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Melinda, Bill and Jeffrey (Epstein)

May 18, 2021 4 min read

I'm not sure what to make of Bill Gates as he features in the New York Times's report on his divorce with Melinda French Gates, although it's tempting to see hints of that attitude so ofte…

Toppling Epstein's intellectuals network

Sep 9, 2019 4 min read

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While there have been no other high-profile exits from the MIT Media Lab after Ethan Zuckerman and J. Nathan Matias submitted their resignations, the lab’s students had been demanding its director Joi…

Another exit from MIT Media Lab

Aug 22, 2019 1 min read

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J. Nathan Matias, a newly minted faculty member at Cornell University and a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab, has announced that he will cut all ties with the latter at the end of the academic ye…