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Critics savaged the Michael Jackson biopic. Audiences just made it the highest-grossing biopic ever (BBC). The gap between professional judgment and what people pay to see keeps widening — which makes the wistful essay on when being a critic was glamorous (The Ideas Letter) read less like nostalgia than an obituary. The Atlantic asks whether Duchamp wrecked modern art (The Atlantic). Critics have been debating it for decades.
Meanwhile AI is running two experiments. The New Yorker traces a homogenized “AI design aesthetic” now swallowing the internet (The New Yorker). Yet the same technology is reviving Cajun French and other dying languages (The New York Times).
So then a more analog question — how we relearn to read, since attention isn’t gone so much as out of practice (The Conversation).
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Doug
