America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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In this post, you will also read about why coal power is no longer commercially feasible, how AI is replacing human teachers in Arizona classrooms, the new Chinese LLM DeepSeek, and the incredible low civil construction costs in China. The book I review is The Poppy Wars by RF Kuang.
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