“In America, they put staff in with the Trump campaign to help them stage the war of misinformation, trolling, and lies that won him the election.”
― Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
― Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
“Words hold such immense power. A book is a door to the unknown; it warmly welcomes those who step inside and transports them to all sorts of times and places.”
― The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
― The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
“A book is a door to the unknown; it warmly welcomes those who step inside and transports them to all sorts of times and places.”
― The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
― The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
“My conclusion: It was just that Joel, Elliot, Sheryl, and Mark didn’t give a fuck. Joel was a veteran of George W. Bush’s White House. An issue in Syria would be met by a wave of his hand and, “Drop a bomb on it. I don’t care.” A joke, but also who he was. He was the man in charge of those countries for Facebook. And when it came to Myanmar, those people just didn’t matter to him. He couldn’t be bothered. There was no greater principle ever offered. People outside big companies sometimes wonder and speculate about how these sorts of decisions happen. This is how it happened at Facebook. And it wasn’t just Joel. None of the senior leaders—Elliot or Sheryl or Mark—thought about this enough to put in place the kinds of systems we’d need, in Myanmar or other countries. They apparently didn’t care. These were sins of omission. It wasn’t the things they did; it was the things they didn’t do.”
― Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
― Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
“She had once read in a book about consciousness that over the years, the human brain makes an AI version of your loved ones. The brain collects data, and within your brain, you host a virtual version of that person. Upon the person’s death, your brain still believes the virtual person exists, because, in a sense, the person still does. After a while, though, the memory fades, and each year, you are left with an increasingly diminished version of the AI you had made when the person was alive.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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