• Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    13 hours ago

    In the 1980s, Gelernter made seminal contributions to the field of parallel computation, specifically the tuple space coordination model, as embodied by the Linda programming system he and Nicholas Carriero designed (which he named for Linda Lovelace, the lead actress in the porn movie Deep Throat, mocking the naming of the programming language Ada in tribute to the scientist and first attributed computer programmer, Ada Lovelace).

    Imagining the smug little chortle he must make every time he delivers that punchline…

  • PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space
    cake
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    32
    ·
    16 hours ago

    In October 2020 he joined in signing a letter stating: “Given his astonishing success in his first term, we believe that Donald Trump is the candidate most likely to foster the promise and prosperity of America.”

    Alright then.

    • SippyCup@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      13 hours ago

      The more I learn about his victims, the more I sympathize with Ted Kaczynski. Terrorist, sure. He just happened to have a valid point

      • leadore@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        5
        ·
        edit-2
        6 hours ago

        Or maybe getting blown up did something to his brain.

        edit: strange, they upvote when someone says Fetterman turned repub because of stroke brain damage, but downvote when I speculate he likes trump/epstein because of bomb brain damage. What’s the difference?

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    23
    ·
    16 hours ago

    Oh he’s the one who recommended a grad student to Epstien because she was a “v[ery] small goodlooking blonde”. Apparently he also opposes women in the workforce.

    I feel little sympathy for him

  • HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    96
    arrow-down
    32
    ·
    1 day ago

    A conservative Republican misogynist climate-denying creationist Jew was a client of Jeffery Epstein???

    It boggles the mind.

    • Wojwo@feddit.online
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      33
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      20 hours ago

      I think, if you swapped the word “Jew” with “Zionist”, your point might be clearer.

      • hypnicjerk@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        arrow-down
        4
        ·
        14 hours ago

        epstein was jewish and had tight connections with loads of influential jews. it’s not bad, just fits the pattern.

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          20
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          edit-2
          12 hours ago

          He was a Zionist and had tight connections with other influential Zionists including members of the Israeli government.

          That’s NOT the same as Jewishness itself, no matter how much Zionists and antisemites (and combinations thereof) try to convince you otherwise.

          He was also Jewish, sure, but that doesn’t have a causal link to being an abuser. Being a Zionist does.

      • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        18
        arrow-down
        43
        ·
        24 hours ago

        Indeed

        But

        Israel and the IDF (shittiest band name ever, period) are making it really REALY hard not to do that.b

        I’d say it would be extremely helpful for all Jews world wide if Israel would just stop murdering babies in the biggest genocide since WWII

        • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          17
          ·
          20 hours ago

          I mean, ISIS and the taliban were/are pretty horrific, but that’s not an excuse to be shitty to Muslims. This really isn’t different enough to matter. They aren’t shit because they’re Jewish, they’re shit and happen to be Jewish.

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          35
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          23 hours ago

          Israel and the IDF (shittiest band name ever, period) are making it really REALY hard not to do tha

          Only if you consider anything they say to be true, which you shouldn’t.

          Pretending that Israel is accurately representative of all Jews is itself an antisemitic trope, no matter how many Zionists in and outside of Israel subscribe to it, and we’d do well to not fall for the “some Jews think it’s true, so it must be” trap of Zionist Hasbara.

          I’d say it would be extremely helpful for all Jews world wide if Israel would just stop murdering babies in the biggest genocide since WWII

          ABSOLUTELY. Until then, though, it behooves us to believe nothing Hasbarists say and remember that there’s a lot of anti- or at least non-zionist Jews who don’t deserve to be lumped in with the genocidal maniacs and their fan club.

        • Platypus@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          14
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          19 hours ago

          No, they aren’t. It’s extremely easy to separate the actions of the Israeli state from the beliefs and moral worth of the Jewish people. A great way to start is by actually talking to Jews, you will find that many are incredibly disenfranchised by Israel’s actions. Sure, some support the IDF, but so do many American Christians, so you can’t exactly draw conclusions from that.

          • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            11 hours ago

            Yeah but it’s not. I only see the polls where most Israelis don’t support Netanyahu because they WANT MORE.

            I don’t think Jews are a problem or the problem here, I do think Israel as a state is such a problems that it has corrupted most of its citizens, which unfortunately mostly are Jews.

            • Platypus@sh.itjust.works
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              4 hours ago

              That still wouldn’t justify including “Jew” in a list of otherwise entirely negative descriptors

      • cabbage@piefed.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        24
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        24 hours ago

        Or, to be more blunt; shut the fuck up with this anti-semitic bullshit.

        If a person is active lobbying for Israel, or working as on behalf of that or any other terror state, that’s legitimate points of criticism. Pointing towards someone being Jewish as some ground of suspicion in its own right is dangerous bullshit of historical proportions. There’s no reason we should tolerate this shit.

        • teolan@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          9
          ·
          23 hours ago

          But even if they’re lobbying for Israel the criticism would not be that they’re a Jew but rather what they’re lobbying for (and the same applies to lobbyist for most countries/companies too…)

      • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        20
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        24 hours ago

        I’m not the OC, but I definitely have a strong Christian bias when I hear that someone’s a creationist. I would almost certainly assume they were a baptist or Pentecostal if it wasn’t specified. It doesn’t matter, but it removes the potential excuse that it’s just the culture he grew up in.

        Though now I have to look up Jewish creationism to see if I was very wrong.

        Edit: it’s kind of what I suspected- there are Jewish creationists, but it’s not nearly as common, and there are a lot more options for reconciling two seemingly incompatible beliefs within the framework of Judaism.

  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    31
    ·
    1 day ago

    One of the other victims was Dr Charles Epstein, I’ve wondered for a while if he was some kind of relation.

  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    23
    arrow-down
    6
    ·
    1 day ago

    Man this just makes me womder what could have been. Could he have got bombs over to that island? Made everyone open them all at once around a dinner table?

    Rest in Power, Uncle Ted

    • MagicShel@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      27
      arrow-down
      6
      ·
      1 day ago

      Don’t celebrate that asshole just because a stopped clock happened to be right for one moment

    • sister@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 day ago

      He went crazy. The difference between his academic writing and the manifesto is worlds apart.

      He said some aweful shit, but props to his treatment of the Epstein class