Besides that, I'm deeply interested in this thread and other responses, as someone who's been pondering the same thing for a long time. Where I've landed is that there might not be a special thing only I can do to help the current situation using the skills I have, but that the best thing I could do is use my financial security and work/life boundaries to do the unglamorous work of civic and political volunteering. It's possible that we can't hack our way out of this, but we can support the organisational efforts of others in other ways. Protest and community organising are still the most effective methods of arousing change, and while I would like to see more civil disobedience in the digital realm, it might be that the best a tech worker can do is go and march in the city square along with thousands of others.