silicon valley horror should be its own literary genre
If Silicon Valley is your dystopia of choice, you NEED to read Mary South’s short story, “You Will Never Be Forgotten,” from last week’s New Yorker. Because yes like it’s fiction, but it’s also about a young woman working a gruesome content moderation job, figuring out how to exact revenge for her sexual assault, driving herself crazy through digital algorithm-abetted means, and encountering oblivious app developers who truly believe they’re making the world a better place — i.e., it’s all way too true to life. Read it while you’re in line to snag a copy of Anna Wiener’s memoir, Uncanny Valley if you wanna make a horrific little day out of it.
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