“The activities we more often do with others seem to be associated with the most benefits, such as eating or drinking. … But the benefits also applied to the activities that participants most frequently did alone, such as reading.” Arts groups: Time for two for one ticket sales? - Washington Post (MSN)
“For theatre to remain ambitious, kinetic, and meaningful, we can’t let institutional constraints like funding models or planning cycles become barriers to fresh perspectives, and I can’t allow my personal preferences to overrule or narrow the choices of the many artistic directors who produce in our venue.” - American Theatre
Like the negative space against which words become visible (voids emphasised in Cage’s original typography), nothing generates speech and the speaker, poetry and the ‘I’ who needs it. - Aeon
For most, participation in the online attention economy feels like a tax, or maybe a trickle of revenue, rather than free fun or a ticket to fame. The few remaining professionals in the arts and letters have felt pressured to supplement their full-time jobs with social media self-promotion, subscription newsletters, podcasts, and short-form video. - BookForum
Some say canceling is an act of redress, a powerful display of solidarity. Others blame it on a mob. Still others have considered it an overblown moral panic or even a hoax. - Washington Post
We are indeed going to have to live with each other, barring apocalyptic violence—but we already have been for quite some time, and doing so has not required revisionist history of the sort we are now witnessing about one Charles James Kirk in particular. - Boston Review
Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? No, not all of it. Trading personal data for use certainly does not fit with my vision for a free web. - The Guardian
If the Administration’s actions are so blatantly unlawful, why does everyone seem to be caving? Some of it is just cost-benefit analysis. - The New Yorker
If the reading revolution represented the greatest transfer of knowledge to ordinary men and women in history, the screen revolution represents the greatest theft of knowledge from ordinary people in history. - Cultural Capital
“What if cultural snobbery, so effectively cast off over the past decade, wasn’t a waste of time? What if it did actually uphold certain standards? What if – faced with a future dominated by social media advertainment and AI-generated content – it’s our only hope?” - The Guardian (UK)
Richer and deeper memories appear to enhance your individuality: a thin and shallow autobiographical narrative appears to lead to a less substantial self, whereas a rich, detailed and deep autobiographical narrative appears to lead to a more substantial self. - Aeon
“Our findings suggest that the cultural tendencies embedded within AI models shape and filter the responses that AI provides. As generative AI becomes part of everyday decision-making, recognizing these cultural tendencies will be critical for both individuals and organizations worldwide.” - MIT
For GPT-5-high, a souped-up version of GPT-5 with extra computational power, the company says the AI model was ranked as better than or on par with industry experts 40.6% of the time. - TechCrunch
An argument is essentially a collection of sentences. One of the sentences is the ‘conclusion’, and all the rest are the ‘premises’. The conclusion is meant to follow from the premises. But what exactly does that mean? - Psyche
