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Each political tribe interprets reality to preserve identity, belonging, and meaning. What looks like absurd blindness is really a defense against the terror of insignificance. Beliefs aren’t neutral; they safeguard worlds. We don’t debate policies; we protect meaning itself.

The terror is in how many people are willing to burn down the world to prove their illusions right.

I’m beginning to think it’s dogmatic certainty and nihilistic despair that’s strangling America: one refuses compromise while the other refuses hope. Together, they make polarization feel permanent.

open.substack.com/pub/williams... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #Education #HigherEd #HigherEducation #College #University

Working in higher education, students often ask me what they should study. My answer is to study EVERYTHING. Be a generalist. Master how to learn, and fall in love with the process.

Long past our death, our light will continue on through the cosmos.

Having pride for your nation is healthy so long as you remain aware that your nation is a fiction, an abstract concept that only exists in an intersubjective space--it's imaginary, so your pride for it should be modest at best.

Everyone: Never share personal info with AI. AI folks talking about AI Agents: AI Agents will be able book your flights (with your credit card). #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIAgents #Agentic

Will there be a point when it’s too late to discuss UBI? Will we know? #UBI #FutureOfWork #EconomicJustice #AI #ArtificialInteligence

Ironic how we're cutting education funding while saying we need to "beat China in AI." You know what actually helps win tech races? Investing in STEM education and creating more scientists and engineers. Can't lead in artificial intelligence with natural unintelligence. #EducationMatters

It's truly unfortunate to see the US & #China locked in an AI competition instead of a collaboration. Imagine the incredible progress we could achieve for humanity & the natural world if we worked together on this transformative technology. #AI #Collaboration #Innovation #Future

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #BillGates

As #AI grows more ubiquitous, embedding itself into all our devices, features like memory—and soon, perhaps, lifetime memory—will bring some of the greatest boons for personalized education; and some of the greatest dangers. #MachineLearning #Education #HigherEd #HigherEducation #College #University

If #Trump’s years in the political spotlight have taught us anything, it’s that he is laughably ignorant of basic government and economic principles, and his capricious, thoughtless, erratic decisions make it impossible to take any of his mandates as stable and lasting.

Just like pushing the #TikTok ban further and further into a nebulous future, when these 90 days are up, we’ll get another 90 days, and another, and another until we all realize how absurdly stupid and pointless this all was. #Tariff #Tariffs

A 90-day pause on #tariffs? Nice! Gonna finally order from those penguins. #tariffwar #tariff #TrumpMarketCrash

On the bright side, these #tariffs on #China have made #MAGA hats too expensive for #Trump supporters.

Can’t wait to taste those Russian avocados. 😞 #tariffwar #tariff #tariffs

U.S. as a manufacturing powerhouse is great until you realize we lack the infrastructure. China builds a hospital in a week; it takes us 2 yrs to fill a pothole. You can't bring jobs home without the plants, factories, & facilities ready to roll now—not decades from now. #tariff #tariffs

I'm beginning to view the Al Revolution in much the same way that we now view the Agricultural Revolution: The Al Revolution is a trap. It is providing us with technological abilities that, in the long run, will not increase our general happiness and well-being.

This is great in its own way, but it could tempt institutions, including smaller ones, to increase class sizes and reduce reliance on faculty, which will lead to fewer available teaching positions.

We see that people can quickly and easily become blinded by the bright halo of charisma and power, and this bias obstructs the darker parts of the revered. Total devotion without even a fraction of critical scrutiny to an idea, a person, a thing, etc. is a sickness.

Hegseth’s group-text gaffe—like mistakenly texting about all five affairs to your wife and not to the “Alpha Wolf Bros” group chat. #Hegseth #HegsethMustResign #HegsethResign #Trump

The root cause of all the problems plaguing our government lies solely in the influence of money in our political system.

AI and INSURANCE CLAIMS #Insurance companies deflecting responsibility by attributing wrongful claim denials to "AI errors" is fundamentally dishonest. These #AI systems aren't malfunctioning—they're executing precisely as designed.

Imagine lacking so much inner peace that you’re willing to grind down the world just to sit atop the highest hill of ashes.

Right on, Chuck Schumer! Way to show how AROUSED you are. 😂 #Democrats #Republicans #GOP #SpendingBill #GovernmentShutdown #Bill #GOPBill #Government #Congress #Schumer

Trump escalates trade war with threat of 200% tariff on European alcohol. 🤔 Bootlegging sounds like an exciting profession. #TradeWar #Tariffs #Tariff #TradeWars #Trump #TrumpTariffs

All while #Texas is failing on so many fronts, from health care and education to infrastructure,, $17.3 million of our tax dollars are being funneled into #SpaceX's expansion just so they can make bigger and better fireworks.

#Musk might want to reassess his stance on #empathy. As a failed businessman himself and therefore empathetic to Musk’s plight, it seems that #Trump has launched a taxpayer-funded rescue mission for #Tesla. I suppose empathy is only wrong when you can’t financially gain from it.

I don’t understand the vitriolic war on #environmentalism. Why is it so wrong not to want others to shit in the community pool? #ClimateChange #Climate #ClimateAction #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #GreenNewDeal

American taxpayers purchased a #Tesla Model S, a vehicle currently under 37 safety recalls, for President #Trump. These recalls significantly increase the risk of a crash.

Peacefully speaking out against Israel is considered antisemitism but Nazi salutes and symbols aren’t. So confused.

It’s weird how billionaires frequently accumulate the most wealth during economic downturns.

Thrilled to see the “Old Guard” of the Democratic Party heroically battling Trump by writing strongly worded tweets from the comfort of their mansions. #WorthlessDemocrats

It's strange that the Right, who fetishize our Revolutionary Era like no other, are so eager to suppress any form of #protest — a right as American as dumping tea into a harbor.

Wrong. The American people will buy a #Tesla for #Trump. #TeslaStockCrash #TeslaTakedown #teslastock

I see your #tariffs, and I’ll raise you another 25%. To paraphrase #Zelenskyy, “We’re not playing cards.” #tariff #tariffwar #Trump #CanadaUSTradeWar

What we call the “free market” is, in reality, “centralized corporate planning.”

Whenever I hear one of #RFK’s outrageous health claims, I can’t help but think of Mike Hammersmith, Spike’s father, from the 1994 classic masterpiece Little Giants. “Every night before he goes to bed, I massage his hamstrings with evaporated milk.”

If you can’t blame “the radical left,” blame it on fentanyl. If you can’t blame fentanyl, blame it on “the will of the people.”

Federal layoffs, massive job cuts, trade wars, plummeting consumer confidence, crashing faith in our leaders, tanking economic numbers. Front-row seats to the Apocalypse. 🍿 #JobsReport #Trumponomics

At the end #Biden’s administration, #Trump credited the US’s positive economic numbers to his impending return to the #WhiteHouse. Now, as numbers are tanking, he blames Biden. #MathAintMathing

#RFK’s #health advice really takes me back—reminds me of all the #broscience I heard when I first started working out.

Of all the things addressed last night, the one I still can’t wrap my head around is transgender mice. 🧐 #TrumpAddress #Congress #TrumpAddressesCongress #Trump

Democratic representatives aren’t very good at representing.