- University of Hawaii – Manoa
- University of Alaska – Fairbanks
- Sonoma State University
- CSU Channel Islands
- Stony Brook University
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Daily Archives: September 2, 2026
Five American Universities
Campus Life at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Campus Map
Kennebec Valley Community College
Interesting Read
via The New York Times
Anthropic C.E.O.: Don’t Let A.I. Companies off the Hook
by Dario Amodei
published June 5, 2025
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Quote, Unquote
Just as God shaped man in his own image from clay, Europe was to be shaped by the United States according to its will. Immersion in consumer society was not enough; the same logic demanded the penetration not only of households and groceries with American wares but of people’s minds with American ideas and norms.
~ Baptiste Detombe via American Affairs
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Campus Trivia Night
Question: What were America’s 10 largest companies in 1990?
The 10 largest companies on the 1990 Fortune 500 list via CNN Money:
- General Motors
- Ford
- Exxon
- International Business Machines
- General Electric
- Mobile
- Altria Group
- Chrysler
- DuPont
- Texaco
Between 1980 and 1990 – three companies dropped out of the top 10: Chevron; Gulf Oil; and Amoco.
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Quote, Unquote
When an institution begins subjecting something so fundamental to a college education as writing to the cold logic of spreadsheets and bureaucratic streamlining, it has conceded quite a lot already. This concession may ultimately open the door for administrators of the future to argue that writing instruction should be turned over to robots for the sake of savings and efficiency.
~ Tyler Austin Harper via The Atlantic
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Midday Music Fix
Angine de Poitrine – Sarniezz
Angine de Poitrine – Sarniezz via Later … with Jools Holland (2026)
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Guest Lecture
with Cory Doctorow
Why Facebook and Google are incentivised to make their products worse
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Google Chrome was launched
on this day in 2008
Google Chrome was launched on this day – September 2 – in 2008.
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