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Chiang Yee wrote a series of illustrated travel books starting with The Silent Traveler: A Chinese Artist in Lakeland in 1937, and ending with a 1972 book on Japan.

from this Bloomberg article about the ethics of using AI to understand animal languages (the understanding isn’t really an ethical problem, but playing the sounds back, tricking animals with animal deepfakes, gets kinda troubling).

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Can you triangulate* where Elwyn Brooks White’s hotel room was?

There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs- commerce surrounds it with her surf.

Cheers to either MMW or MLP for putting me onto this one.

March 8, 1933.

from Cameron Crowe’s memoir: With San Diego Comic-Con approaching, it’s time to revisit our 2024 question, What Is San Diego?

Alma, in later life Claus Spreckels was born in Germany in 1828.