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https://t.co/qDRsQnGBdh is an anonymous dispatch from inside higher education. Some identifying details have been changed. The dysfunction has not.
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@StevenGlinert I see this in academia too. Professors convinced their critical theory seminar contributes more to society than whatever tech, engineering people, or even plumbers do — and that they should be paid and celebrated accordingly. That's probably where the journalists learned it.
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I think it would be healthy for most tech bros to socialize just a little bit with the Brooklyn lefty journalist types to get a sense for why things like this happen:
There’s very little ideology there. Just disdain and jealousy. They have a sort of permasneer that seems outwardly pretentious and maybe even cultured but it really does disguise a tacit approval for violence.
They’d never do violence themselves. Thats below them. But they’ll push journalism that villainizes their chosen enemies, consequences be what they may.
Sam Altman@sama
I wrote this early this morning and I wasn't sure if I would actually publish it, but here it is: blog.samaltman.com/2279512
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@anthonyjkreider That is my complaint. Read my Substack. I’m their chair. My job is to build a strong department, not protect underperformance. If someone won’t meet basic expectations, they should be replaced by someone who will.
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@FacultyLeaks That would be fine it that's your complaint. But you don't want them to be better, you want them to leave - so that you can have what they have.
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Many boomer professors never leave. High salary. Two days a week teaching. Four months off. Tenure that makes them essentially unfireable.
The rational choice is never to leave. The irrational choice is expecting them to.
Some Days There's Just Not Enough Coffee@SarahAWrites
@amyclapper @FacultyLeaks Boomers are mostly retired now. The youngest are 62.
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@anthonyjkreider Interesting framing. Asking someone making $200K — who hasn’t updated a course in decades, rarely shows up for students, and presided over a 50% enrollment drop — to meet basic expectations is now “entitlement.”
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@FacultyLeaks "You need to give up what you have so that I can have what I want" certainly is an interesting way to go through life.
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@LundukeJournal @EFF @X In academia we call this creating a safe space. And that's where EFF's employees probably learned it.
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@TobyPhln They learned in grad school that performative outrage gets attention and shapes institutions.
They were right — for a while. The ivory tower rewarded it. The real world has different feedback mechanisms.
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Exiting a platform is the most severe punishment in the eyes of these people. They simply haven't comprehended that quite literally no one cares if they're here. Their ideology, viewpoints, and voices don't matter. And that's a bitter pill to swallow.
EFF@EFF
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵(1/5)
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@lsanger A former EFF employee of 18 years agrees with you. He called what happened there "an enormous personal tragedy."
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Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
The EFF is a shadow of its former self.
EFF@EFF
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵(1/5)
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@amuse EFF's founder wrote the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace.
EFF's current staff bios include phrases like "dismantling systems of oppression," "hypercapitalist technology overreach," and "abortion doula."
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CENSORSHIP: The new team at The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the perfect example of an NGO that surrendered to DEI. It's social media manager, they/them, announced the EFF was leaving due to a lack of reach despite it being 1,200% higher than on Instagram & 22,000% higher than on TikTok.
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This is by far the best post I have seen about the current state of the EFF. A calm and thorough description of how the culture changed, and why so many people are upset that they aren't a big tent anymore.
We need everyone that cares about the electronic frontier to work together. That is how we stay successful. Infighting just makes us all less effective.
FacultyLeaks.com@FacultyLeaks
EFF just announced it's leaving X. A former employee of 18 years called what's happened to the organization "an enormous personal tragedy." He's right. And it started in graduate school. New post. facultyleaks.com/p/effs-departu…
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@jeremykauffman The first photo built the organization. The second photo is what the graduate school pipeline delivers.
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on the left is the civil libertarian founder of the EFF
on the right is his invasive predator, against which he has no defense
this alien species has hunted the libertarian to near extinction
Air Katakana@airkatakana
how did every libertarian organization get taken over by leftists who believe in the exact opposite of the original mission? reddit was the canary in the coal mine but somehow it is still happening, even now after woke has died down
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EFF's founder wrote the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace.
EFF's current staff bios include phrases like "dismantling systems of oppression," "hypercapitalist technology overreach," and "abortion doula."
x.com/FacultyLeaks/s…
FacultyLeaks.com@FacultyLeaks
EFF just announced it's leaving X. A former employee of 18 years called what's happened to the organization "an enormous personal tragedy." He's right. And it started in graduate school. New post. facultyleaks.com/p/effs-departu…
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@KatieMiller They learned the performative announcement in grad school. Along with everything else.
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This isn’t an airport, there’s no need to announce your departure.
EFF@EFF
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵(1/5)
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@LysanderBoomer Perfect summary. The only thing I'd add: it doesn't start at the organization.
It starts in the classroom. Graduate school selects for this worldview before anyone gets near a job title at EFF or anywhere else.
The pipeline is the problem.
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Be the EFF, a union between techno-libertarians and progressives. Spend decades fighting against censorship and for freedom online. See broad bipartisan appeal and receive praise.
In the 2020s, progressives begin to take over, pushing "justice" and UN human rights mandates instead of original focused mandate. Slowly alienate libertarian-right support.
2026, leadership change, full progressive takeover. Seeing that they've alienated their bases they leave X because of crashing engagement (due to progressive takeover), dislike of Elon (he didn't want to enforce the UN speech restrictions on here), and general virtue signal among progressives that X is bad and anyone who engages is in the out group.
Conquest's second law proven, yet again.
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@EuroDale @NicoleOzer The same pipeline that took the ACLU took EFF.
Graduate school selects for ideological conformity. The organizations follow.
A former EFF employee of 18 years called what happened there "an enormous personal tragedy."
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EFF just announced they are logging off X after nearly 20 years, a few weeks after naming @NicoleOzer as their next executive director.
Ozer (20+ years at the left-wing ACLU, UC Law, Berkeley Law, and deep in the San Francisco progressive scene) has only been active on Bluesky, not X.
And suddenly: 'logging off X' for Bluesky and Mastodon is 'overdue'?
Coincidence? Or the predictable result when a Bay Area activist takes the wheel at a once great digital rights organization?
EFF@EFF
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵(1/5)
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@martianwyrdlord The first photo built the organization. The second photo is what the graduate school pipeline delivers.
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The founder of the Electronic Freedom Foundation vs the current executive director of the Electronic Freedom Foundation.
EFF@EFF
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵(1/5)
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@elonmusk "Figures" is right. But it didn't happen by accident.
The pipeline that captured EFF starts in graduate school.
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EFF just announced it's leaving X.
A former employee of 18 years called what's happened to the organization "an enormous personal tragedy."
He's right. And it started in graduate school.
New post.
facultyleaks.com/p/effs-departu…
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@octal .@ReclaimTheNetHQ is probably the closest thing right now. It’s more of a newsletter than a full advocacy org, but it does the early-stage work @EFF used to do well: flagging issues, exposing bad policy, and explaining the risks before they go mainstream.
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What's the most direct EFF replacement (i.e., an organization like early-2000s EFF) today?
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@JDoza1 I've been admonished by deans for telling students my class isn't an easy A.
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The mediocrity starts early! My friend teaches elementary school and isn’t allowed to give the students less than 50% on any assignment - even if it’s submitted blank.
Yesterday, one of her students called her a bitch repeatedly and told her she was going to smash her face in with a brick. The principal “had a talk” with her and sent her back to class. She hates her job.
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New anonymous account.
I'm a tenured professor and department chair at a university that shall remain unnamed.
I write about what doesn't make it into the Chronicle or the faculty senate minutes:
— Travel reimbursement abuse
— Rigged hiring searches
— Unions weaponized against accountability
— The protection of mediocrity
— The slow credentialing of incompetence
— That time we hired a terrorist
Also the sex stuff. There's always sex stuff.
Some identifying details have been changed. The dysfunction has not.
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@airkatakana A lot of it starts in academia. Graduate school doesn't just train researchers. It filters for ideological conformity. The people running those organizations learned which ideas were acceptable long before they got the job.
The pipeline is the problem.
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how did every libertarian organization get taken over by leftists who believe in the exact opposite of the original mission?
reddit was the canary in the coal mine but somehow it is still happening, even now after woke has died down
EFF@EFF
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵(1/5)
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