Stories

Sure, it argued a few weeks ago that the Ku Klux Klan wasn’t that bad. But the real issue is that “it’s as if someone thought American political discourse was too healthy and needed some roughing up.” - Nieman Lab

Did a fox write this? - The New York Times

Students and faculty at one of the only low-residency university creative writing programs in the country are shocked and horrified. - MPR

Maybe reconsider that Open AI pitch, Hollywood creatives. "In Sora’s world, … pilots, CEOs, and college professors are men, while flight attendants, receptionists, and childcare workers are women. Disabled people are wheelchair users, interracial relationships are tricky to generate, and fat people don’t run.” - Wired

“I’m most excited for people to walk away with a sense of, ‘Oh my God. These people are so creative. There’s so much that you can do with Sora,’” said one Sora “artist.” - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)

Love Life premiered in 1948 “as a new show with music by Kurt Weill, and a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. ... Stephen Sondheim got himself a ticket, as did his future collaborator Hal Prince.” But it was never recorded, and seemed lost. - The New York Times

“The famous London museum saw 6,479,952 visitors through its doors in 2024, an 11% increase on 2023 numbers.” - BBC

Things don’t look great for the country’s oldest performing arts venue. - The New York Times

“Beauty is best achieved by making the most of existing buildings – even those thought unremarkable – and getting the best young architects to design the transformation.” - The Guardian (UK)

“They eventually opted to axe costly exterior scenes in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light, meaning almost everything in the Tudor drama, screened by the BBC, became ‘conversations in rooms’ instead.” - BBC

“There are deep and profound things to say about where it fits in the history of art and situationism. But is also this stupid idea where they evade security to bring in a couch to play PlayStation. I love how it has that element of humor and ridiculousness.” - Salon

"I’ve felt a little bit like Indiana Jones running through a temple where tons of things are being thrown at you and you’re just trying to save the one beautiful thing because you’re like, “This belongs in a museum.’” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)

Writing about your life? “To farm it out to a machine that trawls the internet and cobbles together a fake version of you is not just academic dishonesty, it’s a broader degradation of our memories and our humanity.” - The New York Times

And the illustrator is pretty sure he knows why: “The characters in the new books have ‘darker skin instead of blonde fairy-tale princesses.’” - BBC

Hiroshi Yoshimura died in 2003, but a series of streaming releases has brought his music to a huge new global audience. - The New York Times