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“apparently the had been beaten and robbed and the car set ablaze…”

oh my god

“‘but she’s dead, mrs. roth! just like my father! now BOTH my parents are dead!’ and, of course, he was right.”


WHAT THE HELL

“…fdr, who had died in office the previous year, only weeks before the unconditional surrender of nazi germany to the allies marked the end of world war two in europe.”

it’s crazy that even after all of that, even after all the deviation from the actual historical timeline, it still ended the same

“as everyone knows, president lindbergh was not found or heard from again…”

wait, he’s legitimately gone?????

“…and they mayor of nearby rochester initiates a bomb shelter program ‘to protect our residents in the event of a surprise canadian attack.’”

i have never heard the words “canadian attack” used before

“oh, the pleasure we must be affording to the most malevolent men on earth!”

“…his disappearance and where, each year, blood was drawn from the captive boy to be used in the ritual preparation of the community’s passover matzohs.”

the blatant anti-semetism is sickening and also HOW THE FUCK IS ANYONE BELIEVING THIS

“first, a front-page chicago tribune article, datelined berlin, reports that the twelve-year-old son of president and mrs. lindbergh—the child believed to have been kidnapped and murdered in new jersey in 1932—has been reunited with his father in berchtesgaden after having been reduced by the nazis from a dungeon in kraków, poland, where he had been help prisoner in the city’s jewish ghetto ever since…”

“…alvin shouted at my father, ‘the jews? i wrecked my LIFE for the jews! m i lost my fuckin’ LEG for the jews! i lost my fuckin’ leg for YOU! what did i give a shit either way about lindbergh? but you send me to go fuckin’ fight him, and the stupid fuckin’ kid i am, i GO. and look, LOOK, uncle fucking disaster—I HAVE NO FUCKING LEG!”

“the hitlerite plot against america must be stopped—and stopped by you!”

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"we live in an era when intelligent weapons can autonomously identify and kill human targets without human input."

"mark? he's done apologizing. instead he's wearing shirts with 'either a zuck or nothing' emblazoned across them in latin, commissioning sculptures of his wife 'in the roman tradition,' and vowing to fight elon musk in a cage match."

mark zuckerberg is so infuriating

"they didn't seem to lose sleep over any of it.
it's simply what they did day-to-day.
just business."

"so that's how it ended for me at facebook. i faced the behavior so many women at facebook and other tech firms have faced. i wasn't silent enough."

"in summary, my 'challenges' with joel were found to be a result of communication issues and 'concerns around my performance.' i'm stunned."


are you FUCKING kidding me?!?!? fucking JOEL, who's making creepy comments about her and making her work while she's recovering from a coma and is preventing her from doing parts of her job isn't the problem, she is

"he [joel] drops a napkin at the opening night reception and he waits and stares at me until i figure out the he's expecting me to kneel to the ground and pick it up for him."

i...i have no words

"they apparently didn't care. these were sins of ommision. it wasn't the things they did; it was the things they didn't do."

"'you're not like these people. and you'll never be like them. and the sooner you grasp this, the better.'"

"but now everyone around me seems completely detached. shut down. anxiously looking at their screens, eyes on the job. i don't want that to become who i am."

"so the scism widens between employees who feel that facebook is wronged by its critics and those who feel that facebook needs to right its wrongs in the world."

"mark [zuckerberg] and sheryl [sandberg], meanwhile, respond to the public outcry against facebook--the deluge of headlines that say we're making the world worse--by calling it a 'witch hunt' or 'scapegoating.' people who criticize facebook employees 'just didn't understand.' they act like we're the victims."

"...in the middle of one of these brown bag [meetings]...an FFC [facebook feminist fight club] member speaks up. 'what responsibility does facebook have when one of its employees has sexually harassed another?"
"before joel can answer, one of the senior men in the room jumps in. 'when will women focus on work and stop talking about diversity already?'"

i can't begin to articulate the amount of rage i am feeling

"she [sheryl sandberg] is seeming unaware of the generational shift as generation z enters the workforce. 'why aren't they asking about the business?' she fumes. 'not a single question on that.'"

wow, it's so awful that your new hirees are asking about facebook's morals instead of how they make their billions of dollars

"years later i would learn that british teenager molly russell had saved instagram posts including one from an account called feeling worthless before committing suicide. 'worthless' became one of the targeting fields."

you're telling me that facebook saw this teenager commit su*cide and their response was to start targeting ads to people feeling su*cidal for monatary gain? i hate that i'm not even shocked

"facebook does work for a beauty product company tracking when thirteen-to-seventeen-year-old girls delete selfies, so it can serve a beauty ad to them at that moment."

mark zuckerberg better lock his doors at night

"...vulnerable."


i have never been more disgusted with a company

"...their bodies and thinking of losing weight. basically, when a teen is in a fragile emotional state. facebook's advertising team has made this presentation...that explains that instagram and facebook monitor teenagers' posts, photos, interactions, conversations with friends, visual communications, and internet activity on and off facebook's platforms and use this data to target young people when they're..."

"in april 2017, a confidential document is leaked that reveals facebook is offering advertisers the opportunity to target thirteen-to-seventeen-year-olds across its platforms, including instagram, during moments of psychologyical vulnerability when they feel 'worthless,' 'insecure,' 'stressed,' 'defeated,' 'anxious,' 'stupid,' 'useless,' and 'like a failure.' or to target them when they're worried about..."