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This is a wild, hopeful story: grad students at @Northeastern successfully pushed back against digital workplace surveillance, through fearless solidarity and the bright light of publicity. It's a tale of hand-to-hand, victorious combat with the #ShittyTechnologyAdoptionCurve. 1/ A flier inviting ISEC grad ...
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What's the "shitty tech adoption curve?" It's the process by which oppressive technologies are normalized and spread. 3/
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Since @_reallifemag is closing down, we wanted to highlight some of our favorite pieces from over the years.

Here are 30 insightful, incisive, and critical writings on #technology and its interactions with society at large. Follow & hire these writers!

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#LuxurySurveillance

People pay a premium for tracking technologies that get imposed unwillingly on others via @hypervisible & @dgolumbia

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Friction-Free Racism

Surveillance capitalism turns a profit by making people more comfortable with discrimination via @hypervisible

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If you want to do something terrible with tech, you can't just use it on people with money and status. They'll complain and your idea will tank. Successful shitty tech rollouts start with prisoners, kids, migrants and others who can be abused with impunity. 1/ A four-quadrant rectangle depicting four vintage workplace p
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Then they work their way up the privilege gradient. 2/
I call it the Shitty Technology Adoption Curve.

The point of the Shitty Technology Adoption Curve is to normalize technological oppression, one group at a time. 3/
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