15 JUN 2026

Day 166

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Simone de Beauvoir · The Second Sex

Four small clay cattle standing in a row, horns curving inward and down; one head missing, paint largely worn away, on a plain base.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

El-Amra clay model of cattle

Predynastic Egypt · c. 3500 BC (Naqada I) · Painted clay

Four clay cattle, once painted and wrapped in linen, were set in a Predynastic grave at El-Amra around 3500 BC — a small herd for the afterlife, now in the British Museum.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

TruthfulQA: Benchmarking Tendency to Generate Falsehoods

evaluation · 2109.07958 · imitative falsehoods

TruthfulQA asks questions that humans often get wrong. The aim is not general knowledge, but whether a model will reproduce the same misconceptions that appear in its training text.

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Two richly dressed men stand on either side of a shelved stand holding globes, dials, a lute and books. A distorted pale shape cuts across the patterned floor; a curtain at the upper left half hides a small crucifix.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

The Ambassadors

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1533 · Oil on oak panel

Two diplomats stand among instruments of science and faith. Between them, a warped shape on the floor resolves into a skull — but only if you stand in the right place.

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