highlights couldn't capture its commodius vicus of recirculation, back to nymphomania or to the impossibility of describing gravity. relatedly, the book he sued p.z. myers for reviewing is about how all organisms are actually topological deformations of the same primordial toroid. a man with a circular mind. also lol:
I have to add another compliment for the book, though. In addition to the lovely artwork, it's an extremely high quality print; well bound, on heavy stock, and looking to last a thousand years. It seems no expense was spared getting it published, which is in contrast to the content, and is unusual for such flagrant crackpottery.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 23 August 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
Epstein was a dilettante, and easily distracted.
doctor, heal thyself
― untuned mass damper (mh), Friday, 23 August 2019 20:24 (four years ago) link
"jaron lanier and all that group, the greatest thinkers that they were"
― mark s, Friday, 23 August 2019 21:33 (four years ago) link
“some kind of a mini university of thought,”
― lag∞n, Friday, 23 August 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
hoooo boy
Between those years, in 1999, Larry Celona rides with Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and others on the Lolita Express from Teterboro, NJ to Palm Beach for a short weekend. They return with two extra women.Teterboro is now being reported as the hub of Epstein's sex traffic network. pic.twitter.com/6qenteH0pV— ᏔმƦ𝔢ჳ💤 (@mooncult) August 23, 2019
Fast-forward to 2019, Larry Celona is still working at the NY Post and still breaking exclusives:He was the first to report Epstein's first "suicide attempt"He was the first to report of Epstein's successful "suicide"He was the first to release photos of Epstein's dead body pic.twitter.com/GWEt7aqwV5— ᏔმƦ𝔢ჳ💤 (@mooncult) August 23, 2019
― Simon H., Saturday, 24 August 2019 02:01 (four years ago) link
never gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind i always get it up, for the touch of the younger kind my, my, my, aye-aye, whoa! m-m-m-my celona
― lowkey goatsed on the styx (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 24 August 2019 03:09 (four years ago) link
srsly tho that’s extremely fuckin weird , especially the eyes wide shut connection
― lowkey goatsed on the styx (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 24 August 2019 03:14 (four years ago) link
It's exactly the kind of thing that turns me into a gibbering mess when I think about this stuff too much tbh
― Simon H., Saturday, 24 August 2019 03:20 (four years ago) link
tfw u realise the elite pedo ring killed the man who faked the moon landings
― lowkey goatsed on the styx (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 24 August 2019 03:42 (four years ago) link
They also suggest a preference for hard-rock songs from the 1970s that emphasized male sexual conquest, as well as the odd song about sexual attraction between children and adults — Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher" and an Oscar Peterson performance of "My Heart Belongs to Daddy."
That Peterson/Gillespie version slaps tbh
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 24 August 2019 03:49 (four years ago) link
Very good
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/23/prince-andrew-appalled-epstein-royal-wedding
― piscesx, Saturday, 24 August 2019 04:49 (four years ago) link
Further down the thread someone does point out that Celona on the jet is nearly certainly a false positive - Glen Dubin, listed on the same flights, has a daughter named Celina, and the rest of the line up is also family, their nanny, and his wife Eva, an ex of Epstein's.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 24 August 2019 06:47 (four years ago) link
I don't normally like Marina Hyde but that one is great.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 24 August 2019 09:15 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ECvTbE4XkAAhqlq?format=jpg
lol quite apart from being bad content-wise idea this is so badly written -- these ppl's brains are just deliquescing like the "facts in the case of m.valdemar"
― mark s, Saturday, 24 August 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
the superscript on the date ordinal alone merits the guillotine
― mark s, Saturday, 24 August 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
"I can only reiterate my regret that I was mistaken to think that what I thought I knew of him was evidently not the real person"
what?
― jmm, Saturday, 24 August 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
His Mother's English.
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 August 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
i mean since this is the conspiracy-mongering thread gotta wonder if/why his ma allowed him to slip this nonsense past the press-officer sub-editor flunkey
my theory: she's already concluded this particular failson is surplus to the firm's requirements (slow-burn revenge for it's a royal knockout)
― mark s, Saturday, 24 August 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
I'm still trying to work out if that quote actually means the opposite of what he wants to say.
― jmm, Saturday, 24 August 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
how i break it down (to some extent):
I can only reiterate = to be clear my regret that I was mistaken = i was wrong (sadly)to think (that what) I thought = to assume (that what) I knew of him was evidently not the real person = he wasn’t who i thought
to be clear, i was wrong (sadly) to assume he wasn’t who i thought = to be clear, i was right (sadly) to assume he was who i thought
so he means "i regret to inform you i knew all along" lol
― mark s, Saturday, 24 August 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
at one level these horrible ppl beclowning themselves (cf also pivar above, and dersh) is hard not to laugh at, but on a deeper level it's just so awful -- because this is who has power: utter idiots able to behave in viciously ghastly ways :|
― mark s, Saturday, 24 August 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
Implying: "I was mistaken to think that what I thought I knew of him was evidently not the real person"
Implying: "I thought that what I thought I knew of him was not the real person."
Which kind of sounds like: “I thought that he was a bad person.”
Putting it all back together: "I regret that I mistakenly thought that he was a bad person.”
― jmm, Saturday, 24 August 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
that mother jones interview is unhinged.
― akm, Saturday, 24 August 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
this is who has power: utter idiots able to behave in viciously ghastly ways :|
To coin a phrase, "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely". To which I would add, when the primary basis of that power is inheritance, you get a high percentage of corrupt idiots.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 24 August 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
I'm more of a fan of the "power reveals character" school of thought.
― Simon H., Saturday, 24 August 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
character is not immutable imo. add new elements to a person's condition and they often change in response. the 'reveals character' hypothesis requires that whatever appears to be new was already there, but hidden. because changes in behavior are clearly evident, but the hidden pre-existence of a newly apparent character trait was not evident, the simpler explanation (they just changed) seems to me closer to the truth.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 24 August 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
power changes people
― flappy bird, Saturday, 24 August 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
but to Simon's point, who seeks power?
people don't change, power reveals
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 24 August 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
new poll
Uhhhhhhhh....
Jeffrey Epstein transferred more than $577 million in assets to his brother two days before his suicide. Lisa Bloom, the lawyer representing several of his alleged victims in a civil suit, describes what that means for the case.https://t.co/iIpAKNCAOA— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 24, 2019
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 24 August 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
A huge donation to a reporter's favored nonprofit. A bullet with a message. A cat's severed head in the front yard of an editor-in-chief.Those were some of the tools Jeffrey Epstein is said to have used to try to soften news coverage: https://t.co/tF87ZzfQbH— NPR (@NPR) August 23, 2019
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 24 August 2019 23:24 (four years ago) link
(slow-burn revenge for it's a royal knockout)
tbf to the appalling Andrew, that was entirely Edward's doing, he's barely been seen in public since and it was over 30 years ago!
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Sunday, 25 August 2019 01:31 (four years ago) link
― Simon H., Saturday, August 24, 2019 2:00 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― flappy bird, Saturday, August 24, 2019 6:16 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
both
― lag∞n, Sunday, 25 August 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
Malova did not respond to an email. A former Miss Russia, she moved to the US and made it to the final of the 1998 Miss Universe beauty pageant, which was then owned by Donald Trump – another former friend of Epstein.In 2010 she was accused of forging a prescription for Vicodin from a stolen doctor’s pad. She was jailed in May 2011 after repeatedly arriving late for a court-mandated drug programme. i was reading about this epstein motherfucker today, god knows why, and these paragraphs really hit me
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 25 August 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
which part of it?
― akm, Sunday, 25 August 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
the word 'former' is making a ton of assumptions in that sentence
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 25 August 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
which part of it? the part where the young woman gets shuttled through various gates of privilege by incredibly powerful men and driven to a life of petty drugs fraud?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 25 August 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
More digging re Epstein's ties to scientists
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-epstein-science-donations-apologies-statements
― Simon H., Tuesday, 27 August 2019 07:09 (four years ago) link
They say sunshine is the best disinfectant. But failing that, bushel baskets of cash do the job pretty well, too.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
FBI studies two broken cameras outside cell where Epstein died: source https://t.co/l9Zm9DIKVz pic.twitter.com/dlC9lwFpnp— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) August 29, 2019
oh hey another insultingly predictable development
― Simon H., Thursday, 29 August 2019 05:03 (four years ago) link
huhhttps://www.gettyimages.com/photos/ghislaine-maxwell?events=175309124&family=editorial&phrase=ghislaine%20maxwell&sort=best#license
― maura, Thursday, 29 August 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link
Selma Blair's time to shine in the eventual movie imho
― Simon H., Thursday, 29 August 2019 23:46 (four years ago) link
thanks to the tipster who sent these pix of Prince Andrew at an Eyes Wide Shut themed party pic.twitter.com/RSWZa6q1rp— Molly Lambert 🦔 (@mollylambert) August 29, 2019
― Simon H., Friday, 30 August 2019 00:03 (four years ago) link
Maxwell's probably been at some of the same social gatherings as Trump since her dad was alive, no?
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 30 August 2019 00:18 (four years ago) link
THIS IS IN GHISLAINE’S HOUSE pic.twitter.com/xEucMcTtqo— Molly Lambert 🦔 (@mollylambert) August 30, 2019
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 30 August 2019 01:32 (four years ago) link
Oh come on, now they're exaggerating - who doesn't have an innocent picture of a harem in their house?
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/atmosphere-at-hamish-bowles-ghislaine-maxwell-and-lillian-news-photo/609446606
― StanM, Friday, 30 August 2019 08:04 (four years ago) link
the way eyes wide shut keeps popping up around this guy and the people connected to him is... intriguing
― lowkey goatsed on the styx (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 30 August 2019 08:34 (four years ago) link
Eh, this is taking a turn for the Pizzagate - could we stick with the sexual abuse and leave the art criticism?
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 30 August 2019 08:52 (four years ago) link
otfm
― Vape Store (crüt), Friday, 30 August 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link