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Why Are Murals Of A Murdered Ukrainian Refugee Appearing Across The United States?

The murals are all part of Elon Musk’s effort to blame Democrats for crime - and they’re appearing on buildings across the United States. - Chicago Sun-Times

In Britain, Digging For A Bypass Means Finding Roman Pottery – And An Ancient Fossil

“What was initially believed to be nothing more than a large rock was found to contain the snout of an ichthyosaur, which was so heavy it took two men to lift.” The fossils likely “had been moved by a glacier and deposited at Melton some 200 million years ago.” - BBC

Google’s AI Overviews Don’t Just Hallucinate; They Can Also Scam The Unwary

“The unfortunate victim Googles a company name looking for a contact number, then calls the number thrown up by AI. This doesn't actually lead to the company in question, but rather to someone pretending to be that company, who then tries to take payment information.” - Wired

The Old Movies You Could Watch Instead Of Seeing Heated Rivalry For The Tenth Time

Not that we’re judging your trips to the cottage, but, for instance, "Tkaronto patiently and beautifully expresses that longing for connection through fleeting, thorny and bittersweet romantic interlude.” - The Guardian (UK)

Viral AI-Generated Video Of Tom Cruise Fighting Brad Pitt Is Upending Hollywood

SAG-AFTRA is not real happy about this development from a newer generative video source. “This is unacceptable and undercuts the ability of human talent to earn a livelihood.” - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)

Tracey Emin On What Young Artists Need To Do In A World Riddled With Stolen ‘Generative’ AI

“Keep a diary, get a camera, learn to print your own photos. Don’t put it all in your phone, because everything in your phone belongs to someone else. And if you want to write a secret to someone, send a letter.” - The Guardian (UK)

The Two Crossover Singers Whom Nashville Spurned, But Hollywood Embraced

Olivia Newton John and John Denver might be mostly known for the mildness of their music, but at one point they were two of Nashville’s untouchables. - Slate

If You Want More Olympics, There Are Years And Years Of Documentaries To Stream

“Some of them are startlingly cinematic, far beyond the workmanlike coverage we expect from seeing the same action on television.” - The New York Times

There’s Only One Bed, Or, How Tropes Took Over Romance Discourse

“You can reduce anything down to tropes – grumpy v sunshine, pride v prejudice – but should we? What does it mean for the way we read – and for the ways we think about art?” - The Guardian (UK)

What Minnesota’s Indie Bookstores Are Doing During The ICE Surge

“There are two types of requests: books to help people understand what’s happening in the country and books to provide a momentary escape.” - Minnesota Public Radio

University Of North Texas Can’t Handle An Art Show With Anti-ICE Content

“Victor Quiñonez, the artist behind the exhibition, said he learned about the university’s decision when students messaged him on social media to say the windows of the gallery in Denton, northwest of Dallas, had been covered and the door locked.” - The New York Times

Catalan Cinema, Moving Beyond The Art House

“The region’s new generation of filmmakers is no longer bound by the intimate, place-specific arthouse mode that often defined the late 2010s New Catalan Cinema. ... They are pushing into genre, into international co-production, into areas their predecessors rarely touched.” - Variety

Orhan Pamuk Finally Goes Netflix

But only on the Turkish novelist's own terms, which is one reason it’s taken a while. - The New York Times

The Ur-Conspiracy Theory, And How To Fight Them In General

“The fundamental problem we face involves the degree to which the truth must now compete with such a vast multiplicity of falsehoods that discovering truth itself becomes unviable.” - Paris Review

Since We’re Talking About Wuthering Heights, Let’s Talk Kate Bush

Not just Kate Bush - but other top songs inspired by literature, including Rosaliá, Kendrick Lamar, and, yes, The Rolling Stones. - The Guardian (UK)

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