"Over the past few months, new advancements in A.I." — in particular, the platforms Sudowrite (text) and Dall-E (images) — "have made it clear that writers, illustrators, photographers, journalists, and novelists could soon be driven from the workforce and replaced by high-tech player pianos." - Vanity Fair
"More than three months into the (Ukraine) war, reports are surfacing about illicit screenings of Hollywood movies at Russian cinemas, with initial reports naming The Batman, Red Notice, Disney animation Turning Red and Michael Bay crime actioner Ambulance." - Variety
Colleen Hoopes was killed by two bullets from a gun fired by her husband, Christopher Hoopes, in their bedroom. He told police that he was "startled" awake and shot at what he thought was an intruder before realizing it was his wife. - The Daily Beast
"Alberto Sánchez's ballet set for La romería de los cornudos (The Pilgrimage of Cuckolds), 1933, was reportedly torn in one part by the tourist who fell on the work. ... As she fell, she grabbed hold of the piece and ripped part of its wallpaper." - ARTnews
It would go on to transfer to Broadway for a then-record eight-year run, spawning several touring companies and a celebrated film. Not many know that it was almost stillborn. - APNews
Later this summer, Bedford begins his new gig leading the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which has a budget that’s roughly three times as large as the BMA’s. - Baltimore Sun
“I don’t think anyone has any idea of the cultural impact that small data set is having on the country as a whole,” says the APTN’s Jones. Coles has some idea. One of the findings that surprised her most was how much an “imagined audience” was used to justify decisions “laced with racism, sexism, homophobia.” - The Walrus
What many of the 600,000 patrons who annually pass beneath its iconic red windmill entrance probably don’t know is that the Moulin Rouge is not quite as quintessentially French as you might think. - Toronto Star
Technically speaking, as soon as a user in a war zone picks up a smartphone to assist the army, both the technology and the individual could be considered sensors, or nodes, ... blurring the lines between civilian and combatant activity. - Wired
What they claim to do is to scan billions of social media posts with really sophisticated AI to identify threats of potential violence or self-harm. ... These models may not be very sophisticated or that this might be a really hard problem to solve even if the models are very sophisticated. - Slate
The percentage of college students who believe the political and social climate on their campus prevents people from freely expressing themselves rose from 54.7 percent in 2019 to 63.5 percent in 2021. - InsideHigherEd
First introduced in January 2021, the Maryland e-book law required any publisher offering to license "an electronic literary product" to consumers in the state to also offer to license the content to public libraries "on reasonable terms." - Publishers Weekly
My contention is not that the quality of music decreased, but that the changing consumption method devalues each moment of recorded sound. The immense quantity of music now available makes the pool larger, and thus the individuals (songs/tracks/works) inherently have less value. - NewMusicBox
Obscure backlist titles are being thrust into the spotlight, generating sales of hundreds of thousands of copies. Every chain bookstore now prominently displays BookTok titles, pushing Oprah’s selections back to the next table. - Publishers Weekly
