Two federal judges delivered a pointed civics lesson yesterday. One ruled that Trump’s executive order defunding NPR and PBS violated the First Amendment (The New York Times). The other halted construction of the President’s planned White House ballroom, noting that he “is the steward of the White House for future generations. He is not, however, the owner” (Washington Post).
Meanwhile, AI keeps testing the creative professions. The New York Times dropped a freelancer who used AI to write a book review — and didn’t catch that it had plagiarized from the Guardian (The Guardian). A week after Hachette pulled a novel over AI suspicions, publishing still can’t figure out what its rules should be (Publishers Weekly).
And someone placed a spray-painted gold toilet on the National Mall, on a faux-marble pedestal, with a plaque reading “A Throne Fit for a King” (Washington Post). Some days the art speaks for itself.
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