June 11, 2021

Is Rainbowification Controversial?

Is Rainbowification Controversial?

Happy Pride Month, Hackers! 🏳️‍🌈 Amy Tom, Linh Dao Smooke, and Kien Dao have a thoughtful conversation about LGBTQ+ culture in the tech industry and intersectional discrimination in the workplace. They also discuss WWDC 2021, the iOS 14.6 privacy update,...


Happy Pride Month, Hackers! 🏳️‍🌈 Amy Tom, Linh Dao Smooke, and Kien Dao have a thoughtful conversation about LGBTQ+ culture in the tech industry and intersectional discrimination in the workplace. They also discuss WWDC 2021, the iOS 14.6 privacy update, and security news. 🖤🤍🤎

This Week On Planet Internet, Amy and the Daos get into:

  • Is participating in rainbowification for Pride month considered controversial? ❤️ (05:27)
  • What is Pride/LGBTQ+ culture like in Vietnam where Kien currently lives? 🧡 (08:03)
  • Rainbowifying the Hacker Noon brand: Kien gets into his design process 💛 (12:30)
  • Kien, our resident Apple lover, explains what went down at Apple's WWDC 2021 Keynote 💚(17:43)
  • Linh updated to iOS 14.6 and Facebook asked her to share 3rd party data permissions. Whaddup with that? 💙 (21:58)
  • Amy gets jazzed about the cybersecurity news in America - she explains the JBS foods cyberattack 💜 (27:17)
  • So apparently Jeff Bezos is going to space 🖤 (34:39)

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