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The Dominion Voting/Fox News Lawsuit: Who’s Really Responsible (And Thus Liable) For What Was Said On The Air?

Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch: "I'm not the CEO of Fox News. I'm not responsible for the editorial on Fox News. I don't make editorial decisions on Fox News."  Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott: "I don't decide what's on Fox News." (Sure.) - Variety

The Messy, Convoluted, Expensive, And Sometimes Ugly Business Of Campaigning For Oscar Votes

Studios, agents, and sometimes the talent themselves try to manipulate Academy voters and the press by hiring consultants, buying ads, throwing events, pestering people, staging photo ops, and sometimes even dropping dirt on competitors. - The New York Times Magazine

Spotify Says It Has Now Paid Out Almost $40 Billion To Holders Of Music Rights

"The company said it pays out nearly 70% of every dollar it generates from music back to the industry. ... These rights holders include record labels, publishers, independent distributors, performance rights organizations and collecting societies ... (but) rarely the artist or songwriter." - Variety

LACMA Says It’s Raised Almost All The Money For Its New Building

"The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced on Tuesday that its $750-million fundraising campaign for a new building — the David Geffen Galleries, designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor — is 98% complete, now standing at $736 million." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)

Chaim Topol, Actor Known Worldwide For “Fiddler On The Roof”, Is Dead At 87

A revered actor in his native Israel, he had a respectable list of stage and screen credits there and internationally, but he was indelibly associated with Tevye the Dairyman, whom he played in the West End, on Broadway, in the movie film, and elsewhere, performing the role more than 3,500 times. - Variety

Daniel Barenboim’s Health Is Again A Worry As He Cancels An Upcoming Recital

"(He) has canceled a piano recital at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo due to the effects of a serious neurological condition. … Barenboim was diagnosed last year with the condition, which forced him to step down in January as music director at the Berlin State Opera after three decades." - AP

The Reality Of Artistic Success In Canada: “I Still Can’t Pay My Bills”

Molly Johnson has achieved at the highest level in Canada, with the awards to match: “I gotta say I was depressed. It saddened me, initially, deeply, that here I am in this stage of my career and I still can’t really pay my bills." - Toronto Star

Florida’s Attack On Free Speech Casts A Chill

The bill would make it defamatory to claim that someone is racist, sexist, or homophobic based on that person’s religious beliefs. This is, in some ways, the bill’s most reactionary provision, because it recasts what courts ordinarily consider an opinion as a defamatory fact. - The New Yorker

Study: Why So Many Of Us Are Afraid Of Clowns

More than half the respondents (53.5%) said they were scared of clowns at least to some degree, with 5% saying they were “extremely afraid” of them. Interestingly, this percentage reporting an extreme fear of clowns is slightly higher than those reported for many other phobias. - The Conversation

Scientists Figure Out How To Turn Brain Signals Into Images

Using around 90 per cent of the brain-imaging data, the pair trained a model to make links between fMRI data from a brain region that processes visual signals, called the early visual cortex, and the images that people were viewing. - New Scientist

What If You Optimized Your Everyday Life With Algorithms? This Guy Tried It

One of the first things I’d learned about optimization was that something is optimal if it is equal or preferable to any alternative. To optimize an experience, then, is to shepherd it toward the preferable. - Wired

Will Your Next Radio Host Be An AI? (It’s Already In Testing)

One of the advantages of RadioGPT is that it knows about an artist or a song or about a current event, so it can speak to a broad range of topics concisely and in an entertaining way. When we set up RadioGPT voices, this is not text-to-speech. This is setting up character and personality in A.I. - Slate

Painters Have Been Flouting The Physics Of Shadows For Centuries, And Most Of Us Barely Notice

"The rules of physics that apply in a real scene appear to be optional in a painting; they can be obeyed or ignored at the discretion of the artist to enhance the painting's intended effect. ... Our visual brain uses a simpler, reduced physics to understand the world." - The MIT Press Reader

Art On Abortion Removed From Idaho College – It’s Against The Law?

Idaho Code 18-8705 states that public funds cannot be used “to perform or promote abortion, provide counseling in favor of abortion, make referral for abortion, or provide facilities for abortion or for training to provide or perform abortion.” - Hyperallergic

Britain’s National Theatre Is Producing A Multi-City Adaptation Of “The Odyssey”

The first four episodes of the updated version of Homer's epic will be produced in Stoke-on-Trent, Doncaster, Trowbridge, and Sunderland, with each episode adapted by a local playwright.  For the finale, the teams from all four towns will converge at the NT headquarters in London. - The Guardian

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