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1. Mark (barkmarnett@scholar.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2019 02:41:44 UTC Mark

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   Former MIT director Negroponte says he would still take Epstein money knowing that it was soiled in blood. He says you can still do good with the money... What a greedy bastard!

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   https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614264/mit-media-lab-jeffrey-epstein-joi-ito-nicholas-negroponte-funding-sex-abuse/

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   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2019 02:52:34 UTC Bernie

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     @BarkMarnett @noemu @rubenquidam @EccentricElephant Negroponte is a charlatan. He took $40M for #OLPC, then asked for donations too. The stated goal was putting an open, hackable learning tool in the hands of underprivileged children... But secretly, he made a deal with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer to help them market cut-down versions of Windows and Office to schools in developing countries.

     OLPC employees first learnt this from the press release. Pure bait and switch.

     https://news.microsoft.com/2008/05/15/microsoft-and-one-laptop-per-child-partner-to-deliver-affordable-computing-to-students-worldwide/

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2019 02:59:04 UTC Bernie

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     @BarkMarnett @noemu @rubenquidam @EccentricElephant Actually that was a bit inaccurate: some OLPC employees knew about the deal with Microsoft, but kept it quiet with the open source developers, contractors and volunteers working night and day on the Linux-based OLPC OS and the GNOME-based Sugar environment.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2019 02:59:31 UTC Bernie

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     • Tanja
     • Ruben Rodriguez
     • mariah

     @BarkMarnett @noemu @rubenquidam @EccentricElephant Actually that was a bit inaccurate: some OLPC employees actually knew about the deal with Microsoft, but kept it quiet with the open source developers, contractors and volunteers working night and day on the Linux-based OLPC OS and the GNOME-based Sugar environment.