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Every state keeps its own record, and every record flatters whoever is writing. Aeon's account of how imperial China's dynasties wrote their official histories, since the first century BCE, reliably self-serving results — reads today less like ancient history than briefing material (Aeon).
In Hungary, the new president suspended the public broadcasters Viktor Orbán spent years converting into a...
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A flute-and-harp fragment in Mozart's hand surfaced this week, and the New York Times reports it's almost certainly real. How is it that we're still discovering or re-discovering art that was created centuries ago? The big visual art news is that Getty Images just sold access to its library of human-made images to OpenAI (Fast Company), monetizing the...
