You Didn't Hear This From Me Quotes

“The goal of gossip about strangers is not to try people according to their secondhand deeds; it is to increase our own understanding of the world, to allow us to find enchantment and discovery in places we didn’t expect it.”
― Kelsey McKinney, You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

“In high school, I could not at first see how deeply the demonization of gossip was intertwined with the church’s calls for women to submit.”
― Kelsey McKinney, You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

“This wasn’t entirely surprising. ChatGPT, famously, cannot write well. While it can pass the bar exam, the SAT, and more than a dozen AP exams with no problem, even a new evolution of ChatGPT (GPT-4) struggles with essays. It scored in the 99th percentile on the verbal section of the GRE and only in the 54th percentile on the writing portion. It scored in lower percentiles on AP English Literature and AP English Language. It knows vocabulary, but not craft.”
― Kelsey McKinney, You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

“But cracks are visible, and, even if they aren’t actively dangerous, they force us to wonder what else could be wrong. If there is one weakness, where else could things be broken?”
― Kelsey McKinney, You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

“Understanding that the church systematically maintains its own power at the expense of its people fundamentally cracked the foundation of my faith.”
― Kelsey McKinney, You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

“Belief systems, in their least corrupt, most pure state, are mostly about trying to make the world we live in a better place by being kind to the people around you.”
― Kelsey McKinney, You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

“We gossip and we tell stories because that is how we each make sense of the world, with ourselves at the center reaching outward trying to connect with others, to prove to ourselves that we are real, that if anything is true, it is us.”
― Kelsey McKinney, You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

“AI can regurgitate knowledge, and it can theoretically be built to perceive, but what makes any piece of art great is its ability to open a window into the world and show you something about your own existence that you couldn’t have seen on your own.”
― Kelsey McKinney, You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

“A perspective on the world is holistic. It contains thousands of memories seen through a single lens, and the goal of AI is to see through infinite lenses at once.”
― Kelsey McKinney, You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

“Maybe it’s as simple as: not all stories are gossip, but the best ones feel like they could be. They invite a kind of collusion between the teller and the hearer, a secret shared that binds them together.”
― Kelsey McKinney, You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

“Theory of mind is the ability to know that someone else thinks something.”
― Kelsey McKinney, You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

“Gossip is a morphing chameleon of a word whose meaning shifts in every conversation the way a kaleidoscope changes with every twist.”
― Kelsey McKinney, You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

“present. That means, definitionally, that prayer requests are gossip. Speculation in the media about which baseball team Shohei Ohtani is going to sign with is gossip. A doctor conferring with a colleague over an X-ray is gossiping about their patient just like two friends sending each other Taylor Swift’s posts on IG are gossiping.”
― Kelsey McKinney, You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

“More accurately, Anonymous is anyone subjected, anyone trying to find a way to claw back a little bit of what has been taken from them.”
― Kelsey McKinney, You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

“We are desperate for information about how other people live because we want to know how to live ourselves, yet we are taught to see this desire as an illegitimate form of prying,” Phyllis Rose wrote in the prologue to Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages.”
― Kelsey McKinney, You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

“ChatGPT (GPT-4) struggles with essays. It scored in the 99th percentile on the verbal section of the GRE and only in the 54th percentile on the writing portion. It scored in lower percentiles on AP English Literature and AP English Language. It knows vocabulary, but not craft.”
― Kelsey McKinney, You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

“If Framing Britney Spears taught me anything, it’s that society benefits from claiming that “we” were all wrong about something even when a loud and large group of people said otherwise at the time. It is an abdication of responsibility to extend one’s own failure to the entirety of the American population, but it is an effective one. It allows the people who make money off the invasive coverage of celebrities to justify their continued invasion of privacy with the endorsement of the fans.”
― Kelsey McKinney, You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

“At its most basic, gossip is just one person talking to another about someone who isn’t present. That means, definitionally, that prayer requests are gossip. Speculation in the media about which baseball team Shohei Ohtani is going to sign with is gossip. A doctor conferring with a colleague over an X-ray is gossiping about their patient just like two friends sending each other Taylor Swift’s posts on IG are gossiping. In modern parlance, we also say “gossip” when we mean slander, libel, or hate speech. We call celebrity news, calls from our mom, and whisper networks gossip. Even in scientific research, there is no consensus on what “gossip” means. We say we love to gossip, and in the same breath we say that gossip is dangerous. “Some form of gossip is to be found in every society,” the philosophy professor Aaron Ben-Ze’ev wrote in his essay “The Vindication of Gossip.” “Children (who are supposed to be less influenced by cultures) gossip practically from the time they learn to talk and to recognize other people.” Maybe we’re born with that desire, and always have been.”
― Kelsey McKinney, You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip