Veni Kunche

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

I was supposed to go a girl's trip over the past weekend. I had to cancel last minute. My friends reached out today. They got me a refund for one of the shows that we were going to go to and are paying me back my portion of the Airbnb. I didn't even ask. It's nice to have good friends 🥹

🔇 🔇 🔇 I’ll be on the main stage @afro-tech.bsky.social on Tuesday Nov. 3rd at 3:05pm. AfroTech partners with Kindred Stories, a Community-focused bookstore in Houston specializing in Black literature ♥️ ✴️ You can preorder my book, Deep Unlearning, from them. kindredstorieshtx.com/products/dee...

If you were at my talk yesterday at Web Unleashed (or if you weren't but are just curious), I've posted my slide deck with the resources and data that I discussed around AI usage patterns and how to avoid your own "horror story". You can grab it here: remotesynthesis.com/posts/your-a...

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Love ya, Kamala Harris, but hard disagree. Impeach in the House. Don’t care if the Senate doesn’t convict. If I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution, I’d feel duty-bound to impeach in the House. To at least try. And to be as much of a thorn in the side to this administration as I could be.

Minneapolis Public Schools just emailed to say that enrollment is down this year—likely due to Metro Surge—with 900 fewer English Language Learners compared to this time last year. An estimated $12.9 million less revenue for our schools. The impacts of ICE on our community continue to mount.

I love New York

this is categorically insane

NEW: Court records in the prosecution of 15 Minnesota residents reveal a sweeping spying operation against left-wing activists that involves ~120 HSI agents, putting it in the realm of notorious anti-left campaigns like COINTELPRO of the Cold War era. @awinston.bsky.social reports:

But see, the engagement is up! Users now spend on average 3x as much time in our app!

Hey Meta 👋 We are currently hosting a get-out-the-vote rally in Osceola County, home to a large Puerto Rican community, and our #LatinosConAngie Instagram page was suddenly taken down while we were actively posting content from the event.

one way you can tell tech companies know their AI sucks is they keep preventing you from turning it off

She had been laid off and was desperate to find a new position before her visa expired. She was completely alone, too anxious about having seizures in front of strangers to try to make friends. And terrified of her seizure drugs affecting her performance during technical interviews in a second lang.

Basta is a nonprofit closing the employment gap for first-generation students. They are hiring for a Tech Lead — Backend & Platform. buff.ly/ElPseud

Detroiter Nicole Williams when asked if Abdul El-Sayed is ‘a bit too left wing to win in Michigan’: “At this point what do we have to worry about? Anything but what we have. We're on our way to hell, so at this point: socialist, socialize, social, dont matter to me, lower my cost of living!”

Evidence "shows that Trump lied about kicking Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club," according to a new report from the House Judiciary Dem staff. The report also reveals for the first time Beatrice Keul's account of allegedly having been raped by Trump. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

just heartbreaking stuff Alex Pretti's mother calls out ICE and the Trump administration for killing her son and smearing his name, and calls for justice to be done.

A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

Interested in setting aside the magical prompter and learning some web standards skills the old fashioned way? You can sign up for my online Web Components course for free until Oct 31 with the code markitzero. If you find it useful, please consider letting folks know! 🎃

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

You have 3 classes of CEO right now: 1) The ones with LLM psychosis 2) The ones following the first group (and there are a /ton/ of these) 3) A very small group that actually has something resembling rational thought processes....

I was considering moving my business accounts to @proton.me. Well, not anymore! I think all the CEOs should be examined to see if they have AI psychosis.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

A lot of people need to slow down and acknowledge to themselves that they're afraid, and this is affecting how they are interacting with other people. You have to acknowledge the reality of your feelings, or you won't control how they shape your behavior.

So much to say about Brazil, not least of which is the role that Erika Hilton, a Black trans leader and most voted woman politician in Brazil, played in mobilizing folks for Lula. She was behind the critical, concrete, economic promise of shorter work-week. theprint.in/feature/erik...

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Got a Lyft to get home and got a Tesla 🤮

of all of the people in this administration who deserve to go to jail stephen miller deserves to go to jail the most

Hello darkness my old friend

On the Metro. How is this legal??

checking in on the president of the united states

It's insane that the campaign against El-Sayed is basically that he has some secret relationship with the people that the president's family has a secret relationship with.