10 Weekend Reads – The Large Image

• The Forgotten Titanic of the Pacific: A story of catastrophe, survival, and ghosts. An individual vulnerable to superstition is likely to be forgiven for considering that the Valencia was cursed. Inbuilt 1882, the ship was fired upon the next 12 months close to the island of Curaçao, and once more 4 years later, this time by a Spanish warship simply off the Cuban coast. In the course of the Spanish-American Conflict, it was leased to the U.S. Military and used to move troops to the Philippines as a part of an unofficial effort to assist rebels who, like their Cuban counterparts, had been vying for independence from Spain. And in 1905, Captain Johnson ran it aground simply exterior St. Michael, Alaska; the crew needed to transfer 75 tons of cargo onto one other vessel earlier than they might free the Valencia. (The Atavist Journal)

• The “return to the workplace” received’t save the workplace: The so-called “return to the workplace” has been underway for some time now, and it’s a little bit of a large number. Positive, extra persons are going to the workplace extra typically than they had been a 12 months in the past, however we’re nonetheless eons away from the place we had been earlier than the pandemic. And regardless of the beneficial properties in workplace attendance, many workplace buildings themselves are in large hassle — a few of which works past distant work and began lengthy earlier than the pandemic. So regardless of what you’re listening to from some bosses, issues will doubtless by no means return to the best way they had been. (Vox)

• AI simply killed its first large inventory: AI claims its first casualty… The right way to enhance the chances of your child incomes a excessive wage… Eighty % of youngsters say they’re studying quicker with this new tech… My favourite technique to play the AI schooling pattern… (Threat Hedge)

• The Swedish idea of affection: All nations should stability the liberty of people with the calls for of the neighborhood. Sweden’s answer is exclusive. (Aeon)

• Apple’s New Headset Meets Actuality: The gadget has strayed from Tim Cook dinner’s unique imaginative and prescient, however it is going to nonetheless outline the sphere. (Businessweek)

• Chatbots Don’t Know What Stuff Isn’t At the moment’s language fashions are extra subtle than ever, however they nonetheless wrestle with the idea of negation. That’s unlikely to vary anytime quickly. (Quanta Journal)

• The Offensive Earlier than the Offensive: Ukraine Strikes Behind Russian Traces: Kyiv goals to destroy ammunition, gasoline and different provides because it seeks to starve Russian forces within the area forward of broader floor marketing campaign. (Wall Avenue Journal)

• Different voices: The US of Mattress Bathtub & Past: The story of Mattress Bathtub & Past is our story, the story of america right here within the fin de siecle of The Lengthy Now, the place our complete nation has been busted out and stripped for components by grown males, rapacious males, totally different from Tony Soprano solely in that they plunder legally inside a system of courts and legal guidelines and regulatory companies. (Epsilon Principle)

• The brief lifetime of Child Milo: No person anticipated Child Milo to reside for lengthy. He arrived on this planet with no kidneys, underdeveloped lungs and a life expectancy of between 20 minutes and a few hours. He lived for 99 minutes. (Washington Publish)

• The lengthy, unusual historical past of the baseball cap: You possibly can be forgiven for considering the baseball cap was at all times there, perched upon humanity’s head from the very first day we walked on the Earth, as everlasting because the tallest bushes or the deepest ocean. However, in fact, that’s not true. Actually, lengthy earlier than baseball caps had been the ever present vogue alternative for ballplayers, musicians, and Marvel heroes attempting to mix in with a crowd, baseball groups didn’t even put on caps. That’s proper: Had the sport of baseball developed in a different way, maybe we’d all be sporting large straw hats with our favourite membership’s emblem written throughout the entrance. (MLB)