My favorite “these are pronounced the same”: colonel and kernel
Lebeau pronounced it was Col-lol-nel, no R sound.
I just saw the story on this and clicked on it. That has to be the oldest looking 16 year old in history. Dude legit looks like he’s in his 30s.
Good for him though. Hope he gets the coaching needed to deal with the money and fame he’s going to get.
Feel like this is them returning to the scene of the crime and gloating
Surf
January 6, 2024, 2:48am
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I had no idea this was a historically contentious subject, some kinda amusing quotes in here
Oh no, Mr. Bill! How does this whole Wikipedia thing even work anyway?
https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1743466850560720914
Yeah like I said 16 going on 40. Apparently he’s dating a 21 year old.
I suspect they’ll defend themselves like good mega rich folk do… They’ll harass, threaten, and tie up in litigation people with less money than them until lives and businesses are ruined.
goofy
January 6, 2024, 10:42pm
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Give the man credit, he was on the “Harvard is too woke” train decades before it reached the mainstream
I don’t think I’ve ever liked anything about Bill Ackman personally. Just about the only thing I agree with him about is that Herbalife shouldn’t even be in a legal grey area.
lol he presents himself as having grown up middle class, fuck all the way off you narcissist ass bag
Also every billionaire Jew playing the anti-Semitism card every single time they’re called out is fucking offensive to actual victims of anti-Semitism
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goofy
January 7, 2024, 5:38am
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lol Ackman wrote a fucking 5,000-word novel across two tweets, absolutely unhinged
https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1743792224020619450
Neri has yet to vet yesterday’s plagiarism allegations, but she will get to them when she has time to do so. Notably the first 15 of the 28 examples that came from Business Insider’s “thorough review of her published work” were definitions of words or terms that Neri may have used from Wikipedia including the definition of: “weaving,” “computer graphics,” “computer-aided design,” “pain,” “manifold,” “heat flux,” “optimization,” and “sustainable design,” to name more than half of the examples BI calls plagiarism.
Is this plagiarism? Let’s assume that in writing her dissertation Neri used Wikipedia as a dictionary for these terms and it is deemed to be plagiarism, does it any way affect the quality and originality of the research in her dissertation? I think that’s worth an important discussion among the experts.
It does not strike me as plagiarism, nor do I think it takes anything away from her work. I am not sure who would even complain that they were not cited properly. I also wish I knew how to reach a human being at Wikipedia as my Wikipedia biography needs correcting, and could be meaningfully improved if there was someone I could speak to.
I am sure that when Neri wrote her dissertation she thought that there was nothing wrong with using Wikipedia as a dictionary. When I was a student, I remember having a thesaurus and a dictionary on my desk that I would consult when I wrote a paper and needed a synonym or a definition of a word. I never thought to quote or cite my thesaurus or dictionary for basic words, term or synonyms.
“Is this plagiarism?” “I am sure she thought that there was nothing wrong with using Wikipedia as a dictionary.” lol why is this clown trying to throw his goddamn wife under the bus like this and tell the world she’s as dumb as he is? Savage!
Also in the most predictable rich-guy-mad-at-people-not-liking-him development of all time:
In my 36-year career, I have never had the experience of a journalist and their employer attacking the life partner of a subject of any story, even a big one. Even Herbalife and the journalists that covered that escapade chose to stay away from attacking my family. Perhaps I am just lucky or perhaps Business Insider is a disgusting and unethical journalistic operation.
I had forgotten Axel Springer had acquired Business Insider. Axel Springer is now controlled by KKR. I am therefore incredibly shocked by the conduct of a company controlled by KKR, a firm that I have had enormous respect for over the years. I hope they have no idea what is going on in their Business Insider subsidiary, but I am going to look into it. My best guess is that the incentives for management of BI are designed poorly, or as I have been told, the Editor of Business Insider’s Investigative Division has an agenda that he is pursuing against my wife or something else is going on.
“Wahhhh, I made a big stink about plagiarism in higher education and then they found out it also extends to my wife’s career in higher education HOW DARE THEY!” Maybe he’ll buy BI and fire 80% of their staff!
Jman220
January 7, 2024, 2:42pm
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I, for one, am excited for the inevitable class-action against Amazon for the negligence of one of it’s third-party sellers. Caselaw will be made.
pvn
January 7, 2024, 3:33pm
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goofy:
thought that there was nothing wrong with using Wikipedia as a dictionary.” lol why is this clown trying to throw his goddamn wife under the bus like this and tell the world she’s as dumb as he is? Savage!
Also in the most predictable rich-guy-mad-at-people-not-liking
https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1744014024780472324
also looks like his wife was mixed up with jeffy eppy
goofy
January 7, 2024, 7:43pm
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What’s really funny is that this kind of behavior is exactly why all the other rich sociopaths agree that Bill Ackman is the fucking worst. To the point where it’s hard to tell where it stopped being personal and started being business when the HLF short squeeze happened.
It’s the sanctimony paired with being an entirely typical for his era hedge fund shitbag. I dislike him for a whole host of reasons but the sanctimony is extremely annoying.
