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Just from an AI search prompt -

Stony Brook University

Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund, has a strong connection with Stony Brook University, particularly with the Renaissance School of Medicine. The company’s founder, Jim Simons, is a Stony Brook alumnus and has made significant contributions to the university.

Here are some key points about the relationship between Renaissance Technologies and Stony Brook:

  • Renaissance Technologies has a campus in East Setauket, New York, which is near Stony Brook University.

  • Jim Simons, the founder of Renaissance Technologies, taught at Stony Brook University before leaving to start his hedge fund.

  • Renaissance Technologies has donated over $500 million to Stony Brook University, making it one of the largest donors in the university’s history.

  • The university’s medical school was renamed the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University in recognition of the company’s contributions.

  • The company’s employees have also made significant donations to the university, with over 150 employees collectively donating more than $508 million.

  • The university and Renaissance Technologies have a strategic partnership for collaborative education, research, and clinical care programs.

Overall, the relationship between Renaissance Technologies and Stony Brook University is one of significant philanthropy and partnership, with the company’s founder and employees making substantial contributions to the university’s growth and development.


Jim Simons also had a connection to Epstien. epstein refered to Simons as the sole role model

Asked whose approach to philanthropy he admired, Epstein said his sole role model was billionaire James Simons. A fellow hedge fund manager and a Ph.D. mathematician, Simons has poured some of his great wealth into a foundation that supports budding mathematicians and math educators. But unlike Simons, Epstein said he felt no obligation to help foster a more scientifically literate population.

And searching back for this fucker -

crab-party crab-party dead-motherfucker DING DONG JIM SIMONS IS DEAD a week ago! crab-party crab-party

Archive of RenTech, Parler, Cambridge Analytica, maybe-later-kiddo Shareblue, frothingfash Brietbart, major political trump-moist cedar-rapids major bribes, Bolton, Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National Laboratory.

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Karp, who’s known as a provocateur, aggressively condoned violence, often peering into the audience with hungry eyes, palpably desperate for claps, boos or shock.

He began by saying that the US has to “scare our adversaries to death” in war. Referring to Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel, he said: “If what happened to them happened to us, there’d be a hole in the ground somewhere.”

Members of the audience laughed when he mocked fresh graduates of Columbia University, which had some of the earliest encampment protests in the country. He said they’d have a hard time on the job market and described their views as a “pagan religion infecting our universities” and “an infection inside of our society”

hitler-detector

“The peace activists are war activists,” Karp insisted. “We are the peace activists.”

1984

A huge aspect of war in a democracy, Karp went on to argue, is leaders successfully selling that war domestically.

chomsky-yes-honey

Cohen urged the room to see the 7 October attack as a “big warning” about tech in military settings. Although Israel had invested “very heavily” in defense and surveillance technology, it had failed to stop the attack, Cohen noted. “We do need to have a little bit of humility.”

the-boys-are-back-in-town the-boys-are-back-in-town the-boys-are-back-in-town

This didn’t seem to be a common view. The prevailing attitude of the conference was when systems fail, it just means you need newer technology, and more of it.

so-true

said hi to the person next to me, a man who appeared to be in his late 50s.

“Have you seen Oppenheimer?” he asked.

I thought he was going to talk about the hubris of people who build weapons of war. Instead, he told me he works in nuclear weapons research at Los Alamos laboratory

“I just thought of something,” he said abruptly, laughing. “I am the new Oppenheimer!”

Oh you "just thought" of that did you? doubt

only other journalist covering the conference was my friend Jack Poulson, who said I should join him at a panel discussion about ethics and human rights.

starting the Q&A. Jack stood up at the first opportunity. He talked about the “provocative remarks” made throughout the conference about “exporting AI into places like Gaza”. Voice shaking, he mentioned Karp “unabashedly supporting” the ongoing killings in Gaza, and said Karp’s comments about “winning the debate” were clearly a euphemism for crushing dissent. A couple of audience members laughed quietly as Jack asked: could the panel respond to any of this?

The moderator decided to let everybody else ask their questions and let the panelists choose which to answer. Unsurprisingly, no one directly answered Jack’s question.

Later, as I entered the main conference hall, I found myself right behind a group of kids with tiny backpacks. They appeared to be in first or second grade. I asked a teacher, a blond woman with glasses, if there was an exhibit for kids. She said no, but one of them had a dad working at the event.

A slim man with dark hair approached the kids. He had a Special Competitive Studies Project pin on his suit. Beaming, he took a picture with them. About 30 minutes later, I found him taking the kids on a tour. He was squatting down to their height and pointing at something in a booth for a military vendor. I couldn’t hear what he was saying.

agony-wholesome

a panel in Palantir’s booth titled Civilian Harm Mitigation. It was led by two “privacy and civil liberties engineers” – a young man and woman who spoke exclusively in monotone.

is-this ableism?

on an interactive map, a targeted landmass lit up with bright blue blobs. These blobs, she said, were civilian areas like hospitals and schools. The civilian locations could also be described in text, she said, but it can take a long time to read. So, Gaia uses a large language model (something like ChatGPT) to sift through this information and simplify it.

i-love-not-thinking obama-drone

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The pivot to video. I yearn for written tech guides or automotive process with well written instructions and detailed pictures. The fact that so much of the info once found in text is now pivoting to some chucklefuck holding his iPhone in one hand while trying to show you how to do a two handed job is extremely aggravating. Don’t even get me started on the need to sift through a 25 minute long tech video because you need to find that one step that you missed.

Video is so fucking low effort and annoying.

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She did a fundraiser for Palestine and they told her that she didn’t give a shit about Palestinian children.

Now people who have no idea what BlockOut is are just seeing Miss Rachel crying and saying shit like, “who made my coparent cry?” and “we ride at dawn” and those videos are getting more views than her fundraiser did.

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so-true

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zionist billionaires seeking to better 'Israel''s public image, pushed New York City's Eric Adams to use police to crack down on pro-Palestine student protesters at Columbia University, donating to the politician and offering to pay for private investigators to help break up the demonstrations.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/16/pro-israel-billionaires-urged-new-york-crackdown-on-gaza-protests-report

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rat-salute gigachad-hd

yellow coveralls ✅

big bushy beard ✅

big ass chainsaw✅

helping your neighbors after a natural disaster✅

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the-podcast guy recently linked this essay, its old, but i don't think its significantly wrong (despite gpt evangelists) also read weizenbaum, libs, for the other side of the coin

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Seriously, I wanna fucking leave my house every fucking day. They work everyday, all day and are exploited for their work, have bad health that they have no time to take care of and are so devoted to defending millionaires for "creating jobs" that they cannot accept that what creates value is labour. They hate the government and see it as bad, I agree, the bourgeois democracy is terrible, but when I say that, they don't believe in it. State owned equals inherently bad, seriously, its so hard to see the truth and ALMOST EVERYONE around you is a chud, a lib or at best a soc dem. And thank god for soc dems here, because at least they aren't anti-communist, at least some of them. Every fucking time I have to argue with a lib, I want to organize harder

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Also Me: "pee pee poo poo lol I drew a penis on the signature pad at the liquor store!"

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Please somebody make a Discopost about this

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This definitely happened, right? I haven't been sleeping correctly for a while but I'm pretty sure this wasn't a fever dream

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