[prairiecat]

The Media Lab is the buzzfeed of research institutions, it's not like they do no solid work but mostly they're peddlers of clickbaity spectacles.

Sure they've produced some cool projects here and there - but they've also shown research labs around the world that chasing empty hype is more lucrative than doing real research, which I think have had a quite insidious, damaging effect on academic institutions.

[moeamaya]

Not sure if this was intentional but the cofounder of Buzzfeed came from the Media Lab.