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Related paulg tweet: https://x.com/paulg/status/1951996478555357530 https://x.com/paulg/status/1951996478555357530 "The Trump administration has suspended the
by Zaheer 1y ago
Related paulg tweet: https://x.com/paulg/status/1951996478555357530 https://x.com/paulg/status/1951996478555357530
"The Trump administration has suspended the funding of Terence Tao and the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA."
- abetusk 1y agoTerence Tao's toot on mathstodon.xyz: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/114956840959338146 https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/114956840959338146
- noncoml 1y agoThe replies to his tweet are a cesspool. Why do people still use Twitter?
- ojbyrne 1y agoYou have to be logged in to see the comments. So…
- ewoodrich 1y agoJust swap x.com with xcancel.com, I used a Chrome extension to set up a redirect rule so it's automatic.
- v5v3 1y agoBecause it has an enormous userbase including active daily postings from many of the most prominent minds.
- mschuster91 1y ago> The replies to his tweet are a cesspool. Maybe it's just Twitter's algorithm that only serves me the decent replies - but these at least have a point, antisemitism is running utterly rampant in academia these days. In no relation to Qatari funding, one might assume...
- mindslight 1y ago.
- intermerda 1y agoPaul Graham? Pretty sure he was anti-Trump before the last election. But I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s one of those “enlightened centrists.”
- mindslight 1y agoMaybe I've unfairly judged him. Last I remember seeing was some pearl clutching about how Trump/Musk needed to "be careful" with what DOGE cut or something. I took that assumption of good faith as an indication of being in the reality distortion field, like too many other VCs are.
- antonvs 1y agoMoney makes them vulnerable. They didn’t get to where they are without playing a conformance game. That limits the degree to which they can object to anything.
- wat10000 1y agoMoney should make them less vulnerable. They can lose their job, be blacklisted, whatever, and still be fine. Not like the ordinary person where this would mean homelessness. If they’re vulnerable, it’s the psychological need to keep adding to their pile of money that does it.
- antonvs 1y agoThat’s not quite right. An administration like Trump’s can destroy people and companies if they really want to, and that’s the threat they’re using to get their way. Openly defying that is taking a big risk - for the targets, it’s not about “adding to their pile of money”, it’s about not losing much of what they have. Keep in mind that “money” is not some sort of concrete thing like a pile of gold - it’s dependent on factors like the value of companies. The wealthier someone in the US is, the more their wealth depends on their ultimate cooperation with the prevailing powers.
- shrubble 1y agoAll bureaucrats do this sort of thing: shut down something innocent to serve as a rallying cry. UCLA has $8 billion in endowments and the state universities in total have $30 billion in endowment funds. How many years could they fund Tao and his institute if they really wanted to?
- noelwelsh 1y agoThe govt has frozen about $584 million in grants to UCLA. The endowment won't last very long if they spent it to replace that. Furthermore, endowment money often has conditions that prevent it being spent freely + it is used for other things.