The Internet Almanac

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How long before ChatGPT starts stealing credit card numbers and ordering cat toys?

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https://archive.is/iNyBG

Panettone is a case in point. Before the 20th century, panettone was a thin, hard flatbread filled with a handful of raisins. It was only eaten by the poor and had no links to Christmas. Panettone as we know it today is an industrial invention. In the 1920s, Angelo Motta of the Motta food brand introduced a new dough recipe and started the “tradition” of a dome-shaped panettone. Then in the 1970s, faced with growing competition from supermarkets, independent bakeries began making dome-shaped panettone themselves. As Grandi writes in his book, “After a bizarre backwards journey, panettone finally came to be what it had never previously been: an artisanal product.”
Tiramisu is another example. Its recent origins are disguised by various fanciful histories. It first appeared in cookbooks in the 1980s. Its star ingredient, mascarpone, was rarely found outside Milan before the 1960s, and the coffee-infused biscuits that divide the layers are Pavesini, a supermarket snack launched in 1948. “In a normal country,” Grandi says with a smile, “nobody would care where [and when] a cake was invented.”

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Cat’s out of the bag, lads, pack it up.

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-31064-2

On the off-chance that any of you have any interest in trading cards, I’m currently running a giveaway on my channel to celebrate reaching 500 subs. Broke two vintage collections, one hockey and one baseball, some good stuff in both.

Yes–I mail anywhere in the world. No–I never show my face on my channel, so all you’ll get is my hands and my voice : ) I don’t like to shill for my channel, only mentioning it because it’s free cards.

Baseball: https://youtu.be/jFWBPAi0P7Y

Hockey: https://youtu.be/aenZgoe5ESA

Tonight on ‘The Comments Are Turned Off And That’s Absolutely Correct’:

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That seems pretty close range, but in the right spots old mate knight was in trouble.

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$100 million seems…excessive.