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Daily Archives: May 12, 2026
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Interesting Read
via The Atlantic:
How AI Killed a 133-Year-Old Princeton Tradition
by Rose Horowitch
published on May 12, 2025
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Quote, Unquote
A system can tell you where a man is. It cannot tell you what his death will mean for a nation. Such systems are trained on behavior, not on meaning — they can track what an adversary does but not what he fears, honors, remembers or would die for.
~ Yonatan Touval via The New York Times
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Campus Life at
Oklahoma State University
Midday Music Fix
Bruce Hornsby – The Way It Is
Bruce Hornsby – The Way It Is (Radio 2 Piano Room)
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Quote, Unquote
The modern mass party reached its apogee in the middle of the 20th century. Yet it was most memorably portrayed in the interwar period, the era of continental fascism, when hundreds of thousands of Europeans became far-right partisans and paramilitary violence spilled into the continent’s streets.
~ Anton Jäger via The New York Times
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Campus Trivia Night
Question: Which 5 countries are projected to be largest economies in the world by purchasing power parity in the year 2030?
Via the IMF by way of Wikipedia
- China
- United States
- India
- Russia
- Japan
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Campus Trivia Night
Question: Which five countries are the world’s top mango producers?
Via WorldAtlas
- India – 18,779,000 tonnes
- China – 4,771,038 tonnes
- Thailand – 3,432,129 tonnes
- Mexico – 2,197,313 tonnes
- Indonesia – 2,184,399 tonnes
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Midnight Trailer
Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Barbarian was directed by John Milius and written by John Milius and Oliver Stone. Featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Sandahl Bergman, Ben Davidson, Gerry Lopez, and Max von Sydow. It was released in 1982 by Universal Pictures.
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