A nearly three-hour televised debate between French presidential candidates Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen on Wednesday night scored the lowest ever ratings for such a match-up. - Deadline
Following the lead of activist filmmakers and stars—who ran especially hot on social media during the long months of Covid lockdown—the industry has clearly aligned itself with progressive positions on inclusion, racial equity, gender and transgender rights, gun control, border enforcement, abortion... - Deadline
Implicit in the phrase “the artist’s life” is the idea that this is a life apart. We are not so quick to rhapsodize about the insurance agent’s life or the plumber’s. - The New York Times
The difficulty in understanding transformers lies in their abstraction. Whereas a conventional program follows an understandable process, like outputting the word “grass” whenever it sees the word “green,” a transformer converts the word “green” into numbers and then multiplies them by certain values. - Nautilus
Is there such a thing as too many streaming options? How many people are really willing to pay for them? And could this business be less profitable and far less reliable than what the industry has been doing for years? - The New York Times
Since NBC took back The Office and HBO Max did the same with Friends, well, it can’t exactly be said that the emperor has no content. It’s just that Netflix’s whole approach favors quantity over quality. - The Guardian
"The police said they were just following orders, and they obviously didn't know the music or why they had these orders. ... Anyway, they were late, because we'd already played Silvestrov's music. So Schubert ended up sacrificing himself for Silvestrov and Ukraine." - Van
My peers are burnt out, despondent and thinking of leaving the sector. Everybody has told me to leave the country, even if I am able to find a job here. Alongside precarious short-term contracts and chronic overwork, which are common everywhere, the government has cultivated a set of policies which demonstrate its neglect. - Sydney Morning Herald
Laurie Anderson, Steve Reich, Dave Brubeck, and Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh are alumni. John Cage, Terry Riley, Lou Harrison, Pauline Oliveros, the Art Ensemble of Chicago's Roscoe Mitchell, and Morton Subotnick taught there — not to mention former department head Robert Ashley, who would get stoned before lectures. - The Guardian
A study conducted by Bloomberg Philanthropies examined 17 sites over two years, before and after they were painted with “asphalt art” (art on surfaces such as roads, sidewalks, and underpasses). - Hyperallergic
For one thing, he's the first executive editor who may be wealthier than the paper's owners. (He is heir to a large retailing fortune.) And, finds profiler Shawn McCreesh (former assistant to Maureen Dowd), Kahn is erudite, disciplined, and very, very earnest. - New York Magazine
As 2022 began, the U.S. trade publishing business was dominated by what has been called the Big Five—Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette Book Group, and Macmillan. - Publishers Weekly
"The Molières were designed to bridge the gap between (the) two opposing production models. ... The distinction has long structured French theater and shaped its aesthetics," with commercial theatre tending toward light entertainment and state-funded companies more intellectualized and experimental work. The gap, however, hasn't been bridged. - The New York Times
Not understanding makes bad things happen. When we don’t understand why lightning strikes or ships sink or babies die, sacrificing virgins might seem a viable approach. - Wired
— that there's "an immediate drop in content." The drop isn't exactly a surprise, but what one lead researcher found "shocking" was that the fall, and the staffing cuts that lead to it, happen so quickly after acquisition. - Nieman Lab
