{"id":24366,"date":"2019-09-16T12:13:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T16:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=24366"},"modified":"2019-09-15T21:44:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T01:44:35","slug":"richard-stallman-on-jeffrey-epstein-time-to-switch-from-emacs-to-vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/16\/richard-stallman-on-jeffrey-epstein-time-to-switch-from-emacs-to-vi\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Stallman on Jeffrey Epstein: time to switch from Emacs to vi?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/famed-mit-computer-scientist-richard-stallman-defends-epstein-victims-were-entirely-willing\">&#8220;Renowned MIT Scientist Defends Epstein: Victims Were \u2018Entirely Willing\u2019&#8221; <\/a>(<em>Daily Beast<\/em>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>An MIT engineering alumna, Selam Jie Gano, published a blog post calling for Stallman\u2019s removal from the university in light of his comments, along with excerpts from the email in which Stallman appeared to defend both Epstein and Marvin Minsky, a lauded cognitive scientist and founder of MIT\u2019s Artificial Intelligence Lab who was accused of assaulting Virginia Giuffre. Giuffre has alleged that sex offender and financier Epstein trafficked her to powerful men for sex, including Minsky, who died in 2016. She\u2019s alleged that Epstein and his alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell recruited her at Mar-a-Lago when she was 16 years old.    <\/p><p>Stallman wrote that \u201cthe most plausible scenario\u201d for Giuffre\u2019s accusations was that she was, in actuality, \u201centirely willing.\u201d Vice\u2019s Motherboard later reprinted the emails in full. Gano did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p><p>Stallman also wrote in the email exchange that \u201cit is morally absurd to define \u2018rape\u2019 in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17.\u201d<\/p><p>[MIT President] Reif is facing calls to step down after acknowledging that the Media Lab accepted funds from Epstein long after his 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor for prostitution, with Reif\u2019s own signature found on a 2012 note thanking Epstein for his generosity to the university.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Will there be a mass exodus from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emacs\">Emacs<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vi\">vi<\/a> (also known as &#8220;the Devil&#8217;s crummy text editor&#8221;)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Related:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/please-do-not-buy-richard-stallman-a-parrot-and-other-r-5853729\">&#8220;Please Do Not Buy Richard Stallman a Parrot And Other Rules&#8221;<\/a> (Gizmodo): &#8220;If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad. If you can find someone who has a friendly parrot I can visit with, that will be nice too. DON&#8217;T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If you don&#8217;t know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally scarred and spend many decades feeling frightened and unhappy. If you buy a captured wild parrot, you will promote a cruel and devastating practice, and the parrot will be emotionally scarred before you get it. 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