Oxman didn’t resign
She's pretty much self-employed and out of academia, so that probably wasn't in the cards to begin with. Perhaps her company will lose some business, but I kind of doubt it. The stuff she does seems sufficiently low-profile that nobody will care that she plagiarized a bit.
I mean, if you see a bit of sculpture in a corporate lobby, you're probably not going to wonder if the designer stole a paragraph in a thesis, let alone care.
"widgets" must be a euphemism for "opioids"
"And then I made the demons build a half pipe the size of the grand canyon, and I did tricks that have never been done before, and the girls all watched and were impressed."
Going by the illustration of characters at the top of that page, "Kelthar" is a dead ringer for 80s Phil Oakey.
It directs my life not because I think it sounds pretty or prosocial, but because it’s tasty.
Who wrote this, Hannibal Lecter?
“Kidding on the square” as they used to say.
For all the talk about "sticking it to Wall Street", it's quite likely that most of the biggest "winners" in the GameStop mess were Wall Street types. Either trading for their employers or trading in their personal accounts.
The African slave trade of slavs? I think she means Arab. Or Arab/Muslim-osphere.
I wouldn't think sub-Saharan Africans ran a lot of ships up to the Baltic or the Black Sea to capture slavs for enslavement. Ottomans, yes. Barbary pirates, perhaps. Of course some of the most prominent of the Barbary pirates were actually raised Christian or Jewish in Europe, and joined the pirates as adults.
And I wouldn't be surprised at all if Europeans also captured slavs for sale to the Ottomans.
Why the hell would anyone think about Cyrus the Great every day, let alone fondly.
Also the paper is a decade old.
And redolent of 'emerita disease' although I don't think the authors have technically achieved that honor.
I'm glad I've never been a good enough programmer to believe I was a genius programmer.
What's racist? Seems to be entirely based on Cheong's decade-plus of well-documented online behavior, not on his race.