1954 Mercury Sun Valley, America’s First Transparent Roof Car ~ Vintage Everyday

Source: 1954 Mercury Sun Valley, America’s First Transparent Roof Car ~ Vintage Everyday

Stephen King, Zadie Smith and Rachel Cusk’s Pirated Works Used To Train AI – Slashdot

…Along with Smith, King, Cusk and Ferrante’s writing, copyrighted works in the dataset include 33 books by Margaret Atwood, at least nine by Haruki Murakami, nine by bell hooks, seven by Jonathan Franzen, five by Jennifer Egan and five by David Grann. Books by George Saunders, Junot DÃaz, Michael Pollan, Rebecca Solnit and Jon Krakauer also feature, as well as 102 pulp novels by Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard and 90 books by pastor John MacArthur. The titles span large and small publishers including more than 30,000 published by Penguin Random House, 14,000 by HarperCollins, 7,000 by Macmillan, 1,800 by Oxford University Press and 600 by Verso…

Source: Stephen King, Zadie Smith and Rachel Cusk’s Pirated Works Used To Train AI – Slashdot

U.S. COVID-19 cases are up, mask mandates return in some places – UPI.com

As rising COVID-19 cases driven by variant EG.5 continued Thursday to sicken and hospitalize more people, some hospitals, universities and businesses across the United States are mandating masking again in response.

Kaiser Permanente in California, Rutgers University in New Jersey and Morris Brown College in Georgia have issued new mask mandates.

Source: U.S. COVID-19 cases are up, mask mandates return in some places – UPI.com

We Need to Talk About Twitter w/ Musa Okwonga and Justin Salhani – The Fire These Times

After some 12 years on the site, I’ve finally deleted my Twitter account. Its takeover by a profoundly narcissistic, mediocre and insecure bigot gave me that extra excuse I’d been looking for all these years…

Source: We Need to Talk About Twitter w/ Musa Okwonga and Justin Salhani – The Fire These Times