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[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Dude was ahead of the curve. I sing his praises here at least once a week.

[-] gnutrino@programming.dev 154 points 1 week ago

On the subject of Ted Kaczynski and people in the Epstein files, I get an opportunity to revive this old limerick:

Lewinsky and Clinton have shown,
what Kaczynski must surely have known:
That an intern is better
than a bomb in a letter
of the possible ways to be blown.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 26 points 6 days ago

Oh, '90s. You were a simpler time.

[-] not_IO 21 points 6 days ago

the dream of the 90s is alive on Lemmy

[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

The dream of the 1890s is alive on Lemmy

[-] gnutrino@programming.dev 91 points 1 week ago

Presumably a reference to David Gelernter for anyone else wondering.

[-] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 30 points 6 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 13 points 6 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 7 points 6 days 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 5 days 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.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days 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.

[-] AethiopeRoot@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

What a disgusting man

[-] xkbx@startrek.website 20 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

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

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 12 points 6 days ago

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

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 5 points 6 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.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

What proof is there that Ted Kaczynski actually got anyone in the Epstein files?

[-] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 6 days ago

One case mentioned further up is David Gelernter, who survived with permanent injuries and shows up in the Epstein files to the point of it now ending his career.

This is however well after the attacks, the Unabomber predates the timespan we have significant information about. Given the wiki entry of that David Gelernter, I wouldn't be surprised if he shows up in some analog Epstein documents we don't yet know about.

I checked another random victim and found no info at all at a glance though, so I'm not convinced on the unabomber picking targets based on this, which seems like what some others here are claiming. Could just be a by-chance hit. If you bomb people you dislike I suppose you'll have an increased chance of targetting pedos by intuition.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Interesting. I can't say I'm surprised he got someone who appeared on the list, but it just being by chance tracks

[-] Signtist@bookwyr.me 44 points 6 days ago

Pretty sure that was the joke - a guy randomly trying to kill people did more to punish members of a pedophile ring by complete happenstance than the governmental body whose job it's meant to be to do so.

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