[FRIAM] ‘A huge cudgel’: alarm as Trump’s war on universities could target accreditors | US universities | The Guardian

[Merle Lefkoff]

Steve, here's one for you (and maybe a few others):  a perilous read:  The
rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk?CMP=share_btn_url

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On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM steve smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

>
> On 4/14/25 12:23 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>
> Let’s say that in some obscure corner of the world there’s a freakishly
> intelligent child that reads 100 papers from sci-hub and arxiv every day
> and keeps doing this until she’s 40.   Her comprehension is high and her
> reasoning unmatched.  She sees how to apply these models within the fields
> where they were proposed and in others and can synthesize high-quality
> engineering solutions at will.
>
>
>
> Has she stolen something?  sci-hub did the distribution, so it is not
> technically her copyright violation.
>
> Let's say that she was not a free agent but birthed and raised by an
> autocratic leader (e.g. PRK, CCCP, Russia, ???)...
>
> Does that change anything?  I can't say.  Splitting hairs can be such hard
> work!  But apparently that makes it good (necessary) work!
>
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