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Keeping with our recent theme of exploring the relations between the military and tech sector, we jump off a great essay in The Baffler to discuss a crucial part of this complex: university research. Universities \u2013 especially, academics in STEM faculties \u2013 must be understood as defense contractors who are partners with the military (and adjacent agencies); they advance the military\u2019s goals and are dependent on the military\u2019s cash. You can call them \u201cresearch grants,\u201d you can say their purpose is to \u201cadvancing knowledge,\u201d you can extoll the benefits of \u201csupporting academics and higher education,\u201d but those are just euphemisms for the realities of the military-industrial-university complex. \n\n\u2022\u2022\u2022 War Machine Learning https://thebaffler.com/salvos/war-machine-learning-mccarthy \n\nSubscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills \n\nHosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.x.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.x.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.x.com/braunestahl)