This is so much worse than I could possibly have imagined, and I can imagine a lot.https://twitter.com/RonanFarrow/status/1170170472698437632 …
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I know a lot of folks are grieving deeply about the revelations about the Media Lab. I think a lot about the words of Ann Braden, a civil rights activist: “It is a difficult process, but it is not destructive. It is the road to liberation.”
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This is so staggeringly horriblehttps://twitter.com/ronanfarrow/status/1170170494483664896 …
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Ronan FarrowVerified account @RonanFarrowEpstein was secretly invited to meet with faculty and leadership. He was accompanied by two young women, and lab staff feared for their safety. Staff were told to avoid naming Epstein in emails about the meeting and to prevent a professor who objected from spotting Epstein. pic.twitter.com/FvffItf2sDShow this thread3 replies 17 retweets 85 likesShow this thread -
Here’s my personal story: at YC Investor Day last year (August 2018), I pitched to a partner from E14, one of the MIT investment funds. The partner said that our co wasn't a fit for the "deep tech" focus of E14, we might be of interest to another MIT/Joi-affiliated fund…
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…and to follow up with him. I did a bit of digging about Joi, & a friend told me about the close ties between Joi and Epstein. Based on that, I didn’t follow up on the lead. This is a tiny story, but it’s an illustration of how taking this money harmed underrepresented people.
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All I did was ghost them early in the process; shout out to
@starkness for turning down an actual offer https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/business/media/mit-media-lab-jeffrey-epstein-joichi-ito.html …pic.twitter.com/r7pMT2DiBX
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Grieve for your heroes who turned out to be made of clay, but grieve more for the heroes you didn’t get to meet because there were assholes in the way.
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You realize that's a poem, right? Grieve for your heroes who turned out to be made of clay, but grieve more for the heroes you didn’t get to meet because there were assholes in the way.
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I was honestly a bit annoyed at myself when I realized it rhymed, but thank you for laying it out :)
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My New Years resolution was to make more bad art, after all!
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