Kassy Chesire > Recent Status Updates

“The universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which, for the sake of a quiet life, most people tend to ignore.”

“Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did at all: he had turned unfathomablability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.”

“The more clannish you become, the more local and rigid your identity gets, the more you fall back on short term planning, the more corruption spreads, the more institutions breakdown— weakened by a lack of funding and a lack of public confidence— the more vulnerable you are to the big assholes. The demagogues. The autocrats.”

“And when you don’t feel that you can rely on big institutions, you fall back on your immediate family. Your friends. Your village. And, yes, the features of your local identity that keep those groups strongly bonded together. Including your local sex rules.”

“There seems to be no compunction about misleading Congress. Presumably because the team assumes they’ll never be caught out. Senators will need to ask exceptionally specific questions to get close to any truth.”

Videos of those congressional hearings conveniently made Congress look dumb in their questioning… but they were absolutely correct to be concerned about data privacy

“If anything, Facebook rewards outsider candidates who post inflammatory content that drives engagement. We charge less money for ads that are more incendiary and reach more people. Trump is using our system the way it’s designed to be used.”

“After this, we escalate all difficult decisions t Sheryl and Mark for them to decide. Although in reality it’s just Mark. Facebook is an autocracy of one.”

“They struggle to understand why Mark’s getting involved, why instead of the set of rules we tout to governments, decisions are made on his whim.”

“The idea is, if politicians depend on Facebook to win elections, they’ll be less likely to do anything that’ll harm Facebook.” Big yikes

"I think the point at which you have to explain Nuremberg to the head of the team leading your China entry is probably a red flag."

“Then one sunny day, they walk out in all innocence and they walk right into the grief that you’d give your life to spare them.”