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    • 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

    • The Marquis De Lafayette Has Become A Selfie Magnet In Paris

      In France, feelings about him are more mixed than in the U.S. (For one thing, during and after the French Revolution, he favored a constitutional monarchy, not the most popular position then.) But an exhibition at France’s National Archives which tells Lafayette’s full story has become a hit. – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

    • Competing At Istanbul’s Tango Championship

      The Turkish metropolis has become one of the world’s major centers of tango, perhaps behind only Buenos Aires itself. This month Istanbul hosted La Turca Tango Marathon and Championship, a three-day festival and competition which saw 56 dancers from around Europe competing in six categories. – The New York Times

    • The Elusive Illusion Of Utopia (And Its Uses In Our Imagination)

      Some patterns emerge: many utopias employ a framing device in which the narrator is accidentally or fantastically transported to a new land, and then subjected to reams of expository monologue about how it all works.  – The Guardian

    • What To Make Of The US Constitution When The Country Is In Turmoil?

      How should we remember the American Revolution when millions march in the streets and shout “No Kings!”? When squads of masked thugs invade homes without warrant, kangaroo immigration “courts” deport hundreds of thousands without due process, and an executive agency buys up warehouses to use as internment camps? – Boston Review

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    • 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

    • The Marquis De Lafayette Has Become A Selfie Magnet In Paris

      In France, feelings about him are more mixed than in the U.S. (For one thing, during and after the French Revolution, he favored a constitutional monarchy, not the most popular position then.) But an exhibition at France’s National Archives which tells Lafayette’s full story has become a hit. – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

    • Competing At Istanbul’s Tango Championship

      The Turkish metropolis has become one of the world’s major centers of tango, perhaps behind only Buenos Aires itself. This month Istanbul hosted La Turca Tango Marathon and Championship, a three-day festival and competition which saw 56 dancers from around Europe competing in six categories. – The New York Times

    • The Elusive Illusion Of Utopia (And Its Uses In Our Imagination)

      Some patterns emerge: many utopias employ a framing device in which the narrator is accidentally or fantastically transported to a new land, and then subjected to reams of expository monologue about how it all works.  – The Guardian

    • What To Make Of The US Constitution When The Country Is In Turmoil?

      How should we remember the American Revolution when millions march in the streets and shout “No Kings!”? When squads of masked thugs invade homes without warrant, kangaroo immigration “courts” deport hundreds of thousands without due process, and an executive agency buys up warehouses to use as internment camps? – Boston Review

    PEOPLE

    • 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

    • The Marquis De Lafayette Has Become A Selfie Magnet In Paris

      In France, feelings about him are more mixed than in the U.S. (For one thing, during and after the French Revolution, he favored a constitutional monarchy, not the most popular position then.) But an exhibition at France’s National Archives which tells Lafayette’s full story has become a hit. – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

    • Competing At Istanbul’s Tango Championship

      The Turkish metropolis has become one of the world’s major centers of tango, perhaps behind only Buenos Aires itself. This month Istanbul hosted La Turca Tango Marathon and Championship, a three-day festival and competition which saw 56 dancers from around Europe competing in six categories. – The New York Times

    • The Elusive Illusion Of Utopia (And Its Uses In Our Imagination)

      Some patterns emerge: many utopias employ a framing device in which the narrator is accidentally or fantastically transported to a new land, and then subjected to reams of expository monologue about how it all works.  – The Guardian

    • What To Make Of The US Constitution When The Country Is In Turmoil?

      How should we remember the American Revolution when millions march in the streets and shout “No Kings!”? When squads of masked thugs invade homes without warrant, kangaroo immigration “courts” deport hundreds of thousands without due process, and an executive agency buys up warehouses to use as internment camps? – Boston Review

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