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    • Soprano Erie Mills Has Died At 73

      From the late 1970s, she had a glittering 25-year career as a coloratura, from the Met to La Scala to Santa Fe and beyond, then became an admired teacher and diction coach. From 2016, she was artistic director of the Livermore Valley Opera in the Bay Area. – San Francisco Classical Voice

    • How Commonwealth Short Story Prize Determined That This Year’s Winners Are All AI-Free

      “The Commonwealth Foundation asked writers to provide drafts, story outlines, manuscripts and other evidence of their creative process when investigating allegations of AI use surrounding this year’s Commonwealth Short Story Prize, director-general Razmi Farook has (said).” – The Bookseller (UK)

    • Royal Ballet And Opera In London To Eliminate 64 Staff Positions

      “The reductions amount to roughly five percent of the organization’s current workforce of 1,169 staff. Nine of the cuts will involve compulsory redundancies, with the remainder expected to come from unfilled vacancies, voluntary departures, and natural turnover.” – OperaWire

    • New York Will Not Pursue Another Retrial Of Harvey Weinstein

      “The movie mogul still stands convicted of another sexual felony in New York and others in California, and he remains behind bars. But the New York rape charge had remained unresolved after an overturned conviction followed by two hung juries, … (and) his accuser said she could not bear to testify again.” – AP

    • Made by People

      Good Morning,

      A run of today’s stories shares a new chore: proving something was actually made by a person. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize spent its week clearing this year’s winners of suspicion that AI wrote them (The Independent). So when fabrication is free, certifying human becomes considerable work. It cuts the other way too. That feel-good clip of an audience member sight-reading at La La Land in Concert turns out to be considerably staged (The Guardian).

      Meanwhile Hollywood studios are industrializing microdramas (The New York Times) that have taken over social media. The Wrap worked on making its own to show what AI can crank one out start to finish (Yahoo).

      The New Republic nominates the 15 artworks that most shaped the country (The New Republic) — canon-making as a civic act in a year when even the Constitution is up for reinterpretation (Boston Review).

      And in Paris, the Marquis de Lafayette has become an unlikely selfie magnet (MSN).

      Doug

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    • Soprano Erie Mills Has Died At 73

      From the late 1970s, she had a glittering 25-year career as a coloratura, from the Met to La Scala to Santa Fe and beyond, then became an admired teacher and diction coach. From 2016, she was artistic director of the Livermore Valley Opera in the Bay Area. – San Francisco Classical Voice

    • How Commonwealth Short Story Prize Determined That This Year’s Winners Are All AI-Free

      “The Commonwealth Foundation asked writers to provide drafts, story outlines, manuscripts and other evidence of their creative process when investigating allegations of AI use surrounding this year’s Commonwealth Short Story Prize, director-general Razmi Farook has (said).” – The Bookseller (UK)

    • Royal Ballet And Opera In London To Eliminate 64 Staff Positions

      “The reductions amount to roughly five percent of the organization’s current workforce of 1,169 staff. Nine of the cuts will involve compulsory redundancies, with the remainder expected to come from unfilled vacancies, voluntary departures, and natural turnover.” – OperaWire

    • New York Will Not Pursue Another Retrial Of Harvey Weinstein

      “The movie mogul still stands convicted of another sexual felony in New York and others in California, and he remains behind bars. But the New York rape charge had remained unresolved after an overturned conviction followed by two hung juries, … (and) his accuser said she could not bear to testify again.” – AP

    • Made by People

      Good Morning,

      A run of today’s stories shares a new chore: proving something was actually made by a person. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize spent its week clearing this year’s winners of suspicion that AI wrote them (The Independent). So when fabrication is free, certifying human becomes considerable work. It cuts the other way too. That feel-good clip of an audience member sight-reading at La La Land in Concert turns out to be considerably staged (The Guardian).

      Meanwhile Hollywood studios are industrializing microdramas (The New York Times) that have taken over social media. The Wrap worked on making its own to show what AI can crank one out start to finish (Yahoo).

      The New Republic nominates the 15 artworks that most shaped the country (The New Republic) — canon-making as a civic act in a year when even the Constitution is up for reinterpretation (Boston Review).

      And in Paris, the Marquis de Lafayette has become an unlikely selfie magnet (MSN).

      Doug

    PEOPLE

    • Soprano Erie Mills Has Died At 73

      From the late 1970s, she had a glittering 25-year career as a coloratura, from the Met to La Scala to Santa Fe and beyond, then became an admired teacher and diction coach. From 2016, she was artistic director of the Livermore Valley Opera in the Bay Area. – San Francisco Classical Voice

    • How Commonwealth Short Story Prize Determined That This Year’s Winners Are All AI-Free

      “The Commonwealth Foundation asked writers to provide drafts, story outlines, manuscripts and other evidence of their creative process when investigating allegations of AI use surrounding this year’s Commonwealth Short Story Prize, director-general Razmi Farook has (said).” – The Bookseller (UK)

    • Royal Ballet And Opera In London To Eliminate 64 Staff Positions

      “The reductions amount to roughly five percent of the organization’s current workforce of 1,169 staff. Nine of the cuts will involve compulsory redundancies, with the remainder expected to come from unfilled vacancies, voluntary departures, and natural turnover.” – OperaWire

    • New York Will Not Pursue Another Retrial Of Harvey Weinstein

      “The movie mogul still stands convicted of another sexual felony in New York and others in California, and he remains behind bars. But the New York rape charge had remained unresolved after an overturned conviction followed by two hung juries, … (and) his accuser said she could not bear to testify again.” – AP

    • Made by People

      Good Morning,

      A run of today’s stories shares a new chore: proving something was actually made by a person. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize spent its week clearing this year’s winners of suspicion that AI wrote them (The Independent). So when fabrication is free, certifying human becomes considerable work. It cuts the other way too. That feel-good clip of an audience member sight-reading at La La Land in Concert turns out to be considerably staged (The Guardian).

      Meanwhile Hollywood studios are industrializing microdramas (The New York Times) that have taken over social media. The Wrap worked on making its own to show what AI can crank one out start to finish (Yahoo).

      The New Republic nominates the 15 artworks that most shaped the country (The New Republic) — canon-making as a civic act in a year when even the Constitution is up for reinterpretation (Boston Review).

      And in Paris, the Marquis de Lafayette has become an unlikely selfie magnet (MSN).

      Doug

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