Hey everyone. I haven’t posted here in a while. The world made no sense the last time I did, and it makes even less sense now. That translates (among other things) to people being crazier on the internet, constantly challenging my personal illusions about what I imagined to be rock bottom. Maybe in five years, I will come back to this post, read it again, and go “oh, man, those were the chill days, I miss those”.
The craziness that’s rattling me these days is related to Russia. Maybe before we dive in, I should clarify a few things. The most important one being: I unambiguously stand behind the Ukrainian people who are currently facing an armed invasion. Next, and you probably know this about me already if you landed on this page: I am a French national currently employed by Kaspersky, the world’s number one lightning rod for Russia-related hatred (and otherwise antivirus maker). I joined the company in 2018, not long after the very public accusations leveraged against it by the US government. My rationale was that nobody could piss off so many important people without doing a few things extremely right – and I was correct in that assessment.