"Tech writing and publishing in the Bay Area wasnβt always like this. In the second half of the 2010s, a rising tide of public discontent with Silicon Valley β the βtechlashβ β coincided with the first Trump inauguration to produce a mass politicization of tech workers. I was one such worker, and became a labor organizer in the tech industry alongside others who would go on to orchestrate everything from a global walkout at Google to salting programs at startups.
Such resistance movements in tech animated, and were in turn supported by, their own homegrown publications. One of them, Logic Magazine, was a forum for tech criticism that was widely read by partisans of the tech worker movement. Logic was where you could go to learn about racist criminal sentencing algorithms, tools for tenants to research landlords, and how to sabotage computer vision systems. My comrades published real-time histories of the tech worker movement and exposΓ©s on their employers in Logic; we showed up to their in-person events in San Francisco to meet others who thought similarly.
But that now feels like a past life. Today, the techlash is a receding memory and the tech worker movement is running on fumes, the preserve of a few lonely unions. In a sign of shifting winds, Logic rebranded as Logic(s) in 2022, pivoting to subjects outside Silicon Valley proper, and transitioned to a new editorial team institutionalized at Columbia University.
In the years since, the tech industry has gladly unburdened itself from the critiques leveled at it during the techlash. Nowhere is this more obvious than in techβs involvement in building weapons of war."
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