO invests $1 billion into an AI military start-up — and musicians are fuming”</p><p><a href="https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/spotifys-ceo-invests-1-billion-into-an-ai-military-startup-and-musicians-are-fuming/news-story/78805666e2374281801622066dc87319" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">news.com.au/finance/work/leade</span><span class="invisible">rs/spotifys-ceo-invests-1-billion-into-an-ai-military-startup-and-musicians-are-fuming/news-story/78805666e2374281801622066dc87319</span></a></p>
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦<p>via Krebs<br><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/114777986932318938" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/1</span><span class="invisible">14777986932318938</span></a></p><p>a post from the other <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techbro</span></a> blue check site, a post AJ Sadauskas: </p><p>❝ For anyone wondering why <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gravy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gravy</span></a> has been trending: AI hucksters are trawling through your social media posts for training data and trends.</p><p>And you know what can gum up the gears of an automated sentence generator?</p><p>Posts that use the word gravy out of context.❞</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fuckAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fuckAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fuckTechbros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fuckTechbros</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fuckFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fuckFascists</span></a></p>
Kevin Russell<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@SecureOwl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>SecureOwl</span></a></span> </p><p>Tech Bros weren't drafted into the fascist coup, they volunteered.</p><p>Delete windows, get a non google, non apple phone, drop twitter, delete Facebook, install linux, use blockers. </p><p>You may have ignored tech bro spying and control before, but now your life and family and country is at stake.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/techbro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techbro</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nazi</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/spying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spying</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/manipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>manipulation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>control</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a></p>
Ian<p>A great argument for setting aside our preconceived notions about AI.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/climateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climateChange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/creativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>creativity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/techBro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techBro</span></a></p><p><a href="http://shojiwax.com/2025/06/26/max-on-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">shojiwax.com/2025/06/26/max-on</span><span class="invisible">-ai/</span></a></p>
Charming Malcontent<p>Quite right too!<br>Don't want any speculative ass-hats buying up empty properties, doing them up, and then immediately renting them to more <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechBro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechBro</span></a> twats!<br>Live in what you buy you thieving scum!</p><p><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/property/landlords-could-be-forced-forgo-rent-year-labour-reforms/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">telegraph.co.uk/money/property</span><span class="invisible">/landlords-could-be-forced-forgo-rent-year-labour-reforms/</span></a></p>
Charlie McHenry<p>Anduril, Rheinmetall partner to build military drones for Europe. - Anyone else following the life and times of Trump-loving, California <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/TechBro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechBro</span></a> Palmer Luckey and his disruptive, upstart <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>defense</span></a> company <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/Anduril" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anduril</span></a>? He’s a fascinating, and somewhat scary fellow - despite, or maybe because of his rebelliousness and un conformity. He’s currently giving legacy <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/DefenseContracting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefenseContracting</span></a> firms like Boeing, Northrup and General Dynamics fits - winning lucrative defense contracts from under their upturned noses. It would be kinda entertaining if we weren’t talking about the future of <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/warfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>warfare</span></a> and the advent of autonomous <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> weapons. <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/Military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Military</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/drones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drones</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/DroneWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DroneWar</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/DroneWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DroneWarfare</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/UAV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UAV</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechBros</span></a> </p><p>Source: Reuters <a href="https://share.google/CxBhLl28pxpDUFIli" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">share.google/CxBhLl28pxpDUFIli</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>