I'm not saying people are incapable of change, but reading this article with quotes by this guy from 1991 when he got fired from Stanford for bragging about using illegal drugs and buying alcohol...
I'm not saying people are incapable of change, but reading this article with quotes by this guy from 1991 when he got fired from Stanford for bragging about using illegal drugs and buying alcohol for students illegally as well as the original article that got him in trouble at UW really paints an unsympathetic picture of the author in my mind.
Honestly if he had just used recreational drugs on his time and bought drinks out of generosity that'd be cool, but as the article states he was carrying Speed and MDMA around on campus and bought...
he got fired from Stanford for bragging about using illegal drugs and buying alcohol for students illegally
to be clear I think that owns actually, but yeah the original article is nothing but the typical whining.
Honestly if he had just used recreational drugs on his time and bought drinks out of generosity that'd be cool, but as the article states he was carrying Speed and MDMA around on campus and bought drinks for people below the drinking age. There's some very valid concerns about power dynamics to be had there.
From here: He sends a letter saying "I'm breaking federal laws, there's nothing you can do about it, neener neener" to the head of the federal Office of National Drug Control Policy. Then they do...
The action came less than two months after Reges, who has admitted using “speed,” cocaine and MDA, wrote a letter to federal drug czar Bob Martinez daring him to take action. “In brief I disagree with the government’s anti-drug campaign and I am doing everything I can to make fools of you,” Reges wrote. “I still carry illegal drugs in my backpack while on campus. I do not fear any of you, I have not changed my behavior, and nothing has happened to me.”
He sends a letter saying "I'm breaking federal laws, there's nothing you can do about it, neener neener" to the head of the federal Office of National Drug Control Policy. Then they do something about it (namely, fire him), and he complains it's super duper unfair.
That was 30 years ago. He has a multi-decade history of being a confrontational, contrarian asshole. That makes it much harder to take him seriously now.
I'm not usually a "shoot the messenger" guy but Quilette honestly deserves scrutiny because they are consistently like this. It's too much to be a series of oopsie-daisies or some kind of...
I'm not usually a "shoot the messenger" guy but Quilette honestly deserves scrutiny because they are consistently like this. It's too much to be a series of oopsie-daisies or some kind of misguided commitment to pushing boundaries.
This boils down to the same crap that got James Damore fired from Google: Creating endless distraction and controversy at your job is not a good way to keep your job. His job is to teach students...
This boils down to the same crap that got James Damore fired from Google:
Creating endless distraction and controversy at your job is not a good way to keep your job.
His job is to teach students computer science. Spawning a bunch of meta-discussion about tangentially related topics like diversity and inclusion is not his job. Writing thinkpieces on the notoriously alt-right-friendly Quillette (which, for example, has on their sidebar a link to an interview with Charles Murray, America's foremost peddler of scientific racism) about how he's "under attack" for creating such distractions is not his job.
I'm not saying people are incapable of change, but reading this article with quotes by this guy from 1991 when he got fired from Stanford for bragging about using illegal drugs and buying alcohol for students illegally as well as the original article that got him in trouble at UW really paints an unsympathetic picture of the author in my mind.
Honestly if he had just used recreational drugs on his time and bought drinks out of generosity that'd be cool, but as the article states he was carrying Speed and MDMA around on campus and bought drinks for people below the drinking age. There's some very valid concerns about power dynamics to be had there.
From here:
He sends a letter saying "I'm breaking federal laws, there's nothing you can do about it, neener neener" to the head of the federal Office of National Drug Control Policy. Then they do something about it (namely, fire him), and he complains it's super duper unfair.
That was 30 years ago. He has a multi-decade history of being a confrontational, contrarian asshole. That makes it much harder to take him seriously now.
Your second link points to the same URL as the first, I think you meant to link to https://quillette.com/2018/06/19/why-women-dont-code/ instead?
Ahhh. Thanks. Burned by careless copy-paste again :(
Sigh
In case you don't know about quillette...
I'm not usually a "shoot the messenger" guy but Quilette honestly deserves scrutiny because they are consistently like this. It's too much to be a series of oopsie-daisies or some kind of misguided commitment to pushing boundaries.
This boils down to the same crap that got James Damore fired from Google:
Creating endless distraction and controversy at your job is not a good way to keep your job.
His job is to teach students computer science. Spawning a bunch of meta-discussion about tangentially related topics like diversity and inclusion is not his job. Writing thinkpieces on the notoriously alt-right-friendly Quillette (which, for example, has on their sidebar a link to an interview with Charles Murray, America's foremost peddler of scientific racism) about how he's "under attack" for creating such distractions is not his job.