Deep in Mordor where the shadows lie: Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google (wordsmith.social)

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Memoirs of the almost a year I lasted at Google. The name of that year? 2008. Yeah. Topics include: Third World, precariat, tech elitism, queerness, surveillance, capitalism.

Y'all encouraged me to submit this as a full post, and I clearly overcommited to this blog so I hope TechTakes fits for it lol

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[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago

Fun read. I remember when my coworker got hired by Twitter I was a bit jealous. Now in retrospect, I was the lucky one working at a web branding agency.

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