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From rags and pads to the sanitary apron: a brief history of period products

Period blood: it’s not something many people want to talk about. Taboos around menstruation and menstrual blood have been around for centuries. Even today, despite menstrual blood being featured in contemporary art, this basic part of many women’s identities still isn’t something that can be easily mentioned in public.

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Moscow fines Wikipedia owner $18,000 for Ukraine article - TASS

Wikipedia's owner has been fined 1.5 million roubles ($18,400) by a Russian court for failing to delete an article on the conflict in Ukraine, the TASS news agency said on Thursday.

Reuters

Russia not planning Wikipedia block for now, minister says

Russia is "not yet" planning to block Wikipedia, its minister of digital affairs said on Tuesday as a Moscow court handed the online encyclopaedia another fine for failing to remove content Russia deems illegal.

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Russian court fines Wikipedia for article about Ukraine war

A Moscow court has again fined Wikipedia for not removing a Russian-language article about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

The Independent UK

Venn: the man behind the famous diagrams – and why his work still matters today

April 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of mathematician and philosopher John Venn. You may well be familiar with Venn diagrams – the ubiquitous pictures of typically two or three intersecting circles, illustrating the relationships between two or three collections of things.

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Tory MSP schooled after claiming her party is ‘snapping on heels’ of SNP MP

IT seems the Tories are so asleep at the wheel that they can’t even be bothered to do a quick Wikipedia search.

The National (Scotland)

On this day: Lakers-Celtics rivalry born; Hondo’s last home game; Tatum for 53

On this day, the storied rivalry between the Celtics and Lakers was born; it's also the date of Boston legend John Havlicek's last home game, and Jayson Tatum scoring 53 points.

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Russia continues information crackdown with new Wikimedia fine

The Wikimedia Foundation, owner of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, was fined by a Russian court on Thursday for failing to delete content considered extremist as Moscow pursues a drive to crack down on independent sources of information.

Reuters

OPINION - I am incandescent about plans to strip mine the precious ocean floor

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve stumbled across on the internet recently? Mine is the Wikipedia page about the time Australia declared war on emus. And lost.

Evening Standard

Jimmy Wales Wonders If AI Could Be Next Editor-In-Chief Of Wikipedia — He Has One Problem Though

It appears tech website CNET might not be the only platform experimenting with OpenAI's ChatGPT and its incredible writing skills

Zenger

Rodri suffers brutal Wikipedia takedown as Scotland tantrum leaves Spaniard 'crying into his haggis bon bons'

The experienced midfielder has been hammered in the wake of the petulant interview comments.

Daily Record

This is Wikipedia’s new audio logo, which is designed to be ‘The Sound of All Human Knowledge’

Sonic stamp was created by a competition winner and features book pages turning, keyboard clicks and a synth chime

MusicRadar

Will Wikipedia be written by AI? Founder Jimmy Wales is thinking about it

By now, even those of us who live under a rock have become familiar with ChatGPT, the AI-powered chatbot that can find us the answer to almost every question under the sun. It seems to be able to effortlessly write reports, compose letters or even poetry — for any subject…

Evening Standard

Wikipedia's new sound logo had a seriously ambitious design brief

The 'sound of all human knowledge' is surprisingly chirpy.

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'QBism': quantum mechanics is not a description of objective reality – it reveals a world of genuine free will

What does quantum mechanics, the most successful theory ever proposed by physics, teach us about reality? The starting point for most philosophers of physics is that quantum mechanics must somehow provide a description of the world as it is independently of us, the users of the theory.

Reason

Man Arrested in St. Petersburg for Holding Up Sign of a Cartoon Character's Tag Line, "Let's All Get Along!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_sMeR8hBmw There's a lovely and popular Russian cartoon series called Kot Leopold, which means Leopold the Cat. To quote the accurate Wikipedia summary, Leopold the Cat (Russian: Кот Леопольд, Kot Leopold) is a Soviet/Russian animated short film series about a good-natured and prudent cat, Leopold. Leopold always wears a bow…

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Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’

The godfather of virtual reality has worked beside the web’s visionaries and power-brokers – but likes nothing more than to show the flaws of technology. He discusses how we can make AI work for us, how the internet takes away choice – and why he would ban TikTok

The Independent UK

Shou Chew: How a Facebook intern became the boss of TikTok

Despite his being head of the world’s most popular app, the enigmatic CEO’s Wikipedia page is just six sentences long

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Is Wikipedia a good source? 2 college librarians explain when to use the online encyclopedia – and when to avoid it

What comes to mind when you think of Wikipedia?

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GPT-4 shouldn’t worry anybody – we just need to be better

Text generators have been around for years, but they’ve finally gotten good. Where previous iterations required a heavy edit, the latest version of ChatGPT from OpenAI writes with better grammar than I – sorry, me. But both chatbots and generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like the newly launched GPT-4 also…

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Evolution not revolution: why GPT-4 is notable, but not groundbreaking

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) research company behind ChatGPT and the DALL-E 2 art generator, has unveiled the highly anticipated GPT-4 model. Excitingly, the company also made it immediately available to the public through a paid service.

Wales Online

Norena Shopland: The woman who has dedicated her life to uncovering Wales' LGBTQ+ history

Norena Shopland is a leading historian specialising in LGBTQ+ history, but she said women were often forgotten in texts on the past

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Mary Wollstonecraft: an introduction to the mother of first-wave feminism

Mary Wollstonecraft has had something of a revival in recent years.

Evening Standard

Majority of Wikipedia editors are still men - so how is the online encyclopaedia addressing the issue?

The decade-long mission to broaden participation on the site has yielded results - but Alys Key examines why progress is still slow.

The Guardian - UK

‘The internet’s sewer’: why Turkey blocked its most popular social site

Chaotic free speech on Ekşi Sözlük finally proved too much after devastating earthquakes hit country

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