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.
HeliosMay 4, 2023
Show threadLuca Hammer

@tante Same.

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

Luca 🔨 (@[email protected])

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.)

social.luca.run
May 3, 2023 at 10:16amWeb
Show threadDaniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈May 3, 2023
@luca @tante It's almost like our current societal system encourages people to build torment nexi.
Show threadnoodlejetski May 3, 2023
@ainmosni hey, I finally get to be the annoying reply guy! ackshully, plural form of "nexus" is either "nexuses" or "nexus", because Latin grammar is complicated and silly, and not all words ending with "-us" in singular get the "-i" suffix in plural nominative.
@luca @tante
Show threadDaniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈May 3, 2023
@noodlejetski @luca @tante Hah, honestly, I really wasn't sure about that plural, so, thanks, it's actually appreciated.
Show threadexcited for the mastodon riseMay 3, 2023
@ainmosni @noodlejetski @luca @tante COUNTER ARGUMENT: nexii is more fun to say and everyone will know what you mean, so ignore the actual grammar and have fun communicating!
Show threadexcited for the mastodon riseMay 3, 2023

@ainmosni @noodlejetski @luca @tante and yes, I added an extra I.

Blame Rome total war.

TRIARII!

Show threadLinebyline→mastoart.socialMay 3, 2023

@qkslvrwolf @ainmosni @noodlejetski

Nexes?

Nexopodes?

Nexen?

Show threadjrm4May 3, 2023

@noodlejetski @ainmosni @luca @tante

NEXOPODES

Show threadnoodlejetski May 3, 2023
@jrm4 NO
@ainmosni @luca @tante
Show threadGinnikinMay 3, 2023
@noodlejetski @jrm4 @ainmosni @luca @tante
Oh, so very YESSSSSSSSS!
Show threadAccordionBruceMay 4, 2023

@ginnikin @noodlejetski @jrm4 @ainmosni @luca @tante
A long time ago a friend informed me the plural should be “Octopoo”

So NEXOPOO

Show threadnickMay 4, 2023
@jrm4 @noodlejetski @ainmosni @luca @tante Nexopodia as the Key Insight.
Show threadplay in progressMay 3, 2023
@luca @tante That is a juicy list though. The titles alone just one after the other read like a satirical poem.
Show threadplay in progressMay 5, 2023

@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 🤔.
Show threadBricinMay 3, 2023

@luca @tante https://techhub.social/@futurism/110304879936648056 He's not pulling any punches. https://trib.al/Rtv8y8a

More grist for the mill.

futurism (@[email protected])

He's not pulling any punches. https://trib.al/Rtv8y8a

TechHub
Show threadsnodaMay 3, 2023
@luca @tante that's an awesome list