Comment on W for Uncle Ted

gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah, THAT’S normal.

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• Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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  • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• AethiopeRoot@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What a disgusting man

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