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The EU Passes A ‘Sweeping’ New Slate Of Regulations For Artificial Intelligence
"It includes bans on biometric systems that identify people using sensitive characteristics such as sexual orientation and race, and the indiscriminate scraping of faces...
Poet And Professor Refaat Alareer Has Been Killed In Gaza By An Israeli Airstrike
The poem pinned to the popular creative writing teacher's Twitter/X account since November is called "If I must die, let it be a tale."...
Women Have Moved To The Center Of K-Dramas
Actress Uhm Jung-hwa says there's a shift from the 1990s, when women characters were focused on finding husbands: "Now we can see many strong...
The Best Book Covers Of 2023
Right, don't judge a book by its cover, but go ahead and judge the covers. - The New York Times
The Quiet Plan To Make The Internet Dramatically Faster
There are so many potential bottlenecks for the speed of something we rely on: "Each part of the network (such as switches, routers, modems,...
Benjamin Zephaniah, Poet, Actor, Musician, And Activist, Has Died At 65
Zephaniah, who refused an OBE, "was heavily influenced by Jamaican music and poetry, and he was often classified as a dub poet." - The...
Wikipedia’s Most Prolific Road And Highway Editors Left The Site
Then they made their own wiki. "Behind this seemingly amusing clash of nerds is a far more pressing issue: how to reconcile 20 years...
When You Want A Dragon, Sometimes You Have To Just Do The Job Yourself
Christopher Paolini really wanted to be a dragon-rider, but that wasn't a job opportunity. So the then-15-year-old wrote a book instead. - The New...
Spotify Cutting Nearly One-Fifth Of Its Staff
It's the third round of cuts for Spotify, and "equates to about 1,500 jobs." - NPR
A New Literary Prize Won’t Be Judged By The Usual Suspects
For the Inside Literary Prize, inspired by a similar prize in France, "a jury of inmates in prisons across six states will be able...
The Movies That Truly Moved People
Sometimes, the scenery really does work - for instance, many people dropped everything and moved to New Zealand after seeing The Lord of the...
Chicago’s Siskel Film Center Isn’t Complete Without Roger Ebert’s Name
"It wasn’t until they teamed up in 1976 to take their film criticism to an even wider audience through the medium of television that...
Broadway Singers And Senior Living Facilities Are Clearly A Match Made In NY
One of the Broadway kids performing in front of an audience of Broadway aficionados said, "I was expecting to have the best show ever...
The British Independent Film Awards Really Liked A Supernatural Gay Drama
The film All of Us Strangers won best film, best screenplay, best director, best supporting actor and several craft awards. - Variety
Using Virginia Woolf As A Survival Strategy
When, 95 years ago, Virginia Woolf wrote Orlando: A Biography, she didn't know that her satirical, clever, sweeping love letter to an aristocrat would...
Who Should Win The UK’s Big Turner Prize?
Four finalists contend, but "I don’t believe anyone cares who wins any more. The artists successfully derailed the system themselves in 2019." - The...
Trying To Defend ‘The Humanities’ Isn’t Working – Not At All
"An atmosphere of urgency and calls for immediate action are hostile to fields of study like literature and philosophy that require a contemplative mood,...
Oregon’s Sleepy Capital City Connects Its Musical Youth To Classical Stars
The program brings students from rival high schools together in a non-competitive environment to work and play with pros. Project Chamber Music's "secret sauce...
A Play In France Reflects Life, Which Then Intrudes On The Play
After a play about Black Frenchwomen's experiences premiered in the summer in southern France, a series of racist attacks followed - and one actress...
Today’s Most Bankable Actors All, Suddenly, Seem To Be Irish
"So, what’s the craic with this Irish invasion?" - Slate
Cookbooks Are On A Mission
Some of them are, anyway, trying to help their readers cook for the planet. - Wired
Hold On, Merriam Webster, Oxford Has Picked A Different Word Of The Year
And it's the slightly iffy-sounding, if not meaning, "rizz" (chaRIZZma, get it?). The word even beat out "situationship" and "Swiftie." Why? Because the Gen-Alphas...
Sundays With Singer Andrea Bocelli
Except for church, around the corner from his place in Tuscany, it isn't that different from other days. "When you’re a singer, what night...
Susan Sarandon Apologizes For Her Remarks About Jews
Sarandon, whose agents dropped her after her remarks at a Nov. 17 rally in support of a cease-fire in Gaza, wrote on Instagram that...
Saudi Arabia’s Architectural Mega-Projects Are For Whom, Or What, Exactly?
"It will take to the limit the proposition that art can change the world for the better." Er, indeed. - The Observer (UK)