Hello there, you wonderful human!

Breaking news: we are postponing our AI Quiz with guest host, Conor McCarthy, to Tuesday the 26th of November at 4pm GMT.

Sorry about that, but the good news is that you have a few more days to brush up on AI FOR MARKETERS!!

So please save the NEW date, sign up NOW, and enjoy the weekend reads below 🤩

Big love, 

Chris & the 42courses team x 

• What if Trump were a rapper? As Benedict Evans said in his most recent newsletter, American politics tops everything this week, so here's a lighthearted take on the general message each from Trump and Harris.
   
• How very Contagious! Most Contagious, in fact, is a series of events, one in London on 28 November, and in New York on 30 January, and our learners get a special discount on tickets! (Just use the code MOCO42COURSES)
   
• How did we end up with...KPop? In 1993, when the South Korean government noticed that Jurassic Park made as much money they had selling 1.5 million Hyuindai cars, they decided to start backing the arts and entertainment industry.
   
• The art AI made in Kindergarten: The hilarious Janelle Shane strikes again with a blog post on what very small LLMs produced as prompt suggestions for AI art. Take a look at the limited data sets they were trained on to see how they influence the results.
   
• Nike's biggest mistake: Plus what KitKat got right and Liquid Death got wrong, yup, it's the marketing Maverick, Mark Ritson, sharing all his contrarian thought on the Uncensored CMO podcast.

• 1492 - Christopher Columbus notes the first recorded reference to tobacco in his journal. 🚬
   
• 1720 - Pirates Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and Calico Jack are captured by Captain Jonathan Barnet and brought to Spanish Town, Jamaica, for trial. 🏴‍☠️
   
• 1777 - The Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States, is approved by the Continental Congress. 📜
   
• 1837 - Isaac Pitman introduces his shorthand system of writing, known as Pitman shorthand. ✍️
   
• 1904 - King C. Gillette patents the safety razor, known as the Gillette razor blade. 🪒
   
• 1932 - The Walt Disney Art School is created. 🎨
   
• 1956 - Love Me Tender, featuring Elvis Presley in his acting debut, premieres in the United States. 🎬
   
• 1963 - Valium, created by chemist Leo Sternbach at Roche, is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration and becomes the most prescribed drug worldwide from 1969 to 1982. 💊
   
• 1979 - A package from the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing. ✈️