Post Ada2f2xAWIqUv8w3eq by Moon@shitposter.club
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 (DIR) Post #Ada1f8qkUtEpFoPjns by ThatWouldBeTelling@shitposter.club
       2024-01-06T20:22:57.945244Z
       
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       Mutual Assured Destruction is a thing:Mid-December (((Bill Ackman))) calls out (((the MIT Corporation chair))), equivalent to Harvard's (((Penny Pritzker))), and his extremely woke wife for tax fraud that in theory could cost MIT its tax exempt status.Ackman and company succeed in removing Claudine Gay from the top academic job in the US. if not the world.Ackman is Shocked to find DEI is not good for the Jews and publishes a four thousand word manifesto.Business Insider (BI) publishes in typical hit job style plagiarism claims about his (((Israeli wife's))) MIT Ph.D. thesis, which may or may not be serious issues, and more.(After a skim it's something I'd expect from the architecture department, math I doubt most of us understand, computers, 3D printing, a rejection of modernism in favor of nature, some beautiful or attractive/interesting as well as ugly stuff etc. in three hundred pages.  Not axiomatic bullshit like Gay's DEI.)Yeah, the Left doesn't think twice about going after people's families.  WELL:"This experience has inspired me to save all news organizations from the trouble of doing plagiarism reviews.  "We will begin with a review of the work of all current @MIT faculty members, (((President Kornbluth,))) other officers of the Corporation, and its board members for plagiarism.And at a @codybrown's suggestion, "We will review the work of the reporters and staff at BI for completeness."https://nitter.net/BillAckman/status/1743445041362649342#mhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Gorenberghttps://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1742441534627184760https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-ackman-wife-neri-oxman-mit-dissertation-plagiarism-2024-1https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neri_Oxmanhttps://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/59192https://nitter.net/BillAckman/status/1743407502312505795#m
       
 (DIR) Post #Ada2f2xAWIqUv8w3eq by Moon@shitposter.club
       2024-01-06T20:34:06.681720Z
       
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       @ThatWouldBeTelling he should have seen this coming. the best he's got is to do the same thing Gay did, call it an attack and not address that it's true.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ada7OA63Cx1rvHrG2y by ThatWouldBeTelling@shitposter.club
       2024-01-06T21:27:07.526619Z
       
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       @Moon "[(((Ackman)))] should have seen this coming"Maybe, or he could say it bolsters his claim of just now discovering wokeness.His wife though claimed in four paragraphs she'd acknowledged the source at the end of each, as well as in the 398 item bibliography, just missed putting quotes around the specific material.  If you've ever edited a very long document for a long period of time you know this is credible.Assuming she's telling the truth that's more typos than plagiarism due to giving credit right there.  I'm not getting into the weeds of any of these academic slapfights, but here it's at minimum obvious she made a mistake so I'm not sure blanket denying it would help.Gay/Harvard didn't blanket deny, just claimed it was minor without getting into specifics.Though Ackman is acting guilty-ish about the later? claims of Wikipedia plagiarism, see link below.Although that could get interesting, you've got to go back to the state of an article in 2009 or earlier.  If the BI claims match today's Wikipedia text or the history was tampered with. which we know is partly built into the system to erase genuine copyright infringement etc., it's a citogenesis sort of style setup I wouldn't put past this crew including Wikipedia.https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1743466850560720914
       
 (DIR) Post #Ada9YywVDbAAQIgABU by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
       2024-01-06T21:51:28.030957Z
       
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       Oh fuck lol, something tells me going after Ackman's wife is gonna be remembered as a mistake.Ackman is a short seller. It's his JOB to be the crazy irrational jihadi who hangs onto a grudge for years and years until eventually some poor company is run into liquidation.Even if they managed to strip his wife's academic credentials, it doesn't affect how his fund makes money.But having a guy like him sleuthing through each and every one of their backgrounds to find the weaknesses and to break them - this is going to hurt.And he's PROBABLY already figured out how to short academia so basically he's just doing his day job.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdaDRjIvMXrli9xpNg by ThatWouldBeTelling@shitposter.club
       2024-01-06T22:34:45.640092Z
       
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       @cjd "Even if they managed to strip [Bill Ackman's] wife's academic credentials"She's out of that game; became an MIT professor, got tenure, quit 2020-21 (when I note MIT went batshit crazy about COVID) to become a wife, a (better?) mother, first child 2019, and work in the private sector.  Which works for architects (it's in her blood, is the daughter of a couple, one has her own and somewhat overlapping in fields Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivka_Oxman) who have a proven record of making real artifacts, for example in her thesis there's some attractive "carpel tunnel syndrome" wrist braces.All she needs is a credible story, and we're talking about Business Insider here, of incorrect and/or blown out of proportion persecution and she'll retain enough clients and partners unless this dives into crimethink.  And to add to your points, her husband is worth four billion, she could with a bit more than his pocket change continue to do and publish cool stuff, and there's a software business prospect in there to boot.To emphasize the "crazy irrational jihadi" aspect of a short seller like Ackman, if you borrow your shares on margin, if the stock goes up you have to put in more money....  He no doubt fights the maxim "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."Shorting academia :cirnoThink: I'm not sure how you can make his normal sort of money on it, but there's lot of people who'll sign up for a crusade :cirnoheh: against US higher education.And his wife knows the domain, her parents are/were professors, and getting tenure at MIT is very much not trivial, got to be the first or second in your field as judged by for example the visiting comittee for a department, be an adequate teacher etc.  Based on my skim of her Ph.D. thesis she ... well, sounds like she invented her field.  Per Wikipedia she named it.