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#Brown was the 2nd #university to rebuff the government’s proposal of so-called compact, after #MIT did so last week. But Brown’s decision was likely to carry extraordinary weight in #HigherEducation because it had previously reached a settlement with the #Trump admin to restore hundreds of millions in #federal #research #funding.
#extortion #law #US #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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Update. After #MIT said 𝗻𝗼 to the Trump compact (yesterday), the Chronicle of Higher Education asked the other eight targeted universities for their reactions.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-could-mits-rejection-of-trumps-proposed-compact-mean-for-the-rest-of-higher-ed
( #paywalled)
"Asked for reactions to MIT’s announcement, spokespeople for Brown University, Dartmouth College, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Virginia, and Vanderbilt University had no new information to share. The other recipients — the Universities of Arizona and Pennsylvania — didn’t respond."
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
MIT rejects the mafia's offer!! This is good news as it gives other universities who were afraid more permission to assert themselves--and makes them look like worse collaborators if they don't. This is the argument we are already making at home
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/executive-leadership/2025/10/10/mit-rejects-proposed-federal-compact
Update. After #MIT said 𝗻𝗼 to the Trump compact (yesterday), the Chronicle of Higher Education asked the other eight targeted universities for their reactions.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-could-mits-rejection-of-trumps-proposed-compact-mean-for-the-rest-of-higher-ed
( #paywalled)
"Asked for reactions to MIT’s announcement, spokespeople for Brown University, Dartmouth College, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Virginia, and Vanderbilt University had no new information to share. The other recipients — the Universities of Arizona and Pennsylvania — didn’t respond."
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
MIT rejects the mafia's offer!! This is good news as it gives other universities who were afraid more permission to assert themselves--and makes them look like worse collaborators if they don't. This is the argument we are already making at home
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/executive-leadership/2025/10/10/mit-rejects-proposed-federal-compact
Update. #MIT just became the first university to reject Trump's compact. Here's the letter from MIT President #SallyKornbluth to faculty, dated today.
https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Let me add a bit more detail on how this works. The #ibm7094 (specifically the one in the #MIT Computation Center which ran #CTSS) had a hard disk which was used for working storage. My understanding is that the preferred way of working was for users to enter files directly into the system via a teletype terminal, but the system did also have a card reader and multiple magnetic tape drives.
I don't think CTSS provided a friendly way for users to initiate loading from cards (although I'm not sure what there really was in the way of access control for the hardware if you were willing to write your own code). I suspect you wouldn't have had physical access anyway, so you would have had to have worked through the admin staff.
In practice, you would have done this by submitting a job. Jobs covered various I/O tasks, e.g. bulk printing, and for the most part could be submitted through an OS command (which wrote to a special file in the user's home directory). The one exception to this was card input, as that required the physical cards to be submitted to a helpdesk. Those cards were bookended by a metadata card (specifying the user and output filename) at the start and an EOF card at the end. In theory all of the job types could be submitted in the same way - except the 'deck' in those cases would just be the metadata card (and in fact the REQUEST in the users home directory was just an online representation of the same cards).
#retrocomputing #ibm #mainframes
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New semester, new version of the xv6 educational OS for RISC-V from MIT! This is accompanied by a new revision 5 of the xv6 book and–for the first time, I think–a Lions' Commentary-style code reader booklet!
A previous version switched to using the stimecmp extension instead of the regular CLINT timer, that was a bit of a surprise. So let's see what the changes in this new version are...
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.1810/2025/xv6/book-riscv-rev5.pdf
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.1810/2025/xv6/xv6-src-booklet-rev5.pdf
https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-riscv
New semester, new version of the xv6 educational OS for RISC-V from MIT! This is accompanied by a new revision 5 of the xv6 book and–for the first time, I think–a Lions' Commentary-style code reader booklet!
A previous version switched to using the stimecmp extension instead of the regular CLINT timer, that was a bit of a surprise. So let's see what the changes in this new version are...
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.1810/2025/xv6/book-riscv-rev5.pdf
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.1810/2025/xv6/xv6-src-booklet-rev5.pdf
https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-riscv
Research shows the ease with which artificial intelligence can manipulate people into remembering things that never happened. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/04/world/artificial-intelligence-lies/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #ai #artificialintelligence #deepfake #loftus #mit #ucirvine
BSD isn't to protect my code from ever being used by a corpo, which I know can't be stopped. It's to make it convenient for other people to use. I care about the teams of ONE or TWO who want something.
I can't use GPL shit, unless I make everything GPL. Or AGPL. Or v2 or v3. Or LGPL. Can I link to the proprietary library I need? NOPE.
#bsdlicense #bsd #mit #mitlicense #gpl
Someone should write some #MIT#CADR microcode and supporting code to make it possible to run #Interlisp / #Medley on the #MIT#LispMachine#LispM
Someone should write some #MIT#CADR microcode and supporting code to make it possible to run #Interlisp / #Medley on the #MIT#LispMachine#LispM
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