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- This other article makes clear that Yale's priority here is in making sure nobody disrupts this guy's class. They're more worried about making sure his "free speech" is honored than enforcing their statutory obligations to protect students. Title IX is a dead letter.
- Yale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind." This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
- oh thank god, what I was worried about here was that the University might suspend this guy's interactions with students while they conduct a thorough investigation of some of the most blatant sexual discrimination I've ever seen. Won't somebody think of the free speech!
- You would think "is this ER still open" would be a question with a clearly advertised answer, but this hospital is determined to close in the sketchiest way possible. It's now at the stage where it's not paying its phone bill but still not acknowledging that its phones have been shut off.
- did the disc horse just watch i saw the tv glow
- and people think ron's universal number kruncher is hyperbole
- i love thinking about the $70 billion that was spent on the metaverse and then thinking about this
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- There is something actually demonic about living in a small town alongside these immigrants and wanting them to be deported back to where their families were murdered.
- "More than 1,300 children have been born to Haitian immigrants in Springfield in the past few years, according to the Clark County Combined Health District." These babies are likely to be put at the forefront of the war against birthright citizenship.
- Whatever we might choose to believe about what his voters generally thought they were signing up for, the citizens of this city were made very plainly aware that their neighbors were being singled out for a pogrom and that their city was to be depopulated. They had a crystal-clear choice.
- Professional risk analysis relies on standards and process. You assess a system's security by auditing it against a standard, which is essentially a very complex annotated checklist. At the end, you still can't say "This system is guaranteed secure for all uses," because no such thing is possible /
- Instead you can only say that the system satisfies all the requirements on the list, with no glaring asterisks, and your list is the best one that exists for a given type of system. Every "but what if X happens" you can think of is already accounted for in the standard. /
- This is inherently unsatisfying to some people, who demand a type of guarantee that no responsible professional auditor could give. There's an evidentiary standard that is designed to replace question marks with verifably correct answers; that is what it means to assess risk and reduce uncertainty /
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View full threadRejecting the entire evidentiary process that produced this recommendation on the grounds that you have access to an inner truth that the professionals can't possibly understand is exactly the same impulse behind MAHA and the broader rejection of modernity itself.
