Evan Hensleigh

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Special Projects Editor at The Economist. Bad puns on The Internet.

A screenshot of the Guardian homepage. Headlines include the phrases “Argentina’s late double breaks England hearts”, “Argentina break England hearts”, and “England hearts broken”
A very cute dog (a mostly black whippet cross with a Christmas Robin bandana around its neck)
A road sign at an intersection near Highgate, London. To the right is Highgate Village, to the left is “The North”, which apparently starts at Finchley.
Brit. Lib., Add. MS. 34,736, fos.46r-50v, James West Treasury papers; P.R.O., Treasury Board Papers, T30 12, national accounts, 1750-5, bearing numerous marks of confusion. The twelve- rather than eleven-day discrepancy between the start of the old year (25 March) and that of the modern financial year (6 April) has caused puzzlement, with "deeply conservative tax accountants" and the leap year of 1752 ingeniously offered as explanations: Guardian, 3 Sept., 15 Oct. 1990. In fact, 25 March was first day of the year but the last day of the financial quarter, corresponding to 5 April; the difference was thus exactly eleven days.
This scheme, however, ran against the provisions of the Act that financial transactions should run their full natural term, so the national accounts continued to be made up to end on the Old Style quarter-days of 5 January, 5 April, 5 July, and 10 October, creating the unique British financial year whose basis continues to defy general comprehension.
The cover of Throwing Muses’ 1995 album “University”
A screenshot of Claude’s response to the question “How should the case be decided?” This case involves complex tensions between established copyright principles and emerging AI technology. Here's how I think the legal and policy considerations should be weighed: The Copyright Infringement Claims Should Succeed On Pirated Materials: If Anthropic indeed sourced training materials from piracy websites, this should be straightforward copyright infringement. The unauthorized copying occurred before any Al training even began, making fair use arguments much weaker. Companies shouldn't benefit from using illegally obtained materials, regardless of the innovative purpose.
An obligatory photo of Big Ben (yes, actually the Elizabeth Tower, don’t @ me) from a walk we took on our first day living in London ten years ago.
A screenshot of the NYT Spelling Bee, with the word “chilblain” being rejected, as “not in word list”
A photo of BBC News on a television. The chyron reads “Scientists race to discover why Universe exists”
Joe Lycett, visiting Birmingham, Michigan on his road tour of America’s Birminghams, “discovers that [its] inhabitants… call themselves ‘Birminghamsters’. ‘Like the little critters?’”