“Buchanan said he had begun noticing subtle things in his own life, like how cracks zigzag across the sidewalk, or the way light hits the water, or the way a plant is squeezed against a rock.” - The New York Times
The e-commerce wing is now as big as EBay, despite all of the news that the app would be banned. Think billions of dollars - in only two years of existence. - Wired
OK, cool, especially if you’re a Roman Empire kind of person: “Users can digitally explore nearly 300,000 kilometers of roads laid across the vast Roman Empire at its height in the mid-second century.” - Open Culture
Or is it? “Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, F.D.R., Kennedy, the list goes on: Many presidents have taken turns remodeling one or another part of the presidential grounds, often inciting political backlash.” - The New York Times
Netflix has ordered 34 reality shows this year, way more than ever before. Why? Well: “They’re expanding the universe of big-budget, high-profile, high-concept reality series because their research tells them that’s what the audience wants.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
“At 450 feet, Calvin’s proposed monument would stand 150 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty, but it remains far from realization. For now, the Great Colossus of Prometheus stands only in digital renderings on X.”- San Francisco Chronicle
If Skydance Paramount Warner Bros Discovery becomes real, “this is probably the last mega deal we will see. The cable network assets are the problem. ... What's left will be studios, streaming, broadcast in some combination of that. And that's the end of it.” - Wall Street Journal
“I want to know: I want to watch writers grow from book to book, to follow the way their interests shift and their style adapts as they do more and more work. I want to be aware of the through-lines—sometimes overt, sometimes understated.” - Reactor
"Without being clued in to the content of the play, connected with the show’s intimacy director … to go over the show’s simulated sexual choreography. They signed intimacy riders that detailed what they were agreeing to do onstage.” - The New York Times
Ouch, just ouch. “The writing suggests that ChatGPT was asked to emulate Fifty Shades’ E. L. James, and however cringeworthy and brand-name-peppered that sounds, I can promise you it’s so much worse.” - The Atlantic
“Superficially, at least, Hamnet fits better in the traditional mold of Oscars-friendly fare.” And that’s what scares fans of Sinners and One Battle After Another. - Vulture
“But museum officials and civic leaders in Atlanta said providing an unvarnished depiction of the movement required a renewed level of perseverance in the current climate.” - The New York Times
“Each of these devices requires time, patience, and ideally, a solid internet connection. You need to predownload language pairs to ensure offline capability. You have to have the wherewithal to gesture to a conversation partner what the device is.” - The Verge (Archive Today)
Of course, Kate Hawley also “looked at Lord Bryon. ‘He’s an artist finding his muse. He’s not a scientist in the way that we traditionally know it, this is art that he’s building. We looked at all those references with bohemian irreverence and the way he wears his clothes.’” - Variety
