Welcome to the weekend.
Here are five things I thought worth sharing this week.
“You’re going to find one of those little guys flying by every 12 seconds. Apparently, we need them.” Linguistic researchers are reconsidering the value of interjections for conversation flow.
The latest in the case of against Meta’s use of copyrighted material to train Meta’s A.I. reveals the company downloaded thousands of pirated books and research materials.
Reflections on Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities at fifty.
A deep dive into the Golden Age of Japanese Pencils.
“The hardest working font in Manhattan.”
Currently reading: Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
Happy first weekend of Spring!
Image: “Fir Tree”. Eysen, Louis. (German, 1843–1899)
