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[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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...

[–] Railing5132@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

He was an incel choad before they were things! A hipster incel choad, if you will.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 17 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day 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 65 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

It boggles the mind.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 93 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (17 children)

You REALLY didn't need to include the "Jew" part as if that's as bad as the rest..

[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

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[–] roger.wood@feddit.online 30 points 1 day ago

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

[–] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 35 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What does being Jewish have to do with anything??

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 10 points 1 day 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 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

JE’s partner in crime Maxwell is theorized to have taken over the family business of extorting people for Israeli intelligence from her father.

[–] Senal@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Anyone else seeing an older, rounder Michael Cera?

[–] j_elgato@leminal.space 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean.. we've gone out a few times. It's pretty casual still. I wouldn't say we are seeing each other.

[–] Senal@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Labels don't matter, be happy

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 1 day ago

Right when he could really make use of that right hand for stress relief, too.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago
[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

Victim is such a strong word. Target is more accurate.

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 15 points 1 day ago

its kinda wierd looking at his manifesto now. Seemed pretty crazy at the time but a lot less so now.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 days ago (8 children)

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

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was more daydreaming about what may have been, i.e if he killed people who deserved it. I don't cekebrste him because it's illegal to celebrste terrorists and there'a probably lots more to his actions than I might know about.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

I was around during the era of the bombings. I wasn't personally affected or anything, but it was kinda scary to be a kid and think you might open the mail and die. If you were around for the D.C. Sniper, it was kinda like that except A LOT slower.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sometimes even a calculator can be a clock.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 9 points 1 day ago

Sometimes it can be boobs.

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[–] sister@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 days 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

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