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Attached: 1 image 💥 FINAL FOUR 💥 We’ve reached the semi-finals. It’s time to choose who will head to the final round! 🗳️ VOTE NOW: https://forms.gle/CP7XV9q3oS54qKWJ8 #WorstPersonInTech
  • Pyramid8058@kbin.social
    454·
    11 months ago

    I think I’d say Thiel is worse than Musk. He supports anti-gay politicians while being gay himself. Tax cuts are more important than having the law treat people as human beings.

    It’s possible that Musk might fail to understand exactly how shitty he’s being due to his autism, I’m pretty sure Thiel knows he’s fucking people over and doesn’t care. Also the whole bloodboy thing.

    • nomecks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      At least Musk is so loud and obnoxious that it’s easy to avoid him. Lex Luthor sits over there at Amazon quietly taking over the world and almost nobody gives him a second thought.

  • EnderMB@lemmy.worldEnglish
    264·
    11 months ago

    …How is Bezos in the running?

    Jassy is the CEO of Amazon. Outside of space cuntery and being on the chair, he’s not really in tech.

    With that being said, it’s still hilarious to me that Jassy has been CEO for two years, and most people still assume Bezos is boss.

    • realitista@lemm.eeEnglish
      15·
      11 months ago

      I think if you made billions in tech, you always qualify. To some degree even more after you stop working and still can’t find time to do anything beneficial for the world.

    • Takumidesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1014·
      11 months ago

      Amazon is one of the biggest tech companies in the world.

      There is a good chance the instance you are browsing lemmy on is using Amazon hardware.

      They are one of the premier IaaS and PaaS companies, as well as the owners of tons of platforms including websites like twitch.

      • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        232·
        11 months ago

        I think you need to read the comment you replied to. It seems like you commented before reading anything past the first sentence.

        • alienangel@sffa.communityEnglish
          31·
          11 months ago

          Bold of you to assume voters even know that Jassy is running Amazon. Most people in polls like this vote based on which name they recognize and dislike the most. The only legit competition in name recognition Jeff had on the right side bracket was Steve Jobs.

            • alienangel@sffa.communityEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              Oh, I’m not faulting you or the original comment about Jassy, just a general lament about how bad the voting is on polls like this. This thread is full of other brain-dead takes that have nothing to do with tech.

    • BreadstickNinja@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      Peter Thiel is also abysmal. Elon is more visibly terrible today but Thiel has been bankrolling regressives from the shadows for 20 years. He published his first screed about diversity in academia in 1995. So he is an all-time shitstain, for sure.

    • BilboBargains@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      At this point it’s like choosing cancer over Alzheimer’s. Die from excruciating inner torment or infuriate everyone else until you die.

      • Gravitywell@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        Zuck is bad sure, but he’s not a jackass, at least not publicly, he might not have made the best decision for meta but the company is by no means failing, Elon is just so much worse on every level.

        • KairuByte@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          11 months ago

          Not failing, but actively ignoring Metas own research that shows Facebook is directly harmful to children and teens.

          I’d say actively continuing to harm children should outrank being a jackass and/or incompetence.

      • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.worldEnglish
        410·
        11 months ago

        Information is cached on servers in the fediverse through connections. You can’t just make an empty server and harvest all of the data. Now if you unleash millions of accounts on the Fediverse like threads is doing, then you have access to everything.

  • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
    16·
    11 months ago

    Musk shouldn’t have won against Ellison. Musk is an uncontrolled trainwreck, sure, but Ellison is a highly controlled and effective lawnmower. He’s just better at not being known.

    • SebKra@feddit.deEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Very amusing. I still know barely anything about him, but I’m thoroughly convinced.

    • Spedwell@lemmy.worldEnglish
      142·
      11 months ago

      SBF’s peak was a few years ago. This year all he’s done is show during his trial how deluded these techbros/EAs can actually be. At least SBF had the common courtesy to remove himself from public life within 5 years. Style points for the life-in-prison ending, while simultaneously killing mainstream crypto.

      We’re stuck with Altman for the foreseeable future, and now with a recently purged OpenAI board that will let him continue the industry-wide commercialization of copyright infringement (but only of the laypersons’ IP. Better not ask it to draw Mickey Mouse, though).

      It’s also really unclear where OpenAI lies on the EA/Longtermist/E Acc pipeline. Altman is likely letting whackos have some pretty serious power.

      • Mubelotix@jlai.luEnglish
        21·
        11 months ago

        I hope you don’t expect any help if you ever get ripped off. Some of them were poor as hell, show some compassion and respect.

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    11 months ago

    Should David Zaslav really be considered in tech? If WB Discovery is considered a tech company, then the Barbie movie is now (technically) a tech product…

    How do you do, fellow tech workers?

    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      All modern movies are kinda tech products. At least in a sense that there’s crazy amount of cutting edge tech involved in making them as well as during the consumption of that media

  • FuyuhikoDate@silkky.pubEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    So much names i never ever heard before and i dont wanna look up, after knowing what a fucker musk is (also he wil win)

  • Zeth0s@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    11 months ago

    How did Nadella lose to Altman? Nadella is the reason Altman is what it is now. The reason open ai is not anymore an independent no profit research team to push open AI solutions.

    He’s the king maker of evil tech. Nadella vs Musk is the only possible final. Whoever voted is insulting one of 2 main contenders. Like CEO of BP losing to a gas pump owner

    • MeatsOfRage@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      It’s almost as if this is the most popular worst tech person. It’s like that year all of Reddit voted EA the worst company in the world. There are companies out there costing people their lives by intentional malfeasance but a company is doing video games dirty.

      • bruhduh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        11 months ago

        I agree with you, but in 2023 unity fuck up was one of the major events cause most developers used unity and still continue using it

  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
    42·
    11 months ago

    The worst person in tech is a choice between a bunch of people who are working together to make things worse for everyone else?