Kulturkampf

[NekoFever]

2020, including early 2021, was such a magical terrible amazing time. Sometimes you see old photos and get reminded it really happened.

I remember that Hitman level.

[Potato]

Shit is getting juicy now.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/07/business/neri-oxman-bill-ackman-mit/index.html

Bill Ackman calls out MIT, Business Insider as wife Neri Oxman faces plagiarism accusations

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman said Sunday that he has “good reason to believe” the plagiarism accusations against his wife Neri Oxman were spearheaded by either faculty or administrators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ackman said it was based on “new information,” which he did not share.

“Our leaders remain focused on ensuring the vital work of the people of MIT continues, work that is essential to the nation’s security, prosperity and quality of life,” an MIT spokesperson told CNN on Sunday.

Oxman, a former tenured professor at MIT, allegedly plagiarized in more than two dozen instances in peer-reviewed academic papers and her PhD dissertation, according to a report published Friday by Business Insider.

The Business Insider investigation, which was published one day after another report from the outlet accusing Oxman of plagiarizing portions of her dissertation, cited 28 more alleged examples of plagiarism, some apparently from Wikipedia entries. CNN has not independently verified the Business Insider report.

Oxman has seemingly been pulled into this controversy in part because of her connection to Ackman, one of the most prominent critics in a successful effort to oust former Harvard president Claudine Gay.

The instances of Oxman’s alleged plagiarism cited by Business Insider appear similar to those launched against Gay. She stepped down last week amid accusations of inadequate citations in her PhD dissertation and several scholarly articles. The accusations snowballed onto the barrage of criticism Gay had already faced with regard to her response to a rise in reported antisemitic incidents on campus following the terror attacks by Hamas on October 7 and Israel’s subsequent war in Gaza.

Oxman, an American-Israeli designer credited with pioneering an interdisciplinary approach called “material ecology,” addressed the initial Business Insider report.

In a post Thursday on X, formerly known as Twitter, she acknowledged that there were four paragraphs in her 330-page dissertation in which she correctly cited her sources but “did not place the subject language in quotation marks, which would be the proper approach for crediting the work. I regret and apologize for these errors.”

Oxman has not publicly responded to the new plagiarism allegations.

Ackman responded to the most recent Business Insider report on Friday night, claiming the outlet did not give Oxman and him enough time to counter the accusations before publishing.

“How can one defend oneself when one learns about a 12-page plagiarism accusation at 540pm on Friday night when one celebrates Shabbat and you are told the article would be published shortly, in this case at 7:10pm?” he wrote on X. Shabbat is the Jewish Sabbath, a practice that begins on sundown Friday night and typically involves setting aside work obligations, and sometimes all technology such as phones and computers, in the name of rest.

Ackman said that the new accusations against Oxman have “inspired (him) to save all news organizations from the trouble of doing plagiarism reviews,” announcing that he will launch a review of all current MIT professors, the university’s president and its governing board.

Ackman added that he will also be conducting a plagiarism review of Business Insider’s reporters and staff.

A representative for Ackman has not responded to CNN’s request for comment.

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[Puffy Fucking Baby]

#abolishuniversities

[HaughtyFrank]

....Nazis?

[Tucker's Law]

Shit is getting juicy now.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/07/business/neri-oxman-bill-ackman-mit/index.html

Bill Ackman calls out MIT, Business Insider as wife Neri Oxman faces plagiarism accusations

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman said Sunday that he has “good reason to believe” the plagiarism accusations against his wife Neri Oxman were spearheaded by either faculty or administrators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ackman said it was based on “new information,” which he did not share.

“Our leaders remain focused on ensuring the vital work of the people of MIT continues, work that is essential to the nation’s security, prosperity and quality of life,” an MIT spokesperson told CNN on Sunday.

Oxman, a former tenured professor at MIT, allegedly plagiarized in more than two dozen instances in peer-reviewed academic papers and her PhD dissertation, according to a report published Friday by Business Insider.

The Business Insider investigation, which was published one day after another report from the outlet accusing Oxman of plagiarizing portions of her dissertation, cited 28 more alleged examples of plagiarism, some apparently from Wikipedia entries. CNN has not independently verified the Business Insider report.

Oxman has seemingly been pulled into this controversy in part because of her connection to Ackman, one of the most prominent critics in a successful effort to oust former Harvard president Claudine Gay.

The instances of Oxman’s alleged plagiarism cited by Business Insider appear similar to those launched against Gay. She stepped down last week amid accusations of inadequate citations in her PhD dissertation and several scholarly articles. The accusations snowballed onto the barrage of criticism Gay had already faced with regard to her response to a rise in reported antisemitic incidents on campus following the terror attacks by Hamas on October 7 and Israel’s subsequent war in Gaza.

Oxman, an American-Israeli designer credited with pioneering an interdisciplinary approach called “material ecology,” addressed the initial Business Insider report.

In a post Thursday on X, formerly known as Twitter, she acknowledged that there were four paragraphs in her 330-page dissertation in which she correctly cited her sources but “did not place the subject language in quotation marks, which would be the proper approach for crediting the work. I regret and apologize for these errors.”

Oxman has not publicly responded to the new plagiarism allegations.

Ackman responded to the most recent Business Insider report on Friday night, claiming the outlet did not give Oxman and him enough time to counter the accusations before publishing.

“How can one defend oneself when one learns about a 12-page plagiarism accusation at 540pm on Friday night when one celebrates Shabbat and you are told the article would be published shortly, in this case at 7:10pm?” he wrote on X. Shabbat is the Jewish Sabbath, a practice that begins on sundown Friday night and typically involves setting aside work obligations, and sometimes all technology such as phones and computers, in the name of rest.

Ackman said that the new accusations against Oxman have “inspired (him) to save all news organizations from the trouble of doing plagiarism reviews,” announcing that he will launch a review of all current MIT professors, the university’s president and its governing board.

Ackman added that he will also be conducting a plagiarism review of Business Insider’s reporters and staff.

A representative for Ackman has not responded to CNN’s request for comment.

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He's been getting closer to going scorched-earth on all of the MSM, going by his posts on twitter about them contacting his children's personal phones when trying to get information.  Good, I say.  The more these scumbags are shown to be anything but journalists, the better.

[Nintex]

It's weird though, why would Ackman suddenly attack all those institutions in public. He could just send his lawyers after them instead of over 9000 character tweets. 

Is he thinking about entering politics?

[Tucker's Law]

[benji]

....Nazis?

The article does not in fact establish that "Nazis adored it" or anything about Nazis, this is the only relevant paragraph:

What is cuteness? In 1943, the Austrian zoologist and sometime Nazi psychologist (as well as future Nobel laureate) Konrad Lorenz proposed that behaviours that create the appearance of helplessness motivate us to care for our offspring – and that the same ­visual cues can arouse equally intense emotions when we encounter them in animals, such as kittens, and even in dolls and teddy bears. “Whenever something reminds us of a baby, from puppies to pandas, from a sock puppet to two dots with a curved line below them, it can trigger our cuteness detector,” explains professor Joshua Paul Dale, a specialist in “cute ­studies” at Tokyo’s Chuo University. “And that activates the pleasure centres of our brains.”

Lorenz devised a set of characteristics that might provoke such a reaction, including: a large head, wide-set eyes, short limbs, a soft body and wobbly movements.

[Uncle]

why is bubble tea childish

because it's often sweet? but everyone drinks regular tea with sugar and soda and fruit juice and whatever else anyway?

because of the novelty of balls in your drink? again I point to the novelty of a fizzy sensation in your mouth from soda

are the majority of drinks childish? only alcohol is not? except adult beverages make you act all fucked up and weird like a child?

so everything but fuckin water is childish

[benji]

If I don't like it, it's childish. What I drink is proper adult beverages.

[benji]

Meanwhile:

[benji]

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Oh god I can't handle the Will Stancil Joker Arc, this guy was so terrible before:

[HaughtyFrank]

https://twitter.com/Halalcoholism/status/1744146787886399521

[HaughtyFrank]

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[benji]

https://twitter.com/drbernielim/status/1743853736425078895

[benji]

NYT went FULL MAGA again:

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[Uncle]

https://twitter.com/Halalcoholism/status/1744146787886399521

"you say you're attracted to vaginas but look, I've chopped off my dick and carved a grotesque hole into my crotch which I have to keep shoving things inside to make sure the wound doesn't heal and close up, and now you claim that's not attractive to you"

[benji]

There were more like this:

[HaughtyFrank]

Oh right, with Trump running for president again we'll again have people who are now incredibly upset about news reporting the news

[Tucker's Law]

It's weird though, why would Ackman suddenly attack all those institutions in public. He could just send his lawyers after them instead of over 9000 character tweets. 

Is he thinking about entering politics?

I think it's probably more that his wants of retribution here require humiliation in a very public setting.  Doesn't mean he won't send the lawyers too, but I think this is one of those rare cases where money isn't the play (not that it ever really changes greed, but the man is already a billionaire), and he's in that headspace of near-unchecked anger where the only driving thought process is, "your entire world must burn for going after my children and wife."

[benji]

More importantly he can't send his lawyers after them because they aren't doing anything you can sue people for.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

What the hell @benji?????? You are trans and that is FINAL. Enjoy girldick you COWARD.

[Puffy Fucking Baby]

https://twitter.com/drbernielim/status/1743853736425078895

Why would zionist doctors give a shit about killing black patients? Or was this added to get a larger section of the retarded wing of the left involved in their theory?

[Eric Cartman]

oh, NOW suddenly "ALL lives matter" is the credo they want to endorse

[HaughtyFrank]

Now BI seems to be in hot waters with their parent company Axel Springer

[Potato]

Journalistic values...Business Insider?

[Nintex]

[D3RANG3D]

[Potato]

Whoever that giant fucking douche with the sunglasses is, I would pay good money to punch him in the face.

[Potato]

Anyway, Australia Day 2024 lamb ad is out and, as usual, it will likely rustle some jimmies.