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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1174108590145032192
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1174108590145032192
|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=As a PhD, I don't often have thoughts of total revolution. But when I do, they revolve around extractive scientific publishing companies, charging taxpayers for access to their own tax funded research and the cowardly sons of bitches at the top of MIT who got '''Aaron Swartz''' killed.
|content=As a PhD, I don't often have thoughts of total revolution. But when I do, they revolve around extractive scientific publishing companies, charging taxpayers for access to their own tax funded research and the cowardly sons of bitches at the top of MIT who got '''Aaron Swartz''' killed.
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1349066908155301890
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1349066908155301890
|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=On this day 8 years ago '''Aaron Swartz''' was permanently taken off the chessboard by MIT and, in so doing, ceased to be MIT.  
|content=On this day 8 years ago '''Aaron Swartz''' was permanently taken off the chessboard by MIT and, in so doing, ceased to be MIT.  


They were the best and I miss them both: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK5r9OZ73Xg
They were the best and I miss them both:
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1351774070325473280
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1351774070325473280
|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=In particluar, there's no excuse for '''Aaron Swartz''' not to be projected on to the Buildings all around MIT to haunt it as a constant message not to f**k with the technical talent pipeline that still makes the United States the world's big dog rather than the sheep it's becoming.
|content=In particluar, there's no excuse for '''Aaron Swartz''' not to be projected on to the Buildings all around MIT to haunt it as a constant message not to f**k with the technical talent pipeline that still makes the United States the world's big dog rather than the sheep it's becoming.


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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1351771576576798721
|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Protesters who are not making use of Projection Mapping make little to no sense to me.
|content=Protesters who are not making use of Projection Mapping make little to no sense to me.


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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1351771577742811137
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1351771577742811137
|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=There may be much to protest shortly and for some time as we progressively lose the ability to speak to each other digitally. A thought.
|content=There may be much to protest shortly and for some time as we progressively lose the ability to speak to each other digitally. A thought.


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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1351772399570542593
|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Do not destroy when with slightly more work you can inspire and do so at scale. You have the tools to show that you can create while others in control only know how to loot, intimidate and destroy. Imagine how many of our leaders even know what this is...let alone how it is done.
|content=Do not destroy when with slightly more work you can inspire and do so at scale. You have the tools to show that you can create while others in control only know how to loot, intimidate and destroy. Imagine how many of our leaders even know what this is...let alone how it is done.
|timestamp=Jan 19, 2021
|timestamp=Jan 19, 2021
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1354324129168547848
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1354324129168547848
|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=It is time to haunt MIT at night using projectors to remember '''Aaron Swartz'''.
|content=It is time to haunt MIT at night using projectors to remember '''Aaron Swartz'''.
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|content=When engaged in responsible civil disobedience against brick and mortar institutions, a move to full projection mapping animations will put this display on steroids. It communicates that that the power differential is in favor of those with courage, ability and ideas.
|content=When engaged in responsible civil disobedience against brick and mortar institutions, a move to full projection mapping animations will put this display on steroids. It communicates that that the power differential is in favor of those with courage, ability and ideas.
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|name=Eric Weinstein
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|content=In a certain sense, that is the main through-line of my politics. Any institution that gaslights an ordinary human trying to make sense of the world in a reasonable fashion is wrong to me in a particularly profound way.
|content=In a certain sense, that is the main through-line of my politics. Any institution that gaslights an ordinary human trying to make sense of the world in a reasonable fashion is wrong to me in a particularly profound way.


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|content='''Aaron Swartz''' was who we are supposed to be. A personal hero to me.
|content='''Aaron Swartz''' was who we are supposed to be. A personal hero to me.


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|content=Great job.  
|content=Great job.  


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|username=ScienceInsider
|content=BREAKING: White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay, ending longstanding ability of journals to paywall results for up to 1 year. Coverage coming on @ScienceInsider.
|content=BREAKING: White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay, ending longstanding ability of journals to paywall results for up to 1 year. Coverage coming on @ScienceInsider.
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|timestamp=Aug 25, 2022
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1400693853179375616
|name=Eric Weinstein
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Still pushing for a '''Swartz building at @MIT''' to acknowledge the loss.
|content=Still pushing for a '''Swartz building at @MIT''' to acknowledge the loss.


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== Related Pages ==
== Related Pages ==


* [[Digital Wetwork]]
* [[Institutional Gaslighting]]
* [[Institutional Gaslighting]]
* [[Universal Institutional Betrayal]]
* [[Universal Institutional Betrayal]]
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