silly lillie :0’s Reviews > Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism > Status Update

"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."