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>More direct means of resistance are also possible, especially for the privileged and highly paid employees of big tech. Maneuver yourself towards the levers of power. At your current job, find your way onto the teams implementing the technology that enables authoritarianism, and fuck it up. Drop the database by “mistake”. Overlook bugs. Be confidently wrong in code reviews and meetings. Apply for a job at Palantir, and be incompetent at it. Make yourself a single point of failure, then fail. Remember too that plausible deniability is key – make them work to figure out that you are the problem