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  • Julian Assange is 'no hero': America's former head of intelligence says what Wikileaks founder did was wrong and illegal and 'assets' in Afghanistan will have died because of his actions

    06/26/2024 4:30:39 AM PDT · by C19fan · 62 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | June 26,2024 | Paul Farrell
    The former head of US intelligence slammed the celebrations surrounding the release of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange this week and called the Australian 'no hero.' Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today show, James Clapper, who served as head of the intelligence community under former President Barack Obama, called Assange's actions wrong and illegal. Clapper went on to say that US assets in Afghanistan were likely killed due to Wikileaks revealing their identities in government documents.
  • HUGE BREAKING NEWS: Federal Judge Signals He May END Twitter’s Immunity in Dr. Shiva Case – Speech Police in Panic — Watch Hearing Live on May 20

    05/17/2021 10:24:55 AM PDT · by NobleFree · 44 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | May 15, 2021 | Ben Wetmore
    A federal judge in Massachusetts is going to make Twitter explain whether or not it is a “state actor” or a truly private company, and the effects could be significant in reigning in Big Tech’s oppression of conservative views. Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, the man who invented email, ran for US Senate in Massachusetts as a Republican and made allegations of voter fraud on Twitter. These tweets were then deleted by the far-left tech giant. Later it was discovered that they were deleted at the direction of government employees of the Massachusetts Secretary of State’s office. Discovering this, Dr. Ayyadurai filed...
  • Ayyadurai is no Ordinary Senate Candidate

    04/10/2017 9:22:06 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 16 replies
    Shiva Ayyadurai is an entrepreneur, MIT graduate, Donald Trump-supporting Indian-born immigrant and U.S. citizen hoping that his outsider status will carry him to the U.S. Senate. A Republican, Ayyadurai declared on social media several weeks ago that he intends to challenge for Sen. Elizabeth Warren's seat in the 2018 election. He filed official paperwork with the Federal Election Commission on March 17. Warren, a Democrat, is a former Harvard Law School professor who defeated incumbent Republican Sen. Scott Brown in the 2012 election. In a Monday meeting with editors of The Sun, Ayyadurai portrayed himself as a "21st-century senator" with...
  • MIT's Black student enrollment drops significantly after Supreme Court affirmative action ruling, White and Asian American student populations increase

    08/22/2024 1:05:38 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 32 replies
    NBC News via Yahoo News ^ | 08/22/2024 | Char Adams
    Enrollment for Black and Latino students dropped at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the first class formed after the Supreme Court found race-conscience admissions in colleges unconstitutional. The university’s admissions department on Wednesday released its first-year class profile, showing a sharp drop in its Black student population. About 5% of MIT’s incoming class of 2028 is Black, a significant drop from its 13% average in recent years. Latino students make up 11% of the class of 2028, compared to a 15% average in recent years. Overall, 1,102 students make up the incoming class.Stu Schmill, MIT’s dean of admissions, attributed...
  • MIT’s Black student enrollment drops significantly after Supreme Court affirmative action ruling

    08/22/2024 6:48:02 AM PDT · by rightwingintelligentsia · 61 replies
    NBC News via MSN ^ | August 22, 2024 | Char Adams
    Enrollment for Black and Latino students dropped at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the first class formed after the Supreme Court found race-conscience admissions in colleges unconstitutional. The university’s admissions department on Wednesday released its first-year class profile, showing a sharp drop in its Black student population. About 5% of MIT’s incoming class of 2028 is Black, a significant drop from its 13% average in recent years. Latino students make up 11% of the class of 2028, compared to a 15% average in recent years. Overall, 1,102 students make up the incoming class. Stu Schmill, MIT’s dean of admissions,...
  • Alumni group pressures MIT for institutional neutrality policy, more free speech protections

    07/12/2024 7:57:00 AM PDT · by george76 · 8 replies
    College Fix ^ | JULY 11, 2024 | Gavin Farinholt
    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology made headlines in May when its leaders told faculty to discontinue the practice of requiring mandatory diversity, equity and inclusion statements in faculty hiring. It blazed a trail for elite colleges, as Harvard did the same a few weeks later, and Cornell also appears to have followed suit. But a prominent MIT alumni group argues the move is not enough to protect free speech, academic freedom and intellectual diversity, and is calling on campus leaders to go further. The MIT Free Speech Alliance in mid-June released a set of recommendations urging the university to establish...
  • MIT grew staff size by 1,200 while enrollment barely budged

    07/05/2024 7:08:29 AM PDT · by george76 · 25 replies
    College Fix ^ | JULY 4, 2024 | Micaiah Bilger
    University hired 6 new DEI deans in 1 year The Massachusetts Institute of Technology added more than 1,200 new administrative/support staff positions in less than a decade – including six “diversity, equity, and inclusion” assistant deans in one year, a College Fix analysis found. Meanwhile, between 2013 and 2022, undergraduate student enrollment remained basically flat. The administrative hiring increase coincides with concerted efforts by the research university to “advanc[e] diversity, equity, and inclusion” throughout its programs. During the 2022-23 school year, the most recent data available, the university employed 6,693 full-time administrators and support staff, according to information the school...
  • At MIT, Administrators Allow Unlawful Encampment To Displace Lawful Israeli Independence Day Event

    05/08/2024 3:41:53 PM PDT · by george76 · 13 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | May 7, 2024 | Jessica Costescu
    President Kornbluth assured us … that the encampment would be removed in time for our Yom Ha'atzmaut celebration,' letter from Jewish group says.. In the run-up to an annual Israeli Independence Day celebration at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, university president Sally Kornbluth assured student organizers that an unauthorized anti-Israel encampment—located in the same area where the Jewish students planned to hold their event—would be cleared in time. It wasn't, prompting school officials to walk back their promise and press the Jewish students to reschedule or relocate the event, messages obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. On April 24,...
  • MIT becomes first elite university to ban diversity statements

    05/06/2024 12:22:08 AM PDT · by Stravinsky · 15 replies
    UnHerd ^ | May 5, 2024 | John Sailer
    In what’s likely to be a watershed moment, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has ended the use of diversity statements for faculty hiring, making it the first elite private university to backtrack on the practice that has been roundly criticised as a political litmus test. On Saturday, an MIT spokesperson confirmed in an email to me that “requests for a statement on diversity will no longer be part of applications for any faculty positions at MIT”, adding that the decision was made by embattled MIT President Sally Kornbluth “with the support of the Provost, Chancellor, and all six academic deans”....
  • MIT student creates device that is able to search the entire internet using just his mind (Is this actually a true story? He asks sceptically…)

    02/27/2024 12:14:46 AM PST · by cba123 · 19 replies
    Unilad ^ | 25 February 2024 GMT | Lucy Devine
    A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student has created a device that allows humans to communicate with machines using our minds - and it truly is incredible. Arnav Kapur created a device called AlterEgo, which is a wearable type of headset that allows users to communicate with technology without even speaking a word. So how does it work?
  • MIT Scientist Ran Doom on E. Coli Cells in an Experiment That Sounds Like Sci-Fi

    02/12/2024 6:32:44 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 6 replies
    BGR ^ | Feb 5th, 2024 | Joshua Hawkins
    MIT scientist ran Doom on E. coli cells in an experiment that sounds like sci-fiIf you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. It’s crazy to think of how far video games have come since the original Doom release in 1993. But, as iconic of a game as it is, what has even become more iconic than the game itself is getting it to run on tons of different things. In fact, we’ve seen Doom play on a myriad of things. And now, some scientists have even managed to run...
  • Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water

    01/14/2024 6:08:09 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 29 replies
    MIT News ^ | September 27, 2023 | Jennifer Chu
    The team's new system improves on their previous design — a similar concept of multiple layers, called stages. Each stage contained an evaporator and a condenser that used heat from the sun to passively separate salt from incoming water. That design, which the team tested on the roof of an MIT building, efficiently converted the sun's energy to evaporate water, which was then condensed into drinkable water. But the salt that was left over quickly accumulated as crystals that clogged the system after a few days. In a real-world setting, a user would have to place stages on a frequent...
  • Alumni to sue MIT for sex discrimination in admissions

    01/11/2024 10:26:20 AM PST · by CFW · 10 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | 1/10/24 | Breccan F. Thies
    Alumni of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are preparing to sue the school for allegedly rejecting male applicants in favor of “artificially” increasing the percentage of female students. The group FairAdmissions@MIT, a nonprofit organization formed by the alumni, is seeking male plaintiffs who, despite having top-tier applications, nonetheless were rejected from the prestigious school. “The first phase of our program is identifying male college students or recent graduates who had top SAT/ACT scores, great GPAs, strong recommendations, and substantial extra-curricular activities yet got rejected by MIT,” Mark J. Perry, the group’s president, said in a press release on Wednesday. “Our...
  • Bill Ackman’s war to make universities accountable has the left panicked

    01/08/2024 10:50:24 PM PST · by george76 · 23 replies
    New York Post ^ | Jan. 8, 2024, | Glenn H. Reynolds
    For a long time, people (including me) have been calling for major changes in higher education. Now someone is doing something about it. Hedge-fund tycoon Bill Ackman is waging war to make universities accountable. Ackman started his campaign by demanding the resignations of University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill, Harvard President Claudine Gay and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth after the trio’s shambolic performance before Congress on antisemitic harassment on their campuses. Magill and Gay are now gone, and Kornbluth is worried. Penn’s board of trustees pushed Magill out pretty quickly. Gay, being a diversity hire, was harder...
  • Bill Ackman @ BillAckman

    01/08/2024 4:29:23 PM PST · by chickenlips · 30 replies
    X ^ | Jan 6, 2023 | Bill Ackman
    Last night, no one at @MIT had a good night’s sleep. Yesterday evening, shortly after I posted that we were launching a plagiarism review of all current MIT faculty, President Kornbluth, members of MIT’s administration, and its board, I am sure that an audible collective gasp could be heard around the campus. Why? Well, every faculty member knows that once their work is targeted by AI, they will be outed. No body of written work in academia can survive the power of AI searching for missing quotation marks, failures to paraphrase appropriately, and/or the failure to properly credit the work...
  • 3 college heads testified before the House last month. One still has her job

    01/05/2024 9:41:45 AM PST · by TexasKamaAina · 18 replies
    The Hill ^ | 01/03/2024 | Lexi Lonas
    Less than a month after the leaders of three top U.S. colleges testified before the House about antisemitism on their campuses, two of them have been forced to resign...MIT President Sally Kornbluth, meanwhile, has stayed in her position, based on little more than the school’s immediate response followed by radio silence.
  • Pfizer CEO slams Harvard, MIT, and Penn leaders for their ‘despicable’ testimony about antisemitism and genocide

    12/25/2023 10:21:58 AM PST · by Angelino97 · 34 replies
    Fortune ^ | December 6, 2023 | Simone Foxman
    Pfizer chief executive Albert Bourla slammed testimonies by the heads of three top American universities for failing to “condemn racist, antisemitic, hate rhetoric” while speaking in front of members of congress Tuesday. Testimony by the presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology “was one of the most despicable moments in the history of U.S. academia,” Bourla said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter... Bourla, who in 2020 struck an agreement with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to use Israel as a test case for Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine, said his grandparents,...
  • With UPenn's president out, Bill Ackman is now lasering in on Harvard and MIT's presidents

    12/11/2023 5:53:57 AM PST · by nuconvert · 30 replies
    MSN ^ | 12-10-23
    One down, two to go. Bill Ackman appears to have a scorecard tracking which college presidents lose their jobs for their congressional statements on on-campus antisemitism, and now he's training his full fire on the two university leaders who remain. (excerpt) And Ackman's quest seems to be picking up after Liz Magill, president of the University of Pennsylvania, resigned from her position on Saturday. On Sunday, Ackman penned an open letter to Harvard's governing boards of directors, where he reiterated his call for Claudine Gay to be removed. "In her short tenure as President, Claudine Gay has done more damage...
  • Universities Demonstrate Moral Confusion [semi-satire]

    12/10/2023 7:21:48 AM PST · by John Semmens · 6 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 10 December 2023 | John Semmens
    At a hearing of the House Education and Workforce Committee Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) grilled the presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania about students at their schools publicly calling for Jews to be killed. "Is this appropriate behavior?" she asked. Penn President Liz Magill said "it depends on the context. First of all, there is the issue of freedom of speech. Under the US Constitution people are free to express their opinions. Second, there is the issue of freedom of religion. The Palestinian Authority tells its own people that killing Jews is for Allah. The repetition of...
  • My question for #ClaudineGay, #LizMagill, and #SallyKornbluth: Under what "context" would it be OK for someone to call for the genocide of my Jewish relatives, friends, and neighbors?

    12/09/2023 6:55:14 PM PST · by grundle · 13 replies
    Twitter ^ | December 29, 2023 | Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill@DanielAlmanPGH
    https://twitter.com/DanielAlmanPGH/status/1733680074224746942Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill@DanielAlmanPGH My question for #ClaudineGay, #LizMagill, and #SallyKornbluth: Under what "context" would it be OK for someone to call for the genocide of my Jewish relatives, friends, and neighbors? #SquirrelHill #Antisemitism #Jews #Genocide #Harvard #UPenn #MIT #Nazis #Hitler #Holocaust 9:48 PM · Dec 9, 2023