Welcome to the weekend,
Here are five things I thought worth sharing this week:
“The Avant-Garde Origins of ‘Gumby’“
“Taking and analyzing recordings made over the course of one winter, [researchers] discovered that a new accent has begun to take shape in English as spoken in Antarctica.”
Have you met Marioza, the woman who inherited the papal throne?
“How to Make Coffee” in the year 1699, just fifty years after the hot beverage arrived in England.
Meta is being sued for using 191,000 books – most of which are still under copyright – to train their AI language model. The Atlantic investigated and identified 183,000 of those 191,000 books. This link goes to the search engine they built for authors to determine whether their work has been used. This link goes to a short article with more details about what those identifiable 183,000 books include.
Currently reading: The Last Love Song by Tracy Daugherty
Have a great weekend.
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