Lena Reinhard (she/they)

Cables of Resistance -- A movement conference Cables of Resistance is organised by movements and anti-capitalist activists who practise various forms of resistance against big tech. It will be held April 10-12, 2026, in Berlin, Germany.

cableresist.de

Lena Reinhard on Instagram: "This is my 2025 family portrait. I started this series in 2021, skipped last year because I was so unwell that I couldn’t manage the undertaking. This time, I couldn’t qu... 9 likes, 1 comments - _miel on January 2, 2026: "This is my 2025 family portrait. I started this series in 2021, skipped last year because I was so unwell that I couldn’t manage the undertaking. This...

The 2025 family portrait www.instagram.com/p/DTAjmSbjcqT

Twenty-twenty-five

A database maintenance error email recently reminded me that this website exists. I shut down all my twitter accounts a while ago, the last instance of a platform I'd been actively using for a long time and that had led to some really good and fun things in my life (people!…

Productivity ruined for the week
(ok who am i kidding, what productivity)

Boing Boing

boing.greg.technology

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 and Belonging in Tech: From Trying to Fit in To Expressing Yourself In a culture of Hoodies And Jeans

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...

A Tool That Crushes Creativity AI slop is winning.

“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 str...

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...

Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan “DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS! GET THE FUCK IN HERE BEFORE THEY SHUT IT DOWN!” the thread read before being deleted.

“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 Guest host Jon Fortt and The Nerd Reich author Gil Duran on the rise of tech authoritarianism.

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...

Opinion | I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.

“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...

Why Does Every Commercial for A.I. Think You’re a Moron? Ads for consumer A.I. are struggling to imagine how the product could improve your day — unless you’re a barely functioning idiot.

“[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

sticker illustration of a groundhog in a garden patch eating a piece of fruit

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