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Lisi Hocke
@lisihocke.bsky.social
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security engineer, holistic tester, quality enabler, agile experimenter, sociotechnical symmathecist, team glue. volleyball player, game lover, story escapist. she/her. https://www.lisihocke.com https://mastodon.social/@lisihocke https://linktr.ee
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Oooooh that's awesome, huge congratulations!!! ❤️🎉
Oh that would have been lovely indeed! Thank you, really looking forward, it's my first time there.
Thank you 😊🤞🏻
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I vaguely remember this interview as well. It happens all the time. Daniel Radcliffe is admitting he has racist friends. The quote is "I don't think friendship should be drawn along those lines".

And it allows us to ask a very simple and direct question. Why not?
I am often reminded of this interview with actor Daniel Radcliffe, saying the quiet part out loud. They mean well, kind of, sort of, but it's not like it's all that serious.
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For those folks, accepting Black people's view of the world would require them to:

1) Accept responsibility for the legacy of white supremacist harm.

2) Be accountable as part of the culture that continues to perpetuate that harm.

3) Stop doing self-serving things that harm Black people.
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Write code to make being human easier. Rip code out if it makes being human harder. Write code to make caring for each other easier. Rip it out if it makes caring for each other harder.

Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined
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*puts my contrarian hat on*
not having code is also a liability!

Lots of times people want to solve social problems with tech. Don’t do that. But sometimes (OCCASIONALLY) people are desperately trying to solve tech problems with people in order to avoid writing code

That’s not great either!
yessss, grasshopper. code is liability. carry on 📈✨
my toxic engineer trait is that I'm basically allergic to code

all code is bad. the less code the better. why are you writing new code stahp *sprays devs with squirt bottle*
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One of the most effective things white people could do as resistance is show everybody that you'll get fucked up too if you step out of line. They've been lying about who's a criminal, who deserves it, why people are targeted. You're not safe, you're just last.
As a white leftist among white liberals, I think all the members of the anti-Trump coalition need to normalize getting arrested in direct civil disobedience actions at ICE facilities, and mass crowdsource a legal defense fund. White people stop this when they use their bodies to stop racial terror.
The other response is "none of my white liberals friends think this is enough!"

I said cool, what are they talking about doing next?

... we don't know. 🤷🏾‍♂️
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The other response is "none of my white liberals friends think this is enough!"

I said cool, what are they talking about doing next?

... we don't know. 🤷🏾‍♂️
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I'm generally getting two responses to this. One is "violence will make everything worse?!"

Then I point that there are a bunch of people for whom it's very bad right now. And they don't have an answer.
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I was talking to friends last night about white liberals. They truly believe that showing up in an orderly fashion and expressing their displeasure is sufficient to make oppressors change course. No matter how many times you tell them it's not enough.
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I appreciate the No Kings protest. It should be useful to show people that there are more than enough of us to fight back. But we will have to fight. And white liberals are terrified of violence.
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I was talking to friends last night about white liberals. They truly believe that showing up in an orderly fashion and expressing their displeasure is sufficient to make oppressors change course. No matter how many times you tell them it's not enough.
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One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.
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Reminded of this quote by Jane Goodall today:

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
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What code reviews should not be:
* Ways to exercise power - it should be true peer reviews
* Done by seniors missing mentoring skills
* blaming or harming
* a miserable experience
* gate keeping (gates introduce delays)
* a must

@tdpauw.bsky.social #agilecam
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I wish so many more developers would realise this! The amount of times I've heard "because X told me to" when I've asked why they are making a change is scary. My first lecture at uni, way back in '94, was basically telling a room of students that we should be focused on solving problems.
Sure, our jobs include those things (including the odd breakage in prod), but it's more than that.

As software engineers, we:
- Solve problems
- Deliver value to customers
- Help level up those around us
- Collaborate with our team members
- Communicate clearly in many formats
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I have a feeling that this event is going to be awesome! I will be speaking about Synthetic Monitoring at @oredev.org ! See you there?
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I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
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* clears throat very loudly *
White people attending these “No Kings” gatherings need to appreciate the fact that Black people are keeping you safe from police, by largely staying in our homes.

Black people did not meet and discuss this. Strategic patriotism like this is part of who we are. Always has been. ✊🏽🇺🇸
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In 2025, I've had a steep increase in reports from clients about AI voice clone phone calls asking for money, passwords or codes.
I give it about 12 months before criminals increase use of live video call deepfakes in their scams.
Get your folks & team prepared to catch it now.
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*My Latest CNN Zoom Call Deepfake Demo*
An eng org sent $25M to scammers who deepfaked the CFO in a live video call.
Are your colleagues, fam & friends ready to catch this AI attack?
I demo'd a live Zoom deepfake to CNN's Clare Duffy to help you spot the signs:
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/07/b...
How the latest deepfake scam can cheat companies out of millions | CNN Business
From CEOs to colleagues, deepfake technology can trick people into sending money, sharing passwords, or revealing sensitive information - all in seconds. CNN’s Clare Duffy met with ethical hacker and ...
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