{"id":9263,"date":"2019-09-07T18:07:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T22:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=660eafb295845311b60e0c2b4b333b27"},"modified":"2019-09-07T18:07:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T22:07:09","slug":"insiders-say-an-ambitious-mit-media-lab-project-is-mostly-smoke-and-mirrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=9263","title":{"rendered":"Insiders say an ambitious MIT Media Lab project is mostly smoke and mirrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mit-media-lab-personal-food-computers-dont-work-fake-staff-say-2019-9\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: From the grapevine I hear, for an extended period of time it has been an open secret that the Media Lab is primarily a hype machine, doing an inappropriate amount of things like hollow smoke-and-mirrors demos, outsourcing most of the actual R&D for flashy ideas they take credit for, etc. \r\n\r\nThe fact that Joi Ito took a boatload of money from Jeffery Epstein and then tried to obscure it when people started asking questions makes it OK to talk about these things now, but I think we're seeing a disproportionate-looking response to their sketchy backing just because its an opening to go after an entity that is usually to media-savvy to criticize.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=20906892\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=9263\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}