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Middle schoolers barred from most social media turned the Spotify comments under an episode of NPR’s Wild Card into a group chat. Showrunner Dave Blanchard deleted the posts as bot gibberish until one replied, “so it deleted my com” (The Verge).
A new definition of artist? Es Devlin, the designer behind two Olympic ceremonies and two Super Bowl halftime shows, opens a 30-year retrospective at London’s Design Museum on October 2; she took her self-description, “everythingist,” from the Russian designer Natalia Goncharova (The Guardian).
Arts-management professor E. Andrew Taylor lists who was supposed to oversee the Kennedy Center — Congress, the trustees, the IRS, the courts — and finds most of them answering to a president who chairs the board Judge Christopher Cooper called “derelict” in May (The Conversation).
NAZA, a documentary built on 24 anonymous Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers describing Gaza targeting, had its New York premiere with protesters and an LED-screen truck outside, as its directors face Netanyahu’s threat to strip their citizenship (The Guardian). Eight independent bookstores, including Firestorm Books in Asheville, wrote the American Booksellers Association that a memo on “domestic terrorism” could reach them: in the Prairieland protest case, prosecutors called a printer and a book club “material support” (Lit Hub).
The Mighty Sparrow, the “Calypso King of the World,” has died at 91.