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People Who Know Little About AI Are Much Friendlier Toward Using It
Bascially? People who understand AI isn’t “magical” are less enamored of it. - Wired
Spotify And Universal Music Group Reach A Deal That May Help Musicians After Bundling...
The deal, which supposedly ameliorates some of the damage from last year’s audiobook-music bundling plan by the streaming giant, “also marks the first direct...
How Can Los Angeles’ Most Beloved Industry Survive?
“At stake is the future of a defining industry that helps make Los Angeles a vibrant creative capital, employing tens of thousands of workers...
Why Reading Lolita In Tehran Still Holds Up
Or maybe holds up even better, more than two decades later: Azar Nafisi’s memoir “isn’t just about reading and teaching literature under a repressive...
Every Artist In Britain Including Paul McCartney Wants The Government To Stand Up To...
What the actual artist-hating hell, UK? “The government is considering an overhaul of law that would allow AI developers to use creators' content...
Felicity Jones Does Not Want To See Herself In Her Movies
That is, she’ll watch them - but, she says, "When I see a blink or a laugh I recognise as my own, I think:...
As We Get Farther From The Year She Died, What We’re Missing About Anne...
“Anne’s iconicity requires her story to achieve a difficult balancing act. It warns powerfully against all persecution, but must remain true to its character...
Which Author Better Predicted, Or Can Help Us Deal With, The Fires In Los...
What did Octavia Butler, who died nearly two decades ago, know “about the future that the Fonz now finds himself in after many, many...
Sundance Documentary About The Vietnam War’s Most Famous Photograph Arrives Under A Cloud Of...
Did Nick Ut take the famous photo Napalm Girl? "Ten days before the premiere of the documentary The Stringer at the Sundance Film Festival...
Theatre Critics, Tear Down That Wall
A regular rotation of theatre articles and criticism from daily papers (whatever those are) isn’t coming back. So it’s up to theatre makers to...
Jessie Grimes Has Been A Successful Classical Musician For Years, And At Last She...
The artist in residence in Dublin says, “The fact that I wore a dress for all those years now boggles my mind. I was...
Netflix Is Becoming Cable, And Other Streamers Aren’t Even Close
And oh, how we’re all going to pay for that. - The Verge
Pittsburgh Symphony, Despite Rising Revenues, Has A Seven Million Dollar Deficit
But there’s a plan to manage the deficit - and to raise more funds, despite historically low audiences for core “classical” concerts (unless Yo-Yo...
There’s No One Better Than Jane Austen
That’s the claim of novelist Gill Hornby, anyway, who has written three books "set in the extended Austen family.” - The Guardian (UK)
This Actor Would Like For The Next Season Of The Traitors To Star, Well,...
Tamara Lawrence, star of Get Millie Black, says, "I want to be a traitor so bad." - The New York Times
Hugh Grant Urges British Police To Open A Criminal Investigation Into Tabloid Owners
“Grant also argued a new investigation was needed because people who were at the paper at the time that private investigators who carried out...
How The Von Trapps Actually Got To America Wasn’t Like The Movie
They climbed no mountains, and were aided directly in getting visas by Labor Secretary Frances Perkins. But, to be fair, Maria did arrive from...
Slow Horses Author Wins Lifetime Award
Diamond Dagger winner Mick Herron “is the quintessential writers’ writer and his Slough House novels have, by general consensus, reinvented the spy thriller, going...
The Death Of The Commons
What does Starbucks’ new bathroom policy have to do with an ability to gather in public, and the forces destroying that ability? - The...
Chinese Author Fang Fang On Her Covid-19 Diaries, Being Censored, And The Power Of...
"I still believe that we can forgive those who have forgotten, be more tolerant of those who have forgotten history, and admire those who...
The National Gallery Of Art Ends Its DEI Program
“The museum has removed any language referring to DEI from its website. On a page outlining the institution’s mission and values, the words 'diversity,...
Thieves Blow Up Dutch Museum Door To Steal A Golden Helmet
“The video is grainy but ominous: three hooded figures, clambering over one another to tug at a heavy access door of the Drents Museum...
In Athens, The Long-Lost Painting Prometheus Unbound Is Drawing Mesmerized Crowds
The 19th-century Danish painting is about freedom from long oppression, but "for many, the power of the painting also lies in its extraordinary history....
The Reading Gender Gap Isn’t Big, But Also, Men Have Bigger Problems Than Not...
“Novels can’t be a one-size-fits-all solution, nor are books the only way to get closer to humanity, or imagine a better world, or to...
Why The Brutalist’s Use Of Several Kinds Of AI Has Hollywood Awards Folks Deeply...
“Everyone agrees that The Brutalist is particularly vulnerable to any association with AI. The film was shot on a rarely used format called VistaVision, and throughout...
