“ATG, which owns dozens of theatres across the UK and has produced recent versions of Cabaret and Pretty Woman, is likely to line up against US bidders for TodayTix, which brought paperless tickets to London and also owns the Secret Cinema events company.” - The Sunday Times (UK)
"We believe creative professionals can harness new technologies while still upholding their foundational creative and ethical principles." - The Conversation
More than a century on, as artificial intelligence offers a fresh tech challenge to humanity, a timely spot of revisionism appears to be taking place. Last month, in Paris, it emerged that a museum is finally to be dedicated to one of art nouveau’s most deserving and neglected exponents. - The Guardian
MAID now accounts for about one in 20 deaths in Canada—more than Alzheimer’s and diabetes combined—surpassing countries where assisted dying has been legal for far longer. - The Atlantic
As democratic values in the United States erode at an accelerated pace, acts of silencing and erasure at artistic and academic institutions — think of Columbia University, the Noguchi Museum, or Paramount — will continue to occur, but they cannot go unchallenged. - Hyperallergic
With the rise of AI writing tools, Wikipedia editors have had to deal with an onslaught of AI-generated content filled with false information and phony citations. - The Verge
While the law and others like it claim to be narrowly focused on pornographic content and material that promotes suicide, self-harm, eating disorders or abusive and hateful behaviour, the subjective nature of the restrictions has led to mass censorship, with the de facto removal of vast swaths of content from the web. - The Guardian
Their hearts were in vaudeville. But we were all in Kentucky. Side by side by side, we stood near the entrance of the Vent Haven Ventriloquist ConVENTion — the annual international hajj for ventriloquists — where dummies condomed nearly every right arm. - n+1
Ric Grenell, a former Trump ambassador to Germany and longtime Republican attack dog, is “only occasionally at the Kennedy Center,” a source told CBS News. However, his alleged lack of presence at the Kennedy Center hasn’t stopped him from collecting a salary of $175,000, per tax records. - The Daily Beast
As Anthropic argued, it now "faces hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months" based on a class certification rushed at "warp speed" that involves "up to seven million potential claimants, whose works span a century of publishing history," each possibly triggering a $150,000 fine. - Ars Technica
Hosting their own podcasts and making-of series, networks "try to anticipate what beats from the episode people will be talking about and then ... dive in.” But there’s a lot of marketing mixed into the content sauce. - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
On the one hand, there are quite a few data-stealing cheat systems out there. On the other hand, "your laptop’s probably never as safe as when you are playing Fortnite; anti-cheat protection will actually keep you safe from a whole range of malware.” - Wired
“Black Swan felt magical to me. It offered this picture of being in New York and dancing for a professional company. I don’t remember being alarmed or scared. Which is pretty funny, now.” - The New York Times
"Sound can tell you a lot, and Seattle’s fiction podcast scene is using that powerful storytelling tool to keep audiences on the edge of their metaphorical seats during stories full of tension, passion, mystery, intimacy and more.” - Seattle Times
“With a steely command of omniscience, selective disclosure, irony, and other narrative devices, Spark re-creates in the relationship between author and reader the sadomasochistic partnership between the Almighty and his hopelessly wayward flock.” - The Atlantic
