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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-05T05:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://jonathanstephens.us",
  "tags": [
    "Power",
    "Work",
    "Labor",
    "Harm",
    "Tech Industry",
    "Responsibility",
    "knock on the door",
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  "textContent": "> We are living through an overwhelming barrage of very bad shit. And we don't need to know which passport you hold or where you are in the world to say there is very awful shit happening in the streets.\n\n> **Doing harm at scale requires infrastructure.** What ICE is doing can't happen in the same way without purpose-built surveillance and coordination tools. But it also can't happen without booths at recruiting fairs, or warehousing and staging areas, or rental cars. Epstein had a literal private island, but he also had bank accounts and tax advisory services, and reservations at restaurants.\n\n> This isn't an equal-rights question — **asshole is not a protected class**. A year ago we wrote about anticipating the threat of a knock on the door from _\"some government officers looking for undesirables.\"_ We weren't wrong. And we weren't wrong when we said that it's worth having a policy on whose money you'll take, either. It's not too late to start saying no. It's not too late to say no to new work for these people. It's not too late to pay the penalty clauses to break existing paper.\n\n> At least as far back as the '50s, psychologists have found that many people will go along with a thing they know is wrong if everyone else is. But as soon as one other person speaks up, that conformity tends to collapse.\n\n> **If yours is an org or a world where bad shit happens unremarked, the most important tool at your disposal is that you can remark.**",
  "title": "You are not entirely powerless"
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