Bill Ackman forgives wife for plagiarism

[Anonymous]

Looks like BI didn’t check MITs plagiarism policy regarding Wikipedia back in 2009. How embarrassing for them. That’s pretty bad.

https://x.com/billackman/status/1744830917602951407

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like BI didn’t check MITs plagiarism policy regarding Wikipedia back in 2009. How embarrassing for them. That’s pretty bad.

https://x.com/billackman/status/1744830917602951407

Wiki was too new. She should have cited her source.

[Anonymous]

Bills losing it

[Anonymous]

Scrambling... and desperately. The reasoning here is IDENTICAL to those scumbags who make designer drugs. They point to the statues and say "Gosh! Would you look at that? This isn't a controlled substance at all. Not one mention of it in II."

They find loopholes. Meanwhile my classmate dies.

Sorry - that got personal. But I get BOILING hot when bums get off free skating through loopholes.

[Anonymous]

Man. You people are crazy. If MIT explicitly said you don’t need to cite Wiki in their actual plagiarism guidelines, it’s not plagiarism if you followed the guidelines. Insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bills losing it

He really is. He's putting it all out there on Twitter. I recommend you check out his posts for some comic entertainment. Elon Musk and Christopher Rufo have already weighed in with their support. Elon is advising him to sue Business Insider. I'd never heard of Ackman before the Claudine Gay debacle. Has he always been this way? One wonders why he didn't tell his lawyers to take care of the matter rather than posting about it every few hours on Twitter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is Bill not realizing that she was the "DEI admit" back in the 2000s?

MIT graduate programs are currently 61% male, 39% female. It was A LOT worse back in the mid 2000s when she would have enrolled.

No wonder they took such a lightweight LOL

You should see how bad the male-female imbalance was in the 1980s when I was a student in Boston with friends at MIT. I don’t think that younger people realize that women have always been the biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action.

NP: Make that: White women. Even many white women don’t seem to realize this. Even many white women who were the beneficiaries of affirmative action— who are anti-affirmative action when it comes to URM — don’t seem to realize this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Scrambling... and desperately. The reasoning here is IDENTICAL to those scumbags who make designer drugs. They point to the statues and say "Gosh! Would you look at that? This isn't a controlled substance at all. Not one mention of it in II."

They find loopholes. Meanwhile my classmate dies.

Sorry - that got personal. But I get BOILING hot when bums get off free skating through loopholes.

Schedule 2?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Man. You people are crazy. If MIT explicitly said you don’t need to cite Wiki in their actual plagiarism guidelines, it’s not plagiarism if you followed the guidelines. Insane.

Huh, I was in grad school in the mid aughts and it was explicitly drilled into our heads that Wikipedia is never to be utilized as a reliable source. I didn’t go to MIT though we had higher standards I suppose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bills losing it

He really is. He's putting it all out there on Twitter. I recommend you check out his posts for some comic entertainment. Elon Musk and Christopher Rufo have already weighed in with their support. Elon is advising him to sue Business Insider. I'd never heard of Ackman before the Claudine Gay debacle. Has he always been this way? One wonders why he didn't tell his lawyers to take care of the matter rather than posting about it every few hours on Twitter.

Yes. He is an a$$hole.

Billionaire Bill Ackman’s Ill-Fated Bike Ride: “His Mind Wrote a Check That His Body Couldn’t Cash”
Editor’s Note: There is as much ego as money behind Dan Loeb and Bill Ackman’s battle over the nutritional company Herbalife. The story of their cycling trip from Bridgehampton to Montauk, which has practically achieved urban-legend status in the hedge-fund eco-system, provides a vivid example of what is at stake for the two former friends._Vanity Fair_contributing editor William D. Cohan gets Ackman's response on the ride in a story on the rivals that will appear in the April issue. Read an excerpt here—the full story will be released next week.

The supremely confident billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman has never been afraid to bet the farm that he’s right.

Ackman seems to have this ‘Superman complex,’ ” says Chapman Capital’s Robert Chapman, who was one of the investors on the other side of Ackman’s bet. “If he jumped off a building in pursuit of super-human powered flight but then slammed to the ground, I’m pretty sure he’d blame the unanticipated and unfair force of gravity.”

Lined up against the 46-year-old Ackman on the long side of the Herbalife trade were at least two billionaires: Daniel Loeb, 51, of Third Point Partners, who used to be Ackman’s friend, and Carl Icahn, 77, of Icahn Enterprises. Along for the ride are some smaller, well-regarded hedge-fund investors—who would like to be billionaires—John Hempton, of Bronte Capital, and Sahm Adrangi, of Kerrisdale Capital.

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It’s Ackman’s perceived arrogance that gets to his critics. “The story I hear from everybody is that one can’t help but be intrigued by the guy, just because he’s somewhat larger than life, but then one realizes he’s just pompous and arrogant and seems to have been born without the gene that perceives and measures risk,” says Chapman. “He seems to look at other members of society, even legends such as Carl Icahn, as some kind of sub-species. The disgusted, annoyed look on his face when confronted by the masses beneath him is like one you’d expect to see [from someone] confronted by a homeless person who hadn’t showered in weeks. You can almost see him puckering his nostrils so he doesn’t have to smell these inferior creatures. It’s truly bizarre, given that his failures—Target, Borders, JCPenney, Gotham Golf, First Union Real Estate, and others—prove he’s as fallible as the next guy. Yet, from what I hear, he behaves that way with just about everybody.”

Another hedge-funder describes the problem he has with Ackman in more measured tones. “There is a saying in this business: ‘Often wrong, never in doubt.’ Ackman personifies it He is very smart—but he lets you know it. And he combines that with this sort of noblesse oblige that lots of people find offensive—me, generally not. On top of that he is pointlessly, needlessly competitive every time he opens his mouth. Do you know about the Ackman cycling trip with Dan Loeb?”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/02/bill-ackman-daniel-loeb-bike-ride

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like BI didn’t check MITs plagiarism policy regarding Wikipedia back in 2009. How embarrassing for them. That’s pretty bad.

https://x.com/billackman/status/1744830917602951407

😆 And until they add TikTok to their guidelines there is a goldmine free for the taking!

[Anonymous]

So, Bill Ackman allegedly had a problem with the “antisemitism” of the three deans who appeared before Congress….

But the only ones he went all out to get fired were the two non-Jewish ones…

AND he made sure to smear the black dean as an unqualified diversity hire, which was completely unnecessary to his campaign against her…

Meanwhile, Kornbluth, the Jewish dean remains employed and unbothered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like BI didn’t check MITs plagiarism policy regarding Wikipedia back in 2009. How embarrassing for them. That’s pretty bad.

https://x.com/billackman/status/1744830917602951407

The same guy trying to find loopholes like a smarmy grade-grubbing high school hall monitor is the same guy who will supposedly “save academia” from itself.

The irony is just too rich and pathetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Man. You people are crazy. If MIT explicitly said you don’t need to cite Wiki in their actual plagiarism guidelines, it’s not plagiarism if you followed the guidelines. Insane.

Huh, I was in grad school in the mid aughts and it was explicitly drilled into our heads that Wikipedia is never to be utilized as a reliable source. I didn’t go to MIT though we had higher standards I suppose.

Sure, but MIT appears to have explicitly permitted it.

The standards of the institutions themselves should be controlling here. That’s true for Gay as well. If what she did was permissible at the time, then this accusations of plagiarism should be dropped.

Not that I expect the rabid and clearly insane posters in this thread to understand that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, Bill Ackman allegedly had a problem with the “antisemitism” of the three deans who appeared before Congress….

But the only ones he went all out to get fired were the two non-Jewish ones…

AND he made sure to smear the black dean as an unqualified diversity hire, which was completely unnecessary to his campaign against her…

Meanwhile, Kornbluth, the Jewish dean remains employed and unbothered.

He is the woke mob. In an anti-woke world with no DEI Jews are not a protected class and antisemitism(or perceived antisemitism because none of the college presidents have never shown the slightest antisemitism). Anti woke people are okay with antisemitism, cross burning, etc.