UD doesn’t understand much of what real estate super-executive Wesley LePatner is saying here; but then, before LePatner was pulverized by an M4 assault rifle in her building’s lobby yesterday, she moved in a world alien to UD’s.
What UD does understand is that she was way smart (Yale, history), hugely enterprising and ambitious, an art-lover, and a loving wife and mother. She came from generations of accomplished New Yorkers, and embodied the energy, brains, and civic disposition of the sort of people who work inside the city’s most iconic buildings.
An altogether exceptional person. And she was at the height of her powers when a madman who was able to get hold of an assault rifle (this is America, after all) blew her to pieces.
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And never was Wayne LaPierre’s famous saying (updated by UD) more true:
“The only way to stop a bad guy with an M4 assault rifle is with a good guy with an M4 assault rifle.”
It’s a goddamn shame Wesley LePatner wasn’t carrying an XM7/M7 Battle Rifle yesterday. What’s with New York’s restrictive gun laws?
July 29th, 2025 at 5:11PM
She was in this business:
https://apnews.com/article/data-centers-artificial-intelligence-technology-amazon-google-56b84cbb94942039754282afb076a87b
July 29th, 2025 at 6:38PM
How could I have known nothing about this? Maryland has plenty of them…
Thanks for the link.
July 29th, 2025 at 9:40PM
Then you may have a nuclear power plant or three in your future. Datacenters, especially in the age of AI, crave power.
https://hbr.org/2025/06/tech-companies-nuclear-power-and-the-problem-of-strategic-timing
https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/tech-bros-bankers-rally-around-110131417.html?guccounter=1