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Daily Archives: May 5, 2026
Campus Life at the
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University of Wisconsin – Green Bay
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Upon reflection, it makes sense that the British are reading Breakneck and Abundance. Every problem in the lawyerly society is worse in the UK. I thought that California’s high-speed rail project was an embarrassment; then I learned about the Leeds tram network.
~ Dan Wang via his 2025 letter
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The people building these systems—Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Elon Musk, Demis Hassabis—have made it clear that everybody from writers and actors to tax accountants and war strategists are on the chopping block. Of all the wizards of modern AI, Dario Amodei, the theoretical physicist who founded Anthropic, maker of Claude, is the most publicly anxious about the impact of his product on the world at large, seemingly spooked by his own predictions.
~ Joe Hagan via Vanity Fair.
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Midday Music Fix
Eagles – I Can’t Tell You Why
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Midday Music Fix
David Bowie – Let’s Dance
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I don’t think you can bet against America. The country has been remarkably resilient over time. At the same time, I view the sickness that we face as being pretty deep. And I also view the challenges that we have to navigate together as being more profound than any we’ve faced in our history.
~ Dean Ball via The Atlantic
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Chinese University Hong Kong
Campus Trivia Night
What were America’s 10 largest companies in 1975?
Via CNN Money:
- Exxon
- General Motors
- Ford
- Texaco
- Mobile
- Chevron
- Gulf Oil
- General Electric
- International Business Machines
- ITT Industries
Between 1965 and 1975, two companies dropped out of the Fortune 500 Top 10: Chrysler and U.S. Steel.
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Midnight Trailer
Operation Napoleon
Featuring Vivian Ólafsdóttir, Jack Fox, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, and Iain Glen.
Directed by Óskar Thór Axelsson.
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