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This is said so VERY VERY well!

If anything, techbros are bullies with the pretense of being nerds.

Wozniak vs. Jobs.

My techbro cousin might be the actual least nerdy individual I've ever met in my life

I went to grad school for computer science and we all fucking hated all of these things and thought it was all bullshit

100% this

Hell yeah. In the field I currently work in, there's not one day where AI Investors aren't banging at my emails. AI will play a role in the field, perhaps a big role, but 99.5% of those techbros email are as phony as they go. The real work happens in the back, with no VC money, methodically.

"Harrison Ford is... John Bladerunner."

Haha, shit, I'd forgotten about the Blade Runner thing!

Techbros are finance bros

All of this thread is very good and I hope you have a good day.

Its funny because its probably nerds who are going after techbros the most.

As a non-techie, the first thing I do when a new tech show horse is being paraded around, is to research nerd explanations and analysis. Helped me a lot to understand how those hype cycles work but also understand concepts that the tech bros never fully explain.

The techbros I've run into seem to be jocks and preppies who can't stand not being cool and influential, so they're mimicking nerds. I'm not sure how we became cool. But imitating us doesn't equal us XD It does, however, trick the general populace into thinking techbros are qualified nerds -.-;

I dunno, I'll cede that a "real nerd" is probably an actually smart, well-read person - but the first person who pops in my head is someone who collects Funko Pops and thinks Marvel is peak cinema, and *that* person I can totally see being into anything vaguely futuristic without a second thought

Tech bros are venture capitalists who didn't manage to qualify as yuppies.

Techbros are the people who spent their time beating the shit out of nerds and copying their homework. Like, there's a reason why we're overtly hostile to tech bros, and can typically spot these frauds from a mile away.

Ruin being a key part of their product trajectory. Always. They couldn’t care less who gets hurt while they make money and have fun.

I'm sorry to say I know quite a few nerds who genuinely buy into new tech fads every time. Let's not pretend they're especially immune to hype and naive tech optimism.

These signs were not directed at execs like Elon Musk. They were put up by “hipsters” who felt that tech people were not interesting enough to be allowed in their cool urban neighborhoods and whose political ideology provided rationalizations for hating them.

The term "techbro" was coined to differentiate them from nerds in general.

no nerd would have ever inflicted juicero on the world.

Elmo has exactly one patent to his name and it's just the connector on the Tesla charger cable.

You don't become a billionaire without also pulling some shady shit. If genius alone was what it took then the engineers who make the products would be richer than the CEOs.

They are business dicks.

This is a nerd. He helped create the RSS feed. He tried to help make research papers freely available to all, was overzealously prosecuted by the government and took his own life over it. That's direct opposition to everything techbros represent.

@kylewoodley.bsky.social I don't totally agree but I don't disagree

Jobs wasn't even that great of a CEO. He was a competent and sufficient CEO. He provided a vision and a path forward, like you're supposed to. The only reason everyone fawned over him so much was because most of the CEO class are negligent and incompetent. And they're getting worse.

Just like the hedge fund billionaires are “job creators”

To be fair, Musk did come up with the Tesla door handles, the ones which freeze shut when it's icy out, forcing owners to piss on them just to get into their car. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HauV... The handles also caused a man to burn to death when rescuers couldn't open the doors of his burning car.

Exactly. Techbros are vacuous venture capitalists, not "nerds." They not the guys who spent endless hours as kids building Radio Shack electronics projects. Gates didn't write DOS. Musk didn't design any electric cars. Elisabeth Holmes didn't design the blood test machine that didn't work.

but like also that nerd saying this in the pic needs a giant wedgie and swirlie back to back

Thank you for the clarification. The terms shouldn’t be interchangeable. However, in some circumstances I’ll still contend that while a nerd is by no means a techbro, a techbro can certainly be a nerd, too.

nerds love art

It’s almost like you could replace nerd with engineer and Tech Bros with Sales Team.

More sales than marketing, really. They oversell, they are too aggressive and they pitch pitch pitch.

a guy with ten billion dollars in the bank could go on CNN and declare "the sky is purple and the ocean tastes like daisies" and talking heads would be like "HE RAISES SOME INTERESTING POINTS" statements like "AGI will be achievable in the next few years" are of the same caliber

Revenge of the Nerds gives us both. Anthony Edwards is a nerd who meets another nerd and they create nerdy things together. The other is a predator who commits rape by fraud.

Tech Bros are business and finance elites cosplaying as quirky approachable types.

Meanwhile, on the #HugosDiscourse portion of my timeline, there’s ANOTHER scandal breaking about an influential nerd who turns out to have been a predator. There’s no meaningful definition of “nerd” that sorts Jedi from Sith. If that’s what folks want, just say it. Everyone knows what it means now.

And there were plenty of nerds pushing back against them too (source, still me) and I agree that the definition of techbro is outside that but if this is our community then we need to own that it is not perfect

These are the real techbros! scrollprize.org/grandprize

And as we all know, creative types are traditionally jocks and meatheads. Just bullying nerds all day long with our paintbrushes and pencils held aloft in a sense of superiority

“Nerds taking over the world” has very strong overtones of those absolute losers who still seethe about being absolute losers in high school instead of moving on like normal people.

There's a familiar pattern in nerd culture where when a subculture begins to creep into general awareness predators invade and co-opt the space to monetize it. Tech now follows the same pattern, but at a streamlined pace. Some version of the tragedy of the commons.

I continue to play Civilization V which considers its computer players to be AI and this game is like 20 years old

Sing it loud brother

Tech bros are VCs with better drugs

Yeah get rich quick shitheads ain’t nerds

Yep. I interview a lot of nerds for work, particularly in things like cybersecurity and privacy, and they were really good about banging the warning drum last year. It was the business guys who think they were smart enough to be nerds who are dangerous.

Honestly, the fact that weirdos like this can just openly admit their entire positions hinge on imagining themselves taking some elaborate revenge on the people bullying them, is jarring. Like, it's just a total lack of self-awareness of how that makes them seem

Techbros can keep their stupid dirty hands off my nerds.

*New as in newly invented. Micro EEGs cost way less than brain surgery chips and can apparently do more.

And Molly White does great work here!

Nerds have more rizz and awesomeness than techbros.

Overhyped by finance people, clearly. A bullshit trend to use AI in every marketing campaign, that's sure. But reducing deep models to a pattern matching algorithm is quite an euphemism, especially regarding their efficiency.

True nerds are the most skeptical and cautious around tech. They know enough to see past the glam.