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Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
There is a case to be made that any board of a university that signed an agreement that required paying a fee has breached their fiduciary duty and I think somebody should explore it
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Look for the photos of him hanging with Epstein on his private jet and at Epstein’s home with Steve Bannon, and more recently his Feb 2019 email to Epstein bemoaning how unfairly Epstein is being treated, 4 months before his arrest. All these are findable.
so they're covering the nz couple who ran facilities... still no Pinker or Thiel in ANY stories though... Pinker is speaking TONIGHT on invitation of the FSU (wonder how many ACT folks et al will be in attendance) but it seems like more prominent associates of Epstein are a protected species in NZ
From a systems point of view, "naivete" is where the analysis work begins, not ends. "He didn't know" covers arses. It does not make targets safe. Instead, it allows everybody - everybody - to carry on like we've always done (See also: people enabling James Wallace). No difficult convos.
The spin on Brian Boyd seems to be "he's naive ergo nothing to see here". From an individual pt of view? Maybe. (Although naivete about a "bevy of beauties" almost "stamped by a doll-making machine" ... This man should not be allowed anywhere near Lolita analysis). But from a systems pt of view?
This is clearly the conversation of people who have talked way more than just one or twice. Pull the other one
Article says:
"But Boyd noted Epstein did not know Lolita was the subject of the book he wanted to write when he offered him funding."
Followed by:
"When you asked me how long I would need to write the book on Lolita that’s the top of my wishlist”....
Like, wut 😵💫
Someone chucked a drum of disinfectant into that story.
I mean he kept in touch AFTER the arsehole was first convicted. I know funding is shit but JFC
hindsight is 20/20 but maybe selecting university presidents on their willingness to debase themselves for private donor money is related to the current difficulties in defending academia from fascism
It's easy to see these academics as individual bad actors. But I'd argue--they were enabled by "elite" schools' look-the-other-way approach to dealing with big-name abusers, and by the fact that, societially, we treat people associated with "elite" schools as automatically deserving of deference.
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
Since Pinker has been brought to NZ by the FSU, local reporters could ask what the "Great Fun" he was having with Epstein on April 4 2014, as mentioned in an Epstein email to Bill Gates (2014 isn't a "This person and their crimes is a mystery to me" time, as it is many years after the 2007 case)
This guy (Pinker) is the speaker for a Free Speech Union event tomorrow in Takapuna.
h/t @kyledchurch.bsky.social
Steven Pinker wrote a legal analysis of a *child sex crimes law* as a favor to Epstein and then had the gall to say he had no idea what the guy was accused of.
All of the “hey what’s the big deal here” pageantry is insulting
There was a whole exposé a few years back regarding Joi Ito and the MIT Media Lab soliciting funds from Epstein. Even when it was happening, employees were disturbed and uncomfortable about it - demonstrating that it was not “normal” even then. It should not be excused or normalised.
I am really angry about all of the scientists who cozied up to Epstein even after it was known who he was.
I am nearly as angry at how many people are justifying this as "they had to, it's how academia works"
NO IT FUCKING WELL ISN'T
Like wtf man, he was negotiating payment from a convicted child trafficker in 20fuckinTHIRTEEN? What the fucking fuck
The men have names. The women are just decoration.
It's the date. That's the huge f*ing red flag. Asking a convicted pedophile for money to write a book about underage sexual exploitation is just a bit to on point. Fuck all y'all is the only response.
Have just spoken at the Auckland Writers Festival and made contact with a woman also speaking there, author of The Woman Who Changed Her Brain, whom I'll put in touch with neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene in Paris (author of The Number Sense, which you'd enjoy, and of Reading in the Brain), since I think he'll be interested in looking with his fMRI lab, the biggest in the world, at her work on overcoming specific cognitive deficits, including some involved in reading. As with Martin, there was perhaps too great a leap between the literary level I'm interested in and what Stanislas can do so far with fMRI, but maybe Barbara Arrowsmith's work will in this case at least close some of the gap. Great to meet you, your friend Leon (?), your bevy of beauties, and Martin. Thanks so much for the opportunity!
13 May 2012
I am so grumpy about the way all these men are fucking covering for each other! Fuck you guys!
Honestly who writes to a possible business contact like that about his workmates? Who buys this (apart from Steve Braunias)?
"It was great to meet you and your assistants" is the more appropriate thing to say if you weren't a fucking creep, BRIAN
Also he didn't just have one breakfast. This is fucking lies
