Racist ramblings.

"In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population?" -- http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=129

Also: https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/669592461111599105

There's more, I'm sure you can find it. Honestly, makes me sick how he's celebrated here. "Sure he has said some wacky(really?!) things but whatever I'm grateful." Done with HN for the day.

I can't speak of the past couple years, but in 2012 I reached out to him to see if he might be interested in speaking to a users group I ran (Philadelphia Java Users' Group) because I knew he was local and would likely draw a crowd. He agreed to speak because it was convenient, and seemed appreciative of the gesture - I don't think he'd been presenting much at the time.

In his presentation he mentioned some things he was working on at the time. I videotaped the presentation and published it with his permission.

https://phillyjug.com/2012/04/18/esr/

Might be at a gaming convention. He has seemed to express enjoyment of variously complicated strategy board games.