NPP 184 with Lawrence Lessig: on Joi Ito, the MIT Media Lab and reputation laundering

The #MIT Media Lab took millions in donations from Jeffrey #Epstein and director Joi #Ito was trying to hide it. Was Ito doing the right thing? A conversation with Lawrence #Lessig on Epstein, Ito, MIT and the damage done by taking money from a donor who has caused such significant pain to so many.

📻 https://netzpolitik.org/2019/npp-184-with-lawrence-lessig-on-joi-ito-the-mit-media-lab-and-reputation-laundering/

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#MIT fluff #propaganda assures us that the #CCP style #social #credit system isn't so bad and "there's no evidence" #China uses it for social control.

(as usual the media assertions are not attributed to measurement, data, sources, anything, or anyone)

The author Zeyi Yang is a Chinese national graduated from the esteemed Columbia University.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/22/1063605/china-announced-a-new-social-credit-law-what-does-it-mean/

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Exposing ties between MIT and Israel's army | Electronic Intifada

#Podcast #MIT

MIT Science For Genocide : MIT Coalition for Palestine

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) contributes to the Gaza Genocide and #Zionist #settler #colonialism in Palestine in at least two distinct ways. First, MIT laboratories on campus conduct weapons and surveillance research directly sponsored by the Israeli military. Since at least 2015, MIT laboratories have received millions of dollars from the Israeli Ministry of Defense for projects to develop algorithms that help drone swarms to better pursue escaping targets; to improve underwater surveillance technology; and support military aircraft evade missiles. Two of these sponsorships were renewed since October 7th, 2023, while one came up for renewal in December 2024. Second, #MIT maintains institutional collaborations through the ILP, LGO, CSAIL, and MIT Energy Initiative programs with companies that sell vast amounts of weapons to Israel. These include #Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest military contractor, as well as #Maersk, #LockheedMartin, and #Caterpillar. These collaborations grant #genocide profiteers privileged access to MIT talent and expertise."

#Report #MIT #Apartheid #Genocide #Colonialism #Settlers #Technology #Palestine #Gaza

This out from Aaron today.
Recommended reading. Larger, 12K word piece to be released soon...
Key quote here -
"... The Endgame: GENIUS, CLARITY, and the #Bitcoin Reserve
This is the full circle.
#Epstein funded the #MIT devs who killed Bitcoin as cash.
#Brock #Pierce ran the Bitcoin Foundation into the ground, opened the door for Epstein’s money, brokered Epstein’s Coinbase stake, sat in Epstein’s mansion pitching Bitcoin to Larry Summers, co-founded #Tether, and kept emailing Epstein until 2018.
Tether then printed unbacked dollars to pump Bitcoin 50% in 2017.
Howard #Lutnick, who lied about cutting ties with Epstein, took over management of Tether’s $130+ billion Treasury reserves before he even joined the Trump transition. He pushed for Treasury Secretary, missed, landed at Commerce, installed his ally Bo Hines as White House crypto advisor, had #Hines ram through the #GENIUS Act, then watched Hines quit the White House and immediately become CEO of Tether’s U.S. subsidiary.
Every single player is connected. Every single move was coordinated.
The GENIUS Act entrenches the exact loopholes Tether has lived on.
The CLARITY Act hands regulatory cover to the same insiders.
The Bitcoin Strategic Reserve sits on top of a coin whose price was artificially inflated by the same stablecoin they now “regulate,” whose core development was funded by Epstein, and whose usability was deliberately destroyed by the people who profit from the fix.
This is not Big Short 2.0.
This is Big Short 2.0 on steroids, pre-planned, and run by the same network that already owns the outcome.
They created the crisis (crippled on-chain Bitcoin), printed the fake money to pump it (Tether), positioned themselves to own the “solution” (Blockstream, Cantor, USAT), wrote the laws that protect their scam (GENIUS, CLARITY), and are now preparing to step in as the saviors when the bubble they inflated finally pops. They walk away with fees, stakes, revolving-door jobs, and permanent control over programmable money. We get every transaction tracked, every dollar programmable, and the last remnants of financial freedom erased under the banner of “innovation” and “stability.”
This is not incompetence. This is conquest...."

https://archive.ph/wSgub#selection-2959.0-3011.43

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-hijacking-of-bitcoin/

#btc #crypto