Lisa Jeanine Findley, 54, who has gone by many other names in a criminal career spattered with financial grifts, was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison, plus three years’ probation, for an attempt to foreclose on Elvis Presley’s mansion to satisfy a loan which never actually existed. - NBC News
She starred in over 100 films and television pieces, but was best known for Federico Fellini’s film 8½, Luchino Visconti’s adaptation of the historical novel The Leopard, Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western Once Upon a Time in the West, and the Hollywood films Blindfold, Don’t Make Waves, and The Professionals. - AP
A large majority of shareholders voted to reject a bid by notorious newspaper destroyer Alden Global Capital in favor of a somewhat lower (but still favorable) bid by the Hearst Corporation, whose Texas holdings already include the major dailies in Houston, San Antonio, and Austin. - Nieman Lab
“Bennett Foddy … began his career as a moral philosopher at the University of Oxford. But on the side he was making hilarious, preposterous video games that explore what it means to move.” - The New York Times
“In a time of storm, cows run and take cover, which prolongs the experience. But buffalo run to the storm to get through it quicker. That’s the type of bravery we need to get through our challenges.” - The Star-Tribune
Popular and productive, Arpino, who was 85 when he died in 2008, didn’t get much respect from influential critics. At various times they called his style slick, kitsch and facile. Audiences were less conflicted — for the most part, they seemed to love his ballets. - The New York Times
One method some people are starting to explore is licensed use. So what exactly does that mean – and is it really a solution to the growing copyright problems AI presents? - The Conversation
We trade admissions tips in Reddit threads, spend our vacations squeezing in yet another campus tour and treat every rejection as proof that the system is broken. But we’re missing the bigger picture. The frantic competition that we’ve made the norm is based on a lie about what makes a college education truly valuable. - The New York Times
“’It really bores me, this transactional conversation,’ he says, meaning the choreographer explaining their intention; the audience expecting something explicit to be communicated. … ‘Especially in ballet, there’s a push all the time for concrete narrative. … I think we need to be much braver about trusting our instincts about what we’re receiving.’” - The Guardian
The complaint suggests that Suno may have ‘stream-ripped’ millions of copyrighted sound recordings to train its model. The timing of the new allegations appears directly connected to Anthropic’s recent USD $1.5 billion settlement with authors, who claimed the service obtained pirated books to train its AI models. - Music Business Worldwide
Lately, chatbots seem to be using more sophisticated tactics to keep people talking. In some cases, like my request for headache tips, bots end their messages with prodding follow-up questions. In others, they proactively message users to coax them into conversation. - The Atlantic
Physical signs of aging — baldness, wrinkles, stooped postures — first figured prominently in Roman portraiture in the 4th century BCE, but old age and its representations have often been pushed to the margins. - Hyperallergic
The organ was brought to Bethlehem sometime after the Crusaders’ conquest in 1099, and it was buried for safekeeping shortly before Saladin’s army reconquered the town around 1187. The instrument was excavated in 1908; restorers began work in 2019 and discovered that about half of the 222 surviving pipes were still playable. - AP
