I'm not saying this woman doesn't exist.

I'm just saying she reads like a woman written by a man.

There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.

I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. I'm Bridget Todd, and this is there are no girls on the internet.

So I feel like Christmas has kind of come a little bit early for me because, Mike, as you know,

not only am I deeply fascinated by identity and technology, but also I am deeply fascinated by my other true love,

which is scams. You know this about me. I love a good scam. I love scam content, scam podcasts.

Give me all the scans. I mean, don't scan me, but I want to be not involved in the scam and then

hear about how the scam unfolded so I can be like,

oh, that's how they did it. Yeah, your love of scams and catfishing is legendary, no doubt.

So catfishing is a scam that I am specifically interested in. And this wild story that was

blowing up on Twitter last week involves all three, identity and technology,

scams, and catfishing. And as fascinating as I find all of these, I also think it's really a story

that tells us a lot about how people actually think about marginalized folks and technology.

Like, do they actually see us? When they see us, do they respect us? When they actually do

include us, is that inclusion a gimmick? Is it done to take the heat off criticism? Like, why is it done?

And when they try to include us and get it so, so, so wrong, what does that tell us to?

So let's talk about DevTurnity. So DevTurity is a tech conference for

developers that attendees have to pay from as little as $435 up to $870 to attend. It was founded by

Edward Sizzoff in 2015. So this conference had been called out for not having a very diverse lineup of speakers.

Like most of their speakers tended to be white men.

And to deal with that, Edwards, the organizer, allegedly decided to flesh out their lineup

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