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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 12/09/2026

Yay, super cool that you’ll be there! This one will have elements from what’s in the video but will have major new sections, but definitely spoilers ahead. See you in Brighton! 😄

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Frederic Marx @fmarx.com · 12/08/2026

How to redraw futures we’ve been told are inevitable, and how to be human in times of change and uncertainty; a thought- and hope-provoking video essay by the inimitable @lenareinhard.com.

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 06/08/2026

We Were Meant to Be: On Tech, Hype, Being Human, and Making a Future youtu.be/cqocz1D4rds

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We Were Meant to Be: On Tech, Hype, Being Human, and Making a Future

YouTube video by Lena Reinhard

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 06/08/2026

Thank you, it was my pleasure ✨ It’s also online now bsky.app/profile/lena... if there’s anyone you know who may benefit from hearing this now (I got a lot of feedback similar to yours), here’s a way to pas it on if you like

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 06/08/2026

Thank you ✨ it means a lot! It’s also online now bsky.app/profile/lena... any sharing is greatly appreciated, based on all the feedback I got I would love for it to reach more people who may benefit from hearing this now

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 06/08/2026

Thank you for the cool pic :D just a quick note, it’s also online now in case there’s anyone you’d want to share it with bsky.app/profile/lena...

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 06/08/2026

Thank you ✨ it was such an incredible honor and I loved the immediate responses from everyone who was there. It is also online now just in case there’s anyone you’d want to share it with bsky.app/profile/lena...

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 06/08/2026

Thank you ✨ it’s also online now if there’s anyone you’d like to share it with bsky.app/profile/lena...

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 06/08/2026

That’s a shame :( will do a better job at the abstract next time! If there’s anyone you’d like to share it with, you can now! bsky.app/profile/lena... any sharing is greatly appreciated, based on all the feedback I got I would love for it to reach more people who may benefit from hearing this now

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 06/08/2026

Thank you ✨ You can now! bsky.app/profile/lena... any sharing is greatly appreciated, based on all the feedback I got I would love for it to reach more people who may benefit from hearing this now

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 06/08/2026

Hey, I wanted to follow up on this because your questions stuck with me. I did give a somewhat updated version of this talk not too long ago (with an emphasis on where we’re at as an industry and where to ho from there). It’s here if you’re interested bsky.app/profile/lena...

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 06/08/2026

I got *so* much feedback from so many engineers that it made them feel seen & said what they can’t say out of fear of repercussions. If this speaks to you, please share it with your friends & team members. Many people are not okay right now; this is my attempt at sketching out some paths forward.

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 06/08/2026

art, and poetry, combined with my own history, I trace how we got here — and where we might go from here. This content was first presented as an opening keynote at a software engineering conference in May 2026. I specifically made this version for YouTube. 4/5

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 06/08/2026

uncertain about what it all means — and what it means for us. This is an invitation to sit with that uncertainty, look at it, and find something unexpected on the other side. It speaks to what many people in tech are feeling but struggling to say out loud as the industry demands enthusiasm. 2/5

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 06/08/2026

Maybe you got into tech because you loved tinkering with computers. Maybe it was the promise of stability, good pay, and meaningful work. Now, after waves of layoffs, return-to-office mandates, and AI reshaping everything around us, those promises feel shaky, at best, and many of us feel 2/5

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 01/07/2026

It’s an honor to get this kind of feedback on a talk, thank you so much for sharing this with me, how generous. The updated version, phew. It’s how to be human, now, and in tech. The central question hasn’t changed, but like you said, the environment has become so much more blatantly inhumane.

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 25/06/2026

P.S. I got to speak there 11 years ago so if you want to see baby me "Talk about Everything" (yes that was the title, the quiet part was "...that's messed up in tech"), here goes nothing... or everything: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZx7...

2026.ffconf.org

FFConf 🌟 UK web conference since 2009

FFConf - the UK's best JavaScript and Web conference in Brighton.

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 25/06/2026

For al of you interested in spending a day with "people who still give a damn about the web and its community", I'll be at @ffconf.org this year again. It's such a lovely, small, community-focused event, and I loved the many great conversations I had last time I went. Join us! 2026.ffconf.org

2026.ffconf.org

FFConf 🌟 UK web conference since 2009

FFConf - the UK's best JavaScript and Web conference in Brighton.

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 17/06/2026

“Like a cat leaving a dead bird at your doorstep, Anthropic catalogs the grim future that its products might produce, shrugs its shoulders and then returns to its furious efforts to make these warnings a reality.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...

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Opinion | Dear A.I. Companies: The Doom Trolling Needs to Stop

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

i'm not sure any tech criticism i could put forward rn would be more effective than the totality of this screenshot

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/06/2026

Look do not let the fascism machine read shit into your child’s subconscious while they sleep.

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 10/06/2026

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns" Not like the playbooks are a surprise by now, still something else to see it written out www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

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Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 08/06/2026

To quote my fav Reddit comment on this re: this opening Meta up to another lawsuit: “They’ve ran the same playbook for pushing 20 years now. We get $35 or whatever in the class action and they get to build a surveillance state. The Future rules” tech.yahoo.com/ai/meta-ai/a...

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Meta Furious Over Bombshell Smart Glasses Revelation

"Despite the billions of reasons not to, Meta seems to have created the capacity to turn their customers into a distributed surveillance machine."

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 03/06/2026

The sticker table has been replenished 😃 #ldx3

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 02/06/2026

Stickers are in the sticker zone! Everything from eierlegende Wollmilchsau to groundhogs to voids and something about billionaires 🙃 #ldx3 @leaddev.com

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 02/06/2026

If you’re at #ldx3 @leaddev.com today/tomorrow, say hi! I have various stickers of groundhogs and the void (screamin.to) 😃

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 02/06/2026

Why is the only time EVER that I get a DIY ABBA medley stuck in my head the night before a big conference day when I’m supposed to sleep

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 29/05/2026

“Getting strong output from an LLM requires a skilled human on the other end: one who validates what it produces, identifies what it missed, expands the ideation beyond the initial response, and applies judgment to decide. Cognitive surrender eliminates … those steps.” tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/...

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AI Is Eroding Critical Thinking At Work. The Window Is Closing.

A 2026 Wharton study documents how AI is restructuring human reasoning in the workplace, and what leaders can do before the window to act closes.

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 22/05/2026

Thank you SO MUCH #kotlinconf for having me and the many great conversations about “We Were Meant To Be.” All resources are at void.salon, and the void is at screamin.to/thevoid The full talk will be on YouTube soon! And now, let’s make the future 😃

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We were Meant To Be: KotlinConf 2026 Keynote Resources — Lena Reinhard

On May 22, 2026, I am presenting a keynote at KotlinConf in Munich. It’s titled "We Were Meant to Be" and was a labor of love that involved lots of reading and research. In this post, you’ll find the...

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 22/05/2026

Good morning #kotlinconf, I hope to see you all at 9 😃

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 21/05/2026

Hello @kotlinconf.com! I’m so happy to be here, find me opposite the merch booth for the next hour if you want to say hi, I have void and other stickers (that will be explained in my talk tomorrow 😃), or say hi at he party later! 👋 #kotlinconf

Four stickers on a tabletop, of a fictional animal, two voids, and a corporate office

Lena holding her speaker badge wearing a black jacket and blue mask

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 13/05/2026

*narrator voice* they're not gonna know. how would they know

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 13/05/2026

there are many things people can hold against me in this life but lack of dedication to the cause really isn't one of them (this is my attempt at taking photos of some of my favorite rocks, and i had, uhm, camera remote battery + lighting setup problems) #lenawritesakeynote (Might delete later :D)

An overhead camera setup with a cluttered background, a pink backdrop on the floor, and Lena pictured on the side holding a lightbulb cable with her mouth and a rock in her hand

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 09/05/2026

Feel like screaming into the void? Here you go: www.screamin.to/thevoid/

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welcome to void land.

scream into the void.

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Teal Starsong @teal.is · 11/05/2026

Their biggest competitor is trainwrecking, so naturally Gitlab must now (well, June 1st) fire 30% of people to give the rest a better experience. Also out: diversity, inclusion, belonging. We're all about QUALITY now, peeps! A rambly ride down the bullshit slide: about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-...

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GitLab Act 2

A letter to our customers and our investors.

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Teal Starsong @teal.is · 11/05/2026

Anyway I made a thing together with @lenareinhard.com and Pepijn Schoen. Here's a void for you to scream into, please enjoy it. screamin.to/thevoid/

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welcome to void land.

scream into the void.

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 09/05/2026

Feel like screaming into the void? Here you go: www.screamin.to/thevoid/

screamin.to

welcome to void land.

scream into the void.

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 05/05/2026

May 8-12: Protests in 40 cities to raise awareness for ME/CFS (bonus: you can lay down for it!). Join: liegenddemo.de#termine ME/CFS is still under-researched, under-funded, and Germany’s gappy healthcare system leaves affected people alone with a debilitating illness and no support.

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Initiative #LiegendDemo – ME/CFS sichtbar machen

Bundesweite Aktionen für Menschen mit ME/CFS. Für Aufklärung, Versorgung und Forschung.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

exchange on X

Christoffer Bjelke @chribjel
We hired a junior developer to write the simple code, so we don't have to spend a ton of money on tokens for those basic/primitive tasks

Sameer goel @sameer_goel
Great, so now we're optimizing LLM costs by inventing employees again.
Full circle innovation.

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 18/04/2026

My message to the AI industrial complex: Please hold off on further BS for the next 6 weeks, I don’t have capacity for more.

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 18/04/2026

Now I just have to do refinements on the voice track and make ca. 20-30 artworks for the slides. Also, make proper slides.

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 18/04/2026

#lenawritesakeynote finally had some focus time and got the whole thing from 12,000 to 7,000 words and, with that, to target 🎉 And it flows well. I’m so relieved.

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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 26/03/2026

The tide is turning. The dollar amount in this lawsuit- $6 million - is low, but the implications are massive. Tech companies are finally being held liable for designing harmful products. My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link) on why this win matters. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/o...

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Opinion | Big Tech Should Pay for What It Has Done to Us

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 01/04/2026

finally the certificate my linkedin really needs amiatechbro.com

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Am I a Tech Bro?

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Lena Reinhard (she/they) @lenareinhard.com · 30/03/2026

“Everyone gets to say they’re protecting children. The only thing anyone actually has to give up is the ability to use the internet without showing ID.” Comprehensive look at age restrictions globally and the politicians AND tech companies lobbying for it reclaimthenet.org/the-age-veri...

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The Age Verification Con

How Big Tech and politicians built a digital ID system for everyone while pretending to fight each other.

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