tanteMay 3, 2023
Kinda tired of the whole "I made a lot of money building the Torment Nexus but now I quit and am warning you about the Torment Nexus (buy my book)" redemption arch for tech people we seem to have settled on.
Show threadLuca HammerMay 3, 2023

@tante Same.

I collected them for some time but lost interest. https://social.luca.run/@luca/105887042120215796

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Is there a list of people whose brand is: „I built bad thing for big company and now want to be known for shedding light on bad thing“? (Maybe it's a journalism thing. The rebirth plot.)

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@luca @tante That is a juicy list though. The titles alone just one after the other read like a satirical poem.
May 3, 2023 at 11:28amWeb
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@luca @tante oh look Maria Farrell did a writeup of this phenomenon... three years ago: https://conversationalist.org/2020/03/05/the-prodigal-techbro/

"Allowing people who share responsibility for our tech dystopia to keep control of the narrative means we never get to the bottom of how and why we got here, and we artificially narrow the possibilities for where we go next. "

The Prodigal Techbro

Prodigal tech bro stories skip straight from the past, when they were part of something that—surprise!—turned out to be bad, to the present, where they are now a moral authority on how to do good…

The Conversationalist
Show threadsofia ☮️🏴May 6, 2023
@playinprogress @luca @tante i wonder if you need to be a prodigial technbro to build wesites like this. or perhaps you need one so your wesites don't look like that 🤔.