Mamdani Hires Lisa Gelobter as Chief Tech Officer

Post by 650 » Wed, Feb 11, 2026, 8:29 PM UTC

lukev wrote: post #78

650 wrote: post #43

This is a bad puff piece article. Jeffrey C Mays the author is not technologically adept. She was a software engineer for a year. She was director of program management at Macromedia, which anyone who works in tech knows is more like a secretary type of role asking for project updates and timelines. I take issue with the title: `Groundbreaking Computer Scientist` in the NYT article, I challenge anyone to show me proo…

That may be a puff piece, but this comment reads like a slam? I don't know anything about her personally but the consensus among tech folks I follow and respect (and are politically aligned with...) are pretty universal in applauding the choice. Disagreeing on politics is fine but let's not slam someone technically because we don't like them. Especially in a role where tech management is actually the way more relevan…

Post by anonymous_user9 » Thu, Feb 12, 2026, 5:46 AM UTC

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It's interesting to poke around and see how the game of telephone works. The first mentions I saw on Twitter were from February 2018[0]. Subsequent Black History Months[1] would reiterate how she invented GIFs or sometimes animated GIFs. You even get crazy things like how she invented the animated GIF while working with the Obama administration[2]. (That post references an article that talks about her working with th…

The NYT seems to have an interest in making Mamdani and his administration more palatable to their readers: http://lee-phillips.org/nytIHRA

Post by anonymous_user9 » Thu, Feb 12, 2026, 7:04 AM UTC

leephillips wrote: post #84

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If you go to the IGRA's website [1] and scroll down, you'll find the part of the definition that equates criticism of Israel with antisemitism: > Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor. > Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis. [1] https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-def…

The parts you quote do not equate criticism of Israel with antisemitism.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 12, 2026, 11:06 AM UTC

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As most people who have worked in engineering at large companies can attest, there are entrenched dinosaurs who have worked themselves up the management chain due to inertia. This is such an example. They are almost always out of their depth technically, and are great at taking credit for the work of others. There are people in this comments section, and online claiming she invented Adobe Shockwave. This article clai…

The Director of Program Management may have had the initial, vague idea. Is that "invented"? It almost certainly wasn't "implemented the first working prototype"...

Post by Finnucane » Thu, Feb 12, 2026, 1:31 PM UTC

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>Notably absent on resume and in the news article is proficiency in AI or machine learning, You say that like it's a bad thing.

Yeah, we wouldn't want someone who understands the most revolutionary technology in 100 years to be the technical advisor to the mayor of the largest city in the United States or anything. That would be silly.