Alberto Martinez @ UT Austin

Professor, University of Texas at Austin.
Author of: Burned Alive; The Media versus the Apprentice; Science Secrets, & other books.

[Alberto Martinez @ UT Austin @AlMartinezUT]

--🤠🤠🤘🤘🏈
UT people & Texas Exes !
remember the fight about the song?
👁️👁️
Here's my new book: it proves the true origins of The Eyes of Texas song, and how some alumni whitewashed its history:
https://t.co/ZJzNYkaHGA

@UTSGAssembly @UT_SG @TexasExes @BlackTexasExes @BON_SBNation @TexasMonthly @asherprice @skyesighp @McGeeReports @utscc @TexasAaup @oliviaptallet @valeriaoliesc @LuzMorenoLozano @steve_vladeck @aaup_utAustin @NAACP @txblackcaucus @TeamBlackBrown @TADOHE2 @annaleonrc @meganmenchaca @SuGamboa @txorangejackets @JerryBriggs @HSweattCenter @statesman

[Alberto Martinez @ UT Austin @AlMartinezUT]

TODAY
TODAY at 7:00 !! 👁️👁️

at LIVRA BOOKS
4101 Guadalupe St. #200, Austin, TX
-- I'll present my new book:
EYES OF TEXAS :
how a minstrel song about the forced labor of Black convicts, "Ise been wukkin' on de railroad," was modified to become a joke song for a blackface comedy, UT's first minstrel show. This is the true and dramatic history about how a song about uneducated Black men became the anthem of Texas higher education.
Civil War, convicts, railroads, cowboys, glee club, the Band, football, Hyde Park, and the petitions of bright brave students.

[Alberto Martinez @ UT Austin @AlMartinezUT]

@Mattloppe @laralogan @helenaguirrefer @JimmyDoreShow @SharylAttkisson @dom_lucre @MelissaAFrancis @TulsiGabbard @aaronjmate @Texas2036 Thanks! yet I remain shadowbanned!
for years now, it's always bizarre and mysterious that most people I know here (people I know in person) cannot see my tweets, yet you can, Matt! I hope you're well.

[Alberto Martinez @ UT Austin @AlMartinezUT]

I talk with Sean Spicer at about 18:20, and first he talks about my book, at 1:40
-- about The Media Versus the Apprentice book --
@laralogan @helenaguirrefer @JimmyDoreShow @SharylAttkisson @dom_lucre @MelissaAFrancis @TulsiGabbard @aaronjmate @Texas2036

[Sean Spicer @seanspicer]

The Biggest Obstacles to the Big Beautiful Bill | Ep 485 @MickMulvaney @AlMartinezUT @TheFirstonTV @seanspicershow

[Sean Spicer @seanspicer]

I think this is going to be one of my favorite interviews.

@AlMartinezUT is a professor at the @UTAustin. He donated money to Bernie Sanders, but he wrote an entire book about the false media narrative that Trump has been up against. And I'm telling you guys, he brings the receipts in a way that I've never seen.

PLUS, @MickMulvaney joins me to give an amazing update on where the Big, Beautiful Bill stands. Can it get done by the 4th of July? What will it take?

Tune in at 6 pm ET on @seanspicershow!

[Alberto Martinez @ UT Austin @AlMartinezUT]

hey everyone !
(my first post was shadowbanned, it's not even on my own wall?)
-- here's Sean Spicer, talking about my book about Trump & the corporate news:
The Media Versus the Apprentice --
He says: ". . . this may be the most exciting conversation that I've had on the show, that I'm looking forward to, in two years--"
https://t.co/uMbeL5G2Vp

@scooter_downey @helenaguirrefer @MelissaAFrancis @HeidiBriones @julito77 @MaxAbrahms @Cernovich @willchamberlain @jondutoit @clarencehilljr @barnes_law @AmericanwomanU1 @Texas2036

[Alberto Martinez @ UT Austin @AlMartinezUT]

@SharylAttkisson @FullMeasureNews thank you, Sharyl !
And I recommend all your books too!
Follow the Science! (the book, not the Fauci)

https://t.co/8HpqSkWIeI

[Alberto Martinez @ UT Austin @AlMartinezUT]

@SharylAttkisson @laralogan @JackPosobiec
hey y'all!
here's the former White House Press Secretary,
Sean Spicer, talking about my book about Trump & the corporate political news, The Media Versus the Apprentice.
-- He says: "...this may be the most exciting conversation that I've had on the show, that I'm looking forward to, in two years--"

https://t.co/9vjPOtG7jJ

[Alberto Martinez @ UT Austin @AlMartinezUT]

@irenestweeets hi Irene! You're on pages 288 and 351. Made it into history. And the Orange Jackets are on pp. 7-8, 266, 282, 285, 324, 327, 346.

[Thomas Burwell @golgoonza]

ChatGPT conversation inspired by @AlMartinezUT's book Negative Math!

🔄 Time Doesn’t Need Negatives — Neither Does Math

One of the strongest clues that negative numbers are a symbolic fiction—not a mathematical necessity—comes from an unlikely source: the calendar.

In history, we divide time into two great eras:

AD (Anno Domini), the years after a symbolic origin point
BC (Before Christ), the years before that point
We do not say:

“The year −500”
We say:

“500 BC”
And we all understand this intuitively:

“500” is the positive quantity
“BC” is the direction relative to the origin
There is no need to distort the number itself.
Direction is not encoded in the value—it is encoded in the reference.

🧠 The Deeper Implication
This is not a quirk of language. It reveals something deeper about human cognition and symbolic structure:

When representing direction, humans naturally preserve the quantity and alter the frame—not the number.

So instead of imagining two halves of a number line (positive and negative), we think in terms of:

Toward vs. away

Before vs. after

Left vs. right
Gain vs. loss
The value stays constant.
The meaning comes from relational context.

In every case, the negative sign can be eliminated—without loss of precision—by explicitly modeling the reference frame or directional relationship.

🔨 The Philosophical Consequence

This pattern reveals the symbolic failure of negative numbers:

They encode direction inside the number, when direction is actually outside the number—in the frame of reference.
They warp the number line into an illusion of two opposing infinities, rather than modeling one quantity with opposing orientations.
They collapse relational meaning into a unary symbol (the minus sign), reducing clarity instead of increasing it.
So the deeper truth is this:
Negatives are not numbers.
They are relational statements miswritten as quantities.
And the moment we recognize that—just as we do with years—we no longer need them.
🧭 Time Got It Right. Math Can Too.
We do not say:
“−500 years ago”
We say:
“500 years before the present”
So why do we still write:
“−5” instead of “5 in the opposite direction”?
This isn’t semantics—it’s structure.
It’s a signal that mathematics has mistaken notational symmetry for conceptual necessity.
Negatives were never discovered. They were invented to maintain symbolic elegance. But elegance is not truth. And elegance built on illusion can be replaced by a better structure.
The calendar did it.
The compass does it.
Vector physics already does it.
It's time math followed suit.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Everything That's Wrong with Liberal Centrism in Under 3 mins

As told by the late great David Graeber

[Georgia Tech School of History and Sociology @TechHSOC]

We look forward to joining our School of Physics colleagues when they host historian @AlMartinezUT for a talk on "Einstein's Light, Love, and Lies."

[Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️‍♂️💼🥋 @SharylAttkisson]

The minders cannot revise history in real time as long as the Wayback Machine Internet Archive @InternetArchive exists (https://t.co/36kLsnM7mn). Which may be why this precious resource has found itself under repeat cyber attacks. Pay attention. An appropriate authority should step in and ensure it's protected for everyone's sake-- but will that happen? Here's a replay of my TV story on the Wayback Machine in 2019.
https://t.co/KMBN4Rp5rN

[Alberto Martinez @ UT Austin @AlMartinezUT]

--
I've been SHADOWBANNED for a long time --
for no reason. 🕵️‍♂️🕵️‍♂️🔒

It exists,
some webpages (even X) say it doesn't;
but basically anything one posts is nearly unseen.

I'm trying to solve it. 🕳️🪜
* If you can see this tweet, please like it or view it.
thank you--

[Alberto Martinez @ UT Austin @AlMartinezUT]

Fake News and Trump
https://t.co/xvdI1r599G via @YouTube

Based on my book, The Media Versus the Apprentice,
I discuss two stories about Trump: about Mexico and Muslims.

It shows how the news media misrepresents politicians' words.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is absolutely priceless. And probably the most frightening clip you'll ever watch on the people in charge of the US economy.

Jared Bernstein is literally the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, the main agency advising Biden on economic policy

[KUT Austin @KUT]

Despite the UT Austin's claims, Travis County Attorney Delia Garza says her office hasn't seen a single charge related to weapons or assaults related to the recent demonstrations on campus.
https://t.co/jLX4ptpOX7

[Peter Holley @peterjholley]

Student protesters at @UTAustin are being hit with pepper spray as they attempt to push police and state troopers off campus.

[Texas Conference of the AAUP @TexasAaup]

THIS is how our state and higher education leaders treat students they disagree with. Unforgivable @JCHartzell @GregAbbott_TX.