Precambrian Video Games posted:

lol you really need to read the whole thing.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

my favorite article that i have read about the conflict was this american lady who moved to israel to work on a kibbutz calling herself a refugee because of the 10/7 attacks

Precambrian Video Games posted:

lol you really need to read the whole thing.

Pistol_Pete posted:

Just checked the Bellingcat website to see what exciting and original work they're doing documenting the ongoing Gaza genocide and the most prominent Gaza-related article on there was them gravely tutting about how "both sides" are using images from the Syrian civil war to project a false impression of what's happening in Gaza right now.

Their headline article is about how Russian far-right movements are inciting anti-immigration raids by the authorities there, which I guess the Bellingcat guys have judged to be a much more important use of their valuable time.

speng31b posted:

dumb cia rear end bitch

fart simpson posted:

speng31b posted:

dumb cia rear end bitch

gradenko_2000 posted:

Ackman continues to melt down with a hilariously long post

https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1745251911471612175

Doc Hawkins posted:

your emails could have LITERALLY KILLED my wife

https://twitter.com/jathansadowski/status/1745291661708759359

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/RedAppleCringe/status/1744981174983028953

Doc Hawkins posted:

your emails could have LITERALLY KILLED my wife

https://twitter.com/jathansadowski/status/1745291661708759359

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To be clear, Neri did not use Wikipedia as a source, but only for the definitions of 15 words and/or terms for her dissertation.

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As a side note, what are the chances that Business Insider examined the MIT handbook "as far back as 2007" and did not notice that there was no requirement to cite Wikipedia nor was it even mentioned until April 4, 2013

mawarannahr posted:

fart simpson posted:

sometimes people just get hit in the head by bullets. nothing you can do about an act of god

Precambrian Video Games posted:

lol you really need to read the whole thing.

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During the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the women and children of Dimra were reportedly evacuated by the village men on 31 October, likely in response to the advance of the Israeli army.[23]

Following the war the area was incorporated into the State of Israel and kibbutz Erez was founded in 1949 on part of the village site.[8] The remaining structures of the village are described by Khalidi in All That Remains (1992):

"Most of the village is fenced in and used as pasture. A crumbling stone water basin, concrete rubble from houses, and a destroyed well are nearly all that remain. A watering trough for cows has been placed on what appears to be a concrete fragment from a former house. The well is topped with an old, nonoperating water pump. More debris lies in a wooded portion of the site, near a Jewish cemetery. Some cactuses that formerly served as fences, as well as shrubs and thorny plants, grow on adjacent lands.[8]

Shear Modulus posted:

if i were a high profile billionaire i would simply not melt down in public

Shear Modulus posted:

if i were a high profile billionaire i would simply not melt down in public

poisonpill posted:

Twitter + Billionaire = Entertainment for the rest of us

joepinetree posted:

The best part of the long rear end Ackman post is

"She did not use wikipedia as a source, except for the parts where she used it as a source"

and

"The antiplagiarism policy said nothing of plagiarizing from wikipedia."

A Buttery Pastry posted:

the real power of billionaires is that they can graduate from class clown to world clown, and there's nothing anyone can do to stop them

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So I finally indulged my curiosity about l'affaire Oxman and spent five minutes browsing her dissertation. The problems with it are, if anything, way worse than seem to have been reported.

(And to lay my own cards on the table I think it's basically fine what happened to Gay, save that it would have been better for all parties involved if it had been nipped in the bud years earlier.)

I didn't use any special plagiarism software, and I wasn't even particularly looking for it, I was just putzing around. But sometimes the writing style would abruptly would take a 90 degree turn, so I'd google and find the original source immediately. Twice in five minutes. The real issue, which is harder to appreciate let alone concisely relate without a technical background, is that there appears to be no original technical content. In a 330 page document with "Computation" right there in the title, there are ten equations. None of them are original work, one of them (for Euclidean distance [!]) is typoed so bizarrely it looks like it was written by an alien.

(I don't care about typoes per se but in the context of the rest of the dissertation it's notable that it reads like the *kind* of typo that would be really weird to make if you were comfortable with math, or if you looked it over once before submitting.)

There are also things like random figures copypasta'd from papers from the 80's (happily, cited this time) that are never discussed or referred to in the main text. Phase diagrams for metal alloys from other papers are presented without comment, in a dissertation that otherwise makes no mention of phase diagrams, alloys, or even the subject of metallurgy, excepting a brief and abrupt digression about samurai swords [!] Similarly, there's an impressionistic and entirely verbal gloss of Riemannian manifolds and metric tensors that comes out of nowhere and disappears just as quickly. They are never mentioned again.

In one of the most technical passages of the work I found, which concerns, like, the vibe of constructing Voronoi diagrams on manifolds, Oxman seems to come close to suggesting that differential geometry might be a thing people could study. But the thought is quickly dropped.



Practically, it's not really a matter of forgetting a few punctuation marks (as I was led to believe). The cumulative effect of the volume of plagiarism and general disorganization of thought is that it's quite difficult to tell what Oxman wrote, let alone understood, at all. So AFAICT there is basically no original technical content, and much to suggest that Oxman isn't well-acquainted enough with the fields she draws upon to even fake it convincingly.

(To be fair there are some photos of funky sculpture-type-things, and the aesthetic is consistent enough to make me believe that one unique individual actually did all of them rather than ransack google images. Let's assume it was Oxman.)

But after looking into this for five minutes, the plagiarism issue seems more like busting Al Capone for tax evasion.

The real issue is that there's just no there there, and if you read it with any technical background it feels like that scene from The Shining.

More, the issues with the dissertation are so clear and unignorable that you have to wonder what was going on with her committee during the years they were supervising her. Like even if you cynically assume that her committee members farmed out the review process to F1-visa grad students, you have to think the grad student would immediately write back: "u sent wrong file?"

I mean, I did my doctorate at an institution rather less swanky than the Media Lab, and I'm pretty sure my committee would have just stopped talking to me if I turned in something like this.

Didn't imagine myself ever saying this but the sketchiness of the dissertation is actually more cut and dried than the whole "fashioning orbs for Jeffrey Epstein" thing, the latter of which at least had some kind of plausible deniability.

Anyway, if you wonder whether I'm being unfair in my characterization of the work and want to read it yourself, it's here: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/59192

But the defense that "it was a different time, man" is even more bizarre, because it wasn't.

I didn't grow up in a household with two professors, but in my mediocre public schools we got a plagiarism lecture at least once a year from such time as we were capable of committing it

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i feel like she’s from the future

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I should give it another listen as well! Did this podcast make anyone else think of Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson?

Hard to pick a favorite, they covered so much fertile ground. The concept of empowering nature is powerful, and of course the power of love. Her and Lex had beautiful chemistry.

I was intrigued and moved by Lex thanking her for noticing him, and the power of human connection juxtaposed with the experience of loneliness.

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She said many things I have always wondered many times . It was a beautiful interview and I adore her passion for love, life and nature. She is one of the first people I have seen who talks about love and connections as much as I do. I too ama systems thinker so I connected with everything she was into. I will definitely be following more of her. I have some learning to do over the next few weeks to catch up. But I am in. Love -It is the point of everything. The 🌹.

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" Intelligence is the ability to problem solve and adapt and translate. From data to information to knowledge. The next frontier is wisdom. Wisdom is the ability to find insight about the world. And from wisdom to spiritual awareness, which sort of transcends wisdom and is able to chart the world into new territory. "

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"There's water and there's love. What else do you need?"

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How can we incrntivize the earth to, in a mutually beneficial way, grow cars?

What a great episode.

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That's nonsense. What does that even mean?

She's just asking nonsensical questions. Why does everyone here think she is so profound?

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"Imagine grown roads to replace asphalt"

I haven't listened to the episode yet (will do that now), but I love this concept, and there's already many cool implementations. Like the streetcars and trams in Europe going over greenways. Or roofs on top of skyscrapers to reduce the heat island effect. I've also seen some interesting green parking lot prototypes on TikTok (only problem with those was they used soft plastic to create a space for grass to go through, and for cars to drive on, so it wouldn't be great for PFA pollution). But in any case, more greenery please!