No less than Stephen Pinker claiming this is news?

This happened with a fresh-out-of-college designer (god forbid copyeditors had editing skills) in 2015. In Austin. I was there that night.

I was on a different team, but come morning, yeah, we were all mocking her for her lack of a hyphen. At the same time, I was the only designer exempt from running a site’s heds verbatim. Of course something like this was going to happen.

To claim this recently happened with a nonsensical upside-down folio is … I usually reach for “absurd” here, and as I’ve already burned “nonsensical,” I’ll just go with “unhinged.”

Pinker knows better, and I’m slightly inclined to point out the provenance that claims a local paper we neither owned nor designed (already an ethical violation) was responsible for what I saw happen in real time in Austin.

God, I hated those stylesheets, but they’re rather damning when it comes to proving A) this was designed at the hub; and B) you’re claiming local reporting – complete with byline – you didn’t do.

Anyone still confused about why I walked away?

    • ranandtoldthat@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Literally the best case for pinker is accessory after the fact to child abuse. But I don’t give any epstein associates the benefit of the doubt at this point. He probably raped children.

      • Juice@midwest.socialEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Yeah he was one of the orbiting intellectuals I don’t actually think he abused any kids. I heard on a podcast he got “kicked off the island” at some point even for pushing back on Epstein’s eugenicism. But people clearly knew what Epstein was, esp after his conviction. I’m sure for Pinker it was all just part of the job of being a public intellectual and representative of his university, who Epstein was a large contributor.

        But this is the guy who has written books about how the world is the best that it has ever been, as a way to cover for the few who get rich off of the suffering of the masses. He’s a middle intellectual who circumstances brought in close proximity to supreme evil, but never pulled his head out of hid own ass to notice