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”With the Epstein files, we’re confronted with exactly what all the Edge men – from Pinker to Dawkins to Musk to Gates – did with the intellectual territory they seized. With their Ivy League posts, their billions, and their blue-ribbon DNA, the would-be intellectuals in Epstein’s circle converged on nothing less than the ideology of Mein Kampf.”
— Virginia Heffernan
https://www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-billionaires-eugenics-project-harvard-academia-john-brockman
#epstein #pinker #dawkins #musk #gates

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science

Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-long project that cloaked eugenics, race science and sexual misconduct in Ivy League respectability

The Nerve

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Touaregtweet Feb 17

2/2 - #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #EdgeFoundation #Harvard #Dershowitz #RobertTrivers #LawrenceSummers #Pinker

Touaregtweet Feb 17

"Whatever Edge was supposed to be, it became something sinister. The salon played yenta to billionaire money and alpha-male minds, and together, over decades, they all converged on a master philosophy: they were apex predators ordained by nature to exploit and subjugate others. This creed allowed the Edge set to steer intellectual history into its current fascist dead-end"
https://www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-billionaires-eugenics-project-harvard-academia-john-brockman #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #EdgeFoundation #Harvard #Dershowitz #RobertTrivers #LawrenceSummers #Pinker

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science

The Nerve

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Marianne Feb 16

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social I wish someone had written up his use of his position to defend a colleague against a student who brought a harassment case against him (the colleague).

There was a twitter thread about it with copies of emails. I may still have the link somewhere, assuming the thread still exists.

I feel that should have received far more attention. All you tend to see when looking is rubbish about his position on "cancel culture" and how he 'avoided cancellation' and other such nonsense.

Now of course we have... All this.
#Epstein #Pinker

Bernd von Mallinckrodt 🦋Oct 21

Manipulativ … #Kapitalismus braucht keinen Hass … er braucht Grenzen! #Pinker spricht nicht von Hass sondern von kognitiver Dissonanz zum unlimitierten Kapitalismus. Nur wer die Überhitzung des Systems kühlt, kann Fortschritt wirklich erhalten. #LimitCapitalism #RationalFuture #TaxTheRich 🖖

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Oct 15

“New opportunities for the creation of common knowledge present themselves unceasingly in our #feeds, and, as a result, #Pinker argues, we now devote excessive time and energy to the rituals of affirmation and expulsion that its manufacture involves.” www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

Do You Know What I Know?

Do You Know What I Know?

Joshua Rothman writes about common knowledge and the book “When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .,” by Steven Pinker.

The New Yorker

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Oct 15

“It’s precisely because such #ideas are contentious and nonobvious—they’re a far cry from asserting “that the sun rises in the east,” #Pinker writes—that they serve as reliable signals of group membership.” www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

Do You Know What I Know?