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    • Classic Reconsidered: Hudson’s Bay Coat Gets Historical Reality Check

      That vintage striped coat commanding boutique prices? Turns out its colonial baggage is heavier than its wool. Fashion meets reckoning as shoppers discover their thrift store treasure carries more than just warmth. — The Walrus

    • Mexico Sees Increasing Backlash Against Over-Tourism

      The Guardian visits Oaxaca, … where tourism has grown 77% since the pandemic and once-private family rituals such as the Day of the Dead are now big international parties. But with this opportunity comes a growing backlash across the country, as local people struggle with a cost-of-living crisis.” (video) – The Guardian

    • Trump’s “Freedom Truck” Mobile Exhibitions Are Now On The Road

      “As the U.S. gears up for the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, President Donald Trump has dispatched six roving Freedom Truck exhibitions to crisscross the country. The first of 20 planned stops — mainly in the South, with forays to the Midwest, Arizona, and Utah — was last month in Nashville.” – Artnet

    • LA’s Art Gold Rush Ends, Actual Work Begins

      The carpetbaggers have packed their Hermès bags and fled back east. What remains? The unglamorous business of building a real art scene—one gallery lease and artist studio at a time. — Artnet

    • Supreme Court to AI Art: Sorry, Humans Only

      The high court declined to revisit whether algorithms can hold copyright, leaving AI creations in legal limbo. While tech bros rage and traditional artists breathe easier, the real question remains: who profits when creativity gets automated? — Artnet

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    • When Your Reading List Becomes A High Score (Is That Good?)

      LitHub explores how platforms like Letterboxd and Goodreads transform intimate cultural experiences into competitive metrics. Because apparently we can’t enjoy a book anymore without turning it into content for our personal brand. — Literary Hub

    • Britain’s Daily Telegraph Bought By German Media Conglomerate Axel Springer

      Axel Springer, which owns the German publications Bild and Die Welt and the US website group Politico, will pay £575 million ($766 million) for Telegraph Media Group. Springer intends to “turbocharge” the Telegraph’s expansion into the U.S. marker and to make it “the leading center-right media outlet in the English-speaking world.” – AP

    • Why Dictionaries Still Matter

      The book is formal and highly structured; it seems like something from another, vaguely bygone time. Still, dictionary editors have long paid close attention to how language is used and perused—in signs, in novels, in articles and pronouncements, and lately on the Web. – The Nation

    • How A Scholar Stumbled On Handwritten Notes By Galileo

      Historian Ivan Malara spotted notes, annotations and a Bible verse handwritten by the young Galileo circa 1590 in an early printed copy of the Almagest, the second-century C.E. treatise on astronomy by Ptolemy which placed the Earth at the center of the universe. – Smithsonian Magazine

    • Colm Tóibín: Of Course AI Is A Threat To Creative Writing

      “This idea [that] no machine could ever replace my sensibility, which is so rich, varied, complex, and arising from experience and from history – that’s all rubbish. You can actually manufacture that.” – The Conversation

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      • An Ethics Problem: AI Agents Go Rogue, Write Hit Pieces

        When a coder rejected an autonomous AI’s contribution, the digital diva researched and published a personalized attack piece. Welcome to the age when artificial intelligence doesn’t just create—it retaliates with very human pettiness. – Undark

      • Let’s Not Call It “Intelligence”

        “When I speak to high-school and college students (including my own children), I worry that at the time when they should be developing their own voices, they’re being told they don’t need to bother. AI writes for us, reads for us, thinks for us. It replaces our voice with its own.” – The Atlantic

      • Our Culture Of Insurance Is Breaking Down

        What emerged in tandem with the growth of capitalism was a system in which insurance and investment were bound together until it became integral to the economic system, seen as essential in protecting investments. This is why today you can’t get a mortgage without it. – Aeon

      • How We Can Shape Our Dreams

        Targeted Dream Incubation (TDI) uses external stimuli to connect with a dreamer and encourage them to focus on a particular topic or theme. – The Walrus

      • Universities As Practical Job Creators? We Ought To Do Better Than That!

        An education spent in pursuit of material comfort and convenience is a recipe for unhappiness, an existence in thrall to the raw, hungry American mantra of success, “More! More!” – LA Review of Books

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