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Veni Kunche

@veni.dev

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🌈 Founder of @DiversifyTech.com 👒 I wear many hats as a dev + founder 🐥 Mom to two girls 🧠 Neurodivergent 🍿 K-drama fan ✨ she/her 🔗 https://buff.ly/41WjmcB

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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · Nov 11

Hi Bluesky friends! I'm Veni 😊

After working as a Software Engineer for over a decade, I started @diversifytech.com 6 years ago

I'm not going to convince you to care about diversity in tech but if you do, I'd love to introduce you to great candidates from our community.

www.diversifytech.com

Diversify Tech - Connecting marginalized folks in tech with career opportunities

Get events, scholarships and job opportunities from vetted companies in your inbox every week

www.diversifytech.com

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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 2h

Every time ICE and the National Guard enter a new city I remember how many people do not understand the expansiveness of the efforts to make this a totalitarian state.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 2h

"New York City filed a new lawsuit accusing Facebook, Google, Snapchat, TikTok and other online platforms of fueling a mental health crisis among children by addicting them to social media." www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

www.reuters.com

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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 5h

"Internal emails show tech giant (Apple) used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement"

migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Camilo 🏆 @cam.bio · 5h

Mijente and Techqueria were 100% correct in saying no tech for ICE

migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 5h

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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 6h

Accessibility is popular, it's rare I meet anyone who thinks it doesn't matter.

Usually it's the systemic failures that make us de-prioritize it, things like perceived tight timelines, low budgets, lack of resources.

Regardless, the future world is accessible. There's too many of us that want it

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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 6h

Congrats!!

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👻 Autumn Nash 🎃 @withenoughcoffee.com · 8h

At first the Discord hack didn’t seem that bad because it was initially the third party help desk.

But then you find out they had got there age verification data. Come to find out they got 1.5 TB of government id and age verification data. This is going to become a case against age verification.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 8h

if you work for a publication that does this and have any idea how much $$$ your outlet makes from affiliate sale commissions on prime day, DM or signal me: jason.404

also interested if you are a journalist who is asked to do these deal roundups as part of your job

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 9h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 8h

I also hate how most of the publications just to do PR for them

Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 8h

“You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross."

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’

Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

www.theguardian.com

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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 8h

I don't believe a thing said by the people who encourage you to move fast and break things and to ask for forgiveness rather than permission.

Of course they knew. They are not dumb.

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 8h

✨ Folks have been going through my Whimsical Animations course for a couple of weeks now, and they’re starting to share some of the stuff they’ve created. It’s *so cool* getting to see what people come up with!

For example:

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Mr. Fresh™️ @mrfresh.bsky.social · 20h

No lies detected.

A meme about CEOs wanting AI now but don’t know what to do with it.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 21h

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d

The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,

and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.

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Randy Au @randyau.com · 1d

This week on Counting Stuff, a 'problem that I worry about' -> how do I know when I'm making stuff "Easier" that I haven't gone too far and just pushed friction out to some other system that will bite me in the ass later #dataBS Also still job hunting!

www.counting-stuff.com/in-ux-we-kee...

In UX we keep getting asked to bring a frictionless future... to nowhere

Thanks to the many people who have reached out with leads on available senior-y leveled data/ux positions or just connections to other humans! I'm working through things and starting to reach out to f...

www.counting-stuff.com

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demon core vidal (halloween style. bc demons are SPOOKY) @regretagarbo.rip · 1d

“finish adding a feature” we literally all thought was there from the get go. “finish adding a feature” when jay yelled at all of us to shut the fuck up and federate if we wanted change.

unbelievable

Asked about why Link had to contact Bluesky to ask what had happened to his account rather than receiving a notice, Paul Frazee, the service's CTO, said that it was "unfortunate," and that Bluesky needed to finish adding a feature to let users of external PDSes know if they have been banned by Bluesky labelers.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet.

If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.

Read this in @bloomberg.com👇

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: David Adler—a Jewish American on the Gaza aid Flotilla—details Israeli detention.

At one point, he says, he was forced to his knees for a photo op with the Israeli flag, as Ben Gvir yelled in his face, calling him a terrorist.

Says US "hung up" on families of Americans, veterans seeking help.

EXCLUSIVE: Freed Flotilla Activist David Adler Details His ‘Violent Abduction’ by Israel

The Jewish American writer says Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir specifically targeted him, forcing a photo op with the Israeli flag and calling him a “terrorist.”

zeteo.com

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 1d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

The FAA is delaying flights at Newark and Denver airports because they haven’t got enough air traffic control. Burbank has zero ATC from 4.30-10pm.

Lots of controllers who aren’t being paid during the government shutdown are calling in sick.

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