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Wu has been in Seattle the past couple of days to do this event hosted by Microsoft and also having a fundraising party at someone's house.
Fuck knows how anyone was supposed to find out about this fundraiser, Wu sure as hell never mentioned it in public (maybe on her facebook? I don't know, I'm not friends with her.)
As far as I can tell, nobody on twitter has said a word about going to any of these so they can't have been terribly exciting.
Out of interest, does anyone think Wu will actually be back in 2020 running for office again? Personally, I doubt it. While I'm sure there'll be a handful of cucks that would donate, mostly the media interest and even the modest amount of donations she got this cycle will be gone. That means Wu would actually have to put in serious work to give even the appearance of a real campaign. I can't see that ever happening. I don't want to try predicting what Wu's next move will be, I tried that when Giant Spacekat tanked and I don't think anyone could possibly have seen the congresswuman switch coming. I really doubt she'll go with professional political candidate though, not enough juice in it.
Edit: LOL, just tried to write the links in this post in wikitext... too much lolcow wiki editing.
Yeah, it came up a few days ago with someone tweeting at BriBri something like "OMG WE'RE GOING TO THE SAME EVENT" and Brianna didn't even have a clue until that chick mentioned it was the Microsoft event.
She's not actually presenting or anything, rather, dinner with her is some sort of first place "prize" for something. There's not a contest I'd like to lose more....
It must be incredibly demoralizing to be a woman at this event, surrounded by other women/peers that have decades of experience in programming, infosec, cloud architecture, engineering etc and you’ve got this fake woman/flimflam man named Brianna Wu talking down to you about your career. A man who’s never held a job or spent a day in his life working in any profession related to tech. How humiliating.
As someone else mentioned, the biggest letdown of this whole event is it's unlikely to be filmed / made public. I wonder what BriBri's plans are when the "winner" of the contest sits down to dinner and maybe tries to discuss something like, oh I dunno, leverging NOSQL as a distributed cache for easing load on expensive but common queries including several joins, and BriBri responds something like, "Yeah, as a Software Engineer I did that at crunch-hour to ensure that my end-to-end encryption wasn't subject to threats from nanomachines trying to run up my power bill mining bitcoin for funding a moon rocks trebuchet! And I wrote it all in Apple Swift! You use C/Java? Maybe you can help me with this issue, I have this variable 'John' which I keep trying to cast to (struct female*) but I keep getting a segmentation fault. My theory is that Gamergate has installed some sort of malware!"
Like... will she have the gall to accuse an ACTUAL female in tech of mansplaining? Will she attempt to block further conversations by throwing a dinner roll into the poor victim engineer's mouf?
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