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Re: Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta

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Post by jkestner »

sonicanatidae wrote: post #119
93po wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The few very large unis i looked into all made massively more money off investment returns than any operational income. the year i reviewed for the university of texas system showed they could have charged zero tuition that year and still make a profit there are absolutely kickbacks for people in control of those endowments choosing specific investment options with their many billions of dollars

My partner works at a major U in the US. Top 200ish. They are solely focused on revenue. Teacher pay rarely raised, but that new upgrade for the stadium at a cool $120m, seems like a great idea. FFS, her dept went past the paper budget for one semester, about 5 years ago. The resolution? Do without paper until the next semester. That's what students insane tuition prices bought them. Apathy over education.

And here I thought I could stop buying supplies for our teachers when my kids go to college.

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Post by avgcorrection »

godelski wrote: post #197
pastacacioepepe wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't need a formal conspiracy when you have an elite with converging interests.

There's a joke from a comedian I forget if it is L̶o̶u̶i̶s̶ ̶C̶K̶ George Carlin o̶r̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶. But basically is along the lines that you don't have explicitly collude when you all come from the same backgrounds. The interests are aligned already. It's pointing out that representatives need to actually be from representative populations of people. But he did it in a funny way, this comment really isn't. Edit: thanks lo…

Might be the comedian Avram Chomsky.

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Post by mjmsmith »

LewisVerstappen wrote: post #118
istjohn wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What were the disastrous consequences of the 91% income tax rate on the top bracket in the 1950's?

[flagged]

It's unfortunate that you stopped before responding to the question that was asked.

Re: Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta

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Post by macksd »

jcheng wrote: post #185
yellow_lead wrote: post #32

Her actual whistleblower declaration contains a lot of the evidence some may be looking for: https://live-whistleblower-aid.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/up... To sum up the first few pages after skimming it, Facebook tried to bribe her (well "fund" her research), she refused. Later she had a meeting with the former head of comms at Facebook, who was now on the Dean's council, where he became incredibly angry with her r…

Not sure why I decided to spend so much time on this on a Monday morning but I've read to page 35, and the picture is much more muddled. It looks like the FB Archive project gains momentum and launches but Dr. Donovan and the TASC get sidelined along the way (which understandably is very upsetting, you can feel the pain on every page). It does seem clear that the Dean doesn't approve of Dr. Donovan/TASC and he eventu…

I think sidelining the lead researcher and giving the project to another group is accurately described at "gutting a team". No, they didn't end the project, but the series of events described seems to be insinuating that she could have led the project if she was willing to have her work funded by Facebook, listen to one of their former people, etc. So if that was their goal, and they just got someone else to do the work, is that any better?

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Post by xss2f »

joshspankit wrote: post #196

I’m inspired to propose a new term alongside Big Tobacco, Big Energy, Big Pharma, and Big Tech: Big Social.

There is 'Big Tech' already available. Plus America has raised interest rates, which means market capture/empire defense is getting more and more expensive, so expect all of them to become small soon.

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Post by kbenson »

intrasight wrote: post #13

I just read that this morning. I'm interested enough in the outcome that I put a calendar reminder 6 months out to check what happened. Doing so made me wonder if there's a service that would email me updates about legal cases like this that I would like to follow.

Anything that provides a calendar and/or timed TODO/list items. Just set calendar item or the TODO item's due date 6 months out. Any OS you're using whether mobile or desktop probably has an app for this shipped with it.

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Post by turminal »

WaffleIronMaker wrote: post #62
intrasight wrote: post #13

I just read that this morning. I'm interested enough in the outcome that I put a calendar reminder 6 months out to check what happened. Doing so made me wonder if there's a service that would email me updates about legal cases like this that I would like to follow.

It's possible that a Google Alert[1] might be enough for your use case, depending on how well the legal cases are covered by Google. [1] https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/4815696?hl=en

Unless Google Alert gets shut down by then.

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Post by graphe »

hathym wrote: post #199

It's hard to beleive why such an immense sum of money is being funneled into warping the truth, and to make the extermination of an entire population of innocent people appear justified.

Who is exterminating who in the article? It just says harmful to society.

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Post by sonicanatidae »

dehrmann wrote: post #198
sonicanatidae wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My partner works at a major U in the US. Top 200ish. They are solely focused on revenue. Teacher pay rarely raised, but that new upgrade for the stadium at a cool $120m, seems like a great idea. FFS, her dept went past the paper budget for one semester, about 5 years ago. The resolution? Do without paper until the next semester. That's what students insane tuition prices bought them. Apathy over education.

> Teacher pay rarely raised There's an oversupply of most PhDs, so there's no need to raise their pay. And that's for professors. Grad students that teach are practically free.

Ironically, she stopped at a Masters, after this same university forced her to restart her phd thesis 3 TIMES, due to changing staff. She worked on it one semester, then they changed her major professor. Worked on the 2nd one another semester, and they again changed her major professor. Considered a 3rd time and she just threw her hands up and said, fuck it, which I don't blame, at all.

She's still a full-time faculty member, has written/designed 3 courses for them, that are taught by herself and others to this day, and gets kudos every semester from students she's taught.

The college system is slightly less uncaring than the government. The big difference is the college system drains 20 years of your future income with insane pricing and if you get shit on due to THEIR changes, that's just your happy ass.

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Post by avgcorrection »

gumballindie wrote: post #23
hliyan wrote: post #9

From regulatory capture through revolving doors and lobbying, to media capture through purchase, and now academic capture through donation, it seems no activity is safe from large concentrations of wealth.

Politics (as in the game of power) and corruption are human nature. Pushing back against these are equally human nature. The worse it gets the more intense the push back. The push back seems to be at moment taking the shape of voting in far right or trump like politicians accross the world. They won't solve the issue. Therefore the next level of intensity may very well be revolution.

> Everything that we are witnessing now is human nature

Nice way to say nothing of substance.

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