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How Large Data Sets And AI Analysis Are Absolutely Murdering Our Private Lives

“Personal data isn’t just a record of who we are. It’s our actions, transactions, locations, conversations, preferences, inferences, and vulnerabilities. It’s our identities, our intimate selves, our hopes and dreams, and our fears and flaws.” - Fast Company

How Theatre Artists Survive Dictatorships

“If you press your ear to the plays of the 20th century, they’ll tell you secrets of human acts gone by and strategies to keep on. Among bloody slings and arrows of inhumane humanity are extraordinary scenes, real and imagined, of survival.” - American Theatre

The Growing Popularity Of Madrid As A Film Set Isn’t Exactly Thrilling Its Residents

“While city officials celebrate Madrid’s popularity as a film and television set, residents of the most in-demand neighborhoods are not particularly thrilled to find their streets constantly crowded with cameras, cables, coat racks and people running around with spotlights and microphones in their hands.” - El País English

The Studio Museum In Harlem Reopens, After Seven Years, In Its Own New Home

The museum director: “In many ways I do feel the timing of our opening now is ideal. … We’re opening in a moment that's very much like the moment when the museum was founded.” - Gothamist

Have Screens Actually – We Mean It, This Time – Destroyed Education, Worldwide?

“It seems ridiculous to have to say this, but digital distraction is terrible for academic performance.” - The New York Times

Can Theatre About Sports, Or A Sport, Really Work On Stage?

“As a sports obsessive and avid theatergoer, I’ve always found the communal experiences staggeringly similar. Either way, we root and cheer and gasp in unison. Worship-worthy idols emerge — and nothing beats seeing them ply their trade in person.” - Washington Post (Yahoo)

Elizabeth Franz, A Versatile And Tony-Winning Actress, Has Died At 84

Franz's “vibrant portrayal of Linda Loman, the wife of the piteous title character in the 1999 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, earned her a Tony Award — and high praise from the playwright.” - The New York Times

Software Is Good At Pattern Recognition And Spitting Those Patterns Back Out, But Is That ‘Writing’ Music?

“As with most things in life, when expertise is devalued, it’s easier to pass trash off as treasure. AutoTune and AI are enabling people who lack musical talent to game the system — like audio catfish.” - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)

Oh, BBC, WYD?

“In an increasingly polarized political and media landscape, the broadcaster has struggled to navigate its public interest remit and has proved inept at learning the lessons when it fails.” - The New York Times

Disney May Be Turning To AI To Help Create ‘User-Generated Content’ On Its Main Streamer

Bob Iger knows it’s, uh, interesting to be suing some AI companies while courting others. “'It's obviously imperative for us to protect our IP with this new technology,’ Iger said.” - NPR

The Latest Threat To Authors And Books

What is “Take Back the Classroom” - and how did it get so prominent, so quickly? - BookRiot

If Your Musical Flops On Broadway, Why Not Just Restage It – At The Met?

Especially if you are, let’s say, a wealthy celebrity musician. "For Sting, 74, this is a chance to play in one of New York’s most storied halls for a second time, and to break a barrier in the process.” - The New York Times

How The Internet Became A Misery Machine

“Sometimes you gotta use the dark arts, right? In benevolent ways, and just get people to care.” Ouf. - The Atlantic

Netflix House Is Temu Disneyland, In A Mall

“Let’s say you are a Netflix fan, as anyone making a pilgrimage to Netflix House is sure to be. What, then, are you a fan of? … Netflix has been on a relentless campaign to become a fandom hub, a never-ending Comic-Con celebrating itself.” - Slate

The Return Of A Night At The Natural History Museum

“Children ran, some of them in stocking feet, through the displays, with abandon. (Running had been discouraged in the safety lecture, but this did not dissuade a young boy who shouted ‘I have to look for the animals that will hunt us in the night.’)” - The New York Times

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