It can’t be overstated how much Columbia has fucked up this moment. They caved to Elise ‘Great Replacement Theory’ Stefanik’s fake antisemitism hearings stoked that fire, their original unnecessary crackdown on students is largely the cause of the broader unrest on campuses, and now their capitulation signals the weakness of American educational institutions.

It doesn’t look like they’re going to course correct any time soon either, so hopefully people will reevaluate their position as an elite school.

Some xAI investors got scammed. And then scammed again.

It was just one bad apple. Who probably won’t be punished for being bad.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

I expect a public case about whether Elon Musk is a Nazi will draw Mangione levels of public contributions for the defendant.

Yeah, it’s not like this was some agonizing choice but the Columbia administration. They already weren’t on their students’ side.

I asked that question because you original comment was ridiculous if you read the article. This separate critique you have is not relevant.

Did you read the article at all?

Because there’s little reason to think different lidar systems would perform much differently on these tests and Tesla is the big name that uses exclusively imaging for self driving.

Yeah, sure, you just happened to come up with the exact same petty mannerism they’ve been doing for 15 years with the exact same reasoning and somehow claim you’re not only not copying it, but never even knew they did it.

So you’re just doing the same thing Republicans do and using the exact same dumb justification.

The adjective form of ‘Democrat’ is ‘Democratic’, not the stupid and grammatically incorrect form Republicans decided to push in the late 2000s.

A witness told police that a man threw gasoline on the Tesla, lit it on fire and then ran off.

Sounds like another battery fire to me. Those things are notoriously unreliable.

Another good quote:

“I don’t think they knew who Chuck Schumer was before today,” the lawmaker said. “But they know now and they hate him.”

Cool, let’s check in with the ADL about the appropriateness of stripping Jewishness from someone else. I’m sure they’ll be quick to respond in the face of such a blatant offense, just like they stood strong against doing a Sieg Heil during a political speech.

The idea that you can lose your voting rights (or have them openly deprioritized) at all is really pretty antithetical to the idea of democracy.

Ritchie Torres is such an ever-present name in stories about Democrats selling out.

Davidai is such an odious liar. Want an actual terrorist supporting foreigner? He’s right there.

Ok.

LOL, that ProudResistor/ProudSocialist guy is still grifting along? On Twitter no less?

The media never should have allowed Ms. Great-Replacement-Theory to cosplay as caring about antisemitism. Every single story should have included a reference to it as soon as her name was mentioned, just like every story about Elon Musk should include his Nazi salute.

But they’re a combination of corrupt and willing to sell out democracy and decency for short term gains. That corruption and fecklessness is critical to all this being possible.