Sequoia partner spreads debunked Brown shooting theory, testing new leadership

Sequoia Capital partner Shaun Maguire is once again drawing unwanted attention to the prominent venture firm after falsely accusing a Palestinian student of being behind the December 13 Brown University mass shooting and the subsequent murder of an MIT professor. In since-deleted posts on X, Maguire speculated that “it seems very likely” the student was…

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Meet Your Plastic Pal | Scientific American

When Czech writer Karel Čapek coined the word “robot” in his 1920 play R.U.R., he imagined tireless “artificial workers” liberating people from drudgery. The lead character dreams of destroying poverty by turning the whole of humankind into an aristocracy, an elite class of elevated beings “nourished by millions of mechanical slaves.” You won’t be surprised…

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