My theory is that tech bros hate humanities because they've all tried once to impress a girl studding English Lit by talking about a book and they were all laughed at for their complete misreading of the text.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
My theory is that tech bros hate humanities because they've all tried once to impress a girl studding English Lit by talking about a book and they were all laughed at for their complete misreading of the text.
not to mention tech people can still be bad or questionable in their own fields, just like with some in the humanities
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
not to mention tech people can still be bad or questionable in their own fields, just like with some in the humanities
FWIW, the best tech people I know are ones who genuinely are interested in the humanities and also grasp that there are those who know more than they do (this also applies to people in general).
My theory is that tech bros hate humanities because they've all tried once to impress a girl studding English Lit by talking about a book and they were all laughed at for their complete misreading of the text.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
FWIW, the best tech people I know are ones who genuinely are interested in the humanities and also grasp that there are those who know more than they do (this also applies to people in general).
> empty-eyed MBA tech bro: “the humanities are for low value npcs like women, UX designers, & other wokescolds. this digital necronomicon LLM i built can’t hurt me since i don’t read.”
> enters his 1st prompt: “scary story big boob mommy wife child face anime horror slenderman”
> dies immediately💀
> enters his 1st prompt: “scary story big boob mommy wife child face anime horror slenderman”
> dies immediately💀
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
> empty-eyed MBA tech bro: “the humanities are for low value npcs like women, UX designers, & other wokescolds. this digital necronomicon LLM i built can’t hurt me since i don’t read.”
> enters his 1st prompt: “scary story big boob mommy wife child face anime horror slenderman”
> dies immediately💀
> enters his 1st prompt: “scary story big boob mommy wife child face anime horror slenderman”
> dies immediately💀
Bingo! Relying on tech to be our social conscience when they have never taken a humanities, history or political science course, and lack social skills and awareness then give them $$$ and proximity to power and you have doge, zuckerberg, musk, theil, etc, innovation without social consciousness.
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Bingo! Relying on tech to be our social conscience when they have never taken a humanities, history or political science course, and lack social skills and awareness then give them $$$ and proximity to power and you have doge, zuckerberg, musk, theil, etc, innovation without social consciousness.
From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed briefing. I am *never* an advocate of cutting programs. But I am curious to see if there will be the same type of "students aren't majoring in this, so let's cut the program" discourse around computer science as there always is for the arts and humanities.
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed briefing. I am *never* an advocate of cutting programs. But I am curious to see if there will be the same type of "students aren't majoring in this, so let's cut the program" discourse around computer science as there always is for the arts and humanities.
Why did tech bros all skip Humanities classes & willingly become as non-empathetic and incurious as a sockpuppet troll account, yet think there wouldn't be consequences (like not knowing who Johnny Cash is, or what a "joke" is)
November 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Why did tech bros all skip Humanities classes & willingly become as non-empathetic and incurious as a sockpuppet troll account, yet think there wouldn't be consequences (like not knowing who Johnny Cash is, or what a "joke" is)
I don’t know about you but I sincerely believe that Zohran Mamdani’s BA Major in Africana Studies enabled him to understand our current conjuncture & its demands of justice. Humanities shape minds & in his case for the better.
I know white tech bros disagree as they continue to collapse our worlds.
I know white tech bros disagree as they continue to collapse our worlds.
November 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I don’t know about you but I sincerely believe that Zohran Mamdani’s BA Major in Africana Studies enabled him to understand our current conjuncture & its demands of justice. Humanities shape minds & in his case for the better.
I know white tech bros disagree as they continue to collapse our worlds.
I know white tech bros disagree as they continue to collapse our worlds.
JCO's comments are about Elon Musk, but could easily also be about Trump. I also take JCO's comment as an indirect condemnation of tech vs. humanities in education--a fight I'm still convinced that humanities is losing, much to the detriment of all of us.
My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
JCO's comments are about Elon Musk, but could easily also be about Trump. I also take JCO's comment as an indirect condemnation of tech vs. humanities in education--a fight I'm still convinced that humanities is losing, much to the detriment of all of us.
The kind of STEM MAGA support isn't the kind of STEM most STEM people do.
I would have to say the hostility between tech and humanities almost always boils down to tech vs business people (which we view as mostly humanities people due to most of those conflict being between technology and
I would have to say the hostility between tech and humanities almost always boils down to tech vs business people (which we view as mostly humanities people due to most of those conflict being between technology and
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The kind of STEM MAGA support isn't the kind of STEM most STEM people do.
I would have to say the hostility between tech and humanities almost always boils down to tech vs business people (which we view as mostly humanities people due to most of those conflict being between technology and
I would have to say the hostility between tech and humanities almost always boils down to tech vs business people (which we view as mostly humanities people due to most of those conflict being between technology and
There is so much happening here 🙃
Tech Bros 🤝 Evangelicals
Lack of Humanities education
Tech Bros 🤝 Evangelicals
Lack of Humanities education
November 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
There is so much happening here 🙃
Tech Bros 🤝 Evangelicals
Lack of Humanities education
Tech Bros 🤝 Evangelicals
Lack of Humanities education
QT'd 🧵 on the value & urgency of slow tech, pre-digital tech, non-digital craft & making for a critical & ethical digital humanities:
November 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
QT'd 🧵 on the value & urgency of slow tech, pre-digital tech, non-digital craft & making for a critical & ethical digital humanities:
Every time someone calls Elon Musk a genius I mentally file them in the “Abbie Normal” category
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Every time someone calls Elon Musk a genius I mentally file them in the “Abbie Normal” category
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for working with us to publish proceedings from the 2025 Digital Humanities Tech Symposium in the new ACH anthology.
This volume collects short papers from a DH2025 pre-conference event hosted by @dhtech-community.bsky.social
This volume collects short papers from a DH2025 pre-conference event hosted by @dhtech-community.bsky.social
You can check out the first official volume from the DH Tech Symposium, edited by Julia Damerow and @suttonkoeser.bsky.social.
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
Edited by Julia Damerow and Rebecca Sutton Koeser
anthology.ach.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for working with us to publish proceedings from the 2025 Digital Humanities Tech Symposium in the new ACH anthology.
This volume collects short papers from a DH2025 pre-conference event hosted by @dhtech-community.bsky.social
This volume collects short papers from a DH2025 pre-conference event hosted by @dhtech-community.bsky.social
i was exposed to the political takes of engineering majors and im once again saying everyone in tech and engineering needs to be under the conservatorship of a humanities major until they can prove they are sentient
November 5, 2025 at 8:04 AM
i was exposed to the political takes of engineering majors and im once again saying everyone in tech and engineering needs to be under the conservatorship of a humanities major until they can prove they are sentient
I'm not a tech - I pretty much fail at things not related to the humanities - but my view is if you're not using AI for novel disease treatment research and the like, burn it all down
November 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I'm not a tech - I pretty much fail at things not related to the humanities - but my view is if you're not using AI for novel disease treatment research and the like, burn it all down
I want to get my fellow humanities teachers to do a “gym workout” where we rely on new technology but really the tech is just doing the workout while we scroll TikTok
November 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I want to get my fellow humanities teachers to do a “gym workout” where we rely on new technology but really the tech is just doing the workout while we scroll TikTok
I do think it might be important to note that the modern tech industry and anti-intellectualism are really not opposed a lot of the time. Just look at how tech bros talk about the humanities or the targeting of academic funding in general when they got some power.
November 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I do think it might be important to note that the modern tech industry and anti-intellectualism are really not opposed a lot of the time. Just look at how tech bros talk about the humanities or the targeting of academic funding in general when they got some power.
Lotsa bangers in this thread.
And a reminder that: unregulated capitalism and associated power is the problem, not the tech.
Also, tech bros and their tech bro critics don't know and are incurious about how society works. Need better grounding in history and humanities.
And a reminder that: unregulated capitalism and associated power is the problem, not the tech.
Also, tech bros and their tech bro critics don't know and are incurious about how society works. Need better grounding in history and humanities.
Next up on my reading list.
…I am already regretting this choice.
…I am already regretting this choice.
November 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Lotsa bangers in this thread.
And a reminder that: unregulated capitalism and associated power is the problem, not the tech.
Also, tech bros and their tech bro critics don't know and are incurious about how society works. Need better grounding in history and humanities.
And a reminder that: unregulated capitalism and associated power is the problem, not the tech.
Also, tech bros and their tech bro critics don't know and are incurious about how society works. Need better grounding in history and humanities.
Me in 2005: Why does this tech school make me take so many humanities and ethics courses for a CS degree?
Me in 2025: Oooohhhhhhh
Me in 2025: Oooohhhhhhh
November 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Me in 2005: Why does this tech school make me take so many humanities and ethics courses for a CS degree?
Me in 2025: Oooohhhhhhh
Me in 2025: Oooohhhhhhh
Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵
Desperately need to send every tech bro to a Gulag where they all get taught humanities and liberal arts before they destroy the world.
"Torment Nexus" comes from this tweet and is often used now to describe the kind of negative experiences you can have with social networks, like getting dogpiled or harassed or being pushed into conflict
November 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Desperately need to send every tech bro to a Gulag where they all get taught humanities and liberal arts before they destroy the world.
as the years pile up I see more and more evidence to support my hypothesis that tech people all fucked off in their humanities classes and as a result the only thing they get from all the sci-fi they consume is "wow wouldn't that be cool"
November 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
as the years pile up I see more and more evidence to support my hypothesis that tech people all fucked off in their humanities classes and as a result the only thing they get from all the sci-fi they consume is "wow wouldn't that be cool"
Remember the modern "tech" elite largely ARE trained in the Humanities, at least nominally. Both Peter Thiel and Alex Karp were Philosophy majors. They are investors: what they have "created" is companies, not technologies.
It's the incuriosity that's the problem. Plus the sociopathy.
It's the incuriosity that's the problem. Plus the sociopathy.
November 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Remember the modern "tech" elite largely ARE trained in the Humanities, at least nominally. Both Peter Thiel and Alex Karp were Philosophy majors. They are investors: what they have "created" is companies, not technologies.
It's the incuriosity that's the problem. Plus the sociopathy.
It's the incuriosity that's the problem. Plus the sociopathy.
when Peter Thiel pays people to skip college it’s all about getting tech people to NOT learn anything about the humanities.
Thiel wants tech workers to have his own middle-school level stunted understanding of things like Tolkien. And when they skip college they are not exposed to different ideas.
Thiel wants tech workers to have his own middle-school level stunted understanding of things like Tolkien. And when they skip college they are not exposed to different ideas.
AI chip startup backed by Antichrist aficionado Peter Thiel and In-Q-Tel (CIA venture capital) raises $100 million.
Experts are skeptical it will pan out. But don’t worry: The founder is not an expert and skipped college for a Thiel Fellowship.
Gift Link:
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
Experts are skeptical it will pan out. But don’t worry: The founder is not an expert and skipped college for a Thiel Fellowship.
Gift Link:
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
Peter Thiel-Backed Startup Secures $100 Million to Make Chips in U.S.
Substrate is seeking to build semiconductor factories with new laser-based technology, but the hurdles are high.
www.wsj.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
when Peter Thiel pays people to skip college it’s all about getting tech people to NOT learn anything about the humanities.
Thiel wants tech workers to have his own middle-school level stunted understanding of things like Tolkien. And when they skip college they are not exposed to different ideas.
Thiel wants tech workers to have his own middle-school level stunted understanding of things like Tolkien. And when they skip college they are not exposed to different ideas.