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2 years agoAs a software engineer, I asked myself this question a lot when I was in school. Probably, the biggest is enabling secure communication, learning how to hide your footsteps and the footsteps of others. Secure web design, development, hosting is a big one, on top of all of the problem solving techniques you will actually be learning. I find myself benefitting greatly from working on huge projects that would have seemed daunting to me a long time ago, it’s a really useful skill to take something very big and break it down into pieces until none is left.
Outside of that, the best thing you could do is organize. Join an organization if you haven’t already. Meet people in your community, support striking workers, etc.
this could be such useful technology for automating thinking labor but instead it is going to be used as a means to control “The Truth” because loud mouth tech bros are going to cite it as an official source.