I deleted my account as soon as muskrat bought it but I do miss literary twitter and DJ twitter though I found a good DJ community on Threads.

Until they stop a wholesale genocide...

No, he wasn't running the UK, but unfortunately the ideas he popularized about higher education, industry and economic competition were taken to heart among many world leaders, so the UK began a similar push at that time that laid the foundation for the lovely thatcher/Reagan disaster to follow.

I wish I was better at conveying "tongue in cheek" scott was the only ethical billionaire I could think of off the top of my head.

Liberty is a thousand times larger than Austin, its focus is specifically "Christian" and it derives a large portion of its revenue from govt sources - very different.

Sad what happened to/what they have done to New College.

Well, the conservatives and neoliberals think it is so they started the University of Austin, but it has billionaire backing. So maybe call up Mackenzie Scott.

It's so hard to take a website seriously when it uses a z for an s, and then peppers its website with so many ads it's impossible to read anything.

Gen AI is already fed by a lot of MA/PhD-level educated people. The better companies only hire people with an educational level like this, and with contingent labor and bad pay being the way of academia now, a lot of people are training AI. Historian here, currently making $40/hour doing it.

This can go back to the Nixon administration...