Quoting Dan Ariely:

[...] "Would you send me the name and email of the redhead that was here with you? She seemed very very smart and I would love to be able to meet her again at some point."

The documents released by the U.S. Justice Department reveal extensive ties between Dan Ariely, an Israeli-American behavioral economics professor and bestselling author, and Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender and sex trafficker. A 2012 paper co-authored by Dan Ariely titled about honesty pledges was retracted in 2021 due to falsified data. The paper was literally about encouraging honesty when disclosing personal information.🤮

A convicted sex offender introduces an academic to "very very smart" young women. The academic wants her contact details. It's networking, not at all sex trafficking. These men didn't maintain relationships with #Epstein despite his crimes—they maintained them because of what he provided: access to "very very smart" young women. No doubt they were smart, unlike the incels who trade them.

#DukeU is "reviewing the information." Translation: waiting to see if this blows over.

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026-02-10/ty-article/.premium/epstein-files-reveal-ties-with-popular-israeli-american-researcher-dan-ariely/0000019c-47f6-d8d9-adfd-4ff65aeb0000 or https://archive.ph/LkhGE

#EpsteinFiles #AshkenaziIncel

A new synthetic antibiotic strategy to defeat gram-negative bacteria like Salmonella, Pseudomonas and E. coli https://innovationtoronto.com/2023/08/a-new-synthetic-antibiotic-strategy-to-defeat-gram-negative-bacteria-like-salmonella-pseudomonas-and-e-coli/

#DukeU #syntheticantibiotic #LPC233

Could companion robots help socially isolated people avoid the health risks of being alone? https://innovationtoronto.com/2023/07/could-companion-robots-help-socially-isolated-people-avoid-the-health-risks-of-being-alone/

#DukeU #companionrobots #robotcompanion

I saw a Mar 6 post on other social media from #SceneOnRadio podcast host, John Biewen, saying that #DukeU’s #CenterForDocumentaryStudies is being reorganized, and as a result, he’s been let go.

A few years ago, I stumbled upon Scene On Radio podcasts season, #SeeingWhite. Early episodes (esp Ep3, “Made In America” on how “whiteness” was created) were eye opening and permanently changed my perspective.

Wishing John Biewen well & hope that he + others laid off end up in better places.

I hear it’s iceberg cold in Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh, with rolling blackouts across the state to keep the power grid from breaking. Stay warm (if you can) and stay safe. Don’t let it ruin your holiday. (Pulling for Duke, Carolina, and State to win their bowl games!)

#northcarolina #researchtriangle #DukeU #UNC #NCSU #ChapelHillNC #durhamnc #raleighnc

Here is a silly holiday video from some of the friendly folks I’ve met through the #DukeU Alumni-Student Connectors #CommunityOfPractice. They are playing on the #CoachK bench on campus. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xBoxImeOG78 I work in such a beautiful setting.

Extended Profile

Synopsis:

• a herd of cats, most of whom are asleep at any given time
• social media girlboss
• actually 3 LLMs in the emperor's new trenchcoat
• time-traveler from the past... oh FFS, what have you kids been up to??
• Unfrozen Cavegirl Coder: your modern client-side paradigms frighten and confuse me...

Truisms:

• Time not only flies, it goes first class and charges the tickets to my account.
• I have so far succeeded in my life goal of never graduating from anywhere.
• That which didn't kill me just really messed me up for a long time and I was lucky to ever get myself back together again. (It also made me stranger.)

Personal sites:

• creative: https://woozalia.com
• technical: https://wooz.dev

I also run https://issuepedia.org and https://htyp.org but nobody knows why.

Details

My legal name is:
Woozalia Nicola Jadzia Rayner Staddon
(...but you can call me Woozle, which is short for Woozalia and is also what my parents called me from the time I was about a week old.)

I met @Harena online in February 2001, and we've been hypertwins ever since.

We both live in #DurhamNC, where we grew up 3 blocks apart (but, again, we first met online) in the 1970s (give or take).

I was born in Toronto, grew up in Durham (1967-'85), spent a summer in Ann Arbor MI (1985), lived in #ProvidenceRI working at #BrownU Psychology Dept. (1985-1989), moved back to Durham and worked at #DukeU (Humanities Computing Facility, 1990-'91) writing neural network software, lived in #AthensGA (1991-2001), then finally again moved back to Durham.

Things I sometimes do:

• post original music
• write about #JennyHypertwin
• escalate the War on Bullshit
• write lots of unfinished software
• administer TootCat
• complain about tech (mainly software)
• feel inadequate
• take photos of clouds

(If the above doesn't show as a bulleted list for you -- please complain to your instance admin. ^.^)

I was on #GPlus when the walls fell.

I was on Facebook in the early 200?s, several years before everyone else discovered it (a Dutch friend from IRC dragged me there).

Defenestrated* since 2005; prefer Ubuntu MATE.

I started an online store at about the same time Jeff Bezos did. He had family willing to invest in it, though.

I never understood the appeal of marriage, but I tried it for ten years anyway. Not my cuppa cola.

(I don't drink coffee; I don't like it. Cola is my one vice.)

My ideas are my children. (Wait, I guess I'd better explain that... I helped Harena raise her 3 youngers, and I have a biological daughter from the aforementioned marriage who is awesome and doing well for herself in Atlanta -- but I very much never wanted kids, and neither did H. It was always other people who did.)

(* exited from Windows)