US Copyright Office to "grant an exemption specifically allowing for repair of retail-level food preparation equipment—including soft serve ice cream machines similar to those available at McDonald's. The change should "spark a flurry of third-party repair activity and enable businesses to better serve their customers." - Ars Technica
The rule bans businesses from creating, buying or selling reviews and testimonials attributed to people who don't exist, including those that are AI generated. False celebrity endorsements aren't allowed and companies can't pay or otherwise incentivize genuine customers to leave positive or negative reviews. - Engadget
What comes through overall is a sense that collectors’ behaviors are are starting to shift, and not just in relation to the current market climate. - Artnet
“More than half of the Conservatory was burned. All the instruments were broken, thrown outside. You start seeing cases of instruments as soon as you get close to the Conservatory on the streets. Violins, we had more than 50, completely smashed. Cellos, more than 40, completely smashed.” - BBC
“These type of shops are like the Titanic, slowly sinking. think it will depend on when we decide to retire. We see the thinking and we know the final is inevitable." - EuroNews
In the midst of the pandemic, one real estate management firm “said they needed tenants who would show up to work.” So the Paul Taylor Dance Company took advantage of a real estate law loophole, renovated, and moved in. - The New York Times
"Le Corbusier’s dream was of vast blocks of buildings as 'machines for living.' His bare modernism took hold of architecture schools and town-planning departments” - and his acolytes nearly destroyed most of the cities in the UK. - The Guardian (UK)
Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell blurred the lines - long-listed for the Booker, won a Hugo - but the author herself, not too long after the surprisingly, epically popular novel came out, collapsed, unable to write for years. - The New York Times
And possibly even creepier, on a privacy scale, than FB: “It is jarring when you just had a loved one pass away and you go and you find out that their information, and not just their information, but also their photos, are available online.” - Slate
Gavin Newsom "declared his intent to expand the annual tax credit to $750 million, up from its current total of $330 million, which would make California the top state for capped film incentive programs, surpassing even New York.” - Los Angeles Times
Perhaps not healing so much as facing pain, illness, and death. “‘Ten minutes of Schubert is the equivalent of five milligrams of oxy,' the chief of the palliative care unit at a Paris hospital” says to one cellist. - The New York Times
“Of course the death of Charlotte was horribly sad, but far worse in my opinion was the moment when, during Wilbur the Pig’s hour of greatest need, the girl who owned him decided she’d rather go on the ferris wheel with Henry Fussy.” - The Guardian (UK)
Brannon Braga, the writer who took over Voyager showrunning duties from her, said, “Her memory will live on in many ways, but perhaps most of all in the character of Captain Janeway, who reflected the best dimensions of Jeri herself.” - Variety
