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Krista LaFentres (she/her)

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👩‍🎨 chief emoji officer 💻 staff eng 💪 powerlifting/strongwoman 🐶 cute animal expert 💭 always hungry ❤💜💙 she/her

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Krista LaFentres (she/her) @lafentres.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Heavy on the concerns about the purposes of "increased velocity". There's a lot of directionless productivity for productivity's sake happening as people completely throw what we've learned about building the right thing out the window. The tech machine is grinding people up and it's disgusting.
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winston @winston.cc · 09/09/2026
i think it should be a larger part of the calculus for LLMs in tech that the industry seems to be factoring in mass burnout as a necessary cost of "building the future." it rhymes with (but is obviously very different from) the way workers were fodder for the industrial revolution's "success".
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Krista LaFentres (she/her) @lafentres.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
AI mandates are inhumane, anti-worker, and anti-human.
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Krista LaFentres (she/her) @lafentres.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Are all the folks regularly generating code with AI also joining the on-call rotation? Like everyone, all the C levels, VPs directors, managers, PMs, designers, etc? Taking full on-call shifts, resolving customer issues, doing incident investigations & on-call maintenance?
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Krista LaFentres (she/her) @lafentres.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The amount of job postings using the term forward deployed engineer is massively gross to me. The war/imperialism associations are hard to ignore. Maybe let's not embrace this trend 🫠🙃
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Krista LaFentres (she/her) @lafentres.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Too many of y'all think anyone who isn't immediately on the AI bandwagon pledging uncritical allegience must be someone who doesn't know enough, isn't as smart as you, or is just having a knee jerk reaction. Couldn't be more wrong tbh. The way people have chosen to force AI to happen is
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NPR @npr.org · 11/06/2026
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with tech journalist Karen Hao about the Pope's recent warnings that AI companies represent a new form of colonialism. n.pr/3Q8HLeZ
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AI development is driving economic inequality, says tech critic Karen Hao
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with tech journalist Karen Hao about the Pope's recent warnings that AI companies represent a new form of colonialism.
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Krista LaFentres (she/her) @lafentres.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I'm currently learning to make lids for vessels on the pottery wheel. Today I threw a couple of cowboy hats to use as lids on some smiley face mugs 🤠
Grey ceramic cowboy hat, freshly thrown on a pottery wheel. The cowboy hat is sitting on a dark brown pottery wheel bat with lots of smudges of slip on it.
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Sean McArthur @seanmonstar.com · 29/07/2026
I want your own words Originally at seanmonstar.com/micro/20260729-i-wa…
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I want your own words
If you choose to communicate with me, all I ask is that you use your own words. Bug reports and issues. Pull request descriptions and especially review comments. This isn't new, but I wanted a link of my own.
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Krista LaFentres (she/her) @lafentres.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The AI brainrot is really eroding social interaction. If you respond to a question or start a conversation with some AI generated slop, I'm not reading that. I don't need you to prompt an LLM for me. I'm not reading nonsensical, poorly written, unvetted, generated slop documents. Please stop 😭
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Krista LaFentres (she/her) @lafentres.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
There's also a wild amount of toxic, unqualified people in charge of AI at a bunch of companies and I don't get it. Are the leadership teams out of touch with what's actually happening on the ground? Do they condone the toxic behavior? Are they not able to tell when these people are full of it?
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Krista LaFentres (she/her) @lafentres.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The whole trend of folks in leadership coding all the time is really irritating to me too. In my opinion, if you're in leadership and you have time for this, you are almost certainly avoiding the hard work that you're supposed to be doing - vision, communication, enabling teams to execute, etc.
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Krista LaFentres (she/her) @lafentres.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It is incredibly difficult to want to stay in tech with the uncritical, disingenuous, irresponsible way almost all companies are engaging with AI. Seeing folks who claim to care about people, DEI, psychological safety, etc actively enforce AI usage at their companies in ways that exacerbate
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Olivia When @oliviawhen.com · 02/05/2026
Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨
A three panel comic done in mostly a blue-purple ink. Frame 1: The artist, a tired person with their hair in a bun and a bag on their shoulder standing in the awning of a bus shelter. There's an ad on it that says "STOP HIRING HUMANS", above a woman whose face has been replace with the word "AI".
Frame 2: The bus comes, it's wrapped in an ad that also says "STOP HIRING HUMANS." The artist has a blank look. 
Frame 3: A plane has now arrived above the bus and the human. It's carrying an ad banner that also says "STOP HIRING HUMANS".
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Krista LaFentres (she/her) @lafentres.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Anyway, I'm seeing a lot of really concerning, messed up behavior in tech right now. To some extent it has always been here but it feels like it keeps getting worse and AI pressure has accelerated it.
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Krista LaFentres (she/her) @lafentres.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
This post articules something I've been thinking about a lot over the past few years. "If using genAI is something that gives you what you need to push past your capacity, I want you to start asking yourself: in what ways am I normalizing my own exploitation?" - @jessicaddickson.bsky.social
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Jessica Dickson on Instagram: "It’s more important than ever that we hold onto every aspect of our humanity and resist our own exploitation. Every single reason I’ve heard people use to validate thei...
1,689 likes, 41 comments - jessicaddickson on April 29, 2026: "It’s more important than ever that we hold onto every aspect of our humanity and resist our own exploitation. Every single reason I’ve h...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.
Wilmer only found out his son had been detained after receiving a phone call on March 15 from his nephew, Luis, who lives with them. That morning was their last time together; they had gone around the corner to do their laundry. Later that day, Wilmer said that his son met with a friend to get help with some errands at the American Red Cross. He learned this from Luis, who looked at the situation from inside the apartment: when his son was on his way back, just steps from his home when ICE agents stopped him. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'”

That moment marked the beginning of Wilmer’s search for answers — answers he’s still waiting for.
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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...
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Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE
Palestinian Columbia student leader Mohsen Mahdawi was called in for a citizenship interview. Instead, ICE arrested him for deportation.
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ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈 @lasermistress.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
There U Glow, my all femme + queer radical electronics camp, is teaching NFC chip nail manicures this year. 💅🏼🤩 We will stay grassroots, we will stay aggressive as shit, and we will not stop 😈 We really want to hit our fundraising goal. www.thereuglow.club www.gofundme.com/f/there-u-gl... 🧵⬇️
Someones thumb held up to the camera. It has sparkly nail polish with a semi-visible copper circle embedded in it. In the background are small stickers that look like antennasSomeones nail held close to a phone open to it's home screen.A phone opened to a window of an article from Make Magazine that says "There U Glow proves you can do tech"
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Audrey Eschright @aeschright.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Finally set up an account so I could do some self-promo 😆 (sorry!) My news blog is back up and running at www.patreon.com/news_not_doom and this week I covered Greenland, the Panama Canal deal, and conflict in Europe www.patreon.com/posts/drawin...
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Get more from Audrey Eschright on Patreon
creating writing about current events
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Terra Field @rainofterra.gay · 24/02/2025
The public comment period for changing passports to misgender trans people is open. Please take a moment to let them know that you do not support that change.
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30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Application for a U.S. Passport
The Department of State has submitted the information collection described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we are requesting comments on these collections from all interested individuals and organizations....
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Krista LaFentres (she/her) @lafentres.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
i'm moving in like 2 weeks and i'm currently in the phase of packing where i deeply regret having any belongings but especially my deep love of collecting trinkets and books 😭
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 19/02/2025
Desperate for freelance/consulting work 😥 5y WCAG, ARIA, & AT 6y web dev, design systems, UX 10y software engineering exp LMS/CMS integration SEO, performance Strategy/planning Requirements gathering Information architecture Redesigns/migrations DM: @semanticfish.com ashlee@semanticfish.com
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 17/01/2025
Coming Soon: The Accessibility Pond! 👉🏻 Tip jar goal: $3,000 USD A newsletter, plus community tiers for... - Monthly AMA sessions - Posting & commenting - Early access to content - Discount codes for friends - Hand knit gifts! Info & updates: semanticfish.com/the-a11y-pond #TheAccessibilityPond
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The Accessibility Pond | Semantic Fish Creative Group
More than a newsletter. Find community, support, resources, and co-conspirators.
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Krista LaFentres (she/her) @lafentres.bsky.social · 19/05/2023
my fav selfie is currently my profile pic so here's one of my favs that someone else has taken of me. this was a test shot for the class photo we took in my photography seminar where we recreated a weird art school themed nativity scene 🖤
A photo of me as a weird version of the Virgin Mary.  I'm against a black background, sitting with my palms facing upward, wearing a white dress patterned with black tree branches and a light blue shawl.
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Krista LaFentres (she/her) @lafentres.bsky.social · 10/05/2023
where are all the other chief emoji officers? 👀
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david celis @davidcel.is · 10/05/2023
`git checkout -b oauth-more-like-o-no-auth`
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Krista LaFentres (she/her) @lafentres.bsky.social · 04/05/2023
my boyfriend won't stop playing that crazy frog song on the piano. he's trying to turn in into a montuno he can play during gigs this weekend 🐸💃🎹
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Krista LaFentres (she/her) @lafentres.bsky.social · 03/05/2023
photo of me: round face, brown eyes, glasses, pale skinned, shaved head, dark hair, black and grey swirly head tattoo, baby possum earrings, gold choker with teeth charms
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Krista LaFentres (she/her) @lafentres.bsky.social · 03/05/2023
found out i have a b12 deficiency so i started taking a supplement. i had migraines every day for a week before i figured out that the b12 supplement triggers migraines for me 🫠 bodies are confusing
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Krista LaFentres (she/her) @lafentres.bsky.social · 01/05/2023
why is he like this? 🗑️🐈‍⬛🧹
blaze, brown & black tabby cat, laying in a pile of swept up dirt on the hardwood floor
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Krista LaFentres (she/her) @lafentres.bsky.social · 01/05/2023
i really wanna do more open source again but, outside of being hired to do it, i still find it pretty intimidating. what projects have been welcoming and supportive, in your experience? i'm interested in using go more, learning rust or other languages, and am comfortable with ruby.
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Krista LaFentres (she/her) @lafentres.bsky.social · 28/04/2023
he can hear the chickens but he can't see them 👀👀👀
my brown & black tabby, blaze, wearing a hot pink harness & leash while standing on top of a wall, looking for chickens
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Krista LaFentres (she/her) @lafentres.bsky.social · 27/04/2023
i want to see the stuff everyone collects 💖 here's one of mine: earrings. i have so many that a few months ago i bought a big spinny rack to organize part of my collection
my large earring collection. some earrings hang on a tall spinning rack, some on small desktop racks
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Krista LaFentres (she/her) @lafentres.bsky.social · 27/04/2023
i've made some new emoji-making scripts recently 🤖🖌️🎨 1. all-the-way-downify: gist.github.com/lafentres/bb61ede3219f05b2f8f19149d185d950 :*-all-the-way-down: Slack emoji creator that generates emoji that scroll infinitely from the bottom to the top.
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Krista LaFentres (she/her) @lafentres.bsky.social · 27/04/2023
one of the bright spots in the middle of the stress of dealing with the aftermath of a house fire is the fact that the neighbors at the temporary house i'm staying in have some very cute chickens 💛🐥💛
2 black and brown chickens and 2 orange and white chickens roaming my neighbor's yard, pictured through the wire fence
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