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⋅˚₊‧ kprofiles #001: ted kaczynski 💣 ‧₊˚ ⋅

Photo. Kaczynski's 1996 mugshot.

Headnote: There may be errors in the profile. This post has no intention of glorifying the people being mentioned and their actions.

Theodore "Ted" Kaczynski, was an American mathematician and serial bomber. He was known as the Unabomber due to his activity of sending handmade bombs to universities and airlines while living a primitive lifestyle in his cabin in the woods, away from civilisation. His bombings caused 3 deaths and 23 people injured, which happened from 1978 to 1995. He passed away on June 10th, 2023 in North Carolina when he was 81 years old by taking his own life with a shoelace in his prison cell. About a month before his suspected suicide, he was noted by the prison oncologist to be "depressed" and he was referred to a psychiatrist.

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Full name: Theodore John Kaczynski

Also known as: the Unabomber, Teddy John (by his family)

Nationality: American 🇺🇸

Birthday: May 22nd, 1942 (Chicago, Illinois)

Death date: June 10th, 2023 (Durham, North Carolina)

Zodiac: Gemini ♊

Chinese zodiac: Horse 🐎

Height: 175 cm (5'9")

MBTI (estimate): INTJ

IQ: 167

Occupation: Mathematics professor (formerly)

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K-type: Serial bomber, domestic terrorist

Victim(s) count: 26 total

Deaths caused: 3

Injuries caused: 23

Motif: Eco-terrorism; anti-modernisation ideologies

Date arrested: April 3rd, 1996

Convictions: 13 counts of transporting explosive devices with the intent to kill or maim (pleaded guilty)

Penalty: 8 consecutive life sentences without parole

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his parents were both of Polish descent, his father was a sausage maker and his mother was a housewife. He has a younger brother, David.

he had an allergic rash caused by medications when he was 9 months old, which caused him to be hospitalised and isolated.

he was a well-rounded student by playing the trombone in the school's marching band and participating in his school's maths, biology, coin-collecting, and German clubs.

due to his extraordinary intelligence, Kaczynski skipped Grades 6 and 11 in his early years, graduating at only 15 years old as he attended summer school.

he was a bright student and a mathematics prodigy, which landed him a chance to study at the prestigious Harvard University at only 16 years old with a scholarship and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics at 19/20 years old (1962).

he earned both a Master's degree and a PhD in Mathematics at the University of Michigan (1967) where he wrote his doctoral thesis, "Boundary Functions". Kaczynski's thesis would later be awarded a Summer B. Myers prize for the state's best math dissertation of the year, where his doctoral advisor would call his work "the best" he's ever directed.

his collegemates at Harvard described him as a "lonely boy with poor personal hygiene" and he always smelt like "rotting food, spoiled milk, and foot powder".

his high school classmates remarked that Kaczynski once showed a schoolmate a mini-bomb he made in Chemistry class that was detonated during class.

Kaczynski was offered a job to teach as an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley (1969) but eventually stopped due to his inner struggles in delivering lectures and communicating with his students.

he worked at a foam rubber products factory with his father and brother in the 1970s.

his moniker came from the special task force name "UNABOM", which was coined by the FBI during the years to track him and it is short for "University and Airline Bombing", which reflects on his bombing targets. The media later referred to him as the "Unabomber".

out of all of his 16 bombing plans, two of the bombings (University of Utah, 1981 and The Boeing Company, WA, 1985) failed as they were defused successfully.

the task force reportedly had spent over US$50 million during the UNABOM investigation, which was regarded as one of the most expensive cases ever. US$1 million was a reward to anyone who could lead to the Unabomber's arrest, which was eventually made by his brother, David.

David brought the letters and other documents his older brother had written to the FBI after his wife had noted his familiarity with the writing ideas. FBI compared Ted's handwritten documents with the handwriting on the manifesto he'd written, which spotted similarities, and led the investigators to track Ted down and eventually capture him in his forest cabin which he and his brother built. In the cabin, authorities spotted journals, a coded diary, some explosives, and two completed bombs which were ready to be delivered.

David used US$680,000 out of the US$1 million reward money to create a fund dedicated to the surviving victims of the Unabomber serial bombings, meanwhile, the remainder of the money was funded for taxes and legal fees for the victims.

he made his DIY bombs using everyday items such as metal pipes, batteries, and some untraceable scrap materials. In his handmade bombs, he inscribed the initials FC which to him, stands for "Freedom Club".

Kaczynski was known to live a primitive, technology-free life as he relocated to a 3m x 4m (10' x 14') cabin in a forest in Montana without proper heating, electricity and water.

He was also known to have opposed modernisation, proven in his manifesto entitled "Industrial Society and Its Future". His manifesto is mainly about how the Industrial Revolution started a process that destroyed nature through the development of technology and how human freedom was suppressed due to technological advancements. This manifesto was the driving force behind his serial bombings which were "designed to protect wilderness by hastening the collapse of industrial society".

he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.

it was reported that in the bio for his Harvard class' 50th year reunion magazine, he stated that his occupation was "prisoner" and in the awards section, he stated it as "eight life sentences, issued by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, 1998".

he also wrote a 2010 publication "Technological Slavery", where it received positive reviews (4.7 stars) on Amazon.

during his final few years in prison, in March 2021, he was diagnosed with late-stage rectal cancer and received his chemotherapy treatment until he declined the treatment in March 2023.

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Deaths

Hugh Scrutton (d. 11 December 1985, Sacramento, California)

Thomas J. Mosser (d. 10 December 1994, North Caldwell, New Jersey)

Gilbert Brent Murray (d. 24 April 1995, Sacramento, California)

Survivors

Terry Marker

John Harris

12 passengers on American Airlines Flight 444 (15 November 1979, Chicago to Washington DC)

Percy Wood

Janet Smith

Diogenes Angelakos & John Hauser

James V. McConnell & Nicklaus Suino

Gary Wright

Charles Epstein

David Gerlenter

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**all info from this profile are from these websites:

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/unabomber

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/ted-kaczynski-known-as-the-unabomber-found-dead-in-federal-prison

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Society_and_Its_Future

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski

https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/unabomber-now

https://www.archivesfoundation.org/newsletter/the-unabomber/

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/10/us/ted-kaczynski-unabomber-dead/index.html

https://www.biography.com/crime/ted-kaczynski

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65867291

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/unabomber-arrested-longest-manhunt-fbi-history-over-180968744/

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⬛ PREMISE: AD INFINITUM 🏠☁️

Everyone knows that all sinners are destined to be sent down to Hell. Usually, it is often depicted in the Bible as a hot and fiery place where the souls of the sinners will continuously suffer under the torture of the hellish eternal fires of inferno underground, something like that. But in the Creamylinnie world, Hell or Ad Infinitum is seen as something that rather normal but unsettling at the same time.

⬛ Terminology

The word "ad infinitum" means "to infinity" in Latin, where it indicates that something or someone will lead on to a subject of interest that seems infinite and without anything that ends beyond it. On the other hand, the word "Ад" (ad) in Russian means hell (thank Slaughter to Prevail for that!), combining them together, you'll get: infinite hell. And why did I chose this word specifically? It has a little cute meaning in it that perfectly describes Creamylinnie's version of hell: infinite suffering.

🏠 Premise

In the realm, the suffering are not made as brutal as that in the biblical Hell, it's more towards causing psychological damages towards the sinners rather than watching them being eternally burn in the sea of hellish lava in the land down underground.

I decided to make it reminiscent of the film Vivarium, where every sinners in AI (Ad Infinitum) will be living in small, claustraphobic-inducing living spaces (instead of the one-storey, fitting houses in the film) and everything in AI is eeriely similar. From the cell shapes, the roads, the bland foods served, and they are required to wear the same uniform; it's all the same in every angle, almost like a kaleideoscope view. Solitary confinement is pretty much what these sinners would have endure, where their social interactions are pretty much limited and well, they have to find a way to get out of that eternal boredom. So, if anyone tried to look for an exit to the infinite landscape within AI, there's no way out - they'll end up within the same place, just like in the film Vivarium. Even with the pastelly colour schemes as well, lol.

Plus, in AI, the weather will never stop being bright and sunny and there are no nighttime or rainy days to come and cool down the realm, thus adding more suffering to these sinners.

Other than the similar looking houses and never-ending drought-summer weather in Ad Infinitum, there will be an eerie-looking giant cube hovering and gliding over the dry blue sky of Ad Infinitum, where the cube is completely and entirely acts as a giant mirror watching over the occupants of the realm from the sky, when it looks like something that came out of an Eric Prydz's music video. If you know which MV I'm talking about. Honestly, I don't know what purpose will that giant cube serve to the realm. I just kinda liked the idea of a humongous giant mirror cube just floating on top of our heads and it looks scary and aesthetically pleasing at the same time.

The dwellers of this realm? Well, I told you, the biggest sinners yet. Like killers, sexual offenders, thieves, robbers, corrupted and evil politicans and people of authority, PDF files, fraudsters, scammers, cultists, any people that are considered breaking the moral and/or religious compasses.

☁️ The symbols

So, Ad Infinitum can be represented in symbols, as follows:

Ａ Ｄ ：Ｎ Ｆ ：Ｎ ：＋ Ｕ Ｍ

or alternatively,

Δ ：Ｎ Ｆ ：Ｎ ：＋ Ｕ Ｍ

*all thanks to K-pop for using lots of texting symbols in the band names and releases a lot!

🔺️ The Delta/Triangle

The first thing that I'm so excited to spoil to the readers is the representation of the capitalised Greek letter Delta, or the triangle symbol (Δ) in the alternate logo. What intrigues me with this symbol is that, firstly, the Δ symbol can be read as "ad" at once, where the A is stylised as Λ (I know that this is basically Greek's letter L but the letter A is usually made for aesthetic with that letter) and the D remains as the Greek letter "delta", which is basically the letter D. And the triangle single-handedly combines both symbols, making it to be read as "ad".

I'm a Chemistry major in university, and I saw the symbol a lot when I skim out my 89-page slideshow notes and the symbol is usually used to represent heat change, or just heat during a reaction or a synthesis of a chemical compound. And coincidentally, in the olden alchemy symbols, it is used to represent the element fire. Since Hell is all about fire and eternal heat (and so does for Ad Infinitum, just without the obvious fire), the symbol can also be appropriately interpreted as the extreme heat that emits throughout the realm.

🔗 The colon (:) symbols

In the typography logo, each of the letter I from the word "Ad Infinitum" has been changed into colons (:) for "aesthetical purposes". But when I think back and relate it to the Δ symbol earlier, it's giving me another chemistry-related stuff (forgive me if I'm not excellent at explaining it, I'm not in any way, an honourary student on campus and organometallic chemistry is my weakest point so I'm just gonna use the Internet) the delta bonds.

Delta (δ, with lowercase Delta) bonds are chemical bonds that are covalent where four lobes (the petal-shaped thing, I believe, look at the diagram below) of an atomic orbital overlaps with that of another involved atomic orbital, causing the formation of a bonding molecular orbital with two nodal planes that contain the internuclear axis and goes through both atoms involved in the reaction.

And how is that related with the colon symbols? So, funny story: usually when we were taught the basics of the orbitals back in my pre-uni, the overlapped orbitals i.e. the part where two atoms have done a certain, common bond (with Greek letter names, of course), we are required to draw the colons in between the orbital overlapped area as a sign where each of the electron in the two atoms had made a bonding, thus completing the full electron requirement, which varies from each element (but 4 is the most common max. capacity for organic compounds lol).

But here in the typography logo, it only shows three colons instead of four, following the number of orbital nodes in the elements that underwent delta bonding. If all the symbols are gathered together, what we are left with are just ": : : +".

Given that the colons (:) represent a complete, two-way bonding of two atoms in the four parts of the orbital lobes (or in any normal chemical reactions, really), then in the typography logo it only showed three instead of four, and the fourth symbol is rather a plus (+) instead of another colon to complete the entirety of the Delta bonding. What does the + symbol could mean?

➕ The fourth symbol, plus symbol

Let's discuss about the lonely guy here, the addition symbol. The positive symbol. The Greek cross. Switzerland. The sign on hospitals and pharmacies. Whatever you wanna call it, we're gonna get a bit of exposition of it here.

In chemistry (not again!), the addition symbol often depicts a positively-charged atom, meaning that the atom affected are lacking electron(s) to complete itself, to become a rather stable atom (or compound if more than 1 involved). To achieve this stability, a positively-charged atom (or cation, to sound smart) will have to be reacted with another compound that contains electron(s) in excess, the negatively-charged atom (or anions), so it has to share its electron(s) with the cation. Sharing is caring, right?

In short, when we refer to the symbols found in Ad Infinitum's typography logo and combine it, we would get something like this, which is a Lewis structure (a method to show the structure of a chemical compound, with two dots indicating a pair of complete electron bonding, refer the diagram below) of a cation, or a positively-charged structure that needs an atom to donate an electron to achieve the compound's stability.

My best guess is that, in Ad Infinitum's context, the realm feels incomplete and unstable (given the realm itself and its residents of that realm are all unstable and problematic) and it needs another force, possibly an external force, to knock them out of their crazies and to make them feel stable and appreciated again. However, how will this thing can happen, and where does this external, completing force came from? We're not sure yet.

🎲 Cube theory

Okay, let's talk about the realm's favourite shape: the cube. Or the square, if you will. Again, some screencaps from the Eric Prydz's MV because why not? They're cubes, right?

Let's halt all the chemistry stuff and we shall go to the other subject that no one in the world but Ted Kaczynski would like: mathematics. But more specifically, geometry and shapes - and we're gonna do a dive-in on cubes itself.

As we all know, a cube is a 3-dimensional shape that has equal sides and it is pretty much one of the most stable shapes everyone has seen. So, a typical cube is derived from a square, which is made up of 4 equal sides with 4 vertices on every side. In a cube however, it has 6 equilateral square surfaces on it. The cube has 8 vertices in total, which is double of that in a square, and 12 sides (which are the straight lines used to draw on the shape). Hence, the number sequences that we got are something like this: 4, 6, 8, 12. What does the number trends show us? These numbers are multiples of 2. What else is 2? The colon symbol (:); it contains two dots in it. And what would two colon symbols form?

: :

That's right. A square. A damn square. Box. But in the symbol typograph logo, only 3 colons were given with a single plus symbol, so what does this mean? 1 ½ squares; i.e. a perfect a square and an imperfect square. And this diverts back to the colon theory earlier, where each of the colon symbolises a two-way, complete bonding.

: : : +

And what could this cube theory trying to tell the Delta symbol (Δ) in the alternate version of the logo? Could it mean the very thing that ever unite the missing part of the second square, or could it be the very thing that breaks down the formation of the squares slowly? The sole purpose of Ad (Δ) is yet to be uncovered.

And how about the unstylised letters, what do they represent? I'm not sure yet, so stay tuned for theory updates.

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