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The AI Revolution Is Crushing Thousands of LanguagesRecently, Bonaventure Dossou learned of an alarming tendency in a popular AI model. The program described Fon—a language spoken by Dossou’s mother and millions of others in Benin and neighboring countries—as “a fictional language.”This result, which I replicated, is not unusual. Dossou is accustomed to the feeling that his culture is unseen by technology that so easily serves other people. He grew up with no Wikipedia pages in Fon, and no translation programs to help him communicate with his mother in French, in which he is more fluent. “When we have a technology that treats something as simple and fundamental as our name as an error, it robs us of our personhood,” Dossou told me.The rise of the internet, alongside decades of American hegemony, made English into a common tongue for business, politics, science, and entertainment. More than half of all websites are…

Multiple Lineup Changes At KQBTiHeartMedia Hip Hop “93.7 The Beat” KQBT Houston played musical chairs with its weekday on-air lineup earlier this week. While “The Breakfast Club” remains in mornings from 4:30-9am, the remainder of the lineup sees changes. Afternoon host Carmen Contreras moves up to middays. Contreras has been in the midday slot at KQBT since August 2018 after previously being in middays following stints at CHR “Hot 95.7” KKHH and Hip Hop “97.9 The Box” KBXX. Jerrel ‘Hardbody Kiotti’ Brown rises from nights to afternoons. Kiotti joined KQBT in June 2021 after over a decade in nights and mornings at KBXX. Finishing the changes, Music Director Ashlee Young moves from middays to nights. Young has been with KQBT since 2018 after previously serving as Program Director of CHR “103.1 Kiss-FM” KVJM and Hot AC “Mix 104.7” KKYS College Station and working in promotions and on-air for CHR “97.9…

The Most Hated Sound on TelevisionWhen American viewers flipped open the July 2, 1966, edition of TV Guide, they were treated to a bombshell story. This was the first installment of a two-part series on “the most taboo topic in TV,” the industry’s “best-known and least-talked-about secret,” the “put-on of all time”: the laugh track.At the time, almost every comedy on air was filmed live in front of a studio audience—or at least pretended to be. Pretty much all of the biggest shows  used a laugh track—The Andy Griffith Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres. Savvy viewers might have figured out that not all of the giggles and guffaws were real, but few people outside the industry understood the extent of the artifice. Even shows filmed live added some artificial laughs, sometimes to supplement the audience and sometimes because the laugh track sounded more authentic than the real thing. Behind…

The Man Who Died for the Liberal ArtsPhoto-illustrations by Gabriela PesqueiraChugging through Pacific waters in February 1942, the USS Crescent City was ferrying construction equipment and Navy personnel to Pearl Harbor, dispatched there to assist in repairing the severely damaged naval base after the Japanese attack. A young ensign—“real eager to get off that ship and get into action,” in the recollection of an enlisted Navy man who encountered him—sat down and wrote a letter to his younger brother, who one day would be my father.Philip Alvan Shribman, a recent graduate of Dartmouth and just a month away from his 22nd birthday, was not worldly but understood that he had been thrust into a world conflict that was more than a contest of arms. At stake were the life, customs, and values that he knew. He was a quiet young man, taciturn in the old New England way, but he…

Tupperware Is in TroubleFor the first several decades of my life, most of the meals I ate involved at least one piece of Tupperware. My mom’s pieces were mostly the greens and yellows of a 1970s kitchen, purchased from co-workers or neighbors who circulated catalogs around the office or slipped them into mailboxes in our suburban subdivision. Many of her containers were acquired before my brother and I were born and remained in regular use well after I flew the nest for college in the mid-2000s. To this day, the birthday cake that my mom makes for my visits gets stored on her kitchen counter in a classic Tupperware cake saver—a flat gold base with a tall, milky-white lid made of semi-rigid plastic. Somewhere deep in her cabinets, the matching gold carrying strap is probably still hiding, in case a cake is on the go.If you’re over 30 and were…

Woman Tells House Committee She Attended Party With Gaetz Where Drugs, Naked Underaged Girl Were Pre…Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Images You can beat the heat if you beat the charges too They said I was a cheat, I guess it must be true… I need to forget, so take me to Florida I’ve got some regrets, I’ll bury them in Florida Tell me I’m despicable, say it’s unforgivable What a crash, what a rush, f— me up, Florida It’s one hell of a drug It’s one hell of a drug — Taylor Swift, “Florida!!!“ Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) may indeed have some regrets he’d like to bury in Florida as the House Ethics Committee investigation into him seems to be heating up. On Friday, ABC News reported a woman provided a sworn statement to the committee saying she attended a 2017 party Gaetz also attended where illegal drugs were…