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oldest Old English poem / another copy discovered in Rome / poem name = “Caedmon’s Hymn” / author = Northumbrian agricultural worker / time ~7th century / content = short praise to God / oldest long Old English poem = "Beowulf"
"After reading the first sentence, I knew it was bad news, but I had no idea how bad it would be and how much it would affect thousands of people earning their money, mainly through Shutterstock."
no business model for photographers / check Alex Rotenberg's revenues at -> brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/ -> $78 from 12, 836 photos in march
https://www.fabionodariphoto.com/en/shutterstock-is-it-worth/
~40,000 photos / 80 Indian tribes / colossal ethnographic project financed by J. P. Morgan
Teddy Roosevelt on Edward S. Curtis =>
“He is an artist who works out of doors and not in the closet.”
"We use a cross-national audit to show that LLMs exhibit a stronger pro-government valence in the languages of countries with lower media freedom than in those with higher media freedom."
control of datasets => control of output / already seen in answers to some historical prompts
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10506-7
#ai #llm #information #internet #research #history #LegalHistodons
Government-controlled media influences the output of large language models via their training data, and models queried in the languages of countries with lower media freedom show a stronger pro-regime valence than models queried in the languages of countries with higher media freedom.
Twain quote => “Classic.” A book which people praise and don’t read.
internet made this industrial scale
"Researchers found that fitness, strength, and muscle endurance start slipping around age 35, with the decline accelerating over time."
long research / fitness / exercise / aging
#science #health #fitness #training #exercise
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260515000947.htm
A groundbreaking Swedish study that tracked people for nearly 50 years has revealed when the body’s physical decline quietly begins. Researchers found that fitness, strength, and muscle endurance start slipping around age 35, with the decline accelerating over time. But there’s an encouraging twist: adults who became active later in life still improved their physical performance by up to 10 percent.
the scammer that invented a colony / and made money
Blog =
https://brosnung.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-scammer-gregor-mcgregor.html
"We find that by mid-2025, roughly 35% of newly published websites were classified as AI-generated or AI-assisted, [...] We also find evidence suggesting that increases in AI-generated text on the internet bring about a decrease in semantic diversity and an increase in positive sentiment."
paper by Jonas Dolezal, Sawood Alam Mark Graham, and Maty Bohacek
true / AI generated texts sound alike + positive bias
St. Catherine of Siena Chapel / Camp St. Malo, Rocky Mountains / Colorado / Pope John Paul II visited = 1993 / my photo = fall 2025 / beautiful building on a rock
#travelphotography #photography #photographer #religion #colorado
"Note that Cuba, the most authoritarian country in Latin America, is not known for street violence, even though we don’t have numbers. Venezuela, in contrast, has in recent years had an unusual combination of authoritarianism and wide scale violence. But there just aren’t that many dictatorships with a very high murder rate."
interesting article + data / plausible theory with limitations
https://www.richardhanania.com/p/why-is-latin-america-so-violent
