Silicon Valley: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Techbro Manarchist. It's mission: to boldly go where every cisheteronormative patriarchal racist trashheap has gone before.
Remember when the web was this utopian dream? When there was this feeling that anything was possible on the net, even a better future? Yeah, right. Maybe a handful of very privileged folx, mostly cishet white dudes. But this whole phenomenon has been broken since the very beginning. Since before the beginning! The tech industry, higher education (ESPECIALLY STEM), hacker culture, they've all been full of garbage since the outset.
Oh sure, there's some rad folx, some cool projects. It's not EXCLUSIVELY bad. But there's still so much sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and on and on. It sucks! If I hear another rape-denialist knob prattle on about how LeetHackerDude was framed by the FBI or CIA whatever, or about how making an active effort to include more black people is ReVeRsE rAcIsM, I'll cut his