November 4, 2024

Five for Friday 622

Welcome to Friday,

“People spend too much time on the last 24 hours and not enough time on the last 6,000 years.” — Will Durant

Here are five things I found interesting this week:

The Ansel Adams Estate calls out Adobe for selling A.I.-generated images based on the photographer’s work.

This week marks one century since Franz Kafka’s death. Yet, he still holds popular culture – particularly the Internet – under his spell.

How did engineers manage to fit Chinese characters – a vast language containing more tens of thousands of characters – onto a QWERTY keyboard, which only contains a few dozen keys?

Take a look at the bejeweled skeletons of Catholicism’s forgotten martyrs.

The repairs on Notre-Dame de Paris are continuing on schedule; the bells are nearly completed!

Have a creative weekend.

Currently reading: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen


Swim for health in safe and pure pools (1940). Anon.