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Everyone is talking in some kind of weird in-group code or in-jokes that I can't understand so I'll decipher it for the rest of us normies. > Maguire clearly "comes from a culture that lies about everything." This is a reference to Shaun Maguire's Twitter post where he said that Zohran Mamdani "comes from..." https://x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1941135110922969168 > > Maguire is Jewish, with ancestral ties to early Je…
I work on campus (very very close to the engineering building) and I previously lived near Brookline. So all of this hits home. But what got me was the tipster who blew wide open the case is reportedly a homeless Brown graduate who lived in the basement of the engineering building (a la South Korean film Parasite). It made me so sad but also not surprised, that building does have a single occupancy bathroom with show…
But resentment over what? I haven't seen anything on this.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/us/mit-professor-shooting...
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Everyone is talking in some kind of weird in-group code or in-jokes that I can't understand so I'll decipher it for the rest of us normies. > Maguire clearly "comes from a culture that lies about everything." This is a reference to Shaun Maguire's Twitter post where he said that Zohran Mamdani "comes from..." https://x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1941135110922969168 > > Maguire is Jewish, with ancestral ties to early Je…
I am disturbed that in-group code has been normalized as a way to state socially abhorrent positions out in the open, as if it offered plausible deniability.
You'd think the washington post would have figured out how to turn off ads on somber articles by now
Worth noting that a partner at Sequoia (Shaun Maguire) publicly accused the wrong guy of being the shooter. https://www.fastcompany.com/91463942/sequoia-shaun-maguire-b...
Every time he’s involved in a new scandal I’m surprised all over again that he’s still a partner and Sequoia still hasn’t pressured him to stop.
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But resentment over what? I haven't seen anything on this.
This article was helpful: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/us/mit-professor-shooting... https://archive.is/qypoz
(But I did find this article better than the WaPo one)
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Innocent people often fold during interrogation.
Sure, but in the 21st century people are typically not thrown in prison on the basis of a confession only. The prosecutors have to have corroborating evidence. We do have criminals who fold, either they're too confident, they trip up, etc. Recently some guy killed his sugar-momma in Fla, then took her car and drive it cross country to Seattle and along the way used her CC. He gave it all away in the jail interview.
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Everyone knows sequoia can't invest... but this is too far > Maguire, acting as a self-appointed digital detective, has shared posts suggesting that an entirely different man was behind the crimes—a Palestinian student at Brown University... > On July 4, Maguire made inflammatory comments calling New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani an “Islamist.” Jokes aside, maguire does seem like an emphatically despicable per…
The thing that bothers me about the whole story, apart from the deaths of course, is that we live in a surveillance state. While I want major crimes to be resolved and there to be deterrents to future ones, I just don't know about turning the whole US into East Germany. It's not going to work out well for any of us. As you can see, it didn't help solve the crimes, either. It was witnesses who did all the heavy liftin…