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Building and Maintaining Tech Infrastructure Through Perseverance

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11 September 2025 6h50

the world is a patchwork of perseverance > nothing is permanent
> nothing appears magically every bench, every beam, every bridge > someone made it
> and someone fought to keep it
> and someone continues to take care of it so, do whatever you need to do to persevere

Academic Integrity and Scientific Truth in Higher Education

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11 September 2025 6h39

Academics have to get back to pursuing and enforcing a rigorously truthful and rational (ie scientific) representation of reality, one that works for all rational members of our society, regardless of their political affiliation. We need integrity, not indoctrination.

Political Polarization Prevents Shared Understanding Across Ideological Lines

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11 September 2025 6h39

I have seem elite boomers from opposing camps establishing shared understanding of the ground truth, but not millennial leftist academics with millenial rightist industrialists. The current political parties live in completely different universes.

University Ideology and Merit-Based Admissions in Elite Institutions

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11 September 2025 6h39

Elite universities cannot be places of ideological dissemination. There cannot be job or student acceptance restrictions for applicants who don’t share the political opinions of a dominant social media clique.

PNAC collapse institutional takeover ideological homogenization

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11 September 2025 6h38

The collapse of the PNAC and the ideological cult dynamics of social media led to an institutional takeover by ideologically homogenized academics, who were not even aware of their radicalization, and experienced every outgroup as extremist instead.

Harvard Tech Elite’s Influence on Politics and Media Since 2000

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11 September 2025 6h38

Old Harvardians gravely reasoned about the political calculus of sharing power in the service of political stability, national interest and existing players. After 2000, media, politics and public administration received two generations of social media cultists from Harvard.

Elite fragmentation: academics versus tech entrepreneurs competing for power

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11 September 2025 6h38

Elites often have their own specific games, which may evolve and lead them to mutually exclude and despise each other: eg. politics oriented academics vs. tech entrepreneurs. In the past, these elites shared power.