Is this a little like The New York Times buying Wordle? Yes, and the outrage is not dissimilar. For instance: "I lost my game history, and the link to get it back only exists for a microsecond. Also the skip function is now super glitchy, making the game unplayable." - BBC
People described Michael Jordan's basketball moves as "balletic," and sometimes said Kobe Bryant "tap-danced" his way to the net - but those were metaphors. Or were they? - The Sports Rush
Perhaps that's not such a surprise, well into our third year of a global pandemic, but the drama nominees show "it is easy to feel trapped by forces beyond our control. Easy to feel like pawns in a game or part of an experiment." - Los Angeles Times
At least, not for now. People using the program DALL-E, which takes human words and makes images in response, "have found that it elevates human creativity rather than making it obsolete." - Wired
In a heavily refugee and immigrant area of Glasgow, "Musicians in Exile a way of helping to give musician asylum seekers and refugees in the area a chance to gather every Tuesday evening to sing, play and share their talents, experiences, stories and songs." - Time Out
Obviously, "involuntary location" is a nonstarter, but also, "describing someone as a slave does nothing to diminish their humanity. Enslaving someone diminishes their humanity, which is why one should not do it." Texas and liberals alike can use their words - correctly. - The Atlantic
"A growing number of Latino artists are working to broaden and elevate how Americans view piñatas and (their) history. Some are carving out a place for piñatas in the arts world, while others use the object to make pointed social and political commentary." - The Guardian
Will there be a montage of typing fingers? A poetry read-off in Iowa City? A "who navigated the workshop the best" scene in LA? Well: "The six finalists, locked together for a month, will face 'live-wire' challenges as they attempt to write an entire novel." - The Guardian (UK)
If an AI-powered robot exhibited intelligence and capacity to suffer, we might consider granting it moral personhood even though it's not alive. Tapeworms and pubic lice are alive but clearly not person-equivalent, whereas dolphins or bonobos might be. Tim Sommers considers some criteria. - 3 Quarks Daily
The school's leader, before the Taliban and now in exile: "We can show the world a different Afghanistan. ... We will show how we can raise the voices of our people. We will show where we stand." - The New York Times
"This pattern of movements can be used by one forager bee to tell other bees where a food source is located. ... An international team of researchers set out to see if a similar system could be used by robots and humans in locations ... where wireless networks aren't available." - New Atlas
Can a painter plagiarize a film? Maybe not in the legal sense - but instead of litigation, the museum and the artists involved in this case created something like reparation instead. - ARTnews
"He (has) revised and radically rewritten ... An Obedient Father, (which) he published 22 years earlier. Considerably shorter, with a very different ending but the same title, the novel ... reappears this month — more than 30 years after Sharma began it." - The New York Times Magazine
"English has always been a language that has looked ahead to the future. Forged multiply in the crucible of caste, class, gender, and ethnic politics, English has found roots in India as a language that erases itself in the hope of what it could be." - Los Angeles Review of Books
