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A Key Researcher For OpenAI Has Resigned, Citing A Lack Of Care For Safety
The researcher wrote, "Over the past years, safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products.” - The Verge
How In The World Did The Royal Portrait Of Charles Turn Into The King...
"The kind of people who deign to sit for portraits think of themselves, to quote a Shakespearean sonnet, as ‘lords and owners of their...
Does The ‘Real-Life Martha’ Of Baby Reindeer Have An Actual Case Against Netflix?
For one thing, “the U.K. is notoriously more favorable to libel plaintiffs than the U.S., where the First Amendment protects a broad range of...
Alta, Poet Who Started What Was Probably The US’s First Feminist Press, Has Died...
Alta started Shameless Hussy Press in her garage. “She was having trouble getting her own brash and sensuous free-form poetry published by the mainstream...
The Weird Case of The Stereophonic Cast Recording
The thing is, “Stereophonic’s cast recording is not pretending to bring the album from the show’s universe into the real world. It delivers finished...
The End Of The Movies
Netflix isn’t about flicks anymore. Nor are most of the other streaming services. Instead, they're all about shows - scripted, reality, and live. -...
The ‘Deep Tissue Read’ Of Literary Translation
By a human, that is. “I did an event with Leila Slimani where she said she thought her translators know her better than her...
The Self-Reinvention Of Reese Witherspoon In A World Of Books
Witherspoon: “When there’s a big economic shift in the media business, it’s not the superhero movies or independent films we lose out on. It’s...
Tony Nominee Sarah Paulson Enjoys Playing Tough – Some Might Say Unlikeable – Characters
"Some actors avoid playing objectionable people, concerned about being pigeonholed into villainhood, or that in the audience’s impressionable minds, their character’s likability might blur...
King Lear Had A Happy Ending For 140 Years
OK, bring back the 18th century: "Cordelia gets a romance. ... She gets her love, Edgar. King Lear gets to rule. The bad people...
Will Glasgow Ever Restore Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Burned Out School Of Art?
“People wept in the street when the magnificent Mackintosh building was nearly destroyed by two fires. So why, 10 years on and despite overwhelming...
John Leguizamo Says Rejection Made Him The Actor And Activist He Is Today
"For clearly one of the hardest workers in show business with one of the longest resumes I've ever seen, it's hard to believe that...
The Tate Britain Finally Gets A Louise Jopling
One of the most famous British women artists of the 1800s, "for more than a century, Louise Jopling has been dismissed by the art...
What With The Whole Cyberattack Thing, How’s The Spring Art Market Doing?
The market already wasn’t super hot: “The bidding wars that characterized the pandemic spending frenzy have largely dissipated in favor of prearranged ‘guarantee’ deals...
Judi Dench Talks All Kinds Of Books
Her macular degeneration might keep her from “reading” the old-fashioned way, but she still loves books of every sort. "I love being surrounded by...
Every New Streaming Bundle Is A Reminder Of What We’ve Lost
“If bundles are back, why did we ever give up cable in the first place" - Slate
London’s National Gallery Turns 200
The museum celebrated with a light show projected on its façade, a show that featured hundreds of projections of paintings from its collection. -...
Nerdy, Unscripted Voice Actors Are Going Big By Playing Dungeons And Dragons For The...
The team that started Critical Role years ago would be shocked by their "transmedia kingdom of novels, comic books, animated series and original games,...
Life As A Stunt Double Is Exciting, Weird, And Dangerous
"Mum ran a gymnastics club, so I was a solid acrobat. I’d trained through my teens as a dancer: choreo and movement mimicking came...
Three Chances To Play A God
"If you’re a performer, you have that little spark of magic that makes you watchable, right? When you play a god, it’s like, how...
Where Is Mona Lisa Sitting?
The mystery may have been solved. - The New York Times
Manchester’s Coop Live Is Set To Open, Finally, On Tuesday
The music venue, whose opening has been delayed three times by everything from power supply problems to “part of the ventilation system becoming detached,”...
At The BAFTAs, Some Expected Winners – And Some Surprises
No, Happy Valley’s intense final season didn’t win top drama - but Sarah Lancashire won for her portrayal of tough, vulnerable, smart cop-in-danger Catherine...
Colson Whitehead Withdraws As Commencement Speaker After UMass Admin Call Police On Protesters
On Bluesky, the author wrote, “Calling the cops on peaceful protesters is a shameful act. ... I give all my best wishes and congratulations...
The Formerly Missing Star Trek Enterprise Model’s Fate Will Be Decided In Court
“The starship model and its celebrated return is now the subject of a lawsuit alleging fraud, negligence and deceptive trade practice, highlighting the enduring...