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I watched a pretty good docu in German which follows Ted Kaczynski's targets and they connect them to the edge foundation (some were members, like David Gelernter and John Brockman). They act like they're just asking rote interview questions, then they drop the ted k connection on the interviewees which is hilarious cause they get pretty mad a most of the time that they would draw such a thread. Stuart Brand is included as an interviewee. Isn't it interesting how the edge foundation kind of ended up in a real pickle because of Jeffrey Epstein hanging on?

The docu was entitled Das Netz: Lutz Dammbeck und der Unabomber



There is a whole lot more to John Brockman's involvement with Jeffrey Epstein than just Brockman's Edge Foundation:

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/05/investigative-reports/t...

David Gelernter is a whole other piece of work. He did co-author a pretty good textbook on parallel programming (_How To Write Parallel Programs_), but the guy was basically a huckster when it came to distributed systems research. The real ironic thing is that it can be hard to tell Gelernter's Wall Street Journal op-eds from Kaczynski's manifesto.


Heh I love Whitney Webb, I actually read that whole article out loud to someone over some whiskey once




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