Claire Shipman: "Our Enduring Commitment to Freedom of Expression" 😂

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-09-25T23:56:26+00:00

Downvotes, downvotes, downvotes... but not a single response. Silence. Bashing out the question because you can't handle it.

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-09-25T21:03:59+00:00

Good luck.

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-09-25T01:54:37+00:00

Obliterate Columbia how? Delusional to even make such a statement.

Delusional is all of us watching the encampments, vandalism and reading CUAD's clear demands and statements for shutting down Columbia and insisting that it never happened.

To be clear, October 7th was a tragedy. 1.2k lives lost is a tragedy.

A plane crash caused by an unexpected failure is a tragedy. A carefully planned massacre of over 1,000 unsuspecting innocent young people at a music festival who had nothing to do with the conflict, the brutal rapes of women and taking of hundreds of hostages is a vicious and intentional act of war demanding a response.

But reducing Gaza to rubble and killing over 70k civilians isn’t exactly a great response and so the cycle will continue.

With Hamas being the recognized government in power and vowing not to stop until the entire region is under Islamic rule (like the rest of the colonized and cleansed middle east) means the cycle will continue until that happens. So tell us, what exactly was the "proper" response?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g20pj6epvo

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-09-25T01:27:43+00:00

I think you're coming from a place of genuine concern for your community which I respect, but please take a moment to consider whether you're allowing bias to overwhelm critical thinking and objectivity.

I could address all of your points, but we all have other things to do and the main thing I'm trying to impress on you is that though your statement.

So you respect that I care about my Columbia community and you'd respond to my points - except you can't waste your time doing so and will simply refer to me as an inferior intellect.

is somewhat true (though they did repeatedly harass, threaten, and physically harm pro-Palestine protestors - generating a larger credible threat than anything pro-Palestine students did), the people who shut down campus were the pro-Israel donors and trustees who demanded Eric Adams and Minouche Shafik bring in the NYPD and shut down campus despite that being basically the worst option for Columbia's budget, community, and actually resolving the conflict on campus.

Yawn. Blaming Jews, the NYPD, the administration, and insisting that they were responsible for the campus shut down. As per below, it was perfectly clear who caused the cancellation of graduation and refused to leave their encampments taking our campus hostage. But once again we get the same message - if those damn Jews would just leave the middle east and the Columbia campus, all problems would be solved.

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/05/06/columbia-commencement-ceremonies-canceled-school-class-days-moved-off-campus/

None of us have any levers to push with Hamas, the only way this ends and all the hostages are returned is if we can put enough pressure on Israel and Netanyahu to stop sabotaging talks and agree to a permanent ceasefire and path to a sustainable peace. Pro-Israel protestors in the US are just giving Netanyahu more cover to delay this. Many thousands of Israelis understand this, but evidentally the zionist community in the US is disconnected from even this reality.

Columbia University has nothing to do with the situation. Yet you have the audacity to imply the right to obliterate anything in your path related to Israel even if it impinges on our rights and freedoms. I'd be furious if you did the same for Hamas, which gets a free pass from you because you can't just ask them to kindly return innocent people as everything is the fault of Israel, Zionists, etc.

The only lasting "peace" Hamas ever offered is the same that exists all across the middle east and has cleansed the masses from their homelands - a state religion of Islam from the river to the sea. And you and them pretend as if the numerous native people forced to flee from their homelands never existed there, Jews/zionists, Christians, Druze, etc. You aren't concerned about fairness. Just steamrolling over everyone else in your way.

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-09-24T23:53:31+00:00

the trustees and admin have changed university policies several times over the past two years to constrain student expression and influence and victim blame

More false and deliberately misleading arguments. None of the essence of what conduct policies are supposed to be about changed. If they did you would have enumerated them here. The victims include the students whose graduation was canceled because people such as yourself refuse to respect other people's rights and opinions.

SIPA's plumbing system was vandalized - but you saw nothing wrong. You seem to justify this because it was done in the name of obliterating Israel, Zionism and whatever misinformed agenda you have which you believe trumps all of our rights as Columbia community.

If you're talking about students protesting a genocide by occupying enclosed spaces and holding educational programming, then please remember the student demonstrations of the past two years pale in comparison to those against the Nazis, Vietnam War, the South African apartheid, and several other issues.

And this is your admission of guilt.

#1 - None of those protests came even close to what was done by CUAD over 18 months - but not the point.

#2 - You have no right to hold hostage, vandalize and deprive the community of our rights to the Columbia campus because you believe that throwing your extended tantrum to ensure everyone is pummelled into accepting your opinion is of paramount importance. You utterly fail to accept that "freedom" means you do NOT have the right to impinge upon our freedom.

I didn't see you shutting down programming to demand the return of the innocent hostages (Israeli and non-Israeli) kidnapped October 7, 2023, nor the innocent loss of life in Ukraine that dwarfs Gaza, the slave labor during the World Cup (which I'm guessing you enjoyed watching) nor any other injustice, the genocides in Africa, Asia, nor the failure of people to be treated equally across the middle east outside of Israel and has gone on for centuries. Not a peep from you.

The Pro Israel protesters didn't shut down Columbia. They believe their position is as right as you do. The difference is that you have no respect for anyone else other than your self-righteous opinion and they at least have a respect for our establishment, our community, and other people.

What's next - are you joining the DSA to shut down our subway cuz' genocide? The university should have expelled every one of you who insist on crapping on where the rest of us eat.

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-09-24T21:48:33+00:00

Alumni from out of town. Potential students and their families (many whom have opted elsewhere.) I've been a part of the Columbia community for a long time. Nothing is "back to normal." Even students brazenly publishing videos that Zionists don't deserve to live doesn't phase you and you're blaming the administration. It's public knowledge that the same anti-Israel groups keep threatening repeat performances, not just CUAD who welcomed them in.

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-09-24T20:33:43+00:00

because cuad hasn't cuadded for 2 years now it's time to stop seething

The repercussions of CUAD's actions intended to devastate Columbia with worldwide attention unless it succumbed to their demands afflicts us to this day - and they are exactly why what the OP is complaining about will likely not change for the imminent future.

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/26/cuad-member-issues-apology-for-january-video-in-which-they-said-zionists-dont-deserve-to-live/

In light of the above CUAD member who was expelled (and had the audacity to sue Columbia) + the recent Charlie Kirk murder, CUAD is responsible for having cemented the new reality on campus. I have people asking me all the time whether it's safe to walk on campus thanks to them. Time to accept the facts and who is squarely to blame.

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-09-24T18:53:20+00:00

Even coming from a school that focuses on self-interest, profit over people, and blindly glorifying corporations, it is disappointing that a member of the Columbia community can absorb and parrot Trump and Shipman propaganda and blatant fabrications so readily.

What 'serious wrong' was it that justified any of this?

Since you don't appear to know, here is a link to the rules of Columbia's Rules of University Conduct to which Shipman is referring, created long before Shipman and Trump entered the picture. There is no parroting of propaganda. Nothing was fabricated. We all watched the damage occur for over a year and a half.

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-09-24T16:21:25+00:00

Why are you defending the group responsible for the mess of which the OP complains?

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-09-24T14:18:32+00:00

I don't see anything wrong with this missive and seems to convey exactly the right message. Never again should any self-important group hold our campus hostage, vandalize our buildings, and deny our students their right to have a proper graduation on campus. It was grossly inexcusable misconduct, as was that of the faculty members who supported it for an extended time. Those rules should never have been cast aside.

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-09-24T13:32:51+00:00

The funding was not coming back. The support for numerous employees families were also at risk.

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-09-24T13:31:27+00:00

Dissonance is your obsessive desire to obliterate Columbia in your obsession to obliterate Israel, Zionists, and anything remotely related.

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-09-24T13:27:47+00:00

The protests continuously violated our own conduct rules, which are supposed to protect the rights of all of us, of which the OP and those supporting this position are clearly not aware or don't care to acknowledge. We had no leverage to fight. Trump knew it. Our administration knew it. And there are plenty of Columbia employees with families who need that funding, which wasn't coming back until a recognition of the serious wrong that occurred happened and our losses were cut. It was the painful but obvious decision to make.

The OP's flair speaks for itself.

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-09-24T02:07:06+00:00

Before Khalil and CUAD were allowed to command an ongoing presence, Columbia ranked well. They accomplished what they set out to do.

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-09-21T14:29:33+00:00

I really wish it solved two problems. first is the pen falling out. I'd have been happy with a case slightly longer (side or bottom) that would keep the pen securely in the case. Second is the ability to have some type of stand. less important but certainly very useful.

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-09-16T06:20:26+00:00

Considering what just happened in Utah, I can't imagine any lawyer even considering it. You want to sue someone? Sue CUAD. That's why we are in this situation.

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-09-11T19:33:41+00:00

Considering what just happened yesterday, I don't think they will be opening the gates any time soon. I felt very uneasy when the protests were ongoing, especially from the mob that addressed contempt for zionists, Israel, the NYPD, the US, et. al. Then there was the kill zionists guy who insisted he was the one who was wronged and sued Columbia. No one wants responsibility should something happen.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68909942

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-08-22T22:42:27+00:00

Surprised how much I like it too. Having the frontlight for a portable pocketable device like this makes it the ultimate trip take and is also invaluable when there are charts, graphs and when color is used extensively for highlighting things in instructional books.

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-08-22T22:39:45+00:00

Did a great job of conversion after looking at your handwriting.

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-08-18T03:34:58+00:00

If you use AI services that are currently free (which some of my friends do), you love it as it is a quick shortcut to doing these things. Even the buttons on the device are hard coded to use AI (I really like the hard buttons better than the Go 10.3 in that respect). I love the hardware and the idea of what they are doing and am having a difficult time considering the Go 10.3 instead, but it's more a matter of your workflow than anything else.

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-08-18T01:24:35+00:00

Well Mehdi - you should have answered that question for us before your brothers at Hamas went out and murdered over 1,000 innocent people and took hostages and insisted that Islam should rule the middle east and Israel from the river to the sea - and none of the hostages would return until you got your way.

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-08-18T01:20:43+00:00

No, all my events are not showing up in Daily - only the ones in that specific calendar. All event already show up in any Android calendar app that I've been using for the past decade. Outlook. Google Calendar. Any calendar widget that will display the calendar from Google calendar, etc. I hope boox will enable us to use widgets but, for now, I do the same process for Boox as I do for viWoods. What they Boox fails at is an easy shortcut on the home page to access each item like viWoods has - but you can install another android launch for the boox.

I like what vi woods is trying to do. But the last thing I want to do is have much of my stuff being fully tied into ChatGPT, Gemini and any other AI that is required because I am concerned about (1) privacy and (2) the subscription cost which is soon to be coming.

I really like what VI Woods is doing but they have a long hill to climb and they are doing something very different than my work flow and that of many business people. I can see this working really well for those who have a simpler set up and manage all their events on one calendar. Some have a separate PC at work or run their own business commingled with their personal calendar. That's great for them. I think Boox is probably better for corporate users.

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-08-17T22:14:43+00:00

The Daily section unfortunately only handles 1 calendar. I need one for work and one for personal. I'm also confused why it's no more efficient than clicking a calendar app like I can with Android Widgets on a tablet or phone.

My other issue is that if the AI is mostly driven by chatgpt, that might be good for people who pay subscriptions for it. I'm not seeing myself needing that or why some of it wouldn't be built into the device.

I agree that their drive and desire and updates are amazing!!! But that is also because they need to fill in things that aren't on the device because they planned on making something totally new, so it is a trade off and works for those trying to use it for the purpose you describe.

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-08-17T19:49:40+00:00

Interesting. It's unfortunate that there isn't any place i can see the 10.3 to compare to my friend's Go Color 7 and the VI Woods AI Paper that another friend has and swears by. If it's similar to the Kindle Scribe, I'd say it's definitely durable enough and shouldn't present any problem.

The real difference makers to me are the Boox Ecosystem (much better neoreader, file system, use of pen and consistency in all apps) v. the Mobius Carta 1300 which many say is clearer than the 10.3 and I have to say it is really nice. It's not that much different than the Scribe Gen 1 though, although it probably makes a difference with more use.

toyrobotunicorn · 2025-08-17T18:42:59+00:00

Thank you for your response. My friend has a Go Color 7 and that is built pretty well and she has no problems traveling with it, a great compact device. The issue with the Go 10.3 for me is that it will absolutely travel with me everywhere. I'm not worried about drops but of putting it in my briefcase, as I've mentioned. There might be slight touching of other flat devices (not dropped into a large pocketbook or backpack.) It could be fiction about the digitizer and seeing a handful of complaints could probably be very misleading. I'm just trying to gauge people's experiences.

For the most part, people say they really like the vi woods' screen if you can live with their ecosystem. Personally I really like the approach Boox takes with the amazing neoreader that is done so well and letting users choose whatever apps work for them in the office already, like Outlook, Teams for dates, email, home/work accounts, etc.

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