The MIT Media Lab has long been a hot bed of virtue signaling Rube Goldberg projects designed to attract donor dollars. It sunk deeper into hot water when a Superior Court judge ordered MIT to divulge documents related to the firing of a whistleblower who first reported the OpenAg Project scam.

As you may recall, the Media Lab “Food Computer” was to harken a new generation of sustainable urban fruit and vegetable micro-farms, because factory farming and modern food distribution logistics contribute to global warming wickedness.

“Let this embarrassing setback not weaken our resolve to encourage students and faculty to pursue fashionable demonstration projects in service to the great reset and the new world order,” explained MIT’s Office of Sustainability. “Hey, look over there! They’re growing timber in a test tube!”

Whether it’s indigenous technology, queer-feminist-antiracism spaceships, or gender-fluid sexbots, the MIT Media Lab will always be a sinecure for diversity faculty hires and a home for diversity-admit students in need of a safe space to protect them from the rigors of real science and engineering.

So with or without the support of our dear departed benefactor Jeffrey Epstein, MIT’s Media Lab will surely weather this latest storm. As long as it keeps raking in the dough.