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No More “Free-Speech Barbie”: Salman Rushdie Is Tired Of Being A Symbol

“It’s a subject I’m anxious to change. I don’t feel symbolic. I feel actual. I feel like I’m a working writer trying to make his work.” The comments come almost four years after the knife attack that wounded his liver, intestines, and right eye. - The Guardian

How Do We Calibrate The Use Of AI In Education?

So what does “getting learning right” look like in the age of generative AI? It involves a lot of experimentation and leaning in with students as a co-learner when I don’t have all of the answers, while remaining staunchly committed to sharing my expertise in writing, critical thinking and learning.  - The Conversation

AI Is Showing Where The Gaps In Education Are

With AI, students can generate code that looks polished and sophisticated in seconds. But the ability to produce a solution has become decoupled from the ability to explain it. When asked to reason about performance, memory behavior or design trade-offs, many students struggle in ways that were less visible before. - InsideHigherEd

This Orchestra Has Stopped Doing Something That Audience Members Just Hate

“Sydney Symphony Orchestra has removed the $8.95 (Aus) booking fee on all tickets to its performances purchased from it directly, arguing the impost disproportionately impacted students and other lower-price ticket buyers.” - Australian Financial Review

The Case Against Streaming

It is not simply that Netflix and co are killing cinema – although, yes, that is a thing that is objectively bad. It is that the advent of streaming has made watching a movie in your own home more costly, more restricted and often incredibly annoying. - The Guardian

How The Land Art Movement Changed Our Perspective

The closest thing land art has to an origin story is a dusty road trip three of its early protagonists, Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, made to the Nevada desert in the late 1960s. - The Wall Street Journal

Study: Use Of AI Leads To Greater Creativity In Humans

When people were shown AI-generated design suggestions, they spent more time on the task, produced better designs and felt more involved. It was not just about efficiency. It was about creativity and collaboration." - Science Daily

How Manhattan Is Trying To Design Itself Into Better Climate Resilience

Inspired by the vulnerabilities revealed by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, ESCR features a series of protective features — walls, earthen berms and sliding doors — that wiggle along the East River shoreline, taking different forms as they encounter a head-scratching number of conditions. - Bloomberg

Arkansas Public Television “Pauses” Its Plan To End PBS Affiliation

Following negative feedback from the public and a drop in donations to the state network, the Arkansas TV Commission voted 4-1 to hold off, for 180 days past the July 1 effective date, the plan adopted in December to end ties with PBS. - Arkansas Advocate

A Bay Area Ballet Company And School Shut Down After 59 Years

“Peninsula Lively Arts and its subsidiary Peninsula Ballet Theatre are closing after six decades teaching and performing dance in San Mateo County, leaving a gaping hole in the local dance scene.” - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)

“War Of The Worlds” Named Worst Picture At 2026 Razzie Awards

The sci-fi film starring Ice Cube dominated the 46th Golden Raspberry Awards, also winning Worst Actor, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel. Among other honorees were the seven CGI dwarves in Snow White, who took both Worst Supporting Actor and Worst Screen Combo. - The Hollywood Reporter

BuzzFeed Reports “Substantial Doubt” That It Can Stay In Business

In an earnings report released last week, the company (which also owns the news site HuffPost and the food site Tasty) said that it does not have enough resources to cover its cash obligations for the next year and has had “strategic conversations” about its future. - CNN

Why Trump Dumped Ric Grenell From The Kennedy Center

“Trump still fully intends to remake the center in his image; he’d just like to limit the backlash. Whatever his talents, Grenell is not a no-backlash guy.” - The Atlantic

El Greco Painting Discovered After Overpainting Is Removed

“This weekend, the Vatican revealed a newly discovered painting by master Mannerist El Greco, long hidden underneath a forgery. This small work of oil on board, titled The Redeemer (c. 1590–95), turned up in the (papal apartments).” - Artnet

Grammarly Apologized For Turning Live And Dead Writers And Teachers Into So-Called Experts

But what the CEO “failed to mention was that the company wasn’t just dealing with hundreds of furious writers — it was facing litigation as well.” - Futurism

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