I’ll remember this next time some hack conspiracy theorist claims that academics try to suppress them. Ol’ Ted tried to blow up universities and he’s still getting cited. Science doesn’t hold grudges lol
One way to guarantee your paper blows people away
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ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Whenever you play Civ VII and the UX is just impeccable, there’s someone out there to thank
brown567@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I don’t know who, and I’m scared XD
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That person truly did great things for Civilization.
coolman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And the games too
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Real heroes wear green.
yesman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve been told that Kaczynski’s manifesto is compelling and some of his ideas about the danger in technology makes more sense now than when he was captured. I’m kinda scared to read it.
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
It reads to me as a record of a very intelligent person having a total mental breakdown (likely as a result of being drugged and tortured by the CIA as part of MKULTRA). It contains some cogent points about capitalist alienation resulting from the industrial revolution (without identifying it as such), but is also full of homophobic, reactionary, and ecofascist rhetoric. It also completely falls flat with the conclusion being that the only way forward is a complete rejection of technology and modernity, without presenting a compelling alternative.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yeah he makes some solid points, it’s worth a read. The bomb stuff was just a ploy to get it published, it’s not like reading it is going to turn you into a bomber.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
You should read it. It’s short, and easily available. I read it just before the Covid lockdown, and I’m so thankful.
He later walked back his response (blowing people up) and advocated for people to heavily educate themselves on technology so they could guide it and combat it.
That said, it’s hard to disagree with most things he wrote in his manifesto.
jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Half of it is just him whining about leftists ruining everything
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Kinda looking like the Unabomber was on the right track all along.
Phineaz@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
The Unabomber also killed and maimed people at random. So yeah, no.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
No he really wasn’t
magnetosphere@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Whenever someone asks what “dry humor” is, they should be shown this.
JimtheSaint@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
This is amazing - the world is never just “straight forward”
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Turns out genius mathematicians, just like average people, go a little crazy when you subject them to a shitload of LSD and torture. Who would have guessed.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Who would have guessed.
Apparently, not the CIA in 1953 to 1973
ranzispa@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Not only genius mathematicians, we have good examples of genius biologist with Kary Mullis. Though to be fair I’d much rather live in the same city of Kary Mullis, I’d probably enjoy a beer with the guy every once in a while.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
“Better known for other works” can be said about Einstein’s Nobel Prize as well
5715@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Tad Awkward. I see what you did there.
Gork@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Fun fact: in later years when he was in prison, when he filled out paperwork he listed his murder charges as professional achievements/certifications alongside his profession as inmate.