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  1. A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”

    The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...

    The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump

    The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...

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  2. “The University of Chicago has now borrowed $6.3 billion, more than 70 percent of the value of its endowment. The cost of servicing its debt is now 85 percent of the value of all undergraduate tuition. (This is not normal. No peer institution has a debt-to-asset ratio greater than 26 percent.)”

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  3. My favorite takeaways from this are both that crypto is dumb and bad and also that Ivy Leagues (the smartest people ever [sic]) were a lot worse at investing than just index funds stanfordreview.org/uchicago-los...

    While Stanford responded to the federal funding research freeze by halting administrative hiring and protecting research, the University of Chicago panicked.

On January 28, hours after the Trump admi...

    UChicago Lost Money on Crypto, Then Froze Research When Federal Funding Was Cut

    While Stanford responded to the federal funding research freeze by halting administrative hiring and protecting research, the University of Chicago panicked. On January 28, hours after the Trump admi...

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    I would have never guessed in a million years what this was in response to

    You know what I find crazy? These people put so much effort into advocating for human causes, but don’t even think about animals. They don’t think about the biggest atrocity in the world, the animal products industry. Go vegan!! You are murdering innocent beings for your burger. #vegan

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  5. Don't worry though, it's totally fine that the NFL now partly owns ESPN, it won't change anything, there's no journalistic problem, it's all good

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  6. Maybe it's frustration at work or the annual August doldrums, but man been having a lot of existential "what am I doing with my life" thoughts lately

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