# The Crazy Years **URL:** \ **Category:** The Happening World\ **Tags:** crazy-years, clown-show\ **Created:** [30 May 2022 12:56 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451 "2022-05-30T12:56:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 242
**Author:** ![CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/ctlaw/32/42_2.png) [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\ **Post date:** [13 June 2025 10:21 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451/4848 "2025-06-13T10:21:05Z")
> **[Arkansas teen girl mauled to death while trying to feed neglected pack of 30...](https://nypost.com/2025/06/13/us-news/arkansas-teen-girl-mauled-to-death-while-trying-to-feed-neglected-pack-of-30-to-40-dogs-kindest-soul/)** > > The teen was killed on the property of the home in Arkansas while trying to care for around 30 to 40 starving dogs. ---
**Author:** ![smagor](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/smagor/32/1298_2.png) [@smagor](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/smagor)\ **Post date:** [14 June 2025 01:19 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451/4849 "2025-06-14T01:19:18Z")
Very strange. Dogs are not bears, people generally can read dogs’ intentions and stay away when sensing danger. Autism? ---
**Author:** ![CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/ctlaw/32/42_2.png) [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\ **Post date:** [14 June 2025 02:04 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451/4850 "2025-06-14T02:04:47Z")
We’re not dealing with Labradoodles. ---
**Author:** ![CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/ctlaw/32/42_2.png) [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\ **Post date:** [19 June 2025 08:08 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451/4851 "2025-06-19T08:08:45Z")
> **[Pro-Israel hackers steal $90M in massive Iranian crypto heist — but may have...](https://nypost.com/2025/06/18/business/pro-israel-hackers-steal-90m-from-iranian-crypto-exchange-reports/)** > > Coins like Bitcoin, Ethereum and Doge were sniped from digital wallets on Iranian exchange Nobitex. ---
**Author:** ![CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/ctlaw/32/42_2.png) [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\ **Post date:** [23 June 2025 10:50 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451/4852 "2025-06-23T10:50:22Z")
> **[Crowds on Demand CEO Exposes Signs of Paid Agitators in Leftist Anti-ICE Riots](https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/22/crowds-on-demand-ceo-exposes-signs-paid-agitators-leftist-anti-ice-riots/)** > > The CEO and founder of the company Crowds on Demand recently explained how people can spot paid agitators in anti-ICE riots. ---
**Author:** ![eggspurt](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/eggspurt/32/3686_2.png) [@eggspurt](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/eggspurt)\ **Post date:** [23 June 2025 17:39 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451/4853 "2025-06-23T17:39:16Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/TfR6_vk9Goo/maxresdefault.jpg "Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil released on bail") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfR6_vk9Goo) And he’s right back at it: [https://www.instagram.com/p/DLOIlZQMkOj/](https://www.instagram.com/p/DLOIlZQMkOj/) ---
**Author:** ![Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/citizen_bitcoin/32/19488_2.png) [@Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Citizen_bitcoin)\ **Post date:** [23 June 2025 20:10 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451/4854 "2025-06-23T20:10:17Z")
Put him on the FBI’s most Annoying List or is it most Insufferable? edit: Pallywood or Paliwood ---
**Author:** ![Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/citizen_bitcoin/32/19488_2.png) [@Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Citizen_bitcoin)\ **Post date:** [24 June 2025 02:32 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451/4855 "2025-06-24T02:32:20Z")
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**Author:** ![drlorentz](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/drlorentz/32/902_2.png) [@drlorentz](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/drlorentz)\ **Post date:** [24 June 2025 21:34 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451/4856 "2025-06-24T21:34:45Z")
![image](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/3X/3/2/32c6267fffff03c4a8656f98741f038fcbaffbd4.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![drlorentz](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/drlorentz/32/902_2.png) [@drlorentz](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/drlorentz)\ **Post date:** [25 June 2025 12:12 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451/4857 "2025-06-25T12:12:33Z")
NYC in 2001: We will never forget! NYC in 2025: _elects Muslim jihadist_ [https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1937843466010075416](https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1937843466010075416) ![image](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/3X/8/7/878a857d1360cbdd2126920738ef6e2a14043917.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![eggspurt](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/eggspurt/32/3686_2.png) [@eggspurt](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/eggspurt)\ **Post date:** [25 June 2025 14:43 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451/4858 "2025-06-25T14:43:26Z")
> [@Citizen\_bitcoin](#): > > Put him on the FBI’s most Annoying List or is is most Insufferable? Soon enough this guy might be attending as well: > **[Sirhan Sirhan](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirhan_Sirhan)** > > Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (/sɪərˈhɑːn/; Arabic: سرحان بشارة سرحان Sirḥān Bišāra Sirḥān; born March 19, 1944) is a Palestinian-Jordanian man who assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a younger brother of American president John F. Kennedy and a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 1968 United States presidential election, on June 5, 1968. Kennedy died the next day at the Good Samaritan Hospital of Los Angeles. On April 17, 1969, Sirhan was convicted of first-degree murder, among other c ---
**Author:** ![eggspurt](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/eggspurt/32/3686_2.png) [@eggspurt](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/eggspurt)\ **Post date:** [28 June 2025 18:53 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451/4859 "2025-06-28T18:53:40Z")
It turns out unbiased predictive models don’t exist, and if they do, they aren’t effective. But the contortions the bias police perform while they try to reach this ideal are painfully entertaining: > **[How we investigated Amsterdam’s attempt to build a ‘fair’ fraud detection model](https://www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/amsterdam-fairness/)** > > Amsterdam spent years trying to build an unbiased welfare fraud algorithm. Here’s what we found when we analyzed it. > The complications do not end here: trying to improve fairness outcomes for one group can worsen them for another. Full-time parents, for instance, were already more likely to be wrongly flagged by the model (False Positive Rate) before reweighting than non parents. But after reweighting, the difference between the two groups increased rather than decreased. It appears that by making the model fairer based on migration/national background, the city inadvertently made it less fair for parents. > > These are two sets of unavoidable tradeoffs: focusing on one fairness definition can lead to worse outcomes on others. Similarly, focusing on one group can lead to worse performance for other groups. In evaluating its model, the city made a choice to focus on false positives and on reducing ethnicity/nationality based disparities. Precisely because the reweighting procedure made some gains in this direction, the model did worse on other dimensions. ---
**Author:** ![CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/ctlaw/32/42_2.png) [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\ **Post date:** [28 June 2025 23:13 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451/4860 "2025-06-28T23:13:48Z")
> **[Belgian anti-Israel activists damage tanks destined for Ukraine | The...](https://www.jpost.com/international/article-859248)** > > CEO Freddy Versluys estimated that the activists had caused nearly €1 million in damages and set production back by at least a month. ---
**Author:** ![eggspurt](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/eggspurt/32/3686_2.png) [@eggspurt](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/eggspurt)\ **Post date:** [2 July 2025 21:20 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451/4861 "2025-07-02T21:20:14Z")
[![Screenshot 2025-07-02 at 5.18.16 PM](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/3X/2/5/253a8f162884016f2be44111dd85a3ccd51023fa.jpeg)](https://x.com/realWillSussman/status/1940254944264942008) > In November 2024, a tenured MIT professor posted online that a “Zionist ‘mind infection’ ” is being funded by “Jewish student life organizations” such as Hillel and Chabad. > > When I pointed out that his message was extremely dangerous rhetoric, the professor began targeting me personally in X posts to his 10,000 followers. He did so over and over again. In his sixth post, for example, he referred to me as “an excellent case study.” > > I sent the professor an email with a simple request: “Please leave me alone.” He then emailed the entire Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, including students and faculty, promising to use me in his upcoming seminar as a “real-life case study” of the Jewish “mind infection.” > > He continued targeting me in a relentless series of mass emails, copying high-level administrators, including Kornbluth. In one of these emails, he stated that I have “powerful connections” to the media and to “influential friends in Congress like Rep. Elise Stefanik” — which is false. The said professor: > **[Michel DeGraff](https://linguistics.mit.edu/user/degraff/)** > > Visit MIT Linguistics to view Michel DeGraff's profile ---
**Author:** ![CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/ctlaw/32/42_2.png) [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\ **Post date:** [2 July 2025 21:29 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451/4862 "2025-07-02T21:29:47Z")
Docket: [https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70629700/sussman-v-massachusetts-institute-of-technology/](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70629700/sussman-v-massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) ---
**Author:** ![Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/citizen_bitcoin/32/19488_2.png) [@Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Citizen_bitcoin)\ **Post date:** [3 July 2025 02:30 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451/4863 "2025-07-03T02:30:12Z")
_Professor Michel DeGraff is a Haitian linguist and a tenured professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is renowned for his work in Creole linguistics, particularly Haitian Creole, and for his advocacy in decolonizing education and promoting linguistic justice._ From Wikipedia: **Michel Anne Frederic DeGraff** [[1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_DeGraff?utm_source=chatgpt.com#cite_note-1) (born 1963) is a Haitian [creolist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creolistics) and a professor at the [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology) (MIT). His scholarship focuses on Creole studies and the role of language and linguistics for decolonization and liberation.[[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_DeGraff?utm_source=chatgpt.com#cite_note-zephir-2) He has advocated for the recognition of [Haitian Creole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Creole) as a full-fledged language.[[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_DeGraff?utm_source=chatgpt.com#cite_note-zephir-2) added: from Grok… _Michel DeGraff, an MIT linguistics professor, and Will Sussman, a former MIT doctoral student and president of MIT Graduate Hillel, were involved in a highly publicized conflict that culminated in a federal lawsuit filed in June 2025. The dispute began in November 2024 when Sussman publicly criticized DeGraff on X, accusing him of posting “extremely dangerous rhetoric” about Jewish student groups like Hillel and Chabad, alleging they funded a “Zionist mind infection.” Sussman’s criticism stemmed from DeGraff’s Instagram post about a seminar speaker who claimed these groups promoted Zionism and targeted critics of Israel. DeGraff’s seminar, titled “Language and linguistics for decolonization and liberation and for peace and community building from the river to the sea in Palestine and Israel to the mountaintops in Haiti and beyond,” was controversial and initially rejected by MIT’s Linguistics department for lacking qualifications._ _In response, DeGraff posted two tweets suggesting Sussman read anti-Israel activists’ work and claimed Jewish student groups acted against some Jewish students’ interests. Sussman emailed DeGraff, asking him to “please leave me alone.” Instead, DeGraff escalated, posting three more tweets accusing Sussman of inciting racist insults, plagiarism, antisemitism accusations, and threats. DeGraff also replied to Sussman’s email, copying others, repeating these accusations and demanding Sussman “cease and desist,” despite Sussman’s request for no further contact._ _The conflict intensified, with DeGraff allegedly sending department-wide emails describing Sussman as a case study of a “Zionist mind infection” tied to Israeli propaganda. Sussman filed a complaint with MIT’s Discrimination and Harassment Response Office, which declined to investigate, arguing DeGraff’s comments critiqued Israeli propaganda, not Sussman’s Jewish identity. The lawsuit, filed by the Louis D. Brandeis Center, claims DeGraff’s harassment was so severe that Sussman left MIT in 2024, abandoning his PhD. It also alleges MIT failed to address antisemitic hostility, violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act._ _DeGraff’s actions extended beyond Sussman, as he allegedly harassed Israeli instructor Lior Alon by posting his personal information, including military service details, on social media, tagging outlets like Al Jazeera, and defaming him in a May 2024 Le Monde Diplomatique article. This led to further harassment of Alon in public spaces._ _MIT removed DeGraff from the Linguistics department, reclassifying him as “Faculty-at-Large” in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and withheld his annual pay raise, citing disruptions. DeGraff claims he was unfairly punished for his pro-Palestinian activism and course content. Neither MIT nor DeGraff responded to comment requests, and legal proceedings are ongoing._ _This account is based on available reports, primarily from the lawsuit and related coverage, which may reflect biases or incomplete perspectives. The situation remains contentious, with no final resolution reported as of July 2, 2025._ ---
**Author:** ![eggspurt](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/eggspurt/32/3686_2.png) [@eggspurt](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/eggspurt)\ **Post date:** [3 July 2025 11:06 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451/4864 "2025-07-03T11:06:01Z")
[![Screenshot 2025-07-03 at 7.05.38 AM](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/3X/1/5/1513c3af83c1da0e773486c79e4a49e97d1287ce.png)](https://x.com/Suhail/status/1940287384131969067) ---
**Author:** ![CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/ctlaw/32/42_2.png) [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\ **Post date:** [3 July 2025 11:34 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451/4865 "2025-07-03T11:34:27Z")
> **[Ivy League Student Leaves Lecture On Microaggressions To Attend ‘Kill The...](https://babylonbee.com/news/harvard-student-leaves-lecture-on-microaggressions-to-attend-kill-the-jews-rally)** > > NEW YORK, NY — A Columbia University student later identified as Luke Dillon left a lecture on microaggressions a little early so he could make it to the "Kill the Jews" rally on time. > **[Sad: College Student So Caught Up Harassing Jews He Forgot About Term Paper...](https://babylonbee.com/news/sad-college-student-so-caught-up-harassing-jews-he-forgot-about-term-paper-on-inclusion)** > > BOSTON, MA — A frantic Harvard student realized this week he'd been so busy harassing Jewish students on campus that he'd forgotten to write his final term paper on the importance of inclusion. > **[Columbia University Distributes Microaggression Whistles To Student Body](https://babylonbee.com/news/columbia-university-distributes-microaggression-whistles-student-body)** > > NEW YORK, NY—Sources confirmed Monday that school officials at Columbia University have instituted a new program to help students alert professors and other undergrads to potential microaggressions, with each pupil at the prestigious university being... ---
**Author:** ![CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/ctlaw/32/42_2.png) [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\ **Post date:** [3 July 2025 19:16 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451/4866 "2025-07-03T19:16:11Z")
> **[This British cop just reminded everyone why Independence Day was necessary](https://notthebee.com/article/watch-this-brit-get-ticketed-for-riding-his-bike-with-no-hands-even-though-theres-no-law-against-it)** > > This is somehow just as offensive and embarrassing to Britain as "Lesbian Nana" was. ---
**Author:** ![Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/user_avatar/scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/citizen_bitcoin/32/19488_2.png) [@Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Citizen_bitcoin)\ **Post date:** [4 July 2025 02:44 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451/4867 "2025-07-04T02:44:43Z")
> I recently got stopped & ticketed by the City of London Police for, & I kid you not, “cycling no handed”. Even though it’s clearly not an offence, the officer said they were ticketing me under the Human Rights Act as I was infringing other people’s Article 2 ‘Right to Life’, in… [https://t.co/LU4BUKZZ4w](https://t.co/LU4BUKZZ4w) [pic.twitter.com/3DBE6XUgSN](https://t.co/3DBE6XUgSN) > > — Paul Powlesland (@paulpowlesland) [July 3, 2025](https://twitter.com/paulpowlesland/status/1940688546429292704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) The female officer… [Previous page](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451.md?page=241) [Next page](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451.md?page=243)