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Research Notes: The Friction Artists

Behind the Research on Tech Worker Ethics and Resistance

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A Z Mackay
Dec 16, 2025
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Started with a question: twelve engineers quit Google over Project Maven in 2018, and the project died. How does that math work? A company with over 100,000 employees doesn’t typically alter course because twelve people resigned. Yet that’s what happened. Something about that arithmetic felt important.

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The trail started with trying to n…

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