Tom Homan led with “common sense” & human decency today to get the Trump Administration to fold its MN crackdown hand.
University leaders need to learn the game — stand up for your principles, don’t squander strong cards already in your hand, play to win.
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China & America. Where’s it all going? Look to people-to-people ties and the lessons of history. Ties That Bind & Fray.
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Talking Turkey
A glass-roofed bus, oodles of ouzo, Turkish border guards ... what could possibly go wrong? 🇹🇷
#hippietrail #nowandthen
Self actualization can be experienced as a jolting flash, like a lightning bolt in a cloudless night
49 years ago I experienced such a moment … on a bus in the Alps of Montenegro
Climate change, global extreme weather & public health impacts that follow in their wake.
This was a domain of U.S.-China co-leadership. We (the U.S.) have now quit the field after a stunning run of own-goals. In the world’s eyes, China looks good by comparison.
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Join tomorrow morning's webinar, sponsored by Gerson Lehman Group, as my complimentary guest. The topic is U.S. Federal Permitting of AI Data Centers and Competition with China.
Date/Time: Thursday, Sept 4th from 10:00-11:00 am EDT
Webcast link: lnkd.in/e_8ji3K9
#AI #infrastructure #energy #china
Pretty sweet
Laughing through my tears
Hariri and Friedman nail it. Carbon-based life inventing a silicon-based species. How will we co-evolve?www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/opinion/trump...
#evolving #artificial_intelligence #ethics
Quaker groups lead the way in first-round victory protecting Constitutional principle of religious sanctuary against Trump’s DHS and ICE
#Constitution #FirstAmendment #religion #FreedomOfSpeech #Quaker #DHS #ICE #Immigration
There is a road, no simple highway
Between the dawn and the dark of night
And if you go, no one may follow
That path is for your steps alone
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My interests: Nature (Himalayas, evolution, wetlands), Tech (AI, US-Taiwan-China semiconductor supply chains), Writing (memoir, historical fiction), Culture (anthropology, chamber music), Random (Dylan, crew, dogs)
Late to the party as usual… but I’m starting on BlueSky today (and closing the door on X).
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