#universityofaustin — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/people/202742/ How Austin billionaire Joe Lonsdale is shaping Trump administration policy #AdministrationOfficials #billionaire #CiceroInstitute #JoeLonsdale #PeterThiel #PublicPolicyOrganization #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UniversityOfAustin #WashingtonPost #WhiteHouse

https://www.europesays.com/people/110182/ Opinion | ‘All Men Are Created Equal’? Not Everyone Agrees. #Elon #Musk #PalantirTechnologies #PeterA #PeterThiel #thiel #UniversityOfAustin

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https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/lonsdale-texas-politics-influencer-conservative-20054316.php

Given the leading role played by Joe Lonsdale in the foundation of the University of Austin, that institution's rapid transformation into a neo-McCarthyite indoctrination camp was sadly predictable.

#UniversityOfAustin #JoeLonsdale

>> Was UATX a hard-right project from the start? Based on my reporting, I don’t think it was. I was struck by the sincerity of the commitment to free speech and open inquiry from so many of the people with whom I spoke. A few were Trump supporters, but many more were best identified as anti-woke moderates or liberals. The university’s saga has a strong sense of historical contingency — that it could have gone quite differently had some high-leverage moments gone otherwise. <<

I disagree.

Although some of the names associated with the project at its beginnings might have had a sincere commitment to free inquiry, the presence of the billionaire technofascist Lonsdale as a founder and funder of this venture meant that it was always going to be nothing more than a right wing training camp.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/01/16/civil-war-university-of-austin-bari-weiss-00729688?

#USEducation #USPolitics #UniversityOfAustin #HigherEducation #Universities #Austin #Texas #JoeLonsdale

Bari Weiss’ Tiny Fake Austin College Sees Mass Staff, Advisor Exodus

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/31/bari-weiss-tiny-fake-austin-college-sees-mass-staff-advisor-exodus/

Bari Weiss’ Tiny Fake Austin College Sees Mass Staff, Advisor Exodus

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/31/bari-weiss-tiny-fake-austin-college-sees-mass-staff-advisor-exodus/

This year it became undeniable that this "university" was nothing more than a thinktank training camp at the service of ultraright plutocrats like Joe Lonsdale.

>>My colleague told me that we needed to talk about a social-media post of mine that “had become a big problem.” I rarely post anything online, so I was confused about what he meant. Apparently, it had something to do with DEI, and had angered a major funder. <<

https://quillette.com/2025/05/16/is-the-university-of-austin-betraying-its-founding-principles/

#UniversityOfAustin #HigherEducation #USPolitics #EllieAvishai #RightWing #Texas

>>...apparently, I had really triggered somebody that was sort of a powerful person in the university. And that evening, I was let go, and so was my whole team...<<

My guess is that the "sort of powerful person in the university" is none other than Joe Lonsdale himself.

https://thecjn.ca/news/campus/ellie-avishai-got-cancelled-on-a-college-campus-because-she-wasnt-right-wing-enough/

#Universities #UniversityOfAustin #EllieAvishai #HigherEducation #JoeLonsdale

Tim and Cam talk #ElonMusk 's #GrokAI promoting #WhiteReplacementTheory and #Holocaustdenial. They also delve into the hypocrisy of #BariWeiss 's "pro-free speech" #UniversityofAustin, and exchange stories from their own sexual encounters back in college. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

For the Love of Grok

Tim and Cam talk #ElonMusk 's #GrokAI promoting #WhiteReplacementTheory and #Holocaustdenial. They also delve into the hypocrisy of #BariWeiss 's "pro-free speech" #UniversityofAustin, and exchange stories from their own sexual encounters back in college. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

For the Love of Grok

Sadly but not surprisingly, the University of Austin has turned out to be nothing but a culture war vehicle for US conservatives.

https://quillette.com/2025/05/16/is-the-university-of-austin-betraying-its-founding-principles/

#UniversityOfAustin #Texas #HigherEducation #Universities #UATX

Bitcoin firm, Texas university partner for $5M endowment fund - Bitcoin financial services firm and UATX plan to raise $5 million to inv... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/unchained-university-austin-partner-launch-5m-bitcoin-endowment-fund #alternativefinancialmodels #bitcoinendowmentfund #universityofaustin #custodysolutions #cryptoeducation #highereducation #josephkelly #unchained #uatx

In our #KTFPress newsletter this week, I wrote about one of the last groups of #indigenous Europeans, and their protests for #Palestine. Plus, a snarky look at the forthcoming anti-woke #UniversityOfAustin and its desire to return to the way universities were before the Civil Rights Movement. https://www.ktfpress.com/p/indigenous-europeans-protest-for

Their servers are getting hammered, but this is a wild read (I've linked the Archive.org mirror). Ever wonder what that nutjobbery University of Austin ended up looking like?

https://web.archive.org/web/20240219233718/https://thenewinquiry.com/an-american-education-notes-from-uatx/

#UATX #UniversityOfAustin #HigherEd

Looks like the new "University of Austin", a private venture born from the founders' resentments after people failed to like them very much for conducting smear campaigns against...

(checks notes)

...college students, are ready to open their grievance-based university.

#UniversityOfAustin

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/08/university-austin-uatx-launch-2024/

I just hope their mascot will be the toadies. #universityofaustin #deepcut
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