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Pluralistic: Digital sewer socialism (08 Aug 2026)
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
There's a name for this movement: it's called "Public Interest Technology" and the people who work in it are called "public interest technologists."
Bruce Schneier created the canonical resource page for Public Interest Technologists, including career opportunities for would-be public interest technologists:https://public-interest-tech.com/But the motherlode of public interest technologist opportunities wasn't the nonprofit sector – it was the public sector.
As Levy describes it, the big difference between the Obama-era USDS and 2026's PIT Crews is "a skeptical, almost adversarial, stance toward Big Tech."
NYC's PIT Crews explicitly recruit top-tier hacker talent who want to "make software that doesn't serve advertisers, the military, or the pocketbooks of centibillionaires."
"The Internet Con": A nonfiction book about interoperability and Big Tech (Verso) September 2023 (http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org).