There are two major government claims: The regulations will protect (innocent?) watchers; and also, regulating streaming will "create a 'new golden age' of British TV." - BBC
"A true metaverse — one accessible by a single gateway, in which life persists even in a user's absence — doesn't yet exist. But its depiction on screen is becoming more frequent and all-encompassing." - CBC
Changes have been made; one act is gone. The director, who was in the original Broadway show, says, "We evenly distributed the show so there’s less injuries. ... I wanted every dancer to have spots in the show that they’re recognizable and featured to their best ability." - Los Angeles Times
Nothing against the Hamilton cast album - obviously a different animal - but the 1990s were the last great decade of film soundtracks. Why? You probably know why: Napster. - HuffPost
She died on April 30, one day before she and her daughters Wynonna and Ashley were due to perform at the Country Music Hall of Fame, and just after Naomi and Wynonna had announced a Judds farewell tour. - Variety
The Mariupol City Council says that "Russian forces have seized more than 2,000 pieces of artwork from the besieged port city of Mariupol," and the works "have been taken to Russian-occupied Donetsk." - Washington Post
Signalling in writing or in speech that you’re anti-racist is entirely different to being anti-racist – that is, to doing the work to create workplace cultures and policies that safely accommodate BIPOC artists once they’re on the inside. - ArtsHub
Unsurprisingly, the recording did not start life intending to keep the company of Madonna and Prince – but in late 1992 the symphony was soaring high. For 11 weeks it was among the 40 bestselling albums in the UK, peaking at No 6 in early February 1993. - The Guardian
The researchers found global correlations between extraversion and contemporary music; between conscientiousness and unpretentious music; between agreeableness and mellow and unpretentious music; and between openness and mellow, contemporary, intense and sophisticated music. - Gramilano
Since the UK left the EU on 31 January 2020, Shovlar’s income has dropped by 60%. He says trade with the EU, where 99% of his clients are based, is now “virtually impossible” and the 30 to 50 sales he was making a week have dwindled. - The Art Newspaper
Tannenbaum’s GoFundMe didn’t just meet its target – staggeringly, it actually doubled its $60,000 goal in just two days of operations, instantly changing The Bookstore from a business that had long operated in the red to one that was flush with cash reserves. - The Guardian
Despite 20 years of often difficult relations, a clear recognition of the “frenemy” dynamic at play, and the reality of intensifying competition for attention, advertising, and consumers’ cash, many publishers still actively seek to collaborate with platform companies. - NiemanLab
That's what the University of Leeds is calling its project to digitize its huge collection of field recordings of vernacular speech in regional England in the 1950s and '60s — and to update that collection with the way people speak around the country today. - The Guardian
We are so quick to equate pessimism with passivity or fatalism or despair, and to reject it on that basis – for, of course, we do not want a philosophy that tells us to give up. But is that really what pessimism means? - Aeon
