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Can ChatGPT Replace Human Writers? No, But It Can Make Them Better

I decided to try a combination of tools to see if the AI-assisted work product would outperform my purely original work. Unsurprisingly, the work done in partnership with my AI-coworker outperformed work I did alone. - Shelly Palmer

The Battle Over Redesigning Wikipedia

Some Wikipedia contributors have a hard time trusting Wikimedia Foundation designers. No one on the paid design team was around 12 years ago when the last skin was made, and only some of them were involved with the wiki communities before they were hired. - Slate

Canada’s Griffin Prize Decided To Reinvent. Poets Are Furious

The prize’s founder, Scott Griffin, had anticipated some controversy, if not this degree of fury. He maintains trustees made the right call. After twenty-two years, it was time to revisit the prize structure and the question whether Canadian poets still needed their own category. - The Walrus

The Downsides Of Super-Fandom

At the end of the day, fandoms are grey areas: on the one hand, they can be a place where you can really belong and feel included but, on the other, they can also take over your life. - The Walrus

AI Might Doom The College Essay, But Students Have Already Moved On

The current generation of students has moved on from writing. Literally. Most students fail to see the relevance of writing in a world—their world—that is largely post-literate. They are at home in media not yet born when I began teaching, media that privilege images and sounds over written text. This does not spell the end of the world, but...

After Humans Come The “Trans-humans”

Transhumanism emerged as a distinct school of thought in the 1980s, when philosophers, scientists, and artists began to think intensively about how technology might transform human bodies and minds. - American Scholar

Miami City Ballet Gets A New Executive Director

Currently, he serves as the executive director of the National Dance Institute, a non-profit arts education organization in New York that has impacted more than 2 million children through inclusive dance and music programs.- Miami Today

Lebrecht: Why I Hate Beethoven’s Pastorale Symphony

‘Nothing,’ Beethoven once said, ‘is more intolerable than having to admit to yourself your own errors.’ In the Pastoral he lets us into that furtive admission. - The Spectator

Why Director Todd Field Employed Mahler And Elgar To Give His Film Tar Meaning

Mahler's Fifth is "a wide-open work, ripe for individual interpretation and impeccably suiting a film that doesn’t provide easy answers." - The Guardian (UK)

An Author Sells A Bucket List Weekend, And Fans Absolutely Line Up For It

What draws hundreds of fans of writer Elin Hilderbrand to Nantucket in January? The chance to hang out in person with the author, of course, on the island she most often writes about. - The New York Times

LAPD Chief Apologizes For Officer Who Protected CBS Exec Les Moonves

The commander, Cory Palka, allegedly shared details of a sexual assault report with CBS and Moonves. - Los Angeles Times

Peru Closes Machu Picchu And Inca Trail Indefinitely

"Hundreds of people who were stuck for hours at the foot of the 15th Century Inca citadel have now been rescued. ... Rail services to Machu Picchu were suspended on Thursday after some train tracks were damaged, allegedly by protesters." - BBC

The Ambitious Second Novel Of Nigerian Author Ayobami Adebayo

Adébáyò's first novel, Stay With Me, "told a closely focused story about the impact of childlessness and sickle-cell disease on the life of a young couple ... but A Spell of Good Things deals with political corruption, social injustice and domestic violence." - The Guardian (UK)

Dick Polich, Whose Foundry Made Artists’ Visions Into Reality, Has Died At 90

"The notably petite Ms. Bourgeois did not herself forge her looming metallic arachnids. For that, she — along with many of the world’s renowned sculptors of the last 50 years — turned to a specialized foundry in the Hudson Valley and its visionary owner, Dick Polich." - The New York Times

How Did Anime Come To Be Everywhere In Culture?

It's all going to plan. But also, "Anime's fans are largely online, and the pandemic — when people were suddenly able to focus on at-home or online interests — helped fuel growth." - NPR

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