Three large portions of the Filchner Ice Shelf
—dubbed A22, A23, and A24
—calved into the Weddell Sea off of Antarctica in 1986.
For National Geographic, Chris Heath documents the life and death of an iceberg called A23a,
known at one time as the largest iceberg in the world.
Born when it broke off A23 in 1991,
it was “at least 44 nautical miles long, 40 nautical miles wide, and somewhere close to 2,000 square miles in area, or roughly the size of Bali.”
Häromdagen beordrade USA Anthropic att släcka sin mest kapabla AI-modell för alla utanför landet. Därmed blev en abstrakt fråga konkret. Vem kan stänga av de digitala tjänster vi är beroende av, och vad gör vi när det händer? Min longread på temat.
https://carlheath.se/sprakmodeller-sak
"How the World Made the West".
The West, so the story goes, was built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome, which disappeared from Europe during the Dark Ages and were then rediscovered by the Renaissance.
Josephine Quinn shows in a fascinating longread that this is an oversimplification.
A connect-the-dots history lesson well worth reading.
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