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jfz9580m

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14. Oh yeah
Tue May 5, 2026, 09:41 AM
May 5

That would be lame..I don’t know which schools they draw that from.

Well there was one case in an EECS dept I remember (a 30 something prof and an undergraduate..he went on to be affiliated with Google so unsurprising).

But the creepiness of infidelity aside, student prof relationships are totally verboten. That’s as bad as a rel with your doctor or any unequal power dynamics situations.


I feel kind of lucky. Even my most annoying mentor thankfully was only kinda sus because he liked TED tech talks. It sounds like a joke, but I do think the world we live in today is a result of Si Valley culture spreading:
https://www.thedriftmag.com/what-was-the-ted-talk/

I have saved a set of news items that got me through a very rough time with pieces like these which bolstered my suspicion that the tech bros are the last people who should reorganise society.
This is another one:
https://theconversation.com/how-neoliberalism-is-damaging-your-mental-health-90565

I post these links repetitiously because imo they are a rare set of articles that in simple language, succinctly convey a lot of concerns I have had about many ill-conceived structural changes I have seen.

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