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    IDEAS

    • Today in Great Jobs: Casting Director Who Chooses The Series Of Actors Starring In “Oh, Mary!”

      Henry Russell Bergstein: “I think all these performers that we’ve had play the role are very different. But at heart, they have a sort of … I don’t know if the word wacky and access to wackiness is the right thing, but they also all have incredible acting chops.” – NPR

    • How Our Gamification Culture Kills The Spirit Of Play

      The entire architecture of digital life – with its algorithmic feeds, frictionless production and the ambient expectation that we should be consuming or optimising at all times – nudges us towards chasing outputs rather than generating meaning. – Aeon

    • The Star Who Injected Feminism Into Indian Classical Dance

      “By the 1950s, Chandralekha was a legendary figure in (Bharatanatyam). However, she walked away from fame, rejecting the Brahminical and nationalist values that had come to shape it. … When she returned to the stage in 1984, she brought with her a radically reimagined practice — sensual, iconoclastic and uncompromisingly feminist.” – Elle India

    • Putin’s Crackdown On Literature

      After Mr. Putin declared all-out war on Ukraine in 2022, he unleashed a devastating crackdown on free speech. That was initially confined to criticism of the war. Over time it spread, attacking a range of cultural expression. Now, the Kremlin is placing literature squarely in its cross hairs. – The New York Times

    • Publisher Announces AI Bot Assistant For Health Care Books

      Elsevier announced the launch of Nora AI, an AI-powered assistant available within Elsevier e-books through VitalSource’s Bookshelf platform. Nora AI enables users to ask questions and receive personalized, evidence-based answers drawn directly from Elsevier content. – Publishers Weekly

    ISSUES

    MEDIA

    • How Did Brooklyn’s Skyline Go So Wrong?

      Two decades ago, Downtown Brooklyn was well connected but underpopulated, a combination that drew armies of fresh college graduates, quintupling the population. It’s hard to believe how thoroughly and quickly the skyline has been remade in that time—and how shoddily. – Curbed

    • City Audit Of Financially Troubled San Francisco Arts Center Is Complete

      Calls for an audit of the African-American Arts and Culture Complex came after the nonprofit was consistently late with required reports on the spending of millions in city grant money. The audit found no misuse of funds but identified shortcomings with both the AAACC and the San Francisco Arts Commission. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)

    • What Happens When American Universities Try To Shrink Their Way To Profitability

      What’s happening to the New School is an increasingly common story across all of higher education, hit by a perfect storm of financial and political pressures. Well-paid bosses, touting fiscal crises, seek to fire their way to profitability. – Dissent

    • Report: Women In UK Arts Say Discrimination Is Rampant

      Nearly all (95%) women working in the arts thought gender inequality persisted, while three-quarters (75%) reported experiencing unconscious bias or sexism, according to a survey of 76 arts professionals. – The Guardian

    • New York’s Arts Ed Programs Are A Powerhouse For The City

      Across the city, community-based arts education organizations employ thousands of music educators, teaching artists, arts therapists, accompanists and administrators — together, one of the city’s largest employers of working artists. New York’s real competitive advantage is the ability to attract and retain creative talent. But artists need reliable employment, benefits, professional networks and room to grow. – Crain’s New York

    MUSIC

    • Putin’s Crackdown On Literature

      After Mr. Putin declared all-out war on Ukraine in 2022, he unleashed a devastating crackdown on free speech. That was initially confined to criticism of the war. Over time it spread, attacking a range of cultural expression. Now, the Kremlin is placing literature squarely in its cross hairs. – The New York Times

    • Publisher Announces AI Bot Assistant For Health Care Books

      Elsevier announced the launch of Nora AI, an AI-powered assistant available within Elsevier e-books through VitalSource’s Bookshelf platform. Nora AI enables users to ask questions and receive personalized, evidence-based answers drawn directly from Elsevier content. – Publishers Weekly

    • Could Yiddish Be Headed For A New Revival?

      “During the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of students enrolled in Yiddish-language online courses exploded – not only in the United States but also in Canada, Mexico and Latin America, Europe and elsewhere. … At the same time, organizations like the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Yiddish Book Center have pushed for a new perception of Yiddish.” – The Conversation

    • The Long-Growing Audiobook Market Is Turning Into A Bubble

      “(The) gap between the rapid expansion in available titles and slowing revenue growth is creating new pressure across the industry. … More titles are competing for a finite amount of listening time, raising the value of established audiences and making it harder for individual projects to break through.” – TheWrap (MSN)

    • What — Or Who — Persuades You To Buy That Particular Book?

      “The reality is that our reading choices are directed and massaged at every turn. … And who are the persuaders? They’re the booksellers, the supermarket stock buyers, the publishing houses and their ranks of marketers and publicists. And, more recently, persuasion often comes from (social media). How is all this changing publishing?” – The Guardian

    PEOPLE

    • Today in Great Jobs: Casting Director Who Chooses The Series Of Actors Starring In “Oh, Mary!”

      Henry Russell Bergstein: “I think all these performers that we’ve had play the role are very different. But at heart, they have a sort of … I don’t know if the word wacky and access to wackiness is the right thing, but they also all have incredible acting chops.” – NPR

    • How Our Gamification Culture Kills The Spirit Of Play

      The entire architecture of digital life – with its algorithmic feeds, frictionless production and the ambient expectation that we should be consuming or optimising at all times – nudges us towards chasing outputs rather than generating meaning. – Aeon

    • The Star Who Injected Feminism Into Indian Classical Dance

      “By the 1950s, Chandralekha was a legendary figure in (Bharatanatyam). However, she walked away from fame, rejecting the Brahminical and nationalist values that had come to shape it. … When she returned to the stage in 1984, she brought with her a radically reimagined practice — sensual, iconoclastic and uncompromisingly feminist.” – Elle India

    • Putin’s Crackdown On Literature

      After Mr. Putin declared all-out war on Ukraine in 2022, he unleashed a devastating crackdown on free speech. That was initially confined to criticism of the war. Over time it spread, attacking a range of cultural expression. Now, the Kremlin is placing literature squarely in its cross hairs. – The New York Times

    • Publisher Announces AI Bot Assistant For Health Care Books

      Elsevier announced the launch of Nora AI, an AI-powered assistant available within Elsevier e-books through VitalSource’s Bookshelf platform. Nora AI enables users to ask questions and receive personalized, evidence-based answers drawn directly from Elsevier content. – Publishers Weekly

    PEOPLE

    • Today in Great Jobs: Casting Director Who Chooses The Series Of Actors Starring In “Oh, Mary!”

      Henry Russell Bergstein: “I think all these performers that we’ve had play the role are very different. But at heart, they have a sort of … I don’t know if the word wacky and access to wackiness is the right thing, but they also all have incredible acting chops.” – NPR

    • How Our Gamification Culture Kills The Spirit Of Play

      The entire architecture of digital life – with its algorithmic feeds, frictionless production and the ambient expectation that we should be consuming or optimising at all times – nudges us towards chasing outputs rather than generating meaning. – Aeon

    • The Star Who Injected Feminism Into Indian Classical Dance

      “By the 1950s, Chandralekha was a legendary figure in (Bharatanatyam). However, she walked away from fame, rejecting the Brahminical and nationalist values that had come to shape it. … When she returned to the stage in 1984, she brought with her a radically reimagined practice — sensual, iconoclastic and uncompromisingly feminist.” – Elle India

    • Putin’s Crackdown On Literature

      After Mr. Putin declared all-out war on Ukraine in 2022, he unleashed a devastating crackdown on free speech. That was initially confined to criticism of the war. Over time it spread, attacking a range of cultural expression. Now, the Kremlin is placing literature squarely in its cross hairs. – The New York Times

    • Publisher Announces AI Bot Assistant For Health Care Books

      Elsevier announced the launch of Nora AI, an AI-powered assistant available within Elsevier e-books through VitalSource’s Bookshelf platform. Nora AI enables users to ask questions and receive personalized, evidence-based answers drawn directly from Elsevier content. – Publishers Weekly

    THEATRE

      VISUAL

      • How Our Gamification Culture Kills The Spirit Of Play

        The entire architecture of digital life – with its algorithmic feeds, frictionless production and the ambient expectation that we should be consuming or optimising at all times – nudges us towards chasing outputs rather than generating meaning. – Aeon

      • What I Learned From China’s Robot Games

        For the first hour or so, I found the Robot Games enthralling. What can robots already do, and where do they still fall short? Which robot will manage to crawl under an obstacle, and which will pitifully get stuck? But after a while, I suddenly realized that I had grown deeply bored. – Yascha Mounk

      • The Fake Experts That AI Keeps Citing

        The authors don’t actually exist, but are instead names that large language models repeatedly produce when tasked with generating experts in certain fields. – 404 Media

      • How Social Media Changed The Ways We Remember

        There were ups and downs in the stories I saw people telling, but the trajectory I observed most frequently was an upward one. Growth, expansion, improvement, overcoming. Vacations as burnishments to the image. Illnesses as stress tests, ways of ultimately proving fitness. – The Walrus

      • Why Dictators Fear “Common Knowledge”

        The difference between private knowledge, even when widely shared, and common knowledge is not a mere logical nicety. It can unify knowers in coordinated action and sometimes explode a social status quo. – Persuasion

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