I have a whole book coming out in under two months about how amazing the universe is and how important it is to keep that in mind. And instead I will have to deal with another round of “she’s an advocate“ and “she’s really fierce on Bluesky” when I’m literally an award-winning scientist and writer

I should say also that I continue to believe that the 2007/2008 boundary is important. People interacted with Epstein and not everyone knew about his sexual interests and activities. I don’t fault anyone who took money from him before, unless there is evidence they knew what he was.

So we can condemn the individuals involved but we should notice all the individuals who join them in not saying something when they hear and see racist, sexist, transphobic etc comments

My professional memories are full of them, and most aren’t in the Epstein files

I wonder if they ever thought through why they were in rooms of almost exclusively men, that were almost exclusively white

It was their job to. But I am in the minority in believing that.

And my point is “being a nice guy” is not enough because sometimes that’s just looking the other way

Seems like a shot across the bow of the W? Negotiations are already going badly and the players had already authorized so 😅

Posting about personal freedoms under a photo of a guy who stole teeth for himself from enslaved people

The group of scientists who Epstein approached, who Brockman rounded up for him, are from the same institutional class that the US government selects from for the Jasons, which for a long time was a hallowed group of almost exclusively physicists