John Snow, Barry Marshall, Semmelweis, Borglum, Galileo. Imagine if we judged people by the content of their character. Prefer facts over “someone’s truth.”
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> be a high-flying MIT scientist
> discover mTOR
> expected to win a Nobel Prize some day
> have consensual relationship with younger female biology MIT professor
> she accuses him of sexual harassment, coercion and grooming after he declines a long term relationship with her
> MIT launches investigation
> MIT lets the accuser’s allies help pick the judges and threaten the president if he wasn’t destroyed
> lo and behold, investigation finds he violated MIT’s sexual relationship and anti-harassment policies
> he gets fired and resigns under threat of termination
> loses his lab
> he sues her for defamation
> jury awards him $6 million in defamation case and rejects her claims that she was coerced in any way
How did 13 members of a civilian jury come to a different conclusion than @MIT?
Answer: MIT’s investigation was not exactly independent thanks to coordinated female faculty collusion. It was a kangaroo court and the verdict was pre-determined
🚨 BOMBSHELL COURT EVIDENCE EXPOSES INSIDER INFLUENCE OVER MIT'S TENURE-REVIEW PROCESS IN THE DAVID M. SABATINI ORDEAL.
🔱 NEW REVELATION — Court evidence exposes MIT Professor Sangeeta Bhatia's involvement in the selection of Sabatini's tenure-review committee
On 27 September 2021, Kristin Knouse exchanged messages with Izabella Pena following a conversation with @MIT Professor Sangeeta Bhatia.
The court-disclosed messages reveal Kristin Knouse telling Izabella Pena:
🔴 “Sangeeta just called”
🔴 “they even asked for insight into who to put on the committee”
🔴 “AND she said she will go to Rafael Reif’s office and protest the decision if and when needed.”
Pena responded:
“At least they are asking her insight”
Knouse replied:
“Exactly”
“This is good”
⚠️ The evidence exposes a troubling channel of insider influence surrounding MIT's tenure-review process.
These contemporaneous communications document that Knouse understood Bhatia to have been consulted about the committee's composition and to be prepared to challenge its eventual decision directly with MIT President Rafael Reif.
Rather than an independent review insulated from interested parties, the messages reveal access to the committee-selection process by an academic aligned with the complainant, raising serious concerns about institutional impartiality and conflicts of interest.
This disclosure adds another significant piece to the growing documentary record surrounding the institutional handling of Professor @DMSabatini's case.
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Even in most fairy tales, magic is really mundane - enchanted brooms, enchanted salt mills, magical singing birds, summoned messengers, etc. So it’s still a potent metaphor… we also use said etched silicon to overthrow whole countries and design flying castles.
It’s kinda crazy to me that we melt sand down, clean it to 99.99999% purity, literal wizards have to draw it slowly into an ingot, we cut it, inscribe a hundred billion little on/off switches on it, and when you run electric current through it you can do basic arithmetic, which when you do enough of it can do any math on the planet, and which describes reality well enough that we can teach it the ontological meaning of words and their distance from each other on a high-dimensional space, and if you ask, it can tell you what word comes next and that apparently is powerful enough that if you do it a hundred billion times it’s the smartest thing to ever exist
oh yeah and we use this primarily for email
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Brasil se encamina a reemplazar a Cuba y Venezuela como centro neurálgico del comunismo y el crimen internacional en Latinoamérica. Argentina tiene que ir a un control extremo de las fronteras con Brasil y salir ya del Mercosur.
Estados Unidos tiene que asfixiar económicamente a Brasil, así se actúa con el comunismo.
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Bolsonaro stronghold regions had already closed their polling stations. My understanding from elections past is that once the vote is finalized in the machine you can’t just turn it back on for more voting. Leftist areas did not shut off their machines or close polling stations. They were prepared. This is an attempt to steal the election.
Between “ambient” AI slop videos, the Hoover Dam, vast solar fields, and the giant casinos, I think I’m a bit jaded about megastructures compared to the “average person.” I miss the sense of awe at vast scale; it’s a really precious feeling.
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A 1 cm fern on an island stripped of vegetation. 🌋🌱 On Nishinoshima Island, the first land plants since the 2013–2020 eruptions were confirmed growing in 2025. A July 2026 survey continued monitoring the island to inform future conservation. 🌿
A lot of that land nav skill is very practical logic - follow watercourses up their sources if you want to find elevations (not always 100%, but a good rule of thumb), understanding animal behavior, recognizing that plants like specific soils, etc.
One of the things that almost beggars belief to me is how wide-ranging frontiersmen were during the colonial/frontier period in America. Folks like George Washington, Robert Rogers, Daniel Boone, etc. would just go on missions of hundreds and hundreds of miles, through areas that were total wilderness, zero roads, no maps... Imagine just deciding to pop up to Fort Detroit from North Carolina, just hope you don't get balled up by Shawnee on the way. Their instinctive navigational skills must have been on a level we can't even fathom in the modern age.
That’s not to discount the bravery and wanderlust at all, just that navigating without maps or GPS is not mystical or magical, nor does it require an extensive academic knowledge of astronomy or even the maritime nav levels of expertise.
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THIS. Exactly. My first exposure to mail ballot fraud was the Rossi-Gregoire race in WA State over twenty years ago. The (D)s of King County used "discovered" mail ballots during successive recounts to get ahead of the (R) and then of course the race got called. Magically, the mail ballots benefitted Gregoire by something like a 4-1 margin.
And this is how it always works. The tubs of mail ballots will ALWAYS benefit the people conducting the cheat, never the reverse. And who are the ones egging like mad for mail-in voting? The (D)s.
I've said before the Rossi-Gregoire debacle was the pivot that switched me off from voting (D) pretty much permanently. In the 1990s I'd voted (D) frequently, but I was shocked to see them not only cheat in a Governor race, they then *bragged* about the cheat. "This is revenge for Gore losing in 2000!" and so forth.
They now want license to permanently cheat in almost every major race which could swing power in D.C. They are still sore that the rise of Trump thwarted their permanent one-party rule in the Capitol.
Never, ever trust anyone who is egging for mail-in. It is a tool for destroying honest ballot counting.
Recently returned to Schumpeter’s “Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy” and I really can’t overemphasize how important of a work of history and economic theory this is.
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To truly understand modern French politics, you have to remember the country bans paternity tests because they make women sad
A “the past is a different country” moments is recalling the part of a Beatrix Potter story where a character gushes about the tiny hand-stitching on buttonholes, which were one of the first things transitioned to machine-sewing because it was so fussy and stressful to get right.
It’s weird seeing “Romanian” become a euphemism for “Gypsy” because Euroweenies have gotten so PC their cope-aganda has infected the internet.
I just had this hilarious image of Lucas decked out in a fur coat like Cruella deVille going “blast this pen, blast this wretched wretched pen!” and showering her mook with ink while she tried to buy drugs.
Interesting. No familiarity with the source, but this sounds plausible.
So it turns out that Ukraine's issues with Starlink were caused by Ukraine.
Starlink terminals disconnected at speeds above 160 KPH, as determined by the Starlink terminals internal GPS.
To get around this, Ukraine hacked the Starlink terminals to think they were stationary regardless of speed.
SpaceX figured this out, and updated the system software to detect excessive speed by seeing how rapidly the terminal switched from on satellite to another. This broke Ukraine's hack, and Starlink would no longer work at high speeds.
Ukraine was using Starlink in a way that violated the terms of service.
Starlink figured it out and stopped it.
(But also I kind of love it here)
