JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine are veterans of union drives at tech shops that started with astounding successes but hit ferocious resistance in the second Trump term; their book about tech labor, *Against Tech Oligarchy*, is a superb analysis of tech labor's challenges/potential: https://againsttecholigarchy.com/ - If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2026/11/07/aeiou-but-sometimes-why/#unrecognizable-playbook 1/