RI - Mass Shooting at Brown University - Providence 13 Dec 2025

[ilgirl]

If the McD worker had called the tippling instead of 911 it would have been incredibly irresponsible, imo. The tippling is not ready to immediately send squad cars and arrest the suspect.

I agree. Calling a tip line would not be close to as fast as calling 911.

Also, from what I've read, it looks like she's still eligible for it after he gets convicted.

 

[Dotta]

I was falsely accused of being the Brown shooter and doxxed

Before authorities identified who the Brown University shooter was, online sleuths said it was Mustapha Kharbouch, a student who had nothing to do with the fatal attack.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[airportwoman]

I will say I can see now with his clothing that he likely has layers of pants on and many who are homeless do this. It is so easy to find yourself homeless. If you lose your place to live and can't afford a deposit and first/last rent, it can be difficult. If you don't hvae a place where do you put any stuff you have? Things can go downhill very fast so this person could have had a job and just lost their home, and things spiral if you can't get back on your feet.

IMO

Or he put on multiple layers of clothing to throw off his description, and/or he could shed blood-stained clothing afterwards.

 

[99cats]

It's so interesting to me that CV's coworker at Sapo described him as a "sweetheart" and "extraordinarily approachable", and how that doesn't align with the descriptions from his university peers. Why was CV so unpleasant at Brown and his undergrad, yet so "approachable" when he was at Sapo? It seems like many accounts from people who knew CV in academia describe him as egotistical or narcissistic, and I can’t help but wonder how much of that assessment is notable only in retrospect.

I'm thinking back to my own doctoral program, and if LE had questioned me about a quarter of my cohort, I probably would have offered similar descriptions. This seems glib, but narcissism and superiority complexes can run rampant in certain graduate programs, and in some ways they’re culturally reinforced. Many students are accustomed to being the biggest fish in the pond, and when they're in a tank with other big fish that can foster intense competition that can become bitter and uncomfortable, with many seeking to 'prove their worth'. Some spent every waking hour researching, attending department events, or working TA positions.. and their sense of self became tightly interwoven with their academic standing. Any academic setback—minor or even simply perceived—was treated as personal and a sort of injustice done of them. It wasn't even necessarily a cut-throat environment but rather the outcome of a grouping together folks predisposed toward competition—people used to being the smartest person in the room, all vying for a pathway to get a rare TT position at some point in the distant future.

However, none of my former classmates went on to kill anyone; and obviously this culture doesn't organically spring up in every department at every university. But, I think this is all to say that I'm not entirely convinced that CV's egotism and disdain presented a significant barrier to his success in academia - I don't think it's an uncommon set of traits - and there's very likely more to it than that. Whatever it was presented itself while he was studying, but apparently not when he was working in IT.

I think it's entirely possible that CV lived an average, stable life outside of academia before something set him off (perhaps Prof. Loureiro's promotion or presidential award?)

 

[ilgirl]

DBM

 

[ilgirl]

It's so interesting to me that CV's coworker at Sapo described him as a "sweetheart" and "extraordinarily approachable", and how that doesn't align with the descriptions from his university peers. Why was CV so unpleasant at Brown and his undergrad, yet so "approachable" when he was at Sapo? It seems like many accounts from people who knew CV in academia describe him as egotistical or narcissistic, and I can’t help but wonder how much of that assessment is notable only in retrospect.

I'm thinking back to my own doctoral program, and if LE had questioned me about a quarter of my cohort, I probably would have offered similar descriptions. This seems glib, but narcissism and superiority complexes can run rampant in certain graduate programs, and in some ways they’re culturally reinforced. Many students are accustomed to being the biggest fish in the pond, and when they're in a tank with other big fish that can foster intense competition that can become bitter and uncomfortable, with many seeking to 'prove their worth'. Some spent every waking hour researching, attending department events, or working TA positions.. and their sense of self became tightly interwoven with their academic standing. Any academic setback—minor or even simply perceived—was treated as personal and a sort of injustice done of them. It wasn't even necessarily a cut-throat environment but rather the outcome of a grouping together folks predisposed toward competition—people used to being the smartest person in the room, all vying for a pathway to get a rare TT position at some point in the distant future.

However, none of my former classmates went on to kill anyone; and obviously this culture doesn't organically spring up in every department at every university. But, I think this is all to say that I'm not entirely convinced that CV's egotism and disdain presented a significant barrier to his success in academia - I don't think it's an uncommon set of traits - and there's very likely more to it than that. Whatever it was presented itself while he was studying, but apparently not when he was working in IT.

I think it's entirely possible that CV lived an average, stable life outside of academia before something set him off (perhaps Prof. Loureiro's promotion or presidential award?)

I'd like to know more about what that stable life might have been in the U.S. since 2017. It doesn't seem like almost anyone has come forward as having known him or worked with him.

 

[knla]

There's big money involved in what Professor Nuno Loureiro was involved with at MIT. A company Commonwealth Fusion Systems CFS, that was spun off from MIT, has raised over 4 billion dollars and is close to commercializing Fusion energy. They have a contract with Google to provide energy from a facility they are going to build in Virginia. Fusion energy is low cost and clean.

Funding the fusion revolution

Only several years ago, few could imagine a short-term path to widespread commercialization of fusion energy. Research was largely sustained by government funding, and the technology was widely seen as perpetually decades away from commercial viability. “If you walked into a room of fusion...

energy.mit.edu

 

[indicolite22]

Brown University shooter Claudio Neves Valente took at least four trips up to Boston this year, with each visit getting longer than the last, The Post has learned.

Brown University shooter made multiple trips to Boston for surveillance before deadly attack: sources

It shows an extensive amount of pre-planning and surveillance, a law enforcement source told The Post.

nypost.com

His trips:

• February 13-15
• April 8-25
• October 26-November 16
• November 17-26
• December 1-?

The first visit came a month after NL received an award.

 

[Lebowski]

There's big money involved with what Professor Nuno Loureiro was involved with at MIT. A company Commonwealth Fusion Systems CFS, that was spun off from MIT, has raised over 4 billion dollars and is close to commercializing Fusion energy. They have a contract with Google to provide energy from a facility they are going to build in Virginia. Fusion energy is low cost and clean.

Funding the fusion revolution

Only several years ago, few could imagine a short-term path to widespread commercialization of fusion energy. Research was largely sustained by government funding, and the technology was widely seen as perpetually decades away from commercial viability. “If you walked into a room of fusion...

energy.mit.edu

i am personally skeptical any of these fusion startups is going to go anywhere. at a technical level, practical fusion still has a long way to go. private sector can make technology more practical and efficient once it's reached a certain maturity level, but, before that, you need public funding push it along. fusion's still a few decades away from that threshold. AIUI, few if any of these startups are even producing any neutrons in their experiments.

that said, there is money to be made in telling venture capitalists you're going to make a profitable fusion reactor, whether you deliver it or not.

 

[indicolite22]

"He was bored because he knew more than any of us, he already should've had a PhD," Watson said. "He hated Brown and he hated Providence."

Ex-classmate of Brown University shooter said he 'hated' school and city

He said Neves Valente complained that the classes at Brown University were too easy and left the program early on.

www.wcvb.com