RE: Curating the Internet: Science and technology micro-summaries for September 9, 2019
Interesting link. Thanks. I am reflexively skeptical of claims like that without substantial corroborating evidence to back them, but it does raise an eyebrow that it was apparently written in 2012 or 2013, and specifically named two people from the MIT Media Lab who are now caught up in the Jeffrey Epstein wave.
I was able to verify that the original post was archived by archive.org in 2013, with those names included, so it wasn't just posted recently with a backdated label.
We'll have to see where the follow-up to the Epstein investigation leads... I hope it doesn't get dropped. Coincidentally, I included two links about MIT & Epstein in my business curation post today, too (I had a hard time deciding if they should go under "business" or "technology," but opted for "business"). It's disturbing to see how close he seems to have been to the center of the network of "who's who in science..."
All too true. I've been tugging on the threads poking out of the Epstein shitpile, and keep following them to ever more bad news. I should probably just get drunk instead.
https://amp.businessinsider.com/mit-media-lab-referred-to-epstein-as-voldemort-conceal-identity-2019-9
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-an-elite-university-research-center-concealed-its-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein
https://www.axios.com/mit-media-lab-director-resigns-financial-ties-jeffrey-epstein-003afb92-95bb-47d5-add4-810d10bf36ab.html
On and on it goes. Mintpressnews has done a yoeman's job researching Epstein's involvement in many other matters, and linked this network to Ehud Barak's company now offering products very likely to include surveillance features that may soon be on our phones, in the name of 'preventing mass murders of children', as Trump has promised to do. The company name eludes me atm (Alzheimer's, I'm sure. I linked to the mintpressnews story mentioning it on a post recently if you're interested) but has close ties to Peter Thiel, of Palantir, and Michael Chertoff, who has a competing product also, and is a slippery character as well.
Its those claims I am most dubious about. I find it all too easy to believe rich and powerful people do bad things to gain wealth and power.