“Your soul will not remain intact while you’re building software that keeps track of undocumented workers. Your soul will not remain intact while building surveillance software whose footage companies hand over to ICE. Your soul will not remain intact while you build software that allows disinformation to spark genocides. Your soul will not remain intact while you hoover up artists’ work to train theft-engines that poison the water of communities in need.”
- Mike Monteiro’s slightly sarcastic take on people developing software from hell
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-not-build-the-torment-nexus/