"The Catalog of Distinctive Type (CDT) uses machine learning to analyze the minute details of 17th-century printing, offering scholars a powerful new way to identify who printed what."
https://www.library.cmu.edu/about/news/2026-05/catalog-distinctive-type
Looks like someone has found ~200 NOS radio cassette players; they've got to be 1990s ??
https://www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/auction-catalogues/eamagroup/catalogue…
Avex Music Group plans a $100M fund to acquire music copyrights, companies, and publishing catalogs over the next 12 months (Elizabeth Dilts Marshall/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/avex-music-group-launches-100-million-catalog-fund/
Israël is making everybody it's enemy, even the Catholic Church.
Catholic officials were prevented from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, as they made their way to celebrate the Palm Sunday Mass.
https://www.custodia.o…
Israeli Police Bar Patriarch from Holy Sepulcher on Palm Sunday https://ground.news/article/israeli-police-block-catholic-cardinal-from-jerusalems-holy-sepulchre-on-palm-sunday_ad114f
This morning, the Israeli Police prevented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Head of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land,
together with the Custos of the Holy Land, the Most Reverend Fr. Francesco Ielpo, OFM, the official Guardian of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,
from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, as they made their way to celebrate the Palm Sunday Mass.
farewell to doug irwin, the luthier behind jerry garcia's guitars. here's the note he included with the catalog when he auctioned them in 2002. https://heads.social/@bourgwick/116230474875585075
An interesting juxtaposition of 2 articles in Apple News. One’s about the dev who added code to an open source app he’d developed, that would delete code in an app that was vibe coded. He’s getting death threats.
Other one’s about a guy suing an employer for not accommodating his phobia of rainbow flags and “trans pronouns” (sic). He claimed to be a devout Catholic and feared all those “gay” symbols were a threat to his soul.
"The pope said the Catholic Church should prioritise questions of inequality and justice over those of sexual ethics."
Pope Leo’s ‘significant’ remarks on sex signal shift for Catholic Church | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-leo-views-sex-catholic-church-b2965683.html