May has been very attentive to my need to live in Camelot for my entire birthday month. By Camelot, I mostly mean the musical which features my favorite “It’s May, it’s May that gorgeous holiday” song … but also the King Arthur reference to a utopia on earth. Romantic and magical with a door wide…
La finalul anilor ’60, Ioana Casetti era considerată cea mai frumoasă femeie din București, o prezență care a topit inimi pe scena artistică românească. Atractivă și talentată, ea a fost dorită de colegii săi celebri, precum Ion Dichiseanu, Cornel Patrichi și Dem Rădulescu, dar inima ei a aparținut unui alt bărbat – Valeriu Lazarov, un…
The past few weeks have been a rollercoaster ride for Bitcoin investors. Fears of inflation and geopolitical tensions sent shockwaves through the cryptocurrency market, dragging Bitcoin and its altcoin brethren down to depths not seen since early 2024. Bitcoin, the world’s leading cryptocurrency, plummeted to as low as $56,500 this week, a far cry from…
Only women can rid the club of the guardians of the Y-chromosome’s ‘we’ve always done it this way’ misogyny Here’s a surprise: the Garrick Club is a really lovely place. It’s full of lively and fascinating people. The staff are superb, the food is great, the wine list divine. The library is to die for…
The photographer on an ambiguous image inspired by Greek, Roman and Egyptian art “A former mentor, Elinor Carucci, recommends taking pictures daily as a sort of gym for the photographic mind,” Esteban Kuriel says. On this day, Kuriel was staying at St Ermin’s hotel in London and had visited the Sir John Soane’s Museum, which…
With large language models needing quality data, some publishers are offering theirs at a price while others are blocking access OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, knows that high-quality data matters in the artificial intelligence business – and news publishers have vast amounts of it. “It would be impossible to train today’s leading AI models without…
Covid vaccines, chemtrails, the Great Reset … Why do people invent false conspiracies when there are so many real ones to worry about? There’s only one way to find out: ask a believer I am a conspiracy theorist. I believe that groups of people conspire secretly against our interests to line their pockets, cover their…
Today is Saturday, May 4, the 125th day of 2024. There are 241 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire during an anti-war protest at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others. On this date: In 1776, Rhode Island declared its…
