1990s: Things would be better if the nerds ruled the world!

[thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz]

@Niall Musk for sure is a nerd. Trump might be one of the symptoms/outcomes of the nerd takeover (i.e. the Facebook problem).

[nycki@critters.gay]

@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz i dont think the billionaires count as "nerds" if they're not building trains or theme parks or something. i dont think they're even computer literate? these are still jocks.

[thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz]

@nycki Zuckerberg, Gates, Musk, the Googles, Ellison... they're all nerds.

Bezos and Cook may not be native nerds but they're uncool enough to qualify.

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@thomasbeagle
"There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long: People."
--Spider Jerusalem

[oxy@social.bsdlab.au]

@thomasbeagle HACK THE PLANET!

No. nonononono
NOT LIKE THAT

[wendinoakland@beige.party]

@thomasbeagle @Taco_lad Technofascists aren’t nerds.

[elizafox@social.treehouse.systems]

@thomasbeagle Have you ever seen the politics of your average nerd??? Like holy shit I am appalled by your average nerd's politics. Most of the ones that aren't libertarians are technofascists. You think people would know that by looking at the politics of most sci-fi authors.

[14mission@sfba.social]

@thomasbeagle They picked the wrong nerds. Put train nerds in charge!

[renaigh@beige.party]

@thomasbeagle that was a good movie.

[thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz]

@Elizafox I know, we were wrong! So very wrong.

Hell, I was once a libertarian myself until I grew up.

[carloshr@lile.cl]

@thomasbeagle @ojala Nerds aren't ruling the world ‍️

[kennergf@mas.to]

@thomasbeagle @Niall he is a Tech Bro, we are not the same

[kami_kadse@don.linxx.net]

@thomasbeagle @nycki

they're not nerds. they're investors cultivating a nerd image

[skjeggtroll@mastodon.online]

@Elizafox @thomasbeagle

"Most sci-fi authors"? I think that's your preconceived biases speaking.

[thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz]

@skjeggtroll @Elizafox I read that as "Heinlein" and his ilk.

[benaresh@mastodon.social]

@thomasbeagle "If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself."

Mikhail Bakunin "God and the State" (1871)

[flippac@types.pl]

@thomasbeagle turns out whoever the ruling class is, they're still rulers

[benaresh@mastodon.social]

@Elizafox @thomasbeagle I wish people read and understood Cyberpunk novels instead of liking the aesthetics of them. William Gibson was scathing in his critique of Capitalism.

“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
― William Gibson, Count Zero

[strutsulf@mastodon.social]

@thomasbeagle Somehow, billionaire nerds manage to pick all the wrong role models — I mean, non-billionaire readers really don’t jump to the conclusion that a palantír in every street corner of Minas Tirith is the way to make Gondor great again.

[0x00string@infosec.exchange]

@thomasbeagle idk, these are nazis, not nerds. nerds are smart?