(it annoys me more than it probably should that i didn't think to do the Rutger Hauer "tears in rain" speech format until after i'd already posted)

i will forever be entertained by the gen-z puriteen debate. i watched the manspread wars, i survived ms scribe, i was surrounded by dipshits endlessly quoting wooderson from dazed and confused. i've seen puriteens discoursing. some 17yo saying maybe dicaprio is creepy ain't it.

not suggesting reporters or rubberneckers should seek these boys out or anything. they may have very good reasons for staying quiet. i just wish the fact they pretty clearly exist would get more than the most perfunctory of afterthought mentions even in the more thorough coverage that's out there.

david ross discussed an art exhibit that would have 'girls and boys ages 14-25', paleontologist jack horner says he's bringing a grad student but gives no physical details.

alls i'm saying is no shot there aren't dozens of boys and young men involved in this too, both as trainees and as victims.

all these professor names in the epstein files: Gelernter, tramo, Ariely Hameroff... but i'm noticing a gap in coverage of the tons of emails that were also about students.
tramo ranking attractiveness for example. but what i'm noticing in the language is not all of them are describing women.

i'm willing to be bold here and say i saw the bad bunny halftime show and i think it was good.

Reading King of the North reminded me of the fact that Rosa Parks decided to take legal action after her arrest in Montgomery on her own. Jo Ann Robinson and her org decided to call for a ONE DAY bus boycott the following Monday WITHOUT TELLING PARKS. King was RELUCTANT to join at first...

yanno when those debate bros say shit like "Islam isn't a race". funny thing, neither is Mexico, or Puerto Rico, and yet...

My hottest take is the reason why Clinton Wing Dems don't retire and choose to die in office is because they know the new crop of Ds are gonna come for them for insider trading and taking payola (or worse re Epstein Files stuff). Why else would Nancy whip votes from her hospital bed to stop AOC

You know palaeontology online spheres are dominated by men, with a big name being outed as a peado accomplice, the first thing they comment on are "I never agreed with his stance on T.rex" & "I preferred Bakker/Gould anyway"

And not "The field is rotten to the core with sex pests and weird men"

i've always had a lingering difficulty with 'author death'. makes it a little too easy for bad actors to occlude relevant subtext.
but in the case of marx specifically, i never said he was disposable, i simply said he wasn't a singular genius.

otoh, trivers' character is inextricable from his work.

For those just realizing how right I was about creeps like Lawrence Krauss & Richard Dawkins, you should know that I’m also right about good guys like Robin.

what's key here is the work she's saying must be divorced from his personality focused on mate selection and altruism. meanwhile he's joking with epstein about trans people and what forms of porn give him the ick. because that definitely doesn't influence the conclusions of a *behaviorist*:

wendyorent.bsky.social 2/1/2026 Yeah what's the point? What point gave you made? What point tarnished his early work? Tell me. It's not a false appeal to authority. I knew his work very well so you? Have you read his early five or six papers? So you want to critique them for me? In other words you can't critique his work. In other words you know nothing about it. And show me a single word I said to defend his CHARACTER. I said he is a great scientist and the word I used to describe him was HORRIBLE. You are only capable of tone-policing, not intellectual argument.

in case anyone is curious, this is what's under the 'blocked' part. she's talking about a guy named Robert Trivers who is an incredibly famous evolutionary psych and sociobiology guy. who happens to be all over the epstein files. it just kinda kept going, but this is a representative sample:

The current phase we're in with the Democrats "Trump is uniquely bad and this will all stop when we're voted in"

Make a note here for when they pivot to "Well that would destroy a lot of jobs and LEOs are important so..."

there's already people posting what it was like to work with some of these men professionally. they didn't turn it off at the office. so no, we don't "gotta hand it to them". because there's a nonzero chance those who didn't look like them got harassed or manipulated into silence or self-doubt.

of course what they'll be doing, consciously or otherwise, is running defense on pretty horrible men who clearly saw specific types of women (and racial minorities) as pawns. impossible to know what effect it had on the research minorities in those fields might have done without those guys in power.

you are bafflingly desperate to make yourself somehow the victim in all this. which is particularly galling as we're talking about the epstein files here.

there are tons of facts in eugenics. phenotypes exist, for example. as a result all disciplines like anthropology or psychology have are interpretations. nothing to do with depth and everything to do with recognizing in the disciplines i named there is no such thing as 'interpretation free facts'.

there are going to be a lot of academics who start demanding we 'separate the art from the artist' as more big names in their various fields are showing up in epstein's files. they're going to work *extremely* hard at it.

it's understandable, the splash-damage from this is going to hit so many.

not in the disciplines i named. i was very deliberate.

it's already extremely clear epstein was helping fund, and personally supported, a resurgence of eugenicist research in academia and on social media. it is impossible to divorce the bias, and the morality, from the work.

i'm not going to be replying to you further.

you have very clearly lost the plot.

ma'am, with all due respect, you're in a thread about a serial abuser and you're now defending someone who utilized his services by saying somehow his writings represent a singular genius that supersedes his horrible crimes.

no, i will not be quiet. you don't get to demand that of literally anyone.

From: Matthew Hiltzik < To: J <jeevacation@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Thoughts from Chomsky Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 23:34:06 +0000 I think that is wise Sent from my iPhone On Feb 23, 2019, at 4:19 PM, J < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: Ive watched the horrible way you are being treated in the press and public. It's painful to say, but I think the best way to proceed is to ignore it. I've had plenty of experience, though of course not on this scale. A google search will bring up tons of hysterical accusations of all sorts, even groups devoted to vilifying me. I pay no attention, unless I'm approached for a comment on a specific matter. It's a nuisance, but it's the best way. The same conclusions from experiences of others, in some cases close friends. What the vultures dearly want is a public response, which then provides a public opening for an onslaught of venomous attacks, many from just publicity seekers or cranks of all sorts -- which are impossible to answer (how do you prove that you are not a neo-Nazi who wants to kill the Jews, or a rapist, or whatever charge comes along?). That's particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder. For virtually everyone who sees any of this, the reaction will be "where there's smoke there's fire, maybe raging fire" (whatever the facts, which few will even think of investigating). In general, it's best I think not to react unless directly questioned, particularly in the current mood -- which, I presume, will fade away, even if not in time to prevent much torture and distress.

i have some bad news, noam was never one of the good guys:

i mean, melinda gates was giving epstein as part of her divorce way back in 2019. said she'd only met him once and he made her skin crawl. but here's bill raving about him while setting elementary ed policy for half of africa.

this is so many leagues beyond a rogues gallery of 'missing stairs'.

so, uh, we gonna have that convo about how some of the same people in the epstein files are the ones ordering kids get grabbed without their parents around?

yes...? no...?

ideally this will cause whole bunches of people, particularly their students, to seriously rethink the work they put out. specifically the ones who were celebrated researchers in, say, social science, psychology, econ.

Ideally...

absurd. just for example his work on reciprocal altruism was not singular, Rapoport covered much of the same ground which is so well known it's in the introduction to the wikipedia article about it. second, he defended epstein after his first conviction. there is no baby, it's all bathwater.

Oh I see they're supposed to be Real Men, but instead they're sucking Trump's dick, because they're faggy faggy queer gay gays who are emasculated, and that's BAD. They should be more heterosexual.

Fuck all of you.

A gaiter is not a mask. ICE agents don’t wear respirators and neither do most white libs and leftists.