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Are we headed for a techno-utopia or a machine-led dystopia? During the UATX x Palantir one-day intensive, we'll weigh @pmarca’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto against Paul Kingsnorth’s cautionary essay, “Rage Against the Machine.” April 25. Austin, TX. Free. The program is only open to admitted or deposited UATX students. @PalantirTech

A new era of higher education is coming and @uaustinorg is leading the way. University President, Carlos Carvalho joined us to explain the mission of their school and how they are changing education.

Incredible things happening @uaustinorg - admissions based on test scores only!

Thanks for visiting! We hope to see many excellent UATX graduates among our colleagues.

TODAY ON SCOTT JENNINGS SHOW … latest on IRAN … Japanese PM in the OVAL … a new political gossip site hits DC … TSA airport chaos … NCAA updates … NYC FIRST LADY in social media hot water + more! @ErikaDonalds @juliegraceb of @SourcesSay_News @RLHeinrichs of @HudsonInstitute @LevineJonathan of @FreeBeacon  Carlos Carvalho of @uaustinorg Adam Stahl of @TSA

Don miss our president Carlos Carvalho today — on @ScottJenningsKY show.

UATX students visit @allencontrol for an invite-only demo of Bullfrog M240, the fully autonomous weapons station that handles the full kill chain up to group 3 UAS.

Catholic Club at UATX.

"Wouldn't it be great if—the next time you were worried about potential weapons of mass destruction in a country—you could just get the call correct?" Andy Aymeloglu on @PalantirTech's government partnerships.

Readings to consider if you’re competing (or just love America): -The Declaration of Independence -Thomas Jefferson’s Letter to William Johnson (1823) and Letter to Henry Lee (1825) -Lawrence Reed, “America’s Republic: How the Great Experiment Came About (and How We Keep It)” and “Yes, America's Birthday Deserves to be Celebrated” -Roger Pilon, On the Moral Foundations of America -Kerry McDonald, “Why You Should Read ‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?’ to Your Kids” -Frederick Douglass, “Letter to His Former Master” -Barry Brownstein, “What Thomas Jefferson Meant by ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’”

Andy Aymeloglu is teaching software engineering this spring.

"Pregnancy is not always enjoyable. It is uncomfortable, inconvenient, and often tragic. It is nevertheless relentlessly, consumingly interesting." – UATX Professor Isabella Reinhardt in @FairerSexFD

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Write on the Declaration of Independence for a $2,500 scholarship to UATX’s Summer Fellowship. Advanced high school and college-aged students eligible. Essays evaluated starting April 1.

With readings from: -George Washington, “Farewell Address” -Alexander Hamilton, Report on Manufactures, Report on a National Bank, Report on Public Credit -Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia: Query XIX, First Inaugural Address, Second Inaugural Address, Letter to Thomas Breckinridge on Louisiana Purchase -Charles Finney, “What a Revival of Religion Is” -Lyman Beecher, A Plea for the West -Orestes Brownson, “Catholicity Necessary to Sustain Popular Liberty” -William Elery Channing, “Unitarian Christianity” -Joseph Smith, “Wentworth Letter with Articles of Faith” -Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Celestial Railroad,” “Earth’s Holocaust,” “Young Goodman Brown” -Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America -Mark Twain, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” -Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar,” “Self-Reliance,” “The Over-Soul,” Nature -Andrew Jackson, “Bank Veto Message” -John L. O’Sullivan, “Annexation” -James Fenimore Cooper, The American Democrat -Henry David Thoreau, Resistance to Civil Government -Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor, “The Portent,” “Misgivings” -Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself,” “O Captain! My Captain!” -Emily Dickinson, “I’m Nobody! Who are You?” -Edgar Allen Poe, “The Domain of Arnheim” -Louisa May Alcott, “Transcendental Wild Oats” -Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions -John Calhoun, “Slavery as Positive Good," “Speech on the Oregon Bill” -William Lloyd Garrison, “To the Public,” “The American Union” -Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” -Julia Ward Howe, Battle Hymn of the Republic -Abraham Lincoln, “Fragment on Slavery,” “House Divided,” “Cooper Union Address,” “Meditation on Divine Will,”“First Inaugural,” “Emancipation Proclamation," “Gettysburg Address," “Second Inaugural” -13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments -Booker T. Washington, “Atlantic Exposition Address” -W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk -William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe Each Other -Mark Twain and Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age -Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis -Andrew Carnegie, “Gospel of Wealth” -Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus” -Randolph Bourne, “Transnational America" -William Jennings Bryan, “Cross of Gold Speech" -Jack London, “South of the Slot” -Theodore Roosevelt, “True Americanism,” “The New Nationalism," “Man in the Arena” -Woodrow Wilson, “The New Freedom” -Henry Adams, “The Dynamo and the Virgin” -Robert Frost, “Two Tramps in Mud Time”

What is America and what makes us distinctive? How have we overcome great failings? Why we are we still a land of hope? For the past 11 weeks, students have grappled with these questions with Professors Scott Reznick and Jacob Wolf.