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For profit education and healthcare are a scam.

I wish the EECS dept at my alma mater (an elite school) had not squeezed at least 25 k if not more (I have the exact figure somewhere) from me. Pretty tacky to defraud a student from a developing country by not bothering at all with mentoring or guidance when you take that kind of money for a graduate degree in EE.

Basically running a trade school like those trashy edtech scams.

I struggled and then switched to the natural sciences being lucky enough to find a cool research project/mentor and lab. I managed to get a PhD though it was not easy. The natural sciences were cool. It’s usually that CS side that the low rent, low quality commercial crap comes from.

Then I got lucky and had a really good postdoc mentor. The lab was also truly awesome - I still remember them with affection. But because I was still lagging. I was always interested in research and higher ed and these two labs which were way more academic and small (not a hyperscaled industrial factory) really fostered what scientific spark (admittedly fledgling at best) I had.

But then I went to one of those sexist and sleazy schools influenced a lot by those trashy tech cos and edtech which wiped out my savings and did a lot of damage. I came back home after that..

My mentor was cool though I disliked the lab overall. It’s a school known for being snooty and dislikable as well as sleazy and tacky. Too much influence again by EECS..all that junk comes from the CS side (which as far as I can tell is now mainly social engineering, social media, those sleazy psych and CS fusion things which are an abomination, crypto etc etc). Cryptography for instance unlike crypto is acceptable as a real field, but so much of that marketplace driven CS stuff is such junk.
And they are blatantly carrying out a coup of every other field because everyone uses a comp so these hogs can stealthily take over all space and they don’t get called out by all these sellouts.

I was reading about this Prof Ryan Williams in Quanta Magazine-he seemed like the respectable type of CS Prof unlike that sleazy, tacky rogue’s gallery out of Google, Facebook and other trashy datamining, Defense contracting garbage factories. I hate those creeps. We have the similar type over here now. They need to be shut down.

It’s a corrupting influence on the hard natural sciences (physics, chemistry, biology, biochemistry, biophysics), medicine as well as the social sciences and humanities. And they outright neglect sciences like ecology being too stupid and crass to get it.
We need to kick these creeps out of our spaces and shut down deregulated real world experiments that are not acknowledged and cross lines. If they didn’t like the modest amount of regulation Lina Khan was bringing in and went into war mode, it’s time we push back. I have seen it for 14 years and I have had enough of losing rights, space and enduring a coup with craven bystanders. I fight back however “crazy” I sound and this worthless shit is normalized and people refuse to make connections.

I especially liked this:

...that sleazy, tacky rogue’s gallery out of Google, Facebook and other trashy datamining, Defense contracting garbage factories.

Our universities are being systematically dismantled and turned into assembly lines manufacturing cogs for the oligarchy's machines and playthings for the oligarchy's elite.

… but you can’t deny he puts his money where his mouth is.