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What Are The Differences Between Humans Using ‘Artificial Language’ And AI Using It?
“Human English contains persistent, if subtle, linguistic patterns of variation and readability. By contrast, AI uses what I call exam English – a rather...
Inside The New New Museum
“The seven story addition introduces three levels of gallery space that plug directly into existing floors. Not only does this create much needed airflow,...
Change Your Life: Start A Music Group
Yes, even if you’re not great at it (yet). "Make it up as you go along. If nobody else wants to sing, you sing....
When A Sports Venue Demands Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars From Governments, We Need...
“The Moda Center has always been a candidate for upgraded design. Which is to say nothing of the 30-acre Rose Quarter property the arena...
The Guys Who Got Fired From The Han Solo Movie Took Some Lessons Into...
For one thing, they met some of the Hail Mary crew on Solo. "We met Neal Scanlan and the creature shop team that we...
Trump Has Columbus Status Installed On The White House Grounds
It’s “is a replica of one that protesters in Baltimore tore down and dumped into the city’s Inner Harbor in the summer of 2020....
What Can A Movie Teach Us About Resisting AI With Performance?
“Plato decried the falsity of imitation of real life—called ‘mimesis’—specifically in the arts. ... What makes you ‘you’ or the world the ‘world’ if...
Israel May Be Considering Banning Artist Rama Duwaji, First Lady Of New York
“The ministry reportedly took issue with Duwaji’s animation Eyes on Jenin (2025), a work that linked police brutality against pro-Palestinian protesters to Israel’s genocide...
A New Way To Consume What’s Euphemistically Known As ‘Kissing’ Books
"Quinn finds the guys (mostly guys) in television shows whose characters people fantasize about. It pays those guys to read original scripts that have...
The Artist Who Dropped Out Of Art School Three Credits Shy In Order To...
“Music wasn't something that was going to be a long-term thing. ‘I remember distinctly begging my mom for X amount of dollars to buy...
A Tennessee Library Director Refuses To Move LGBTQ Books, Citing The First Amendment
"The Rutherford County Library Board voted ... to relocate more than 190 books, many involving LGBTQ+ themes, from children’s and teen sections to adult...
If You’ve Based Your Career On Confessional Books, Don’t You Expect Audience Reaction To...
In which Slate unpacks the internet’s reaction to Lindy West’s new book, and Lindy's - and her partners’ - reactions to the reactions. “I’m...
A Jury Says Elon Musk Drove Down Twitter’s Price And Defrauded Investors With Misleading...
One of those statements was Musk “tweeting a poop emoji when then-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal commented there was no way for external parties to...
California’s Film And TV Tax Credit Is Working, But The State Says The Business...
Will this argument play? "Whether it is computer chips, the energy sector or pharmaceuticals, this is something that is standard in the United States....
The HarperCollins Union Has Finally Ratified Its New Contract
Not like it’s making any worker rich (check the numbers), but at least they didn’t have to strike this time. “HarperCollins employees have had...
Game Developers Use AI For A Lot Of Things, But Not Creating Games
This feels like good news for creators: “‘I feel like the human mind is so beautiful,’ The Melty Way developer Gabriel Paquette told me. ‘Why not...
The Navy Veteran Who Titles His Paintings After Octavia Butler And Dostoyevsky
“'You do four years in the Navy, and you see a lot of blue water,’ said Price, standing in his studio in the...
Musicians On The Greatness And Legacy Of Alice Coltrane
In just one example, "as the American composer Adrian Younge says: ‘Alice Coltrane took the harp, an instrument of angels and orchestras, and made...
What’s The Impact Of The US Dismantling Storied, Award-Winning Black Studies Departments?s
“Early investment in race and gender studies ‘favored programs over departments,’ which has always made financing a tenuous proposition. And at the end of...
An Early Target Of Saturday Night Live In The UK?
Shakespeare. Or rather, Hamnet’s Shakespeare, which is not quite the same thing. - Variety
One Week On, Looking At The Impacts Of This Year’s Oscars
"Put the Warners Bros. sale alongside the Oscars’ imminent move to YouTube, and the whole night carried with it a bittersweet fin de siècle...
Theatre Has Kept On Creating And Recreating Antigone, Over 2500 Years
Why? “Antigone isn’t wrestling with a prophecy. In her story, fate is what one powerless girl makes it, and right action is possible, as long as...
The Oscars’ Red Carpet Gets Dumped As Soon As The Ceremony Ends
Turns out dumpster diving in Los Angeles the day after the Oscars can be pretty, well, interesting. - The Guardian (UK)
We Miss You, Mass Market Paperbacks, But We Live In Reality
Now: Which is better for authors and (or) for readers, hardcover books or trade paperbacks? - LitHub
National Park Service Pulls Films About Mill Workers From Historic Site In Massachusetts
The suspicion is that’s this is the result of bowing down to the “only positive history” guideline from the federal government, but the people...
