But why aren’t more celebrities using their money for this kind of baffling, joyous, wacky creative venture? “It is genuinely exciting to see an A-lister in the pursuit of pure, honest, sincere cringe." - Slate
”In the future, a company’s AI agent—basically the AI version of that company—will be just as important as their website,” says Taylor. “It's going to completely change the way companies exist digitally.” - Wired
In a famous essay, the economist and philosopher Amartya Sen pointed out that we are all in favour of equality. We just disagree about whether we mean equality of money, or power, or respect, or legal standing, or whatever. - Literary Review
Though invisible to most people, copyright, the authors point out, is the legal matrix underlying the wealth of nations today, with copyrights in design, software and popular culture accounting for nearly all the valuation of “six of the largest corporations in the world — Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Disney.” - Washington Post
“Biological extinction, that’s not the point. The light of humanity and our understanding, our intelligence — our consciousness, if you will — can go on without meat humans.” - Jacobin
Efforts to grow and embrace diversity at America’s great research universities have made them better than ever. If you want excellence, you need to find, attract, and support talent from every sector of society, not just from privileged groups and social classes. - The Atlantic
This young century, Americans have collectively submitted to a national experiment to deprive ourselves of camaraderie in the world of flesh and steel, choosing instead to grow (and grow and grow) the time we spend by ourselves, gazing into screens. It’s been a weird experiment. And the results haven’t been pretty. - The Atlantic
The vocation of theory to give us perspective on the production of ideas—on their historical conjuncture, their class interests, their philosophical deficiencies, their determined style—flounders in the current anti-idea immediatism. - e-flux
Music preferences can reflect emotional states and change with life experiences, suggesting a deep psychological connection to the types of music individuals choose. - Neuroscience News
"Oftentimes, you will see on social media people post a photo from a sports event and say, ‘Hang it in the Louvre,' as a indication that they can see something that's artistic about it. And then I come in and actually find the piece of art that sports image actually resembles.” - PBS
Instead, it’s the casting directors’ hard work that makes a great movie - and that will soon be recognized by the Academic of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In short, the Casting Oscar is coming. - MSN (The Atlantic)
People are increasingly turning to gossip forums like Tattle Life, Guru Gossip, GOMI (“Get Off My Internets”) and the Blogsnark subreddit to critique the influencers they follow. On these forums, users pick apart everything from the influencer’s social media content to their appearance. - The Conversation
It's "what’s known as the default mode network, a collection of seemingly unrelated areas of the brain that activate when you’re not doing much at all. Its discovery has offered insights into how the brain functions outside of well-defined tasks and has also prompted research into the role of brain networks. - Quanta
They ‘must not be far-fetched, or they will be difficult to grasp, nor obvious, or they will have no effect’, as Aristotle already noted nearly 2,500 years ago. For this reason, artists – those skilled enhancers of experience – are generally thought to be the expert users of metaphors, poets and writers in particular. - Aeon
