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[-] gnutrino@programming.dev 93 points 2 days ago

Presumably a reference to David Gelernter for anyone else wondering.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I was wondering why his face looked familiar. He was featured on Big Thinkers.

I'll rewatch it later, but the only thing I remember about him was that he learned how to use his other hand as his primary after the mail bomb blew up his dominate one. Probably the only reason he had an episode at all was the bombing.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 58 points 2 days ago

In one 2011 email, Gelernter recommended an undergraduate student to Epstein for an editorial position in part because she was a "v[ery] small goodlooking blonde".

Fucking psychopath. Not sorry Ted blew off his jerk-off hand.

[-] its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 days ago

telling colleagues that he was "very glad [he] wrote the note" and that Epstein "...was obsessed with girls (like every other unmarried billionaire in Manhattan; in fact, like every other heterosex[ual] male), and if I hadn't said what I did in that letter ten-odd years ago, he would certainly have called me & asked for a lot more aesthetic detail. (This is how men behave.)

His response to the backlash is insane.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 17 points 2 days ago

Yeah, THAT'S normal.

[-] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

For those who go down the rabbit hole:

  • Wikipedia still lists him as employed at Yale
  • Yale's faculty page still has him listed
  • He was very recently relieved from teaching duties while Yale reviews the emails that happened after Epstein's conviction
  • He rates last out of 82 computer science professors at Yale
[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

I’m wondering why he had a job to begin with. Being against women in the workforce should preclude you from being allowed to teach women who might enter the workforce.

With professors like that, it’s no wonder that there’s a dearth of women in CS.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

It's not much better once you get into the workforce. Unfortunately. And so much of the misogyny is invisible to men until it's pointed out to them explicitly.

But I agree:

If you believe that members of the opposite sex should not be permitted to be working, you should not be permitted to work outside of occupations which are necessarily restricted by sex.

Similarly, if you don't think think you should have to work with brown people, disabled people, foreign people....

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

The boy who was in charge of my robotics club believed that girls can’t program and refused to teach or help me (I remember that I “looked too confused” to be helped out with enums….) . I remember once, I was playing with some Java code at lunch, and him and the other coders all stopped to mock how shitty a programmer I was because they saw a bunch of squiggly red lines (hadn’t loaded in all the libraries, just was curious what mobile video game coding looked like).

It was so goddamn isolating as a high schooler. Being a weirdo computer geek, but not welcome with the other weirdo computer geeks because of my sex.

[-] AethiopeRoot@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

What a disgusting man

[-] xkbx@startrek.website 21 points 2 days ago

Thanks. I tried looking at the people the Unabomber killed and I couldn’t find shit

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I was wondering how a bomber could bring someone to justice before the crimes happened

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 12 points 2 days ago

I'm going to guess not all these guys suddenly became pedophiles after meeting Epstein.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

it's more "I don't think epstein was active when the unabomber was killing people" so the dead people were visiting the island? Oh , he injured someone that went on to go to epstein island, thus , no time paradox.

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