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    PiPoe posted an update 5 years, 1 month ago

    A recent article from Wrench in the Gears (Alison McDowell) – On Teapots, Leaderboards and Thingification – Remembering Dr. King – https://wrenchinthegears.com/2021/02/25/on-teapots-leaderboards-and-thingification-remembering-dr-king/#comments

    And a walking talking tour by Alison of the Wharton University area in Pennsylvania – aside from the Wharton business school building architecture resembling a Tower of Babel, she points out some interesting connections. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk3WlXPBrSI

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      Billy Bob replied 5 years, 1 month ago

      Alison’s take on the landscape that house’s the questionable research going on at the university laboratories was spot on. The prestige, money received and collective consciousness of the participants seemly forbids them to question the work they do.
      Obviously there is lots of money to be made in “solving” the commoner’s problems and collecting the data on them. Money in poverty? Who’d thought…