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Say hi if you’re at @leaddev.com Berlin! And if you’re a director, VP, or other senior leader and a member of an underrepresented group in tech, join us tonight for the inaugural meetup!! At 1800, I would LOVE to see you there 💫

Being stylish & belonging in tech: I’m joined by five fabulous senior engineering leaders to talk about fashion as self-expression in an industry of hoodies and jeans, (not) fitting in, and the stress of calculating how your appearance may impact how you’re treated open.spotify.com/episode/3bSJ...

“To live through this moment is to feel that some essential component of our shared humanity is being slowly leached out of the world.” A tool that crushes creativity: AI slop is winning, by @cwarzel.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The “Careless People” Who Make Up Elite Institutions:
Sarah Wynn-Williams’ bestseller is a disturbing exposé about the inner workings of Facebook. But Wynn-Williams herself is complicit in the harms she criticizes, and so is her entire class of elite strivers. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-car...

“Users say they are rifling through peoples’ personal data and selfies uploaded to the app, and then posting that data online, according to screenshots, 4chan posts, and code reviewed by 404 Media.” Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan

Why tech billionaires want a dictatorship — & why most of Silicon Valley will quietly watch democracy burn.

My talk with @jonfortt.bsky.social (my DePauw classmate) about the dangerous coalition between the far right & the tech right. On @theverge.com's Decoder

www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

“If I use a hammer to drive a nail into a piece of wood, I may believe I'm the master of the hammer… If we continue to believe we are fully in control, while being subtly influenced by LLMs…, we may lose our autonomy without realizing it.”

Commenter Desengaño re: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

“[W]e are watching Silicon Valley struggle to imagine how normal humans might use this technology, and then reverse-engineer the problems those uses might solve.“

Hey @leaddev.com #ldx3, I’m running office hours now on the ground floor, and I HAVE GROUNDHOG STICKERS

Goooood morning #ldx3! If you’re tired and here at 9:30, join me at the main stage and let’s be tired together and talk about… well, here’s a preview

(and yes we’ll also talk about working with your boss, I promise it will make sense and, even more importantly, it will be cute) // @leaddev.com

And so it begins, registration queue for LDX3 in London this morning @leaddev.com #ldx3

I am “this is the ninth?, eleventh? I-can’t-even-remember-how-many-th social network and how many more times I have it in me to do this”-years old