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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[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Looks like HN found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44200773

Holy shit the sheer amount of them saying they were confused by how you wrote your article has me rolling. These paragons of intelligence failing at basic reading comprehension.

Hopefully you find their jabbering about it as funny as I did.

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 5 days ago

I read the comments before the article and I thought I was about to read something with like a complicated narrative framing device but apparently HN chuds cannot disentangle a linear, first-person narrated blog post.

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